The Ming troops who climbed over the fence quickly gathered around the camp gate, and some vigorous Ming soldiers climbed the towers on both sides to cover the infantry attack. Seeing that the camp gate was opened by the Ming army, the Qing army in the camp had lost their fighting spirit, and Dong Weiguo did not bring much Nanchang armor, most of them were sailors and people, and they only thought about how to escape for their lives at this time.

"Descend early!"

"Descend early!"

"Those who sit are spared death!"

The Ming troops, who rushed into the camp, shouted in unison as they continued their attack.

Among the armored soldiers of the Qing army, there were also some who had been captured in Jiujiang and followed Dong Weiguo to engage in this military adventure after being released, and these people were very experienced. They knew that if the fierce resistance caused casualties to the Ming army, most of them would not be forgiven, but if they surrendered honestly, they would most likely not have to worry about their lives.

"Surrender!"

"Surrender!"

Seeing that the general situation was gone, these experienced veterans immediately threw down their weapons, rice bowls, and bread, and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands - this was the standard posture of surrendering to Deng Ming's subordinates, and Deng Ming's subordinates now found that this posture could ensure that the other side could not storm and injure people, nor could they hide their weapons, so they asked all those who surrendered to adopt this kind of action. The last time they surrendered in Jiujiang, the Ming army also corrected the movements of the prisoners, and those who reacted slowly were also beaten with sticks.

In addition to these smart ones, there were also some Green Battalion soldiers who had been captured and forgot this standard action in panic, they first fell to the ground as before, and after seeing the movements of those comrades who had memorized xìng, they quickly squatted up and held their heads in their hands, proving to the Ming army that they did not hide their swords under their bodies. Seeing that there was no way to escape, many civilians and sailors also followed the example of these experienced comrades-in-arms and surrendered to the Ming army and begged for mercy.

Dong Weiguo of the Chinese army, surrounded by the guards, hurried to the lake, surrounded by a chaotic crowd of people, these Qing troops who had not yet been caught up by the Ming army scrambled to the position of the fleet.

At this time, on the lake, the Qing troops on the boats suddenly heard the sound of drums behind them, and they turned their heads and were shocked to see a group of fast boats with red flags rushing towards them. These Ming warships hid behind a bay not far from here after transporting the infantry X, and after the signal of the attack was transmitted by the sound of arrows, the Ming army set off in a hurry, and when they arrived, the Ming infantry had already opened the camp gate.

Some of the Qing soldiers on the ship looked at the chaotic camp, and then looked at the Ming warships that were approaching rapidly, and finally some people couldn't wait for their companions, and even didn't care about the life or death of the political envoy, urging the sailors to quickly loosen the cable, raise the sails and escape.

Although these Qing ships wanted to escape, most of the people on board had already gone ashore, and after the sailors hurriedly untied the cables, the Ming warships approached a lot. There was also a shortage of manpower needed to raise the sails, not to mention the oarsmen who were in desperate need, and many sentinels went to the cāo oars to get the boat moving as quickly as possible.

In fact, there were enough oarsmen and cāo sailors, and these Qing ships could not be compared with the clippers of the Ming army. Jiangxi's sailors have been wiped out in Jiujiang, and the lighter boats have all been lost, and these are bulky and inconvenient ships brought by Dong Weiguo, and these ships can also run in Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River, and it is estimated that the canal will not be able to enter - Dong Weiguo originally wanted to send the grain to Nanjing or Yangzhou, even if the task was completed or the ship was changed to continue to transport to Běijīng.

These large ships full of grain had a heavy draft, and they could not leave the anchorage like sluggish snails while the oars of the panicked Qing army were stirred in the water.

"Why don't you move again?" A Qing army officer who was in a hurry to leave looked at the Ming warship that was getting closer and closer, and was already sweating profusely, just now he was almost the first to shout, asking the sailors to leave their comrades on land and flee first, but after tossing for a long time, the ship never sailed out of the anchorage.

"The anchor is hanging again!" After rowing desperately for a long time, but the boat did not move, and finally someone realized that something was wrong, and a sailor ran to the side of the boat to take a look, and let out a desperate scream.

After hastily putting away the anchor, several of the sailors on the ship were busy hanging the sails and asking the sentries to help roll them, and soon the soldiers and sailors were called to paddle again, but the uncollected anchors fell into the water again, and the ship was tied again.

Several oarsmen came running over when they heard the sound, and everyone pulled the anchor rope together, but the boat had just traveled for a short time, and the anchor that fell on the bottom of the lake may have dragged too many aquatic weeds and rocks, and four or five people could not pull it out with all their efforts.

"I'm going to turn the boat upside down and pull it again." Said an experienced sailor.

"Nonsense!" The officer jumped with red eyes, drew his saber and slashed at the anchor rope.

While the ship was busy cutting anchor lines, another boat passed by its side and became the first lucky one to leave the anchorage. However, despite sailing away from the shallow water, the boat was still unbelievably slow, and the Qing soldiers on it were all paddling like crazy, but the boat still moved slowly and unhurriedly. Since the soldiers paddling were not all sailors, their movements were not consistent, and they were not very good at listening to the trumpets to row in unison, and there were not enough people, and despite the strength of each individual, the ship still could not get up quickly.

"The sails are all up, and they can't go any faster." A sailor said with a worried face, and reported to the officer on this ship: "There is too much cargo, to throw it away!" ”

The Ming ships in the distance were speeding forward, and the distance between the two continued to close, although the ship was open, but compared with when it was standing still just now, the speed of the distance seemed to be still the same, at least the officer's naked eye could not see the difference.

"Throw!" The officer immediately decided, although these grains are important, but their lives are gone, what is the use of food.

Not long after a person went down to the cabin, he poked his head out again and complained: "Master, the big bag of grain is tightly bundled. ”

"Cut!" The officer didn't say anything more, he took one last look at the enemy ships with red flags, and jumped out of the cabin. In front of him was a mountain of grain bales, and the officers and their subordinates worked together to cut the ropes that bound several large bags of rice.

"It's too heavy!"

The two men desperately tried to drag the rice bags onto the deck, but by the time they dragged the bags out of the grain pile, they were already exhausted and out of breath.

A few more oarsmen were summoned, and everyone worked together to finally lift a bag of rice onto the deck, and when they were about to push the bag of rice into the water, a Ming ship had already approached, and it was already possible to see the figure standing on the deck of the enemy ship.

"It's over." The officer finally despaired, and it didn't take long for the Ming army to catch up with him, and there was still more rice in the cabin, and he didn't have time to push into the lake to say anything.

Looking back at the ship's rations, the officer finally made a decision: "Lower the sails, we surrender!" ”

If the grain was pushed into the lake and could not escape, it was difficult to say what the angry Ming army would do with themselves, and the officer ordered the rice bags that had just been dragged back into the cabin, and shouted sadly to the soldiers around him: "Such a large boat of grain should be able to give us a way to live, right?" ”

"Yes, yes, what the master said is good, we should be anyway!" After figuring out the reasoning, the subordinates echoed it, pushed the grain back again, and lowered the sails, the Qing soldiers also lowered the green flag by the way, and a sailor took out a piece of red cloth and raised it to the highest part of the mast, as a sign of the ship's determination to defect.

When Dong Weiguo rushed to the lake with his guards, only half of the boats remained at the anchorage, and a large number of Qing soldiers took off their clothes and jumped into the water, trying to swim on the boats to escape. Some of the soldiers began to struggle and cry out for help after jumping into the water, forgetting that they could not swim.

The shouting and killing behind him was getting closer and closer, and soon Dong Weiguo heard the sound of persuasion one after another from all around, and the unrelenting political envoy Dong Bu led the guards to rush left and right in the chaos and grabbed a mound.

Looking in the direction of the camp, Dong Weiguo saw that the red flag had been raised there, a large number of Ming troops were chasing from all directions, and there was a group of cavalry rushing to the front.

Looking at the lake again, Dong Weiguo's heart became completely cold, a large number of Ming army clippers had already sailed to the vicinity of the water village, and the front was only half a mile away from here, and each of them was faster than the galloping horses, obviously driven by well-trained sailors.

The big ships of the Qing army that escaped from the anchorage were as far as a hundred meters, and the first few ships had lowered their sails and raised their red flags. Dong Weiguo saw that the Qing ships behind him also followed the example of the leader, and began to lower their sails, he knew that the Qing soldiers on the ship had already understood, they could not escape the pursuit of the Ming army at all, and could only hope to exchange the grain on the ship for the leniency of the Ming army.

The thousands of Qing soldiers crowded around the Shuizhai anchorage saw this scene one after another, and the Qing soldiers who fled to the ship had no intention of urging the sailors to open the ship after seeing the approaching speed of the Ming ships.

"Descend early!"

The shouts of the Ming army became clear and loud, Dong Weiguo looked around, these Qing troops left on the shore had no hope of resisting, and they all squatted with their heads in accordance with the requirements of the Ming army. Although the Ming army had not yet arrived at Dong Weiguo's mound at this time, the surrounding Qing soldiers had already taken precautions and squatted on the ground first.

"Mu ......" Dong Weiguo saw the banner of the enemy general clearly, his body shook, and as soon as his right hand was loosened, the saber fell to the ground weakly.

"How come he remembers to scout when he meets me? Why did he come when he met me? Dong Weiguo shouted angrily, raised his head and asked Cangtian: "Why did he bully me?" ”

In this battle, the Ming army suffered less than 20 casualties, killed more than 200 Qing soldiers, and captured more than 3,000 enemy soldiers. After the battle, Zheng Yaojun did not immediately go to the camp to celebrate with his companions, but joined the other crossbowmen on the battlefield to search for the enemy soldiers who had been killed by them, and after finding an enemy that he had killed, Zheng Yaojun would pull out a dagger and dig the crossbow arrows out of the corpse.

These pure iron crossbow arrows are also part of the ransom fee given by Zhang Changgeng, and the capital is currently unable to provide weapons of the same quality, so Deng Ming encouraged the crossbowmen to collect the crossbow arrows by themselves.

"What can be summed up in this battle?" Zheng Yaojun was looking for it, and at the same time pondering in his heart, now the Ming army will definitely have a summary meeting after the war, as a sergeant of the standing army, Zheng Yaojun is not qualified to participate in the officer meeting for the time being, but he will definitely speak at the team discussion meeting.

When he followed Zhang Huangyan to Nanjing last year, Zheng Yaojun took his wife and sister with him, so he did not choose to risk returning to Zhoushan, but joined Deng Ming's army. At that time, although Zheng Yaojun was a shè hand, he was illiterate and lacked understanding of qigu, but he obviously had a talent for fighting, and he stood out in several battles in Huguang, and his combat skills also improved rapidly through guò military training, and after the battle of Huangzhou, he was assigned a jīng zhi crossbow machine. After arriving in Chengdu, he was not surprisingly left in the standing army.

Now Zheng Yaojun has known nearly 100 words, and he has given himself this name he is using, this literacy has reached the officer qualification standard set by Deng Ming, if the army is expanded in the future and more officers are promoted from the non-commissioned officers, Zheng Yaojun has a great chance.

At the team discussion meeting in the evening, Zheng Yaojun mainly spoke on the latent approach and team cooperation. The latter was the focus of Zheng Yaojun's speech, he felt that the Ming army still had a lot of problems, and when cleaning the battlefield, he found several fatal wounds on several enemy soldiers, and he had also seen a seriously wounded enemy soldier continue to be hit by crossbow arrows just because he refused to fall down for a long time - obviously this enemy soldier had lost his combat effectiveness, but the Ming army subconsciously kept attacking because of nervousness, until he completely fell to the ground.

Zheng Yaojun felt that this might be because the Ming army still had problems cooperating with each other, and not everyone could accurately judge the threat of the target at all times on the tense battlefield - wasting firepower was inevitable, but it would not be good if the waste was too strict. As for how to improve the training method, Zheng Yaojun has no ideas for the time being, and has not proposed any suggestions. In addition to Zheng Yaojun, several Ming soldiers also made similar reports.

…… After Mu Tan returned to Jiujiang the next day, he went to report the results to Deng Ming.

"Dong Weiguo again?" Deng Ming was taken aback: "Didn't he just leave?" ”

"That's right, there are ships to bring us food. The boats are not good, suitable for use in Poyang Lake, but not for the Yangtze River, if the Admiral wants to enter the canal, these boats are really enough. Mu Tan had already inspected all the ships, and he reported to Deng Ming: "But there is a lot of food, enough for 300,000 stones." ”

In addition to Dong Weiguo, there were hundreds of Qing soldiers who were captured in Jiujiang and left with one or two pieces of silver after screening. Most of the people killed by the Ming army were sent from Nanchang, these people had no experience in fighting with the Ming army, and the resistance was the fiercest, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

"Do they think my money is too easy to take?" Deng Ming's brows furrowed, this batch of Jiujiang Green Battalion only got severance pay ten days ago, so let's get a second share.

Mu Tan observed Deng Ming's expression and asked tentatively, "Are you not giving them severance pay?" ”

"Well, I'll think about it." Deng Ming pondered for a moment and asked, "Do they all have armor?" ”

"Some people do, but most don't." Mu Tan replied that these people had just been released, and Zhang Chao, the governor of Jiangxi, did not immediately replenish their equipment, only Dong Weiguo's cronies and guards handed over a full set of equipment to Mu Tan again.

"I don't even have armor, it's a loss." Deng Ming's brows furrowed even tighter, but he finally shook his head: "Let's pay severance pay, we even give the auxiliaries we don't want, and it's not appropriate for them not to give it, but I have to think of a way in the future, I can't keep doing this." ”

"Yes."

"That Dong Weiguo still gave me a tael of silver, and he came to deliver food to me again in the past ten days, it's really hard for him." Thinking of 300,000 stone of grain, Deng Ming felt that an extra 500 taels of silver was nothing: "I originally thought that Jiangxi and Huguang would not be old, and there was no need to establish a very important person system, but maybe it was necessary to set up a special one for Dong Bu's political envoy." ”

"Envoy Dong Bu refuses to leave," Mu Tan laughed, "He wants to see the Admiral." ”

"What does he see me doing?"

"He wanted to bribe me." Mu Tan told Deng Ming that after Dong Weiguo was caught yesterday, the other party offered to give Mu Tan a sum of money, asking him to raise his noble hand and let go of these ships and grain.

"300,000 stone of grain, did he say he would put it away? Is he a three-year-old? Deng Ming sneered.

"It's almost like a three-year-old child." Mu Tan told Deng Ming that yesterday Dong Weiguo begged him to let him go, saying that if he lost the grain, he would only hang his whole family, and assured Mu Tan that he was willing to give all the family property to Mu Tan.

"His family's output value is 300,000 stone grain?" Deng Ming asked with some surprise, if you want to bribe the Ming army, you must use floating wealth instead of real estate, it is hard to imagine that Dong Weiguo, a political envoy, can make up about 300,000 taels of silver in a hurry, and it is estimated that 30,000 yuan is hanging.

"Of course it's not enough, the political envoy Dong Bu patted his chest and said that there were 20,000 silver, and he didn't know if it was true or not, he said a bunch of vows to tie the grass ring, and he was willing to give me his two unmarried daughters." Mu Tan said with a smile: "Dong Weiguo said that if he doesn't return the food to him, his two daughters will also have to send Ningguta." ”

"Oh, doesn't that mean it's worthless, I really don't know how to do business, and I actually show my hole cards when I come up." Deng Ming commented disdainfully: "It's far worse than Zhou Peigong." ”

Then Deng Ming fell into deep thought, and Mu Tan waited quietly, knowing that the coach was digesting what he had just reported.

"Later, how did Dong Weiguo remember to see me?" After a while, Deng Ming asked another question.

"I did take a bribe, but the premise of the bribe was that it could not affect me, so if he gave me 20,000 silver and two daughters, I would help him speak in front of the admiral." Mu Tan told Deng Ming that this Dong Weiguo seemed to have heard of Gao Mingzhan's bribery, and Mu Tan's explanation to him was that he accepted Gao Mingzhan's bribe, and then helped Gao Mingzhan come up with an exchange plan that Deng Ming could agree to.

"I see." Deng Ming laughed: "What's your plan?" ”

"It's porcelain, Jiangxi's porcelain is very good, Yanping has a commercial house in the mainland that specializes in receiving porcelain, but Jiangxi's porcelain is difficult to receive, too far. Even if the Admiral doesn't ship it to the sea, he can collect some here and sell it at a good price when it is transported to Huguang. ”

"Well, it's really good, now that the Yangtze River shipping is in our hands, the porcelain can be sold back to Huguang to people with IOUs first," Deng Ming pondered for a while and nodded: "Then I'll see Dong Weiguo, but the two daughters of the other family ......"

"Humble duty understands." Mu Tan laughed loudly: "Don't worry, the Admiral has not yet reached that point of ignorance. ”

After saying this, Deng Ming asked about the post-war summary again.

"The standing army is much stronger than the soldiers who have been drafted up." When he was in Jiujiang, the officers of the Ming army had this feeling, and this battle deepened this influence of Mu Tan.

"Of course, one rì and one cāo, of course, will be much stronger."

"I think we need more standing troops, or add more military training."

"Military training has to pay four catties of food a day, and they can't engage in production, and they must be allowed to rest properly, otherwise they won't be able to work the next day, when will we wait for the capital to have a million people before talking about it." Deng Ming shook his head: "What else is important?" ”

After Mu Tan's report was finished, Deng Ming's heart moved, and he said to his subordinates: "Maybe I should set up a special force, just call it 'Special Equipment and Special Training Force', but there is no need to worry about this matter, it is not too late for us to return to the capital to plan in detail, let's invite Dong Bu's political envoy first." ”