The Sinking Tree Man's method is almost to directly take the unmanned ship to the "mines", face the reefs and broken cones that the enemy may lay underwater, and forcibly open a way out.

It's just that others can't say this, but he can't be more reasonable.

Because the Shen family has nothing else, that is, they have money and ships.

The money ability in this field is activated, and on the earth, except for Zheng Zhilong and the King of Spain, or the Duke of Orange of the Netherlands, there is no fourth one who can be more confident than him.

Even the then King Charles I of England was not good, and Britain in 1642 was not worthy of being regarded as the world's top naval power, and it would have to be a few decades before it could wrestle with West Holland and compete for the first place in the world.

The generals under the command of Shen Shuren, starting from Zuo Zixiong, all knew what Lord Futai said, and these words naturally brought tears to their eyes:

Lord Futai really deserves the benevolent saying that "those who do great things must be people-oriented"!

How many officials in the Ming Dynasty, which one is not all kinds of money-making and harming the country for personal gain! Only Shen Futai is not only an official who sticks money upside down, but also loves nurses so much!

The army is state, and the soldiers belong to the imperial court, not to the private family of the Shen family.

The sea ship and the silver, but it is really the private of the Shen family!

Now, Lord Shen would rather sacrifice more things in his own house in exchange for less loss of things in the imperial court and fewer casualties in the lives of soldiers.

What kind of spirit is this?

This is not what it is to destroy a family!

With tears in their eyes, they couldn't go against Lord Futai's good intentions for the time being, so they could only push the boat down the river first, and let Lord Futai try the effect of this trick.

……

And Shen Shuren is obviously not the kind of wronged person who can endure "spending money and not even hearing a sound",

Even if he does charity, he wants to be famous.

There is no name, who is especially charitable!

Therefore, in the next few days, in the gap before the next round trip of the grain fleet, although there was no war, the propaganda work in Chen County did not stop for a moment.

Shen Shuren didn't engage in any official propaganda, it was too fake, and the soldiers were not easily convinced. He just sent some henchmen to spread the inside story of the preparations for this war among the soldiers' gossip through various private channels.

"Have you heard, originally Zuo Zongzhen and other brave generals who dared to fight, saw that the grain fleet was intercepted by the enemy, and they all planned to go out of the city by land and water to open up the road. It was Shen Futai who stopped him, and he had other tricks. ”

“…… It turns out that this is the case, such a civilian official who loves soldiers like a son, we have really been in the army for seven or eight years, and we have never heard of it. ”

"Haven't heard of this? Although we have only been soldiers for three years, we have always known that Lord Shen has always loved soldiers like children. However, his military law is also very strict.

When I started in Huangzhou three years ago, I recruited Wharf Lifu and Orion as soldiers, and I was paid enough to eat and drink, and I never lacked equipment, armor, and stomach, but when it was time to fight, I was also lined up along the river, and some people took the lead in jumping into the river to escape, and they were all beheaded to show the public! ”

"That's a good thing, brother! As soon as he became a soldier, he was a soldier in Huangzhou, and now he is too enviable to think about it. We are all Henan soldiers, we have fought five more battles than you, it is not easy to survive to this day, and the brothers around us have died and changed how many stubbles.

If we had been able to follow a good official like Lord Shen as soon as we joined the army, maybe my second brother and my cousin would have lived like me until now. Such an official who takes our soldiers' lives seriously, I can't find any of them in Henan. ”

The Shen family's family first picked up the Huangzhou soldiers to spread, and then spread from the Huangzhou soldiers to the Wuchang soldiers, and then to the Henan soldiers and the Anlu soldiers. It's almost like the modern army to engage in grievances and dig up the ideological roots.

In this way, the military spirit is more and more available.

……

The four or five days of waiting time also passed quickly. Finally, it was time for Zhang Mingzhen's army to transport grain to Chen County again.

This time, it was only Shen Lian and Li Yu who led the grain and sailors, and Zhang Mingzhen himself still didn't come - this was not Zhang Mingzhen's cowardice, but Shen Shuren's care, and he needed to come back when the final battle was made.

If you expose all your strength too much in advance, it will not be easy to lure Li Zicheng to bite the hook again and again, and it will also be easy to make morale tired, and then exhausted.

The process of transporting grain is not worth repeating any surprises, it is basically advancing according to Shen Shuren's script - the intrusive army still organized interceptions, and more troops were dispatched than last time.

Moreover, after a few days of rest, the shallow and slow flow of the Yingchuan River in the southeast of Chen County has also been renovated by the Chuang army, and the hidden piles and artificial reefs have become denser, and the channel has been dammed and narrowed, making it more difficult for the fleet to pass.

In fact, Li Zicheng obviously thought about "completely digging up and blocking Yingchuan", but this crazy idea flashed and could not be implemented.

Yingchuan in this era can be regarded as one of the tributaries of the Yellow River, how can this amount of water be dug up. Moreover, since ancient times, it is better to control the water than to be sparse, such a large amount of water is directly blocked, and when the dam bursts, it is absolutely the first to drown Li Zicheng himself.

Therefore, with the operation method of waving a shovel with both hands, the army can only deploy a little reef and cofferdam.

When they saw the official and military food convoy approaching again, the intrusive army immediately dispatched a lot of troops on land to help defend and encircle, and as usual, as last time, they frantically fired at the convoy with firearms and crossbows to suppress it.

The small boats and rafts of the intruding army hid behind the hidden pile area to wait for work, hoping to wait for the official and military ships to run aground or hit a hole and lose their mobility, and then rush up to meet the broadside and jump ship in hand-to-hand combat.

It is a pity that this time, the officers and soldiers did not use small boats to escort the passage and explore the channel, and directly collided with the big ship. In the tooth-wrenching sound of wooden planks cracking, the dark cones of the dark piles were broken, swept away, plunged into the bottom of the boat, and dragged away.

There were even some small boats hiding in ambush behind the hidden pile area, and they were so straight and upright that the official and military boats that were only slightly castrated after breaking the hidden pile, and directly overturned. A group of amateur sailors from the north fell into the river in November in winter, and suddenly shivered with cold, their hands and feet were stiff, and the water quality was relatively not very good, and they drowned directly.

At the same time, because the officers and soldiers did not use small boats, the long-range fire of the invading troops on the shore did not benefit at all - all the officers and sailors had cover, and they fired arrows from the shooting holes on the side of the ship in the cabins, while the invading troops stood on the shore. In this exchange ratio, the officers and soldiers have definitely made a lot of money, and shooting ten enemies to death may not hurt one of them.

After a bloody battle, the officers and troops only lost a dozen large ships and rushed out of a bloody road.

Today's general in charge of the first-line interception command is Liu Fangliang, who was also furious when he saw this state, so he ordered all the small boat sailors to cover up and seize those stranded ships.

At least snatch the food from the ship that is destined to sink, and then kill all the officers and sailors who dare to be death squads for the sinking dog officer to vent their anger.

However, even this small goal will not be achieved in the end.

After the big ships of the officers and soldiers entered more and more water and lost their forward momentum, the sailors on board abandoned the ship one after another, jumped on the small sampan of the lifeboat, and moved to the friendly war ship behind.

Only a very small number of those who could not retreat were entangled by the invading army, caught in hand-to-hand combat, and were brutally killed. However, even if the intrusive army robbed the broken ship, they could not get any food, because they soon found that the ships that had been used to break the barrier did not contain food at all.

The draft of these boats seems to be deeper than that of grain ships, so that they can clear more water droplet obstacles by hard hitting. After all, if even a large ship with a draft of one foot deep can easily pass, then an ordinary grain ship with a draft of only seven or eight feet will definitely be able to keep up unharmed.

It's a pity that the ballast that sustains the draft of these barrier-breaking ships is just piles of stones, and they are not worth robbing at all.

The stones were covered with dry grass and firewood, and the officers and soldiers threw a few torches before abandoning the ship, and they suffered from the sailors who came to jump to help rob the boat.

Some of those who were unfamiliar with the structure of the hull and had gone deep into the lower compartments were burned out of their way out for a while, wailing and crashing like headless flies in the sea of fire, some of them eventually rushed out of the deck with fire, but some of them were unable to find their way in the thick smoke, and finally died alive and sank with the ship.

Although the number of soldiers burned to death was definitely small, the incessant screams could be faintly heard at least for several miles, and the morale of the invading army was even greater, at least they knew that they had been tricked again.

……

Although the officers and troops were victorious and brought food again, the morale and hatred of the defenders in the city did not subside in the slightest.

Although the place where the water battle took place was still dozens of miles away from the city of Chenxian County, the flames of the burning of their ships could not be seen from the highest point of the tower in Chenxian County with binoculars.

However, the billowing smoke from the burning of a bunch of ships can be faintly noticed by telescopes in the distance.

Zuo Zixiong also personally went to the city that day, watched the smoke column, and handed over the binoculars to other garrisons and officers above the thousandth general level, so that everyone present could take a look. After these people went back, they naturally couldn't help but sigh again and gossip with each other, so that the officers at the more grassroots level would also know the price paid by Lord Shen today.

On the side of the army, after Li Zicheng returned again in vain, he inevitably became angry again. Fortunately, he also knew that he couldn't blame his generals for this, so he just took things to get angry and didn't punish any generals.

After all, Li Zicheng is also an existence that will win people's hearts, and this responsibility is still necessary. is angry, and you can't look for scapegoats like Chongzhen.

After venting and calming down, he naturally had to find Song Xiance, find Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang, and continue to discuss countermeasures.

And this time, there is no qualitative change in the countermeasures, it is nothing more than to continue to pile manpower at the expense of money, and to build and expand the reefs, hidden piles, iron cones, and cofferdams at the bottom of the Yingchuan River to 400 large sand boats that cannot be knocked away!

This is also the easiest to think of, the easiest to deal with, directly pile up the volume, the operation method does not need to change at all, just rely on one force to reduce ten meetings.

The leader said a word, and the subordinate ran and broke his leg. King Chuang personally said that to carry out such a large-scale construction at the bottom of the Yingchuan River, the soldiers of the Chuang army were of course miserable.

In winter, it is necessary to dig sand and pile soil, cut down and drive dark piles, especially the new dark piles to ensure that they are buried in the silt at the bottom of the riverbed at least one zhang deep.

And these operations are to be completed in the water, people on the water, a bunch of people carry a thick wood several feet high as a rammer to pound down, the labor intensity is really miserable.

Even if the canal was built in peacetime, with the technical level of the Ming Dynasty, the construction of a river channel of several miles in this way would have to kill and injure hundreds of river workers. What's more, it's wartime now, it's still winter, and the construction deadline is still in a hurry.

Of course, the old battalion in Shaanxi will not be sent to do this kind of coolie, so it can only go to the old and weak cannon fodder newly caught in Henan, and the kind of weak people who can't be soldiers in peacetime.

As a result, the camp within the army is torn apart, and it is also faintly strengthened, although it can't be seen from the outside, but a considerable number of people are becoming more and more detached. If it really reaches the critical point, another local thief in Henan like Yuan Shizhong raises his arms and shouts, and anything can happen.

However, Li Zicheng's perseverance and resoluteness also quickly reaped the benefits. Because just a few days later, when the fleet of the Shen Jiajun left Chen County again and went downstream, wanting to return to Shou County to pull another batch of grain, the fortifications of the army finally played a role.

In fact, if Li Zicheng could calm down a little, he would be able to think about why this time, after the grain fleet of the Shen family army entered Chen County, it took three or four days to unload the goods before leaving the city again?

Isn't it possible to unload the grain twice in the usual two days at most, and the sailors have rested enough, so they can return?

Obviously, this time the unloading was so slow, and Shen Shuren deliberately delayed it, that is, to give Li Zicheng time to construct and force the Shen family army into a desperate situation.

Of course, the reason that Shen Shuren declared to the outside world is definitely not like this, and he will definitely find a very reasonable excuse to explain "why the unloading is so slow this time". And Li Zicheng is even more unlikely to know the details.

All in all, the movement of the Shen Jiajun's returning fleet this time was slow, and the price was that when they came to the construction section of the river again, even if they wanted to use a few boats to collide as a death squad, they couldn't crash away.

So Shen Lian and Li Yu could only return to Chen County, and report the bad news to Shen Shuren.

Of course, the intrusive army can't let them run away easily, so they have to chase after them anyway.

And Shen Lian and others' boat level, if you want to open the distance, it is obviously open, but I don't know what's going on, Shen Lian is "out of order", improper command, there is a disconnect between the rear army, several large ships full of firewood and grass, finally caught up and stranded, had to be changed by the crew to escape in a lifeboat, and then set fire before leaving.

The location of this fire is closer to Chen County, less than ten miles away - after all, Shen Lian has a full grasp, and he chooses when and where he will be caught up by the Chuang Jun Sailor. He can be caught up wherever he wants, and his acting skills are very realistic.

This raging fire does not need to be led by senior officers such as General Zuo, and the ordinary soldiers on the city wall of the South Gate Tower can see it really without binoculars.

They spread legends, asked each other, and soon figured out that it was a ship that wanted to leave the city to transport the next batch of grain reserves, but was blocked back by Li Zicheng, and some of the ships ran slowly and were burned after the battle.

And at this point, Shen Shuren no longer hid, he announced the convening of the whole army to train him, and to tell the truth, he announced a bad news:

In the city, after the first two shipments of grain, there is still nearly two months of grain in stock, so even if you don't fight for the time being, you can't starve to death.

However, Li Zicheng has spared no expense and cut off the waterway and grain route of the Chen County official army! If you don't fight now, in two months, you will run out of food and have no strength, and then you will still be unable to fight a decisive battle!

Is it waiting here for the end, waiting until the food runs out and has no strength to fight, or is it still full of energy and physical strength, fight to the death, and reopen the grain road!

Moreover, the army has blocked the Yingchuan River, so that at least two or three hundred large sand boats can not pass, and only small sampans can pass!

It is necessary to take both sides of the river and slowly break down those obstacles in order to re-dredge the waterway!

Therefore, those who discount the idea of "others are fighting desperately on the shore, and I am hiding in the boat and waiting for my life" can also stop this thought sooner or later! If you don't fight to the death on the shore to repel the invading army, you can't escape if you take a boat!

If you want to survive, you can only fight to the death! There is no second way out!

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ps: I can finish writing the decisive battle with the breaking army tomorrow. Today, let's start with about 5,000 words and a big chapter. I'm going to change the map after I finish playing tomorrow, and I'm going to take some time to reorganize and adjust the outline and improve the follow-up details.

Everyone can rest assured, they will not kill Li Zicheng, this is just an explanation to Chongzhen, and at the same time, they will hurt Li Zicheng and get rid of his idea that he thinks that the south is fat and can get a vote.