"Ordered to rebel! Specializing in Zuo Liangyu! ”

"Ordered to rebel! Idlers avoid! ”

Accompanied by the sound of rough slogans, groups of soldiers and officers of the naval division and land battalion with accents from the coastal areas of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, and Zhejiang couldn't wait to jump from the big boat to the fast crab boat that had just been placed in the river.

Along with the sound of their slogans, more than a dozen large flags with red characters on a white background were erected on the left side of the ships of the Nanyue Army and the naval divisions of the Nanyue Army on the river. Each flag has a large character written on it with cinnabar teeth and claws. More than a dozen flags are connected to "obey the order to rebel, only punish the evil." Threaten never asked. Or "Those who abandon their weapons and surrender will not die, and those who fight back will have merit!" ”

What the officers and men of these naval divisions and land battalions are shouting in their mouths is the colloquial version of these slogans.

On the third day after Shi Lang's return from the edict, Zuo Liangyubu finally had an answer. "The fate of the Duke of the Kingdom is difficult to obey!" The implication is that the idea of letting Zuo Liangyu ride into Beijing to meet Zhu Yousong alone is not to even think about it! Let's see the real chapter on the battlefield!

Good! The Nanyue army is waiting for this attitude! At that moment, Li Shouhan convened the generals of various ministries and the governor of Anqing, who was close to Zuo, to discuss the matter, and ordered someone to convey his orders to the officials in Jiujiang City.

"Your Majesty has a will. Zuo Liangyu refused to obey the edict and has become a rebel of the imperial court! Ben Shuai is ordered to rebel! Officials at all levels, soldiers and horses must abide by their duties! After the end of the rebellion, officials and soldiers at all levels were rewarded! ”

The officers and soldiers of the four naval divisions and land battalions under Shi Lang have been depressed in the Xiaogushan battalion for a long time. These officers and men have always been beneficiaries of the reward and punishment system of the Nanyue Army, and they know that as long as they perform well in war, they will not worry about having no chance of being promoted and making a fortune. Second, when they confronted the left army in Xiaogushan, they also knew the virtues of this group of guys. The cowardly goods that rushed down from Xiangyang were robbed of the goods, food, and beauties in the shops in Chengxiang Town along the way, and even blocked the trade routes between the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the Han River. There is a way to cut off people's financial paths like killing parents, in the eyes of the Nanyue Army, who is agriculture-oriented, labor-oriented, and business-oriented, you Zuo Liangyu does this, that is our sworn enemy! You're a grandma! Robbed all the little beauties everywhere, what should we do?! Although the lord has a military order, we are not allowed to rape ** girls, but we are guarding the Yangtze River and talking about marriage with the little ladies, which is allowed by military law!

Public hatred and private hatred made the officers and soldiers of the Navy Division and Army Battalion hate Zuo Liangyu's army to the core.

"Hurry! Get on board! Soon the eldest lady will start firing cannons to cover our landing! ”

With the signal flag waving in the hands of Shi Lang's commander, the sailing fleet of sailors flashed a road, and dozens of fast crab boats loaded with officers and men of the naval division and land battalion were like sharp arrows galloping on the water, speeding towards the direction of Jiujiang on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

Fast crab boat, there are rows of oars on both sides of the boat, the shape is like centipedes and crabs, the hull is usually painted red and black, the Yuan and Ming dynasties are called "centipede boats", the Qing Dynasty is called "fast crabs", infests the golden waterways of foreign trade at the mouth of the Pearl River, robs the property of passing ships. Raise the oars without wind, raise the sails in the wind, and use the oars and sails together if necessary. The large "fast crab" has more than 20 oars on each side, each with two strong men, walking on the water like flying, using the odd speed of the boat to chase the "prey" and evade pursuit.

Fast crab was originally a pirate ship in the Pearl River Delta, the hull is long and narrow, dozens of oars are placed on each side, and when it shakes, it stretches like crab legs, hence the name. It is extremely fast, equipped with guns, and when it is pursued by officers and soldiers, it can flee if it can, and if it can't escape, it will open fire to resist arrest, so it is quite a headache for officers and soldiers. In the late Qing Dynasty, pirates not only used it for robbery, but also used it for smuggling, escorting opium ships and other activities, so it became famous for a while.

At the beginning, Li Huayu's battle of fame was that he led the Dongfan soldiers recruited and trained in Taiwan, took a fast crab boat, braved the fierce artillery fire of Zheng Zhilong's fort, and took the Gulangyu Fort with white-edged assault tactics and determination, opening the door to victory for the defeat of Zheng Zhilong's group.

Now, the former enemy commander on these dozens of fast crab ships is none other than Li Huamei's husband, Shi Lang, the big horse of the Nanyue Army.

Like those men in the naval division and land camp, Shi Lang was also wearing a bamboo cuirass, a bald head with shaved hair, wrapped in a white cloth, a cowhide medicine box hanging obliquely on his chest, and two double-barreled short fire guns pinned to the slap-wide belt around his waist. He holds a knife in his right hand and holds his flag in his left hand.

"Boys! Follow Lao Tzu! ”

"Zuo Liangyu is a dog, he can't fight, he is a good hand at grabbing money and things! After beating this coward, Lao Tzu took the spoils of the reward and invited you to go back to Shanghai, you can drink the strongest wine, and you can eat the fattest meat! In the number of Lin Da's shopkeeper, what kind of woman has it! ”

"Brethren! Fight well! ”

Under Shi Lang's encouragement, the morale of the officers and men of the naval division and land battalion reached the extreme, and the fast crab boat flew like oars and arrows to the south bank.

"Let's shoot!"

On her Aomei, Li Huamei was a little bored and observed the rudimentary left army gun positions on the south bank through a monocular. In her eyes, these artillery positions are not only inferior to the Gulangyu Fort, which can be called the Jincheng Tangchi, but even the artillery position of the Dolgon brothers on Tashan is several times stronger than it.

"Fire!"

With the excited order of the gunnery officer on the Aomei, on the fleet, which stretched for more than ten miles on the Yangtze River and was almost as long as the circumference of the entire Jiujiang City, with the swing of the order flag, this shout sounded almost at the same time, and flashed with the command flag. On each ship, the gun windows on the decks on the port side were opened, and white smoke flashed back with the firelight. It quickly condensed into puffs of smoke over the gunboat.

"Fire! Fight back! Shoot Lao Tzu! ”

The officers of the Left Army's artillery corps, who were furious and terrified, with leather whips and waist knives in their hands, shouted and beat the gunners with all their might, in order to stop them from trying to escape. The gunners on the fort were intimidated by the leather whips in the hands of the officers, stripped off their small coats, revealing a body of skinny flesh and skin, and pushed the gun carriage vigorously to adjust the direction of the gun, and to the fast crab boats that were constantly making serpentine maneuvers and avoiding the artillery fire all the way to the shore.

Cannons of varying caliber and weight from the Great General, the Great Buddha Machine, the Six-pounder Cannon, and the Eight-pounder Cannon roared one after another, firing scorching shells at these ships that were speeding on the river not far away, and the thick white smoke and thick smoke and dust instantly covered the thick figures of each artillery.

Artillery shells, which draw a series of ballistic trajectories visible to the naked eye in the air, leave a permanent memory on people's retinas after being heated. The shells beckoned each other and roared towards the land battalion of the Nanyue Army on the river!

A few shells landed on the fast crab boat, and suddenly a fleeting pool of blood and a few wooden planks floated on the surface of the river. It was the last impression of the soldiers and the planks of the ship that had been hit by the shells.

Fortunately, the Left Army has dealt with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong between the Jianghuai River and the Han Dynasty over the years, but it does not attach as much importance to the use of artillery as Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Cao Cao and others, and there are not many heavy artillery in their hands, most of which are still mainly heavy artillery with shells and less than eight pounder guns.

However, in order to embolden themselves, the artillery team of the Left Army kept firing artillery into the river. The heavy solid iron balls kept stirring up dense splashes one after another in the river water, bouncing on the left and inside of those fast crab boats, constantly passing over these ships that were struggling to advance, and occasionally venting huge kinetic energy on the board, deck, and even oars, throwing the smashed wooden planks into the air and throwing them into the Yangtze River with blood light.

The constant whistling of the cannons made the sailors who controlled the ships try to lower their bodies and heads to reduce the probability of being hit by the cannonballs as much as possible.

Fortunately, at this distance, the artillery fire was carried out on dozens of fast crab boats scattered on the river, which were moving targets, and secondly, the waves on the river were undulating, constantly jolting the hull up and down, and with the shooting technology level of the left artillery team, the hit rate of the shells could be imagined. Most of the cannonballs were shot down and jumped, but they only stirred up a high column of water on the river surface, smashing the fish in the river that had no time to dodge to the surface of the water, enjoying the so-called pond fish disaster.

The guns on the fast crab ship also began to fire shells on the riverbank, although they were only six-pounder and eight-pounder guns, but because they were almost at a straight line aiming distance, many gunners on the gun emplacements hid behind the gun emplacements with their heads in their hands.

The sailors and soldiers on the crab boat shook their oars even hard, and they had already been told that the shorter they stayed under fire, the better their chances of survival, or let the parents, wives and children of the family receive your pension!

Under the main mast of the Aomei Banner with a plum blossom proudly blooming in the wind and snow, Li Huamei carefully observed the fires and smoke on the batteries of Zuo Liangyu's army on the south bank with a telescope, carefully counted each gun position, and guessed the type, caliber, and number of these guns through the position of the gun emplacements and the impact points around the left and right of his own Xianggong fleet in the river.

"Karp! Give the order to the gunners of the fleet to stop firing from the guns for the time being! Tune in to the rocket ship! The weather is cold and a little humid, let's light a fire for the soldiers of the Left Army to warm up! Although she is already the mother of the child, Li Huamei is still a little playful.

The eldest son Li Huayu is mostly surrounded by Taiwan's Dongfan, and Li Huamei, who is the eldest daughter, is surrounded by women from Tianzhu, Tianfang, Miao and other ethnic groups as personal soldiers and personal companions. All of them are long-legged and big-eyed beauties, which makes Shi Lang quite confused, and often recites silently in his mouth, "Empty is color is empty, and the pink beauties are all skulls and blood." ”

These female soldiers around Li Huamei also often come to ridicule her brother-in-law and county master. It made Shi Lang's head big. Everyone knows that Shi Lang is in front of the army, and it is the role of ten decisive generals to capture the flag, but once he returns home, this is inevitably a little embarrassing. However, this is not a big deal, the founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty, who are much better than him, often meet spring, and they also have a habit of seasonality.

With Li Huamei's bowl of wine at the bottom, what else is Shi Lang afraid of? On that day, Zuo Mengeng and Yuan Jixian went to the dock to see them off. has already lost in momentum, and Zuo Menggeng has to find some ground in words.

"Lord Shi, no matter how good your army is, it is only 30,000 people, but there are 800,000 people under the banner of my Ping Thief Army!"

"Eight hundred thousand? Can you all go into battle at the same time? As long as Lao Tzu uses 10,000 people to fight your Shuai Biao battalion pro-army, you can make your hundreds of thousands of horses obediently dare not move! ”

"Ten thousand? Aren't you afraid that I will mobilize the army to make your dumplings?! ”

"Hahaha! I, Shi Lang, are not even afraid of hundreds of thousands of Tartars and Li Huamei, and I am still afraid of this rabble of your Ping Thief Army?! ”

Karp, a Kshatriya girl from Tianzhu, is said to have a bit of a blood relationship with Timur the lame. However, because of the chaos on the Tianzhu Continent, she and her mother became other people's trophies, and they became Li Huamei's personal soldiers. Born with snowy skin, a tall and deep nose, she even conveyed Li Huamei's instructions to the commander. With the sharp sound of brass trumpets and flags, the artillery of the fleet gradually thinned out, and from the north side of the fleet, more than a dozen rocket ships flexibly interspersed.

With gusts of smoke leaving hideous traces on the river, dozens of rockets roared and greeted each other in the sky above the rocket boats, and test-fired at the positions of the Left Army artillery on the south bank.

"Boom!" The oil arrows exploded on the beach, beside the artillery position, and exploded one flame after another, pointing out the direction and position of the latecomers.

"Get on the arrow! Three oils and one medicine! Turn down the firing angle! Correct the angle! Open a way for Lord Shi's Lu Ying brothers to blow up! ”

"Get on the arrow! One oil, three medicines! Aim at the gun position of the left rabbit artillery team and burn it for Lao Tzu! Fry it for Lao Tzu! ”

The commanders of the rocket ships correct the firing height and angle according to the effect of their own rocket fire to achieve the best effect.

The rocketeers quickly took out the rockets from the wooden boxes according to the commander's wishes, placed them on the launch stand, and lit the fuses at the tail of the rockets. Suddenly, hundreds of rockets left a gray-white trail in mid-air, intertwined together, forming a gray line segment, making this hazy Yangtze River even more gray.

However, in the blink of an eye, the rocket exploded on the south bank, bursting and burning. Hundreds of rockets, either igniting fires here and there, or exploding, make the South Shore even more colorful. At the same time, the artillery of the Left Army on the south bank became more disorganized and demoralized.

Taking advantage of the chaos brought by the rocket bombardment to the south bank, Shi Lang accelerated the speed of crossing the river. He planted the flag on the bow of the boat, jumped into the cabin, snatched the oar from one of the oarsmen, and rowed hard.

"My lord! I'm not tired! I have strength! Or I'll come! ”

"Everybody's alternate! It's going to be shallow in no time! Soon it will be a fight! ”

Shi Lang didn't talk nonsense with the oarsman, just paddled the oars hard.

Oars and sails increase the speed of the crab boat to the extreme. Reeds and artemisia quinoa gradually appeared in front of them, and the wooden oars gradually became a little suffocating when paddling, and the people on the fast crab boat knew that they had reached the shallow water and were about to fight.

In the Central Plains of this era, there was no so-called anti-landing consciousness. In order to show that they are both civil and military, when they talk about soldiers and swords, they can at most say a few words such as "half-crossing and attacking it" and "exhausting my profits", and they can have the name of knowing soldiers.

"Good! I'm not afraid of your sharp guns! When your soldiers come ashore, our Zuo family's fast horse blade will also let you learn a lesson! Let you know that your little master Zuo Mengeng didn't get mixed up today for no reason! From the monoculars, Zuo Mengeng vaguely saw the figure of Shi Lang who had embarrassed himself in front of his father for several days, and he gritted his teeth and said with hatred.

Not far behind the artillery positions set up by the Left Army on the south bank was the camp of the Left Army. These camps stand along the river and are stationed according to the so-called front camp and rear camp. Among them, the number of battalions in the front battalion is considered to be a unit with strong combat effectiveness, and it is the pro-army of the inner battalion of Zuo Liangyu's father and son. After that, the battalions and battalions were all kinds of stragglers who were sheltered along the way from Xiangyang to Wuchang to Jiujiang, and their combat effectiveness was poor, and their discipline was even worse, but they were better than the number of people. It can be used to build momentum. Zuo Liangyu Zuo Mengeng's father and son do not regard these stragglers as their own usable soldiers, at most they connive at them to go out to collect food and loot on weekdays, but they have to hand over more than half of the looting proceeds, well, it is a cooperation model of sitting on the ground and sharing the spoils.

Today, Zuo Liangyu's idea was to use these stragglers to consume the strength of the Nanyue army and block their offensive momentum. "They are just a bunch of tofu scum, at least tens of thousands of people, no matter how good his appetite Li Shouhan is, he will have diarrhea if he eats it!"

Zuo Mengeng's envoy today is to lead the inner camp pro-army and act as a supervising team to drive those cannon fodder from the outer camp to the knife of the Nanyue army. Let them go and fight with the Nanyue army!

The hull of the fast crab boat shook suddenly, and the people on board couldn't help but staggered in panic, but it turned out that the boat had washed up on the beach on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the boat ran aground in the shallow water by the river.

"Quick! Disembarked! Disembarked! ”

Although the artillery fire of the left army has been suppressed by its own artillery fire, after all, it is in the river at the moment, and if it cannot quickly occupy the beachhead and anchor in the river, then there will be no way to advance and retreat. If Zuo Liangyujun fights again, in that case, Shi Lang will be depressed in front of Li Huamei for the rest of his life.

Amphibious operations are a complex form of warfare in any era, and they are a test of the commander's command art, and the verification of the cooperation of the navy and army that carried out the landing has also fully demonstrated the comprehensive national strength of the country that carried out the landing operation, as well as the high level of tactics, technology, and discipline of the landing army.

The most important thing in amphibious landing warfare is to race against time and complete the landing before the enemy reacts, then everything will be fine. If the enemy is invited to attack halfway through, there is a danger that the enemy will attack halfway, and if the enemy sees through the landing operation at the beginning and the surprise attack turns into a strong attack, the attacker's losses will certainly be heavy.

The sharp sound of brass whistles and the shouts and scolding of the battalion officers and sentries sounded on the beach on the shore one after another, and several sentinels of the naval division and land battalion who had assembled in advance quickly rushed to the shore to form a blocking formation, preparing to meet the counterattack of the left army.

"Fight Zuo Liangyu! Idlers avoid! ”

Slogans rang out again on the South Bank.