Wu Kenai was a thousand commanders under Huang Dengke, and the ship he was on was next to the sunken division ship.

He looked at the whirlpool on the water and the floating broken slabs in a daze, and said in his heart how to fight this battle! The Ming bandits' artillery fire is fierce and the range is long, and it is definitely a dead end to fight any longer.

Wu Kenai had escaped from the Ming army once at Wusongkou, and he felt that he had to run backwards again.

"Quick! Quickly register the flag and order the sailor battalion to pull the anchor and raise the sails! Huang Dengke, the deputy general of the water division, shouted hoarsely, "Run upstream with full sails!" ”

The Manchu Qingshui Division's battalion ships lined up in the river like a long dragon, confronting the Ming army. Seeing that the flag was hung on the flagship, the Qing army immediately hurriedly pulled the anchor and raised the sails.

Two divisional ships had just raised their full sails and floated on the water, but the Ming artillery fire came again. The two divisional ships were hit by several shells almost at the same time, and a rumbling explosion rang out, and soon there were a few more broken slabs on the river, as well as a hundred and ten crew members struggling in the water.

Wu Kenai threw away the big knife in his hand and was about to jump into the water, but was held down by Zhang Wanjia and Zhang Wanyi, "Master Qian, what are you doing!" ”

Zhang Wanjia and Zhang Wanyi are two capable soldiers under Wu Kenai, both of them are strong and have always been brave and good at fighting.

Wu Kenai couldn't break free, and seeing that some people had already started to jump into the water on the sailor boats around him, he was so anxious to jump up, "Let go!" Brother Wanjia, if you want to survive, you can only swim ashore! ”

"If you go ashore, you may not be able to live!" Zhang Wanjia stared at Wu Kenai directly, "If you want me to say, let's just cast it!" ”

"Touming?" Seeing Zhang Wanyi holding the big knife in his hand, Wu Kenai hurriedly squeezed out a smile, "Yes, let's cast Ming!" I've wanted to cast for a long time! ”

A red flag of the sun and moon was raised high on Wu Kenai's ship. At the same time, another Qing naval division ship hoisted a white flag. Almost simultaneously, the two ships fired their guns into the air to warn the surrounding Qing divisional ships.

It's over! In front of him, there were Ming bandits, and there were also military robes around him who turned their guns. The Qing army's sailor battalion was suddenly in chaos, like dumplings, and as soon as they threw their weapons and equipment, they jumped into the river with poof, poof, poof.

A bunch of scum! A bunch of rubbish!

Huang Dengke's face was pale, his hands and feet trembled, but he was powerless to return to the sky, so he had to jump into the water with his own soldiers.

When Huang Dengke climbed onto the river bank in water, the south gate of Zhenhai was already crowded with wet sailor soldiers, they.

Hundreds of defeated soldiers swarmed under the city gate, looking at the closed gate, and shouted "Open the city gate!" Open the gates! ”

But there was no reaction at all from the gates.

"What's going on!"

Huang Dengke looked anxiously on the river, the Ming warship was about to approach the Qing army's sailors and abandon the ship.

"My lord, the gate of Zhenhai City is closed, and we won't be allowed to enter!" Everyone hurriedly got out of the way.

What the! Huang Dengke was taken aback.

Li Mingshun is the acting Zhenhai Zhi County, the deputy envoy of Ningbo League Training, or the nephew of Li Yeting, the prefect of Ningbo, he won't also vote for Ming, right? !

Huang Dengke stood under the city, looked at the Qing Dynasty banner still hanging on the city tower, and felt a lot more relieved. He roared loudly twice towards the city tower, "Li Mingshun, Li Zhixian, Li Xianzun, you quickly open the city gate for us!" ”

"It turned out to be General Huang under the city!" Li Mingshun poked his head out from the battlements, "General Huang, the Ming bandits are about to come to the city, and your sailor battalion retreats without a fight, if you want to rebel, can't you?" ”

"Li Xianzun, don't get me wrong." Huang Dengke shouted loudly, "The artillery fire of the Ming army is fierce, and our sailor battalion temporarily avoided its edge, retreated to Zhenhai, and helped defend the city. ”

"Defending the city is the responsibility of the county, and it has nothing to do with General Huang." Li Mingshun shook his head and joked with a smile, "The duty of the sailor battalion is the coastal defense of the Yongjiang estuary. ”

Huang Dengke was angry, this rural villager who was protected because of his merits was extremely rude!

Yang Liufeng, who was garrisoned by the sailor battalion, had just climbed the riverbank, and he also begged bitterly, "The Ming bandits are powerful, and with the help of our sailor battalion to defend the city, Zhenhai City will be safe and sound." ”

"The two thousand people in Zhenhai City are strong enough to defend their homes and defend the country, and they will defend the city to the end." Li Mingshun pointed to the chaotic defeated soldiers under the city, "Huang Xietai, Yang Garrison, and the two warships of the Sailor Battalion have just surrendered to the enemy. You say that there are hundreds of brave soldiers in this city, and many of them have different thoughts and want to take the opportunity to seize the city and surrender to Ming! ”

Huang Dengke was dizzy for a while, and his heart was cold, like a mouthful of blood blocked in his throat, and his face was pale.

At this time, the cannon in the river rumbled, and the Ming warships were already approaching the city. Many clever soldiers downstairs at the city gate ran in the direction of Ningbo City.

Yang Liufeng hurriedly persuaded him, "My lord, let's go, all the ships and weapons have been lost, and the soldiers can't be lost anymore!" ”

"Good! Let's gather at the land temple in Zhuangshi Village, five miles west of the city. ”

Huang Dengke gritted his teeth and ran west with his own soldiers, and the remnants of the defeated soldiers under the city also followed behind and fled to the direction of Ningbo together.

"Boom, boom!"

The warships of the Ming army sailed to the center of the river and fired guns at Zhenhai City. The people on the city wall of Zhenhai also used guns and cannons to return colors.

The two sides seemed to be fighting happily, but in fact, they were all empty guns and empty guns. The fierce sound of gunfire echoed on the river, frightening the defeated soldiers of the Navy Division to flee westward.

Qingshuipu Village is about ten miles away from Zhenhai, because it is located on the Yongjiang River, the official road from Zhenhai to Ningbo passes through the entrance of the village, and people come and go by boat in peacetime, which is quite lively.

On Jiangbei Avenue, Zheng Jinlin, a fifty-year-old man, squatted on the side of the road, stroked a few broad bean seedlings that had been trampled flat, and sighed, "These guys know how to spoil crops!" ”

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old child ran along the official road and shouted from afar, "Village chief! ”

The kid ran up to Zheng Jinlin, panting out of breath.

"Little Li Zheng!" Zheng Jinlin stood up and slapped his head hard, "I'm the acting village head, not the village head!" ”

The position of the village chief has always been owned by large families. Zheng Jinlin's family background is average, and he is not ranked in the village. He never dreamed that he was one step away from the position of village chief.

Since the war, many rich and powerful families in eastern Zhejiang have all defected to Hangzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai and other big places, or to Zhoushan, Taiwan's Ming Dynasty, Qingshuipu Village as a traffic artery has also been silent for a few days.

However, the Daming military engineering team soon stationed in various villages and villages, implemented democratic elections, set up village offices, and cooperatives were born, promoting intensive agriculture and developing the rural economy.

In the past year, Qingshuipu has undergone earth-shaking changes, with the construction of a natural Taoist temple, a primary school, a health center, a supply and marketing cooperative, and a vast and flat standard farmland and large-scale water conservancy facilities outside the village, all in good order.

Zheng Jinlin was glad that the martial arts team was the first to choose him, and he was also glad that he saw that the Ming Dynasty could succeed, otherwise how could there be such a good thing. However, there are still two days to go before the democratic elections, and no one else can be left to talk about it until then.

"Hey, hey!" Li Zheng smiled innocently, "There are five more bandits running over there in Zhenhai. ”

"Keep catching!" Zheng Jinlin stood up and said fiercely, "If you send it to the sea boat, you can sell it for a lot of money." The crops of the agricultural cooperatives cannot be wasted in vain! ”

Xu Shuigen, a sailor of the Zhenhai Division Battalion, ran upstream along the official road by the river with four sworn brothers, and the five of them ran for more than ten miles in one breath before they stopped and gasped for breath.

On the riverside, there are dozens of strong men wearing the name "Yong", who are busy setting up the raft. The rafts were covered with flammable materials such as wood, straw, and branches, and a few people seemed to be pouring oil on the haystacks.

Xu Shuigen flashed a thought, do these people want to use fire to attack the ship to deal with the Ming bandits!

But this doesn't matter about his business, confronting the Ming bandits is definitely a head-off thing, they walk along the river, just want to leave the barracks and go to Ningbo City to find a job and make a living.

"What are you guys doing?" Several people armed with broadswords and muskets surrounded them.

"Big brother! We are from the Zhenhai Division. "Xu Shuigen They came here with their bare hands, and the heroes don't suffer the losses in front of them, they laugh and want to get close to these people.

"You are bandits! The camp of the Zhenhai Sea Division also fought fiercely in the Ming bandits. ”

These people couldn't help but say, and tied up Xu Shuigen and them directly.

The joint defense team of more than a dozen villages around Zhenhai City, they are all doing the same thing.

Zhuangshi Village is about five miles away from Zhenhai City, and several miles away from the river bank. In the natural Taoist temple at the head of the village, Huang Dengke collected it for a long time, and only collected more than 500 sailor soldiers in total.

A soldier who is usually very intimate persuaded him, "My lord, it is estimated that there is so much, others may go to the riverside, or run to Jiangnan, or defect to the Ming bandits!" ”

"yes!" Another soldier said, "My lord, let's hurry to Ningbo, Zhenhai may have been lost, we should rush to Ningbo as soon as possible to help defend the city, so maybe we can make up for it!" ”

Listening to the sound of gunfire in the east, Huang Dengke also thought that he needed to rush to Ningbo City immediately. It's just that it's almost noon, and the garrison Yang Liufeng went to Zhuangshi Village to negotiate early in the morning, why hasn't he come back yet!

"It's okay to walk, you just have to eat on the hour, I'm hungry, I can't walk!" Huang Dengke glanced outside the Taoist temple, and his stomach suddenly growled.

"His grandmother's, what's going on!" He scolded fiercely, "After a busy morning, I drank a stomach full of water, and I didn't get any rice into my stomach." There are not many acquaintances in this village! ”

As the saying goes, passing a soldier is like going overboard. Generally, when the village saw troops passing by, in order to prevent the soldiers from making chaos, they always sent a group of elderly people to eat pot pulp to express condolences.

Zhuangshi Village sent more than a dozen armed people to guard the entrance of the village, and four large barrels of tea were placed in the Taoist temple, but there was nothing to eat.

These bare-handed defeated soldiers are not the opponents of the Zhuang City Joint Defense Team at all, they can only honestly enter the Taoist temple, drink a few cups of tea, and have to take money to buy food if they want to eat.

The garrison Yang Liufeng scolded and walked into the Taoist temple, "My lord, this village is evil!" Ask us to Ningbo Fucheng, or Zhenhai Zhi County's customs defense seal letter documents, otherwise we will think that we are bandits, and there is no door to eat and drink! ”

"The regular officers and soldiers have always walked on the avenue, and you all came from the trail and trampled on half an acre of rapeseed, aren't you bandits!" Xie Guoding, the head of Zhuangshi Village, walked into the Taoist temple, and he was accompanied by a team of people with loaded guns and ammunition.

Under the organization of the Wugong team, the joint defense team of several surrounding villages rushed to support. More than 500 people acted together, and the Qing soldiers outside the Taoist temple were all forced into the Taoist temple.

Seeing that the comers were not good, the soldiers all stood behind Huang Dengke and Yang Liufeng.

About ten meters away from Huang Dengke, Xie Guoding stopped, "I don't care if you are the Ming army or what, you have damaged the crops of the agricultural cooperative, you all have to stay for me and sell yourself to work for compensation." ”

The sound of gunfire under Zhenhai City rang out intermittently for more than two hours.

At noon, dozens of large and small fire platoons floated from the upper reaches of the Yongjiang River. The river was full of flames, and the black smoke did not disperse for a long time.

Watching the Ming Army Coast Guard ship sound its whistle, set sail in order, and sail out of the Yongjiang River, Li Mingshun breathed a sigh of relief, and the scene was finally over.