Liu Jinzhong, a general of the Chinese military department, said softly: "Your Majesty, according to the views of the ministers, it is better for us to directly send a force to land here, occupy the Taiping Mansion first, and then use the Taiping Mansion as the foundation to send troops to Nanjing, so that even if we attack poorly, there is room for retreat......

"No!"

Zhang Xianzhong replied firmly, "Nanjing City is strong, the city walls are tall, it is not so easy to attack, and Ma Shiying is cunning, I am afraid that he will not attack with all his strength, but will sit and reap the profits, hehe, I have dealt with Ma Shiying, so I don't fall for him, we just want to concentrate on attacking Nanjing City, as long as we take Nanjing City, with the money, food, and population of Nanjing City, we can easily expand the army again, and then sweep the entire Jiangnan in one fell swoop. Attacking Taiping Mansion will take time and troops, don't forget, Sun Chuanting still has an army outside, and it may be killed at any time, and then we will be attacked by the enemy. We must get Nanjing City and capture Zhu Jie alive before Sun Chuanting returns to Nanjing! ”

"However, if we attack the city of Nanjing with all our might, what will happen to the grain and grass? The grain and grass we carry is only enough for the army for half a month, and once we can't take the city of Nanjing, we don't have a stable rear, and the grain and grass are not enough, but there will be a ...... of a rout."

Liu Jinzhong asked.

"Rob, of course it's robbed! Haven't we all been doing this for so many years? Jiangnan is rich, and there is a lot of grain in any county and wharf, so grab it casually! ”

Zhang Xianzhong replied.

Liu Jinzhong's face stiffened, and he hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, now it's not as good as before, you have now founded the country, and you want to sit in the world, no longer the rogue ten years ago, rob everywhere, it doesn't matter how you rob, but the people of Jiangnan will be your people in the near future, you still have to rob like this, loot everywhere, if it goes on like this, how can we occupy the world?" ”

"Okay, don't say it anymore, those who have become great things since ancient times, regardless of informality, will succeed in ten thousand bones, who hasn't stepped on a corpse to climb to the highest position? We're just looting some food, and we're just killing a few fewer people! ”

Zhang Xianzhong shouted.

Liu Jinzhong was still waiting to be persuaded, and suddenly the soldiers on the mast of the handsome ship roared!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, a large fleet of ships has appeared opposite us, and it is rapidly approaching us!"

Zhang Xianzhong and Liu Jinzhong were shocked, a large fleet? What's going on?

Liu Jinzhong hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, wait for the ministers to go up and watch!" ”

Liu Jinzhong strode under the mast, climbed up along the mast, and looked into the distance.

Sure enough, a fleet of ships was rushing towards their own fleet, and the speed was extremely fast, although there were not as many ships as their own, but they looked much larger than their own ships.

On the Yangtze River, why are there so many ships all of a sudden?

Liu Jinzhong was puzzled, although there were caravans on the Yangtze River, it was still very rare to think of such a large-scale fleet.

"That's not right!"

Liu Jinzhong suddenly became alert, because he saw the muzzle of the black hole, it was artillery, artillery! It's a warship! So many warships!

Liu Jinzhong was shocked and shouted: "Quick, flag talk, all ships are in a state of combat readiness, there is an enemy situation!" ”

As he spoke, Liu Jinzhong walked down without hesitation, directly pulled out the sail rope, slid down, and hurriedly came to Zhang Xianzhong's approach.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the fleet in front of you is a warship, a sailor! I don't know which sailor it is! ”

Zhang Xianzhong was also shocked, if it wasn't the enemy, it would be better to say, if it was hostile, on the Yangtze River, facing the sailors, he would be unlucky, all his ships were merchant ships, not warships, not equipped with naval guns, all the artillery on the warship was still covered with gun clothing, neatly placed on the ships behind, once a big war occurred, he didn't even have a chance to fight!

"Fly, order, all ships are on alert, the artillery is removed from its armor, the shells are prepared, and in case of a surprise attack, immediately respond to the battle!"

Zhang Xianzhong shouted.

But at this time, Zhang Xianzhong is preparing for battle, where is there time? Not many people knew the news of the transfer of the Dongting Lake Naval Division to Nanjing, and even if they did, everyone knew that the combat strength of the Dongting Lake Naval Division was really scum, and it was okay to fight water bandits, but it was absolutely impossible to conduct large-scale warfare, and the combat readiness was lax, there was a lack of training, and a group of old, weak, sick and disabled people, how could they fight?

Zhang Xianzhong really didn't expect that on the Yangtze River, he would encounter a sailor, whose sailor? Could it be Zheng Zhilong's sailor in Fuzhou? No, Zheng Zhilong is as cunning as a ghost, and he never leaves Fujian to enter the interior.

When Zhang Xianzhong was nervous, the imperial sailors had already chopped the waves and rushed all the way, although it was a countercurrent, it was blowing the east wind today, just by taking advantage of the wind, the warship was moving extremely fast, and it went straight to Zhang Xianzhong's forward! Soon, it was less than two miles away from the Onishi Army fleet.

"Order, the main battleships of the left and right wing battalions are all out of the battlefield, follow me and immediately move towards the north bank, go straight behind the Great Western Army, rush, don't engage in battle!"

Zheng Haotian shouted loudly, and the eight main battleships were followed by more than a dozen small and medium-sized centipede ships, marching towards the northwest at full speed, and in the blink of an eye, they had already reached the flank of the Great Western Army fleet, and they still did not stop, and continued to rush towards the west.

Zhang Xianzhong was a little confused, what are these warships for? Don't fight with yourself, don't greet yourself, and even disregard your own safety, cating to the danger of attacking him, advancing west at full speed, making hair?

However, Zhang Xianzhong did not react, but Liu Jinzhong reacted, because Liu Jinzhong had already discovered that there were warships behind this fleet, and it was only one of them that broke through in the northwest direction, and the remaining warships had already begun to cross the Yangtze River, sending out two goose-shaped formations, and the guns on the side chord were already aimed at their own fleet!

"Not good!"

Liu Jinzhong shouted: "Your Majesty, the fleet in front is trying to copy our back road, we can't let them pass, we must stop them, they are going to attack our fleet back and forth!" ”

However, Liu Jinzhong found out, it was too late, and the guns of the warships in front of him were already aimed at the fleet of the Great Western Army, and a hundred cannons were fired in unison!

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......

A red-clothed cannon roared wildly, and then a cannonball whistled across the sky, straight to Zhang Xianzhong's fleet, and smashed on Zhang Xianzhong's ship!

These ships are all merchant ships, not warships, where are they as strong as warships, not to mention the constant smashing of cannonballs, even if there are some big wind and waves, even if they have to be driven carefully, let alone such dense cannonballs?

(End of chapter)