Back in time, after Wu Yuanming announced his plan to raid the Suqian River Defense Camp in public, the Luoma Lake Water Bandit Meeting Hall on Guam Island was immediately boiling, and Wu Yuanming saw that everyone had no objection, so he said again: "Since everyone has no opinion, then we will start acting immediately, and don't give the Tartar army of the Suqian River Defense Camp time to prepare." It's just ......" Speaking of this, Wu Yuanming hesitated a little and hesitated: "But who is the commander-in-chief of our operation?" Originally, Chief Helmsman Chen was the best candidate, but he had not yet arrived on Guanchang Island. ”

"Wu Yingying, since you proposed this plan, then you will be the commander-in-chief." Cai Dezhong, the incense master of the Hongshun Hall of the Heaven and Earth Society, was the first to stand up and say what Wu Yuanming wanted to say but was embarrassed to say. Li Xiongfei is a member of the Pingxi Palace, so he naturally agrees with this proposal - by the way, he patted Wu Yuanming's sycophants, and when the others saw them open their mouths, of course, they also echoed one after another, and Liu Haozi, who was itchy and wanted to personally command the battle, was embarrassed to object, so he had to agree to everyone's proposal. So under Wu Yuanming's false resignation, the title of commander-in-chief of this operation was put on Wu Yuanming's head, Hong Dashan and Li Xiongfei, who had military experience, became Wu Yuanming's deputies, and Liu Haozi, the original owner of Luoma Lake, became an ordinary general.

"Ahem, since everyone has recommended Wu to be the commander-in-chief of this operation, and the time is urgent, then Wu is not welcome." After a pretended politeness, Wu Yuanming said the plan he had calculated on the road just now, "We originally had more than 500 people on Guanchang Island, and in the past few days, more than 100 heroes from Jianghu and the heroes of the Tiandihui have come, Wu plans to use 400 brothers from Luoma Lake, divided into four teams, each team of 100 people, led by me, Brother Liu, Brother Hong and Li Xiongfei, and the remaining more than 100 people are led by the three masters and sit on Guanchang Island; Heaven and Earth will go out with all the friends on the rivers and lakes, led by Cai Xiangzhu, as the fifth team. There is a large ship on Guam Island that can carry nearly 100 people, and for the sake of our operation, we have hung four lanterns of red, yellow, white, and blue, and commanded them with lanterns, hoping that you will work together to strangle the Tartar fleet in the cradle! ”

"Yes!" Liu Haozi, Cai Dezhong and others replied in unison. Wu Yuanming ordered again: "Three masters, please immediately go and organize all the people on Guanchang Island who do not participate in the operation, prepare ships and carry military supplies; Brother Liu, Li Xiongfei, after arriving in Suqian, you led two hundred people to kill the Tartar army on the shore camp, not to kill many enemies, as long as they were restrained, not let them reinforce the fleet, Brother Liu is not good at using firearms, our more than 30 arquebuses will be handed over to Li Xiongfei, he can give full play to the maximum power of muskets. Second Brother Hong, Lord Cai Xiang, the two of you each lead your headquarters to fight into the dock where the Tartar fleet is located, Lord Cai Xiang, your team has the strongest individual combat effectiveness, you are responsible for sweeping the Tartar army stationed in the fleet, remember, don't give the Tartar army a chance to cut the cable. Second Brother Hong, your team brings a lot of thatch, sulfur and tung oil, and is specially responsible for burning ships, especially big ships, and they must all be burned. The fifth team I led was a reserve team, and I acted when the opportunity came, understand? ”

"Understood!" Cai Dezhong and the other four replied in unison. At this time, Zheng Xin jumped out and shouted: "Brother Wu, I want to be with you, you don't know martial arts, I can protect you." Wu Yuanming, who has always been greedy for life and afraid of death, was really worried about his safety, glanced at Zheng Xue with a cold expression, and said in his heart that your sister is by my side, and you have to protect me obediently. Wu Yuanming nodded and said, "Okay, but you must follow the command and not act without authorization." Zheng Xin was overjoyed and hurriedly agreed, while Zheng Xue quietly stood on her sister's side, ready to advance and retreat with her sister.

After all, Wu Yuanming was the person who had been the captain of the traffic police force - although it was only one day, after the order was issued, all kinds of preparations were carried out in an orderly manner, and in a short time, more than 500 water bandits and Jianghu heroes who were ready to participate in the operation were assembled, and at the same time, other water bandits, men, women, and children on Guanchang Island all took action, loading muskets, weapons, and military supplies onto more than 30 large and small ships, and at the same time carrying a large number of gourds on board - of course, it was prepared for Jianghu Qunhao and Wu Yuanming, who could not be watery. With concerted efforts, it only took more than half an hour for the Llama Lake fleet to be ready, and the assembled army began to board the ship and set off.

"Wu Yingying, Wu Yingying, please wait." Just as Wu Yuanming was about to board the flagship for the last, Gu Yanwu and the three of them shouted and chased after him, Wu Yuanming stopped and turned around and asked, "Mr. Gu, Mr. Huang, Mr. Lu, do you have anything to do?" ”

"Wu Yingying, although you didn't explain your origin and origin, we can all see that you are definitely not an ordinary person, but a Han who firmly believes in opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty." Gu Yanwu said sincerely: "We caught up, just ask you to protect yourself in the war, we Han people want to expel the Tartars and recover the rivers and mountains of the Han family, we need a real hero like you!" So we caught up with you just to tell you this sentence. Huang Zongxi and Lu Liuliang nodded together, their expressions extremely serious.

"Mr. Gu praised it, Wu really can't deserve the word hero." Wu Yuanming greatly respected Gu Yanwu and other true literati who cherished their family and country, and in the face of Gu Yanwu and others' sincere praise, he remembered his dirty methods, and his extremely rare face had a fever. With guilt, Wu Yuanming wanted to give a modern military salute to Gu Yanwu and the others to show his determination, but considering that they would definitely not know this etiquette, he remembered the strange and cumbersome etiquette that Yao Qisheng taught him, took a step back, brushed the corner of his robe with his right hand, and said firmly: "Three gentlemen, rest assured, Wu will definitely take care of himself, swear to expel the Tartars, recover the Han family, and carry forward my Chinese civilization!" ”

Wu Yuanming said this from the heart, but what he didn't know was that as soon as his etiquette went out, Gu Yanwu and the other three exclaimed in unison, "Wu Yingying, you ...... just now!" But when they were called here, the three of them stopped at the same time, and their faces were suspicious and strange. Wu Yuanming asked confusedly, "Mr. Gu, what happened to me just now?" ”

"Nothing, nothing!" Gu Yanwu and the other three shook their heads in unison, but their faces were still very strange. Wu Yuanming didn't have time to delve into it now, and it happened that the north wind was blowing on the lake, and it was a good time to set off, so he made a salute with the etiquette taught to him by Yao Qisheng, turned back to board the flagship, stood on the bow of the ship and shouted: "Start the boat!" ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Three bird cannons sounded, and thirty-five large and small ships set sail at the same time, taking advantage of the strong north wind, and sailed towards the Suqian waterway. It wasn't until Wu Yuanming's flagship disappeared out of sight that Gu Yanwu and the others woke up from the shock, and Gu Yanwu asked Huang Zongxi and Lu Liuliang in a trembling voice: "Mr. Lizhou, Mr. Wancun, have you all seen the etiquette used by Wu Yingying just now?" ”

"See." Huang Zongxi nodded nervously and replied. Lu Liuliang was more impulsive, and blurted out: "It's a special etiquette ...... for my Ming royal family." Gu Yanwu's eyes were quick, he quickly pressed Lu Liuliang's mouth, and said in a low voice: "Just know it in your heart, don't say it!" ”

"Whew." Lu Liuliang nodded in panic to show that he understood, Gu Yanwu let go of his mouth, and said in a low voice: "This matter cannot be said to anyone except Chief Helmsman Chen, let's pay more attention to Wu Yingying in the future and see ...... him." ”

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The waning moon is like a hook, the stars are like fireflies, the north wind is like a knife, Wu Yuanming stood on the bow of the flagship against the night wind, his heart was excited and nervous, and the excitement was naturally the first time he really led the troops, although Wu Yuanming was present in the last attack on Shangudian, he relied on the command of Yao Qisheng and the super high combat quality of Wu Sangui's guards, Wu Yuanming was just watching and learning from the side. That's why Wu Yuanming was so nervous in his heart, for fear that he would be planted with his heels for the first time with the troops, so that he was so nervous that he didn't pay attention when he stood on the side of the boat, if it wasn't for Zheng Xue grabbing the clothes behind him in time, Wu Yuanming would have almost fallen into the lake.

"What's the daze? Do you want to go down and take a shower? Zheng Xue pulled Wu Yuanming back to the deck and asked angrily. Of course, Wu Yuanming didn't dare to say that he was nervous because of the first time he commanded the battle, so he said with a smile: "Of course I'm thinking about women, Mu Meng, the little county lord of Mu Wangfu, is really beautiful." But Wu Yuanming's words immediately caused a big disaster, and Zheng Xin next to him immediately jumped three feet high and shouted, "What did you say? Who do you say is so beautiful that it makes people's hearts move, is she as beautiful as me? Is my sister beautiful? ”

"You say? I've also seen that Mu Meng, is she as beautiful as me? Do you have bad eyes? The more Zheng Xin spoke, the more angry he became, and he jumped up and wanted to pull Wu Yuanming's ears again. But Zheng Xue grabbed her sister and said coldly: "Sister, don't care who he thinks, let's go." With that, Zheng Xue pulled Zheng Xin to the stern of the boat, and the footsteps were quite loud.

"Two little girls." Wu Yuanming shook his head with a wry smile, looked back at the water in front of him, and sighed in his heart: "Father-in-law, if you are here, I don't have to be so nervous and worried." ”

Nervous is tense, but the battle still has to be fought, when the second watch is about to be, the fleet led by Wu Yuanming crossed the Yellow River and arrived at the north of the canal waterway where the Suqian River Defense Camp is located, this waterway is very wide, like Wu Yuanming's seat, which can carry more than 100 people, at least 20 or 30 ships can be carried in parallel, which is convenient for the Luoma Lake team who is good at water warfare to shuttle guerrillas, but also increases the difficulty of burning boats. In order not to alarm the patrol boat of the Suqian River Defense Battalion, Wu Yuanming called Zheng Xue to the front and whispered a few words in her ear. Zheng Xue glanced at Wu Yuanming very angrily, and then took the boat where Liu Haozi was and rushed to the front to open the way for the team.

Not to mention that Wu Yuanming was nervously watching from behind, just that the fast boat that Zheng Xue and Liu Haozi and others were riding was stopped by the patrolling river defense battalion boats as soon as they entered the waterway, and the patrol boat that could only carry more than ten people greeted them with lanterns and shouted: "We are the patrol of the river defense battalion, where are you from the boat?" According to Wu Yuanming's instructions, Liu Haozi got into the cabin, and Zheng Xue, who was dressed in white, stood at the bow of the boat and tried to answer in a gentle voice: "Master Jun, we are the people of Shunheji in front, and we went to the north to do business and go home. ”

"Yo, big girl, so beautiful!" As Wu Yuanming estimated, as soon as the beautiful and moving Zheng Xue stood up and answered, a strange scream sounded on the patrol boat, and at the same time, the patrol boat of the river defense battalion leaned over without scruples, and three or four Qing soldiers of the river defense battalion jumped on the boat impatiently and shouted: "Stop the boat, stop the boat, routine inspection!" What's in your ship? Of course, these Qing soldiers who were loyal to their duties and impartially enforced the law and served the people shouted for inspection, but several pairs of eyes kept rolling on Zheng Xue's convex figure.

"Master Jun, there is a little silk left over from the boat we sold, and the little girl will take you in to check." Zheng Xue smiled very hard and pointed to the small cabin. The Qing soldiers were overjoyed, and hurriedly hugged Zheng Xue, who was fluttering in white, and approached the cabin - about two blinks of an eye, and after the sound of three or four muscles being cut in the boat, Zheng Xue ran out of the cabin and exclaimed to the remaining Qing soldiers on the patrol boat of the river defense camp: "Master Jun, come and take care of your people, they are touching my sister!" ”

"Sister? Sister flowers? Big and small? These words quickly flashed in the minds of the few Qing soldiers who were admiring Zheng Xue's beautiful appearance, except for one Qing army at the helm, the other five scrambled to jump onto the clipper where Zheng Xue was, and rushed into the cabin with a very upright shout, "Brothers, take it easy, the general doesn't allow us to flirt with the people's girls!" Of course, there were five more severing sounds in the boat—Liu Haozi's knife was always fast......

"What are you doing? Come out? "The Qing army at the helm of the patrol boat of the river defense battalion finally realized that something was wrong—since the brothers were molesting the people's girls, why was there no lewd laughter and shrill laughter of the girls? But as soon as he finished speaking, a rough laugh came from the cabin, "Here we are!" The laughter continued, and Liu Haozi rushed out of the cabin with an arrow step, and the steel knife in his hand shot out like lightning, stabbing the Qing army at the helm to the heart. Liu Haozi rubbed his hands and laughed: "It's really enjoyable, I can kill ten Tartars effortlessly!" Brother Wu's method is really smart. ”

"But it's also very immoral and shameless." Zheng Xue coldly wiped away a drop of blood splashed on her face, and instructed the sailor: "Throw the corpses of these Tartars into the river and continue to walk forward." In this way, Zheng Xue and Liu Haozi concocted the same method, silently solved the three patrol boats of the Suqian River Defense Battalion, cleared the clear water road for the Luoma Lake fleet, and let the main fleet led by Wu Yuanming quietly approach the wharf where the Suqian River Defense Battalion fleet is located.

When he was only three miles away from the wharf where Suqian was located, Wu Yuanming ordered the fleet to stop and prepare, and quickly drew a simple sketch of the Suqian waterway based on the information provided by the reconnaissance ship, pointing to the sketch and saying to Liu Haozi, Li Xiongfei, Hong Dashan and Cai Dezhong who had gathered on the flagship: "According to the confessions of the two Tartar prisoners, the Suqian River Defense Battalion originally had a strength of 1,500 people in three battalions, but because of the garrison Weng Wotu and Ao Bai, half of his team had been transferred last month - in order to weaken his strength, At present, there are actually less than 800 people in the Suqian River Defense Battalion, of which 500 are stationed in the land camp on the shore and more than 200 are guarding the fleet. Therefore, Brother Liu and Li Xiongfei have the heaviest task, but no matter how much it costs, you must stop the land camp from reinforcing the water camp! ”

"No problem, Brother Wu, you can rest assured." Liu Haozi replied grinningly. Li Xiongfei also nodded and said, "Cousin, don't worry, although we only have two hundred people, we have all undergone strict training, and they have not yet received reinforcements, so it is absolutely no problem to stop them for a few hours." ”

"Very well, your fleet will immediately dock and disembark and quickly weave between the enemy's land and water camps! Pay attention to the signal on the flagship, and if the situation on the docks is unfavorable, I will order you to retreat. Of course, if it goes well, we'll reinforce you after we've burned the ship, and help you get rid of the Tartars in the land camp as well. Wu Yuanming nodded and said. He also instructed Hong Dashan: "Second Brother Hong, your task is not easy, Lord Cai Xiang's team has strong individual combat effectiveness, but it is not as proficient in water as you, in addition to burning the boat, your team must also pay attention to rescuing the companions who fell into the water!" ”

"Yes!" Hong Dashan replied with a very military temperament. Wu Yuanming turned to Cai Dezhong again and said: "Lord Cai Xiang, the tartars in the water camp will be handed over to you, be careful not to fight with them collectively, no matter how high your martial arts are, one person can't stop the Qi stab of a squad of the army!" Cai Dezhong grinned and said: "Brother Wu, don't worry, this truth is often told to us by our chief helmsman." ”

"Alright, let's get started, and get ready right away." After Li Xiongfei and the others returned to their ships, Wu Yuanming shouted: "Send a signal!" The whole army set out and destroy the Tartars! ”

"Order!" The four sailors on the flagship lookout agreed at the same time, and at the same time pulled four red, yellow, white, and blue lanterns, and the four lanterns were launched along the bamboo poles, and the four fleets that saw the signal immediately sailed out like arrows from the string, and rushed to the river bank and the pier in two directions......

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"Kill!" The fleet led by Hong Dashan was the first to rush to the unsuspecting Suqian River Defense Battalion's special wharf, rushed into the flotilla moored on the wharf and set fire everywhere, threw cans of tung oil onto most of the empty Qing ships, and threw torches that were burning vigorously onto the wooden boats. Several small boats full of thatch poured tung oil on the Qing army were eyeing the two largest boats of the Qing army that could carry 300 people, and hit the big boat with the help of the wind, and the three-headed iron fork on the bow of the fire boat immediately went deep into the hull of the Qing army's big ship, and the Luoma Lake bandits on the fire boat immediately lit the thatch, turned over and jumped into the river, and swam back to their own fast boat. The wind was strong at night, and the fire on the fire ship immediately ignited the Qing army's big ship, crackling and burning. In just a few moments, the wharf of the Suqian River Defense Camp was shrouded in a sea of fire, and dozens of Qing military ships became smoking, spitting fireboats, and the number was still increasing rapidly.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! It should be said that the response of the Qing army was not slow, Hong Dashan's fleet had just ignited more than ten small boats, and the Qing army on the dock discovered their movements, and while sounding the gong to warn, a dozen or so fast boats carrying the Qing army greeted them, trying to stop Hong Dashan's fleet from setting fire. But Cai Dezhong's fleet has also rushed here, Cai Dezhong and others on each boat have a familiar boat with a familiar boat Luoma Lake bandits at the helm, skillfully driving the fast boat to rush to the Qing army's ship, the individual combat effectiveness of the heaven and earth will be the people and the rivers and lakes of the heroes jumped on the enemy ship, and the Qing army on the ship to fight together, these rivers and lakes are more or less some martial arts, in the narrow boat to deal with the Qing army can not form a team is naturally not a problem, and there are a few gourds tied to the body, even if you fall into the water, you can wait for your own boat rescue. For a time, the sound of killing between ships shook the sky, the sound of swords colliding and the sound of human bodies falling into the water echoed endlessly, and from time to time someone cut over and fell, and blood flowed down the side of the boat into the water, dyeing the water surface a pale red.

"There's still a Tartar boarding on the dock, hurry up and catch it." Cai Dezhong's sharp eyes found that there were still many Qing troops on the dock, and he hurriedly ordered the Luoma Lake bandits at the helm. The helmsman turned the rudder hard, carrying Cai Dezhong and the two boats next to him at the same time to the dock, the boat had not yet docked, Cai Dezhong jumped ashore with a shout, waved a knife to cut off the head of a Qing army, and struggled to stop a few Qing troops who rushed up, to buy time for their own ships to dock, after the fast boat on Llama Lake docked, other Jianghu heroes also went ashore, wielding weapons and fighting bravely. The Qing army was not vegetarian, relying on good training to meet the battle, only some lone Qing troops were cut down by the heroes of the rivers and lakes, and the battle on the dock soon fell into a stalemate, but the Qing army could not board the ship to reinforce the water, so that Hong Dashan's fleet had more time and space for arson.

The wharf is in full swing, but the battle on the land is more brutal, Weng Wotu led the army to fight still has some ability, it only took half a pillar of incense to assemble the army, and led the army to quickly reinforce the wharf four miles away, but they just came out of the camp more than a mile before they met Liu Haozi and Li Xiongfei's team, when the Qing army rushed to the front, Li Xiongfei, who held more than 30 muskets in his hand, asked Liu Haozi to lead the team to pause the advance, and commanded more than 30 guns to shoot the Qing army with platoon gun tactics, the first round of more than a dozen muskets fired together, Shoot down five or six Qing soldiers who rushed in front, and also shoot Weng Wotu's war horse, if it wasn't for Weng Wotu jumping off the war horse in time, I was afraid that the war horse that had been in pain rushed to Li Xiongfei's team. After the first round, the first round was immediately reloaded, and the second round fired ten more bullets, and then the third round, and the cycle continued, temporarily curbing the momentum of the Qing army's charge.

"The enemy doesn't have many muskets, don't be afraid! Raise your shield and charge me! Weng Wotu snatched a shield, raised the shield to protect the chest and abdomen and was the first to rush forward, the shield soldiers under his command were concocted in the same way, they were all fearless to charge forward, the projectiles fired by the muskets in this era were not enough to penetrate the shield, and the power of the muskets of Li Xiongfei's team was immediately curbed a lot. But Li Xiongfei is also an experienced veteran on the battlefield, and he ordered unhurriedly: "Don't panic, retreat while shooting, and delay the distance of the Tartar charge." The musketeers acted as ordered, retreating while continuing to fire, using the distance to effectively kill and injure the Qing army, and when Weng Wotu took the lead and rushed ten steps in front of the musket team, the Qing army had already been shot down by the musket team and wounded more than 50 people. Li Xiongfei shouted again: "Brother Liu, it's up to you!" ”

"No problem! Kill, brethren! Liu Haozi roared, the first to rush up and slash with Weng Wotu, and the Luoma Lake bandits who had been strictly trained by Hong Dashan formed a team to meet the attack, and the swarming Qing army collided hard, and then Li Xiongfei also asked the musket team to put away the musket and charge to help meet the enemy. This is a completely hard-fought battle, both sides are strictly trained strong divisions, shouting and charging while shouting to resist, the competition is no longer martial arts but courage, every moment someone is killed, that is, the murderer is killed again, the Qing army with the advantage of numbers firmly has the upper hand, but the Luoma Lake bandits do not give an inch, although they suffer heavy casualties, they are like a nail nailed between the land camp and the water camp of the Qing army, not allowing them to meet the two armies.

At the same time, Wu Yuanming also received a battle report from the front, and two heralds from different directions reported separately: "Report to Brother Wu, we have gained the upper hand in the battle on this side of the dock, the Tartar fleet is not well prepared, most of the ships have been ignited by us, and the Tartars on the dock have not been able to reinforce the water." "Brother Wu, we are very bad on land, the Tartar charge is too fierce, there are many people, the brothers have suffered heavy casualties, and they are in urgent need of support."

"Brother Wu, let the fifth team support the land." Zheng Xin shouted anxiously. Wu Yuanming, who was more anxious than her, bit his lip, tried not to make his voice tremble, and said loudly: "The fifth team reinforces the dock, and together with the team of Lord Cai Xiang and Second Brother Hong, solve the tartars on the dock!" Brother Liu and Li Xiongfei over there, let them resist me! ”