Chapter 22

Just such a situation does not mean that Ma Sanbao has escaped this catastrophe. This is just the beginning.

Ma Sanbao fought fiercely for several hours, he couldn't support it anymore, in the rain, the body temperature loss was very rapid, if someone touched Ma Sanbao's body at this moment, he would definitely feel extremely cold, without a trace of heat.

"Ah-----h

It was like the neighing of a beast, the feeling of non-humanism, a Qing soldier, with a loud shout, held the spear against Ma Sanbao's chest, and pushed forward with all his might.

Ma Sanbao's feet were full of water, and he couldn't stand at all, and his feet were pierced, but he dragged out long traces of the stagnant water. Ma Sanbao was pushed back, but he felt something slam into him behind him, and Ma Sanbao's armor slammed into the wooden plank behind him. Make a "bang" sound.

Ma Sanbao immediately understood that this was the door panel of the west gate of Niuzhuang City.

Unconsciously, the Xia army's headquarters had been forced from the east gate of Niuzhuang to the west gate.

Outside the west gate, there is the wharf.

Ma Sanbao still wanted to fight for Zheng Chenggong for some things, but he couldn't.

"Ah----" The spear on Ma Sanbao's chest was violently pierced through the iron armor several centimeters thick in the roar of the Qing soldiers, and pierced it from Ma Sanbao's chest.

The spear followed the rain, and finally extinguished the blood in Ma Sanbao's chest. Ma Sanbao's body temperature was the same as his blood, and he cooled down little by little with the rain.

At the last moment, what did Ma Sanbao think again?

Nobody knows.

Ma Sanbao's last resistance was broken, and the Qing army broke through Niuzhuang City and came to the dock.

It's just that at this moment, the Liao River is rising, and it is already three or four feet away from the shore.

That's not far off.

It's just that in the heavy rain, the bowstring is weak, and the firearms cannot be used, and the distance of three or four zhang is like a moat.

Zheng Chenggong stood at the bow of the boat, the hat on his head and the coat on his body were dripping with water.

Seeing the Qing soldiers from afar, although he couldn't see clearly who was the general, but seeing this ending, he also understood that Ma Sanbao must have died in battle. With the soldiers after Ma Sanbao was broken, only more than 100 people jumped into the Liao River and climbed onto the big boat, which was regarded as saving a small life.

Zheng Chenggong seemed to have returned to the city of Nanjing in an instant at this moment, and that defeat was worse than this battle.

He silently recited two names in his heart: "Ma Sanbao." Dolgon. With a wave of his hand, the ship went straight downstream.

He didn't know when this heavy rain would fall, and he didn't know how long the water level of the Liao River could last

matter, he must bring his soldiers back first. As for what will happen in the end, he admits it all.

It's just that just when Zheng Chenggong was going downstream, Azig also got the news.

After Azig heard Zheng Chenggong's subordinates get on the boat, he said loudly: "Immediately report the situation here to the regent." ”

Then, in the midst of the heavy rain, Azig sent an unknown number of messengers to run wildly on the shore towards the entrance of the camp.

Although in the heavy rain, the gallop of fast horses is quite dangerous, but under the military order, there is no way.

At this moment, the heavy rain also stopped.

I can't say that it has stopped, but it is just that the heavy rain has decreased, if the heavy rain was like a pillar before, and now the rain can only be made into a thread, it seems that there is a weaver girl, with countless needles and threads to stitch the sky and the earth together. Even the sky is a little brighter, and it is no longer like before, almost at night.

The waves of the Liao River carried this miserable fleet down the river.

There were only a few dozen ships, and these ships were desperately loading people, throwing everything except people into the waves, and many of them were simply crowded with people, and there was no place to stay.

Zheng Chenggong stood on the deck. Even the room prepared for him was given up by him, just to be able to install more soldiers. And even so, because it was very hurried to get on the ship. Therefore, the ships are also quite uneven, and some ships are so crowded that they can't even stand on the deck.

Some ships, most of the people are still in the cabins.

And at this time, there was also a problem, that is, there was a shortage of sailors.

In order to open up the lower reaches of the Liao River, Liu Guoxuan transferred all the sailors on the stranded ship, and suffered a lot of losses under several battles. So for a while, there was also some shortage of manpower. For a while, these ships could only barely maneuver, and I have to say, fortunately, they went straight downstream.

If it is against the current, with modern staffing, I am afraid it will not be finished.

Even so, there are many people who have fallen into the water, but I don't know whether these people are because the boat is too anxious and the boat is too bumpy.

Downstream, it's very fast. In the evening, I finally came to Yingkou.

The dark clouds in the sky have not yet dispersed, but there is a golden light in the sky, which is very eye-catching. The rain is becoming more and more sparse, bit by bit, as if it is spring rain, drops of rain fall on the water surface, the strings of the fluctuating water surface, the sound seems to turn into ripples, a circle of halos scattered, countless halos mixed together, it turned into a rustling sound, it seems to be louder than the sound of spring silkworms devouring mulberry leaves.

Just listening to this voice makes people feel calm for the rest of their lives.

It's just that the silence doesn't last long.

"Boom." With a bang, the Qing batteries on both sides of the strait opened fire.

One shell after another fell in the flotilla, and the water column after column rushed

The sky rose as if something was rising from beneath the water. Compared to the rain just now, a denser wave of water rushed on the deck, drenching Zheng Chenggong's body again.

At this time, even the hat and the coat could not stop such waves.

Zheng Chenggong simply threw down the hat and the robe, only to see that he had no armor on his body, only a single coat, which was soaked through by water and clinging tightly to his body, revealing the lines of his muscles.

Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong's personal soldiers hurriedly stepped forward in order to block in front of Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong raised his arms and said, "I want the soldiers to see me." ”

At this moment, in order to lose weight, all the artillery was pushed into the water, and in the face of the Qing army's batteries, they did not have the slightest power to counterattack.

The only thing Zheng Chenggong can do is to use his actions to tell everyone that he lives and dies together.

Zheng Chenggong stood in the most conspicuous place on the bow of the ship, and he raised his own banner on the ship, not only to appease the soldiers, but also to attract the target of the Qing army.

For a time, all the artillery fire of the Qing army was concentrated near Zheng Chenggong's ship. The sound of cannonballs falling into the water was endless, and several shells hit Zheng Chenggong's ship, fortunately, these ships were all warships, even if there was no artillery, but the ability to resist artillery was still there.

It's just a few holes in the boat, but you can't sink it. It's just that now the ship is densely packed with people, and every time a hole is opened in the ship, I don't know how many soldiers have died because of it.

Maybe the more afraid you are, the more you can't die. Zheng Chenggong was unharmed.

At this time, there was a cannon sound in the distance, but it was the sound of the Qing army's fort that was stagnant, Zheng Chenggong was suddenly overjoyed, knowing that it was the Xia Army's sailors who came to respond.

Although the big ships of the Xia Army's naval division could not swim against the current, they could still haunt near the mouth of the sea.

At this moment, I saw several large ships below, going upstream, blocking between the fort and Zheng Chenggong's ship, firing at the fort, and the artillery fire actually suppressed the fort for a while. Zheng Chenggong was overjoyed, but when he looked back, he saw that most of the soldiers looked like wooden people.

I don't see it at all, I wanted to sing a long song into the spirit of Shenyang.

Thinking of the soldiers who died in Niuzhuang and were already on the Liao River, a sentence came out of Zheng Chenggong's mouth: "I didn't know what King Xiang said that day, I didn't know what Jiangdong's father and elders had no words, but I know it today." ”

The left and right were taken aback when they heard it, lest Zheng Chenggong kill himself, so they dissuaded him, but saw Zheng Chenggong wave his hand and said: "I should die in Niuzhuang, and if I don't die at that time, I will naturally not look for death and life like a woman." He unsheathed his sword and said, "Today, the river god of the Liaohe River is helping each other, and this sword is given to the river god, and the river god is a lesson." I, Zheng Chenggong, will break Liaodong. ”

Then he threw his sword into the boiling river, and disappeared in an instant.

The rhetoric has been said, but the reality is very cruel, so cruel that Zheng Chenggong wants to continue to be the chief general of Liaodong, and it is also unknown.