The day after receiving the holy decree, Ren Siqi immediately led the whole army to set off, sailing up the river by boat and heading towards Wuhu. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the Daishan army left, the official gentry in Zhenjiang finally breathed a sigh of relief. However, before they had time to celebrate, another even larger fleet came to Zhenjiang, which was the fleet of the Zheng family in Fujian.

More than 500 large and small ships came to Zhenjiang under the leadership of Zheng Hongkui, and they, like the Daishan army, were ordered by King Qin of the imperial court. Of course, due to the long distance in Fujian, they came later than the Daishan army.

The military minutes of Zheng Hongkui's army were much worse than those of the Daishan army, and as soon as they arrived in Zhenjiang, the soldiers of the Zheng family went ashore one after another and began to loot in all directions. If it weren't for the closed gates of Zhenjiang, they would dare to go to the city to rob them.

A tiger walked, and as a result, a group of more ferocious wolves came, and at this moment the prefect of Zhenjiang wanted to cry without tears.

Ren Siqi didn't know what happened after leaving, and at this moment he led the fleet up the river. Both sides of the river bank are lush and green, but there are few ships on the wide river, and few ships are seen except for the Daishan fleet.

However, this can also be understood, hundreds of thousands of troops of Zuo Liangyu's army in the upper reaches are heading down the river, and the Daishan army in the lower reaches has just intercepted passing ships near Zhenjiang, so it is no wonder that there are fewer boats on the river.

When the fleet marched to the vicinity of Nanjing, it saw more ships, but most of them were warships belonging to the Nanjing army.

The three-masted galleon "Princess" had a displacement of 1,000 tons, which was a large ship of 5,000 materials in the parlance of this era. It's already huge in a sea vessel, let alone in the middle of the Yangtze River.

The "Princess" and nine other three-masted sailing ships took the lead, the huge fleet sailed on the Yangtze River, the Ming warships on the south bank of the Yangtze River looked like they were facing a great enemy, and the warships of the Ming army in Nanjing were quite many, but they were all smaller river boats, and they were naturally afraid when they saw the Princess.

Standing on the bow of the boat, you can see the majestic Nanjing city wall on the south bank.

Nanjing City, the capital of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, took more than 20 years from its construction to completion. The circumference is nearly 100 miles, there are a total of outer Guo, Fucheng, imperial city, palace city, and four city walls inside and outside. There is the Qinhuai River as a natural moat in the southwest, and the Yangtze River moat in the northwest.

The spirit of Zhongshan is beautiful, and the tiger is in the south of the Yangtze River. When Taizu set the capital, he claimed to build a heroic city that would never fall.

In fact, the city of Nanjing also deserves this title, if there are 100,000 soldiers defending the city, even if you attack with a million troops, you will not be able to attack the city.

However, the walls will always break from the inside, and no matter how strong and majestic the walls are, they will fall one day. In the end of the Ming Dynasty, the city of Nanjing did not show its solidity. In the past, there was Chengzu Zhu Dijing, and then there were Qing troops who went to the south of the Yangtze River, and Nanjing was captured twice, and the city was broken from the inside.

It wasn't until two hundred years later, when a rebel army took Nanjing as its capital and confronted the Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, that the city of Nanjing really showed its appearance as a strong and majestic city!

Looking at the city wall of Nanjing, Ren Siqi sighed a lot, such a majestic city, if the Southern Ming Dynasty had a little fighting spirit, how could it be easily occupied by the Qing soldiers? If the Southern Ming Dynasty was a little angry, how could it allow more than 100,000 Manchurians to easily seize the country?

The Daishan fleet stopped in Nanjing, mainly to receive grain and grass supplies allocated by the imperial court, and then continued up the river.

Since it is going against the current, the speed of the boat is not very fast. For seagoing ships such as the "Princess", the only power is the sail, whether it is downwind or against the wind, as long as there is wind, it can sail, but if there is no wind, it will be caught blind and can only stop in the river.

Fortunately, in the weather of March and April, the wind was very strong, and although the speed of the boat against the current was slow, it took two days to arrive in Wuhu and meet with the Jingnan Hou Huang Degong Department who had arrived here.

Huang Degong's residence is in Luzhou, Chuzhou, Hezhou, Quanjiao, Lai'an, Hanshan, Jiangpu, Liuhe, Hefei, Chaoxian, Wuwei Prefecture and 11 counties are all under his rule, and the jurisdiction is adjacent to Wuhu on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

However, his soldiers and horses were distributed in various states, and it would take some time to assemble them, and the banks of the Yangtze River in Wuhu were the assembly places of his army.

When the fleet arrived at the Wuhu River, it saw that the boats on the river were constantly coming and going, and the barracks on both sides of the Yangtze River were continuous and the flags were displayed.

Seeing the arrival of the Daishan army fleet, a group of sailors from Huang Degong's department greeted them by boat.

"But the general of Ningbo is the general?" An officer under Huang Degong was led to the deck of the "Princess", forcibly endured the shock in the heart of the huge Princess, and saluted Ren Siqi with fists.

After seeing the ceremony, Ren Siqi learned that he was Li Shun, the chief soldier of the Navy Army under Huang Degong.

Huang Degong has a total of 11 prefectures, more than 40,000 subordinate soldiers, and a total of eight general soldiers, and Li Shun is the general in charge of Huang's naval army. He was able to come to greet him in person, which shows that Huang Degong attaches great importance to Ren Siqi.

Under the leadership of Li Shun, Ren Siqi's fleet was stationed on the south bank of the river, and Ren Siqi took the boat to Huang Degong's camp and personally visited Huang Degong, Marquis of Jingnan.

Huang Degong is over forty years old, tall and burly, with a full beard. Born in the army, he has been on the battlefield for more than ten years and has been active on the battlefield to exterminate the peasant army. wiped out Ma Guangyu, Ge Liyan, King Chuangshi, and the Three Harriers many peasant armies, and even Emperor Zhang Xianzhong of Daxi was beaten by Huang Degong many times and fled, which can be described as a great achievement.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Huang Degong crusaded against Liu Chao, a rebel general, and was named Jingnanbo. Then he was crowned as the Marquis of Jingnan for his meritorious service. He became one of the warlords of the four towns in the north of the Hongguang Dynasty.

In terms of the number of troops, there are few Huang Degong in the four towns, but the combat effectiveness is second to none.

In the face of such a battlefield warrior, Ren Siqi couldn't help but be respectful, and his posture was very low.

"The last general, Ren Siqi, visited the Hou Ye." Ren Siqi clenched his hands into fists and bowed deeply. Although Ren Siqi is now also a general soldier, and he can be regarded as climbing to the pinnacle of military generals, Huang Degong has the position of marquis.

In the Ming Dynasty, the control of the title is very strict, and no knighthood is allowed without military merits. Therefore, even in the troubled times of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the newly crowned titles of the Hongguang Dynasty are just a few people, including the warlords of the four towns in Jiangbei, Huang Degong, Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, and Gao Jie.

In the Ming Dynasty, the titles are divided into three levels, but even the lowest level of earls is very rare, all titles are superb, and their status is higher than that of a first-class scholar. So in front of Huang Degong, Ren Siqi, the chief soldier, is not enough to see at all.

"Hahaha, General Ren is really a young hero. Hurry up and get free. Seeing Ren Siqi's young face, Huang Degong was stunned for a moment and then laughed.

In the big tent, the other generals of the Huang Department also talked about it, looking at Ren Siqi with disdain. The main thing is that Ren Siqi is also too young. At the age of twenty, he climbed to the high position of the general soldier, and he definitely did not come by fighting on the battlefield. How can this convince Huang Degong's subordinates and these battlefield veterans? (To be continued.) )