In May of the 22nd year of Jingyuan, Wang Heng, one of the three major Kou in the East China Sea, led 60,000 Japanese to capture Chongming Island, and Yu Dayou and Zhang Yuanjing led the army to meet the battle, and the battle of Chongming was launched on the evening of May 8.

Because it was summer and the air was dry, the Ming army bombarded Chongming Island with more than 100 red-coated cannons, and after hundreds of shells, the entire Chongming Island was full of fire. After the artillery attack, Yu Dayou gave an order, and 60,000 Jiangsu and Zhejiang troops moved closer to Chongming Island under the cover of artillery fire.

After the initial panic, the Japanese gradually stabilized their minds, and because the artillery was on top of the warship, they hurriedly met the enemy, and had to resist with bows and arrows.

After landing on the island, the Ming army and the Japanese invaders launched hand-to-hand combat, these Japanese invaders, fighting alone are very fierce, at first countless Ming soldiers were killed. However, as soon as the Ming troops landed on the shore, they immediately formed a formation, a group of twelve, shield bearers, spearmen, javelinmen, etc. performed their duties, once someone lost their combat power, someone else immediately filled up, and the lineup would not be chaotic. This set of formations, like hedgehogs, made the Japanese have no way to speak, and they have suffered a lot.

The battle lasted all night, and by daybreak, the battle was almost over.

Chongming Island corpses are all over the field, blood flows like a river, killing more than 30,000 Japanese invaders, capturing more than 10,000 people, and more than 20,000 Japanese invaders on the way to retreat, ambushed by Zhang Yuanjing's sailors, sinking more than 70 ships, only more than 8,000 people broke through the siege, fled to the sea.

And the Ming army also suffered heavy losses, and after this battle, the casualties also exceeded 10,000.

When the Japanese came with a fierce momentum, who expected that they would be defeated.

Unexpectedly, Wang Heng, one of the three major Kou, saw that he was invincible and fled alone by boat, but he was blocked in the middle of the road.

Under the fierce battle, Wang Heng was blinded in one eye by Feng Wanli and captured alive.

Originally, Wang Heng and Feng Wanli, one was the sword god of Kyushu, and the other was the king of the sea, and their strength was equal, but Wang Heng was in a declining situation and fell behind without a fight.

The great victory in the Battle of Chongming boosted the morale of the Ming army and destroyed the foundation of the three major Kou. The 8,000 Japanese who escaped were like a plate of scattered sand without Wang Heng's leadership, and although they continued to do evil in the East China Sea, they could no longer become a big climate and could not set off wind and waves.

That night, Xu Ruonan and I didn't sleep all night, and Yu Dayou was on the Guanwu Terrace and witnessed the entire battle of attacking the island.

It's not that we don't help, when we expressed our desire to serve, Yu Dayou flatly refused.

In a group army of this size, the role played by the people in the rivers and lakes is very limited. Although martial arts masters can reach ten with one, a hundred martial arts masters together are very likely to be unable to defeat five hundred well-trained warriors. If a thousand martial arts masters face five thousand soldiers, all that awaits them is the fate of being slaughtered.

This is why there are so many martial arts masters on the rivers and lakes, but the imperial court has never established an army composed of martial arts masters. The masters of the rivers and lakes generally act as the guards of the princes and nobles, serve as scouts in the military, or help the military solve some thorny problems.

The masters of the rivers and lakes have strong individual combat ability and can achieve a considerable advantage in tactics, but in terms of strategy, unless they are great masters outside the three realms, few people in the rivers and lakes can influence the outcome of the war.

After dawn, Xu Ruonan was going to the head of the Nether God Sect, and I sent her outside the city. Now the news of the defeat of the Japanese has not yet spread, and there are still some people on the road who are ready to flee with their furniture, at this time, the Ming army rode a war horse in the city to spread the news of "the defeat of the Japanese invaders".

It was sent out seven or eight miles in a row to the Yangtze River ferry.

Xu Ruonan said with a smile, idiot, if you send it again, you will arrive in Jiangning.

I smiled, that dare is good, I have long heard that the Qiantang tide is a wonder of the world, and I can't wait to see it.

Xu Ruonan said, I'm waiting for you in Jiangning.

On this day, Xu Ruonan went south by boat.

On the day after Wang Heng, the three major Kou Zhi, was arrested, he was picked up. According to Zhang Yuanjing, the person who took Wang Heng had extremely high martial arts, neither like Jinyiwei nor Dongchang, but when he raised people, he used Zhu Runze's secret edict.

This can't help but make people guess the identities of these people, when did the Ming Dynasty establish such an organization?

The official documents of the Ming Dynasty are generally drafted by the cabinet vote, and then approved by the emperor and issued in accordance with the process. The secret edict is different, without going through the cabinet, it is directly supervised by the celebrant and stamped is not the official seal, which is generally used to deal with the emperor's private affairs.

Wang Heng is not only the three major Kou Zhi in the East China Sea, but he also has a more important identity, the deputy commander of the Ming Forbidden Army thirty years ago. There are rumors in the market that the old emperor Zhu Wuneng did not die, but hid in Jiangnan, as one of the two most trusted by the emperor back then, Wang Heng was taken away as soon as he was caught, which can't help but remind people of this rumor.

As early as before the Battle of Chongming, the Holy Decree to release Hu Zongxian to Jinling had already come down, but the Great War was imminent, and the Jinyi Guard commanded 6 soldiers to delay the Holy Decree backwards by one day, which allowed Hu Zongxian to calmly deploy the Battle of Chongming.

As soon as the war was over and the sweeping work was not over, the 6 soldiers of the Jinyi Guard decided to send Hu Zongxian to Jinling. After Hu Zongxian exchanged views with Jin Yiwei and Liufang, Jinyiwei agreed that Liumen would send someone to supervise the escort process, and at Hu Zongxian's suggestion, I would assume the responsibility of supervision.

For the Ming army, which had just won the victory and was still immersed in joy, this news was tantamount to thunder on the ground. On the same day, the two battalions mutinied and led people to surround Songjiang Mansion, and the leader of the team was called Li Kangda, who was Hu Zongxian's hometown.

This person has a strong personality, a violent temper, and a straight character, when he heard that Jinyiwei had arrested Hu Zongxian, and the blood that had just been brought down from the battlefield, he suddenly rushed to his head, and led eight hundred fellow villagers to drain the water around the Songjiang Mansion.

These Ming troops were originally under Hu Zongxian's control, and now that Hu Zongxian has been arrested, some people have taken the lead in speaking up, and others will naturally not stop them.

Li Kangda accused loudly, he has always said that the generals of the defeated army have never heard that if the war is won, they will be imprisoned for questioning, what is the axiom of the Ming court?

This sentence was very loud, and the object of questioning was naturally Jinyiwei. However, Jinyiwei is the emperor's private spy agency, only responsible to the emperor, and unswervingly carries out the emperor's orders, as for what the people, officials, and the army think, they don't care at all.

Yesterday, the six soldiers made a fatal mistake in order to resist the Japanese.

Although he said that his intentions were good, for the sake of the people, for the peace of the Ming Dynasty, this Jinyi guard commanded the envoy out of justice and conscience. But from the emperor's point of view, the mistakes made by the 6 soldiers were unforgivable, and this could even affect the emperor's doubts about his abilities.

Hu Zongxian had already taken off his second-grade regular clothes, and instead wore a coarse linen dress.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, Hu Zongxian is now exempted from being a common man and has no right to wear silk and satin, of course, he only went back to Jinling to be tried, even if he is a brocade guard, he has no right to lock and shackle him.

Hu Zongxian walked outside the door, saw Li Kangda who surrounded the Songjiang Yamen, and then looked at Yu Dayou, Zhang Yuanjing and others who were not far away, and walked over with a gloomy face. Li Kangda said in a loud voice, saying My lord, I have heard that there are traitors in the court who have framed you, and our brothers have discussed it, and we want to follow you to Jinling and plead with the emperor!

I sighed in my heart, this Li Kangda seems to be pleading for Hu Zongxian, but in fact, this is roasting Hu Zongxian on the fire, one of Hu Zongxian's crimes is called forming a party for personal gain, the more you plead, the more you push him to a dead end.

is also a general, Yu Dayou and Zhang Yuanjing just stood there indifferently and said nothing, for the sake of the realm, the superiority and superiority.

I saw that Hu Zongxian stood in front of Li Kangda and stretched out his hand to slap him. Li Kangda covered his red and swollen face and said, Your Excellency the Governor, we ......

Hu Zongxian motioned for him not to squeak, but asked Yu Dayou, General Yu, this general roared at the yamen and gathered all people, according to the military law of the Ming Dynasty, what should he be guilty of?

Characterizing the mutiny in the military camp as a matter of gathering all living beings, Yu Dayou didn't know that Hu Zongxian had the intention of defending Li Kangda, so he said that he would be beaten 40 boards and fined for half a year.

Hu Zongxian said that now you are a general, and you have the highest position, and you have the final say here.

The 6 soldiers squinted their eyes and led several other brocade guards to watch coldly.

Hu Zongxian looked up at the sky, came to me and said, This trip to Jinling, please take care of Su Zhutou. Turn to the 6 soldiers, 6 adults, let's go.

As soon as I walked not far away, Zhang Yuanjing followed, called me aside, and took out two hundred taels of silver tickets, which is two hundred taels of silver that I made up with General Yu.

I don't like it, we are brothers who were born and died together, you give me silver, is this cold me?

Zhang Yuanjing said, this is our intention, and it is not for you, mainly because there is always a place to spend money along the way. And when I arrived in Jinling, there were so many yamen, and I had to pay attention to it up and down, and some money still had to be spent.

I secretly thought that this Zhang Yuanjing was a good hand at marching and fighting, but he was still immature for the sophistication of the world, Jinling is a prosperous place, and the two hundred taels of silver are the price of drinking flower wine in Qinhuai River once.

However, as far as this money is concerned, Zhang Yuanjing and several of them made it up, so my subordinates solemnly said, is there a turnaround for the crime of Lord Hu?

Zhang Yuanjing shook his head and said that this matter is very strange, as soon as Gonggong Feng left with his front foot, Jinyiwei followed with his back foot, which seemed to be designed. General Yu and I have long felt that something is wrong, but we can't find a way.

I know that Hu Zongxian's detention is very likely to involve a power struggle in the capital, and a little carelessness will lead to death.

Who?

I say, Holy today.

A brocade guard urged behind, hurry up, don't ink.

I just said goodbye to Zhang Yuanjing.

On this day, Hu Zongxian escorted him north.

The war in the East China Sea calmed down, but there was a storm that quietly blew in the south of the Yangtze River, and the source of the storm was Hu Ruzhen, the governor and governor of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, who had just made miraculous contributions in the war against Japanese and was imprisoned.