That night, Yang Tingjian interrogated Duan Ren overnight;

"Duan Ren, your family is still in Wan Shun's hands, do you want to save your family."

Of course, Yang Tingjian knew that these water thieves were not afraid of death at all, but afraid of affecting their families.

"Adult, if you are willing to let go of the little family, the little one is willing to lead the way for the adult."

"Okay, I guarantee that your family is fine, and at the same time give you a thousand taels of silver after this matter is over, an innocent identity, go find a place by yourself, buy some good land and live comfortably for a lifetime, are you willing."

"My lord, you didn't lie to the little one."

"Duan Ren, you should know who this official is, is it necessary to lie to you?"

"Okay, the little one will do this for the adults with all their might."

"Okay, quickly untie Duan Ren, change into clean clothes, and go to Hangzhou to settle their family by the way."

He had his own soldiers to carry out Yang Tingjian's orders.

The next day, in the morning, on the Gaoyou Wharf, thousands of sails set off in unison, which can be described as spectacular. There were more than 20 soldiers on each boat, none of them wore armor, only seven or eight muskets, and the rest were cold weapons, and they also carried dozens of large bamboo tubes, which made people unable to understand why they came.

This water battle without armor is Yang Tingjian's separate request, in case he falls into the water while wearing armor, it will be the scale falling to the bottom and not being able to float.

Countless Gaoyou people on the shore are watching, talking about it, such a big movement, it is impossible not to leak the news, and it is normal for water thieves to find the official army, but the silver has an advantage that it will not disappear, unlike paper money, you can burn it, this silver can't.

"I don't know if this government can beat those tens of thousands of water thieves this time, I think they are almost all recruits, and they are a bit hanging."

"Don't you know that it was the invincible Yang Tingjian who led the army? I think the water thief who will kill will flee from the wind. ”

"I hope so. But Lord Yang is only invincible in land battles, but he has never heard of commanding a sailor. ”

Yang Tingjian took more than 1,000 pirate ships and more than 30,000 recruits, including more than 10,000 pirates, and under the watchful eyes of the people of Gaoyou, he drove mightily towards the island where the jute pole was entrenched. Manshan Island drove in.

This Manshan Island is one of the largest islands in Gaoyou Lake, with an area of more than 10 square kilometers, and there are nearly 20,000 water thieves on jute poles.

Duan Ren wore a face towel on his head, leaving only a pair of eyes to come out and stand beside Yang Tingjian. Pointing at the lake.

"My lord, if you walk forward for an hour, you can see Manshan Island, and our sea ships can only stop two miles away from the island, otherwise they will run aground."

"Well, you are familiar with this channel, so it's up to you to decide! …… The officer sent a hundred ships as the vanguard. ”

Yang Tingjian was not afraid of any conspiracy and trickery that Duan Ren played, and a hundred pioneer ships only accounted for one-tenth of the total strength for Yang Tingjian. And it's all pirates, and these pirates are veterans of water warfare. They shouldn't have to be worse than water thieves.

"My lord, this jute pole is cruel, ruthless, and has a little ability to use soldiers, he has more than a thousand large and small fishing boats under his command, and there are no sea boats. I reckon they will intercept us halfway, but there are no reeds in this large area, and they can't sneak attack, they can only attack. ”

"What I'm waiting for is for him to come out to fight, and the former officials and soldiers have given them too much courage. Arrogance must have capital. ”

"That is, if an adult comes out, the jute stalk will turn into a corpse sooner or later."

The blue waves are rippling, hundreds of boats are competing for the current, Yang Tingjian took more than 1,000 boats of all sizes to ride the wind and waves.

"Newspaper; A large number of unidentified ships were spotted ahead. ”

"Sure enough, it came."

"Order all the ships to line up in a figure-eight formation, go up, and keep watch for the small boats within 500 meters of the big ships on Friday, and if they find the enemy arsonist boats, and blow them up with gunpowder bamboo tubes, and if they find water ghosts, light the gunpowder bamboo tubes and throw them into the water."

Yang Tingjian's order is reasonable, your small boat, Lao Tzu will bombard it with cannons from afar, Yang Ting's identification is not much is the artillery, the small boat hitting the big ship is basically a fire attack, and the one who is in it is a water ghost scuttling.

Yang Tingjian had already thought of these two tricks, and later generations of TVs didn't know how many times they had played ancient naval battles.

Yang Tingjian stood at the bow of the ship and looked out, and the telescope in his hand was specially bought by Tang Lingshan in the hands of maritime merchants and brought to Yang Tingjian.

The black pressure is full of water thief ships, and there are countless small boats loaded with various branches and so on in front of them. Fire attack, right?

"Full speed ahead."

"A thousand meters."

"Eight hundred meters,"

"500 meters"

"Open the gun"

"Boom. Touch...... Touch...... Rumble......"

Hundreds of artillery guns fired at the same time, what kind of effect is that, earth-shattering is not an exaggeration at all, this posture does make the jute pole frightened, but unfortunately the hit rate is not high, countless water columns soared into the sky, but only more than a dozen fishing boats were sunk.

The main reason is that everyone only went to the ship to use artillery, of course the accuracy rate is not high, it would be good to get closer, Yang Tingjian comforted himself;

"The order was given to the brothers to aim and hit me."

"Your Excellency has an order, and you are aiming at it."

Although the artillery of the Jute Pole saw that the artillery of the official army was very strong, the hit rate was poor, and this loss was not a big deal.

The jute stalk pulls out the waist knife

"Set fire to the boat."

Hundreds of fireboats were ignited, and they rushed down the water with thick smoke towards Yang Tingjian's fleet.

Yang Tingjian was not in a hurry, and also pulled out his meteor knife;

"The boat is in battle, and the powder cartridge is ready."

There was no problem for ordinary people to throw this powder cartridge for more than 10 or 20 meters, and more than 100 fireboats ran into Yang Tingjian's more than 100 fishing boats.

Eight people rowed, one at the helm and one at the gunpowder cartridge. The fireboat, which had no counterattack, was in front of the equally nimble small fishing boat, and the result was a continuous sinking of the fireboat.

Countless earth-shattering explosions stirred up countless columns of water that soared into the sky, and the sound of explosions resounded through the sky. Countless planks floated on the water, and the undying jute pole made one last move, and the water ghost scuttled the boat.

Yang Tingjian used a telescope to see clearly on the flagship. The jute pole was now only 300 meters away from Yang Tingjian's fleet.

"Continue firing, prepare the powder cartridges, and if you hear the sound of the ship-gouging, immediately throw the powder cartridges under the ship."

Continue to fire, prepare the powder cartridges, and if you hear the sound of the ship-gouging, immediately throw the powder cartridge under the ship. ”

It seems that Yang Tingjian is preparing a method to fry fish to blow up the water ghost, and the shock wave generated by the explosion of the gunpowder cartridge can definitely make people with a radius of ten meters bleed from their mouths and noses, and their gallbladders and livers were split. At the same time, there are flying pebbles. If you don't die, you have half a life, and there is absolutely no power to scuttle the ship.

"The small boat retreated to a distance of two hundred meters from the big ship, and the shield was guarded, and at the same time the powder cartridge was prepared."

"The small boat retreated to a distance of two hundred meters from the big ship, and the shield was guarded, and at the same time the powder cartridge was prepared."

Jute poles came with thousands of boats desperately charged, and this time more than 400 artillery finally sank more than 100 boats of water thieves, this distance, 300 meters, can not be said in the accuracy of the hit. (To be continued......)