Mai Ke personally went out and led the field army of Yizhou to the west.

In order to open up this section of the route, Mai Ke divided his troops into two groups, one to cross the Yangtze River and march west from the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the other to go up from the north of the Yangtze River.

Some small and medium-sized villages and towns along the way were all shocked by the large forces of the Heavenly Army, and none of them came out to stop them.

Even many people didn't even dare to go out of the door, so they had to pick up the crack in the door and watch the team walk by.

Although the road was rugged, which was not conducive to the march of a large army, fortunately, their team did not have any baggage, so it took about an hour to reach Gezhouba.

From Yizhou to here, there is about eleven or twelve miles of road.

The importance of Gezhouba lies not in its proximity to Yizhou, but in the fact that it is about 80 miles up from here, which is a water conservancy project that the Celestial Army had already built earlier.

The project there is a thousand-level Pinghu, that is, the Qutang Gorge, Wu Gorge, and Xiling Gorge, the three most precipitous canyons of the Yangtze River, have been combed step by step and turned into a thoroughfare.

The completion of this project has made the waterways here unimpeded.

However, due to the different sections of the water, some of which were under the jurisdiction of the Celestial Army, and some of which were still under the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the shipping of the Yangtze River for thousands of miles was far from being realized.

The section of the river controlled by the Heavenly Army started from Yuzhou, because of the completion of the Holy City of Geyue Mountain, the entire Yuzhou already belonged to the Heavenly Army, and then the upper Yuzhou jurisdiction belonged to the Heavenly Army.

Further up, during this period of time, Youqing, who was clearly the prefect of Yuzhou in the Manchu Qing Dynasty and secretly the mayor of Geyue Mountain Shengshi, had extended his tentacles to the mouth of the Min River into the Yangtze River.

Those places, although they did not belong to Yuzhou, belonged to Sacheon, because Youqing expanded under the pretext of developing shipping. Nor did anyone interfere.

The governor of Sacheon went to the battlefield of the two rivers, and there were very few people who could control the Hou Ye Youqing; even if they could, they were not enough to eat, drink and have fun by themselves, so where would they have the leisure to care about him.

Therefore, below the mouth of the Minjiang River, it belongs to the Heavenly Army.

Although this section of the river. Manchu ships were also free to sail.

In this way, the entire middle reaches of the Yangtze River, from the mouth of the Minjiang River to Yizhou, the thousand-mile Yangtze River channel known as the Sichuan River in ancient times, basically belonged to the Heavenly Army.

In particular, the occupation of Yizhou has just begun, which is equivalent to the beginning and end of the Sichuan River, and only the last section from the Three Gorges to Gezhouba is still in the hands of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

In this section, in fact, many local sailors in Hubei Province were concentrated, and they were all Manchu sailors stationed in Hubei Province. There are also local families, especially the emerging industrial and commercial magnates.

They gathered there in order to attack the defenders of the Celestial Army's thousand-level Pinghu Project of the Three Gorges, that is, the 100,000 troops of the Celestial Army stationed at the lower end of the Three Gorges.

The leader of the garrison is the fifth master.

Mai Ke estimated that the Manchus would never tolerate the Heavenly Army cutting off the lifeblood of the Yangtze River, because it was the throat of the entire Sacheon Province!

With this break, the things that Sacheon needs are far from going up, and the grain of the country of abundance cannot be transported, which is equivalent to abolishing the Manchu Qing Dynasty and abolishing an arm.

Therefore. Peng Xuelin, the most powerful naval general of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was sent here to lead about 200,000 naval troops to attack the garrison of Yi Cheng.

Yi Cheng yes. Keeping in mind the strategy that McKee laid out for him, he did not seek merit, but he sought no fault, and with the waterway fortress built by McKee before leaving, it was like a huge rivet, firmly nailed there.

Those Manchus also knew who the main generals were. has a new understanding of the fifth master of the original swinger.

This realization has dealt a big blow to them.

Even the Manchu royal family is fighting against the Manchu court, how can this battle be fought?

If it weren't for Peng Xuelin personally supervising the battle, plus Hu Linyi, Zeng Guofan and other senior officials often went to visit and inspect. These sailors have long since been defeated.

Now they still insist that it is no longer to defend the Manchus, but to defend their own family business in the two lakes and protect their homes along the Yangtze River.

Recently, Peng Xuelin's main force withdrew to the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, that is, from Yizhou in Hubei Province to Hu in Hui Province, and there are still about 80,000 sailors and more than 1,000 ships of various types.

Although there were fewer people, the offensive and defensive forces changed and became their defense, and the heavenly army attacked them.

Now Zi Yi Cheng has a big headache!

Originally, he relied on the powerful water fortress fortifications to resist twice the number of enemy troops he had, and it seemed that he did not have much effort, but now that they had stepped out of the fortifications to attack the enemy, they found that there were not many good ways to defeat the enemy.

Although there were almost no fortifications of the Manchu Shui Division, they just filled the waterway with more than 1,000 warships, and then, those sailor soldiers, right on it, advanced and retreated freely, as if walking on the ground.

After such a setback, Yi Cheng's good temper was also a little irritable.

Originally, he still had an idea, so he quickly got rid of these Manchu Qing Shui Masters, and then went up along the thousand-level Ping Lake to help Gu Jizhi's Shui Shi.

During this period of time, Gu Jizhi has been fighting fiercely on the Jinsha River, from the mouth of the Batang River to the mouth of the Min River in Sichuan, with a total length of more than 2,300 kilometers of waterways, as well as the big cities and towns along the coast, Gu Jizhi's brother's fleet is everywhere, fighting endlessly.

They themselves are in a deep puddle of mud, and others are anxious to see it, so they want to help him and help him.

Fortunately, Mai Ke gave him an order in time, telling him not to care about Gu Jizhi, but to concentrate on dealing with the enemy in front of him.

When Mai Ke flew to Gezhouba, he saw a sandbar in the middle and knew that this was the origin of the name of the place.

Guyin was often called the "Bunker Dam" by the shipwrights, and it was known to be the culprit responsible for the stranding of ships.

Later, in order to avoid this unfortunate title, it was called Gezhouba.

Otherwise, listen to this conversation, what is that called?

"Where are you going?"

"Boat Dam!"

Isn't that asking for trouble?

Mai Ke asked the sheep breed, Liu Xueyuan, and Liu Xuefang brothers who came with him to wait on the spot, and let the elite soldiers of Yizhou who came with him build a pontoon bridge and enter the sandbar in the middle, ready to intercept the Manchu rout upstream.

He himself continued to go to the front to see Yi Cheng.

When he arrived at the place where the two armies were fighting, he immediately got Yi Cheng on the clouded leopard.

How?

With that rope pocket, of course.

The two met very cordially, gave each other a punch, and began to get down to business.

Yi Cheng began to complain, saying how hard he tried, but he was helpless.

McCohaha laughed and told him that the attacking side, if it didn't have a clear advantage, it would be difficult to work!

So, it's not that he's incompetent!

Yi Cheng smiled calmly and said, "As soon as my brother comes, I will be relieved, their unlucky day has come, haha!"

Mai Ke also said twice haha: "Of course, I have seen their formation, in fact, their advantage is really their fatal wound, look at me!".

(To be continued......)

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