Cha Xuan shook his head and replied: "The two sides of the Yangtze River are not Zhang Xianzhong's territory, he is not familiar with the place, he may not dare to go ashore, but will take a big boat to retreat quickly in the direction of Anqing, if this is the case, even if we deploy the musket battalion on both sides of the Yangtze River, I am afraid that it will be difficult to play a role, and their 50,000 troops, once they really go ashore, we have no problem defeating them, but with so many troops, our musket battalion plus the soldiers on other warships, the strength is only four or five thousand, how can we surround it?" ”

Zheng Haotian frowned and asked, "Then what is Lord Cha's opinion?" ”

Cha Xuan said in a deep voice: "Gao Jian can't talk about it, my meaning is very simple, hide some of the warships on both sides of the Yangtze River, Zhang Xianzhong's army will not be launched until all of them enter our attack range, and then launch an attack, front and back, with our powerful firepower, it is difficult for Zhang Xianzhong not to die!" ”

Zheng Haotian smiled bitterly: "Lord Cha, what you said is very simple, you look at our warship, the tallest is two or three zhang high, and the shortest is more than one zhang high, sailing on the Yangtze River, you can see it from a distance, as long as you make contact, you will immediately fight, I am afraid that Zhang Xianzhong will not be easily hooked......

It is indeed a little difficult to do it, he rushes and kills the war guards on land, teases the ambush, and is familiar with the road, but on the Yangtze River, these things are not used, and the emperor did not teach himself water warfare well......

"Think about it again, the emperor has put this thousand catties of burden on the two of us, but there can be no mistakes......"

Cha Bolt said.

Zheng Haotian gritted his teeth and replied: "Master Cha, there is another way, but it is a bit risky......

Cha Zhu's spirit was shocked, and asked, "What's the way, say it quickly!" ”

Zheng Haotian replied in a deep voice: "We are here to intercept Zhang Xianzhong, once Zhang Xianzhong arrives, I will personally lead a fleet, from the edge of Zhang Xianzhong's fleet, straight behind him, you will lead the main force to block in front, I will in the shortest possible time, directly rush to the back, from the rear to attack Zhang Xianzhong's fleet, their big ship needs to turn around, but we don't need to, wait for them to turn around, almost, I have already outflanked in place, but it's a bit of a risk......"

"Adventure?"

Zheng Haotian replied: "Of course, our incoming approach is interspersed from the edge of Zhang Xianzhong's fleet at close range, and we will definitely be attacked by Zhang Xianzhong's rebels, at this time, I can't care about fighting back, we must rush to the back as soon as possible, and we are not only facing Zhang Xianzhong's possible attack, but also facing the attack of our own people, after all, on the Yangtze River, the hull is bumpy, the accuracy of artillery and rockets is reduced, we are too close to Zhang Xianzhong's fleet, and it is easy to be ......injured by mistake."

"Wiped it! Is this called adventure? ”

Cha Zhu was angry and asked rhetorically.

The corners of Zheng Haotian's mouth twitched, and he said urgently: "Master Cha, this sailor is not comparable to the infantry, we are a main warship, even if the ship carries weapons, it will cost at least twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver!" These are all white flowers, and there are elite sailors and soldiers, who have spent a lot of money and food to cultivate, once the casualties are heavy, how can we explain to the emperor? ”

Cha Zhu said angrily: "Lord Zheng, you have such a little energy?" Isn't it just a few broken ships, the old ones don't go, the new ones don't come! If you lose one, the emperor will give you another one, what do you call a loss? Why don't you say that the second town of my Tianwei Army suffered thousands of casualties at once? That's the emperor's baby bump! Why don't you say the right town of Nanjing? The emperor almost got into Mu Feng, which action was not risky? Don't say that you have a warship, you will take the entire imperial sailors to exchange pastoral style with the emperor, and see if the emperor agrees? Don't talk nonsense, just do it, as long as you can wipe out Zhang Xianzhong's 50,000 elites in one fell swoop, then even if you lose a few warships, it is absolutely cost-effective, the task that the emperor gave us is to kill Zhang Xianzhong, but it doesn't matter if you have a loss or not! Dry! That's it! ”

Zheng Haotian's face turned red, where could he compare with Cha Xuan? Zheng Haotian originally sat in Dongting Lake, more than ten years, did not have a day of heroic days, demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, finally came to Nanjing, the emperor in one breath to replenish dozens of warships, recruit two or three thousand recruits, muskets, artillery, do not die to equip the sailors, less than a year, threw in millions of taels of silver, Zheng Haotian regarded the imperial sailors as his life, more important than his own life, the loss of even a small boat, will be distressed, I haven't jumped out of the original state of picking and picking. Naturally, there is a little tangled.

But since he followed Zhu Jie, he has never had a hard life, he has no money, it's very simple, he stretched out his hand to ask the boss for it, anyway, the boss has silver, how much you spend, he will earn it back for you exponentially! I don't care about a little loss at all!

"Okay, since the lord said so, what else does the lower official have to say? Done! Maybe we'll be lucky enough to come out unscathed! ”

Zheng Haotian gritted his teeth and said.

The two of them discussed and decided to divide the imperial naval division into two, Zheng Haotian led eight main warships to prepare to penetrate directly behind Zhang Xianzhong, and the remaining ships were all handed over to Cha Xuan, so that Cha Xuan was responsible for the command and launched an attack on Zhang Xianzhong's fleet.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong had already gone straight down the Jiujiang River, all the way to Taiping Mansion, and it only took a few days to reach the boundary of Wuhu.

Zhang Xianzhong sat on the handsome boat, majestic, after the Jiujiang River, he no longer had any obstacles all the way, straight downstream, and then three days, you can arrive at the city of Nanjing, hehe, think about it, Nanjing City will fall into their own hands, it will be beautiful, in the future, the Manchurian Tartars occupy the city of Beijing, occupy the city of Nanjing, row the river and rule, divide the world equally, that is the justifiable Western Dynasty!

Look at his fleet, hundreds of ships, from the forefront, to the rear, the fleet has pulled out a distance of seven or eight miles, and the entire Yangtze River is his own fleet, Zhu Jie never dreamed that he gave up the opportunity to take Wuchang Mansion, and turned down the river to approach Nanjing City! 50,000 elites, plus Ma Shiying's troops, will almost exceed 100,000, when the time comes, besieged from all sides, Nanjing City is just around the corner, with his own 50,000 elites, Ma Shiying's rabble can be their opponents? When the time comes, he will give him a false way to cut down the enemy, and even Ma Shiying will be subdued by the way, just with the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, even if the Manchurian Tartars are driven out of Shanhaiguan, it is not impossible!

(End of chapter)