A medium-sized boat appeared, it slowly sailed forward, opposite Yan Heng's boat, stopped, Zhou Xin walked up to the bow of the boat and shouted: "General Yan, please come out and answer!" ”

Yan Heng knew Zhou Xin, the governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, he often came to Jiangning to find Zhou Xin in order to urge military food and military salaries, they were very familiar with each other, seeing Zhou Xin, Yan Heng's nervous heart relaxed slightly, and he seemed to see a glimmer of hope.

"Zhou Changshi, the last general Yan Heng will see you!"

Yan Heng walked up to the bow of the boat and bowed his hand, he and Zhou Xin were less than five zhang apart, which made many soldiers have an illusion that they were not war, but just a drill.

"May I ask General Yan, why did you lead the army to cross the river, does General Yan have a heart of disobedience?"

Zhou Xin asked very frankly, and his words hit Yan Heng's vital point, Yan Heng was speechless for a long time, he really didn't know why he wanted to cross the river, he knew that he obeyed the order, occupied the Jiangning wharf, and received the emperor's handsome crossing of the river, he blushed and said: "Zhou Changshi is serious, I just obeyed the order and occupied the Jiangning wharf, I don't think I know why I crossed the river." ”

"I don't know, General Yan is going to let 10,000 soldiers die at the bottom of the river, General Yan, you are so inconsiderate of the soldiers, it makes me feel cold."

Zhou Xin was also a little angry, it was important to carry out military orders, but it was simply stupid to let the soldiers take the risk of crossing the river without knowing anything, and not to take the soldier's surname to heart, he shouted and asked: "If Huangfu Yingjun wants to rebel and establish himself as the emperor of Chu, will General Yan also take the lead for him?" ”

"This ....." Yan Heng was speechless.

At this time, Zhou Xinheng raised Shang Fang's sword and shouted, "Shang Fang's sword is here, Yan Heng kneels down and listens to the order!" ”

Although Yan Heng had only heard that Shang Fang's sword was a black jade sword hilt, and had not seen the real thing, he trusted Zhou Xin very much, at this time, Yan Heng understood in his heart that the other party actually had Shang Fang's Tianzi Sword, and there was also the Governor of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion Shi personally came forward, then the matter was not so simple, and more importantly, if he was not convinced, his 10,000 soldiers would be buried at the bottom of the river, so to speak, this Shang Fang Sword came at the right time and gave him a step.

He immediately knelt down on one knee and said in a deep voice: "Yan Heng doesn't dare to resist Shang Fang's sword order!" ”

"I will order Shang Fang's sword to immediately lay down his weapons and get on the ship to surrender, otherwise, the 10,000 Shuyang army will cease to exist!"

Yan Heng sighed secretly in his heart, he was surrounded, there was nothing to do, there was no possibility of even breaking through, either he died or surrendered, and there was no third way, but even if he died, why drag 10,000 brothers?

"Yes!"

Yan Heng stood up, walked to the stern, and shouted to the three hundred small boats behind: "Listen, all the troops, lay down their weapons, take off their armor, and get close to the big ship and surrender!" ”

He shouted three times in a row, and the ships closest to him were the first to lay down their weapons, and then more and more ships laid down their weapons and took off their armor.

Wu Jin had been watching the conversation between Yan Heng and Zhou Xin from the bow of the boat, although he couldn't hear what they were saying, he could feel Yan Heng's mood change, from the initial dissatisfaction to the slow persuasion, and finally kneeling down and surrendering....... Wu Jin looked at his eight-foot body and majestic momentum, he couldn't help but smile with relief, he knew that he had won a fierce general.

"Order the ship to come to the mountain and accept the surrender!"

．．．．．．．． Half of the Jiangning Navy barracks are located in the Yangtze River, and there is a wharf that is two miles long, and the wharf is very deserted at this time, and the military ships have driven away, leaving only a dozen dilapidated hundred-stone boats, tied to a corner of the wharf, undulating with the waves. The night is already deep, the river is gradually shrouded in a thin layer of gray mist, so that the river is looming, a group of patrol soldiers patrol back and forth on the wharf, less than 50 steps from the wharf is the naval barracks, there are nearly 50 rows, all are brick houses, except for the side by the Yangtze River, the other three sides are surrounded by barracks.

At this time, the barracks were full of Jiangdu sergeants, after a day of marching, everyone was tired and were in a kind of deep sleep, they only stayed in the barracks for one night tonight, and tomorrow morning, three thousand troops were left to guard the barracks, and the rest of the army would return to Jiangdu County.

The night has reached two o'clock, but Huangfu Yingjun still did not fall asleep, he was more or less worried, he had already received the news that the Chuzhou Navy had dispatched more than 1,000 warships, although there was no news of the battle, no defeated soldiers fled back, and there was no news of landing ashore, which showed that Yan Heng's 10,000 troops had surrendered.

For this result, Huangfu Yingjun is mentally prepared, Yan Heng's 10,000 infantry, how can he deal with the 50,000 naval army in Chuzhou, and even the 5,000 troops of Meihuawei may be defeated, although the loss of this 10,000 troops makes him feel a little distressed, and even the face is a little unbearable, but he can write a report to the emperor: he Huangfu Yingjun personally led the army to the south with lightning speed, occupied the Jiangbei military camp, and completely annihilated the Huangfu Wujin Jiangbei infantry, but the Yangtze River moat made it difficult for him to press the army, but sent Yan Heng as the vanguard to seize the South Beach, Helplessly, the strength of the naval army was very different, the vanguard army was unfortunately annihilated, and the three armies looked at the river and wept.

As long as he can give the emperor an explanation and keep his position, other losses are not important.

Huangfu Yingjun was still a little uneasy in his heart, he was most worried that the naval army on the other side would land at night and kill him by surprise, he couldn't sleep, so he got up and personally inspected the dock.

After inspecting for more than an hour, Huangfu Yingjun was finally a little tired, so he turned his horse's head and returned to his room to rest, and more than 100 personal soldiers also followed back to the camp to rest.

The river is still very quiet, time passes little by little, the third watch passes, there is still no movement on the river, the time finally arrives at the fourth watch, this is also the most slack moment, and soon after, the army will get up and assemble, the soldiers on patrol finally can't stay up, they have fallen to sleep, and no one pays attention to the river, and at this time, this is also the moment when the fog on the river is the largest.

Suddenly, a huge shadow of black pupils appeared on the river, silent, very weird, as if the ghost ship was approaching the barracks, but there were still two or three hundred steps away from the dock, this distance was very standing on the dock to look closely, otherwise it would be impossible to detect the danger coming.

This is a fleet of ten 5,000 stone ironclad warships, the warships have been refitted, each warship has exposed a large black hole in the wall, from the big hole, a tube of artillery pokes its head out, each warship has ten cannons on the left and right, from the range of 200 paces of the shotgun mortar to the range of 1,000 steps of the general Huwei cannon, ten warships formed a powerful artillery fleet.

With the sound of drums on the river, the gunboats suddenly broke out with an earth-shattering sound, flames sprayed, white smoke rose into the air, and one by one the shells were fired intensively into the barracks, and exploded violently in dozens of rows of houses, the explosion shook the earth, one after another houses collapsed, and the soldiers were frightened and scattered, they were barefoot and naked, and rushed out of the barracks to flee for their lives, but the shells ruthlessly exploded in the crowd, and the sergeants were blown to flesh and blood, with heavy casualties, and the cries and wails resounded throughout the barracks.

Huangfu Handsome was awakened in his sleep, and he was equally stunned, his mind; There was a blank space, and he even forgot to flee for his life, or his own soldiers rushed into the room and set him up out of the barracks, at this time, a cannonball fell on the side of the war horse not far away, and exploded violently, the emperor's handsome horse was blown into the air, his limbs were blown off, shrapnel flew sideways, and several personal soldiers could not dodge, they were hit by a single piece, and fell to the ground screaming.

At this time, the handsome shoulder of the emperor felt a sharp pain, a piece of shrapnel shot into his shoulder, blood suddenly flowed out, and his own soldiers were so frightened that they couldn't possess their bodies, and they picked him up and ran away outside the barracks...... After the warships shelled for nearly half an hour, the sound of the cannons gradually disappeared, and the ten warships left the north bank in a formation and returned to the south bank barracks, the gunboat assault at four o'clock in the morning caught the handsome Jiangdu army of Huangfu off guard, with more than 3,000 casualties, which was very heavy, and more importantly, the Jiangdu army's psychology was cast a huge shadow from then on, and the era of strong ships and sharp guns also officially kicked off that night.

．．．．．．．． Yongjing Huaqing Palace, the sky has not yet dawned, and the drums of the inner palace will be 'knock!' Boom! The ground rang, the faces of the palace maids turned crimson, the guards exchanged ambiguous eyes, and everyone knew that the early morning love of Emperor Shen Shufei had begun again.

The palace maids in the outer palace couldn't feel it yet, but the palace maids who were waiting near the emperor's bedroom couldn't help but cover their ears, Shen Shufei's unscrupulous and debauched screams were unacceptable, only the drums covered her screams, and kept the same rhythm as her, this kind of loud screaming was very much liked by the emperor, this is also Shen Shufei's understanding of the emperor's mind, and only she dared to be so bold, and no one in the other palace concubines dared to scream so shamelessly.

The drums have sounded twice last night, and now it is not dawn again, so that everyone is sweating for the emperor's body, so how long can the emperor hold out, even the confidant eunuch Ma Yuanzhen let out a long sigh, and his face was full of helplessness.

At this moment, a little eunuch rushed and handed him a red pigeon letter, Ma Yuanzhen opened the letterbox, took out the pigeon letter and read it, he was taken aback, turned around and went to the dormitory in a panic.

At this time, the drumming had stopped, several palace maids went in to serve, Ma Yuanzhen also walked into the palace, only to see Huangfu Xuande was lazily lying in the hot spring, closing his eyes and resting, Shen Shufei was naked, wrapped around him like a water snake, and used to pull a gauze curtain, now even the gauze curtain is not drawn, but Ma Yuanzhen is a eunuch, Shen Shufei has no avoidance of him, seeing him come in, he immersed his body in the water, Ma Yuanzhen pointed to the emperor.

Concubine Shen Shu blew in Huangfu Xuande's ear, Huangfu Xuande slowly opened his eyes, glanced at Ma Yuanzhen, and asked listlessly: "What's the matter?" ”

"Your Majesty, Chuzhou Han Shunyi has urgent information."

Huangfu Xuande sat up, "Say it! What's up? ”

"Your Majesty, Han Shunyi said that the crown prince and Huangfu Wujin colluded and launched a mutiny in Chuzhou, imprisoning all the officials of the Chu royal family."

"What!" Huangfu Xuande was taken aback, did the prince actually do it in Chuzhou?

(To be continued)