Hearing this familiar voice, Lu Jie wondered in his heart, how could it be his voice? Through the light of the torches, Lu Jie saw through the curtain of the car that it was the Zhou Fulai who made him feel scared in his dreams!

At this time, several soldiers came over and couldn't help but say, and dragged Lu Jie off the car arrogantly.

After stumbling and falling, Lu Jie stammered and asked, "Zhou ...... Zhou Yushi, you ...... Aren't you hurt?"

"Hahaha......" Zhou Fu burst into laughter, and then said: "Boss Lu, you didn't expect that I would do it, right?" It was someone else who was hurt, not me! ”

At this point, he fully understood that his guess was right, but it was too late! He couldn't understand why Liu Cai betrayed himself anyway, his resentful eyes stared at Liu Cai, and he asked loudly: "Liu Cai!" I've treated you well all these years, why are you hurting me so much?! ”

Liu Cai said calmly: "Master, have you forgotten how my daughter-in-law died?" She was killed after being insulted by the Wakos! After all these years, I will never forget! You colluded with the Japanese to smuggle goods, and for the sake of so many years of friendship, I put up with it, and I put up with it if you provided information to the Japanese and let them come to the shore to rob them. But you dragged me to be a widow, I can't bear it anymore no matter what! ”

The more Liu Cai spoke, the louder he became, and he said that he was simply roaring in the end!

Lu Jie was also angry when he heard this, and he roared loudly: "You white-eyed wolf who eats inside and out! Forty years of friendship is not as good as a woman! You judge! ”

As he spoke, he threw himself at Liu Cai, and the soldier kicked him to the ground, and then tied him up. Liu Cai was not angry at this time, he was talking to himself, and seemed to say to Lu Jie: "Sentence? It's better to be your judge than to be a traitor! You treat women like clothes, but I can't forget the woman who grew up with me! ”

On April 10, the 14th year of Hongzhi, just after dawn, more than a dozen people in the yamen of the Huai'an Branch, including Yue Bingqian, were arrested. On the same day, more than 100 people were arrested at the same time in four or five salt farms in Yancheng, and hundreds of smugglers of all sizes were arrested in Huai'an, Yangzhou, Suqian, and other places.

The largest salt smuggling gang in Jiangnan during the Hongzhi period was destroyed in one fell swoop!

Now the only leaky fish is Lu Shaowen. At that time, Lu Shaowen obeyed his father's arrangement, disguised himself as an ordinary family, and scattered out of the city with the family, getting rid of the tracking of the guards of the salt courtyard. When they joined the family, they did not dare to slack off and gallop all the way, and when they were sleepy, they would take a nap on horseback, and when they were hungry, they would eat some dry food on horseback. After two days and two nights, the change of horses and the change of people finally arrived in Qidong City.

At this time, He Zhiyuan's fleet also arrived in Chongming County, but it was still nearly a hundred miles away from Nantousha Island. And after Lu Shaowen and they arrived in Qidong, they packed up the fine soft silver taels at Qidong's house and delayed for two hours, and when they got on the carriage and arrived at the beach, He Zhiyuan's fleet was still forty miles away from Nantousha, and at this time, they had already prepared the cannons on the ship and were ready to fight at any time.

It took another hour and a half from the Qidong coast to Nantousha, and when Lu Shaowen arrived at Nantousha, He Zhiyuan's fleet was still more than an hour away from Nantousha. But Lu Shaowen didn't know about this situation yet, and thought that why Zhiyuan and their fleet still had at least half a day.

After arriving in Qidong, he instructed his family members to transfer the family and gold and silver on the small boat to a flagship, and at the same time ordered

The islanders began to arm.

The leader stationed here is called Che Guihai, who was born in a fugitive military household, and is a hundred households in the army. Later, he was recruited by Lu Jie and became the leader of the 2,000 dead soldiers in Nantousha. Although there is a sea character in Che Guihai's name, he was born in the infantry army and knew nothing about naval naval warfare, so he asked him to train this army of 2,000 people, and he could only train according to the infantry army, and these soldiers had not even been on a newly built sea ship.

As for the equipment, it was even worse, and the most common weapons among the soldiers were broadswords, spears, bows and arrows. The most advanced weapons were the six guns that were bought from the Japanese last winter, but these five guns had a range of only 500 paces and were seriously under-shelled, with only about 100 shells.

In Lu Jie's plan, Nantousha Island was just a temporary dock and soldier training base, and it was not built as a stronghold, so the defense facilities were not perfect.

"Young master, car leader, ten big ships are coming from the west, and they are coming this way." A sentry came to report.

"It's them, they're coming so fast. But don't be afraid, they only have six or seven hundred people, and it is not so easy to attack the island. Lu Shaowen said.

"Young master, the officials and queens are all on river boats, and they don't dare to go to the sea. You take your family to the sea for shelter first, and I will defend you here. Che Guihai heard that there were only six or seven hundred people, and he suddenly became confident and confident.

Lu Shaowen was preparing to flee from the beginning, and when he heard Che Guihai say this, he immediately agreed. He took all his family and a group of soldiers, and ten of them who had stayed here to help him train, a total of more than 300 people, and boarded the big ship and sailed away. Before leaving, he also instructed: "When they are repulsed, immediately pack up their things and sail to Takeda to meet." Throw away everything but gold and silver grain! ”

Nantousha is a small area of the east and west narrow alluvial island, in the Ming Dynasty Chongming Island has not been connected into one, in addition to a larger area of the main island Chongming Island, surrounded by some small alluvial islands, Nantou Island is the alluvial island formed in recent decades, it is located in the southeast direction of the Yangtze River estuary, out of the Nantousha is the vast sea.

Therefore, Lu Shaowen's big ship quickly sailed to the sea, and He Zhiyuan and the others could only watch the big ship leave, but they couldn't catch up! Because these inland ships are still too small, they can't withstand the wind and waves of the sea at all, and the speed is not fast, so they can't catch up with the big ship that Lu Shaowen is riding.

On the sea, about five miles away from Nantousha, He Zhiyuan stopped all the ships. After that, he joined Xu Tangyi on a boat and carefully observed the situation in Nantousha with a telescope.

Xu Tangyi found through observation that there were three cannons on the northwest and southwest corners of the island, and there was also a simple defensive position and lookout post, almost all the troops were concentrated in these two places, and from the point of view of the deployment, their focus was on the attack from the west of the Yangtze River, which was obviously defending the interior, not defending against the Japanese at sea. Not far from this defensive position is a small pier with several riverboats parked on the pier, and it seems that this is a pier specially designed for riverboats.

Seeing the deployment situation on the island, Xu Tangyi had a battle plan in his heart. It was he who said to He Zhiyuan: "He Gongzi, the defense force on the enemy island is very weak, and the most lethal is the six cannons, but judging from the caliber and size of the cannons, the range will not be very far." Just knock out these few

cannon and it will be much easier to land on the island again. ”

He Zhiyuan said: "After these cannons are defeated, how should we land on the island?" ”

Xu Tangyi replied confidently: "After these cannons are defeated, we can drive the boat to the dock, and if there is resistance, we can shoot on the boat, their bows and arrows can't help us." ”

"Okay, now that Xu Qianhu has a plan to attack the island, let's start." He Zhiyuan said.

"He Gongzi can watch from the boat, and I'll lead the fleet forward." Xu Tangyi proposed.

"Don't worry about me, I can go with Xu Qianhu's big ship, I trust Xu Qianhu's judgment!" He Zhiyuan waved his hand and rejected his proposal.

Xu Tangyi also did not insist anymore, and then ordered ten ships to line up in a line, continue to sail forward for two miles, and then carry out tentative shelling. In fact, at a distance of five miles, it has entered the projectile range of field artillery, but the accuracy is too poor at a distance, and it is swaying on the ship, and it is impossible to measure and aim, so Xu Tangyi ordered to move forward two miles.

On the sea, which was still three miles away from the fort, Xu Tangyi ordered the ship to stop, and then ordered the soldiers to prepare for the shelling.

Che Guihai, who was in the defensive position, was confused at this time, why did these ships stop so far away? Could their artillery be able to hit here? This is a distance of more than 1,000 steps, and I heard that there is a kind of 8,000-pound cannon that can hit so far, but as soon as the cannon is fired on the ship, the huge recoil does not collapse the ship?

When he was wondering, he suddenly heard a burst of artillery on the opposite side, and the opposite side actually opened fire. More than a dozen shells then came at the position, but most of them missed, and only one or two shells fell into the crowd, knocking several soldiers to a pulp on the spot. After that, the solid cannonball jumped and fell into the dirt next to it, before losing its power.

Che Guihai was shocked, what kind of cannon is this, it hits so far? He secretly complained in his heart, thinking that he had encountered stubble today, according to this style of play, wouldn't he only be passively hit by the cannon and have no power to fight back? If that's the case, then this battle is still a fart!

However, he couldn't just admit defeat, so he lay on his position and ordered: "Don't panic, everyone, find a place to hide, their shelling won't last long, as long as you dodge this blow." If they try to get closer, they'll bombard them! ”

As soon as the words fell, the second round of artillery rang out again, this time much more accurate than the last time. About seven or eight shells fell into the position, two of which also fell around the artillery, but fortunately did not hit the artillery. But four artillery soldiers were hit by shells and died on the spot, and one of the soldiers was directly smashed in two by the shells, and died a tragic death! After this round of shelling, more than a dozen people were killed on the spot on the position, and many more were wounded.

In the position of more than 1,000 people, this casualty is not very large, but the deterrent power of the artillery is very great, plus the dead are all in a tragic state, and the psychological pressure of the soldiers is very great.

In a panic, an artilleryman could not withstand the psychological pressure, directly ignited the fuse, and opened fire on the opposite side. However, the shell hit more than a mile and fell into the sea, and even the waves did not reach the ships on the opposite side.

Che Guihai couldn't help but be furious when he saw the artillery firing. He scolded loudly: "Which grandson fired the cannon?" Isn't this exposing the range of the cannon? ”

(End of chapter)

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