"Dadada"

"Newspaper"

"Emperor Qiqi, the thieves have broken through the city gate and brought Lord Chen outside the city, and he is nowhere to be found at the moment!" In front of Chen's gate, the general of the city gate defenders was brought here to report to Zhu Ci.

In the Chen family, Chen Xiuxiu also knew that her grandfather Chen Xin was robbed by thieves, and she was in a hurry.

"No, I'm going to get grandpa back!" Chen Xiuxiu couldn't help the anxiety in her heart, her grandfather was caught by thieves, and she didn't know whether she was alive or dead at the moment, she couldn't convince herself to wait here safely.

Chen Xiuxiu ran out the door.

"Miss!" The maidservant Liu Er chased after her.

In front of Chen's house, Zhu Ciji had already gathered people and was about to personally lead people out of the city to search for thieves.

Suddenly, Chen Xiuxiu ran out of it, and suddenly blocked in front of Zhu Ci and pleaded: "Your Majesty, please take me to find grandpa!" ”

Chen Xiuxiu was very worried, but she knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for her to find it alone, she could wait at home, but it was too painful, and now that the emperor was going to take the army to find it, she hoped that the emperor could take her with her no matter what.

"In that case, let's keep up!" Zhu Ci nodded heavily, understanding the torment in Chen Xiuxiu's heart, and did not refuse.

Hundreds of Jinyi guards plus tens of thousands of Ying Long troops outside the city, Zhu Ci hoped that Ying Long's army could block the river in time, and he must stop the Manchu thieves from taking Chen Xin across the river, which would have too much impact.

Although he believed that Chen Xin would not reveal the secrets of the Firearms Bureau even if he died, he also knew that Manren's methods might not be able to pry something out of Chen Xin's mouth.

Moreover, Chen Xin is the head of the Firearms Bureau, and he has his credit for the research and development of every new weapon, he is the hero of the Ming Dynasty, not only for the Firearms Bureau, but also for the entire Ming Dynasty.

"Quick, quick!" At the edge of the Yangtze River, Ying Longjun received an order to immediately dispatch and blockade along the edge of the Yangtze River.

"The emperor has decreed that the riverside will be blocked, and everyone and others will not be allowed to go into the water!" Ying Longjun blocked all those who tried to cross the river, and even if they had already boarded the boat at a certain distance from the shore, they were ordered to row the boat back again.

From east to west, Ying Long's army moved quickly, advancing westward at a very fast speed, believing that it would not take a quarter of an hour for Ying Long's army to completely block the thirty-mile long place along the river.

At the same time, the decree was also sent to the navy, and the navy immediately dispatched more than 200 ships to prepare to blockade the river.

There is a time difference, and Mandado is calculating this time difference, as long as he can follow the plan, within this time difference, Chen Xin will be transported across the heart of the river to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and then the sky will be high and the birds will fly, and no matter how many troops the Ming Dynasty mobilizes, he will not be able to stop him from bringing Chen Xin back to the Qing Dynasty.

Not far from a riverside, Mandardo arrived here in the carriage carrying Chen Xin.

"Your Excellency!" Dozens of Manchurian spies had been waiting here for a long time, and as soon as they saw Mandardo coming, they immediately greeted him.

"Get Chen Xin down, transport him to the riverside, board the ship and return north!" Mandardo jumped out of the carriage and threw away the reins in his hand at will, at this moment, the carriage was useless, how to quickly transport Chen Xin across the river was the top priority of success or failure!

The ship that Mandardo had prepared was a medium vessel that could accommodate just a few dozen of them.

When he boarded the ship with Chen Xin, watching the boat slowly sail away from the river, Mandardo smiled, he was a dignified wolf, carefully arranged, after all, there was no failure, Chen Xin would be able to be brought back to the Qing Dynasty by him!

When the boat left the riverside dozens of meters away, countless Ying Long troops arrived, and it was Han Hu, the general of the Second Army, who took the lead.

"The emperor has an order, who dares to cross the river without authorization, and don't turn back quickly!" Han Hu yelled at Jiangnai.

Mandaduo and dozens of other people are tall and well-trained, the first time they saw Han Hu, they knew that they were not ordinary people, more than seventy percent were the thieves who captured Lord Chen, if they obeyed the order and turned back, they were not thieves, but if they heard his shouts and still had no intention of turning back, then they were the thieves.

Joke, of course, it is impossible for Mandardo and the others to turn back.

"Bow and arrow!" Not only that, Mandardo took his subordinates' bows and arrows and shot them at Han Hu with an arrow.

In Mandado's eyes, he naturally saw at a glance that Han Hu was a high-ranking general in Ying Long's army, and he planned to take the opportunity to shoot Han Hu to death with one arrow to hit Ying Long's arrogance.

Mandado had no fear, and decided that it was impossible for Ying Long's army to swim over and pursue.

"Whew!" Arrows are fired.

Han Hu looked angry, although Mandardo's archery skills are rare among all Manchus, almost every shot, but Han Hu's martial arts are not weak, naturally it is impossible to be shot by Mandardo so easily.

After dodging Mandado's two arrows in a row, Han Hu was already 100% sure that Mandado and the others were the thieves, and Chen Xin must be on their boat.

"Ying Longjun, fire! Kill the thieves on board! Han Hu ordered angrily.

At this time, Mandado and the others were not more than a hundred meters away from the river, and they were still within the range of Yinglong's flintlock muskets. Han Hu knew that they were not a navy, and they could not enter the river to pursue Mandardo without ships, and only hoped to use dense muskets to prevent Mandardo and the others from escaping.

Hopelessly, but now it's the only way.

"Fire!"

"Bang Bang Bang"

Ying Long's army opened fire intensively, and countless lead bullets were fired towards the ships of Mandado and others.

Buckshot hit the hull of the ship, and for a moment sawdust flew sideways, and several thieves were hit and fell into the river, stained red with blood.

"Get in the boat and dodge, speed up the rowing!" Mandardo ordered.

He was not worried about the threat of Ying Longjun, the ship was already nearly a hundred meters away, the power of Ying Longjun's muskets was weakened a lot at such a distance, the planks on the ship were completely able to block it, as long as they sailed away from the distance of twenty or thirty meters, Ying Longjun's muskets would no longer pose any threat to them.

After three rounds of blows, except for the flying sawdust, no thieves were hit and fell into the river, and after a while, the thieves' ships sailed out of the range of the flintlock pistols, and Han Hu was shocked.

"The hateful naval warship hasn't sailed here yet, and it can't stop the thief's ship!"

Suddenly, Han Hu glanced at the part of the boat that was close to the water.

So far, only a dead horse is a live horse doctor, and he has given it a go!

"Everyone, wait a minute, shoot at the part of the ship that is close to the water!" This is the best way that Han Hu has just realized, as long as he can knock out a hole in the draft part of the boat and let the river water pour in, it is possible to prevent the thieves from crossing the river.

Although the hull and planks of the draft part of the ship must be thicker, coupled with the distance at this moment, the power of the musket is greatly weakened, and it is impossible for lead bullets to penetrate the planks there at once, but don't forget that there are hundreds of soldiers of the Ying Long Army around him, and it is not impossible to penetrate under several rounds of intensive blows.

It's a matter of success or failure!

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