Leaving a few detailed works in Guide to be responsible for investigating the military situation, Liu Neng led people all the way back to Yangzhou. When he arrived at Yangzhou City, he was told that Chen Yue, Marquis of Pingnan, was inspecting the sailors at Shao Bo Lake. Ordering his subordinates to return to the enemy's intelligence division, Liu Neng headed for Shao Bohu.

Shao Bo Lake is located in the west of the canal in the north of Yangzhou City, with a radius of hundreds of miles, the lake is full of shisha waves, rippling blue waves, and the reeds on the shore are everywhere, swaying and colorful. There are more than 10 islands in the lake, and fishermen live on the islands to fish for a living.

The location is very close to Yangzhou, and the lake is extremely wide, which is the best place to train water masters.

The whole area from Yangzhou to Huai'an, given by the diversion of the Yellow River, has many lakes and a dense water network. The Yellow River was diverted to recapture the sea, but due to the large amount of sediment it carried, the river could not enter the sea, and could only pour into Hongze Lake, and then flow along the canal into the Yangtze River. As a result, many lakes have been born on both sides of the canal, such as Ailing Lake, Xinkai Lake, Shao Bo Lake, Gaoyou Lake, and Baima Lake, as many as dozens of them.

Canals, tributaries of the Huai River, and dozens of lakes and ponds make the Huaiyang area extremely densely covered with water.

As the governor of Jiangbei who is responsible for the entire Jiangbei and is responsible for resisting the Qing Dynasty, Chen Yue naturally will not forget to take advantage of the rivers and lakes and use the water army to resist the Qing Dynasty.

As a result, they vigorously solicited the purchase of ships, which were transformed into warships by the Ordnance Division. Then, based on the Pingnan Army Water Battalion, two people with good water characteristics were recruited to join the army, and it was expanded to 20,000 inland river water troops, with a total of 10 battalions, each battalion with 2,000 water troops, and nearly 100 large and small ships under its jurisdiction.

The Qing Army's Eight Banners were too strong to defeat the Qing Army in a field battle with only the Pingnan Army, which was mostly recruits. The Qing army has a large number of cavalry, and most of them are infantry, and the Pingnan army cannot be compared with it in terms of mobility, only by sticking to the city and relying on rivers and lakes to transport troops and materials can it fight with the Qing soldiers!

Therefore, the navy is equivalent to the mobile force of the Pingnan Army, and every large and small ship is the war horse of the Pingnan Army.

Today, Chen Yue came to Shao Bo Lake to inspect the newly established sailors.

On the island in the middle of the lake, a high platform built with thick bamboo poles is one foot above the lake. Chen Yue stood on the high platform, and behind him stood Qian Fenglin, Yang Zhengping, and Yu Feng, watching the drill of the water army in the lake.

Inside the lake, hundreds of boats are scattered on the vast lake, and flagpoles of varying heights are erected on the boats, and flagpoles are of various colors.

The largest warship was a three-story ship, with pennants of various colors raised from time to time on the towering mast, which was the command ship of the exercise, and the person in charge of the exercise was Lu Tai, the chief soldier of the water battalion.

Under the command of the flag, the warships of each water battalion made different movements, and there were hundreds of ships in the entire lake, but the movements were exceptionally orderly and disorderly.

"Not bad, yes, so the navy can fight!" Looking at the drill in the lake, Chen Yue smiled at Qian Fenglin with satisfaction.

"General Lu was born as a general of the coastal defense battalion, commanded the naval army well, and with the strong support of the Hou Ye, he could naturally build such a naval division in a few months." Qian Fenglin said with a smile.

While the two were talking and laughing, a sentinel boat rowed at high speed in the lake, heading straight for the island in the middle of the lake.

"I don't know what's going on again!" Chen Yue sighed.

During the review exercise, unless it is an emergency, the guards on the shore will never let people pass.

The sentinel boat docked, and a person ran from afar, and when he ran closer, Chen Yue was surprised to see that the person who came turned out to be Liu Neng!

"Why are you back?" Chen Yue ordered someone to let Liu Neng come to the stage, and asked. Liu Neng was sent to Guide to be in charge of the affairs of the Enemy Intelligence Division in the north, and now he has run back to show that something has happened in the north, and the Qing troops have attacked!

Although Chen Yue knew the general direction of the development of history, he did not know much about the specific details, such as the specific time of the Qing army's southward movement, the strength of the troops, the route of the march, and so on. After all, he was just a policeman in his previous life, not a scholar specializing in Ming history. This is also the reason why he sent a large number of enemy intelligence officers to the north.

Some time ago, Liu Neng sent someone to report that the Qing soldiers had gone out of Tongguan all the way to the east, and now they had run back by themselves, which showed that the pace of the Qing army's southward movement was getting closer and closer!

"Back to Hou Ye, return to Germany is lost, the Qing army of 100,000 is rushing south, the vanguard has arrived in Suzhou, and the subordinates have come back to report to Hou Ye!" Liu Neng knelt on one knee and said. 、

Have you arrived in Suzhou yet? It is only five or six hundred miles away from Yangzhou, and it will arrive in less than ten days. War is imminent!

Unable to watch the drills of the sailors anymore, Chen Yue ordered Liu Neng to tell the information in detail. So Liu Neng talked about what he did in Guide and his own analysis one by one.

Xu Dingguo has taken refuge in Mantar, Li Jiyu's attitude is ambiguous, Henan Governor Yue Qijie refuses to listen to his subordinates' strategies, and his subordinates have no choice but to assassinate Xu Dingguo and withdraw from Guide City. From the defenders to the squires and the common people, they had no fighting spirit, and the city could not hold even a day. On the way to Yangzhou, the minister heard that on the day the Qing soldiers arrived, the German army and civilians surrendered. ”

"You, you're so reckless, you don't even use your brain!" Chen Yue pointed at Liu Neng, hating iron and not making steel.

Liu Neng touched his head: "Shouldn't his subordinates kill Xu Dingguo?" ”

"Everyone can be punished for the chaos and thieves, and Xu Dingguo should naturally be killed. But before killing Xu Dingguo, didn't you think about how to control his army? His army is six or seven thousand people, how can everyone be his henchmen, I allocated so much silver to the enemy's intelligence department, and casually took out some bribes and temptations, and promised to be a high-ranking official, I believe that there will be many people who will turn their backs on Xu Dingguo and go to the court.

With these people as the foundation, the army under Xu Dingguo can be controlled. With these thousands of troops, coupled with the support of Yue Qijie and Yuan Shu, the city of Guide is high and deep, what is the difficulty of guarding it for ten days and a half months? It won't be lost in a day! ”

Listening to Chen Yue's words, Liu Neng only felt cold sweat running down his spine, he thought that he had done a good enough job to successfully assassinate Xu Dingguo surrounded by his own soldiers and retreat. But listening to Chen Yueyi, he knew that what he had done was far from enough, and he could do better!

"My subordinates know it's wrong!" Liu Neng lowered his head and said with some grievances.

"As the head of the Enemy Intelligence Division, I must use my brains more in everything, collect intelligence, assassinate the head of the enemy's army, and bribe and win over the enemy for my use, all of which must be skillful. Everything must be in front, and everything is in the interests of the Ming Dynasty! Chen Yue said earnestly, and Liu Neng nodded again and again.

"Master Hou, I don't know what my subordinates should do next?" Liu Neng asked.

"You, let's go to Wuchang." Chen Yue thought about it and commanded.

The Qing troops were about to attack Yangzhou, and the next thing was a knife-to-gun-to-gun battle to the death, and the enemy intelligence department could no longer play much role. And in Wuchang, the situation is more complicated there.