Chapter 183: Roar (5)
After the explosion of the Yiyong raid in Guangzhou, it was inevitable chaos that was intertwined with the river and the flames. The speed of the Qing fleet dropped sharply, and the Qing army, which lacked experience in large-scale water warfare, naturally could not compare with the Zheng group, which had been fighting at sea for a long time, and even the Red Flag pirates who had survived in front of Lin Cha half a year ago.
Admittedly, they do need more time to disarm the chaos, deal with change, recoup their losses, and even get back into the fight. But this also undoubtedly gave Chen Kai time, and after Cai Qiao's exclamation, Chen Kai had already realized that she smiled at Ming Jun again.
"Chen Qice, finally came, Lao Tzu didn't see the wrong person!"
Chief military officer Chen Qice, a person from Nanhai County, Guangzhou, was originally a small official, and was recommended by Li Suiqiu, the secretary of the military donation department who was also known as the top three masters in Lingnan with Kuang Lu and Chen Bangyan, to join the army as secretary, and later repeatedly made military exploits, in response to Zhang Jiayu's army, and by the time Li Chengdong had been promoted to the chief military officer, responsible for guarding the mouth of Antelope Gorge. Shang Kexi besieged the city of Guangzhou, Chen Qice's department was ordered to Sanshui to accept the control of the university scholar He Wuju, and was defeated by the Qing army in the first battle of Sanshui, forced to enter the sea, and stationed on Xiachuan Island.
Before Chen Kai left for Macao, he sent a letter to him, agreeing to arrive at Nansha Island on the first day of November to join Lin Cha, just in case. When he arrived in Nansha, he first drove back the red flag pirates of Xu Guolong's department, and then sailed upstream, just blocking the retreat of Xu Long and Sheng Dengke's sailors.
"The Tartar sailor is in front, soldiers, the time has come to be ashamed."
The oars on both sides accelerated abruptly at the sound of the trumpet, the front one fell into confusion and its speed dropped sharply, and the one behind pursued it frantically. In less than a moment, the bow guns of Chen Qice's sailors rang out one after another, and the water battle began again as it continued to get closer.
The front team of the Qing army is Xu Long's naval division, and the back is the new ships that are still happy to build under the leadership of Sheng Dengke, compared to Xu Long, the last time Sheng Dengke participated in the water war seems to be in Liaodong, the craftsmanship has long been rusty, once it is attacked by the Ming fleet, its degree of chaos is much more unbearable.
The warships of the Ming army are still approaching, but Xu Long and Sheng Dengke have already appeared in the problem of losing ground before and after and unable to work together. Time passed in hesitation and panic, and soon, Chen Qice's sailors caught up with the tail of the Qing army, and a "jumping" shouted loudly, and then one after another Ming sailors jumped onto the Qing army's warship with their waist knives, followed by an almost one-sided slash.
Not only did he want to be ashamed, Chen Qice didn't plan to attack some small fish and shrimp, the ship shuttled across the river, and the battle continued to unfold on both sides. In less than a moment, he spotted Shengdenke's ship, and then the cannon sounded, and the ship approached, jumped up, and jumped straight onto Shengdenke's ship.
"A certain is Chen Qice, the chief soldier of Sanshui, kill the Tartars!"
The commander is like this, and the Ming army is even more enthusiastic to jump up and fight with the Qing army, Chen Qice brandished his sword, slashing and killing every Qing army in every place he saw. Soon, he spotted a military general wearing a "lightning rod" and bright armor near the stern of the ship who was pulling down the armor on his body, as if he was planning to jump into the water to escape after removing his armor.
"Dog Tartar, don't run!"
Chen Qice bumped into a Qing army that was fighting with the Ming army, and then chased after him with an arrow, and it was a sword at the moment. The long sword pierced through the lower abdomen of the Qing officer who had just taken off his armor, and when he twisted it, blood gushed out of his mouth under the officer's incredulous gaze, and then before he could grasp the blade, he fell to the deck with both hands in his hands.
"Dead, handsome dead, handsome dead......"
On the surface of the Pearl River, the Qing army's sailors were in a mess, and even using each ship to fight separately had already elevated their performance. The chaos of the Qing army stemmed from the new construction of the naval division, and even more from the fact that the sailors of the Shengdeng Branch were basically recruited locally in Guangzhou, and their morale was not very high, and they were even more warless at this point.
Chen Qice did not set fire, but hoped that he could capture more ships to make up for the losses in the First Battle of Sanshui. But at the front of the fleet, Xu Long, there were a lot of flames that had begun to devour the hull, and the chaos was even more incomprehensible.
Xu Long's ship, the cracks that had been broken turned into openings under the pressure of the water, and then it grew bigger and bigger, and the burning tung oil floated in the pouring water, which soon ignited more flammable materials in the cabin, and even the hull began to burn. Too little experience leads to sluggishness, but any second of hesitation on the battlefield can be fatal.
The fire of the ship matched the influx of the river, and the people of the Xu clan who were in a hurry couldn't figure out how to rescue them. Seeing this, several cronies hurriedly helped Xu Long take off his armor, and then jumped into the ......
In the distance of the Xu Longzuo ship, the mermaid broke out of the river, and then wiped off a lot of the river water on the surface, while floating in the water, gulping in a big gulp of fresh air, and trying to look towards the Qing fleet.
This is not the first time she has come out, the first two times she didn't find the right place underwater, once swam to the side of the Qing warship, and then quickly dived away. At this moment, being in such a far away place is also temporarily safe, but the battle over there is far from over, and many Guangzhou volunteers are fighting with the Qing army in the water, even if they don't even have a dagger in their hands.
With the ebb and flow of the river, the oxygen consumed by this dive does not seem to be fully replenished. She breathed heavily, watching, but soon saw that the man who had been holding the door panel to shield her from arrows on the ship was fighting a Qing army. In the next Miao, he was cut off by the Qing army.
"Dog Tartar, the old lady fought with you."
He took a deep breath, jumped up, turned to a bend, and dived into the water. The mermaid disappeared into the river again, and no one noticed, but after a while, when Xu Long jumped off the boat, he was old and his body had not yet adapted to the ups and downs of the river, and the mermaid jumped up directly from Xu Long's side, and then plunged a wooden thorn that he didn't know where to find it straight into his throat.
Xu Long screamed and covered the wound on his neck, but he still couldn't stop the blood from spraying the woman's face, and the mermaid was stunned on the spot, but mechanically fluttering the river, trying to keep afloat. At the same time, a scream sounded, and a member of the Xu family not far from her swam with a waist knife. Just didn't wait for him to really swim over, but he was quickly strangled by a Guangzhou volunteer from behind, forced into the water, and soon disappeared into the river.
In the distance on the Pearl River, the battle continues, but the situation is clear. Chen Kai secretly said that while he was happy, he also had to hurry back to Henan Island, because the transfer task on the dock was close to completion, but the bigger problem was that the southern city wall of Guangzhou had been lost, and the Qing army of the brigade was attacking the new city wall like crazy. Perhaps, the right guard of Guangzhou will be completely wiped out in the next moment, and then the gate will be opened, and the Qing army will rush into the dock and wantonly slash and kill the people who have not escaped to the ship.
Chen Kai knows very well that even if he comes back, he can't change anything, but the more this time, the more he needs to sit here to stabilize people's hearts.
The oars flew over, the boat galloped back, and Chen Kai loudly announced that the reinforcements of the Ming army's naval division had arrived, and they were fighting with the Qing army fleet in Guangzhou, which caused a burst of cheers that continued to spread. But at the same time, battles have broken out on the walls of the new city.
It was the same as at the south gate, and the stairs to the city wall had been blocked by debris, and the Qing army had no way to get to the city from there, so they had to try to climb up. The Guangzhou rearguard was the same as the Guangzhou Left Guard, with less than 1,000 soldiers, and the Qing army was soon overstretched in the face of superiority.
The white-knuckle battle broke out at the same time as the first ascension, and more and more Qing troops poured into the city, and the sharp decline of the Ming army was also getting faster and faster. Until the end, Ma Chengzu, the hereditary commander of the right guard of Guangzhou, looked at the sa zhifu who had fallen to the ground beside him, and then looked at the artillery that had been nailed into the iron nails, and with a loud shout, he rushed towards the Qing army that was getting tighter and tighter.
"Revenge!"
Under the city, the ships carrying the last group of people are slowly heading towards Henan Island. Crying blood on his deathbed, tearing his heart and lungs, vaguely floated over, passed on from mouth to mouth among these Guangzhou people and the Ming army, until Chen Kai's ears.
"Yes, definitely."
On the city wall in the distance, the Qing army looked helplessly at the Ming army and the people in the distance. Chen Kai looked through the telescope and vaguely saw the last Ming army falling, then dropped the telescope, clenched his hands, and shouted in the direction where the voice came from with all his might.
"If you don't take revenge, you swear not to be a man!"
One person roared, and ten thousand people obeyed. In a moment, a howl of anger resounded across the earth.