Just when the people of the Cao Gang were complaining, from the Weishan Lake in the north, a fleet of boats rushed up quickly, and the flag of the Ming Empire fluttered on the boats!

When there were still three or four miles away, there was a rumbling cannon sound from above the boat!

One shell after another shot down on the Qing army's ships, and they all landed on the canal, setting off the canal into a huge wave that was close to the height of the battle!

Tianwei Army is the Tianwei Army on Weishan Lake!

Akdan's heart was shocked, he didn't expect that the Tianwei Army would come so quickly, and he didn't leave himself half a moment!

It is Xu Qing's elite of Nanjing Right Town, Xu Qing's three thousand Nanjing Right Town elite have dozens of boats in their hands, controlling Weishan Lake, naturally they can't always nest on Weishan Lake, and they are also responsible for the safety of the canal channel from Xuzhou to Jining, one of which is cruising back and forth in the south of Jining, paying attention to the movement of Jining City, and the other is constantly cruising in the middle of Weishan Lake, paying attention to the condition of this section of the canal, and now Jining's supply on the road has been completely cut off by the Qing army. The canal's transportation is absolutely inmissible, and Xu Qing is not a fool, so naturally he will not leave a chance for the Qing army to cut off the connection between Xuzhou and Jining.

Akdan led thousands of elites all the way south, and he had already been discovered by the soldiers of Nanjing Right Town on the shore of Weishan Lake, after all, thousands of cavalry were dispatched, and the movement brought out was too big.

The cavalry went south, in Xu Qing's view, the purpose could only be one, that is, to cut off the connection between Xuzhou and Jining, completely cut off the canal transportation, and make Jining an isolated city. Joke!

Xu Qing directly led twenty or thirty boats, from Weishan Lake all the way to the direction of risk, after all, the short-distance marching cavalry is faster than water transport, however, the cao transport is not much slower, only one step later than the Qing army of Akdan, galloping to the aid of Fengxian County, it is very rare, more than 1,000 people of the elite of Nanjing Right Town, in the face of thousands of Manchurian cavalry elite, can not have any upper hand at all, but it is not the same on the water, Nanjing Right Town with the help of Cao boats, can completely compete with the Qing army of Akdan!

There was still a considerable distance between the two armies, and as soon as Xu Qing gave an order, the artillery on the grass boat began to exert its might and launched an artillery bombardment on the Qing army!

Although there are only four or five artillery, but it still brings great pressure to the Qing army, a shell fell on the canal, and even some unlucky boats have been hit, directly pierced, the wind and waves set off by the cannonballs, the same makes the boats on the canal fluctuate with the wind and waves, the face of the Qing army has turned white, this is on the canal, the Qing army is not so good in the water, in such waves can already maintain calm!

It's the Tianwei Army!

Although there are only twenty or thirty boats, such a huge boat can carry two or three thousand paces, and the opponent is still carrying artillery, which is terrible!

At a critical time, the Tianwei Army's divine soldiers descended from the sky, completely disrupting Akdan's plan, only the Tianwei Army was cruising back and forth on the canal, and the Qing army that lacked the boats could not help but win the people, and the boats were not vulnerable at all in the eyes of the boats, and the huge volume alone could directly smash the boats!

"Order, all the soldiers are withdrawn to the shore!"

Akdan frowned, but there is no way to do it these days, as soon as the ships of the mighty army come over, the Qing army has no way at all, they don't have big ships, how can they compete with others on the canal?

"My lord, if not, let's fight, maybe we can ......"

Niu Lu Zhangjing He Muda on the side said urgently, it is too cowardly to retreat from the army like this, when did the Qing army ever do this? The Qing army is still three miles away from the Ming army, and may be able to take this opportunity to grab the boat and then defeat the Ming army in front of them!

"Nonsense! Even if we grab the boat, what if they have artillery, we only need to fire with all our might, and we will still be destroyed, but we don't have artillery in our hands, how can we resist it on the canal? What's more, the Ming army on the ship still has muskets, we are too passive to fight them on the canal, do you still want to even hurt the vitality of thousands of us? The two Niu Lu in Tengari are all wiped out, a lesson from the past! ”

Akdan shouted angrily, I really can't fight, the blow to the Qing army brought by the annihilation of hundreds of elite cavalry in Tengari is too great, and the Qing army is completely shocked.

It's a pity that what Akdan didn't know was that this time Xu Qing brought such a strong force there? Only four or five artillery pieces were brought, and there were only about 20 muskets, and the main force of Nanjing Right Town was still on Weishan Lake, and it was still hundreds of miles away from Caoyun Wharf. Even if he can be summoned, Xu Qing needs to leave a certain amount of troops behind, ready to support the Tianwei army in Jining City at any time.

"So, what then?"

He Muda said astringently, "We can't afford to fall short, right? ”

Akdan took a deep breath and replied: "We will stay at the Caoyun Wharf and spend it with them, as long as our army stays at the wharf, even if we don't grab the Cao boat, we can directly threaten their wharf and threaten the ships on the canal, so that the military supplies in the south cannot be safely sent to Jining!" Immediately go and send a letter to Prince Ying, asking for a few artillery pieces to come over, we just want to make Jining an isolated city! ”

Akdan sees it very thoroughly, as long as the channel between Jining and Xuzhou is cut off, even if he doesn't get the Cao boat, he is just besieged from both sides, and after a long time, Jining City will still not be able to hold on, and it will definitely fall in the end, as long as he stands at the Caoyun Wharf, then the Tianwei Army of Jining City will want to have a good life, and Zhu Jie will not think about being able to sleep peacefully!

Akdan's soldiers all retreated to the canal bank, the canal wharf, full of fishermen's boats and merchant ships, the entire wharf has been a mess, Xu Qing in the distance saw that the Qing army had withdrawn to the canal bank, and his heart often breathed a sigh of relief, just one step away, one step late, then it was really a big deal, once the Qing army has a big ship, only need to transfer a part of the artillery from the promise, and he will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of the Qing army, after all, he only has 3,000 troops under his hands, but the Qing army has tens of thousands of people to mobilize, how to play?

"Sunan, immediately send a small boat to contact the surrounding Cao Gang merchants, and let them sail all the boats into Weishan Lake, and our Cao boats will all stay here to protect the safety of the Cao Yun Wharf, and we must not let the Qing army cut off our back road!"

(End of chapter)