Before the early hours of May 20, when the sky was still dark, by the faint light of the stars, a fleet sailed out of the water camp and sailed north along the canal. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Ren Siqi stood at the bow of the boat, looking through the night sky, looking north, along the canal to the north with a string of lakes, where the camp of the Qing army's sailors. Before evacuating Yangzhou, it was necessary to eliminate the Manchu Qingshui army in order to ensure an undisturbed retreat.

The Qing army's naval army was divided into two branches, north and south, with two or three hundred ships and 10,000 sailors on each scale, and firmly blocked the Daishan water army in Yangzhou. In the month of defending the city, the Daishan water army and the Qing army fought day after day, the purpose was to seize control of the canal, and the supplies of Yangzhou City came from all over the south of the Yangtze River, so the Qing army in the south was the key target.

Under the continuous attack of the Daishan Water Army, the Qing Southern Naval Division suffered heavy losses, and was later forced to hide in some river forks, relying on the protection of the Qing Army on the land to escape the fighting, and the control of the southern section of the canal was given to the Yangzhou Water Army.

For the Qing army in the north, because there is no need to supply through the area under their control, the Daishan water army has not paid much attention, but now, if you want to evacuate safely, you must defeat this water army.

The sentinel ship had already found out the location of the Qingshui Army, which was twenty miles to the north.

Twenty miles of water, rowing takes an hour, when the sky is slightly bright, Ren Siqi led the Daishan water army to finally arrive at Ailing Lake, which is a lake with an area of thousands of acres by the canal, and it is a good place to train the navy in the rippling reeds.

Seeing the Yangzhou naval army attacking, the Qing army on the arrow tower on the canal blew a terrible whistle, and the whole lake was in chaos.

The waterway at the junction between the lake and the canal is about 100 zhang wide, and a long fence blocks the entrance to the lake, leaving only a three-zhang wide gateway in the middle.

One hundred gunboats of the Daishan Water Army lined up on the canal, and the hundred cannons fired in unison, blasting towards the gate of the Qing army's water village, and in an instant, the wooden fence wall was blown into sawdust and fell down.

Countless Qing soldiers rushed out of the barracks and bent bows and arrows at the Ming boat in the canal on the riverbank, and the arrows rained down on the bow of the Daishan Water Army, but they were blocked by the guard plate placed on the boat.

Another round of artillery bombardment, a large part of the Qing army's walled wall was blown away, and the gate to the lake was opened. The one hundred and fifty clippers behind the gunboats rowed like arrows into the lake. However, a hundred gunboats turned their guns and began to bombard the Qing troops on the shore who were shooting arrows into the river, and one after another shells fell on the array of Qing archers, smashing them into chickens and dogs. The gunboats approached the shore even more, refitting scattered shell attacks, each cannon was a barrage composed of hundreds of projectiles covering a foot wide, and in an instant, a large number of Qing archers fell.

The Daishan clipper, which rushed into the lake, began to attack sharply, flying dragons, 10,000 enemies, and fire oil canisters, throwing them at all the ships in their path.

Because the Ming army attacked too suddenly, many Qing troops slept in the camp and suddenly woke up and did not have time to get on the boat, hundreds of ships were moored on the shore of the lake, and more than 10,000 sailors were camped on the shore, and the newly formed sailor soldiers were not used to sleeping on the boats at all.

When the attack came suddenly, the entire Qing army camp was in chaos, and since the camp was established, they had not been attacked by the Yangzhou navy. And their main general, Gongshun Wang Kong Youde, is just two swords, and he doesn't know much about the navy, but he was a navy for a period of time when he was under Mao Wenlong in Dongjiang Town.

In Kong Youde's opinion, the walled wall was enough to block the bows and arrows of the Ming army, and the 2,000 archers placed by the canal cooperated with the wall, and any enemy army who tried to attack the water village could not escape.

However, he didn't take into account that there were artillery on the ships of the Yangzhou navy, because the river boats were not as small as the sea boats, especially the ships in the canal, not to mention the small size of the boats, they were all flat-bottomed boats, and most of them were hundreds of small boats that could not be compared with the sea boats, and they could not place heavy artillery at all, so the firearms on the ship were some firearms, bowls, etc., and the more than 1,000 catties of Francophone guns could not be installed, otherwise the strong vibration of the artillery when the guns fired could shake the ships apart.

In fact, the Qing army had seen the original artillery of the Daishan army, but Kong Youde naively thought that this kind of small cannon could not break through the wall of the Qing army, and the Daishan army had always been the opponent of the Qingshui army on the canal in the south, and had never attacked this camp, which made Kong Youde a little careless.

Kong Youde rushed out of the sleeping tent and looked into the lake, where he saw hundreds of Ming ships setting fire to the lake, and countless Qing warships were on fire. At the mouth of the lake, more Ming ships poured into the lake, which were the Daishan gunboats that repelled the Qing archers.

The rumbling of cannons and the sound of musket fire rang out, and the whole lake burst into flames.

Finished! Kong Youde felt that the world was spinning, and the navy army that had been trained for a month was over, how to explain to Prince Yu?

Looking at the Qing soldiers rushing on the shore, Ren Siqi felt unbelievable, and he won like this! It's too easy, isn't it?

All night before departure, Ren Siqi did not sleep, and Li Yanzhi and other staff members calculated a plan to attack the Qing army's naval army, in addition to the artillery attack, and formulated several backup plans, including using a gunpowder boat to forcibly arrive under the Qing army's walled gate and ignite it, smashing open the Qing army's walled gate. and sent 2,000 infantry to land, flank and storm the Qing army camp by land and water.

But I didn't expect the Qing army's garrison to be so lax, and the walled gate was so weak, just two rounds of artillery bombardment blew up the Qing army's wall, and then it was simple, and it was easy to rush in directly to attack the unsuspecting enemy ships.

The sky was bright, and the Daishan Water Army, which had ravaged the entire lake, finally left with great strength, leaving behind the devastated and debris of the Qing army's naval camp. More than 200 ships were burned by the Ming army, and the hard work of a month was ruined.

Kong Youde wanted to cry without tears, standing by the lake, looking at the wreckage of the warship in the lake and grieving. What gave him a little comfort was that the loss of personnel was not too great, and the purpose of the Ming army seemed to be to rush at the warship, and did not specifically attack the Qing soldiers camping on the shore.

As long as the people are still there, as for the boats, send people to the four fields to rob them, the southern water towns, the most important thing is the boat!

With the victorious division, Ren Siqi returned to Yangzhou at noon, and as soon as he got off the warship, he got a bad news, the civilian fleet evacuating along the canal to the Yangtze River was intercepted by the Qing army, almost all the troops were annihilated, and the superintendent Shi Kefa was captured! (To be continued.) )