Zhejiang's sailors no longer have the ability to fight, and against the pirate fleet, they can only rely on the water village to support it, and finally they supported it until the arrival of reinforcements.

Yu Zhigao took all his family wealth and killed 500 warships, large and small, to solve the disaster of the destruction of the Zhejiang Naval Division, and the two armies were combined in one place.

Yu Guangsheng, the chief officer of the Zhejiang Navy Division, couldn't help but cry with gratitude when he saw Yu Zhigao: "We have not been abandoned, we still have friendly troops who help each other." The rescue of General Yu allowed our Zhejiang Sailor to keep the incense, which is the kindness of the heavens and the earth, and I kowtow to you on behalf of the Zhejiang Sailor. As he spoke, dragging his old body, he really knelt down and kowtowed to Yu Zhigao.

How dare Yu Zhigao accept the old general's gift? hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down on one knee to help the old general up: "Old general, you are my father, how dare the little nephew accept your gift?" Our two sailors have always been watching and helping each other, and have never abandoned each other, and this friendship has always been deep-rooted and will continue to develop, which you and my uncle and nephew are unswerving.

After narrating the old relationship, Yu Zhigao inquired in detail about the current situation of the Zhejiang water division. Yu Guangsheng said his family background without concealment: "It's difficult, it's difficult, it's difficult." Originally, when our Zhejiang naval division was at its peak, there were more than 2,000 large and small warships guarding this piece of the far sea and near the sea, and the warships of the enemy country all fled in despair. However, after the tightening of the maritime strategy in these years, the imperial court no longer allocated money and food, and did not add a new warship for 20 years. And many warships slowly rotted in the bitter wind and rain. The number of soldiers of the sailor division is also shrinking and shrinking. Before this battle, I could take out less than 300 warships to participate in the battle, and there were less than 10,000 soldiers who could still fight. And after this series of battles, I lost half of the warships, more than 2,000 brothers, if the general came half a day late, the Zhejiang Navy Division would be wiped out, and from then on, the Qiantang River would become an unimpeded golden waterway for pirates. ”

Yu Zhigao sighed that the Daming Sailor was no longer brilliant, and he was somewhat grateful to Xiong Wencan, after all, he presided over it, and the Fujian Sailor was not completely bankrupt, but it was not much better than the Zhejiang Sailor.

"How's the battle going these days? How many centaur ships are there in the enemy? What about combat effectiveness? ”

Yu Guangsheng reported to Yu Zhigao in detail what he knew: "This time, Yan Siqi reinforced Xiaogu and Zhao Wujie's 30,000 infantry army to attack Hangzhou. ”

"So much?" Yu Zhigao couldn't sit still, "Is Hangzhou City broken?" ”

Yu Guangsheng said with a solemn expression: "It is also God's favor, the military rebellion in the first month, Zhejiang's political history and the town guarding the yamen, in order to stabilize the army's heart, promoted a fierce general under the original Song Marshal, reorganized the nine battalions of soldiers, streamlined and merged the number of 3,000, and gave a part of the grain and grass salary, there was a wrong move, but the combat effectiveness of the nine battalions was improved. ”

"Even if you can fight again, 3,000 people will not be able to defend Hangzhou City with a circumference of more than 30,000 pirates and a circumference of more than 40 miles." Yu Zhigao mentioned it with great worry.

"I received a report from my father-in-law this morning, and I also read the Sanyi newspaper that was delivered, and I learned that with these 3,000 soldiers of the 9th Battalion as the leader, the government organized a total of 35,000 people to sign Ding Yiyong, and after the first few easy battles, these volunteers have formed a combat effectiveness. And the day before yesterday, Lord Hong Chengchou recruited 5,000 volunteers to reinforce him. There is such a town guard personally commanding, and the power is unified, there is General Yang who is familiar with the front line of military command, and there is a little Zhuge Mao Yulong's strange plots, plus the city of Hangzhou is high, and the internal ordnance is complete, as long as the dispatch is correct, Hangzhou City is safe. ”

Yu Zhigao breathed a sigh of relief: "Hangzhou is not broken, the military spirit is obviously stable, although it cannot take the initiative to attack, but it will be able to win this war in the end by fighting with the enemy." ”

Yu Guangsheng said: "This morning's Di reported over, with a warrant from the father-in-law of the town guard, ordering our Zhejiang Navy Division to cut off the mouth of the Qiantang River, so that the pirates who went deep into the city of Hangzhou would not have follow-up supplies, and finally repelled them when the enemy was exhausted." But you see, my losses have been broken to such an extent that there is nothing I can do about it, but fortunately you came in time to block the opening. If we can hold out for another 10 days and half a month, the pirates under the city of Hangzhou will be completely annihilated, and this will become a good thing. As long as this group of pirates is annihilated, it is enough to make the coast of Daming quiet for a few years. ”

"Yan Siqi means to promote peace this time, do you know this, uncle?"

"When he came, he gave me a so-called war letter, and this meaning was already revealed in his words. To tell the truth, the conditions he put forward are not harsh, and now that our entire Ming sailors have declined, we also need this pirate to defend this vast Haijiang River for us. Speaking of this, a bitter smile. This is definitely a very ridiculous thing, the sea frontier that should have been defended by the sailors of the Ming Dynasty can only rely on pirates to maintain, does this mean that this country is really hopeless?

Yu Guangsheng Huo Ran stood up, his gray beard flew, and said sonorously: "But Yan Siqi can't do this, this is forcing our boss empire to want an extremely vicious pirate to sign an alliance under the city, which is a humiliation." According to the rules of our Ming Empire since its founding, his calculation is wrong. Although it is not impossible to say that if you surrender to the Ming Dynasty calmly, as long as you sit down and talk, but he has come to the extreme point of this step, then I can only tell him that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, even if the Son of Heaven was captured by them, we have not signed an alliance under the city, let alone a small pirate, he will not have that dream. ”

This is the backbone of Da Ming, he would rather die standing than live on his knees.

"Uncle is right, our big name, there are still our group of soldiers, and there are tens of thousands of Han people, who want us to sign a humiliating alliance under the city, Yan Siqi can't do it, Jiannu can't do it, the Mongolian tribes can't do it, and any of the strongest enemies in the world can't do it."

"In this case, you and my uncle and nephew will unite to shatter Yan Siqi's dream, completely seal this Qiantang River estuary, let his 30,000 pirates be wiped out under the city of Hangzhou, and let his dream of oppressing us to sign the alliance under the city be shattered. Defeating him and making him kneel to sign a surrender treaty with us is the unshakable pride of the Ming Dynasty. Then the old general said proudly: "What I give you is a gift, I don't give it to you, you can't rob it, this is the truth of our Ming iron blood, this truth will spread to the whole world, so that all enemies know, even if the Ming Dynasty falls, but there are still we, the iron-clad Han people, will never be succumbed to any threat." Baidu: Read the latest chapter of "Lonely Ministers and Jiezhong Literature in the Late Ming Dynasty" for free for the first time.

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