PS: (Two chapters on the weekend, one day off tomorrow)

At the beginning of June, the Yangtze River basin has entered the flood season, the water potential of rivers, streams and lakes has changed turbidly and mightily, and the river surface between Tangyi City and Jinling is also wider day by day.

Aoshan Island, located in the middle of the river directly north of Changchun Palace, is the gateway to the northeast of Gyeonggi as the naval army of the Right Dragon Army.

When the water level of the Yangtze River is low, Aoshan Island is fully exposed, and the length from east to west is more than 14 or 5 miles, but when the flood season comes, the shallow silt areas are submerged under the river, and the length from east to west is shortened to six miles, and the north and south are only three wide.

Aoshan Island is only more than 20 miles away from Tangyi City on the north bank of the river, and Yingluan Village, the Linjiang military fortress in the southwest corner of Yangzhou, is only more than 20 miles away from Aoshan Island, which also directly determines its military value.

On the easternmost side of Aoshan Island, there is a concave land of about three or four hundred acres of open water, the first landing building of the Right Dragon Wujun is to use a long stone wall, extending from the two wings of the land into the river, the concave water area of Aoshan Island is isolated from the external river water, forming an inner lake that can dock a large number of warships.

On the basis of this inner lake, the water village has invested a lot of resources and has been built unremittingly for four or five years.

At present, Aoshan Island has become one of the most important military fortresses in the periphery of Gyeonggi, with barracks, water villages, ship repair yards and strong city walls and other facilities readily available, especially the easternmost section of the wading city wall, the top is more than five feet wide, which can make hundreds of generals climb the city wall to fight, there are towers built on the land at the two corners, behind the flooded city wall in the middle section, wooden stakes are also laid, and four water platforms are built several zhang square, and combat weapons such as spiral mountain cannons and bed crossbows are placed to attack the enemy ships that try to approach the water wall.

Since the outbreak of this crisis, in addition to the original soldiers and horses of the Youlongwu Army, the DPRK and China have also requisitioned and transferred state soldiers and townsmen from Zhuzhou County, increased the number of soldiers and horses stationed in Yangzhou to 10,000 infantry and 3,000 sailors, and strengthened the defense east of Tangyi, while the garrison of Aoshan Island has also been raised to 3,000 infantry and 5,000 sailors.

Entering June, the weather in Jinling is already very hot, in the afternoon there are more than a dozen warships on Aoshan Island, as usual out of the water village exercises, far away can also see the north shore there are more than a dozen sail shadows, from the west side of Tangyi City Qingxiang River estuary sailed out, that is Tangyi's naval warship.

In the past three or four months, the Tangyi Navy has had warships enter the Yangtze River every other day to practice, and even check the passing river boats, but they usually do not cross the center line.

Even if the watchtower sounded the horn of vigilance as usual, it was commonplace in the camp and did not pay attention to it, and even the scouts standing in the watchtower sounded the horn.

However, the scouts on the watchtower soon found that there were far more warships on the other side of the river from the west of Tangyi City, and there were far more warships entering the Yangtze River waterway from the mouth of the Qingxiang River than before, and there were hundreds of warships that were sticking to the north bank and sailing down from the direction of the East Lake upstream.

Seeing that the enemy sentry ship crossed the center line that had been tacitly accepted by both sides in the past, the sentry on duty in the watchtower, like a cat that had been stepped on its tail, shouted: "Enemy attack, go and light the wolf smoke to warn!" ”

The horns and war drums on the watchtower can only warn the generals in the camp, but looking at the scale of the naval force dispatched to Aoshan Island on the other side of the strait, the generals with a little experience know that this is by no means a simple military threat.

The sentinel on duty at the watchtower did not care about asking the commander-in-chief, so he directly ordered the beacon tower to be lit to warn the garrisons on the south bank, the eastern foot of Baohua Mountain, and the southwest of Yangzhou Yingluansai.

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"Mother, who told you to light the wolf smoke?"

In a hurry, Zhou Dun, the chief general of Aoshan Island, officially known as the Runyang Yanjiang Inspection Envoy and the fourth capital of the Right Dragon Martial Army, grabbed the handrail and climbed to the top of the lookout building, while glaring at Lu Jinhai, the sentry general who looked under the railing and looked confused.

In the past three or four months, the navy on the north shore has sometimes taken deterrent measures, and the internal police and vigilance on Aoshan Island have been busy for a while at most, but at this juncture of rumors, igniting wolf smoke and smoke will inevitably make all the chickens and dogs in Gyeonggi and the palace jump.

If there was a false alarm in the end, Zhou Dun didn't know if Prince Shou would directly call him to Jinling City to reprimand him.

Then when Zhou Dun climbed up the watchtower and saw the situation on the northwest river, he suddenly gasped, and the hairs on his back stood up.

They have a few warships training and guarding on the river in the northwest corner of Aoshan Island, and the field of vision of these warships is far less open than that of the watchtower, and they may have thought that the dozen or so warships that crossed the center line and the north side from the north shore have come over again to engage in some kind of deterrence, and before the clear instructions were conveyed on the island, under the leadership of the subordinate generals, they had already met them strongly.

They intended to drive the incoming ships back north of the center line.

When Zhou Dun climbed up the watchtower, several row-oared warships in front of the Tangyi Navy were spreading out to the two wings, and the three large row-oared warships behind not only adjusted the sail mast to the right angle at this time, but dozens of large wooden oars, like centipede feet, had been rowing desperately, and the speed of the ship was as fast as an arrow from the string, and several warships were rushing straight towards them.

In the distance, more than 200 large and medium-sized warships had formed a battle formation and were divided into two teams to rush towards Aoshan Island.

There are several five-masted warships in the center, and the decks are densely packed with armor soldiers, obviously soldiers preparing for the landing and attack.

"Han Qian's grandson is going to attack Aoshan Island, and quickly order all the warships to return to the camp!" Zhou Dun shouted to the lieutenant general who then rushed to the watchtower.

He didn't send someone to the south bank to deliver the message, it's not that he forgot this stubble, the Jinghai Gate outside Jinling City is only twenty miles away from Aoshan Island, and the Yandangji camp garrisoned by the guards is only eleven or twelve miles away from Aoshan Island, and there is no need to even light the beacon fire here, the garrisons of Jinghaimen and Yandangji have already noticed the changes here.

Although there are 5,000 naval troops and more than 200 large and small warships on Aoshan Island, the number of warships may not be less than that of the Tangyi naval army, but Zhou Dun does not think that it is possible to win by sending all the warships out of the water village in a hurry.

Zhou Dun thought about taking back the dozen or so warships on the periphery, relying on the city walls and defensive equipment that extended into the river on the east side of the water village, to keep the Tangyi warships out of the water village, and wait for the imperial court to gather enough naval warships from all over the country, and then fight a decisive battle with the Tangyi naval army on the river.

Zhou Dun hurriedly passed the military order, and almost in the blink of an eye, he saw that the warships they had been guarding on the northwest side before, three warships had been unable to dodge, and were slammed up by the enemy from the flank and back.

There were eight large rowing ships purchased from Xuzhou in Aoshan Island, and Zhou Dun certainly knew what the consequences would be if ordinary rowboats and ships were hit at high speed by the rows and sailboats built in Xuzhou.

He could almost imagine the sound of the keels or planks of three warships being smashed and broken, and watched hundreds of soldiers being knocked into the water—although the Tangyi Navy did not kill the soldiers who fell into the water, they quickly adjusted to chase and ram other fleeing warships.

“…… These grandchildren are real! Zhou Dun roared angrily and angrily, took his spear and bow, and strode towards the east wall of the water village.

The east city wall of Shuizhai is built with large bluestone from the two wings of the land wall, extending into the river, separating the three or four hundred acres wide water area recessed into the east island from the outer river, but these waters are dug deep as the anchorage of the water camp warship.

In order to ensure the solidity of the city wall that extends into the river, the large bluestone of the wall was chiseled into slotted holes and poured with molten iron to connect them.

Now that the Tangyi army is torn its face and wants to fight, Zhou Dun did not dare to transfer all the warships out of the water village in a hurry to fight in formation, and the east wall of the water village is destined to become the focus of contention between the two sides.

There are towers built at the two corners of the east city wall, and there are two water platforms on both sides of the water gate, but Zhou Dun does not think that this is enough.

The east city wall is still too narrow, the top is only five feet wide, at present, except for more than a dozen bed crossbows, there is no way to put the whirlwind cannon, and the four water platforms are only placed with four medium-sized whirlwind cannons - also thanks to the battle of Xichuan, the whirlwind cannon spread in the Jianghuai, otherwise the water platform that is several zhang square, there is no operation space for the traditional towed trebuchet - this is far from enough in Zhou Dun's opinion.

In addition to the small and medium-sized warships approaching the inner side of the water village as much as possible, Zhou Dun also ordered eight large galleys to dock next to the inner side of the city wall.

The top deck of the galleys was almost as high as the battlement wall, which not only allowed more soldiers to stand up to participate in the defense, but also allowed the weapons on the deck of the ship to directly attack enemy ships trying to approach the walls.

Lin Zongjing, who was tall and stood on the deck of the ship with a cold expression, spit out the straw stick in his mouth, smiled indifferently, and said: "This battle is much easier than imagined, so Xu Mu will ......attack with fire after approaching."

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Du Chongtao and Yang Zhitang, surrounded by a team of cavalry, galloped into Yandangji.

Aoshan Island is in the northeast corner of Jinling City, standing in front of the Jinghai Gate Tower, you can't see the water battle on the east side of Aoshan Island, only out of Donghua Gate, into the Yandangji Military Fortress, can you directly observe the battle 112 miles away.

At present, there is no sign that the soldiers and horses on the north bank have landed south-even if the soldiers and horses on the north bank land south, Yandang Alum is also the key point of defense-as the guard pro-army governor Du Chongtao and the privy envoy Yang Zhitang entered Yandang Alum accompanied by Guo Liang, and just saw the eight oars and sailing ships of the Tangyi Navy approaching in front of the east wall of Shuizhai.

Each of the three men picked up a bronze mirror and looked there.

In the early years, under the strong request of Yang Zhitang and others, Tangyi sold a small amount, but each copper mirror was sold for as much as one million yuan, and the Privy Council gritted its teeth and bought some one after another, and the senior generals of the forbidden army and the guards were not complete.

"Han Qian really hid a hand, the scorpion cannon of the Tangyi Navy Army can throw more than 400 steps!" Du Chongtao was about to groan in pain, and stomped his feet, "Zhou Dun has committed a big taboo by putting all the warships in the water village!" ”

Yang Zhitang doesn't look at his military exploits, he is not as prominent as Du Chongtao and Zhang Pan, but he is also a great Chu general.

Tangyi has always supplied external ordnance, and the effective range of the bed crossbow is between 150 and 200 steps; The Scorpion Cannon, which can be placed on the deck of a sailing ship to throw battles, has an effective throwing distance of about 250 paces.

The scorpion cannon is made of stainless steel crossbow arm, with most of the fine wire steel wire wound as the string, Yang En has ordered the craftsman to imitate, but the quenching of the steel crossbow arm has never been essential, and the imitation scorpion cannon throwing distance can rarely reach 200 steps, so over the years the elite weapons have been mainly purchased from Tangyi.

Although everyone expected that Tangyi would hide their own smuggling, they never thought that the scorpion cannon used by Tangyi's navy could open up such a big gap between the scorpion cannon sold abroad!

Yang Zhitang also knows why Du Chongtao is so anxious!

If Zhou Dun deployed all the warships outside the water village and lined up against the east wall of the water village, the scorpion cannon of the Tangyi naval army would throw far away, but as long as the Tangyi naval army approached, their warships would immediately meet the side to fight, and they would not be too disadvantaged.

Now it's good that Zhou Dun received all the warships into the water wall, and the water village is not like an ordinary camp city, you can go out of the city to fight a counterattack when you open the city gate, and even have to be blocked by the enemy ship after approaching, and the water gate behind the east city wall is small, and the range is not even as far as the scorpion cannon on the enemy ship, which means that the east city wall and the defenders on the city wall and the warships behind the city wall have become live targets.

"Send a ship over and ask them what they want?" Du Chongtao was so anxious that he jumped straight to his feet, and Yang Zhitang was even more anxious that his temples jumped suddenly.

The defenders of Aoshan Island are all his hard work over the years.

He saw that the warships parked on the southwest river of Aoshan Island were larger, and he expected that the main general of Tangyi commanding the operation this time was there, and in a panic, he wanted to send someone to rush over by boat to negotiate.

"Wow!"

Before Zhang Xian could call the guards of Yandangji to come forward, at this time, the enemy army east of the water village on Aoshan Island, among which four war sailing ships had already launched an offensive, and dozens of lit oil canisters were four hundred steps away, and they were thrown at the east wall of the water village that extended into the river with precision.

Soon, I saw clusters of fires burning on the east wall of the water village.

Although the defenders also tried their best to launch the whirlwind cannon on the water platform, it was exactly as Du Chongtao predicted, that is, it was forty or fifty paces away from attacking the warships of the Tangyi naval army, and the stone bullets fell into the river one after another, smashing up inconspicuous splashes.

The bed crossbow on the city wall has less than half the range.

As more and more canisters of fire oil were thrown on the city wall, it was too late for the pawns to extinguish the fire, and the fire on the city wall was getting bigger and bigger, and the pawns could only retreat to the land on both sides in embarrassment, and some of the pawns were on fire and could only flee into the river in a hurry.

Seeing this scene, Yang Zhitang jumped cheekily and waved his hand weakly.

Since the Tangyi Navy has launched an attack, it will not be useful for him to send people over, unless he sends someone to meet Zhao Wuji, who is sitting in Tangyi City, it is possible to prevent the Liang army from landing on the island in the future.

Otherwise, it would be useless to pull Han Daoming or Han Wenhuan's old horse over.

When Jinling rebelled, Han Qian did not hesitate to use Han Wenhuan, Han Daochang and others as bait to lure Gu Zhilong and his elite combat forces away from Langxi Tiger Mountain, the world still remembers it clearly, how could Yang Zhitang forget it?

"Is Han Qian really crazy? After he obtained the remnants of Liang, he actually swelled to this point, and it was not enough to fight hard with the Mengwu people and the Eastern Liang army, but also to fight with my Great Chu on the southern front at the same time? Zhang Xian couldn't hold back the shocked question in his heart at this moment.

No matter how shocked and confused Zhang Xian and the people on the watchtower of the Yandangji Army were, the one-sided battle on the east side of Aoshan Island was still going on in an orderly manner.

The defenders could not gain a foothold on the east city wall, and several oared sailing ships hurriedly withdrew to the inner side of the water wall, but the water platform behind the city wall was quickly set on fire, and several whirlwind fires were also extinguished by the fire.

He knew very well in his heart that the inner lake of Shuizhai on the west side of the city wall, only six or seven hundred steps wide, was divided into different areas by several wooden plank roads, so that more warships could be stationed.

More than 200 warships of all sizes were crowded on one side of the inner lake, and the scorpion cannon of the Tangyi Navy threw far longer than they imagined, which meant that the plank road and the warships on the outside were within the attack range of the fire oil canister thrown by the scorpion cannon.

Because there is a city wall on the south side of the water village, they can't directly see the situation on the inside of the water village, but they also know what the fate of the right dragon army is when they see the constant throwing of oil cans by the warships of the Tangyi Navy Army.

Not only will the warships stationed in the inner lake be burned, but the fire will extend to the west, and the barracks near the dock will soon be in flames, right?

As Du Chongtao and Yang Zhitang guessed, they soon saw that the southern city wall of Shuizhai could no longer prevent the fire from rising, and it could be confirmed that more than 200 large and small warships stationed in the inner lake had inevitably fallen into the sea of fire.

Zhou Qinian, who went to Yanyanji to watch the battle, couldn't help but close his eyes in pain, nearly forty percent of the combat power of the right dragon martial army was also the elite sailor most relied on by the imperial court, so it was gone?

Zhou Qinian pointed out the defects of the water village on Aoshan Island earlier, and even had the opportunity to see Han Qian's early years in Chenzhong and the construction of the Shuiying village in Qianyang.

The wading wall on the east side is too thin, and the water village of the Tangyi Navy Army will build at least two wading walls on the outside of the anchored waters, and fill in the middle to form a berm ranging from 3 to 50 steps wide; Even if it is simple, two rows of dense wooden piles will be laid, and the middle will be filled with earth and stone to form a plank road at least 20 steps wide to divide the berthing waters, in order to prevent accidental fire and uncontrolled spread of fire.

Obviously, Yang Zhitang was still stingy, and he was reluctant to spend a lot of money to build another wading wall on the outside, and even the boat-tied plank road in the inner lake was too simple.

But what is Han Qian, the mad dog, going to do?

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In the main hall of Changxin Palace, Qingyang sat behind the imperial case, staring at Lei Cheng who was kneeling in front of the case, his eyelids twitched with anger, he couldn't control the anger in his chest, and raised his head and smashed a jade cup in front of Lei Cheng.

"Queen Mother, please listen to the old slave's explanation!"

"The mourning family doesn't want to hear it," Qingyang suppressed his voice angrily, stared at Lei Cheng, and asked, "The mourning family almost turned against Shen Yang and Zheng Yu, the old horsemen, before forcing them to agree to release Qin Wen and the others back to the north bank, how did you repay the mourning family?" Han Qianzhen is not afraid that the mourning family will issue an edict to tear down the bones of Han Wenhuan's old thing, and go to extinguish the anger of Shen Yang's old puppeteers? ”

Feng Yi sent Wang Chan'er and other rebels to Jinling, Shen Yang and Yang Zhitang did not have the intention of appreciating it, and they all advocated continuing to detain Qin Wen and other people involved in Tangyi, but she insisted in every way, and finally only detained Han Wenhuan, Han Daoming, Feng Yi and others, and released Qin Wen and a large number of people involved in Tangyi, including their families, a total of more than 1,000 people back to the north bank.

For this alone, some officials boldly wrote to her, accusing her of thinking about her homeland and ignoring the fundamental interests of Da Chu, and some people even secretly released rumors that she was involved with Han Qian.

After her original idea was to negotiate peace, these unfavorable remarks would disappear, and Huang E's cheap maid was useless no matter how secretly she played ghosts, but she never thought that things would be delayed now, it was Tangyi who launched an offensive first, sent troops to destroy the water village of Aoshan Island first, and burned down more than 200 warships that the Youlongwu Army had saved over the years.

Thinking that tomorrow is coming, Huang E's cheap maid, Huang Huixiang, and Zhou Qinian will definitely make a big fuss about this matter, Qingyang felt a pang of cramping in his chest.

"Although the captives withdrew their troops from Heluo in mid-May, it was not that the enemy suffered heavy casualties, but that the Yuhe River flood was coming, and the mouth of the Yiluo River was flooded, making it difficult for them to use their troops and horses. When it comes to casualties, the soldiers and horses of Daliang are still above the enemy, and they can only be said to have barely survived. However, the Yuhe flood was only four months, and if Liang Chu did not conclude a peace agreement in September, the Muguls would definitely send troops to attack Heluo again; And after October, Yingshui and Yuhe are covered with ice, and the enemy cavalry will invade Cai Ru and Xu Chen in large numbers, and my Liang will be undefendable," Lei Cheng knelt in front of the imperial case, and said in a suppressed voice, "Not to mention the safety of the Queen Mother and Your Majesty, the old slave asked with courage, the Liang does not exist, and the Shu Kingdom is safe?" Liang Shu is destroyed, can Da Chu Yan survive alone? However, the king does not use thunderous means, will Yang Zhitang and Shen Yang agree to accept the peace agreement before September? ”

"Yang Zhitang and Shen Yang just refuse to accept the peace proposal, what else are you going to do to capture Jinling City?" Qingyang's little face asked with anger.

"There are 60,000 elites in Gyeonggi and the left and right, and no one can attack it if they want to, and the king never wants to see Jianghuai rekindle the flames of war and be devastated. However, if the situation persuades and no peace talks can be reached until July, then all the Tangyi naval forces will be dispatched and will do everything possible to destroy all the water camps along the Yangtze River and the Han River; However, when peace negotiations could not be reached until August, General Jun sent troops to occupy Huang, Sui, Fu, Ying, and other prefectures, leaving room for the military and civilians in Caixu, Chenru, and other places to move south after mid-to-late October. At this time, Liang Chu will no longer have the possibility of peace, and after surviving the autumn and winter offensive, the next step will be to send troops to capture Jing and Xiangzhu Prefectures on the east bank of the Han River, as well as Langzhou and Chenzhou south of the Yangtze River and west of Dongting Lake, so that Xiangxi, Jingxiang, Huaixi, and Hanzhong will be connected into one, laying the foundation for the follow-up troops to Guanzhong......" Lei Cheng said.

"It's useless for you to threaten the mourning family with these, you go to threaten Shen Yang, Yang Zhitang, and the old horsemen, and threaten Yang Yuanyan!" Qingyang airway.

"The old slave has no intention of threatening the Queen Mother, this is really my family's military plan, but I was worried that it would harm the Queen Mother, so I didn't put it on paper and submitted it to the Queen Mother." Lei Cheng said.

"The mourning family is not afraid, what is he afraid of?" Qingyang said angrily, "The mourning family knows best how you minions will fiddle with right and wrong in the middle, and if there is anything in the future, you ask Han Qian to write a letter to the mourning family personally!" Don't you have any flying pigeon handwriting, within three days, unless the mourning family sees Han Qian's handwritten letter, don't think that the mourning family will cooperate with you to negotiate peace! ”

"The old slave obeyed the edict, but three days is too urgent, and it may take ten days to deliver the news." Lei Cheng said.

"Don't bargain with the mourners, five days at most!" Qingyang reprimanded with a cold face, "Five days later, Yang Zhitang must take the heads of Han Wenhuan and Han Daoming to take revenge for the loss of Aoshan Island, don't complain that the family didn't stop it!" ”