The south wind is scorching, whistling day and night!

Eight large ships with dozens of small boats sped away towards the unsuspecting Phi Dao.

Phi Dao, founded by Mao Wenlong, the commander of the Dongjiang River, was occupied by the Ming Dynasty ten years ago, and the battles of large and small wars have never stopped. After that, it became the sphere of influence of the Qing Dynasty, and there had been no large-scale battles for five or six years. However, the Great Qing Kingdom attached far more importance to this island than imagined, not only stationed 10,000 sailors, but also had a Zheng He treasure ship and ten red-coated cannons on the island.

These things are like the atomic bombs of modern society, they don't have to be used, they are a deterrent when they are placed there. The name of Phi Dao, deep into the surrounding sea countries, is like thunder, no one dares to fight its idea.

In addition to the strong national strength of the Great Qing Kingdom, there was another important reason, because the general who defended the island was Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun. This man is a battle-hardened man, especially skilled in water warfare.

Phi Island is at the mouth of the Yalu River, it is long and narrow from east to west, about 15 miles long and about 10 miles wide, and it is all bare bedrock, which is not suitable for cultivation and has no grass and trees.

The Qing army did some simple processing on it, built a lot of houses, camps, and garrisons, and there was nothing else before that. It is advertised that there are 10,000 troops on Phi Island, but in fact there are not so many, and the permanent army is only six or seven thousand, but in the event of a war, the navy can be transferred from other surrounding islands at any time, with a total of about 10,000 people.

At this moment, in the mansion of the marshal of Phi Dao, the lights were bright, Geng Zhongming feasted several soldiers who returned from the front line, and said: "The emperor has attacked Jinzhou all the way, and he has besieged the city for more than a month, so the Ming army should not last long, right?" ”

One of them stretched out his hand and drank a large glass of wine, and said: "I heard that there are thieves in the Ming Dynasty, Shanxi and Henan are full of smoke, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are not enough, so Jinzhou has been unable to reinforce for a long time, and I think it should not be able to support for long. ”

The other person was drunk, dared to say anything, and said: "Don't think about it for a while, there are still 6,000 Ming army iron cavalry in Shanhaiguan, besides, this attack on Jinzhou cannot be said to be smooth sailing, we suffered a lot of losses in Dalinghe Juntun before." ”

told the story of how Zhu Changyuan relied on the power of the demon god to defend the city.

Geng Zhongming smiled and said: "I have also heard about this matter, speaking of which Zhu Changyuan is also a talent, not only defended a small military camp with 400 people, but also broke through after His Majesty attacked Jinzhou in the east, and also robbed us of a treasure ship, and then took advantage of the situation to take the Riyue Island where the pirates were entrenched in the south. ”

"This person is not simple!" Several people who had fought face-to-face with Zhu Changyuan all gave a thumbs up.

Geng Zhongming chuckled in his eyes, drank a few glasses of wine, and said with some contempt: "It's just an axe in the class, if it is to defend the city, I may not be able to reach it, but this person is clearly a defensive person, but he abandoned his superior talent, and he has to run to the sea to be a pirate. ”

"Oh!" The general put down the cup in his hand, squinted his eyes and said, "Don't underestimate this guy, the prince is really not an ordinary person!" ”

Geng Zhongming laughed, "Hahaha, what is not an ordinary person, it is nothing more than an opportunistic trick to deceive the treasure ship, and then relying on the Jianli of the treasure ship to capture Sun Moon Island under the surprise of those pirates, you may not have heard that those pirates finally turned against the water and almost killed him, and finally Zheng He's treasure ship was also burned by those pirates, it's a pity, it's a pity!" ”

"The prince thinks that this person can't fight at sea?" The general asked with another glass of wine.

Geng Zhongming shook his head, "Those guys who fought with him are all pirates, just a group of rabble, destroy them, I only need a thousand water masters, don't hide it from the two brothers, because of the sensitivity of this island before, old brother, I coveted it all day long and didn't dare to move my mouth, now it's okay, I'm preparing to give him a tentative attack in the next two days." Hahahaha......"

Geng Zhongming only knew some of Zhu Changyuan's general attack on Sun Moon Island, and there were some less specific details, but he could see clues from them, and concluded that Zhu Changyuan didn't understand water warfare and could be regarded as a talent.

Does Zhu Changyuan really understand water warfare, nonsense, of course rookies don't understand, what he relies on is nothing more than those things that were transported from modern times. But that's enough.

Words to deal with pirates!

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The large and small ships went smoothly, and in one day they arrived at the defensive range of Phi Dao, and when they looked forward from the sea, a small black island was impressively visible, and behind the island was a vast land, and the island and the land were only separated by a water, less than five miles.

This is the estuary of the Yalu River.

Zhu Changyuan ordered someone to stop the sails, and the sea was endless, blue and magnificent like a jewel.

Small warships appeared from the back of the island, which was also expected, after all, it was a large group of people who broke into the military stronghold, and it would be too fake if others didn't find out at all.

The time was almost ten o'clock in the morning, and the naval warships on the opposite side shuttled out from behind the island one by one, and it didn't take long for a big ship to slowly enter Zhu Changyuan's field of vision.

The people on the other side traveled against the wind from north to south with the strength of men and animals, and the speed was extremely slow, but it was extremely regular, which was not the same as the pirates I had seen before.

It's a tough battle.

Zhu Changyuan's eyes narrowed slightly and looked at the other side, what he needed was such a hard battle, the purpose was not to win, but to consume the enemy to the maximum extent and find out the details of the enemy.

The big ship on the opposite side also dropped anchor and stopped, and a tall general with an iron hat on his head walked out of the wide deck, less than a mile away from Zhu Changyuan's ship, but it was impossible to hear the shouting.

"General, this guy is Geng Zhongming, who used to be under General Mao and was a fierce general." Yan Hong pointed to the iron-hatted general standing at the bow of the ship and said.

Geng Zhongming? Hehe, Zhu Changyuan sneered in his heart, isn't it the traitor who was named King Huaishun by Huang Taiji, it's okay to look good, and he looks quite mighty.

Similarly, behind Geng Zhongming, a general leaned on his side, pointed at Zhu Changyuan and said, "Lord Wang, the one standing at the bow of the boat wearing green clothes is Zhu Changyuan, the commander of the Dalinghe Army. ”

This person was in Huang Taiji's army some time ago, participated in the military operation to besiege Zhu Changyuan, and also knew him.

"I saw it, I didn't expect it to be so young. Hehe, this way, I am more confident that I can wash his ship away in one turn. After speaking, he suddenly raised his voice and said to the army behind: "Brothers, I haven't opened meat for a long time, listen to my orders in a while, and let those girls on the other side taste our awesomeness." ”

"Yes!"