Outside the riverside ferry, crowded with people who were eager to leave, many people shook the silver taels in their hands at the Shunjun soldiers guarding them, begging them to sell them a boat space. Liu Ran seems to be familiar with this scene, when the Northern Alliance was in turmoil, and when the first cavalry wing where he was located followed the general back to the division to fight, he saw a similar scene on the side of the Yellow River.

The rumbling cannon sound came from the south, Liu Ran turned his head and glanced in the direction of Anqing, puffs of white smoke rose from the south of the city, and the Anqing Shun army was firing back with artillery - the Ming army had approached the range of the Anqing defenders.

Liu Ran squeezed a passage through the crowd with his shoulder, stretched out his arm and handed the warrant all the way to the nose of the guard leader at the ferry, the officer glanced at it, and as soon as he took Liu Ran's pass, he ordered his subordinates to let people in. Liu Ran stretched out his arms vigorously to protect his wife from the crowd and enter the ferry through the cordon of the guards.

The few people behind him who wanted to follow were ruthlessly pushed back by the guards at the ferry, and as the Ming army pressed in, the local officials of Dashun, the participants of the local government, and those who were afraid of the Ming court tried to keep up with the Shun army that was shrinking northward, and retreated to a safer place in the Shun army-controlled area.

However, as soon as the war began, there were 1 or 20,000 Jiangxi Ming troops to invade Nanjing, and the Shun army of Anqing Mansion could only shrink the strength of the whole province to defend the capital city, and the Ming army penetrated through Anqing Mansion to the border of Luzhou, and now land transportation was almost cut off, and the only safe retreat channel was the Yangtze River waterway. With the fall of Zhejiang, the Ming army finally began to launch a strong attack on Anqing, and according to the current momentum, it is estimated that the ferry outside Anqing will fall into the hands of the enemy within a few days.

So far, the tacit understanding between the Shun army of Anqing Prefecture and the Ming army in Jiangxi is: the Shun army will not attack the wounded convoys and ships sent by the Ming army; And the Ming army did not attack the family ships of the Shun army.

Although the Anqing defenders had heard of this institution, they were skeptical at first, but it turned out that the power of the Qingyuan was indeed not small, and this private agreement has been well maintained.

Sending his wife to Watanabe, Liu Ran drank to a boat that was about to leave: "Wait a minute, there is one more person here." ”

"Wait a minute, sir, it's too full." The boat replied helplessly, and the existing passengers had crushed the boat deep into the water, and it seemed that the boat gang was only a line away from the river. The boat struggled to prop the boat farther afield. The situation was tight, and the Anqing government had ordered all the warships to be sent to the military families - these warships were not sure to defeat the huge ships on the Jiangxi side anyway, and according to the agreement, they could not attack the Ming ships that were shuttling across the Yangtze River in broad daylight.

Liu Ran looked around, and another small boat was staggering back.

"And the boat, and the boat." Liu Ran sighed with relief, turned around and stroked his wife's slightly bulging abdomen, took off the burden on his back, and stuffed it into his wife's hand, which was all his military salary savings: "When you arrive in Nanjing, take good care of your children." ”

"Xianggong, Xianggong," his wife suddenly burst into tears, shook Liu Ran's arm and said, "Let's go with the concubine." ”

A few of the surrounding military-looking people did not leave after seeing off their relatives, but were hesitantly pulled onto the boat by their families, and the guards at the ferry sometimes shouted nonsense, but most of them pretended not to see them.

"No, no," Liu Ran shook his head categorically, shook off his wife's hand, his pass was still given to him by the commander Wang Gong, the bosses and colleagues of the first cavalry wing were still in Anqing City, and the destruction of the family made Liu Ran and the Ming Court form an enmity that did not share the sky: "I swear to live and die with Anqing." ”

Seeing that Xiaozhou was already approaching, Liu Ran suddenly grabbed his wife again: "Lady, smile at your husband, laugh at another." ”

The crying wife sobbed and nodded, squeezing out a smile that was more ugly than crying, but Liu Ran was suddenly satisfied.

"Let's go, let's go." Liu Ran pushed his wife onto the boat, watched it be full of people, and staggered away from the ferry.

After ......seeing his wife's boat safely on the river boat returning to Nanjing, Liu Ran only had fighting spirit left in his heart: "My child will live in a much better world, and I must block the Ming army, and it is not a pity to die." ”

……

On the camp of the Ming army outside the city of Anqing, the vanguard of the Ming army was building fortifications - the Anqing Shun army was large in number and stockpiled a large amount of materials, compared to some other more important targets, the headquarters did not send enough troops to the isolated city of Anqing to carry out a strong attack, and it was likely that there would be a long-term and difficult siege here.

The Shun army has evacuated a considerable part of the people in the city, and now they are also preparing to hold on, and the first step for the Ming army to do is to build a long trench to completely cut off the internal and external communications of Anqing. According to the river defense plan formulated by Xu Ping after the capture of Jiangnan, Anqing, as an important town of river defense, also built a powerful river defense battery, which caused the Ming army's warships to not be able to reach close to shoot inside the city, which made the strong attack more difficult.

"Isn't it clear that I'm here?" Colonel Li, the son of Li Yunrui, who was sent to besiege Anqing, pointed to the calm Jiangfang fort on the side of Anqing facing the Yangtze River and asked, "Why don't the thieves attack our ships?" Is the gunpowder in Anqing running out? ”

"No, my lord......" A staff officer explained the agreement with the Shun army to Colonel Li, and in front of them, a Ming warship passed by the Shun army's river boats, and the other party's batteries also ignored it as they passed by the city of Anqing.

"But these ships are important weapons, and Gongzi is commanding the army to march to Nanjing, and every time he destroys an enemy ship, he is helping Gongzi," Colonel Li said dissatisfiedly, put down his binoculars and pointed to the ships gathered around the Anqing ferry and said, "If I let these enemy ships escape, it will be my dereliction of duty." ”

"Officer Li, this is also good for our army." He was ordered by the Jiangxi Provincial Academy to observe the progress of the battle situation on the battlefield, providing first-hand information for the Academy, and the agreement with the Shun Army was also facilitated by him: "With this agreement, our Jiangxi children can safely withdraw to the rear to recuperate from their wounds." ”

Colonel Li pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "It's time for this agreement to be suspended, our army is about to encircle Anqing, it is impossible for them to go out of the city to harass our convoy, and their ships are all about to escape, and they will not pose another threat to our troop transports. ”

From the telescope, you can see that the riverboats of the Shun army are densely packed with people, and the deck is full of human heads. The boats were also crowded with people, the sails of the boats were fully open, and most of the hulls were buried deep underwater, struggling to move slowly downstream along the river.

"These transport ships are extremely important to the thieves entrenched in Nanjing, and every time they destroy a thief's ship, they can save the lives of countless soldiers of our army," Colonel Li pointed to the staggering Shunjun river boats and ordered: "Send out sailors, sink the thieves' warships, and sink the remaining boats." ”

"Colonel Lee, wait a minute." Doctor Yu stopped: "This boat is full of women and children." ”

"This is the trick of the thieves, they use women and children as shields, how vicious."

"It's their own little family!"

"I have heard for a long time that a thief has a beastly heart, and he can be so vicious that even his own women and children can be used as shields, and real animals are also animals." Colonel Li scolded, and then said: "But I believe that there must be a mix of thieves and soldiers here, and they must have taken advantage of Dr. Yu's kindness to smuggle the elite here in Anqing to Nanjing." ”

"Never!" Dr. Yu retorted that when he negotiated with Liu Hong, the general of An Qing, both sides agreed not to use the agreement to transport combat troops or pass on secret messages. Judging from the intelligence, Dr. Yu believes that the other party has kept his promise, and Dr. Yu has always asked the Jiangxi Ming Army to abide by the agreement.

"Doctor Yu, do you dare to say that there is not a single thief on these boats?" Colonel Lee asked rhetorically.

"Of course there won't be no one, but they are all deserters...... intelligence also pointed out that occasionally some Anqing defenders, and even some ferry guards secretly boarded the boat and fled to Nanjing, but Yu Dafu and the Ming army officers on the Anqing front line thought that this kind of thing was inevitable, and they didn't take it to heart.

"So it was the thieves who breached the contract first," Colonel Li immediately found a more legitimate reason: "This is the Anqing thieves who are taking advantage of our kindness to smuggle the army back to Nanjing, and I have a duty to watch the thieves escape the net." ”

Colonel Li once again ordered the sailors to dispatch, and personally explained to the captain: "Keep calm and continue to paralyze the thieves, so as not to be blocked by the Anqing artillery, and immediately attack the thieves' warships after crossing Anqing, and not a single enemy ship is allowed to escape!" You don't have to return immediately, lest you suffer unnecessary casualties, but continue your sweep downstream, destroy all the thief ships you can see, and go to the base downstream to resupply first. ”

Jiangxi Qingyuan asked the children of Jiangxi not to harm the people, Jiangxi and Nanjing have been neighbors for generations, although they are now in two countries, it does not mean that Jiangxi people and Nanjing people are enemies. We have seen what Zuo Liangyu did, and the Qing Yuan will never allow our children to follow Zuo Liangyu's example! Dr. Yu protested loudly: "The Secretary will never agree to such an order, and I oppose it on behalf of the Secretary Yuan." ”

"God, we're at war, we're at war!" Colonel Li looked helpless: "And this is not the people, this is the enemy, it is the mother-in-law and cubs of the thieves." ”

——It was this immortal army that defeated the new army again and again in the Central Plains, making the new army lose face from top to bottom, how many wealthy nobles and their children were wiped out by this gang of poor mud legs, and even caused the Duke of Qi to be disappointed in them and made the Qing Yuan almost climb on the head of the military.

Colonel Lee impatiently shouted to the captains, "Do you want to disobey military orders? ”

The captains stood up and saluted together, then turned to leave, and some staff officers made a sorry gesture to Dr. Yu, who had no military rank.

Colonel Li held a telescope and watched with satisfaction as the enemy ships were torn to pieces by the Ming fire, and all the river boats that were dragged were knocked over on the Yangtze River.

After the Ming warship finished attacking, it headed downstream at full speed, and there were many targets along the way.

Colonel Lee pulled the telescope back from the river, which must have been filled with wood chips, and sighed contentedly, the last two months had been so pleasant. Colonel Li, who was in a good mood, looked at An Qingcheng, believing that it had been enveloped in desperate anger. Colonel Li recalled that those young noble children like him, who had just spread their wings in the bright career and military service, were shot down by the Immortal Army, many of whom were friends of the Li family, and were partners whom Colonel Li had known since childhood, longed for, and promised each other to help each other and share wealth and wealth for the rest of his life.

Colonel Li believed that the strength gathered in the south this time was unstoppable by the north, and the Ming army dispatched this time was unprecedentedly strong on land and water, and its strength was constantly increasing, which made the children of the Qi Gong group full of confidence and pleasure for revenge.

"No immortal army will be pardoned." Colonel Lee reiterated the principle of screening prisoners, and his heart was full of joy: "This is what you traitors deserve. ”

……

"We're at war right now, how can you come up with the idea of fighting for power at this time?" Jin Qiude's staff officers made no secret of their dissatisfaction with the Zhejiang Provisional Provincial Secretariat, and they demanded that the system of the Secretaries of Secretaries be popularized in the Guangfu District, that a formal Secretaries of Secretaries be quickly convened, and that the legislative power of the Secretaries of Secretaries be established.

However, the Ming army command was very dissatisfied with this, and with the assistance of Zhao Slowxiong, Huang Naiming, the commander of the Northern Expedition, had drawn up a list of officials in various prefectures and counties in Zhejiang. Some of them were gentlemen who actively supported the Northern Expeditionary Army, while others were members of the Qi Gong's subordinate group, and most of them would also have military personnel as administrative deputies to ensure that Zhejiang's Guangfufu County could understand the needs of the military in a timely manner and meet them quickly.

After the request was categorically rejected, the former new military camp officer, General Bao, was sent to negotiate with the Zhejiang Provisional Secretary of State to ensure that the people of Zhejiang would be treated in the same way as Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, and other provinces.

"This is a war zone, doctors, it's really terrible, why can't you understand?" General Bao smiled bitterly: "In order to win the war, we must carry out all actions that we deem necessary." If we are not allowed to do this, then we cannot guarantee the victory of the war, and the recovery of Zhejiang cannot be guaranteed. ”

"But when will this be temporary?" A representative of the Imperial Court said hesitantly: "We are not opposed to taxation and conscription, we are just doing something for the elders in our hometown, and there is a way to appeal if there is any wrongs or grievances." ”

"Gong Qi said that this is a civil war, we will never wronged or wronged any Zhejiang fathers, and we will promise you all the doctors! Don't you doctors believe that the young marshal is incomparably benevolent and righteous? General Bao stressed again: "This is the time of the war, in order to ensure the final victory, the army must be able to do things freely, and any supervision is no different from collaborating with the enemy in terms of consequences." ”

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