While he was thinking wildly, suddenly a soldier shouted loudly: "Lord Admiral, the sailor of the Loyal and Righteous Army, the sailor of the Loyal and Righteous Army has been killed?" ”

Chief Zhang opened his eyes and saw hundreds of ships flying out in a mighty way, and at the front of them were three ships larger than what he had seen before, long, strange-looking, and as tall as a three-story building.

Chief Zhang was shocked, grabbed Zhang Guoxun next to him and said: "You, you defend the front of the Loyal and Righteous Army, I, I will defend the Loyal and Righteous Army Sailor, this is Yang Xuan's real killing move, it turns out that Feng Youqing is just his suspicious soldier." ”

Zhang Guoxun sweated like rain and said: "My lord, this, how is this good?" I am now concentrating all my strength to resist Feng Youqing and struggling, and now I have to divide my troops to resist the loyal and righteous army, how can I do this? ”

Chief Zhang patted Zhang Guoxun on the shoulder and comforted: "Brother, how many hurtful things we have done for the Tartars with Ma Guozhu, do you think that the Loyal and Righteous Army will spare us people?"

For now, the only way to do this is to fight to the death, and only to retreat to Hukou Port after the soldiers and horses are almost fought together, so that there may still be life. ”

Seeing that the loyal and righteous army gathered again and killed it, Zhang Guoxun jumped up and led thousands of people to kill.

On the Jinghai-class gunboat, Yang Xuan led a group of military generals down the river, and everyone looked at the battlefield in Jiangnan with binoculars from time to time, while carefully looking for the Tartar fort and looking for the best landing distance, it didn't take long to determine that the beach in front was the best place to land.

At a distance of less than 300 meters from the landing site, he saw that more than 100 Green Battalion Fake Tartars had been assembled on the river bank, and ordered all the gunboats and Flying Tiger warships to shell the Tartar camp.

A 500-ton Jingjiang-class gunboat has 6 red-coated cannons and 10 large Franc cannons on one side, and a 200-ton Jingjiang-class gunboat also has 10 large Franc cannons on one side, while the Flying Tiger battleship has only four guns, but it can turn the gun carriage at the same time to fire.

The cannon hit the mosquitoes, and in the face of the small number of green battalion fake Tartars gathered on the beachhead, there was no need for the cannons on the Jingjiang-class gunboats to open fire, but the large and small Furlong machine guns on the more than 30 Flying Tiger warships were shelled, and the fake Tartars on the shore could not stand it, and after a round of shelling, the shells around the Tartars continued to explode, and the smoke billowed on the entire shore and beach, looking like a hell on earth.

Not to mention the Tartars, even many loyal and righteous infantry generals rarely see such a picture, after being shelled, half of the fake Tartars on the shore were killed or wounded, and the rest ignored the scattered bullets that kept flying, and ran away one by one.

Seeing that the fake Tartars on the shore couldn't help fighting, Yang Xuan concentrated all the red-clothed cannons and the large Furlong machine guns to shell the Tartar camp in the distance.

Compared with other ships of this era, the command system of the Loyal and Righteous Army Navy was the most advanced, not only did the flagship have a conning tower to command all departments through the flag, but also the gunboat had an improved version of the earthen telephone.

On the tower, the commander can quickly and accurately transmit information to different units through the modified earthen telephone, and the soldiers at the observation post can also accurately report the position of the enemy ship to the tower.

Compared with other ships, due to the reduced signal transmission time, various judgments can be made quickly and accurately, without relying on manpower to run back and forth to communicate.

Seeing that the gunfire on the gunboats and the Flying Tiger battleship was so fierce, the morale of the whole army of the Loyal and Righteous Army was high, and they took this opportunity to desperately row the sampan boat to the shore, and then rushed to the shore.

In addition to panicking, although Zhang Datou also mobilized a few Fran machine guns to counterattack, he temporarily hugged Buddha legs, not only could not hit far and accurately, but also exposed his own target, and before he could fire a few cannons, he was continuously counterattacked by the red-coated cannons and Fran cannons on the gunboat.

One after another, the flowering bombs fell in the formation, and the explosions came and went, everyone had never seen such a momentum, and many people fled with their heads in their hands.

While the two sides were shelling each other, the transport ships behind them docked one after another, and Yang Guangqian, the 10th general of the 3rd Town, led his troops to rush to the beach.

The other party was caught off guard, although there were dozens of old and weak soldiers on the beachhead, but everyone understood that the general trend had gone, and when they saw the transport ships rushing over like crazy, they did not dare to meet the enemy at all, and they were so frightened that their faces turned blue and fled backwards one after another.

The loyal and righteous army successfully seized the beach, leaving a few soldiers and horses to guard the ships, Yang Guangqian led his troops to chase and kill all the way, and rushed to the Qing army camp.

In this way, Yang Guangqian and others were in the north, Feng Youqing and Lou Yi led their troops in the west, and they attacked from both sides, and the green battalion was defeated, so they threw down their weapons and ran to the east beachhead, hoping to grab the boats and run to the mouth of the lake opposite.

But the Tartars had very few ships on the beachhead, and in addition to the fact that the loyal army rushed too hard, countless people drowned in one moment.

In late May 1651 (2202 years of Confucius), the loyal and righteous army captured Meishazhou, which was heavily garrisoned by the Green Battalion, at the cost of more than 200 casualties, and Zhang Datou, the governor of the south of the Tartar River, led two or three thousand men and horses to flee to the mouth of the lake on the opposite bank, and more than 1,000 people, including Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Tartars, were killed, and countless others were wounded and captured.

Seeing that the opposite bank was plunged into a sea of fire, and the fleeing Qing army's green battalion was crushed and filled with the surface of the Hukou River, Ma Guozhu, the governor of the Manchu Qing Liangjiang River, trembled in his voice, and couldn't believe that everything in front of him was true.

Although the reputation cannot be compared with Hong Chengchou, Wu Sangui, Kong Youde, Shang Kexi and others, in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Ma Guozhu, the governor of Liangjiang in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was really a chopsticker in the Manchu Qing Dynasty's brutal killing of Han people.

At the beginning of his tenure as the governor of Liangjiang, he quelled the anti-Qing forces in the territory and killed the anti-Qing righteous people in Chaohu.

Rao was so brutal, but seeing such a crushing defeat of the Qing army today, Ma Guozhu still felt frightened and frightened, and he had no idea for a while.

Trembling back to the mansion, there was still a scene of the battle between the two sides in front of him, shaking his head, Ma Guozhu sighed, and couldn't help complaining about Hong Chengchou.

The other party prides itself on being clever, but has no understanding of the loyal and righteous army, so he made a scene of an army to hold the mouth of the lake and drag the other party, and then when the two armies are in full swing, the other three armies march into the army together to defeat the loyal and righteous army in one fell swoop.

Now it seems that the most secure deployment is to concentrate all the four armies in Hukou Tianwei, and use the heads of the green battalion soldiers and horses to consume the spirit of the loyal army, if so, there is still a possibility of victory.

But at this point, Ma Guozhu had no choice but to order all the troops to defend strictly, and on the other hand, send messengers to other departments, only in this way can the pressure on the battlefield be slightly relieved.

The Loyal and Righteous Army only took less than half a day to capture the heavily guarded Meishazhou, and the prosperity of the troops was not much better than that of the Tartar cavalry, seeing that the warships of the whole army were like clouds, densely packed in the river, Ma Guozhu, the governor of the two rivers of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty, said to the defeated and retreated Zhang Dachief, the admiral of the naval army, Bai Yintu: "The strength of the Loyal and Righteous Army is far beyond our strength."

For today's plan, only by relying on the natural danger of Hukou, according to the danger, when the loyal and righteous army is tired, Hong Chengchou and Jierharang lead the troops to kill, and the two attacks can turn the danger into safety. ”

When everyone heard this, they clasped their fists and said yes.

After occupying Meishazhou, the Loyal and Righteous Army erected red-coated cannons on the beachhead of Meishazhou and shelled the Green Battalion boats cruising on the Hukou River.

But the mouth of the lake is about 1.5 kilometers above the river, and the redcoat cannons cannot have any effect on the Tartars on the opposite mountain.

Ma Guozhu then sent people to report to Hong Chengchou of Peng Ze and Zierharang of De'an, hoping to send troops to contain them as soon as possible.