The panicked appearance of the Ming Dynasty boatmen in the eyepiece made Wallace smile disdainfully, and the horn beard also shook habitually. The monkey-like boatmen soon realized how powerful his mercenaries were. However, before that, Wallace did not dare to rush the fleet close to the river bank, because the Ming army's artillery on the south bank of the river made him remember it vividly.

However, if Wallace had known that the Ming army had only set up a large number of artillery pieces in the Longtan area, he would have been annoyed by his caution at this moment.

After a barrage of artillery demonstrations, the large boats were lowered as many as locusts, and then the small boats began to quickly approach the riverbank. Zheng XII was horrified to find that all the small boats were full of pirates. At this moment, he even had the idea of getting out of the boat and running away. It's just that this small boat is a tool for the whole family to rely on to make a living, how can you just give up? At this point, Zheng Twelve resorted to the end of milk, trying to throw those locust-like boats far behind. However, the speed of the small boats far exceeded his estimate, and they were as fast as arrows from the string.

Zheng Twelve desperately steered the boat, all the way to the death, those locust-like boats turned and leaned further towards the riverbank, the target of the boat was obviously not them. After landing on the shore, the pirates gathered at an astonishing speed, but in the blink of an eye, they formed a terrifying phalanx.

Since its formation, the phalanx has been constantly advancing southward along the Qinhuai River. Zheng Tshi's eyes widened, and his face was full of deep fear, and only then did he see clearly that this phalanx was actually composed of all red hairy ghosts. Until this time, he had already regretted taking this errand from the government, and if he hadn't looked at the high price of one or two pieces of silver a day, he wouldn't have taken this risk.

However, since the money has been received from the government, it is time to take the risk. Even if there were any more complaints, Zheng Twelve could only break it and swallow it into his stomach. Moreover, his top priority now is not to complain about such regrets, but to try his best to leave Nanjing, a place of right and wrong.

Before taking on this errand, Zheng Twelve also hesitated, but everyone said that Nanjing City was the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and where there was war elsewhere, there would be no war here. It was by believing this rhetoric that he finally made up his mind.

Now it is good, and it is this decision that pushes him to the current dangerous situation where he cannot retreat. Not only that, but there were also cannonballs rolling around him from time to time, and after falling into the river, they splashed several people high, and the huge waves lifted the small sampan up and down, and Zheng Twelve almost stood unsteadily and fell into the water several times and three times.

As more and more pirates landed on the shore, a noisy and terrifying shouting sounded along the coast. Even if Zheng Twelve didn't know the battle array, he could see that the pirates were in full swing. And the Ming official army he was expecting did not appear for a long time.

Zheng Twelve spat a mouthful of thick phlegm towards the river.

"Damn it! The ability to bully the common people one by one has become a bear bag soft egg in a big battle! ”

Although he scolded happily, he couldn't help but feel a trace of disappointment in his heart. But what he thought in his heart was that the boat was finished today, and the government wouldn't use this as an excuse to take away the one or two pieces of silver he deserved, right? With this apprehension, he scolded the old man who could be called in the official mansion next to him.

Until this time, Zheng Twelve also discovered that the target of those pirates was not a poor man like himself at all, so his desire to flee for his life was much lighter. It was only when his hanging heart relaxed a little that he noticed that many of the small sampans around him were just like his own to watch the excitement.

"Look, look! The officers and soldiers are out! ”

Zheng Twelve raised his eyes and looked, and a group of Ming officials and soldiers came along the Qinhuai River from the south, and everyone was carrying a bird gun with a short body. With the crackling sound, the entire bank of the Qinhuai River was shrouded in clouds of white gunsmoke.

This made the lively boatmen very dissatisfied, and they cursed and spat at the thick smoke of gunpowder. It's as if this kind of behavior can make the smoke disperse. Zheng Twelve wanted to laugh in his heart, just now they gave them their lives to escape, for fear of falling into the tiger's mouth, and this was just a moment of effort to change this state of mind.

At this point, since the danger could no longer catch up with him, he was no longer in a hurry to leave. In addition to watching the excitement, he really hoped that the Ming army could repel these powerful pirates, otherwise the one or two silver that he deserved today would be gone.

He never forgot these two pieces of silver, and he was more energetic in his heart, secretly cheering for the Ming official army. But the thick smoke of gunpowder obscured the battlefield, and nothing could be seen except the crackling sound of the fighting reputation bird. After a while, there was a sudden rumbling of cannons. Zheng Twelve hurriedly searched for the place where the cannon sounded, but he was shocked at first glance, it turned out that the pirates had already sent a few iron cannons with wheels to the shore, and the few cannons just now came from these iron cannons.

Zheng Twelve could vaguely see that the muzzle of one of the iron cannons was still billowing with gunsmoke.

An ominous premonition suddenly surged from Zheng Twelve's heart, the pirates had artillery, and there was a huge disparity in strength, and the situation of the original equal strength was probably about to take a turn. Zheng Twelve was right, and after a while, groups of Ming officers and soldiers dressed in the Red Army uniforms rushed out in the thick smoke and fled south along the Qinhuai River.

"Defeated! The officers and troops were defeated! ”

Even if he didn't have to shout out from the boatmen around him, Zheng Twelve could see the outcome of the battle. Disappointment and fear were born at the same time, he no longer wanted to see anything lively here, and drove the boat again, ready to leave Nanjing, a place of right and wrong.

"Colonel Wallace, the soldiers who landed on the shore have defeated the Ming army that came to stop them! Outside the south gate, the grain storage warehouse of the Ming army was found, and I don't know what to do with it? Go up in flames? ”

After the general He Bin reported the results of the battle, he asked tentatively. Wallace wanted to say a word of burning, but when the words came to his lips, he didn't say it.

"How much grain is there in these warehouses?"

"There are always more than 100,000 stones!"

Colonel Wallace's mind was full of life, the big ship had to carry a large number of ballast sandbags when it went to sea, and if these sandbags were replaced with food, wouldn't it kill two birds with one stone? But now he urgently needs to solve the problem of the current situation, and then he has the heart to think about other things.

"How many people did the Ming army fight? And how did you lose? ”

He Bin replied respectfully: "It seems that there are always thousands of people, and the other party is also using muskets and spears, because of the smoke of gunpowder, it is difficult to understand how to win for a while." ”

Just as the two were talking, the sailors watching the battle on the ship suddenly let out another exclamation.

"The Ming army has counterattacked! Look! ”

"Leobold's army is in disarray!"

Hearing about the change, Colonel Wallace gave up talking to He Bin, and quickly raised the monoculars again to observe the battlefield.

"The people of the Ming Dynasty were too cunning to pretend to be defeated."

Colonel Wallace muttered under his breath that from the very beginning he felt that the war was going too smoothly and that there must be a secret in it. Sure enough, the Ming Dynasty first lured his mercenaries to advance lightly, and after feigning defeat and retreating, they suddenly launched a counterattack and raid, which actually disrupted Leobard's phalanx in one fell swoop.

The battle of muskets and spears has turned into hand-to-hand combat, and the battle has been completely reduced to hand-to-hand combat, and at this moment, it is not the tactics and weapons that determine the victory, but which side has a stronger will to fight and stronger morale.

It was evident that after Leobard's phalanx was counterattacked, the morale of the army had dropped considerably, and the battle showed signs of retreat. Wallace was anxious to see this, he could not afford to see the impending victory fall short because of a successful counterattack by the Ming Dynasty.

However, Leobard's mercenaries were the swords and backbone of all, and if they were defeated, it was difficult to expect the Eastern pirates who had surrendered to the governor to fight for it.

Wallace looked at the drinking water of the Qinhuai River flowing into the Yangtze River, and suddenly asked He Bin: "How deep is the water of this big river?" ”

When he first heard Wallace's question, He Bin was stunned at first, and then immediately understood. Colonel Wallace wanted to venture into the Qinhuai River.

"The Qinhuai River is two feet deep, and there is no problem accommodating our largest displacement boat!"

"Is there really no problem?" He Bin faced the author who swore in the face of doubt.

Wallace is skeptical of He Bin's words, and will make hasty conclusions until he has personally confirmed them.

Under the command of Qi Yu, Yang Fan, a large ship located on the side of Wallace's ship, accelerated and slowly sailed into the mouth of the Sanchai River. As the big ship sailed into the Qinhuai River one foot, two feet and three feet, Wallace's brow also changed from soothing to furrowed, and from tight to soothing.

The big boat traveled a full mile in the Qinhuai River, and it was still safe and sound. It was only at this time that Wallace ordered all the big boats to sail into the Qinhuai River, and at the same time ordered all the boats to have their cannons on the port side ready to shoot at the Ming troops on the riverbank. In order to completely defeat the morale of the Ming army.

At the same time that all the big ships slowly sailed into the Qinhuai River, Wallace was pleasantly surprised to find that the Ming army, which had the upper hand, was already a little unintentional. In addition to the gradual chaos of the phalanx, their follow-up reinforcements also began to wander, and even many Ming troops began to stop and watch.

Rumble!

The first shell on the big ship went out, followed by the sound of cannons one after another, and the right bank of the Qinhuai River was smashed out of one big crater after another by the rapid fire of solid bullets. With the artillery support of the sea ships, the morale of Leobold's mercenaries suddenly increased, and they pressed the Ming army's military formation.

On the Qinhuai River, dozens of small sampans rowed upstream lifelessly, and the boatman never imagined that the pirate's big ship would drive into the Qinhuai River when it said that it would enter the Qinhuai River.

Where can these boatmen care about the excitement? Run as far as you want!