There were 10,000 Dongting sailors, and after they set off from Wuchang, they did not stop, and the fleet went down the river and went eastward, and they did not meet Jin Shenghuan when they passed Anqing.

The huge fleet sailed mightily on the side of the Yangtze River on the Anqing side, the scene was very spectacular, many people rushed to the river to watch this rare grand scene, even Jin Shenghuan was also alarmed, ran to the city wall to look at the river.

After passing Anqing, the fleet entered the area controlled by the Qing army, and it was getting dark, but the fleet did not anchor, but in the deep night, down the river.

On both sides of the Yangtze River in Chizhou Mansion and Anqing Prefecture, most of them are low hills, and in the dark night, the Ming army only felt that one by one black shadows swept by, and the fleet was smooth sailing, and it had traveled nearly 50 miles.

"General Town, we will go to Chizhou in front."

At night, it is not clear to see both sides of the strait, but the observation post standing on the mast and looking at the bucket still relies on experience to report.

Man Dazhuang listened, waved his hand, and the officer behind him immediately took out a drawing and unfolded it, and the other person leaned over with a torch.

This drawing is the Qing court's defense map along the river, where there are forts, where there are forts, where there are batteries, where to avoid the Qing soldiers, let the fleet anchor and rest, most of the signs are clear.

This is a protégé of Qian Qianyi, who worked under Tong Yangliang, the commander of the Qing court's Jiangfang, and tried his best to copy them from the yamen.

"The general is right! Almost there! A general next to him pointed to a piece of land protruding into the river in front of him and said: "This is Biandan Prefecture, and twenty miles further is Chizhou." ”

The official name is Xu Junsheng, the word is Dawang, the descendant of the king of Zhongshan, but it is a side branch of the Xu family, after the fall of Nanjing, the Duke of Wei Xu Jiujue surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and he fled into Hunan.

Because he used to run an industry for the Wei State Mansion and often traveled to and from the Yangtze River, he was very familiar with the water-rippled terrain in the Nanzhi area.

Man Dazhuang listened, looked around, and saw a piece of road protruding into the Yangtze River, narrowing the Yangtze River channel, and Chizhou was inhabited by Qing soldiers, so he asked: "Is there a Qing army fort near here?" ”

Xu Junsheng spread out the drawings and looked at them, then nodded, "Chizhou is located at the confluence of the Yangtze River and the Qiupu River, and the sediment has accumulated to form a sandbar in the center of the river, called Fengyizhou, which just chokes the waterway. Judging from the annotations on the drawings, there is indeed a fort on it, thirty general guns, and a thousand garrisons. ”

Man Dazhuang pressed the handle of the knife, this fort must be pulled out, not only this fort, all the way east, all the forts along the river, must be knocked out, the Qing army will not be allowed to build forts on both sides of the Yangtze River, and boats will not be allowed to enter the Yangtze River, Dongting Sailor is so domineering.

Man Dazhuang waved his hand and ordered: "All the ships extinguish the torch, and after getting close to the sandbar, the big ships will bombard, and the small boats will be pupa on the island, and the fort will be shot down for me!" ”

"Whoa!" Xu Junsheng clenched his fists in response, then took the torch and waved it regularly to the soldiers on the bucket a few times, and the soldiers immediately hung up two red lights when they saw it, and in a moment the lights in the fleet were extinguished one by one, and the entire fleet turned into a hill moving in the dark.

The fleet went down the river at a very fast speed, and the moonlight sparkled on the river.

At the time of the third watch, the fleet was only three or four miles away from Fengyizhou, Xu Junsheng pointed ahead, and the flickering fire on a black shadow said, "It's there." ”

Man Dazhuang smiled when he saw it, "Jiangxin Fort, there is actually a bonfire lit at night, doesn't this tell Ben Jiang where they are, so that Ben Jiang can prepare?" ”

The moonlight is bright enough tonight, and although the flotilla has extinguished the torch, it can still be found if it is closer, and the key to this depends on who can prepare first, who will be exposed first, and who will fire the first round of artillery will inevitably have an advantage.

"The Qing army's river defense is indeed a mess, but it also helps us." Xu Junsheng said with a smile.

Man Dazhuang smiled and smiled, there are 1,000 green battalions on the sandbank, there are 30,000 Qing soldiers in Chizhou City, and it is not an insurmountable ditch between the sandbank and the riverbank, and the swimmers with good water quality can swim over, once the Chizhou Qing soldiers support, or the green battalion of the sandbank is prepared, it will be more difficult to fight.

Man Dazhuang didn't dare to be careless, and hurriedly formulated a strategy in his heart, the fleet was divided into three parts, one was to bombard the sandbar with eighty large ships, one was to let Xu Junsheng take one hundred and fifty small boats and lead two thousand people to wade ashore, and the last one was twenty large ships and one hundred and fifty small boats to prevent Chizhou from sending troops to reinforce.

The Yangtze River is wide, and a fort is built on the sandbank, and the general's cannon, which is one level lower than the red-coat cannon, is erected in the center of the continent and can also hold the waterway.

After the inexplicable fall of Anqing, the Qing army's defense focus was placed on Chizhou, and it was imperative to expand and strengthen the Shazhou Fort.

At this time, on the sandbar, there were stones and green bricks piled up everywhere, and Jin Li obviously wanted to turn the original rammed earth fort into a masonry fortress.

At this time, it was close to the fourth watch, most of the green battalion soldiers had already fallen asleep, and only a few soldiers were sentry on the unfinished fort, and the fire that Man Dazhuang saw was the work of these sentinels.

The inexperienced and audacious men caught some big fish, and then lit a fire to boil and eat, and it was this fire that exposed the location of the fort.

At night, the shore is sentry, and it is easy to be killed by people when it ignites, not to mention the naval warships dealt with by the river defense, it is good that the torch can shine forty or fifty meters at night, but the artillery on the ship can hit a few miles, so that the fleet can find it first, and the Ming army will take the lead.

Seven or eight Qing soldiers were completely unaware of the danger coming, the sandbar was full of water on all sides, there was no need to worry about the sneak attack of the infantry army, a few people ate happily around the fire, but the older one suddenly stood up, rubbed his eyes, and then pulled a person next to him: "Dog, you have sharp eyes, help me see, am I dazzled, why does it seem that there are mountains moving on the river?" ”

The dog stood up, and when he saw it, he was frightened, kicked over the fire, and the fish soup was scattered on the ground, everyone looked at him in shock, but the dog shouted even more frightened: "Damn, it's over, there is a Ming army!" ”

Before he finished speaking, the boat came to the dark river with the sound of "rumbling" cannons, and the Qing soldiers saw a sitting on the black mountain in the distance, spewing out flames, and the green smoke rose, fluttering into the air, and then being blown away by the river wind.

In the sound of "booming" shells breaking through the air, the fire was taken care of, and several people were immediately half killed.

The shells fell into the barracks, waking up the sleeping Qing soldiers, and they were strung together like headless flies, and the alarm bells in the distance in Chizhou City suddenly rang out.

Xu Junsheng, who had already been transferred to a small boat, drew his knife in his hand and coldly ordered: "Kill me!" ”

More than 100 small boats rushed down the river to the sandbank, and the 2,000 Ming soldiers held the war knife and rattan card, and when the ship stopped, they jumped off the ship one after another, and attacked on their backs, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

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