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Two wooden pillars, one large and one small, are located in the narrowest part of the waterway at the mouth of the lake, and there is not only a statue of a cannon, but also a high watchtower. Although it is made of wood, it gives the impression of an island in the middle of a lake when viewed from a distance.

Chen Ming has little knowledge, and when he saw Mu Yan for the first time, his eyes were stupid. It's hard to believe that the Qing army can come up with such a thing.

This also highlights the true level of his historical novice from the side. When it comes to some major events, I remember them clearly, but I don't know what happened to them.

Around the wooden flute, there are also warships of the Qing army docked. Two wooden rings, one large and one small, together with dozens of boats around it, this is the lake mouth water card.

Use a telescope to look at Jiujiang Mansion on the other side of the lake. You can clearly see the wooden city of Meijiazhou on the opposite bank. It's actually a high-profile camp. As long as it is still made of wood, everything will be easy for Chen Ming.

Of course, the prerequisite for Chen Ming to solve it was to be able to transport the artillery to the west bank.

In front of Chen Ming, at the mouth of the lake, more than 1,000 green battalion soldiers captured in the battle of Hukou were being driven to build artillery positions. On the wooden pole in the center of the waterway, the artillery shells of the Qing soldiers came one after another, but they all fell on the shore and in the water.

Even if a cannon can be installed on the wooden gun, can the Qing army still install the general's cannon? It's just a small cannon under a thousand pounds. The firing range was under the five-pound cannon of the Fu Han army, and the artillery team of the Fu Han army could build a position outside the range of the Qing artillery, and then bombard the wooden gun with complete safety.

Therefore, Chen Ming never took the threat of the Hukou water card seriously.

The surface ships he had at hand were powerless against the Qing army camp on the west bank of the lake, and these ships alone could not do anything against the Hukou water jam, but the artillery team of the Fu Han army was completely able to clean up the Hukou water jam on land.

"It's too late to hit Nanchang. Huang Zhenggang has entered the Luzhou Mansion. Chen Ming continued to look at Mu Yan with a telescope, sighing at the urgency of time. Rush for time!

Where is Luzhou Mansion? Luzhou Mansion is the Hefei of the later generations, only 350 miles away from Anqing.

Although Chen Ming wants to fight Anqing, he can reach it in one day from the mouth of the lake if he goes down the river.

But if the Qing army wants to reach Anqing, no matter how slow it is, it won't take ten days.

Chen Ming decided to spend five days to clear the Jiujiang River, which had taken him four days to clear the small hills one after another at the mouth of the lake, which was too long. Now it took five days to sweep Jiujiang Mansion, leaving a part of the troops to garrison Jiujiang and Hukou, and the large army launched a surprise attack on Anqing when it was about to welcome the defenders. Chen Ming felt that this might make the defenders of Anqing feel confused, and he could catch the defenders of Anqing off guard.

Otherwise, the Fu Han army will give up the battle for Jiujiang now and immediately go to Anqing.

This should be the last thing the Qing army wants to see. Anqing, who was guarding the emptiness, and Jiujiang, who was making every effort to strengthen the city's defense, the heads of Jiangning City, obviously wanted to see Chen Ming smash Jiujiang Mansion to the death.

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"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillery battle began around midnight. At the same time, the surface warships of the Fu Han army assembled outside the mouth of the lake. After the capture of the three towns of Wuhan, and a series of battles in Huangzhou, Qizhou, and Madao Town, how many surface warships did Chen Ming have? How many sailors did he have under him? Even he couldn't tell.

Anyway, there were more than 1,200 ships in the entire Fuhan army, and at least half of them could be used for battle. It's just that the number of boatmen and sailors is not so large, and there are only one or two hundred ships that are really used by Chen Ming as warships.

For the huge number of 1,200, 1,200 ships is a fraction. In particular, these 200 ships have to be divided into a part of the large force guarding the Yangtze River waterway. But when hundreds of boats were all gathered on the river outside the mouth of the lake, they were also black and oppressive, like a black cloud.

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On the west bank of the lake, the Dawang Temple in Meijiazhou is the nearest wooden city of the Qing army.

The geographical location of Dawang Temple is very superior, the wooden city stands here, the upper can resist the attack from the Yangtze River waterway, the lower can cover the back of Meijiazhou, and it is only a short two miles away from the waterfront of the lake, which can be used as the backing of the water card.

If the Fu Han army was like the Taiping army, all the artillery was captured to the Qing army, and the Jiangxi political envoy Yi arranged it like this. It's a pity that the quality of the firearms of the Fu Han army is far better than that of the Qing army, and now many people in the world know that the armor of the Fu Han army is sharp, and the firearms are even sharper.

However, he turned a deaf ear and insisted on setting up a wooden pole in the center of the mouth of the lake and arranging heavy troops. Wu Shaoshi, the governor of Jiangxi, is a peace officer who treats his colleagues well, maybe the heel he planted back then was too ruthless - he served in the military station and promised to redeem himself with his mother's illness, or was this governor too deeply influenced by the idea of moderation? Anyway, it's a non-offense to treat colleagues.

So you can do whatever you want.

He teamed up with Shu Shan, the superintendent of Jiujiang Pass [the one who took over the Jingdezhen Governor after Jiao Qi], Huang Zhaolong, the governor of Jiujiang Prefecture, and the general soldiers of Jiujiang Town and Nangan Town, and others, and really emptied the treasury of Jiangxi.

Wu Shaoshi turned a blind eye and turned a deaf ear, and his heart was big enough. However, this person's inaction is a little inaction, and he can't stop him from having two good sons, the eldest son Wu Yuan is already the right servant of the Han Department of the Criminal Department, and the second son Wu Tan was just promoted to the political envoy of Jiangsu last year.

In Chinese history, it is not uncommon for a father and son to be court officials at the same time, but the father and son have successively served as governors and chamberlains, and they have studied criminal law and served in the criminal department, which is rare in the world.

"The bandits are rampant, and the whole province of Henan and Hubei is erosive. Today, the military disaster has affected Jiangxi Province, and Wu Zhongcheng [Governor] is not good at using troops and is at a loss for scheduling; The military generals below the town are capable of plundering, and when they encounter thieves, they are cowardly, and they are repeatedly defeated in battle. State affairs are difficult...... "The governor of the provinces of the Qing Dynasty is also the title of the right capital, so the governor is also called Zhongcheng."

Not all people are blind. Yiyi set up a water card in the lake, so that the artillery and water divisions would not waste money and materials, and the general brigade was in danger, and there were more people who couldn't look down on it. For example, Xie Hu, the first county of Jiujiang Prefecture, Dehua Zhi County, hated this matter. If you want to hold the silver, you can hold it, the Qing Dynasty is based on this rule, and there are few real Qing officials in the world. But you can't afford to get down to business, can you? What are you doing by throwing the artillery and warships, which are the support of the Qing army to garrison Jiujiang, on the wooden fire? It was all given to the rebels for free.

How good would it be to reinforce all these soldiers and artillery on the West Bank positions??

At the head of the wooden city of Meijiazhou Dawang Temple, Xie Hu and Zheng Wenzhi, the general of the Jiujiang Association who guarded the town, looked at the large and small wooden flutes filled with gunsmoke, and their faces were full of regret. If it weren't for the nonsense, so much wood and cannons, and so much manpower, two wooden cities could be built on the west bank.

You must know that since the start of the war in Henan, there have been so many Qing army transfers before and after, and not all the military salaries required have been allocated by Beijing. Some of them were taken directly from the provincial vassals. For example, the transfer of the Qing army in Liangjiang, such as the transfer of the Qing army in Hubei.

Now Henan is erosive, Hubei is erosive, Jiangxi's arrangement in Jiujiang and Hukou is all about the money and grain in the province, if this battle is lost, Hukou is controlled by the Fu Han army, and the grain and salary channel between Jiangxi and Jiangnan and Huguang will be broken. With the now empty Jiangxi Domain, how did Wu Shaoshi reorganize the military and recruit the people to fight Ding Yong?

What these people are doing now is to send Jiangxi to a dead end. If they can keep Jiujiang from being lost, it will be fine, otherwise Jiangxi is afraid that the whole province will be eroded.

Xie Hu's eyes flashed with hatred, this bastard of righteousness, he couldn't hide his arrogance when he spoke on weekdays, it seemed that saying a word to his own little magistrate was a great favor, Jiangxi was defeated in his hands, and his blind superiority could not cover his ignorance and vanity. Even, Xie Hu didn't know where Yiyi's high-spirited and firm self-confidence came from.

The current Fu Han Army is not the Chen Jiajun of last summer and autumn? From last year's Rolling River Battle to this year's Wuchang Xialiangjiang River, Chen Ming and the Fu Han Army led by him are really famous in China, Shaanxi Green Battalion, Hunan Zhenxiao soldiers, and the elite soldiers and fierce generals from all over the country don't know how many have been defeated in his hands, where did Yiyi get such great confidence?

Xie Hu was puzzled. But they didn't know that in this heaven and earth, in this Qing Dynasty, there were such ignorant and stubborn people who held real power.

Righteousness is just one of them.

He's blindly confident, he's confident, what can you do with him? He is the political envoy, not Xie Hu, a small county magistrate, who is the political envoy of Jiangxi.

At noon, more than a dozen ships of the Qing army's naval division ran to Meijiazhou in disarray, and the big and small wooden boats were all finished. The artillery of the Qing army could not reach the artillery positions of the Fu Han army on the opposite bank, but the shells of the Fu Han army could easily fall on the big and small wooden dusts.

In order to blast off the big and small wooden bombs as soon as possible, Chen Ming deliberately asked the artillery team to fire hot bombs. The red-hot iron bullets in the furnace left a series of fire marks, ignited powder kegs several times, and set off many large fireworks on the water surface of the lake. If it weren't for the unexpectedly excellent effect of the hot bomb, just these two wooden horns, the Fuhan Army artillery team would have to be busy for a while.

After seeing that the artillery fire of the Fu Han army could hit the wooden flute, even the officers stationed in the wooden flute jumped up and scolded the righteous turtle waves.

Fortunately, they all had good water quality, even if the water surface of the lake mouth was turbulent, there were still a large number of Qing soldiers who swam to the west bank, and then were 'contained' by the Qing army in Meijiazhou. The others followed the boats of the sailor battalion to Poyang Lake, and in the end, only more than a dozen sailor ships were left to 'return' to Jiujiang.

After cleaning up the Hukou water card, the fleet of the Fu Han Army on the river outside the lake mouth swaggered in. With their thin little bodies, they went to fight to the military fortress along the west coast, and they were looking for death. Chen Ming asked them to go straight to Gutang!

Gutang Town is thirty miles away from Jiujiang Fucheng. At the eastern foot of Lushan Mountain, on the shore of Poyang Lake. As one of the four famous towns in Jiangxi, Gutang's economic and trade market is very prosperous and developed. In the first year of Yongzheng, the Qing court set up the Jiujiang Banknote Pass and Gutang Branch here, which was the only golden waterway of Poyang Lake into the Yangtze River, and was a treaty port and commodity distribution center. "There are thousands of people in the day, and there are thousands of lights at night" is a vivid portrayal of the prosperity of Gutang.

At the same time, it is also the southernmost point of the Jiujiang Qing military headquarters' defensive line.

"Tell Yang Shijin not to be careless." Gutang is the southernmost stronghold of the Jiujiang Qing army, after the Hukou water card was broken, the Jiujiang Qing army knew very well where the Fu Han army launched an attack was the most beneficial, and the naval division attacked Gutang not easily without a fight, but would be a bitter battle.

Chen Ming looked at the fleet that was heading south on the water not far away, and the small civilian boats hung up their sails and shook their oars, which was really too low.

Yang Shijin was the commander of this fleet. He was originally a leader in the platoon, originally from Xiangyang, and he and his family were in Yunyang when he was involved in the Fu Han Army. Now that his family has arrived in Ruzhou, Yang Shijin's reliability is guaranteed. Since he was very prestigious among the sailors and boatmen recruited in Yunyang, and he dared to fight, Chen Ming also boldly promoted him. (To be continued.) )