"Shoot all!"

Li Xin finally shouted an exciting command, and muskets erupted one after another, and the battlefield was instantly hidden under the thick white smoke of gunpowder. Surprisingly, apart from two longbow salvos, the red-haired fan did not fire muskets during the charge, and the spearmen always charged at the front of the phalanx.

Seeing the musketeers of the Ming farmers taking the lead in firing, Wallace on the warship once again habitually shook his rhinoceros horn mustache, and the side that couldn't help but shoot first suffered in the phalanx duel, it seems that the Ming farmers are still farmers after all, how can they be compared with the mercenaries under his command?

By this time, he was almost certain that the battle was now preordained, and that the next scene would be nothing new, and that the famous farmers would be shot with muskets and stabbed to death with spears by the brave soldiers under his command.

Colonel Wallace began to search him again for a lewd and obnoxious affair.

"Prepare to land with me, we are going to live in the city of celebrities tonight!"

Wallace's idea frightened He Bin and went to live in the city, in case there were reinforcements from Nanjing, wouldn't it be a turtle in an urn? Wallace patted him on the shoulder, and with an expression on his face that he expected you to react like this, he smiled: "Don't be afraid! I'm just kidding you! Where will I find my galleon that will sleep peacefully? ”

He Bin wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and secretly scolded Wallace for making fun of him.

The boat was hoisted to the side of the big ship, and Wallace was about to step up when he heard a sailor exclaim: "Oh, God! That's impossible! ”

Wallace looked up, then his facial expression suddenly turned into horror, and he let out a voice of disbelief: "How is this possible! How could my brave mercenary be defeated? ”

Although a thick cloud of gunpowder enveloped the battlefield, he could still vaguely recognize the defeated soldiers desperately fleeing for their lives. The mercenary phalanx was like the sharp knives of these 3,000 people, once they broke up, the rest of them also fled in all directions, and in an instant, more than 3,000 people rolled back like a tidal tide at a low tide. Even some small boats did not have time to dock, and when they saw this, they quickly turned their bows and sailed back into the river.

He Bin was secretly glad that he didn't go ashore, otherwise he would be one of the thousands of defeated soldiers, and he was really defeated. For some reason, he was not half frustrated when his own side was defeated. He turned his head to find that Colonel Wallace had calmed down, and in pain he had put his fingers in his hair, and his mouth was coming out of a voice he didn't understand.

A hint of schadenfreude flashed in He Bin's eyes.

"Colonel Wallace, it's a pity that your mercenaries can't even beat the people of the Ming Dynasty!" He did not hesitate to provoke Wallace, and if he was defeated, Chief Putmans would surely remove him from his post. In his opinion, this Wallace has a proud body, but has a heart that is easily broken.

Wallace's expression at this time was obviously stronger than He Bin's evaluation of him, he stopped his face full of resentment, shrugged his shoulders, and laughed at himself: "God, this time I have had very bad luck going to sea, I have encountered unexpected situations again and again, this result is also something I didn't expect, and it is not what I want, it seems that we can only change places again, until the local Ming people can let us land safely in the unknown!" ”

He Bin was surprised to find that Wallace, who had lost the battle, actually softened his attitude, and couldn't help but feel a little confused in his eyes, not knowing what kind of medicine this guy who had always been arrogant and arrogant was selling in the gourd. In turn, He Bin was also quite sympathetic to him, he wanted to land in Nanjing, but was hit back by a cannon fire on the shore, and now he wants to pick up soft persimmons in another place and pinch them a few times, but he was inexplicably beaten after landing.

This guy must have gone out and didn't turn over the yellow calendar, and as a result, he hit a wall everywhere and became an unlucky guy, I hope the next location will not hit the wall again, otherwise if it goes on like this, the whole fleet will be in danger of collapsing due to low morale.

The pirates swarmed and swept away, and it was only two hours before and after. After this fateful toss, the sun also completely set, and the prefect of Changzhou warmly invited Li Xin and his soldiers to enter the city for the night no matter what.

"The grace of the Zhenyu Marquis to help each other, the people of Changzhou are grateful, if the warrior is let go like this, the next official is the parent of the house, how can he be safe?"

He Rory said a lot, in short, let Li Xin must leave after tonight, there is a beautiful thing in the mouth, in fact, he was frightened by the pirates, for fear that Li Xin would leave with people overnight, and they would turn their heads and kill a horse pistol.

Li Xinzhong remembered the Longtan military camp and Sun Jiao's whereabouts, but after a little thought, he understood the hardships of the Changzhou prefect, and simply did it to the end.

"It's hard to be warm, just stay for one night, and tomorrow morning, you have to return to Longtan no matter what!"

The governor of Changzhou was grateful, "That's nature, that's nature!" It was only at this time that he secretly became afraid, if it weren't for the fact that the Marquis of Zhenju happened to be here to inspect today, wouldn't he be in danger today? As a magistrate, it is the responsibility to defend the land, and there are only two kinds of opponents of the sea, one is to fight and die for the country, and the other is to flee in defeat, waiting for the court to be punished, in short, it is inevitable to have a knife in the neck. Thinking of this, he was even more obedient to Li Xin.

The Changzhou prefect's surname is Wang, his name is Zhen, a person from Huzhou Mansion in Zhejiang, and a typical Jiangnan scholar. On the way back to Jiangyin, he has been very attentive, and even fantasizes that Li Xin can stay behind to defeat the soldiers......

Early the next morning, Nanjing was under full martial law, and almost all the fishing boats and merchant ships were recruited and filled into the navy as ships. In fact, many people are like a mirror in their hearts, just this kind of small boat, which is shorter and longer than the Taihu Lake bandits, may be okay, and there is no power to fight back in front of the sailing ship of the Haikou. But who's to say more? Something has to be done.

Fortunately, Sun Jiao, the governor of Nanzhili, was rescued from the river and suffered a slight injury, but because he was frightened by falling into the water, he had a high fever at this moment, but he still insisted on presiding over the city defense affairs with illness. Disrespectful Sun Ji once assisted his father Sun Chengzong to trap the small city of Gaoyang in front of 100,000 Qing troops for several months, and none of the scholars in Nanjing City dared to boast of knowing the soldiers at such a critical moment, and they all gave up their hands to the virtuous. Of course, they also gave up the responsibility if the war was unfavorable.

At the same time, the good news of the Changzhou prefect was also sent to the city of Nanjing, and Li Xin was written by Wang Youzhen in the battle of Jiangtan, of course, he also had a credit for sitting in the rear. Several scholars weighed this good news in the political hall, and their hearts were mixed. Sun Ji saw a lot of cats from this seemingly flowery good news. For example, the beheadings were only hundreds, and the results of the big ships of the pirates were not mentioned at all. The real situation may be that the pirates were not badly damaged, and they probably went to raid other places.

Sun Jiao's conjecture was correct, the pirates plundered Taicang, Suzhou Prefecture, Taicang City was broken, the county was martyred, the people were plundered, and countless losses were lost. This is like a bolt from the blue to the important ministers of Nanjing, and if the Haikou can loot Taicang, they can loot Changshu, and then they may also loot Songjiang Mansion to the southeast. It must be known that Susong Erfu is an important place of wealth in Nanzhili and even the whole country, and if the Haikou is allowed to suffer, it will not be able to recover its vitality in three or two years. Who bears this responsibility? Many people's eyes invariably looked at Sun Ji, the weak and exhausted governor of Nanzhili.

Sun Ji coughed violently for a while before he could hold back his voice.

"Sun Jiao was ordered to patrol Nanzhili, and he had the responsibility to defend the land. Now that the matter has come to this, I want to call on Li Xin's three guards to defend the important land, do you have any objections? ”

The Three Guards Army was stationed in Nanzhili Yingtianfu Boundary, and it has always been unjustifiable, and its position is relatively embarrassing. Sun Ji has always sought a realistic reason for the Three Guards in Nanjing, but now that all the scholars have retreated and do not want to take responsibility, he simply took the opportunity to bring it up.

"I'm afraid it's not right! There is no conclusion that the marquis of Zhenyu belongs to the capital, and if he rushes to raise it, he is only afraid of discord in the system......"

Xiong Mingyu, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, took a clear-cut stand and raised opposing views. Sun Ji also looked at him coldly, and he didn't have a good face, so he replied directly: "It's difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, since Xiong Shangshu thinks it's inappropriate, do you think you have a proper way?" In this case, Sun Ji let Xian just go, just because he was sick and tired, he was really embarrassed! ”

Xiong Mingyu dared to take this hot potato, and finally gave in.

"Whatever Sun Butang said, the old man just said it casually, but it is not entirely true to deal with Haikou, I didn't pay attention, the Fujian General Soldier Zheng Zhilong's sailor division has experienced a hundred battles, it is better to transfer them to fight thieves!"

Zheng Sanjun, the head of the household, immediately questioned it.

"This gang of Haikou is wearing the banner of Zheng Zhilong, if the two sides are really implicated and recruit Zheng Zhilong to come, wouldn't it be to drive wolves at the front door and tigers at the back door?"

Although Zheng Zhilong's pirate background has been recruited, it is similar to listening to the tune and not listening to the status of the announcement, and the coastal operation of Fujian is like an independent kingdom. Even if Haikou and Zheng Zhilong have nothing to do with each other, who dares to guarantee that in this kind of stormy situation, this person has no two hearts?

However, everyone agrees with Xiong Mingyu's opinion, and he always has to send someone to go, after all, if there is no decent sailor, the sea of pirates can come and go freely in the Yangtze River waterway, which is equivalent to cutting off the north-south traffic. What's even worse is that in the section of the Yangtze River grain road, wouldn't Wei Guogong, who was in Taiping Mansion, face the danger of running out of food?

So Sun Jiao made a decision in person and ordered Shao Hualong, the left-behind commander-in-chief, to be in charge of Nanjing's city defense, and Li Xin's Three Guards to be in charge of Yingtianfu, waiting for an opportunity to go to the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River to help. At the same time, he also sent a special person to Jinjiang, Fujian Province to deliver a letter, urging Zheng Zhilong, the general soldier of Fujian, to lead a naval division to the mouth of the Yangtze River to attack the Haikou bandits.