Yuxikou, located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, controls the waterway link between the Yuxi River and the Yangtze River, and is guarded by the army led by Kang Maocai, the marshal of the Mengyuan Water Army.

Kang Mao is only in his forties, he is a native of Qi County, Hubei, Xu Shouhui raised troops to protect the territory and the people, led the army to conquer Jiujiang and Huanglianzhai, and rose all the way, from the chief (local official name), to pacify, and gradually promoted to the marshal of the naval army, and made great contributions to Meng Yuan's extermination of the Tianwan Red Turban Army.

The Tianwan Red Turban Military regime has basically been wiped out, and Kang Maocai's army went down the Yangtze River to encircle and suppress the Qingfeng Red Turban Army.

Under the joint attack of Wu Liuqi, Yang Xu, and Jiao Lu, Yuxikou had no room to fight back at all.

Hanshan, Hezhou, and Chaoxian have all been lost, and the Yuxi Estuary, which is a few square kilometers away, is located in the north of Yuxi River and east of the Yangtze River, so it cannot be defended at all, and there is no need to defend it.

Kang Maocai led more than 1,000 naval warships, abandoned Yuxikou into the Yangtze River, retreated more than ten miles to the north, and refused to defend Sancun Island in the bay of the Yangtze River.

Sancun Island is a long and narrow island on the Yangtze River that is four miles wide from east to west and more than ten miles long from north to south. Sancun Island lies across the Yangtze River, and the waterways on both sides of the island are narrow, among which the waterways on the south side of the island are relatively wide, and the narrowest river surface is less than three miles wide.

Kang Mao has more than 1,000 naval warships, to contain this island, to control the right to govern this section of the river, Hezhou is the only mouth of the Qingfeng Red Turban Army, to hold Sancun Island, the Red Turban Army will not be able to build ships on the Yangtze River, and will not be able to cross the river to the east of the river!

Kang Maocai ignored a point, Hao Ren actually built a ship on the north bank of Chaohu Lake within a radius of hundreds of miles, while he abandoned the Yuxi River, the Qingfeng Red Turban Army divided the water and land armies, along the Yuxi River, straight down the Yangtze River, within a day, seven or eight hundred large and small ships were already lined up in front of Sancun Island.

Hao Ren's naval vessels, most of which belong to the fishing boats on the water of Chaohu Lake, only a very small part, are the warships of Chen Yexian, who captured the naval army Wanhu Chen Yexian when he attacked Chaoxian, there are so many twenty or thirty ships, and those that can put one or two cannons on them are all big ships.

However, Hao Ren had five large ships, which were indeed tall, and three were semi-finished products that were captured and repaired by craftsmen. The three ships are basically the same shape, with ten guns on both sides of the ship, one gun in the bow and one in the stern, named Tonghai, Tongyuan, and Tongyuan respectively.

The other two are built on the water's edge of Luzhou according to Hao Ren's drawings, with a width of three zhang, a length of fifteen zhang, a height of two zhang, no oars, three sails in the bow, under the cabin, powered by pedal turbines, two floors on the deck, two sides of the first floor, twenty muzzles, two sides of the second floor, sixteen muzzles, above the second floor, a wooden female wall, four catapults, and two hundred archers.

The two warships were named Shouzhou and Luzhou respectively. Among them, Shouzhou is the flagship of Hao Ren, and Luzhou is the warship of the naval army Wanhu Yu Tonghai.

Kang Maocai faced the water army that emerged from the flat ground, Kang Mao did not dare to slack off, and only by destroying this water army could he grasp the power to govern the river and order the army to attack!

Hao Ren saw hundreds of warships rushing towards him, and hurriedly lined up the five warships, with the port side outward, waiting for the enemy to approach, and with an order, the guns on the battleships exploded one after another, and in an instant, Kang Maocai's naval warships were sunk more than 20 ships!

Kang Mao saw that the Red Turban Army had strong firepower, and if he continued to fight, he could only increase his losses, so he abandoned Sancun Island and continued to go north along the river.

Hao Ren refused to let him go, the existence of Kang Maocai's navy was a threat to the Red Turban Army's navy, the Red Turban Army went upstream, and Kang Maocai threatened the safety of the rear wing.

"Raise the sails! Pursuit! ”

For a time, the sails of the five large ships were raised, and with the help of the wind and manpower, the five large ships were like sharp swords off the string, and they thought that the enemy fleet would rush away, and within a quarter of an hour, more than 20 enemy ships were sunk.

Kang Maocai was so anxious that he scratched off a piece of his scalp!

Hundreds of miles upstream and downstream of the Yangtze River, only Kang Maocai, a powerful naval army, was chased and beaten by five Red Turban warships, the speed is not as fast as others, and the firepower is not as fierce as others.

Kang Maocai ran for more than 20 miles, and felt that he couldn't run away, so he simply leaned on Jiangdong and abandoned the ship to go ashore.

You can't want a boat, and you can't want the lives of the soldiers brought out of your hometown!

When Hao Ren saw Meng Yuan's navy coming ashore, he did not pursue, but only gathered Kang Maocai's ship and went to the west bank to load the infantry that had been waiting for a long time.

The purpose of Hao Ren's operation this time was Anqing, which was 300 miles away from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River.

Sancun Island is more than 20 miles in circumference, the Yangtze River rice on both sides is relatively narrow, with the Qingfeng army's three-pounder artillery, enough to block the river on both sides, Hao Ren's water army to attack upstream, block the Yangtze River, and also block the threat of the back.

"Wu Liuqi, Wanhu of the Right Army, orders you to command the men and horses of the headquarters, and half of the Red Turban Army with heavy weapons, and garrison Sancun Island, and do not allow a ship carrying a Mengyuan soldier to pass!" Hao Ren summoned Wu Liuqi and ordered.

"The last general commands!" Wu Liuqi was very helpless, this time he was fighting and didn't take him to play. His right army is ten thousand households, good at defense, not good at siege, two major battles, both are dangerous for the right army, and also belong to the right army with heavy casualties.

"I will leave you the Tongyuan and a hundred warships to ensure the safety of Hezhou on the water, remember, it is currently on the water, it is necessary to ensure that the gunpowder is dry and does not get wet!" Hao Ren admonished again.

"The last general will obey the teachings of the governor!"

A flat river boat went down the river and went down the waterfront on the south side of Sancun Island, and the eight-sided sun flag of the Mengyuan court was hung on the top of the boat.

"Let them lean over and check!" Hao Ren ordered.

"Hey! That flat-bottomed riverboat, come here! The guard shouted for a long time, but the ship refused to dock.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

Two shells hit the front of the speeding cargo ship, splashing a huge column of water, and the guard shouted: "If you don't come closer, our artillery will sink you!" ”

The cargo ship remained indifferent, and just accelerated along the river.

"Let the Tongyuan stop him!" Hao Ren waved his hand, the guards on the shore waved the flag, and the Tongyuan rushed away, and in a moment, the cargo ship was forced to stop on the south shore of Sancun Island, and a Mengyuan seven-rank civil official was taken off the ship.

The civil official's name was Li Lang, and he was the general judge of Anqing. Anqing Road has a bumper harvest of summer grain, Yu Que sent Li Lang to check the situation of the Yangtze River waterway, and prepare to transport the tribute rice of the imperial court down the Yangtze River, through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, to the capital of Yuan.

Hao Ren was unceremonious, and even the people and the boat were all detained, along with tens of thousands of stones of white rice on the ship.

Blocking the Yangtze River, for Qingfeng Army, there is a profitable deal.

Huguang, Jiangxi, Sichuan tribute rice, are down the Yangtze River, take the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal or the sea route, to transport grain to Dadu, Hezhou Sancun Island, is the only way, Hao Ren blocked the Yangtze River, how much grain was transported downstream, all of them were his.

Now that this section of the river has been controlled by the Red Turban Army, how much money has it cost and how much heart has it wasted? Passing ships, you have to pay some taxes! (To be continued.) )