What is further east of Qiaoshe Town, near Poyang Lake? It is a vast Poyang Lake!

The people of Qiaoshe Town, who fish near the lake, have not had a good time recently. After the Qing army's Yangtze River sailors arrived at Poyang Lake, they dealt a cruel blow to the fishermen who dared to go into the water, and killed many people on the charge of spies. For a time, there was a lot of noise around Poyang Lake, and thousands of fishermen did not dare to go into the water to fish again.

Then the life of the fishermen will naturally be difficult! It also requires the military government to do a very good job in the area of people's livelihood, and immediately give some compensation to the fishermen of Poyang Lake in the area under its control, so this situation has made the military government further win the trust of the people.

At this moment, on a small island in the lake more than ten miles away from Qiaoshe Town, an officer of the Qin Army wearing a green short-coat battle uniform was holding a telescope and looking south. Behind him were two uniformly dressed Qin officers and soldiers.

At the same time, on the right side of this small island, in the vast reeds, hundreds of Qin officers and soldiers in the same clothes quietly lurked in it. Each of them had a sheepskin raft the size of an eight-immortal table under their buttocks. Hundreds of people were scattered in the reeds, and the clothes they wore were so close to nature that the eagle's eyes couldn't see any clues!

"Huh? Is it a ship? ”

"It's a boat. Hurry up and inform Team Deng, the target has appeared! ”

In the distance, a small black dot appeared where the lake and sky met. The Qin army officer holding the binoculars had a smile on his face. Is this a hunter seeing a hunt? The smile of the object as it walks into the trap it has set for itself.

The news was quickly notified to Deng Kai, who led the team this time. He did not stay on the island, but in the damp and cold reeds like many soldiers.

It had just rained, and it was damp and cold in the reeds. It's not summer. But in the autumn season, the taste of hiding in the reeds is absolutely unbearable for ordinary people.

But Deng Kai is different. They are subordinate to the reconnaissance brigade. All the soldiers in the reconnaissance brigade were carefully selected cadres from hundreds of thousands of Qin troops. It's the best of the best! The water comes and goes in the fire, and the tiger can go up the mountain. Can go down to the sea dragon!

They can definitely stand the test of this little difficulty. What's more, as the sharp knife of the whole army, the treatment of the reconnaissance brigade is absolutely unimaginable to ordinary soldiers. For example, now, from Deng Kai onwards, all the officers and soldiers of the reconnaissance brigade wear special waterproof thermal underwear in their combat uniforms, and the materials are all first-class leather goods.

The little black dot gradually grew larger, and it was indeed a fleet. Deng Kai, the warship at the head, could clearly identify it as the Pinghu, a three-hundred-twenty-ton steam gunboat. Before coming to Jiangxi to fight, the entire reconnaissance brigade had seen photos of the Pinghu. And his master, Ding Yifang, is one of the four towns under the jurisdiction of the Yangtze River Water Division. The general army of Hukou Town, Jiangxi, all the information was also recalled in Deng Kai's mind - a native of Yiyang, Hunan, a water division, subordinate to Peng Yulin's subordinates, and accumulated merit to the garrison. Xianfeng eight years, Kejiujiang, the capital division. Ten years, Ke Jiande, give flowers. Looking for Jiande to fall. Tens of thousands of thieves have invaded the mouth of the lake, and the momentum is very strong. The righteous side collected Jiande and defeated the army, and 500 people were simple and strong, and they were distributed to defend the army. He led the water division to the northwest gate. The thieves attacked the city by Rui, and the righteous side bowed down to fight by himself, and the deputy general Cheng Faxiang came to help. The thief leads away. Zhao Chao was promoted to general and added the rank of deputy general. Eleven years. Garrisoned at the mouth of the small pond, thieves came to attack from Xingguo. Defeat it. Rush to the aid of Duchang and relieve its siege.

In the first year of Tongzhi, from Peng Yulin Dieke along the river passes, he was promoted to deputy general. In the second year, he wanted to attack the thieves in Duchang, destroy his boat, find the Qingyang Siege, and register his name as the general soldier, and give him the name of Baturu. Seven years, awarded the general army of Hukou Town, so far!

This is an old-fashioned general like Li Chengmou.

The fleet gradually became clear, in addition to the Pinghu with the big head, there were also three large sampans of the Supervising Array, five supervising sampans, and ten long dragon boats.

There are a total of more than 2,000 people in Hukou Town, and now these six or seven hundred people should be the most capable force under Ding Yifang.

Yes, six or seven hundred. A 320-ton steam gunboat with 18 main warships of the Qing Army's naval division had a total carrying capacity of only six or seven hundred people.

The so-called sampans and dragon ships can only be equipped with one cannon and twenty or thirty soldiers. And the quota of the large sampan of the overseer array is also forty people, two small cannons.

Compared with the navy of the Western world, China at this time is really pitiful. It should be clear that the Yangtze River Naval Division was only established in the seventh year of Tongzhi, and it has only been nine years now, and the armament is at least 200 years behind the world.

If we are realistic, after the Yangtze River Naval Division's more than 10 steam gunboats were separated from hundreds of old-fashioned warships, they only needed ordinary strength and enough shells to sweep all the way from Shanghai to the Three Gorges. What four town water masters, in front of the power of the steam age, they are all scum!

Ding Yifang is a very old general. But these days, the Yangtze River Sailor's absolute advantage over Qin is absolutely real, so his vigilance has been lightened a lot.

Of course, Liu Xian's arrival made Ding Yifang also a little nervous. But Liu Xian's great fame was all achieved on the shore, and there was no Nanyang sailor in Poyang Lake, so Ding Yifang did not really feel threatened. He was thinking more that if he had to kill himself on the shore, he must not fall into the ambush circle of the Qin army.

The small island where Deng Kai led the ambush was a place where the Qing army commander settled, not a special place, because it was the closest island to Qiaoshe Town.

If it was sunny weather, the Qing Army Navy Division did not stop here for the first time. But hasn't the sky just passed? And the rain will continue. Liu Xian wasted the energy stored for three years, so that the virtual map did not 'turn on' for a record 43 consecutive days, and lit up the first small item in the 'planetary climate prediction' in the detector - local climate analysis! A function that can predict the approximate change in climate within a radius of 50 kilometers with Liu Xian himself as the central point. And step by step, it has been strengthened, and now this forecast range has been expanded to a radius of 100 kilometers.

Therefore, Liu Xian is very sure that this rain will follow.

Looking at the speed of the military and naval divisions, by the time they reached the island, the rain was almost coming. Then it is very likely that the Qing army will stop the ship and dock. You know, the dragon boat is single-decked without a roof!

Ding Yifang is 45 years old this year, and the Yangtze River Water Division has been established for nine years, and he has served in the position of the chief soldier of Hukou for nine years. In the past nine years, he has changed from a thirty-six-year-old young man to a forty-five-year-old middle-aged, the reason is very simple, he has not fought and has not earned military achievements, and his promotion is naturally slow.

Ding Yifang doesn't know how many times he has returned to his youth in his dreams, at that time, as long as he dares to fight, as long as he dares to work hard, his promotion will be like a second kick, rising in a straight line. Ding Yifang longed for war, and he didn't want to stay up until he was fifty or sixty years old to taste what it was like to be called a 'military gate'.

It turned out that his dream came true. The war really came, but Ding Yifang sat on the wax.

When the news of the Qin army's army reached Hukou, Ding Yifang was not nervous at that time. He didn't think that Liu Xian could succeed, nor did he think that Liu Xian could reach the mouth of the lake. But the result was that the Qing Dynasty was defeated one after another, and the Chu army, one of the pillars of the Huxiang group, was directly broken by Liu Xian in Fujian.

Then the flames of war burned to the mouth of the lake little by little!

Ding Yifang's long-awaited war is coming, but his mentality has changed greatly, and he no longer 'loves' this war in his heart. Even half of his heart is still in Hunan, where victory or defeat is the foundation that determines the direction of the entire Huxiang Group.

"Zhentai, the investigation has been completed, and there is no hostile situation."

As a veteran, even if Ding Yifang relaxes, whenever he docks here, he always sends two long dragon boats to reconnoiter inside and out. It's time-consuming, though!

"Order the fleet, dock and rest!"

The rain started to fall when it came out this morning, and it stopped for about an hour, and now it's starting to fall again.

The robes and rain gear on the soldiers were not used at all, and now in addition to some people on the Pinghu, there is also a deputy general Xing'an, and at least five hundred of the six or seven hundred people are soaked.

The Qing army was docking, except for the Pinghu, which could not really reach the shore of the island, and the other eighteen old-fashioned battlefields were all able to anchor on the shore on the northeast shore of the island. If the foreigners saw this scene, they would definitely pity the Qing army, because this situation is not to say that the northeast coast of the island is an excellent deep-water port area, but only to say that the tonnage of the Qing army's warships is really small and pitiful.

At this moment, among the reeds, hundreds of human heads floated on the water. It was the scouts led by Deng Kai, and at this moment the raft under their original butts was completely gone.

Deng Kai looked at the warships leaning on the shore not far away, and looked at the Pinghu not far away, with a very bright smile on his face. "Act as planned!" Then, without saying a word, the man disappeared from the water in an instant.

One gesture after another conveyed Deng Kai's orders. A human head was out of sight from the water.

The Qing sailors who landed on the island rushed to the high ground one by one to set up tents. Gray-and-white tents were quickly erected on the island, looking like huge mushrooms in the distance.

Ding Yifang is still staying on the Pinghu, and the shore is muddy and watery, so he is reluctant to go ashore. There is a special room for him on the Pinghu.

At this time, in another part of Poyang Lake, 6,000 Qin officers and soldiers with live guns and ammunition were solemnly boarding the boat. Their ships are not steamers, but the most ordinary sand boats, bird boats, and even fishing boats.

The whole scene was orderly, with more than 300 ships, carrying the strength of two battalions, crossing Poyang Lake and advancing towards De'an with the route inspected by Ding Yifang.

Liu Xian personally appeared at the landing site, looking at the soldiers on board the ship with a solemn face. 6,000 troops, no room for error. I hope there are no problems with the route map he has summarized in the past few days. It is hoped that these 6,000 officers and soldiers will land in De'an, and then the entire Jiujiang Mansion will become the Qin army in less than a few days.

Guangzhou reported that all the French warships had left Da Nang, and their whereabouts were unknown.

Liu Xian can see this as a threat. I can be sure that this powerful fleet will inevitably appear outside the Tiger Gate, but I don't know where else they will appear...... (To be continued......) R1292