At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang built a total of 12 ships, bought 6 more, plus the two he had before, a total of 18, but now he took out the three newly built boats, and dragged a few small boats with some straw hanging iron chains all the way over.

When it was close to a certain level, the guards of the festival lazily discovered that a ship had openly sailed over in broad daylight.

There are three big red characters on the flagpoles of the three big ships, and it is obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang, who came to fight last year, has come to attack again, which makes the soldiers very anxious, and they hurriedly began to divide the troops and arrange them, while sending people to inform the generals here.

Soon everything was ready in place, seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang's three ships were new, the enemy did not dare to slack off, and all the ships were immediately sent out, and there were countless large and small warships.

Zhu Yuanzhang's three boats were still towing a lot of small boats, which they had seen last year, although these small boats were broken, they still had some lethality, so all the cannons began to fire salvos.

"Hahahaha! You see, a sailor has jumped ship, what a coward! That Zhu Yuanzhang is really shameless, just use such a few broken ships to beat us, or pay for the new construction, it is better to give all this money to Lao Tzu, and waste so much in vain. The general said.

The soldiers around him also burst into laughter.

Zhu Yuanzhang's troops only fired two shells, and there was no sound again, and the three big ships drove too fast, and they were directly hit by countless shells here and almost sank.

Countless sailors no longer had the desire to fight, and began to dive, and the small and large boats were chained together and carried into the water together, and some of them were on fire.

Suddenly, there was jubilation on Jiqing's side, all the soldiers were very happy, they won a battle again, and this time it was a complete victory, what Zhu Yuanzhang was a waste at all, and the crew under his command was estimated to have been chilled last year, and when they saw something wrong, they gave up the boat and jumped directly, which made them very proud, so they never took Zhu Yuanzhang's troops to heart.

In 1356 AD, that is, the year when the three big ships were sunk, seven days after the sinking of the ships, Zhu Yuanzhang personally led his troops, and the troops were divided into three ways to prepare to attack Jiqing.

Zhu Yuanzhang divided the troops into three routes, in the middle of the road, and led the team himself, consisting of seven big ships and more than 100 small boats, and appeared in the center in a mighty formation according to the previous method. The other two roads consisted of eight large ships with more than 100 small boats, preparing to attack the opponent's right flank.

Zhu Yuanzhang also has more than 800 small boats, not a single big boat, and there are a few people lurking on each boat, ready to go to the left on a long way.

Calculating the time, both sides should have been spared to the position, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang has been on the water for a day and a half, but he is reluctant to start a war, always retreating and retreating, although he is against the other party, but he has always been out of range.

The enemy generals couldn't figure it out: "What kind of medicine is Zhu Yuanzhang selling in the gourd on this dog day, can he fight or not, and the buddies play with him?" There was contempt in the words.

"General, I think this Zhu Yuanzhang was most afraid of being beaten last year, and this year he began to send three big ships to prepare to come to us for bad luck, but he didn't expect to be sunk after only two shots, and his heart was unbalanced, so he was ready to forcibly clash with our army, according to the small one, he must be preparing to divide his troops to attack us from another place, those warships are checking the big flags, obviously, our exploration ships have known for a long time, just on our left, that is, their right side, eight big ships have entered our sight today, It seems that they are ready to attack in two ways. ”

"Hmph, just him Zhu Yuanzhang, is he worthy? Lao Tzu is going to fight this year, he is just as embarrassed as last year! ”

Suddenly there was a burst of laughter around.

The sky gradually darkened, but Zhu Yuanzhang's two troops still did not have any intention of going to war, and the Jiqing army and others were impatient, as long as they rushed up, Zhu Yuanzhang's troops retreated a little, and over time, people were not happy to pursue.

But they didn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang still had a force, and that force had already taken advantage of the night to start frantically attacking from the left.

Zhu Yuanzhang had been waiting, and it was almost time since he estimated, and Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly ordered in the middle of the night: "Attack!" Call me! "Suddenly, several large ships entered the vicinity of the firing range at the same time and took the lead in firing at the enemy.

The generals on the other side had received Zhu Yuanzhang's orders in advance and began to attack at the same time.

"This damn Zhu Yuanzhang, if you don't fight sooner or later, it's just that this time disturbs people's dreams, this time you must beat them back to their hometown!"

"Report to the general, Zhu Yuanzhang's troops have attacked in two directions and have begun to attack frantically, but they seem to be different from seven days ago, not only the tactics are exquisite, but also the firepower is very fierce, which is difficult to deal with."

"Report to the General! Zhu Yuanzhang's troops were fighting with our army's troops, and the small boats behind their big ships were tied with chains, and if the cannons missed, they would not sink.

If they had not been sunk directly, they would have advanced with a thick tarpaulin, and ordinary arrows would not have worked at all, and even the fire did not seem to have much effect, and they soon came under our ship before the cloth burned to themselves. ”

"Damn! How about the right side? ”

"Report to the general, there is no anomaly on the right side for the time being!"

"Send one-third of the army on the right to support the middle road, one-third to support the left road, we have more than 100 big war ships, and Zhu Yuanzhang's big ships are only fifteen, how do you say to fight?"

"Yes General!"

Soon the big ships over there began to be drawn away, but they didn't know that all the ships were on fire during the night of fighting, obviously. But Zhu Yuanzhang's other army is actually a big army, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and was still ready to win with a small boat, and the two sides began to attack with all their might, and they were not afraid of death at all, rushing forward, directly giving the enemy a heavy blow, and taking the enemy by surprise when the enemy was not prepared, and it was very purposeful to completely attract the enemy's large forces.

Seeing that the enemy began to gain a firm foothold and began to fight positions with himself, and saw from a distance that it was obvious that there was a fire coming, and the enemy's reinforcement ships were coming, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that it was almost the same, and hurriedly retreated all the ships.

At this time, there were less than twenty big warships left on the far left, but suddenly they found that there were shadows of small boats everywhere in front of them one hundred and ten meters, although the artillery was huge, and there was no way to face the black pressure and dense small boats, they could only watch their artillery bombard the enemy's two or three ships with one shot, but the enemy was still as many as ants, and soon their ships were occupied, and countless Zhu Yuanzhang's troops began to go ashore.

Suddenly, Jiqing, where the shore defense was empty, was directly occupied, while the soldiers were guarding the city and did not fight them at sea at all.

At this time, Jiqing's troops were in a dilemma, and the more than 20 big ships on his left were also controlled by Zhu Yuanzhang. If you go ashore, these ships are all gone, and if you don't go ashore, you will not fight a protracted war, there will be no water, no food, and no backup.

After spending more than ten days, Zhu Yuanzhang finally took down this place, and collected countless supplies and dozens of warships.

Chu Liuyan's strategy was a great success, and the poor Zhu Yuanzhang finally got rid of Fengyang, got rid of Haozhou, got rid of Chuzhou, and came to the wealthy Nanjing, where he and Chu Liuyan stood at the wharf of Jiqing, and the two looked at the water of the Yangtze River together and looked into the distance.

"There's still a long way to go." Chu Liuyan said.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "I know, this is just the beginning." ”

The two of them didn't say anything more, just looked into the distance.