Chapter 129 Cao Yun III

Ding Yi's anxious shout was muffled by the sound of wind and water, and it did not alarm the sleeping Cao Gang in the slightest.

"Bang...... Boom......"

The huge fireboat slammed into the boat moored in the river, making a loud noise. The boat, whose tonnage and equipment were far inferior to those of the fireboat, was suddenly smashed into pieces, and the mast tilted horizontally against the boat, and the damaged boat soon entered the water and was about to sink into the river.

The Cao gang members who stayed on the Cao boat were stunned by the sudden attack, and they didn't realize that they were being attacked until they fell into the icy river, and they were so frightened that they shouted for help.

The loud crash and the subsequent collapse of the mast, the disintegration of the hull, the exclamation of the personnel, and the sound of whirlpool waves woke up the sleeping Cao gang and got up to see what was going on.

The impact did little damage to a sturdy fireship. Crashing into the boat that was in front of it, the fire ship continued to rush downstream.

"Bang...... Boom......"

Another boat was smashed to pieces and drowned at the bottom of the river.

"Get out of the way...... Get out of the way,......" shouted in panic as they came to their senses, hoping that the boats downstream would be able to avoid the impact of the giant beast on the river.

The fire on the fireship was even more vigorous, and the sails were full of wind, and the rising and cooing gave the fireship endless power.

After breaking through the two lines of defense, the speed of the fireship did not decrease at all, and it still rushed downstream at high speed.

"No ......"

In the desperate eyes and exclamations of the Cao Gang, the fire boat went on a rampage, and soon through the obstruction laid by the Cao Gang with the Cao Gang, only the broken ship planks, wooden barrels and the struggling and surviving Cao Ding were left on the river.

The "Bang ......" fireboat fearlessly crashed into the first barrage.

The huge impact caused the fire ship to be stunned, the bow of the ship was broken by a large piece, a huge crack appeared below the waterline, and the river swirled into it.

Everyone in the Cao Gang looked at the big ship caught in the fire with hatred, and they were shocked, angry and hateful. Who dares to be so presumptuous and provoke the Cao Gang?

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Shi Xuanwei held a monocular, followed the trail of the fire ship all the way, and shouted "Okay...... Joyfully...... That's great......" as he danced and stomped his feet.

When the fireboat touched the barrage lock and was stopped, Shi Xuanwei reluctantly put down the binoculars and muttered: "The clairvoyance issued by the boss is really amazing...... Zheng Zhilong's fireship tactics are also okay......"

"Sons, get ready, it's time for us to show off our skills......" Shi Xuanwei put down his binoculars and ordered loudly: "Only dead enemies are good enemies." Those who stand in our way will die......"

The sailors lined up in a formation and gradually approached Zhu Dadian's position to block the shipping of the Yangtze River.

Getting closer and clearer, Shi Xuanwei even saw the panicked expressions on the faces of the Cao Ding who were running around like headless flies.

The battleship at the front of the "bang...... was the first to open fire.

With such a dense formation of boats, the artillery does not need to aim well at all, as long as they fire in the general direction, they can always hit an unlucky boat.

The fleet passed through Lei Gong Tsui, and the sailors were divided into two, showing two water dragons, surrounding Lei Gong Tsui, and the cannons continued to bombard.

In the face of the Cao Gang, who had almost no power to fight back, Shi Xuanwei did not relent. Nearly 1,000 cannons of the sailors roared together, the roar of artillery, the shock of water waves, the impact of shells hitting targets, the tearing sound caused by the breaking and sinking of the boat, and the panicked and desperate shouts of Caoding...... Together, they weave together into a bloody and spectacular fireworks feast.

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Fan Neng woke up from the gentle countryside and asked in a panic, "What happened?" What happened? ”

No one came in to report for half a day. Fan Neng then remembered that at the latest, he ordered his own soldiers not to enter without permission, so as not to disturb his Yaxing.

Out of the cabin, Fan Neng suddenly fell into despair.

Raging fires raged on the entire Lei Kung Tsui River, and thousands of boats were either shattered by artillery bombardments or ignited raging fires, which were about to turn to ashes.

"Who is it? Who is so bold? Who is it? Fan Neng cried out in pain.

A dark shadow appeared in Fan Neng's line of sight. Before he could react, the cannonball had already hit Fan Neng's head.

The hot cannonball flew out with a great head and continued to splo, slamming into the cabin and sinking deep into the bulkhead.

A cannonball flew and hit the waterline, breaking a hole the size of a basin, and the river swirled into the cabin, and the boat quickly tilted and looked like it was about to sink to the bottom.

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In less than half an hour of shelling, the boats blocking the Yangtze River were almost completely annihilated, sunk and sunk, broken and damaged, and burned......

The river is littered with broken ship fragments, floating corpses, and struggling to survive......

Shi Xuanwei ordered to stop the shelling.

Several sampans crossed the battleship and sailed to the Hengjiang Iron Chain downstream of Lei Gong Tsui.

The sampan burns a reddish iron furnace, and the craftsman scoops up the iron chain and puts it on the stove to burn it red, and then ping-pong hammers it, and the iron chain is broken into two at once.

As concocted, the five cross-river iron cables were quickly cut off, the Yangtze River channel was restored to unimpeded, and the roads for the grain convoy were opened.

Shi Xuanwei gave an order, several warships opened the way, a large number of warships escorted the escort, and the grain convoy passed through Lei Gongzui, leaving behind a desperate and miserable Cao Ding and a mess.

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Zhu Dadian gasped. The development of events was beyond his expectations, Zhu Shunming's courage was beyond his expectations, and the consequences of the incident were beyond Zhu Dadian's expectations.

With the loss of thousands of boats, Chongzhen's seven-year grain task was difficult to complete; More than 10,000 Cao Ding Cao Gang were lost to compensate, calm Cao Ding's anger, and replenish personnel...... Each of them gave Zhu Dadian a headache; suffered such a big loss, if you swallow your anger like this, how can the court deal with it? How do you explain to your subordinates?

Zhu Dadian urgently went to the court and sued Zhu Shunming, the general soldier of Huguang, for ignoring the law, killing innocents indiscriminately, damaging the boats, and sabotaging the transportation, so that the grain could not be transported to the capital in time and in full.

Zhu Dadian pushed the responsibility for the failure of the grain to arrive in Beijing in time to Zhu Shunming.

The loss of tens of thousands of cao boats is actually not a big problem, Zhu Dadian is an old officialdom oil, so he naturally knows the seriousness of the matter. As long as the grain arrives in Beijing in time and in sufficient quantity, it is not a big thing.

Pushing the responsibility for the inability of the grain to arrive in Beijing to Zhu Shunming, Zhu Dadian is already shirking responsibility. "Look, it's not that I, Zhu Dadian, don't work, but that the second stunned Zhu Shunming killed my people and destroyed my ship, so how can I transport it?"

In addition to complaining to the imperial court and pushing the responsibility for the failure of the grain to arrive in Beijing to Zhu Shunming, Zhu Dadian also had to explain to his tens of thousands of Cao Ding and millions of Cao Gang.

His subordinates were killed, the boat was destroyed, and if Zhu Dadian did not make a tough counterattack, he would definitely make his subordinates deviate from morality. As for the right and wrong of things...... Who cares so much.

Zhu Dadian himself was also full of indignation against Zhu Shunming. is the same Zhu family, why is the surname Zhu embarrassed? Maybe the two families were still a family hundreds of years ago.

Now Zhu Shunming not only has to meddle in the transportation of grain, but also unceremoniously torture and kill his subordinates. Such a slap in the face, if Zhu Dadian doesn't fight back, how will he mix in the Ming Dynasty in the future?