Pukou

The Qing army was camped for more than ten miles along the river, and more than 30,000 troops of the Boluo Department were stationed.

After the division of troops in Sizhou, Boluo took 5,000 and 8 banners south to attack Fengyang Mansion, swept Fengyang in a short period of time, occupied the entire territory of Fengyang, and forced more than 10,000 Ming troops to be reorganized into green battalions.

Not long ago, he defeated Huang Degong's army, continued to recruit rebels, and now has more than 30,000 troops.

The surrender of generals such as Tian Xiong and Ma Degong of Huang Degong's department brought hundreds of ships to Bolo, giving him the ability to spy on Jiangnan and try to attack Nanjing.

However, on the south bank of the Yangtze River, the Zhengjia Naval Division from Fujian was deployed, which was stationed at Yanziji, blocking the way for the Boluo army to cross the river.

When Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, attacked Nanjing from Chuzhou, he crossed the river from Pukou and went ashore from Yanziji, laying the foundation of the Ming Dynasty that Nanjing had built on its foundation and built a high wall for more than 200 years. And now, feng shui is turning, and the Qing army has also come to Jiangbei, peeking at the Ming Dynasty.

And for the Manchu Bellebolo, there is a great temptation in front of him at this moment.

If you can cross the Yangtze River, you can defeat Nanjing and destroy the Ming Dynasty, and hold the work of destroying the Ming in your hands before the two princes of Azig and Duoduo.

With a partial division to conquer the capital of the Ming Dynasty, this kind of merit is enough to make himself king. As a descendant of the Aixin Jueluo family and the son of Abatai, the king of Raoyu County, Bolo is naturally ambitious and arrogant.

In Bolo's view, the Ming army was nothing to fear, and there was no problem in taking Nanjing with only the men and horses in his hand.

However, although the idea is good, the premise is that the Qing army can cross the Yangtze River.

Standing in front of him was the Zheng family sailors, who were born as pirates, and they can be said to be the most powerful naval army in the Ming Dynasty.

Under Bolo's order, Tian Xiong, the general of the Green Battalion, led a naval army composed of more than 100 warships to attack the Zhengjia Naval Army, but was defeated in the Battle of the River, and more than 20 warships were sunk by the Ming army, losing more than 1,000 Green Battalion soldiers.

When Tian Xiong came back to plead guilty, Bolo waved his hand and did not want to pursue it. Water battles are different from land battles, not to mention Tian Xiong, even Bolo himself is not sure to lead the Eight Banners warriors to defeat the Ming army on the opposite side in the water battle.

However, who said that water warfare must be a ship-to-ship face-to-face battle?

Bo Luo ordered Tian Xiong, Ma Degong, Li Benshen, Gao Jinku and other green battalion generals to each take an army and quietly cross the river at dawn by boat to launch a sneak attack on the Ming army camp.

The Qing army made rice at the end of the day, and set off by boat at the same time, heading for the other side of the river. It was the darkest time before dawn, and even the stars in the sky had hidden behind the clouds.

Relying on the lights hanging from the bow of the boat, the Qing sailors rowed the boat and headed for the other side of the river.

The river here is about three miles wide, and such a big movement on the north bank naturally can't hide from the Ming army on the south bank.

However, all the Ming troops under Zheng Hongkui were asleep, and it was the sweetest moment to sleep, when they suddenly heard that the Qing army was coming, and they immediately panicked.

Although it is a sailor, although it is used to life on a ship. However, Zheng Hongkui's army did not sleep on the boat most of the night, but set up camp on the river bank, and set up more than ten camps in total. The river is narrow, and Zheng Hongkui brought flat-bottomed boats suitable for inland river driving, rather than fortune boats for ocean-going boats, which are not narrow enough to sleep at night.

The sergeant on duty was the first to notice the abnormal movement on the north bank of the river, and when he saw countless fire points appearing on the river like stars, the sergeant on duty immediately beat the gong and drum frantically.

The sound of gongs and drums woke up all the Ming troops, but it took too much time to wake up from their sleep, put on their armor, find their weapons, and assemble and climb the warship.

The Zheng Jiashui Division is not a well-trained Pingnan army, although they are also elite, but they are just former pirates, and they are still far from being well-trained.

When the soldiers of the Zheng family army were frightened, the Qing army had already crossed the Yangtze River by boat, came to the riverbank, and then disembarked and went ashore to attack the camps.

Tian Xiong, Ma Degong, Li Benshen, Gao Jinku and other green battalion generals each led an army to launch a fierce attack on the Zheng army's camp.

When it came to fighting, the Green Battalion soldiers didn't dare to fight the Eight Banners at all, so Tian Xiong and Ma Degong surrendered so easily.

But in the face of the Ming army, the green battalion soldiers were not afraid, everyone used to be their own people, and they knew the details of their own families, who was afraid of whom!

Moreover, Tian Xiong and the others relied on the invincible Eight Banners Lord as their backing, coupled with the fact that they had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and urgently needed to make military achievements and show themselves well in front of the new master, they were even more brave in battle.

More than 20,000 green battalion soldiers embedded in the Zheng army camp and fought frantically.

As for the Zheng family sailor, he was attacked by the enemy in his dream, and under the panic, ten percent of his combat power could not be exerted.

In addition, they are good at water warfare, and the strength of land warfare is also enough, even if they are not sneak attacked, they may not be the opponent of the green battalion soldiers in frontal combat on land.

Therefore, under the fierce attack of the green battalion soldiers, there was inevitably chaos, and more than a dozen camps on the riverbank became a mess, and there were exclamations of fighting everywhere.

"Resist, order them all to resist Lao Tzu!" Zheng Hongkui, the deputy general of the Zheng army, gritted his teeth and issued orders continuously with a gloomy face. The heralds rushed to the camps, passing on the orders of the commander-in-chief to the generals.

However, the camps were already in disarray, and even if the generals received his orders, it was difficult to say to what extent they would be able to carry them out.

Zheng Hongkui's Chinese army was set up in Shuiying, and his personal guard battalion reacted fairly quickly and did not let the Qing army enter the camp. Looking at the intact warships in the water camp, Zheng Hongkui breathed a sigh of relief, as long as there were ships.

In the midst of the fighting, the sky gradually brightened. Zheng Hongkui was horrified to see that most of the camps had been breached by the Qing army, and his soldiers were abandoning the camps and fleeing.

"Fourth master, let's run away too!" The general Shi Fu persuaded Zheng Hongkui.

"Tens of thousands of troops were defeated by the Qing soldiers today, I'm sorry for my brother, I'm sorry for the emperor!" Zheng Hongkui said gloomily.

According to the holy decree of the imperial court, he led more than 30,000 sailors to Nanjing, these more than 30,000 people are the henchmen of the Zheng family, and they have accounted for the general of the Fujian army.

"Fourth master, I'm not afraid that there will be no firewood if I stay in Qingshan, and I'm afraid the loss will be even greater if I continue to fight." Shi Fu persuaded bitterly.

At this moment, most of the camps were lost, and most of the troops in the camp abandoned the camp and fled. Now that the main forces of the Qing army are gathering, the next step will definitely be to launch a strong attack on the Chinese army's water camp. If you can't escape quickly, when the Qing army attacks, you can't escape if you want to.

"That's it, retreat!" Zheng Hongkui let out a long sigh and closed his eyes gloomily.

With Zheng Hongkui's order, the soldiers of the middle battalion, who had long been ready to retreat, got on the warships one after another, pulled up the iron anchors and raised the sails, and hundreds of ships turned around and headed eastward along the current.