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After Xiao Tianjian left Changsha, he no longer attacked the states and counties along the way as before, but led the mighty fleet, and simply went down the river and went straight to Wuchang, anyway, as long as Wuchang was taken, there were basically not many places in Huguang where anyone could fight against him, and now in many places in Huguang, there have been officials who secretly sent people to contact the Xingtian Army, saying that as long as the Xingtian Army went to the city, they would be willing to return to the Xingtian Army and do things for the Xingtian Army. It doesn't make much sense to attack city by city, it's just that the strength of the Heavenly Army can be successfully surrendered, and it is obviously more in his interests than to fight and kill with knives and guns, so that it can also reduce some damage to the civil economy, and do the best possible to ensure that these territories are incorporated into the system of the Heavenly Army as soon as possible. （..)

And for Xiao Tianjian down the river, the officers and troops along the way basically did not make any resistance, not to mention that over the years, the main energy of the Ming Dynasty is not to deal with the Tartars in the north, or to put on the matter of suppressing bandits in the south of the Shanxian River, and basically did not invest much money and attention to the naval division on the Yangtze River, so that the construction of the naval division on the Yangtze River has fallen into regression, at this time, the strength of the naval army of the official army on the Yangtze River is very limited, the quality of the equipment is also very poor, and some warships are not even equipped with small cannons. Equipped with only some bows and crossbows and the like, it has been seriously out of touch with this era, and the training is needless to say, the main general of the water battalion basically used the warships as merchant ships, trafficking goods back and forth on the Yangtze River for them, and seeking huge profits for individuals, so the officers and soldiers of these sailors are more like boatmen, just wearing the clothes of an official army, with this status, they not only traffick goods on the Yangtze River, but also often extort merchant ships and fishing boats on the river, and even do some murderous and oversold goods.

Therefore, from Yuezhou down the river, although there are some officers and soldiers on the river, but in the face of the fleet of hundreds of ships of the Xingtian Army, they can only flee when they hear the wind, although the Xingtian Army water battalion has not been formed for a long time, the combat effectiveness is very limited, hastily loaded with some three-pounder cannons, but this time on the Yangtze River it is full of majesty, under the leadership of Liu Jiang and other water battalion generals, invincible on the river, rarely meet opponents.

If there was no war, it was too underestimating the official army, when the fleet reached the river in Jiayu County, it was still attacked by an official army, but the number of this official army was not much, only about 20 warships, and most of them belonged to light clippers, only a few hundred sailors in total.

However, the naval army of this official army performed quite well, knowing that a head-on confrontation was definitely not the opponent of the Xingtian Army, they adopted the method of sneak attack at night.

In order to ensure that the fleet does not collide with the ship, there are light balls hung on the bow and stern of the ship, so as to direct the fleet to take the main channel, and there will be no collision and no grounding, and this group of officers and navy has conveniently used the weakness of the Xingtian Army's fleet that stretches for more than ten miles, and hid in the fork of the Yangtze River in advance, and camouflaged it with grass. Rockets, guns, and canisters of fire oil were thrown at once, and dozens of ships were burned on the spot, causing nearly 1,000 people to drown, and the fleet of the Xingtian Army, which was suddenly attacked, could not see where the enemy was at night, so they could only fire guns indiscriminately, not only did not hit the enemy, but caused a lot of self-injury, this chaos spread throughout the night, many ships also collided, and some ships overturned or ran aground in the shallows, in short, heavy losses, The angry Xiao Tianjian almost ordered to kill Liu Jiang, who commanded the fleet.

After dawn, under the command of the generals of the various departments, the fleet was finally regrouped, but at this time, those sneak attack officers and ships had already fled at night, and Xiao Tianjian and the generals under his command were angry, but there was no way, so after dawn, they ordered to rescue the people who fell into the water, but after a night, they could still save a few! It would be good to save one or two of the 100 people who fell into the water, and most of the soldiers in the war camp were landlubbers, and if they fell into the river, they could only feed the fish.

However, this also sounded a wake-up call to Xiao Tianjian, this is not an easy thing to take the world, the sneak attack of the official army, even Xiao Tianjian's boat has suffered a lot of rockets, if it were not for the guards on the ship to fight hard, and killed an enemy ship that tried to rob the boat by help, it is estimated that Xiao Tianjian will have to jump into the Yangtze River in the middle of the night to swim, and if he can't get it right, he will drink some Yangtze River water and die young.

Liu Jiang was so frightened that he trembled, and ran to Xiao Tianjian to ask for guilt, Xiao Tianjian suppressed his anger, reassured him and told him to be more careful in the future, as long as this situation does not occur again, this matter will be done! Liu Jiang retreated with a thousand thanks, for them, they also paid the first tuition fee in this water war, for them, it is impossible not to pay such tuition, they just hope to pay less in the future!

Although the fleet was frustrated on the river in Jiayu County, but fortunately, the Xingtian Army had more troops, although the fleet was chaotic and lost some ships, but the strength was still there, Xiao Tianjian ordered to dock in Jiayu County for two days, the repaired ships were repaired, and the ones that should be given up were reorganized, and the fleet was reorganized, and the Jiayu County was easily captured, which was regarded as a retaliation, and then he waved down again.

However, in the next few days, the fleet of the Xingtian Army went much more cautiously, and at night they found a place to anchor and rest, sent clippers to patrol the perimeter, and at the same time sent Xiaozuo everywhere to spy on the officers and sailors who had attacked them.

Later, some fishermen betrayed the naval army of the official army, and told the Xingtian Army that the naval army of the official army was an official army in the area of Longkou Town, Xiao Tianjian immediately sent Liu Jiang to lead a group of warships, turned around and rushed straight to Longkou Town, and really ran into the official army and naval army on the river, and started a fight.

It turned out that after the successful sneak attack, this official army and navy were not satisfied, and fell far behind the Xingtian army fleet, trying to give the Xingtian army a sneak attack, but the result was blocked by Liu Jiang's fleet, and after a fight, the official army and navy were annihilated, and the main general led by him was a thousand generals surnamed Li, who was also captured by Liu Jiang's men who jumped into the river and captured him after the defeat and was captured on the boat.

Liu Jiang originally wanted to kill this Li Qianzong on the spot, but he was persuaded by the guards, and after beating this Li surnamed Qianzong, he tied him back to Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian didn't kill this Li Qianzong, after asking his name clearly, he read that this Li Qian is always a person with a bit of ability and blood, so he personally loosened his ties, and asked him to sit down and talk, this Li Qianzong was flattered, thinking that he didn't have many bastards with this court official, so he simply bowed his head and bowed, surrendered Xiao Tianjian, and was retained by Xiao Tianjian in the water camp.

Although this Li Wanshan and Li Qian's general actions have offended many people in the army, it is not the first time that the Xingtian Army has taken prisoners, and even Long Xiao Tianjian, who has repeatedly opposed them, can accept it, for this little Li Wanshan, everyone naturally accepted him, but it is definitely impossible to let the big guy give him a good face in a short period of time, but after a long time, presumably as long as this Li Wanshan can make some achievements, he will be accepted by the generals sooner or later, after all, Xiao Tianjian now needs talents in all aspects, It can be said that he is thirsty for talent, for such talents, Xiao Tianjian will never let go easily, even if he was once an enemy of himself, as long as he is useful, and he is not a person who is extremely evil, he can follow him in the future, and he can not blame the past!

Standing on the bow of the boat, Xiao Tianjian looked at the rolling Yangtze River, but his mood at this time was very ethereal, although he was only in the Yangtze River, but his mood had already flown to the sea unconsciously.

Since Zheng He, the Ming Dynasty began to close the sea, living a closed life, but few people know that in the far west, a major change is underway, several European countries have completed the transformation of capital countries, set their sights on the world, and began to send a large number of fleets to sail on the sea, and at this time, China is still killing each other, resisting the invasion of the Tartars in the north, but it has missed this best opportunity in vain, so that now whether it is navigation or shipbuilding, Even in the development of weapons and the use of tactics, they gradually began to lag behind the West.

If he remembers correctly, then now the Dutch estimate that it is time to occupy Taiwan, Columbus also discovered the American continent a hundred years ago, and the hands of Western countries have reached there.

Thinking of this, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but have a sense of urgency, feeling that time was running out, and he had to hurry up to quickly sweep this ignorant dynasty into the garbage heap, and then concentrate all his forces to solve the more ignorant and brutal Tartars in the north, completely eliminate this Chinese threat, and then free up his hands to quickly rebuild the invincible fleet belonging to the Han nation, to compete with those maritime powers in this era on the sea, and completely redeem the unfortunate fate of Chinese in the future.

As for the jumping clown in the northeast, Xiao Tianjian really didn't take them seriously, as long as he wins the world one day and controls the ocean, then that clown will never think about rising above the sea again, and when the time comes, he can clean them up as he wants.

"Lord, if it's fast, in a day and a half, we should arrive in Hanyang!" The iron head said to Xiao Tianjian behind his back.

Tietou's words interrupted Xiao Tianjian's train of thought, so he looked around and said arrogantly: "Then speed up and arrive in Hanyang as soon as possible!" ……”