"General Pingnan of the Great Qing Dynasty asks General Li Huabao, who is left behind by the Hongwu Army, to come out and speak!"

"My master has a question to General Li Er, can you dare to come out to fight?!"

As soon as the sun jumped out of the skyline between the river and the sea, the Qing army began to swarm out of the camps, men, horses, vehicles, artillery, and baggage, like a stream of streams flowing into the wilderness outside Shanghai County.

People shouted and neighed horses, whistles whistled back and forth to give orders, drums and trumpets were endless, and flags were like forests and seas.

Bolo's headquarters of soldiers and horses, the Eight Banners Manchurian, Mongolian, and Han armies, all dispatched, with a total of nearly 10,000 people, of which more than 4,000 cavalry, and the rest were infantry.

His headquarters of troops and horses was naturally in the center and later of the entire Qing army front.

In front of the large array, 20 cannons with 8 catties of cannons, 50 cannons with 3, 5, 6, 7 catties of cannons, put in front of the Chinese army's large array, the stars holding the moon generally guarded the ten four-wheeled grinding disc artillery trucks in the center, and on the artillery carts made of wrought iron, the Shenwei General cannons weighing three or four thousand catties were erected, and these artillery pieces were heavy artillery that could fire more than ten catties of shells. Behind the gun truck, the gun car and the gunpowder car were densely arranged.

A huge handsome flag was placed on a Yuan Rong car, which was carefully built by Liu Juji to lead the Jiangnan merchants to look for Jiangnan master craftsmen in accordance with the style of Wu Beizhi, and specially honored the Pingnan general Boluo. On the side of the Yuan Rong car, a nest car hung a golden dragon thread, announcing to the entire battlefield that the general's main formation was here.

And Wang Yuele of Anjun played the role of sweeping the formation for Boluo and suppressing the position, and the more than 10,000 people under him were arranged in the rear of the entire front.

His headquarters has less than 4,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest are all under his command along the way. But these more than 3,000 people are cavalry of one color, not only everyone rides horses, but many of them are also equipped with two horses. One color of iron-inlaid cotton armor, lightning rod helmets, and many people are still ostentatiously wearing Nanzhong cuirass outside the cotton armor. Unlike Bo Luo's subordinate tiger guns, pick knives, maces, giant axes, horse lunges, and other cold weapons full of the characteristics of the Eight Banners, many of Yue Le's subordinates carried fire guns on their backs, and in the dripping spring rain, they were very carefully wrapped in tung oil cloth gun jackets.

The Baya soldiers and henchmen who were beside Yue Le were even carrying firecrackers on their backs, and horses were immediately hung with horses, dozens of Baya soldiers leaders and domestic slaves, and they also carried short firecrackers around their waists.

The remaining thousands of soldiers and horses were also neatly dressed, the cavalry wore long armor with inlaid armor leaves, iron helmets with arms and hands, and the infantry wrapped their heads in folded scarves. Or wear a red hat and waist-length armor. Short armor varies. This kind of short nail basically has no nail leaf inside, only nails some nail bubbles on the surface, so that everyone has a nail. The pikemen all wore red waist-length armor, and the sword and shield soldiers all wore red cotton armor. From afar, it looks like a cloud of fire.

These are all selected and collected by Yue Le from among the surrendered soldiers and horses along the way since he went south. Compared with the style of Bolo and the others who don't care about it, as long as they surrender, Yue Le is much more picky. Therefore, in comparison, his headquarters is much inferior in number compared to Boloturg and others. However, when it comes to quality and momentum, Bolo has no advantage at all.

Today, Bolo invested more than 100,000 people in one go, 50,000 for the head enemy, and 80,000 horses and horses in the rear of Yue Le, ready to fight at any time. Between the two fronts, countless handymen carried like ants in the drizzle in the sparse mud, ladders, cannons, gunpowder, all kinds of siege equipment, in their hoarse slogans, slowly moving forward.

"This damn rain in Jiangnan!"

Bolo shook the water droplets from the poncho hatefully, and from time to time water droplets on the top of his head dripped from the brim of the helmet, affecting his vision.

"Master, the slave asked, and the rain stopped after a while. As long as the rain stops, the army can be dispatched! ”

The leader of the house slaves around Bolo is very fine, and he has long guessed the thoughts of his master. If the rain does not stop, the artillery of the army will not be able to fire normally, which will affect the firepower. The artillery could not suppress the firepower erected by the Hongwu army on the opposite side, so the Qing soldiers and horses could not rush forward, and the swords, guns and equipment in their hands naturally did not play any role.

On both sides of Bolo's main formation are the troops and horses that served as the head enemy this time. The general soldiers, deputy generals, guerrillas, and staff generals of each town, one by one, recognized the flags and the handsome flags were drenched wet by the rain over the large and small phalanxes. According to the current green flag military system, the general army of a town, the headquarters is about thousands of people, and the rest are the deputy generals, generals, guerrilla soldiers and horses in the town, and the soldiers and horses of each battalion.

In the past, the old Zhu family, the owner had no money and food, and no knife in his hand, so he could only let them mess around. Later, the second shopkeeper of the old Li family came, although there was no shortage of money and food, but after all, it was not the owner, and everyone was naturally almost meaningful. But right now, this new pigtail owner, the knife handle in his hand is very sharp, and if he is disobedient, he will immediately invite your whole family to eat board knife noodles. Those who are obedient and work hard, the proprietor does not care about money and food rewards.

Dozens of phalanxes, large and small, seven or eight general soldiers, and dozens of adjutant generals commanded their own soldiers and horses, and opened a front that stretched for dozens of miles outside the county of Shanghai. There were heralds from Bolo's main formation, flying horses, and sending orders to the various military formations. Soon, the noisy roars of tens of thousands of people rang out over the wilderness.

"General Pingnan of the Great Qing Dynasty asked General Li Jiaer, can you dare to come out to fight?!"

"Second General Li, could it be that after your eldest brother died, there would be no more sons and daughters in your family who dared to fight?"

A series of provocative and scolding words passed through the rain and fog and reached the county seat.

On the riverside wharf, Li Huamei also heard the faint sound of shouting, she smiled, and asked Li Huabao, who came to see him off: "Second brother, how is it, are you angry?" ”

"Angry bird?!" Li Huabao showed a look of wistfulness in front of his sister, "Daddy has taught me a long time ago, the Lord should not be angry and raise a teacher, and he will not be discouraged and cause war." The master also said that for generals, first learn not to be angry, and then learn to be angry. I have already ordered that if they want to scold, let them scold in the rain, and they will not be able to scold us a single hair. Let's just drink hot soup and tea around the stove in the fortifications, and wait for them to scold that they are tired and too cold to come, and then rush up, and we will treat them to some hot food with the calibrated artillery guns! ”

"You're so sorry! If Master Liu sees you like this, he is afraid that he will be so angry that one Buddha is born and two Buddhas are born. ”

"Sister, you're wrong. The master is a member of the Taoist sect, and he has nothing to do with the Buddha! ”

The two sisters and brothers fought a few words, and Li Huamei led people to board her Aomei. "Good life guards the city, I clean up those nasty guys in the river and come back to help you!"

"Sister, just rest assured!" Li Huabao put away that look and saluted his sister very solemnly.

Today, Bolo's attack is divided into land and water. Although there is a lot of momentum on land, it is not the main battlefield. His main purpose was on the Huangpu River.

Every time the Qing army attacked Shanghai, it had to be bombarded by both land and water artillery fire on the river, county seats, and commercial and trade areas. This time, Bolo was ruthless, and all the ships on the canal surface of the canals south of Zhenjiang and Nanjing, Huai'an, Huaiyin, and Yangzhou were all requisitioned, entered the Yangtze River, and turned into the Huangpu River. He wanted to use absolute numerical superiority to first destroy Li Huamei's naval fleet, cut off one wing of the defense system of Shanghai County, and then attack Shanghai.

Who is Li Huamei? That's the legend who caught the ship's cannon when he caught Zhou! How can you not see the purpose of the dense crowd of ships of different sizes covering almost the entire surface of the river? What's more, her husband is Shi Lang, who is a character who has lived in a pirate den since she was a child, and she is familiar with all kinds of things on the water. Bolo's little thoughts, in her opinion, are nothing more than pediatrics.

"You want to use a large number of ships to fight with Ben Jiang on the narrow river, consume my artillery and sailors, and then, with fireboats, go down the river and burn the old lady's boat? Well thought of! ”

Standing on the bridge, facing the wet and slightly fishy river breeze, Li Huamei sneered.

"Wave the flag, and the fleet will go up! Now that they're here, we have to sing a few words together! ”

Led by the Aomei, twelve ships of all sizes went against the current and sailed towards the huge fleet of Qing troops on the Huangpu River.

"It's really costly, more than a dozen gunboats, hundreds of sand boats, thousands of boats, even if there are only fifty soldiers on each boat, it is at least fifty or sixty thousand people!" Li Huamei observed the Qing fleet in the distance through a telescope.

"County Lord, I think, I'm afraid that among these ships, there are more fireships than warships!" The fathead fish was already Li Huamei's personal captain, and he was also holding a telescope to observe the enemy situation on the opposite side.

"Humph! If you want to learn our Admiral Zheng's tricks, you can play this trick in front of where to buy, that's not selling water by the river, you can't do it yourself?! Li Huamei had already discovered that many of the ships in the fleet looked to be fully loaded, but the waterline was very high, and it was obviously not a heavy thing like food cannons, only reedwood, fish oil, sulfur and other flammable things. What's more, in the undulation of the waves, you can vaguely see that the bow of these ships is black with iron hooks and nails, which makes it even more certain that this is a fire ship.

"I want to burn the warship, okay! Let's see who Cao Mengde is! ”

Li Huamei gave an order, and the fleet sped up its speed and rushed straight to the Qing fleet.

"This scarlet-winged tiger is still so fierce! I obviously saw the many ships here of General Ben, but I was not afraid at all, Liang Guogong's children are really all outstanding characters! ”

In the middle of the Qing fleet, on a large boat, the commander of the Qing army's naval division, Manchuria's blue banner Melle Zhangjing Eheri, stood firmly on the bow of the ship, also holding a telescope to observe the oncoming Li Huamei fleet rushing downstream. The plum blossom handsome flag on the Aomei fluttered fiercely in the river breeze, making people know at a glance that this was Li Huamei's ship.

"Today, this official will defeat you, the scarlet-winged tiger, report the grace of the master, and snow the hatred of my Uncle Turg!"

Ehri is Turg's nephew and Eyidu's grandson, and both are from the Niu Hulu clan. (See, Niu Hulu's clan not only has a bad reputation and Shen and adults, but there are still a lot of cattle people.) Otherwise, it would not have become the surname of the eight nobles of Manchuria, and it was one of the four great families of the Qing Dynasty, alongside the Hesheri family, the Tong family, and the Fucha family. He inherited the hereditary position with Niu Lu Ezhen, and sought to move Jiala Ezhen. From Prince Zheng Jierharang to Huguang, he was repeatedly defeated by the Ming soldiers. The division was also awarded the director of the middle city of the capital. Director of the Inspectorate of the Relocation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Progressive second-class Ashani Haphan. He has defeated Zheng Chenggong twice in his history. In the ninth year of Shunzhi, he ordered the commander to fight Jiangning. Zheng Chenggong invaded Fujian and garrisoned Haicheng. The Pingnan general Jin Li asked the Yishi to enter the suppression, and ordered the Ehri general to go through with 1,500 people, and the Jin Li division successfully attacked, and then attacked Haicheng, and the successful soldiers were defeated.

(Someone said, isn't it said in literary and artistic works that the Qing army is good at horse archery, not good at water warfare?) How can you still defeat Zheng Chenggong, who is known as a water master? That's how you're being misled. What was the beginning of the Qing army? Born in the fishing, hunting and picking tribes of the Northeast, they don't know how to go into the water to touch the East Pearl, how to hunt otters, and how to catch salmon? The scene of the Eight Banners Manchurian children getting seasick when they get on the boat is purely the director's nonsense. ）

It is also because of this uncle-nephew relationship, and because Ehri has also made great contributions on Tashan, all the way from Niulu Zhangjing to Mel Zhangjing, which snatched this mission from his uncle Ilden. Today, the character who has defeated the king of Yanping twice in history is about to meet Zheng Sen's sister-in-law head-on. I don't know if Li Huamei will give Fumatsu Maru this bad breath in his history?!

Na Yierden is not an idle person, he was born in Manchuria with a white flag, not only the son of Eyidu, but also a guard of Nurhachi. In September of the third year of Tiancong, he attacked Zhangzi Island, and the island was under the jurisdiction of Mao Wenlong, and Wenlong was killed by Yuan Chonghuan. The commander of Ilden made a strategic move, got the fourth boat, sank it, and captured his people to return. In October, from the Ming Dynasty, attack Longjing Pass, enter the water gate of the Ming Dynasty, kill the Ming generals Yi Ai, Wang Zunchen, and annihilate the people. In August of the fifth year, he attacked the city of Dalinghe, and Yierden was in the east and south of the city, with a deep ditch and a strong fortress, and the ring was defended to break the enemy. In August, the general Yu Hong Chengchou, Chen Shi Songshan and Xingshan, ordered the ministers of Baylor to separate ways to intercept the Ming soldiers. Yierden and Gongta Zhan led the Bayala soldiers to lie in wait at Gaoqiao, and as soon as they came out of the camp, they encountered thousands of Ming soldiers sneaking out of Xingshan, killing them, and then reaching Gaoqiao; More than 600 Ming soldiers ran south to Tashan from Xingshan, and rose up, and the Ming soldiers were stunned. Moved up the camp to force Songshan, the Ming general Cao Bianjiao invaded the imperial camp at night, Turg took the lead in shooting the enemy, and Ilden and the Minister of the Interior Zong Xihan refused to fight, and Bianjiao was defeated. It is also a character who belongs to the landing battle of water energy into the sea, and the land energy can dig ditches and break the pigs.

If it weren't for the fact that Ehri was born in the Tashan family, he might not have been able to compete for his own uncle Elden!

"Master, do you want the fire boat to come up from behind, let's go with the current now, against the wind, just in time to set fire to her Li Huamei!" Ehri's subordinate, Gyala Zhangjing Alin Bao, walked from the stern to the bow of the ship and asked Ehri for battle.

"Wait. Li Huamei hasn't gone deep yet, she set fire to the boat too early, and she can turn around and escape at any time. Where are we now? ”

"Master, the front is Lujiazui. Look, isn't that the Yangtze River Fort we set up over there! There were more than a dozen artillery pieces of all sizes on it, and there were four or five hundred men guarding it. ”

"You send people ashore and tell them that when Li Huamei's fleet comes, see that our ship has exchanged fire with Li Huamei, a tigress, and then fire from the shore."

"Master, their cannons may not be able to sink Li Huamei's ship, it's good if they can hit!" Alin Bao still knew very well what the condition of the fort he had set up, and he was embarrassed.

"You stupid minion!" Ehri was in a good mood and scolded with a smile. "Don't your master know what kind of guns they are? I asked those who are familiar with this section of the river, and the river in this area is shallow, and there is a lot of sediment and shoals. Li Huamei's big ship should be extremely careful when walking, and it will run aground if he is not careful. The battery fires on the shore, not to be able to hit them, but to disturb them, well?。。。。。 With both hands, Ehri made a vague strangulation motion.

Alin Bao nodded. "Master, the slave understands! When they fire on the shore, the Nanban sailors must be careful to dodge, and if they are not careful, they may run aground, and then our small boat will go to fire and jump into the gang! ”

"Then go quickly?!"

The flag waved, the suona sounded, and the formation of the Qing army fleet began to change.

Dozens of gunboats moved out of the way to the left and right flanks, and more than a hundred small boats rushed out of the flotilla like hyenas and galloped across the river. Most of these small boats are boats such as long dragon fast crabs, and they are all requisitioned from the canal and river defense camps in Lianghuai and other places. In addition to the sailors who drove the boat, it was mainly a gun, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers were on board.

Their task was to wait for Li Huamei's sailor fleet to approach, then rush into the fleet, bombard the deck of the sailor's ships with their guns, and kill and injure the sailors and sailors on the deck.

"If any of you slaves are lucky enough to overturn Liang Guogong's county lord Niangniang with one shot, I can't say that the imperial father regent master of Beijing will also give you a red belt in your waist!" This is what Ehri said to the gun-bearers during his pre-war mobilization.

Cao Zhenyan's fame and wealth are now a huge benchmark in the Qing Dynasty, especially in the Eight Banners. Everyone wants to make great military achievements, and then transform into a human being in the blink of an eye.

Now that such a big military feat is in front of you, how can you not make the gunmen blush?! Even the sailors who sailed for them were full of spirits.

"My general said, you slave, there are no rules! When I saw the old master, why didn't I bow down and kowtow to say goodbye, but I was so presumptuous?! ”

In the county town of Shanghai, the officers and soldiers of Hongwu opened their voices and loudly replied to the challenge of the Qing army.

Li Huabao heard a lot of secrets from his uncle Li Peiting's uncle Li Peiting's Li family and Nurhachi's family back then.