On the outskirts of Songjiang City, two soldiers belonging to Li Chengdong's department searched through the half-human-high grass with cherry guns in their hands, and from time to time they stabbed a shot in a certain direction.

In the wild south of the Yangtze River, there are many unknown mosquitoes, and the two northern soldiers who bite are bitter.

"TMD, everyone else is happy in Songjiang City, and asked Lao Tzu to come out and do this drudgery."

"It's so itchy, this ghost worm has bitten me to death." The second soldier rolled up his sleeves and raised a row of dense red envelopes on his arm, which was extremely itchy, and he didn't know what he was biting.

The soldier who spoke at first gloated a little, "I just told you to tie up your sleeves and trousers, and if you don't listen to the old man, this is the end......"

Before he could finish his sentence, there was a strange jet sound behind him.

"Don't move!" The other soldier didn't bother to fight back and called out to his companion.

"What, what?"

"Don't move!"

Beads of sweat dripped down his cheeks, and he slowly turned his head.

A Zhoushan cobra raised its neck high, and the slightly chipped neck bulge showed that this was a battle-hardened warrior. The gorgeous and intricate double pattern on the back of the neck and the thin white ring on the pitch-black body exude a mysterious beauty.

In areas where there are no eyed king snakes and monolithic cobras, the Zhoushan cobra is the king of venomous snakes. Although it is not as poisonous as the silver ring and gold ring, which are also medium and large poisonous snakes, its high attack posture and wide swimming ability make the cobra have an advantage in the snake civil war.

It was a large cobra about two and a half meters long, spitting snake letters and emitting a dangerous jet sound.

In northern China, venomous snakes consist only of stubby pit vipers and pit vipers. The two soldiers of Li Chengdong did not know the Zhoushan cobra, but the breathtaking eyes in the snake's eyes and the indomitable kingly temperament contained in it made them understand that this snake could not be provoked.

The Zhoushan cobra is a very neurotic animal and behaves randomly. The frightened soldier saw that the snake did not attack, and slowly retreated with broken steps. Wiping the cold sweat, the two turned around and left.

The Serpent King stared at the back of the human. In fact, it is myopic and cannot see at all, and it relies on the tip of the tongue to detect the smell to determine the surrounding environment. The Snake King is digesting the King Snake in his belly, a respectable opponent who has gone through a bloody battle against the Chinese Snake King to emerge victorious.

The Serpent King consumes most of his reserve venom, which is the most precious resource and will not be used lightly unless it is a last resort when hunting. Satisfied with its intimidating gesture to deter dangerous enemies, the Serpent King folded his neck and swam away.

Oh, there's a big hot-blooded guy next to it, but years of combat experience tell it that it's not a threat.

A few meters away, Chen Zilong spit out the grass ball in his mouth and said softly, "Thank you, friend." ”

Chen Zilong got up and took another look at Songjiang City, and more than a dozen black smoke columns were clearly visible.

Gritting his teeth, he turned and disappeared into the wetlands of the river beach.

……

Two days later, the Huangpu River, Liuhu Water Village.

Wu Zhikui camp.

“…… That's the way it is, Matsue Mansion is finished. Chen Zilong's face was ashen.

Huang Fei still had a trace of calmness, "What about Jing Benche of the Xiajiang Prison Military Dao?" Didn't he say that he wanted to reinforce Matsue Mansion. ”

Chen Zilong shook his head, "We've never seen his soldiers. ”

Huang Fei punched the table with a box, "Bastard, Jing Benche promised to follow us up on Chongming Island." ”

Wu Zhikui looked at the map nervously, Songjiang Mansion was on the Huangpu River, and Li Chengdong conquered Songjiang Mansion, which meant that his retreat from Huang Fei was cut off. The two cities of Qingpu and Songjiang fell too quickly, and Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui were not prepared.

Two months earlier, Wu Zhikui had confidently launched an attack on Suzhou. Li Shutai only had more than 300 soldiers of the Eight Banners, all of whom were concentrated near the Suzhou Mansion and the warehouse.

At that time, the striker deputy general Lu Zhiyu attacked Suzhou City, and Wu Zhikui thought that it was done and was ecstatic. Unexpectedly, Li led Tai to open the door and kill, and the cavalry rushed back and forth on the street and trampled.

But if Wu Zhikui's soldiers were stronger, the Jianyu cavalry on the narrow streets would die a miserable death. But the result of the battle was that Lu Zhiyu was beheaded and the striker was defeated.

In addition to the Sichuan long sword soldiers and the 500 reinforcements from Jinshan Weilai, Wu Zhikui's naval division combat effectiveness was very average, and most of them were new troops recruited by nearby Songjiang gentry such as Xia Yunyi and Xie Han. Seeing the defeat of the forward, Wu Zhikui's soldiers were very frightened and retreated by boat.

After the Battle of Suzhou, Wu Zhikui retreated to Huangtiandang and was defeated again, and his eldest son Wu Ang was martyred. Retreat to Baiyan Harbor and fail for the third time.

The newly recruited army is no match for the Jianju veterans. Wu Zhikui could only retreat to Liuhu, at this time Huang Fei saw that there was a problem with the back road, and the situation around Taihu Lake was not good, so he was forced to retreat and lead troops to join Wu Zhikui.

Jiaxing, Pinghu, Kunshan, and Changshu more than ten cities recovered by the rebels were successively captured by Jianqing, and the situation was instantly bad.

Wu Zhikui grabbed his hair, "I don't understand, what's going on, the green battalion soldiers suddenly became positive." ”

Huang Fei was silent for a while, and said quietly, "Because Hong Chengchou came to Nanjing." ”

Hong Chengchou served as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, and then transferred to the governor of Jiliao, and most of the troops that the Ming army could fight the most served under him.

Chen Zilong looked at Huang Fei, "Huang Shuai, I remember that you were also a subordinate of Hong Wei when he was in Liaodong. ”

Huang Fei gritted his teeth and said, "Hong Chengchou and I are enemies today, and teachers and students will never mention it again." ”

Wu Zhikui was already in chaos, "Hong Chengchou will talk about it later, our problem now is how to deal with Li Chengdong." ”

"There is no other way, assemble the warships, and we will hit the Huangpu River." Huang Fei said coldly, "Go through the Yangtze River and go to Zhoushan." ”

Chen Zilong said anxiously: "You have so many big boats, they have opened dozens of miles long on the Huangpu River, and the river is so narrow that the big ships can't turn around. I have never heard of such a long snake that cannot be echoed by the head and tail of the formation to win the battle. ”

"Scholar's view!" Huang Fei suddenly broke out, "Come on, throw this poor sour cuolet out." ”

Two wolf-like Dengzhou soldiers came in, and one of them raised one arm and dragged Chen Zilong away. Chen Zilong scolded Huang Fei while struggling, and finally tears couldn't stop flowing.

Huang Fei said to Wu Zhikui faintly: "Brother Shengjia, I remember that you have a young son in the army, how old is it?" ”

"Childish is six years old, why did Huang Shuai ask about this?"

"Your personal general, the one named He Huchen, I look very good. Brother Shengjia, listen to his brother, let him take his children and mother, change into civilian clothes, and hurry to Jinshanwei to find a boat to go to sea. ”

Wu Zhikui was silent for a while, "Huang Shuai, the relationship between me and Jin Shanwei's Hou Chengzu is not harmonious. ”

There was an indescribable sense of vicissitudes in Huang Fei's words, "Brother, when is it, still thinking about those things." Hou Chengzu won't embarrass you, hurry up and let someone take them away. ”

Wu Zhikui knew in his heart that there was only one way to go to Jinshanwei. Tens of thousands of prisoners are in front of Songjiang Mansion, and a few pro-soldiers and generals will definitely not be able to pass to the east with women and children, so it is better to break through with the army.

With a long sigh, Wu Zhikui said, "I understand, thank you Huang Shuai for reminding me." ”

"Thank you." Huang Fei waved his hand and said, "After we leave, Hou Chengzu won't be able to stop him for long in Jinshan." You are his chief soldier, write a letter to persuade him, women and children can't be with us, so send them to Shen Tingyang on Daishan Island. ”

……

At the same time, the Huangpu River, the port of victory.

Wu Shengzhao, the commander of Jianyu Susong, led more than 4,000 troops to Songjiang Mansion and joined forces with Li Chengdong. Near the port of victory, Jianyu had 8,000 strong soldiers.

Li Chengdong arched his hand and smiled a little weirdly, "With the help of the military, we will win this battle." ”

Wu Shengzhao was born in Liaodong, Li Chengdong was born in Ningxia, and the Liao army and the Qin army are quite representative.

Although Wu Shengzhao is one level older, Li Chengdong is not worthy of him at all. The Admiral, that is, the red top, looks good. As the commander-in-chief of Wusong, Li Chengdong has the right to fight independently.

And in Li Chengdong's opinion, Wu Shengzhao's Shandong Green Battalion is not his opponent at all. Because of his extremely outstanding performance, in the context of the surrender of the four towns and the dismissal of the army, Duoduo ordered Li Chengdong to expand the army on his own, and the number of troops was given to 5,000, which was more than Wu Shengzhao, the commander.

Wu Shengzhao also understood in his heart that Li Chengdong didn't take himself as a commander seriously.

Hong Chengchou, a scholar of Jianyu Inner Academy, was ordered to appease Jiangnan, and had the right to dispatch and send green battalion soldiers in the jurisdiction.

In terms of background, Li Chengdong was born in the trilateral Qin army of Shaanxi Province started by Hong Chengchou, and in terms of relationship, the green battalion in Jiangnan is all surrendered to the four towns, and most of the backbones are the remnants of Gao Jie, and Li Chengdong's relationship network is much harder than Wu Shengzhao. Wu Shengzhao was also strong in surrendering half a year earlier than Li Chengdong before he got a commander.

Wu Shengzhao politely said to Li Chengdong: "Tingzhen, let's divide the labor, you Tunjiangnan, I Tunjiangbei." Wait for Huang Wuer to come back, we will attack from the north and south, what do you think? ”

Li Chengdong was eager to part with Wu Shengzhao, and immediately smiled: "Obey the orders of the army generals." ”

……

On 6 August, the northerly wind drifted westward.

For Huang Fei, there is no difference between advantages and disadvantages in the downwind and headwind positions in the Huangpu River. The small Huangpu River, even if it is advancing against the current and wind, his fleet cannot turn its head and cannot adjust its formation in battle. Then the current westerly wind will help him break through with the wind.

Huang Fei's soldiers were strong, and he took the lead, the general Xue Quji was the vanguard of the whole army, the general Hu Xuehai and Huang Guangzhi followed Huang Fei in turn, and Wu Zhikui was the rear guard of the whole army. All the ships set up their tents, and the archers and bird-bearers climbed the oars to keep watch out for the outside world.

Near the port of victory, Li Chengdong lifted the reeds covering the muzzle of the cannon and personally fired the first shot. The smoke of gunpowder was filled, and on the ten-mile-long front, the whole line was opened fire.

Huang Fei's warship, which had 200 Fran cannons, immediately returned fire. In the artillery battle, Li Chengdong and Wu Shengzhao gradually gained the upper hand, and the ground artillery positions were covered by civil fortifications. Huang Fei's warship has a large side projection, and the planks are also made of pine and fir wood, so it has suffered heavy losses from ground guns.

In the rumbling cannon, Huang Fei loudly ordered his own soldiers, "Take a small boat and tell Xue Quji, don't care about the back, and rush forward with all your might!" ”

……

Li Chengdong saw that the light of fire could not stop Huang Fei's fleet, and nodded to Du Yonghe, "Let's start." ”

Du Yonghe lit five cupola cannons and signaled to the whole army.

More than 100 small sampans rushed out of the Huangpu River's bays and tributaries, and soon joined Huang's warships. The arson boat set fire to the Ming warship, and the soldiers on fire jumped into the Huangpu River screaming. The hand-to-hand infantry threw on their heavy armor and climbed onto the deck of the Ming warship. Often, as long as three or four heavily armored soldiers go up, they can set off a bloody storm on the ship.

Huang Fei's eyes were split, and this kind of chaotic battle in a disorderly manner exposed the weakness of his sailor. If it is at sea, no, even if it is the Yangtze River, these soldiers of Li Chengdong are not enough to fight Huang Fei at all. However, who made Huang Fei listen to Zheng Zhilong, lead troops into Taihu Lake, and make an appointment to fight back against Jiangnan together?

It's been more than two months, and the Min army can't see any shadow at all.

The 20,000 Liaohai Mariners and their families were confined in the small Huangpu River and fell into such a difficult situation.

Huang Fei's boat already has dozens of severed fingers. Those were all the fingers of the green battalion soldiers who were chopped off by Tang Shirong and tried to climb the bulwark.

The hopes of the whole army are pinned on the forward Xue Quji. Xue Qu rushed through the encirclement, leaving behind the artillery positions of Jianyu, and the Yangtze River was already in sight.

Li Chengdong changed color slightly, could it be that the boiled duck is going to fly? Although Li Chengdong recently asked Du Yonghe to train the soldiers in inland river boat warfare, and now he has taken advantage of the geographical advantage, it seems that he is still not strong enough and has to be trained. Mixed in the south, there will be no water war and no future.

Huang Fei's joy was quickly extinguished by God. Li Chengdong dragged on long enough. In the afternoon, the tide receded, and the water level of the Huangpu River also dropped.

Huang Fei's warships were even more ineffective, and dozens of ships immediately ran aground. To add insult to injury, the wind direction changed from northwest to northeasterly. The channel of the Huangpu River lost its wind power at the angle of the ban on sailing ships, and only relied on the current, and the Ming army immediately lost most of its kinetic energy to break through the encirclement.

Wu Shengzhao of Jiangbei was overjoyed and threw in all the reserves.

Li Chengdong also came out of hiding. On the Huangpu River, some warships of the Ming army turned around and tried to return to Taihu Lake by the northeast wind.

The river wind blew the red daku, there was no need for a telescope, and the miles before and after the port of victory were full of burning Ming warships, and the pillars of smoke rose into the sky, and more and more Ming troops abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui's boat was surrounded.

Huang Fei's wife said goodbye to her husband, and more than 30 people of all ages jumped into the Huangpu River. But the water was so shallow that Li Chengdong's soldiers could easily hook Huang Fei's family out of the water.

Li Chengdong said to Du Yonghe: "You go quickly and save Huang Fei's family." ”

Du Yonghe was a little surprised, "Zongzhen, I don't think Huang Fei will fall." ”

"I don't care if he surrenders or not, but I want to recruit his soldiers, and I can't kill his family."

"Yes."

The same scene happened on the warships of Xue Quji, Tang Shirong and others.

Wu Zhikui's wife, Mrs. Fan, killed herself with a knife, and her family obeyed it.

The last moment came, Li Chengdong surrounded Huang Fei, and Wu Shengzhao surrounded Wu Zhikui. Huang Fei refused to surrender, fought to the last of his strength, and was captured. Wu Zhikui had 100 Sichuan soldiers on board, and under the leadership of his own general Wang Ming, they resisted desperately.

Since Huang Fei and Wu Zhikui attracted the attention of most of the green battalion soldiers, Wu Zhikui's ship was quite combative. The general soldiers Hu Xuehai and Huang Guangzhi, the second sons of the generals Ge Yongen, Li Jia, and Wu Zhikui, Wu Yongsi, and a considerable part of the Jinshan Guard, thousands of people were able to turn around and withdraw to Taihu Lake and escape from the Shura Field in Deshenggang.

……

A day later, Jin Shanwei.

The hereditary commander and the same acquaintance Hou Chengzu silently read the letter of the general soldier Wu Zhikui. In the letter, Wu Zhikui apologized to Hou Chengzu, admitted that the last dispute was his own, and asked Hou Chengzu to take care of his family.

Hou Chengzu burst into tears.

Before Wu Zhikui sent out the troops, he asked He Huchen to escort nearly 100 women and children with a team of personal soldiers to leave the brigade. They walked slowly, arriving at Jinshanwei later than the news of the defeat at Victorious Port.

The wives of all the officers of the Ming army chose to die with their husbands, and Wu Zhikui's concubine Ding was the leader of this team, and she was already crying at this moment.

"Does Mrs. Ding want to go to Fujian?" Hou Chengzu wiped away his tears, "I'm about to send a ship to Fujing, I can take you there along the way." ”

Longwu Tianzi now seems to have some signs of renaissance. The two main armies of Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren, the general soldier of Dinghai, organized by Lu Jianguo, plus tens of thousands of righteous troops, took the three prefectures of Ningshaotai as the rear to stabilize the Qiantang River.

Emperor Longwu sent Huang Dao Zhou Qian to Guangxin, Jiangxi, Yang Wencong Tun Chuzhou, Huang Mingjun Tun Quzhou, Zhu Dadian Jiang Ruolai to guard Jinhua, Lu Ruoteng He Junyao to guard Wenzhou.

plus Zheng Hongkui of Xianxia Pass behind, three lines of defense.

Even, Huang Daozhou was attacking Huizhou, and King Ruichang collected thousands of Xiaoling guards who had been dismissed by Jianyu and launched an attack on Nanjing.

This makes Fukyo look quite safe.

Mrs. Ding didn't want to go to Fujian, "Thank you for waiting for the same knowledge, it's just that the concubine's husband told us to go to Daishan Island." ”

"I'll send a boat right away."

Hou Chengzu sent three ships at the same time, one to Zhoushan, to send Wu Zhikui's family and ask Huang Binqing for help.

One went to Ningbo and asked for help from Lu Jianguo.

One went to Fujing and asked Emperor Longwu for help.

……

Hundreds of Huang Fei's soldiers broke through and arrived in Shanghai. Because Huang Fei Wu Zhikui withdrew his troops, Li Chengdong, who was once close to Wusongkou, transferred the main force to Songjiang Mansion, and Shanghai was still in the hands of the Ming army.

On Chongming Island, Shou Xuan was woken up in his sleep, and when he heard the news of the defeat of Huang Fei's army, he couldn't sleep anymore.

The weather was a little cold, and Hui Xiang got up and put on a coat for Shou Xu.

Seeing Shou Xuan pacing back and forth in the cabin, the woman asked, "What are you thinking?" ”

Shou Xuan raised his head, "Li Chengdong's next target must be Jin Shanwei, I'm thinking about how to save them." ”

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Note: Victory port, "the war side is urgent, the wind stops the ebb and flow". Chance is also inevitable, the Yangtze River is too pitted.