readx; White Lotus Sect Leader Zhu Zijian talked to Shu Yuejing, until Shu Yuejing was angry and he was arrested, and Huang Degong, Weng Yu and others in the secret room could hear it clearly. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoLater, Zhu Zijian gave a face-to-face lecture to the iron-masked man, but he was vague and very mysterious. Although several people stretched out their ears, they only heard the words "Liaodong", "Guangxi", "chicken coop", "Luzon" and so on.

After that, there was a sound of footsteps overhead, thinking that Zhu Zijian and the others had already left the academy. Huang Degong almost couldn't hold back and wanted to kill Zhu Zijian just now, but now he wanted to rush out again, but he was held down by Weng Yu, because the enemy situation outside was unknown, in case the White Lotus Sect hadn't left, it would be all in vain.

It wasn't until more than two hours later, when no movement was heard, that a few people climbed up from the secret room, and saw that the entire academy was empty, and Shu Yuejing and all the students were all captured by the White Lotus Sect. Before, Weng Yu was worried that in addition to Shu Yuejing, there were also a few students who knew that they had come to the academy, and if they confessed, they would have to be arrested. As a result, these students were as loyal and unyielding as their teachers, and none of them spat out, so Huang Degong and them saved the day.

What's next? According to Huang Degong's meaning, the White Lotus Sect Leader came here mostly to search for a few of them, that is to say, Shu Yuejing and the others were arrested because of them, so they must catch up and find an opportunity to rescue Shu Yuejing.

Weng Yu thinks that just a few of them to save people is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg. And the most important thing at the moment is to report the rebels' military intentions to Nanjing as soon as possible, and the other is to escort Shen Lang and the treasure ship back safely. Compared with this, the safety of Shu Yuejing and others can only be placed in the back row. As a general, you must make trade-offs on the battlefield, which is the so-called "small intolerable will make a big plan".

Huang Degong also knew that what Weng Yu said was reasonable, so he had to scold a few words hatefully, and then set off. If they still have carrier pigeons, then as long as they use flying pigeons to pass the book, it will not take a day for the information to be transmitted back to Nanjing. But now that they are trapped behind enemy lines, they have nothing to do, so they have to choose a remote mountain road to trek north, planning to smuggle from the vicinity of Jiujiang to the north bank of the Yangtze River, and return to the area controlled by the official army.

This journey was more than 300 miles long, and they did not dare to walk swaggering during the day, for fear of running into the rebels, so they had to rest in the forest during the day and catch some birds and beasts to eat raw to satisfy their hunger, and only after dusk did they go on the road quickly, and they could only walk thirty or forty miles a day at most. At this rate, I am afraid that they will not be able to cross the river in half a month, and several people can only pray in their hearts that the northeast wind will blow for more time to delay the eastward movement of the rebels as much as possible.

But what they didn't know was that the official army was not waiting for the rabbit in Nanjing. At this moment, a fleet full of sails had arrived near Anqing, only more than 200 miles away from the mouth of Poyang Lake. The flagship three-masted shoulksail was fully opened, and it was speeding southwest with a strong northeast wind. On the bow and stern and the sides of the ship, the muzzles of the black holes are raised to the sky, and the sides of the ships on both sides are painted with bright red paint with three big characters: Weihai; There is also a battle flag hanging high on the top of the middle mast, with six big characters written on it: General Fubo of the Ming Dynasty!

An old general with a white beard and hair was draped all over his body, standing in the bow of the ship in high spirits, raising a monocular to look at the north shore, and after a moment he said majestically: "General Li! ”

"General!" A tall and grim-faced general stepped forward and clasped his fists in salute, and it was Li Yunhao, the captain of the Weihai ship of the Daming North Sea Fleet, who had just annihilated the Korean naval division in the Battle of Phi Island not long ago.

Because the fleet admiral Zheng Sen was ordered to take the flagship Princess Anna to the south, and another battleship purchased from Portugal, the Dingyuan, was responsible for guarding the waters of Dengzhou, and now the largest warship that the North Sea Fleet can dispatch is the Weihai with a displacement of 200 tons. The Weihai was originally an ordinary lucky ship in the Weihai Naval Division, but after more than half a year of refit, it added a crosssail in power, and was equipped with two main guns and twelve broadside guns in terms of firepower, and its combat effectiveness was second to none in the fleet.

And the white-haired old general is not an outsider, it is the father of today's son Zhu Youzhen, the father of Concubine Qi Meifeng, the father of the Zuo Du Governor Dengzhou Weidu, and the commander of Qi Xianzong. He and Li Yunhao were ordered by the emperor to form a mixed formation of naval divisions and land forces with 2,000 Qijia troops and 20 warships of the North Sea Fleet, and rushed to Poyang Lake to attack the rebels.

Zhu Youzhen has always paid close attention to the counterinsurgency war, and it can be said that in the past few days since he returned to the palace, the war has taken up almost all of his energy. The frequent successes on the battlefields of Henan and Nanzhili were all in his expectation, because under the full mobilization, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting were provided with sufficient ammunition and food, and it was strange that they used a large number of advanced firearms to fight the rebels and thieves whose combat effectiveness was not very good.

The only thing that worries him is the Yangtze River. The rebels seized Yueyang and Jiujiang by virtue of their geographical advantage, and the Yueyang direction was better due to the resistance organized by the two vassal kings; However, the Poyang Lake in Jiujiang cut off the Yangtze River, and Zhu Youzhen had already received a report from Tang, knowing that the rebels had a rather powerful naval army, and if the Yangtze River was blocked by the rebels, the connection between Jiangnan and the north would be cut off by the rebels. The current level of food and ammunition supply is close to the limit, and if the rebels cannot be quickly defeated, Zhu Youzhen will really be unable to bear it.

At this time, Li Yunhao won a great victory in the Battle of Phi Island, and soon the information sent by Huang Degong in Poyang Lake was also transferred to Beijing. Wang Zaijin followed the book, saying that the northeast wind is blowing in the Yangtze River basin, and the section of the Yangtze River from Poyang Lake to Nanjing is flowing from the southwest to the northeast. If the south wind blows in the spring, the rebel warships will be able to move down the river to the east, which is extremely difficult to resist, so please make up your mind as soon as possible to attack the mouth of the lake.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen had no troops to send, especially if it was a water war, even if Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting were transferred, it would be useless. But the victory in the Battle of Phi Dao reminded him that why not use the North Sea Fleet? Although the Yangtze River is not the sea, the water surface of Poyang Lake is wide, and the North Sea Fleet, after nearly a year of construction, must be greatly superior to the rebels in terms of firepower.

So Zhu Youzhen immediately sent a message to Dengzhou Feigeon, asking Li Yunhao if he could fight in the Yangtze River, and whether Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, could replenish the ammunition for the fleet as soon as possible. I don't want to fly the pigeon to bring back the secret music after half a day, except for Li Yunhao and Sun Yuanhua who said that there was no problem, the old man Qi Xianzong also resolutely asked for battle!

Zhu Youzhen took into account that Qi Xianzong was already familiar with water warfare and had repelled the Japanese invaders many times, and that the river battle was different from the naval battle after all, and with the assistance of the Qi family's army, the combat effectiveness of the North Sea Fleet would be greatly improved. Moreover, after all, Lee Yunhao is still young, and he is from North Korea, so he is afraid that the government along the way will not cooperate. And Qi Xianzong's status is prominent, and there is definitely no such problem. After weighing it, a decision was finally made, and the edict was issued to appoint Qi Xianzong as General Fubo, commanding the naval and land armies, and Li Yunhao as the deputy general and deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet.

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