Chapter 47: Conflict on the Yangtze River

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In the summer of 1344, the Yangtze River was busier than usual, with a large number of ships carrying processed shipbuilding timber, population, steel, grain, and steam engines heading south. The same fleet of ships loaded with salt and pickled seafood was carried against the current. A large number of fishermen were recruited to join the Yangtze River transport team. Armed with steel knives and crossbows, they have also become a force to be reckoned with on the Yangtze River when guarding against the coveting of other forces. There are a few small forces that are not long-sighted, and they have fought the idea of past goods, and all of them have suffered heavy casualties under the counterattack of this well-equipped sailor formed by Cheng Pan. The inferior iron tools of the water bandits could not even pierce the rattan armor soaked in bamboo. This rattan armor is a consumable that can be easily made. Now the rattan armor will be woven from the collected rattan or bamboo, and then the rattan armor will be put into the thermal insulation layer outside the coke oven to dry, and then brushed with a layer of cement and then dried. It's done, of course, it would be better if you soaked it in tung oil for a while before brushing the cement, but tung oil is a scarce material for shipbuilding. Cheng Pan saved this process. is such armor, in front of the small forces in the rivers and lakes that lack iron weapons, it can be called a god costume. These poor bastards don't even have clothes to wear, and this armor is enough to deal with them.

The slightly more powerful forces in the rivers and lakes are all dragging their families, and the last time they killed the lair of the Giant Whale Gang by themselves in the process of climbing up, it was already famous. I saw the ship of the Huangzhou Gang like a plague god. That's a notorious benefit.

As for the sailors of the government, they did not dare to greet the fleet with the sickle flag. The thing was born in the early summer of this year.

Hua Buyi, who lived a very relaxed and comfortable life, was messing around in the camp of the garrison in Zhenjiang as usual, occasionally looking at the riverside, his men were collecting tolls from passing ships, and the Yangtze River was opened by me, and the river was raised by me. Soon a large fleet of ships appeared upstream in his field of vision. The fat sheep came, and the eyes of the Zhenjiang military camp seemed to see a large sum of silver floating by.

As the escort of this time, He Feng dozed off boredly in the bow of the ship, since he was imprisoned in the small black house by Cheng Pan for fifteen days last time, he was directly transferred to the militia reserve as a training officer. Although the military ranks have not changed, in the army, the militia reserve and the field army are simply a world apart. In the future, the opportunity to fight and make military achievements was almost cut off. If you don't have military merit, after eight years of compulsory military service, you will be discharged directly with an allowance of 20 acres of land. This is simply a disaster for He Feng, who has always wanted to be a general.

Fortunately, the territory is in a period of expansion, and no talent will be idle, due to the expansion of the Yangtze River Transportation Brigade, there is a shortage of sailor officers. He Feng enthusiastically signed up, and at the same time wrote twenty touching examinations to send to Cheng Pan here. To tell the truth, Cheng Pan annoyed him, and He Feng had the best conditions among the people who signed up in the end, after all, he had followed Cheng Pan for a long time, and He Feng had never been absent from various big battles.

The defense of the Yangtze River transport could only be entrusted to him. At this time, He Feng was bored, and suddenly several small boats blocked the channel in front of him. He Feng's spirit was shocked, and he knew that he had something to do. Several small boats rushed over with a few Yuan troops dressed in dirty clothes. A man who looked like an officer saw He Fengzhong on the bow of the ship pointing a knife at He Feng and the others and said, "Stop, stop, I suspect that you are harboring important criminals on the ship, and the officers and soldiers must carefully check it." He Feng, who was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, pointed to the sickle symbol on the bow of the boat with a look of under-pumping and said, "Do you recognize this symbol?" Do you know whose ship this is? The officer frightened He Feng with a fearless tone, and secretly thought: "Could it be the ship of a certain big man, no, I have memorized the flag of the ship that I can't provoke, there is no this, be careful first." The officer said politely: "Dare to ask, your Excellency is bringing that family's ship" He Feng said in a pretending tone: "We are the fleet of the Cheng County Order of Rugao County, so we should not let it go quickly." He Feng specially bit the two words of the county order very hard. When the officer heard this, it was as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world, if you are a fourth-rank or above official in the court, you still have to take care of it, but now it is only a seventh-rank petty official. Zhenjiang, a tax-pumping checkpoint, gathers the interests of many people, and half of Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces are taking advantage of the norm. You're arrogant with a county order. The officer replied confidently and said, "How did your county magistrate teach you this ignorant thing." Twenty big boats teach two thousand taels of silver to come out, otherwise you will ask your county order to lead the boat. He Feng pretended to be ignorant and said: "What if I don't break in" The officer said angrily: "You are looking for death." He Feng was waiting for this sentence, and he excitedly said loudly to the people around him: "See, this is him provoking our joint water army, not me who provoked it, and you will help me testify when the military investigation team comes." The officer below didn't know what He Feng was talking about, but he felt that the other side wanted to resist to the end. So the flare torch was lit. He Feng saw the movement of the people below and ordered: "The first row of arrows." He Feng, who had turned into a command state, immediately changed his expression. Rows of crossbowmen fired a salvo to eliminate those who stood in their way. This kind of crossbow is equipped with a large number of hot-forged steel parts, because the parts are strong and very lightweight. The arrows are cast of pig iron with barbs, and can damage anyone without armor within fifty meters. No one will wear iron armor in the battle on the boat, otherwise they will be transferred to the river without bubbling.

I have to say that He Feng's military talent is still a little, after quickly eliminating the small boats that are blocking the way, He Feng commanded five combat ships to line up in battle and attack the large camp on the shore. After firing from five bed crossbows with canisters of fire oil, several small boats on the shore were set on fire. Several soldiers who had just boarded the boat caught fire all over their bodies and had to jump into the water to save themselves. The soldiers on the shore did not dare to get on the boat, and fired arrows from a distance of dozens of meters.

After all, the Yuan army barracks in Zhenjiang were not specialized naval divisions, and the Yuan Dynasty completely bankrupted the enemy by water after the failure of the expedition to Japan, and there was no water enemy after the fall of the naval division of the Southern Song Dynasty, so it did not throw money at the naval division. The Zhenjiang Barracks was just an infantry battalion. It was only because of the river that a few boats were built for a fee. After a few boats burned out, he looked at the river and sighed. At this time, He Feng's task of protecting the fleet was completed, and the next thing was to wash the floor of the administrative team. But He Feng was a war maniac, and he continued to play for a while while burning the ship.

He Feng watched a few soft feather arrows fly over by the river. Although it is impossible to hurt people. But it made General He Feng very unhappy. You're still arrogant when the boat is gone. So the order was given, and the five warships pushed a total of 25 small guns out of the gun window, loaded them with shotguns, and fired a salvo into the river. Suddenly, the shore that was still screaming happily just now suddenly screamed again and again. He Feng looked at the emptied shore and said proudly: "Tell you to release the arrow again, you will continue to make cheap mistakes."

He Feng, who was a cheap, swaggered and led the fleet south. He didn't forget his business before leaving, and delivered the news to the territory.

Rugao County and the main base immediately interrupted the operation of the transportation line after learning the news. Rugao County also sent a message to Cheng Pan, who was far away in Taiwan.

When Cheng Pan left the main base, he attached great importance to the Yangtze River transportation line, and the order of the administrative team was: If anyone does not offend me, I will not offend anyone, and if anyone offends me, copy the orders of his whole family. The entire administrative team was a little idle during the year of peace. When he learned about the conflict, he immediately thought of copying his entire family. A group of big ships went south with 6oo communist troops, and also took a batch of picric acid rocket warheads from the warehouse, just four days after the incident, the entire southern Jiangsu officialdom was planning how to retaliate at the same time, but it was hit by a frenzy. After receiving the news, Cheng Pan quickly took the flying shear to order the clipper to arrive, and met the retaliatory army that was on standby when he was swimming against the current. Although the administrative team of the entire main base passed the resolution of retaliation, they did not dare to give the order to open fire, in fact

The army did not dare, and this was not a territory that was attacked, and it would be subject to strict military law if it provoked a war casually. The army has been waiting for Cheng Pan's command near the other side of the Zhenjiang River.

Cheng Pan came to the army, carefully understood the situation, and decided to fight this battle. The Yangtze River waterway is crucial to the southbound policy. Cheng Pan needs to deter large and small forces under the Yangtze River, and this time the response must be tough. The officialdom in Jiangbei has formed a tacit understanding with Cheng Pan, and the group of people in Jiangnan must also let them form a tacit understanding with themselves. Power is fundamental to negotiations.

On the same day, Cheng Pan's retaliatory army landed on the land of Zhenjiang. Under Cheng Pan's sudden attack, the Tunjun battalion in Zhenjiang didn't expect this group of people with sickle banners to dare to come. But the next battle let the Zhenjiang battalion know why the other side dared to come. Under the blow of a salvo of artillery shotguns and muskets. The Zhenjiang army, which had been corrupted by the filial piety of the passing merchants, immediately fled after losing a few hundred elites who dared to fight. The place of the battle was not far from the camp, and the Zhenjiang army fled back to the camp. But I didn't expect the barracks to become a big grave.

Cheng Pan didn't think about attacking this camp in the face of this big camp, and the salvo of 2oo picric acid rockets instantly turned the Zhenjiang camp into a Shura field, and 2oo orange fires bloomed. Set the wooden camp on fire in an instant. Radiates a yellow poisonous mist. In this fire, the Zhenjiang camp was completely destroyed.

Cheng Pan set up a big sign not far from the crime scene, "The person who robbed my cargo ship ended up like this, Rugao County ordered Cheng Pan to hand ink"

After learning the news, the entire officialdom in southern Jiangsu was like a nine-magnitude earthquake, which was too arrogant, and the blatant provocation was a rebellion. It has been a taboo to kill the official army and force the checkpoint to break through, and this magistrate did not come to bear the guilt, but took revenge for the second time. Wipe out the entire battalion of officers and soldiers, this is the official army of 5ooo people on the surface (the actual cost of eating empty salaries in Zhenjiang is only 2ooo). Then I couldn't help but carefully inquire about who Cheng Pan was, and I didn't know if I didn't ask, so I was startled. Cheng Pan didn't want to rebel, but he had already rebelled once, although the officials in Jiangbei didn't admit it that time. However, Mo Rihe's 5,000 officers and troops were crippled in the Battle of Hudong, and it could not be concealed.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces felt that this matter was not trivial, and quickly brought the lawsuit to the court, and at the same time transferred the troops from Hangzhou to the other side of Taizhou.