He Bin breathed a long sigh of relief after leaving Nanjing City, secretly glad that he did not lose his life because of Wallace's arrogance. To tell the truth, the young marquis of the town has the meaning of solicitation in and out of his words, if he can really join this person's command, at least he will not have to suffer from the wandering, and he will not have to look up to the ghost. But in the blink of an eye, my mind cooled down again, who can guarantee that this is not the official army carrying out a counter-plan? Once you enter the palace, you will get what you want, how many people are really happy like Zheng Yiguan?

Then He Bin sighed softly, the reason why Zheng Yiguan was valued by the Ming Dynasty was because he had strong strength. Eliminate the pirates, fight the Tibetan people, which Zheng Yiguan must not rely on pirates to start his career? This is also the reason why Zheng Yiguan was able to operate a huge force on the southeast coast, and the Ming Dynasty could still turn a blind eye. What do you have? Nothing, just a general matter of the Dutch, even if they voted for the Ming Dynasty, how many chips can they have in their hands? Don't end up being unloaded and killed by the donkey. It must be known that the successive officials of the Ming Dynasty to exterminate pirates did not do such untrustworthy things.

With this concern, He Bin gave up the idea of defecting to the official army of the Ming Dynasty, and only thought about quickly dealing with Wallace, the annoying Scotsman. When he came to the Qinhuai River, he glanced back at the city of Nanjing behind him, but saw that there were pillars of wolf smoke rising above several enemy towers.

"I have long expected that the people of the Ming Dynasty will not give in lightly, tell the gunners, don't rest, act now and continue the shelling!"

Colonel Wallace smirked, and through He Bin's narration, he knew that this ancient Eastern empire had fallen into great trouble. The vast territory was full of rebellions, and there was a huge rebel army in the middle of the Yangtze River not far from Nanjing, and it is said that a Ming duke was the leader of the army, but this did not prevent the Ming army from being defeated. And north of the Yangtze River, he himself just beat a Ming Dynasty governor to the ground, and now Nanjing City is already a lonely city, where can there be reinforcements to relieve the siege?

As the cannon rumbled one after another, Wallace stretched lazily.

"I'm going to go to the cabin to rest for a while, what's the matter, you can stay here and enjoy the grand scene of the shelling of Nanjing City!"

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In Sanyuankou, a whole group of hundreds of soldiers and soldiers of the Three Guards dressed in the Red Army uniforms were sitting on the ground, recuperating. Li Shuangcai, who had returned to the battle sequence of the Three Guards, also closed his eyes and recuperated in it, because soon the time for them to overdraw their bodies would come.

"Captain, look! It's wolf smoke! ”

After hearing this, Li Shuangcai suddenly opened his eyes, bounced up from the ground, and looked north with his hands on the pergola, and sure enough, two pillars of smoke rose into the sky.

"Get up, bunnies, it's our turn!"

To tell the truth, Li Shuangcai was quite dissatisfied with Li Xin's arrangement, why could anyone else go into battle to kill the enemy, and he was arranged to dig the soil as soon as he came back. He didn't know that Niu Jinsong and his people were very envious of him, and if he knew that the rest of the soldiers were only allowed to defeat and not need to win, he should be glad to be happy.

"Dig!" Li Shuangcai took the lead in lifting the shovel beside him and jumped onto the embankment, on the other side of the embankment was the dry channel of the Nanhe River, and the sand was full of cracks and cracks.

As shovels flew and sand was raised, the embankment was quickly dug into a breach, and several trickles of water from the Qinhuai River channel flowed into the dry Nanhe River along the shallow ditches dug.

"Keep it up! The Marquis of Zhenyu said, as long as we successfully dig the Sanyuankou River Gate, we will credit our work! ”

At that time, it was not easy to dig out the soil on the embankment because it was built of rammed earth, but the area chosen by Li Shuangcai and others was hastily filled in at the beginning of spring, so the soil was loose, and after digging out the hard soil on the surface, it was very convenient to dig sandy soil.

This is also one of the reasons why Li Shuangcai and others were able to dig several small ditches quickly. But if you want to successfully bring the water from the Qinhuai River to the Nanhe, this is only the first step. In addition to diverting the water flow, the soldiers also filled the rocks dug out of the river embankment into the Qinhuai River waterway bit by bit, and then bagged the sand and soil into it. The two-pronged approach, eliminating the advantages of one and the other, is naturally twice the result with half the effort.

As the sediment fell, the originally clear water of the Qinhuai River began to become muddy and washed all the way downstream. The sailors on the galleons outside Nanjing soon noticed the strange phenomenon of the river turning muddy, and soon reported Wallace, who was resting.

Sailors live on water and have always paid attention to the changes in the water, but they only have experience at sea and have no idea why the river is muddy. This time, even He Bin, who has always shown himself as omniscient, can't say one, two, three, four.

Wallace thought for a moment and suddenly realized: "It may be that it has rained heavily upstream, which has washed the sediment into the river, so the river water downstream is gradually becoming muddy!" After speculating a few words, he asked the sailors beside him, "How much grain and gold are there?" After loading, you have to get out of this narrow river as soon as possible! ”

The Qinhuai River is more than ten zhang wide, which is not narrow in the river, but Wallace is used to sailing on the sea, and always feels that so many large ships gather in the river and are crowded. If he hadn't found gold in the granary, he wouldn't have stayed here for so long.

And He Bin didn't realize until this moment that this Wallace was not stupid and arrogant, and every provocation was to hide the action of loading grain on the ship, and the smoke of artillery fire that filled the river just covered the sailors who carried grain and sandbags. He Bin was secretly annoyed, and he always thought that this person was stupid, but it turned out that he had another scheming. With this thought, He Bin was vigilant in his heart, reminding himself not to underestimate this person again, otherwise he might fall because of it.

"It's been loaded, just waiting for the order to sail!"

Wallace was very satisfied with the sailor's report, he took out his pocket watch from his bosom and looked at the time, and then gave an order with a relaxed face: "Before leaving, give some gifts to the Ming Dynasty!" Tell the gunners of the ships that after firing three rounds of salvos, Yang Fan will return to the river! ”

As the rumbling cannon rang out again, He Bin only felt that his ears had become numb. Suddenly, he felt the hull of the ship shake visibly a few times, and then the downed oak barrel on the deck hill rolled down to the other side and hit the railing before stopping.

When He Bin stabilized his mind, he was shocked to find that the deck of the galleon was actually showing an angle visible to the naked eye, and he thought that he was dazzled, and hurriedly looked up to see the mast of the galleon, which also had an obvious inclination.

"Oh my God! Who can tell me what happened? ”

Wallace questioned the sailor uneasily, and it was clear that he had noticed the hull of the ship just now. Soon some sailors pointed to the river in horror, and stammered that they could not say a complete sentence. Wallace followed the sailor's findings, and was so startled that he nearly fell to the deck, which had clearly tilted.

A three-masted galleon was capsizing, and its towering mast seemed to be out of balance. The entire hull and the surface of the Qinhuai River present an incredible angle. A terrible word rose in Wallace's head, stranded!

"It can't be! That's impossible! ”

While Wallace muttered to himself, He Bin also realized what was happening. But he, like Wallace, felt that this was impossible, it was simply unbelievable, but it was something that was really happening in front of him, and he couldn't help but believe it.

The salvo has stopped, and it is clear that all the big ships are facing the same problem.

They ran aground!

The sailors on the galleon were in a state of panic and confusion, everyone knew what it meant for the ship to run aground, and the captain tried his best to maintain order on board, but to no avail. It wasn't until Wallace's guards drew their muskets and snapped and killed some of the most active sailors that the whole ship fell silent.

"What are we going to do? Captain, tell me what you think! ”

The three-masted galleon, which used to be able to cruise freely, but now it is stranded, which can only show one problem, the water level of the Qinhuai River has suddenly dropped in a short period of time. But who can do what? The captain was a kind and honest man, so he could only shrug his shoulders helplessly and spread his hands, indicating that there was nothing he could do.

Wallace kept telling himself to calm down, and no matter what went wrong, he would now either wait for the water level of the Qinhuai River to rise, or ...... Wait a minute...... He seemed to grasp something in his chaotic thoughts, and a terrible thought suddenly popped up in front of his eyes when the river suddenly became muddy.

This must be a trap made by the people of the Ming Dynasty! And those thousands of pounds of gold are the bait! Wallace suddenly felt like a fish that had bitten the hook, funny and pathetic! At this time, he no longer had any luck, if this was a trap made by the Ming Dynasty, just wait for his fleet to run aground, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely have follow-up.

"Look, a ship turned around and left the fleet without permission!"

The people on the three-masted galleon looked at each other, and sure enough, there was a ship with a slightly smaller displacement that had not yet run aground, and after discovering the condition of the big ship, they tried to leave the Qinhuai River and return to the deep and wide Yangtze River waterway.

"This group of bitches raised! Their captain should have been shot, and then the body was taken to feed the dogs! ”

Wallace angrily cursed the captain who had left the fleet without permission. But soon he couldn't scold, and after a cannon sounded, the big ship that left the fleet without permission shook a few times, and then sat helplessly in the Qinhuai River. The river soon overflowed the deck of the ship, and only the mast swayed weakly in the wind.

"Who fired the cannon? Well played! ”

"It seems to be a cannon fired by the Ming Dynasty!"

I don't know which sailor answered Wallace's question, Wallace was very relieved, but when he heard this, he froze. Did the Ming Dynasty have a cannon in the city of Nanjing?