Among the Ming army, except for Zheng Hongkui, who was a sailor, the other divisions were all land divisions, although the people in Jiangnan generally knew water, but it was not a simple matter to fight by boat.

Thousands of warships, shuttling back and forth on the river, how to steer the boats? How do you fight after engaging the enemy? How to cooperate? It takes training.

The Ming army gathered in Zhenjiang and wanted to cross the river to aid Yang, Ruan Dacheng naturally ordered people to train the whole army and practice water warfare, but after all, the training time of the Ming army was still short, except for Zheng Hongkui's department, the rest of the Ming army was not proficient in water warfare.

Zheng Hongkui was the pioneer of crossing the river, commanding 100,000 troops to cross the river and start a war with the Qing Dynasty sailors, but he knew that with the situation of the Ming army, it was difficult to compete with the Qing army's sailors.

On the river, Zheng Hongkui connected 400 Fu boats and Wusong ships with iron locks, and surrounded each other, so that Fang Guoan's elite Ming army took Zuo Maodi, Chen Zilong and other newly recruited troops, and more than 80,000 people were the main force for this battle.

The Fu ship and the Wusong ship are all large warships of the Ming army, and the ships are as high as a city, equipped with various firearms such as the big Buddha Lang machine artillery and the bowl mouth system.

Fang Guo's security department and the newly recruited army are not good at water warfare, Zheng Hongkui carried out the strategy of connecting boats, iron locks and boats, and laying wooden planks on them, so that the army was like stepping on the ground, and the method of land warfare was used to resist the Qing army's naval division.

In order to guard against the attack of the Qing army, Zheng Hongkui also ordered the soldiers to paint the boat with mud, and then prepare long wood and long bamboo to meet the situation.

Zheng Hongkui, together with Wang Weibu, took small and medium-sized warships such as Haicang ships, Cangshan ships, and wheels to guard the boats.

100,000 Ming troops spread out on the Yangtze River for several miles, looking at it like a mountain, the momentum is overwhelming, and it seems that there is a momentum of sweeping the Qing army and ships on the river.

Wang Yan stood on the tower of the South Gate City, looking at the reinforcement ship with a thousand miles of mirror, only to feel like a long wall moving on the river, and suddenly his heart was happy.

The defenders of Yangzhou held on for 66 days, the people suffered heavy casualties, only 500,000 people remained, and the young men between the ages of 15 and 40 were almost completely killed and wounded, and Wang Yan had less than 30,000 troops left, which could hardly be replenished.

In the past two months of war, Yangzhou's blood is about to run out. Now that reinforcements have finally appeared, it is only on the Yangtze River that Wang Yan's heart is agitated.

"After two months of hard fighting, the king has finally arrived, and Yangzhou has been saved!" Wang Yan put down the clairvoyant mirror and said with a sigh: "Your Majesty has not forgotten us, and the imperial court has not given up Yangzhou!" ”

On the city tower, He Gang, Qu Congzhi and others were already in tears, Yangzhou was really bad, and it was really hard.

"Princess!" With the arrival of the Ming warships in the north, Wang Yan was confident, "Once the reinforcements break through the Qing army on the Yangtze River, they will inevitably enter the canal and approach the east gate. ”

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, Duoduo left a small number of men and horses to monitor Yangzhou, and led a large group of Qing troops to deploy defenses along the river, and the Qing warships on the river were also ready to go.

The Qing army came from the north and was good at riding and shooting, but not accustomed to water warfare.

The method of water warfare was originally a sharp weapon for the southern regime to resist the northern army to the south, the Eastern Wu used this to resist the strong Wei, the Eastern Jin Dynasty used this to favor the left of the Jiang, and the Southern Song Dynasty Huang Tiandang fought a battle, so that the Jin people did not dare to cross the Yangtze River from then on.

The sailor was originally the head of the Han people, and the Manchu Yidi only knew how to destroy, did not know the technology of Shenzhou, could not build a ship, and could not train the navy, but the Jiangbei soldiers and horses were all surrendered to the Qing court, so that the Manchu Qing had thousands of warships and tens of thousands of sailors out of thin air.

On the Yangtze River, the Qing army's strength was far greater than that of the untrained Ming army and the untrained Ming army's naval division.

Duoduo did not understand water warfare, so he appointed Liu Liangzuo as the commander of the Qing army's naval division, and the Qing court's military department Shangshu Aixinjue Luo Handai accompanied the ship to monitor.

Liu Liangzuo has been stationed on the riverbank for some time, and he has never made meritorious service to his new master, and he is terrified.

Now that he has received the order of Duoduo generals, Liu Liangzuo is suddenly happy in his heart, thinking that the opportunity to help the Manchu Qing Dynasty make meritorious contributions is so that as long as he can defeat the old club's sailors as a general, not only will Duoduo no longer suspect that he has two hearts, but in the future, he will definitely not lose his high-ranking officials in the Manchu court.

At this time, as the Ming army fleet came to the north shore, Liu Liangzuo led the general soldiers Yang Chengzu and Zhang Tianfu, and the deputy generals Yang Shoucheng, Zhang Sida, Gao Qian, Yan Shiyi and others to fight, with a strength of up to 60,000.

Although the number of Qing soldiers was smaller than that of the Ming army, they were all officers and soldiers of the naval division who were proficient in water warfare, and they were far more elite than the Ming army fleet that came to Yang's aid.

Zhang Tianfu saw that the big ships of the Ming army were connected with iron locks, which was not conducive to advance and retreat, and then advised Liu Liangzuo, "The warships of the Ming army are huge, and they are connected together, and our ships are small, which is not conducive to attacking, so it is better to divide into several teams, be flexible and mobile, and attack in all directions." ”

When Liu Liangzuo heard this, he felt that it was very reasonable, and followed Zhang Tianfu's strategy, and divided the Qing army ships into ten teams, each team was equipped with large and small artillery, firearms, rockets, thistles, large and small muskets, magic arrows and bows, and ordered each team to shoot with short weapons when approaching the Ming warships.

The Qing army ships set out on the north shore in unison, and met the Ming warships in the center of the river, and a fierce battle ensued.

Zuo Maodi and Chen Zilong were not able to fight in the water, but they were locked in iron and connected boats, and they were the ones who defended the ships like defending the city, and the large and small artillery first fired at the Qing army's naval divisions.

The rumbling sound of cannon was incessant, and columns of water were blown up on the side of the ship, splashing the plackets of the non-commissioned officers on deck.

Sometimes the shells smashed the mast, causing a great chaos on the ship, and sometimes smashed the baffle and the hull, causing the river to pour in and the ship to tilt.

"Put!" "Ignition!" Amid the shouts of officers on both sides, artillery shells shuttled back and forth across the river, and countless officers and soldiers fell in pools of blood.

After only a moment of fighting, the gap between the Ming army and the Qing army was revealed, the iron cable boat moved slowly, the target was large, the Qing army almost every cannon must hit, and the Ming army beat the Qing army's moving warships, but it was a little difficult, and the hit was less than thirty percent.

However, fortunately, Zheng Hongkui and Wang Wei led the Ming army boat and entangled the Qing army warship, so that although the Ming army was at a disadvantage, it did not miss defeat.

In the artillery battle, the distance between the two armies continued to approach.

At this time, the Ming army had lost more than 20 warships and killed more than 1,500 people, while the Qing army only sank seven warships and killed more than 800 people.

The warships approached, the firearms were fired, and the advantage of the Ming army in taking the ship as the city was revealed, and the battle was in a stalemate.

Chen Zilong, who originally did not have much confidence in the Ming army's water warfare, saw that the newly recruited soldiers actually relied on the advantage of iron-locked boats to shoot at the Qing army without being inferior, and his heart suddenly burst into excitement, and he commanded the soldiers to shoot rockets at the Qing army's ships, firing a fire, forcing the Qing army's ships not to dare to come over and engage in short-term combat.

The water battle lasted from morning to noon, and there were countless tragic boats on the river, and fires broke out everywhere, although the Ming army suffered more heavy casualties, but it could not be regarded as a winner.

In the afternoon, Liu Liangzuo personally led the ships to fight, but the Ming ships were huge, and the Qing ships were too small to attack on their backs.

At this time, Liu Liangzuo once again adopted the suggestion of the chief soldier Zhang Tianfu and decided to use fire to attack the enemy instead.

It was almost dusk, Liu Liangzuo chose 800 soldiers to drive a hundred serial boats, sub-mother ships, they filled the bow with gunpowder and firewood, and suddenly appeared in front of the Ming army's boats.

The chain of boats is four zhang long, resembling a boat, but it is actually two boats, the front ship accounts for one-third, the rear ship accounts for two-thirds, and the middle is connected by two iron rings. The front ship has a number of large inverted whiskers, carrying fireballs, divine smoke, divine sand, poisonous fire, and fire guns, and the rear boat is equipped with oars to carry soldiers. In wartime, the front ship was nailed to the enemy ship, and all kinds of firearms were ignited, and the iron ring was released at the same time, and the rear ship returned, and the rear ship returned, and the flames of the front ship swirled, and the enemy ship was burned.

The sub-mother ship is similar to the chain boat, both of which are a kind of warship used for fire attack.

Eight hundred Qing troops set up 100 chain boats and rushed towards the Ming army's big ship, but Zuo Maodi and others were already prepared, and ordered the soldiers to pick up long logs and bamboo poles to resist the oncoming arson boats, and then ordered the soldiers to throw rockets and set them on fire, so that they burned out before they hit the boats.

In history, Cao Cao's boat was attacked by fire in Eastern Wu, and Zhang Shijie, the general of the Southern Song Dynasty, connected the boat several times, but also failed, and Zheng Hongkui also knew that the boat was easy to be broken by fire, so he had already set a way to crack it.

Most of the fireships of the Qing army were held up by the Ming army, and a small part still collided with them, but the Ming army used mud to paint the boats before, which greatly reduced the fire, and the effect was not obvious.

When the Qing army drove the boat and set fire, Wang Wei saw that the Ming army had always been passively beaten, and he couldn't help but feel anxious for a while.

Wang Wei was overjoyed when he saw this, and led several warships to pounce up, spotted Liu Liangzuo, and ordered the artillery to bombard.

Caught off guard, the Qing Army's Shangshu Aixinjue Luo Handai was killed by a cannon, Liu Liangzuo was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly moved to his ship, and the original boat was smashed by Wang Wei and quickly sank to the bottom of the river.

The prison army Aixinjue Luo Handai arranged by Duoduo for Liu Liangzuo was killed by the Ming army, and he did not even recover the body and was buried in the Yangtze River, which made Liu Liangzuo extremely frightened.

If he can't defeat the Ming army and make great achievements, then the sin of losing the Manchu royal family, Duoduo will definitely punish him severely, and may even fall to the ground.

Thinking of this, Liu Liangzuo couldn't help but redden, he was not willing to fail, nor was he willing to leave him with glory and wealth, and he was not willing to be killed by Duoduo after the defeat, so he issued several orders in succession, while mobilizing fireships from the new, he ordered the warships to attack the Ming warships, and he was sure to defeat the Ming army sailors on the river.

By this time it was already dark, but neither army had any intention of a truce.

Aiding the water war, from early morning to evening, Zuo Maodi has not eaten for a day, and the Ming army can fight with the elite Qing army sailors into peace, which makes this old man very excited.

The cannon roared, the huge ship capsized, the firelight reflected the red on the river, the shouts of killing filled the heavens and the earth, and the grand and heroic war scenes made Zuo Maodi's blood boil.

The tension and intensity of the battlefield made him forget the hunger and exhaustion of his body.

Unconsciously, his old problems as a literati doctor appeared, and in the face of this situation, he couldn't help but want to write a poem on the theme of this battle. However, at this moment, a gust of north wind suddenly blew on the river, which instantly extinguished his blood.