A few days passed, the two warships [Jiaozhou] and [Jianwu] successfully entered the mouth of the Yangtze River under the cover of darkness and headed inland. Wu Sangui didn't expect that Liu Xia would send a navy at this time.

These days, Li Dingguo's constant tossing in Guizhou has made Wu Sangui put all his heart on Li Dingguo, and naturally ignored the harm on the Yangtze River, in fact, Wu Sangui never believed that Liu Xia could defeat himself on the Yangtze River. Most of these naval armies in his hands were from the Ming army in the past, and now he levied them to defend against Liu Xia.

Although the navy trained by the army is not very good, but in the chaotic land of China today, in addition to the sailors of Fujian, his sailors can already be dominant, at least for the time being, on the Yangtze River.

October 3rd

The navy [Jianwu] led the [Jiaozhou] to continue sailing on the Yangtze River, and also rested along the coast for a period of time along the way. After all, such a large warship does not stop wherever it wants.

In the afternoon, the two warships encountered three small boats of Wu Sangui's navy patrolling the Yangtze River, and the ships carried five or six people for each function, and the three ships together numbered less than 20 people, and their task was only to patrol the Yangtze River and prevent the Pingbei Army from appearing on the water.

The deputy commander of the White Shark Guard on the ship, Li Dabai, said coldly: "The ship rushed over, the gunners are ready, shoot them all!" "One of the great things about ironclads is that they are so strong that ordinary ships can't collide with them, and this steel monster is enough to smash a wooden ship of the same size.

Splatter!

I only heard a crashing sound, and the three small boats were all knocked over in the Yangtze River, and the people on the boat were tossed in the water of the river. After falling into the water, he did not die, but kept churning, trying to swim back to shore.

But how could Li Dabai let them succeed?

"Go, go! Go back and report to the general, the enemy is coming! The enemy is coming! ”、

Suddenly, the fifteen enemy troops began to divide into dozens of directions, and Li Taibai said calmly: "Hmph, is it possible that you want to escape with this method?" You also underestimate my Pingbei Army and Navy Army, and someone will shoot them all! ”

With Li Dabai's order, the sound of muskets suddenly crackled, and after a while, I saw that the water was dyed red, and the corpse was floating.

"Returning to the commander, all fifteen people were killed, and none of them were allowed to escape!"

"Well, good job. Your merits are written down by the Commander. Someone came to bring those three small boats, and now is the time when there is a shortage of boats, and resources cannot be wasted. "For the convenience of weapons and equipment, most of the generals of the Pingbei Army are very frugal, and they can use them when they can, and they need them if they can. That's what they've always done.

Soon the three small boats were tied to the ship and dragged behind the [Jianwu] steel ironclad ship.

In addition to being discovered by three small boats this time, when the two warships arrived at the station of the Kuiwolf Legion under the leadership of Li Dabai, they did not encounter Wu Sangui's sailors along the way, which made Li Dabai have some doubts in his heart.

"Didn't the commander of Ma Du say that there are many Wu Sangui's ships on the Yangtze River? So that they could not get close to the Yangtze River at all. Why haven't you encountered a big ship when you've been sailing on the Yangtze River these days? Could it be that the commander of the horse can't lie? Li Dabai quickly denied this idea, Ma Peng will never deceive people, after all, he is the commander of the legion, and his current status is very high, and the people who can suppress him are not only the chief of the divisions, but also Mingjun, the governor of the navy, and Liu Dazhuang, the commander of the Northwest Division, are higher than him.

Li Dabai didn't know that they didn't kill all of Wu Sangui's soldiers that day, and those soldiers were not fifteen, but sixteen. Before, there was a person who had sneaked into the slightly cold river water while they were not paying attention. This allowed him to stay alive and then report back to his superiors.

The admiral of Wu Sangui's sailors learned that the Pingbei army had two huge warships, and heard the soldier's description, so he ordered all the ships to be withdrawn first, and no rash action was allowed.

Although the soldier who absolutely escaped from the Navy described the ironclad ship a bit exaggerated, he still believed that he was not a frog at the bottom of the well, and he still knew something about the navy in the outside world. Not to mention the distance, even the ships of Zheng Zhilong in Fujian Province that were nearby made him stunned for a long time before he came to his senses.

"Maybe the Pingbei Army was able to build such a large warship with the help of foreigners. No matter how big your warship is, Lao Tzu will wipe you all out. Wait for Lao Tzu to gather all the ships first, and then go up the river to kill you. ”

Li Dabai went to land, Mu Ming came to greet him in person, speaking of which, Mu Ming was one level higher than this Li Dabai, and letting Mu Ming come to greet him shows that they attach great importance to the navy, for the Kuiwolf Legion, the navy is their favorite type of troops.

Once the Yangtze River is breached, the Kuiwolf Legion can rely on the naval army to log in to the south bank of the Yangtze River, and Ma Peng is sure that he can sweep Huguang.

After a long journey of more than ten days, the envoy of Luoyang faithfully arrived in the northwest capital of the city, where Liu Dazhuang is currently located. Since Liu Dazhuang occupied the Yarkand city, he has carried out a round of construction of the Yarkand city, making the city more solid, and the city wall that was broken by artillery bombardment has now been repaired. Yarkand City, the original lively pearl of the desert, has now returned to normal, and those people are still doing what they should do, and after seeing that the new ruler did not exploit them, their impression of the Pingbei Army has also begun to change.

After Niu Chao and Shouhu recovered all the cities of the Yarkand Khanate, they burned some of the soldiers who died in battle into ashes, and then transported them to Luoyang, and finally buried them in the [War Spirit Mausoleum], which is a place that every soldier longs to go to.

Then they went to the city of Yarkand, and the two met with Liu Dazhuang. As for the Dzungar Khanate to the north, seeing the rapid fall of the Yarkand Khanate, it was greatly distressed and worried. Although they were more powerful than the Yarkand Khanate, how long could they hold out when the city of Yarkand was destroyed so quickly under the Ming army? The royal families of the Dzungar Khanate began to worry, especially when they saw that the Ming army had killed all the royal members of the Yarkand Khanate, which made them even more worried.

So the Great Khan of the Dzungar Khanate began to transfer some of his descendants to the kingdom further west to seek protection. Some of the ministers of the Dzungar Khanate began to secretly send people to the city of Yarkand to make secret contact with the Pingbei army.

"It seems that the ministers of the Dzungar Khanate can't help it, these greedy people who are afraid of death." Niu Chao pursed his lips and said with disdain in his eyes. In the hall, Liu Dazhuang took his seat, and Niu Chao and Shouhu knelt on the left and right.

Shouhu was expressionless, and said indifferently: "These nobles of Jungar should have sensed that the Jungar Khanate would definitely not be able to resist our Pingbei Army, so they began to look for a way back." We have slaughtered all the nobles and royal families who disobeyed us in Yarkand City, and this news must have reached their ears. I believe that those aristocratic lords who are accustomed to fine clothes and food and don't want to die at all begin to worry about how to live. ”

"Hahahaha, Brother Tiger is right. Not bad. Those people are a bunch of dog mongrels, and they don't have any blood at all, so what's the use of keeping such a country? ”

Niu Chao took a big sip of wine, his heart suddenly burned like fire, and his face was a little ruddy.

Liu Dazhuang, who didn't speak for a long time, saw that the two of you and I were talking in detail, smiled slightly, and said: "Today, General Ben is looking for two generals to come to discuss the matter of the Jungar Khanate, we have basically pacified the Yarkand Khanate, and most of the territory has been recovered, and General Ben has also played the prince and asked him to send officials. Now our mission can be transferred from the Yarkand Khanate to the Dzungar Khanate. ”