"Quick, quickly send someone to inform the lord of this!" Danyang, He Qi's camp, and the news that a large number of soldiers and horses of the Ming army suddenly appeared in Huiji was fast enough, but he was caught off guard, and He Qi now didn't know whether to continue to garrison Danyang or lead his troops to rescue Huiji, and he felt that no matter how he chose, he was wrong.

Since the Ming army can bypass Wu County and land directly in Huiji, then it must have the ability to cross the river directly, if he leads the army to rescue Huiji at this time, then He Qi is sure that the Ming army on this side of Jiujiang will definitely take the opportunity to cross the river.

"Whoa!"

"Tell the counties of Wu County to close the city gates immediately, so as not to let the thief army have a chance to take advantage of it!" After the messenger left, He Qi thought about it, and asked people to go to warn the cities, now they don't even know how many enemy troops suddenly landed on the shore, and He Qi can only let the counties guard their respective cities.

How did the Ming army send a large number of soldiers and horses across the sea to Huiji? You must know that even if it is a Jiangdong naval division, it will take a lot of risks to attack across the sea, and the waves above the sea are far from being comparable to this big river.

Let's hope it's in time!

He Qi can only pray now that the other party's troops are insufficient and he can't swallow Wu Jun in one bite, otherwise, even if he holds Danyang, the loss of Wu Jun and Huiji will definitely be a heavy blow to Jiangdong.

At that moment, He Qi put aside these distractions and began to arrange for the soldiers to prepare to defend against the enemy, although he did not know where the enemy was, he had a hunch that these enemies would appear soon.

Martial law began at ferries along the river, and Yu Sheng naturally got the news.

"This He Qi and Quan Cong are vigilant enough, and they won't come back in this case?" Yu Sheng looked at Liu Yi and said, "Bo Yuan miscalculated this time. ”

"I've only read a few military books below, this is the first time to fight on this march, what is the general going to do next?" Liu Yi said with a smile.

"Since they don't move, then we will sail the fleet into the river, and they all say that the Jiangdong Naval Division is unparalleled in the world, and today I want to see if this is the case?" Yu Sheng got up and smiled: "Sir, would you like to go with you?" ”

"Nature." Liu Yi got up and said.

With He Qi's order, thousands of keel warships carrying 100,000 Ming army sailors set off from Guangling, and within a day, they arrived at the mouth of the sea and headed for Qu'a.

Along the way, the Jiangdong naval army, which was responsible for intercepting the possible enemy forces at the mouth of the sea, was stunned when they saw the mighty and huge warships sailing into the mouth of the river one by one.

Jiangdong's building ships are definitely wide, but in front of this fleet, that is, the most ordinary ship size, especially when the huge ship with a length of twenty zhang appeared on the river, like a city moving towards this side, many Jiangdong soldiers had not yet started the war, and they were already frightened and lost their souls.

The Jiangdong naval army that barricaded the river? In front of this huge fleet? Doesn't work? Even the giant ship didn't see it clearly, and the ballista guns placed on the big ships around destroyed the ships cleanly, and occasionally there were fish that slipped through the net and rushed towards this side, and they were easily smashed by the big ships on this side. Where can it stop such a huge fleet.

The ship continued to move forward, all the way towards Qu'a, and Quan Cong, who was stationed in Qu'a, didn't react much better than the others when he saw the mighty fleet? After a moment? Fang Cai reacted and yelled: "Preparing for war? Prepare for battle! ”

For a time, near the ferry, more than a dozen trebuchets began to attack the flotilla on the river.

Here, Yu Sheng did cautiously send fifty medium-sized (about three zhang) warships to start adjusting their ballistas and counterattacking, while one after another fast boats (two zhang) were cruising quickly along the riverside, constantly shooting at the river bank with crossbow arrows.

The two sides fired like this for half a day, and the Ming army's naval division was attacked by Ji Chenle's three medium-sized warships and more than ten clippers, while the price paid by the Jiangdong Army was the complete destruction of more than a dozen catapults and the casualties of nearly a thousand soldiers.

However, although the Ming army sailors appeared in the Central Plains for the first time, but before that, they had crossed the East China Sea, successively defeated the three Korean countries, and the sea water was countless, and the experience of water warfare was no worse than the Jiangdong navy.

Yu Sheng took the opportunity to order people to land, Quan Cong naturally did not allow it, the two sides launched a desperate fight on the shore, the East China Sea Division attacked the ferry several times, but was driven down by Quan Cong with soldiers and horses, but each time the price paid was hundreds of soldiers were shot by the archers on the rear ships.

After repelling the Ming army three times, Quan Cong finally realized that something was wrong, he found that these Ming troops who landed on the shore were not very resolute, and as soon as they encountered resistance, they immediately withdrew, and the other party did not suffer many casualties, and although the Jiangdong naval army temporarily drove the other party back, but it was the price of hundreds of thousands of people, and a few more times, I am afraid that my own people will have to collapse.

After perceiving Yu Sheng's intentions, Quan Cong secretly scolded the other party for treachery, and immediately led the army to retreat to Qu'a City, and after the other party came ashore, he fought with the Ming army on land.

The Jiangdong Army, which is the world's largest naval army, never imagined that one day, they would beg the other party to come ashore to fight against them.

When Yu Sheng saw this, he smiled, he couldn't beat it on the water, and when he got on land, it was the world of the Ming army.

One by one, the warships began to dock at the ferry, and the soldiers on the ships carried various siege equipment down to assemble, but the ships left quickly, but these soldiers who landed on the shore were not in a hurry to attack the city, but began to assemble outside the city of Qu'a.

Quan Cong's face turned pale when he saw this scene, and he didn't know that the other party did what he did just now, just to force himself to give up the ferry and fight them on land.

But even if you know, what? If he doesn't retreat, the whole army may have to be consumed by the other side in that way at the ferry, and now at least there is a strong city to defend.

But then, the attack of the Ming army made Quan Cong desperate, as a port city, Qu'a is naturally not a strong city, looking at the other party's catapults, city-breaking crossbows are placed in a row outside the city, the enemy army has not yet been assembled, the overwhelming artillery stone makes the Jiangdong army defending the city only cowered in the corner of the wall, followed by more and more dense arrow rain, many soldiers can not find a place to hide, and were directly nailed to the city wall.

Quan Cong is also a Jiangdong general, but he has never fought such an aggrieved battle, and even until the enemy attacked the city, the Jiangdong army counterattacked very few times.

Siege warfare, land warfare, including street battles, the Jiangdong army obviously flew far away from the Ming army's opponents, when the vanguard of the Ming army rushed to the city, although the resistance continued, but the war was actually no longer suspense at this moment, Quan Cong finally fled to Jianye with more than a thousand remnants.

After Yu Sheng captured Qu'a Ferry, he was not in a hurry to go deeper, but left 10,000 elite soldiers to garrison here, and the army continued to move forward, during which he connected several ferries, and sent people to notify the direction of Jiujiang to send troops to cross the river, and the Jiujiang garrison was responsible for the attack on Danyang and Wujun, and the task of the East China Sea Division was to break through all these crossings along the river and force the Jiangdong Army to fight a land war with them.

When Yu Sheng led the sailors to the vicinity of Jianye, He Qi had already reorganized his army and was ready to fight to the death with the Ming army here.

"This is the Ming Army Sailor!?" He Qi looked at the mighty and mighty river that almost filled the river more than thirty miles wide, Rao is Quan Cong had already said that this Ming army sailor was terrible, but when he really saw it, He Qi still couldn't hide the shock in his heart.

"Exactly!" Quan Cong gritted his teeth.

He Qi looked at the mighty big ship and exhaled fiercely, this kind of big ship, I don't know how the Ming army built it?

He simply gave up the idea of blocking the other party from going ashore, but quickly withdrew to Jianye, organized the army to dig trenches, and prepared to defend Jianye, which is the capital of Jiangdong, where Liu Ji, the son of heaven, and the imperial court, if Jianye is lost, it will definitely be a heavy blow to Jiangdong.

Yu Sheng naturally understood this, he led the army into the Yangtze River this time, in order to also Jianye, seeing that the other party did not prevent himself from landing on the shore, Yu Sheng began to arrange for the soldiers to land, and used small boats to transport siege equipment and baggage along the river in the direction of Jianye, and at the same time ordered the Jiujiang army to march in the direction of Jianye, preparing to unite the Jiujiang army to encircle Jianye and break through the city.

He Qi wanted to send someone to take advantage of the unstable position of the enemy army to burn the enemy's baggage first, but Yu Sheng was the most stable general under Chen Mo, so how could he not take precautions in this matter? On the small boats, half of them were Ming soldiers armed with two-stone yellow crossbows, plus the army's rapid reinforcement, advancing by land and water, the two sides fought a fierce battle on the riverside, and finally ended in the defeat and retreat of the Jiangdong army.

He Qi had no choice but to build an earthen fort outside Jianye City to deal with the Ming army, and at the same time hoped that Sun Quan's side could send reinforcements as soon as possible.

Yu Sheng did not go ashore, but arranged a large number of clippers to cruise around to guard against reinforcements from Jiangdong from the water, and built a battery at the ferry, and after preparing for the rear, he went to the front line with Liu Yi to launch a fierce attack on Jianye.

In the troubled times, the rain of arrows rained down, the fierceness of the battle of Jianye far exceeded any war on the side of Jingzhou, Yu Sheng and Liu Yi exhausted their methods, and failed to break the city for five days in a row, and the Jiangdong defenders on the side of He Qi also suffered heavy casualties, the power of the Ming army's ballistae was so strong, faintly there was a tendency to cover the Jiangdong equipment, if it was not for the benefit of the strong city, if it was encountered in the wild, whether it could last for five days, it is really difficult to say.

Yu Sheng is not easy here, in order to take Jianye as soon as possible, Yu Sheng chose the toughest way to siege the city, the price is that the East China Sea Division is seriously attrition, so Yu Sheng chose to postpone the siege, and wait for the arrival of Jiujiang soldiers and horses to join forces to attack the city, which also gave the Jianye defenders some respite, but there were no reinforcements for five consecutive days, which was also a huge blow to the morale of the defenders.