The water battle on the side of Shenjian Mountain has been fighting fiercely from the morning to the afternoon, and it has not been able to attract the waterway reinforcements of the Western Army, and it is also thanks to the bravery of Wang Lanping's miscellaneous water army, which has been fighting until now and has not retreated, and now it is dusk, and the Han King Naval Army that fell into the No. 3 Water Village lost most of it, and was attacked from both sides on the water and land at the same time, and it was only a matter of time before the whole army was annihilated.

Wang Lanping did not give the order to retreat for a long time, with the red sun plunged into the river, a thousand Ming army engineers gathered in Yanziji, began to erect a pontoon bridge vigorously, the river boat is like weaving, bamboo poles, planks are piled up like a mountain, the sky is not completely dark, the pontoon bridge is already half a mile away from the shore, if there are no outsiders to disturb, look at their momentum, may not wait for dawn to complete.

In Jiang's heart, the five reconnaissance ships of the Western Army, which had not advanced or retreated, quickly reversed this military situation, turned around and sailed back to Luzhou City.

The night was bleak, the battle of the No. 3 water village had been silent, only the warships that had not been burned were still crackling in the fire, the sky-high fire reflected the river surface red, the corpses of the soldiers killed in the battle were slowly pushed to the shore by the waves like dead fish, the water army of 500 people was wiped out, and the death was tragic, no one surrendered, all of them died in battle, and the No. 3 water village was also burned to ashes in the fire.

The moon is bright like a mirror, the rivers and mountains are full of white scales, and by the bright moon, I still see the rows of bamboo rafts floating with the waves in the heart of the river, but the bamboo raft has long been empty.

The pontoon bridge of Yanziji is erected very quickly, piling, cloth boats, fixed, laying wooden planks, pulling on hemp rope, the completed bridge section can pass two people side by side, if the bridge is passed, it is said that tens of thousands of people can be crossed within an hour, but unfortunately, the Western Army did not give them time.

Zhang Huacheng was really restless in Luzhou City, he thought that the Ming army was trying to lure the snake out of the hole when he hit the water village on the east side, but he didn't expect that the other party was really fighting hard, and a few broken ships were fighting to destroy the water village that he had worked hard to build for several months, and even the infantry army had lost a lot of men and horses there, which was really hateful, and he had already known that he had sent the water division to reinforce it.

Now there is a military report again, saying that the Ming army is quickly laying a pontoon bridge in Yanziji, and it can be completed tomorrow morning according to its speed, if the Ming army crosses the river and attacks from the two roads of water and drought, Luzhou City is really in danger.

Thinking of this, Zhang Hualong could no longer hold back his indignation, and he could not miss the opportunity to fight or say anything, and he must sink the pontoon bridge of the Ming army in the middle of the road.

Under the hazy moonlight, the warships of the remaining two water villages of the Western Army poured out, the soldiers were divided into two ways, one attack and one auxiliary, directly took Yanziji, and the other warship also carried 10,000 foot armor, if the pontoon bridge was successful, then take the opportunity to launch an attack on the Ming army on the opposite bank, in order to avenge the destruction of the water village, and improve morale.

In fact, he is not suitable for water warfare at night, and the water battle on the river is dominated by bows and arrows and muskets, and these are not the things that night battles are good at, but Zhang Hualong also knows that Lao Tzu is tired by the night, and the other party will not be ruthless.

More than 80 warships sailed out of the water village, giving up the big oars and taking the small oars, and approaching Yanziji quietly as much as possible.

It is still Zhang Hualong no matter how careful he is, he can't hide from Wang Lanping's ears and eyes, he exchanged 500 lives for this fighter, the enemy ship just left the village for a while, and the military intelligence was sent to Wang Lanping's big tent, you know, there are 600 'water ghosts' under the bamboo raft floating around in the river, they left 500 people in the middle of the river to guard, with reed pipes in their mouths, stones tied to their bodies, hanging on the bamboo rafts, from the water they can see nothing except a bunch of bamboo rafts, the Western Army has not yet had the heart to get along with these useless bamboo rafts, with the rise and fall of the waves, From time to time, the 'water ghosts' poked their heads out of the water, and in this way, these people soaked in the water for five hours, and some of them did not hold on, and died, but they could not float up after death, because they were all tied to stones, and heavy objects fell under the rafts, although there were waves, but they also drifted very slowly.

Wang Lanping immediately raised his tent and sent all his troops to make all preparations for battle, and tomorrow was the memorial day of Luzhou City.

Haoyue volleyed, the Western Army sailors finally waited, they stayed in the water for too long, every time they showed their teeth and fought up and down, they would only wait for this moment if they suffered such a crime, no one needed to order, and they didn't need any equipment, one person, one stone hammer, one iron drill.

In the heart of the river, the black pressure seems to float from hell to an island, terrifying and hateful, this is the sailor of the Western Army.

After waiting for the impatient hundreds of 'water ghosts' to see the incoming boat, they quickly untied the ropes on their bodies, swam towards the bottom of the Western Army's warship like a fish, took a deep breath, and chiseled up immediately after a fierce man plunged down.

"There are people in the water" There was a commotion on the warship of the Western Army, many soldiers gathered on the side of the boat, and threw down the fire ghost to see, that is, at that glance, their scalps were numb, and the bare bodies of the people in the water swam quickly on the water, and the bodies that had been soaked for a day were exceptionally white under the light of the fire, like ghosts.

"Shoot the arrows and shoot them into the water," shouted someone on board.

The arrows were shot into the water, making a rustling sound, and the black liquid soaked in the river.

Soon, many ships began to tilt, and it didn't take long for them to sink to the bottom of the river with people and boats, but unfortunately, many Western troops were put on ships with battle armor, and the weight made them have no chance to float, one boat sank, and a thousand people were buried.

In the blink of an eye, the water was boiling, and the people on the ship were running around the deck like headless flies, and some of them were clever enough to throw away their heavy armor and hold on to the hull and shiver there.

The surface of the black hole is like a huge demon's mouth, devouring human life in the whole boat, which is fair to everyone.

The frightened Western warships were in a mess, they never dreamed that someone could ambush in the heart of the river, the underwater world was terrifying, the sound of the chisel was more like a life talisman, and people's scalps were numb when they heard it.

"Get up the big oars, sail out of this water" The remaining warships of the Western Army's naval division rowed forward lifelessly, and they didn't argue about the direction when it was dark, running in all directions, and the life-threatening talismans under the boat didn't stop.

Fifty or sixty warships became more and more chaotic, and some of them were even piled up, so crowded that no one could move, and there were not a few who collided with each other and were destroyed, and it was only a matter of a cup of tea, and most of the nearly 100 warships had been lost, only a small part of them rushed out, and some simply fled back.

On the surface of the Swallow Rock River.

More than ten Western warships that were lucky enough to escape walked side by side, the big oars flew over, and desperately rushed towards the pontoon bridge that the Ming army had just repaired half, and the huge impact force washed the pontoon bridge into dozens of pieces, but the people on the pontoon bridge did not see any of them, not even a Ming warship and soldiers guarding the pontoon bridge did not see it, as if all this was ready to fight you.

The day has just dawned, the river has also returned to calm, the morning sun spreads the river, last night after a human 'ghost' battle after the scene is miserable, how many people died can not count, only know that the water is covered with a layer of corpses, everywhere you can see the half-floating and half-sinking Western warship, some of the soldiers who have not died in the catastrophe are lying on the bow of the warp with a pale face, even the strength to howl, fighting with people is more painful than drowning like this.

Of the 600 water ghosts, only 37 survived, and they gritted their teeth and rowed back to the shore with their floating planks, and when they came ashore, they all fainted from exhaustion, and their bodies were even more frighteningly white.

Wang Lanping was still looking at the shore from a high place, and he knew that Zhang Hualong was also looking over here at this moment to see who could have the last laugh.

"Report!" The sentry quickly came to Wang Lanping's side, and arched his hand: "Report to the King of Han, Yulinwei and Dingyuan Battalion have all crossed the river."

Just last night when the Jiangxin fierce battle, in addition to Yanziji in the repair of the pontoon bridge, another place is also being repaired at the same time, the progress is faster, and all the attention of the Western Army is on the water battle between Yanziji and Jiangxin, before dawn, the pontoon bridge over there has been unblocked, Yulinwei and Dingyuan battalion quickly passed, seized the beachhead, and quickly advanced to Luzhou City.

Wang Lanping nodded with a snort, pointed to the looming Divine Arm Mountain in the distance and said, "Old General Zhao, you should attack from the waterway."

Zhao Zhishang gritted his teeth and pulled out the saber that accompanied the sword, and he vowed to avenge the 800 soldiers who were wiped out by the entire army in No. 3 Water Village yesterday.

"Pass the book and order, go" Zhao Zhishang raised his long sword.

Countless boats and bamboo rafts left, the enemy's sailors were gone, and the threat of the water surface was lost, these 6,000 people had to climb up from the side cliffs of Shenjian Mountain, but this was only an auxiliary attack, and the real main attack had begun, that is, the battle of Yulinwei and Dingyuan Battalion to attack the east gate of Luzhou City.

**

Under the city of Luzhou, the two sides attacked, fierce battle until night, the garrison of the western army at the east gate was not complete, no one would have thought that someone would be able to break through the river defense so lightly, when it was dark, the east city fell, tens of thousands of Ming troops entered the city, a pass to slash and kill, and there were countless descenders.

Early the next morning, Wang Lanping swaggered into Luzhou City, made a list of Anmin, counted the treasury and counted the results.

In this battle, the Ming army lost more than 3,000 casualties and more than 1,000 missing (most of them fell into the water and fed the river fish); 30,000 people of the Western Army surrendered, and the defending general Zhang Hualong committed suicide, with more than 20,000 casualties, and the rest were missing.

Wang Lanping made a fortune in this battle, Luzhou City is the gateway to southern Sichuan, and the military rations stored in the city are enough for his army to eat until the beginning of spring, so he doesn't have to worry about grain and grass for the time being.

One day later, Wang Lanping received news that the 50,000 Western troops who had come from Chengdu to reinforce had all returned, and had redeployed in Jiazhou, which was more than 100 miles away from Luzhou.

Wang Lanping let the whole army repair in Luzhou for three days, convened the generals to discuss the next march route, since he started the war, every battle plan is constantly changing, he is not a god, it is impossible to anticipate all the changes in the battlefield situation before the war, as a commander, the greatest ability is to be able to adapt to changes on the battlefield, decisively deal with the changes of the enemy army.

This time is no exception, come to the planned Luzhou after the Lushui into Chengdu, now it seems that Lushui is afraid that it will not work, and have to find another way, choose to choose, except to go north around Shunqing There is no other way.

At this time, the Luzhou defense line had been completely owned by the Ming army, and the forces of the Western Army in this area had begun to shrink to both sides of Lushui and Chengdu, and it was the right time to go north.

In the first battle of Luzhou, although Wang Lanping did not get substantial progress in strategy, he had already killed the Western Army, which was the first battle in Sichuan, and the victory was not in strategy but in momentum.

Point sent guards, pulled out part of Zhao Zhishang's soldiers and horses and part of the Western Army to garrison Luzhou, and summoned the people to strengthen the defense of the eastern city, and added five fortresses outside the east gate, but this seems to be of little use, Wang Lanping does not think that Zhang Xianzhong dares to come to recapture Luzhou, because the situation in Shunqing is already much more difficult than Luzhou.

Wang Lanping took the lead with 20,000 troops as cannon fodder, and nearly 100,000 people marched along the Yangtze River to the Shunqing area, and at the same time ordered the five battalions of soldiers and horses that had laid their cubs on the Kuizhou River for three months to be immediately deployed, with the same goal.

It's just that the situation in Kuizhou is a little confusing, with the opening of the Ming army, the Qing soldiers stationed on the opposite side also opened, and the two teams of men and horses drove side by side along the opposite side of the river, no one started to fight first, just kept walking, so that Chen Wanliang and Fang Guoan couldn't cry or laugh, but one by one they also held back a fire in their hearts, the gods are full of people, sooner or later let your blood dry.

**

Ten days later, the two armies met in Chongqing, and the total number of 160,000 horse-foot troops in the whole army was thrown into the whip, and the Qing army, which had been following them, fled back to Shun Qingcheng with great interest and reported to Na Azig.

The army repaired in Chongqing Mansion for three days, and rewarded the whole army, and then there was a tough battle to be fought, and the emperor would not send hungry soldiers, this reward silver was the most morale-boosting and tempting.

At the same time of repairing, Wang Lanping has sent a hundred people to investigate the movements of the Shunqing Qing soldiers and the western army on its periphery, at this time the three forces on the Shunqing battlefield are in a horn trend, in Wang Lanping's eyes, except for himself, all are opponents, whether to take the Qing army or the western army first, or attack at the same time, or pull one to fight one, anyway, no matter how he chooses, he is now the strongest among the three parties on the Shunqing battlefield.

And there is also a strange soldier stationed not far from here, the heroine Qin Liangyu's eight thousand white pole soldiers, although they are trapped in the cracks of the Western Army, and at the same time, they are also nailed to the defense line of the Eastern and Western Army of Sichuan like a nail, and no one can eat him.

Fighting Ai Nengqi, the white pole soldiers must be used, so Wang Lanping promoted Qin Liangyu's son Ma Xianglin to the rank of squire of the Eastern Sichuan Economic Strategy Envoy Hanging Army, the same position as the governor, but it was limited to several mansions in eastern Sichuan, and most of these mansions were not under the control of the Ming army.

Three days later, the army marched one after another, and the sisters Xianglan and Xiangling still dressed up as men to accompany them.

**

Nanjing Han Palace.

Princess Zheng Jiasi of the Han Dynasty was lying on the pavilion pillar in the garden retching repeatedly, her face was a little pale, Yun Niang patted behind her and said: "Princess, why have you been like this lately, you are sick, why don't you go to the hospital and invite a few imperial doctors to take a look"

Zheng Jiasi slowly straightened up, pressed one hand on his side waist, and the other hand along his chest, his face gradually turned red, and he said weakly: "No, I'm not sick."

Yun Niang frowned and said, "What is that?" ”

Zheng Jiasi covered her mouth and smiled, blushingly took Yun Niang's hand and pressed it on her slightly bulging belly, and said very embarrassedly: "There is Xiao Pingping here."

Yun Niang was stunned, it took a long time to come back to her senses, turned her surprise into joy, clapped her hands and said: "Really, when did it happen, why don't I know"

"Lang Zhong said it's been four months."

Yun Niang said: "It's been so long, why don't you let people tell King Han, he must be very happy to know"

Zheng Jiasi leaned on the pillar and sat down, looking at the Hou Bird who was fading away in the sky and said: "The King of Han is fighting, I don't want him to worry about me, Sister Yun, you see, the bird is flying south, you say, when will the King of Han come back" (To be continued.) )