Liu Yongxi's news brought no less impact to the grass platform team on the canal than the sky and the earth cracked, and several leaders immediately gathered on the warship known as the "Imperial Boat" to discuss matters.

Although Tong Yili is known as a "knowing soldier", he panicked when he heard the news: "The thief cavalry brigade has caught up? Do you want the little uncle's horse team to get on the boat and go south together? ”

In Tong Yili's cognition, as long as Liu Yongxi's horse team gets on the boat, everything will naturally be fine, even though the thief Li Zicheng sent nearly a thousand horse teams to catch up, but these horse teams can't fly to the ship.

Liu Yongxi shook his head and said to Queen Zhang: "Queen Mother, since the thieves' horse team has caught up all the way, they must fight!"

In another time and space, he had an extremely painful lesson for the horse team to raid the sailors, when the three thousand elites of the Caojiang sailors and thousands of dependents were trapped in the Xiejia Bridge near Fushantang in Suzhou, the water was shallow and difficult to walk, and there were only firearms in the boat.

At that time, Liu Yongxi was really anxious and couldn't think of any way, but the house leak happened to rain overnight, and directly hit the Qing army's eighteen cavalry raid, and the main force of the Qing army then killed, arrows were like locusts, the whole army was in chaos, and the casualties were amazing.

Liu Yongxi and several family members were not easy to find before they opened their bows and arrows to shoot at the Qing army, but in the waves, Liu Yongxi could only watch one after another close relatives and friends fall in a pool of arrows and blood, and the water master of the river was devastated in front of his eyes, and the history of the fourth admiral of the Sincere Bofu Cao Jiang finally came to an end.

Although he has six ships in his hands now, even if Zhou Zhisheng's warship encounters the elite of the Rogue Horse Team, he can only dare to say that he can barely have the strength to fight, and he can shoot a few rounds against the Rogue Horse Team, and the rabble on the rest of the ships is completely needless to say.

If you really want to encounter a sudden surprise attack by the Rogue Horse Team, it will definitely be chaotic, and it is even very likely that it will collapse without a fight.

Over there, Zhao Zhijie immediately asked, "Is there any other way to avoid the thief team?" ”

Liu Yongxi just wanted to speak, but Queen Zhang had already said: "I have already said that all the matters of killing with soldiers are entrusted to Xiao Chengyibo, since Xiao Chengyi Bo said that he must fight with this branch of thieves, then naturally there is no choice, Xiao Chengyibo, when the time comes, will I beat the drum on the imperial boat to help fight, or will I go ashore and charge with you waving the flag?" ”

Before Empress Zhang said this, Shi Chaoli over there was already anxious: "Our Lady, your safety is related to the survival of the community, you must not be careless, this kind of sword and sword shadow fight is not only extremely dangerous at that time, but also full of corpses and mountains of blood, I am afraid that there will not even be a foothold at that time, and you should avoid the sword without eyes!"

The little palace maid Jinran, who had been standing beside her, also opened her mouth to persuade: "Queen Mother, when the time comes, I am afraid that the flesh and blood will fly and there will be countless casualties, and when the time comes, you can entrust the matter of using troops to Xiao Chengyibo, so you don't have to come to the battle in person!"

Although Empress Zhang had read a lot of history books, she had never seen much blood, and hearing Shi Chaoli and the little palace maid Jinran talk about the tragic scene before the battle naturally scared her a lot, and she couldn't help but have endless fear in her heart.

But she still insisted on her opinion: "Now, there is no need to discuss this matter, I have made up my mind, Xiao Chengyibo, do you think it is better for me to wave the flag and charge with you or beat the drum in the imperial boat?" ”

The strength of Empress Zhang's support was completely unexpected by Liu Yongxi, but it also made Liu Yongxi feel the pressure was amazing.

The reason why he insisted on fighting this rogue horse team was naturally because of the biggest weakness of his force.

After all, this force was put together temporarily, although the equipment was good and the food was sufficient, and there were even many veterans and outlaws, but the grass platform team was a grass platform team after all, and it was completely possible to describe the current situation of this force with a lot of noise.

Everyone is a frightened bird, and it is necessary to usher in a brilliant victory to avoid this situation.

Although Liu Yongxi and Taikanghou both used the word "south" to whitewash the southward movement of the entire fleet, the result of evading the war all the way south could only be more and more serious fear of war and war avoidance.

Although Liu Yongxi tried every means to boost his strength, the first thing that core figures like Lian Tong Yili and Zhao Zhijie thought of when they heard that the rogue horse team was catching up was how to escape and avoid the battle, not to mention the ordinary sergeants below, and the more they avoided the battle, the easier it was for the rogue horse team to take the initiative and launch unexpected raids again and again.

In this case, it is very likely that when the rogue horse team has just launched a surprise attack or even appeared in the sight of the side, the morale of the entire army will collapse directly, and in order to avoid this situation of self-collapse without a fight, it is necessary to use a victory to unite the people, and the rogue cavalry pursuing from the north is the best touchstone of this force in their hands.

He immediately said very clearly: "When the time comes, please ask Niangniang to supervise the battle in the imperial boat, Niangniang, please rest assured, everything has a micro-minister to die, as long as the war is unfavorable, please Tong and General Fuding immediately escort Niangniang to retreat!"

Zhang Yan's face turned pale, although her hand involuntarily held the armrest, but she still made up her mind: "Since Xiao Chengyi said so, this palace is determined to wave the flag and charge with the soldiers to stop the idea of stealing life!"

Liu Yongxi immediately made a promise to Zhang Yan: "Our Lady will still beat the drum in the imperial boat to supervise the battle when the time comes!" Although it is necessary to go head-to-head with this rogue horse team, only by advancing by land and water can we ensure a stable victory, and when the time comes, Niangniang will be able to lay the foundation for victory by beating the drums and supervising the battle in the imperial boat!"

Zhang Yan was very satisfied with Liu Yongxi's answer: "It seems that Xiao Chengyi Bo has thought of a surprising way to win, and I hope that when the time comes, I will beat the drum in the Yuzhou to supervise the battle according to Xiao Chengyibo's wishes!"

She really thinks that this little sincere uncle should think about everything, with Liu Yongxi in charge of the military conscription, she only needs to beat the drum on the imperial boat to supervise the battle.

As for Chang Yichen, he never expected that this fleet of Sincere Bofu would be so good at running, so that the simple task assigned by General Liu Zongmin became so difficult.

Strictly speaking, the key issue is not because of how good the fleet of the Sincerity Bofu is, nor is it that the entire canal is full of merchant ships, boats, and even small fishing boats under the banner of the Sincerity Bofu.

The biggest problem is that his strength is limited, although this cavalry is the elite of the cavalry of the Chuang Wang Army, the history can even be traced back to the thirteenth year of Chongzhen Li Zicheng and then went to Shangluo Mountain, but the problem is that this cavalry has a total of only fifty horses, and most of the cavalry only joined the Chuang Wang Army in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, which can only be regarded as a strong team of horses in Li Zicheng's army.

It was precisely because of his limited strength that Chang Yichen did not dare to play the banner of Li Zicheng, the king of Chuangwang, so as not to attract a large-scale encirclement and suppression by the official army, but played the banner of the rest of Li Qingshan in Liangshan.