The time came to the middle of May of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen.

A warm current swept across the Central Plains, the temperature along the Huanghuai River rose by more than ten degrees overnight, and the Yellow River, which had been frozen for nearly half a year, completely thawed, and formed a flood flood.

At night, Bada Sea lurks quietly in the wilderness on the east bank of the Yellow River.

Tonight, it was the turn of Niu Lu, where Ba Dahai was located, to send an ambush army, and Niu Lu was really sent to Ba Dahai, although Ba Dahai was very dissatisfied, but he could only take Huang Deheng to the Yellow River to lurk.

Jiannu dug a trench dozens of miles long around Xuzhou City, and also built a one-zhang high parapet wall on the outside of the trench, and the blockade was not tight.

But no matter how tight the blockade is, it is impossible to be watertight.

Especially at night, there are often Ming army messengers trying to infiltrate.

As a result, Jiannu sent a large number of night and ambush army, the night is like a ghost wandering in the dark night, and the ambush army is a ghost hidden in the shadows, which often makes the Ming army messenger unguardable.

In the past few months, the messengers of the Ming army who were hunted by Jiannu at night and the Fulu army did not know how many.

"Master." Huang Deheng's voice sounded under the silent night sky, "Drink saliva." ”

As he spoke, Huang Deheng untied the sheepskin bag on his waist and handed it over, which contained water.

"Shh Badahai made a gesture of silence, and he faintly heard a hint of abnormality.

Seeing Ba Dahai's gesture through the dark starlight, Huang Deheng hurriedly put away the sheepskin handbag, and at the same time took out the fire fold from the leather bag he carried with him, and prepared a mutton fat torch at the same time.

At a moment, a ghostly black shadow sprang up from the wilderness ahead.

Badahai jumped to his feet, and as he got up, he had already fastened a heavy arrow to the bowstring and pulled out the bow, and at the same time shouted, "Torch! ”

Huang Deheng rowed the fire fold as fast as he could, and lit the torch.

After lighting the torch, Huang Deheng threw it forward vigorously.

The whirring burning mutton fat torch drew a dazzling trajectory in the air, and landed in the night sky above the black shadow's head, illuminating the black shadow at once, and it was really a Ming army!

Whether it is a detailed work of the Ming army or not, it is easy to tell, just look at the hairstyle on the top of the head.

During nocturnal movements, the Kennu usually goes bareheaded, revealing the tail of the golden rat at the back of his head.

Therefore, if you wear a hat or felt hat, it must be a messenger or a fine work of the Ming army, just shoot it.

Ba Dahai did not hesitate to let go of the bowstring, only to hear the sound of the bang, and the three-edged heavy arrow more than three feet long tore through the air with a thud, and roared towards the back of the black shadow.

Less than twenty paces away, for Bada Hai is basically for nothing.

With a pop, the arrow pierced the shadow over his shoulder, and the shadow fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, twitching twice and then moving again.

Huang Deheng waited for a moment before stepping forward happily.

"Master, it's a poor ghost." Soon Huang Deheng came back with a black face.

"I don't even have a big son, and I don't have secret letter wax pills or anything on me."

"Expected." Ba Dahai smiled and said, "After such a long confrontation, Minggou has already learned to be obedient, how can he bring money or letters." ”

However, before he finished speaking, he suddenly heard the sound of Kacha.

"What sound?" Huang Deheng said in a low voice, "Master, I seem to hear some cracking sound. ”

"Shhh Ba Dahai extinguished the torch and motioned for Huang Deheng to silence, and silence returned to the surroundings, as if nothing had happened.

Soon, the voice of Kacha Kacha sounded again.

Ba Dahai and Huang Deheng turned their heads almost at the same time and set their eyes to the west.

The place where the two of them lurked was actually quite far from the trench, but not far from the Yellow River, only a dozen steps.

After glancing at each other, Ba Dahai and Huang Deheng reacted almost at the same time, and then shouted in unison: "Water Master! Ming Army Sailors! Ming Army Sailors! ”

With a roar, Badahai pulled away the big bow,

And fasten a rocket to the bowstring of the Great Bow.

Huang Dehuan hurriedly rowed the fire fold again and ignited the rocket.

In the next moment, with a muffled bang, the rocket on the string swept into the air with a piercing scream, marking a striking trajectory in the night sky.

Then, in the nearby wilderness, piles of beacon fires rose one after another.

As these beacons lit up, castles were revealed at night, and these beacons burned on the castles.

Moreover, in addition to the beacon fire burning on these castles, there is also a Hongyi cannon, and the muzzles of all the Hongyi cannons are pointed at the river ahead.

Not long after, piles of beacon fires also lit on the west bank of the Yellow River.

Under the beacon fire, castles were also exposed on the west bank of the Yellow River, and the Hongyi cannon was also erected on the castle, and the muzzle of the Hongyi cannon was also pointed at the river.

At this time, if you look down from the sky, you can see a magnificent scene.

On the east and west banks of the Yellow River on the east and west sides of Yunlong Mountain, dozens of castles have been built on the banks of the river seven or eight miles long, and there are one or two Hongyi cannons on these castles.

But the Yellow River is several miles wide.

The beacon fire on the shore alone could not illuminate the river.

So the surface of the Yellow River is still dark, and you can't see anything.

But if you think that there is no way to build a slave, you are underestimating the wisdom of the ancients.

Of course, flares could not have appeared in this era, but Kennu thought of fireboats.

Immediately the fireboats burned from the shore and were pushed into the middle of the river and down the river.

Dozens of fireboats slowly dispersed on the river, and then slowly southward along the ayaxun, and soon covered the entire river.

At this time, if there were really warships of the Ming army sailors on the river, they would definitely be illuminated by the firelight of the fireboats, and there would be nowhere to hide.

Badahai's heart immediately lifted, if there were no warships on the river, then he would be lying about the military situation, and he would be punished the most severely, and it was possible to chase the flag.

Huang Deheng, a dog minion, is even more nervous than Ba Dahai.

If Badahai is punished, his fate will only be more miserable.

But fortunately, not long after, dozens of dazzling red lights suddenly bloomed on the surface of the river.

Accompanied by the red light, there was a huge sound of cannons, which was the warships of the Ming army's naval divisions firing cannons.

Obviously, after discovering that there was nowhere to hide, the Ming army's naval warships rushed to fire first, trying to destroy the fireboat released by Jiannu before the position was exposed.

But firing the cannon also reveals the bearing.

The red muzzle flame is the most dazzling pointing light.

As a result, the Hongyi cannons on the castle on the shore also split their cannons.

An artillery battle between the Ming army's naval division and the Jiannu artillery was suddenly staged, only to see the shells draw a dazzling trajectory under the night, crisscrossing the entire river.

From time to time, shells hit the castle on the bank of the river, sending smoke and dust.

From time to time, there are shells that hit the warships of the Ming army on the river, hit the mast, the mast was immediately broken, hit the female wall on the side side, the female wall was immediately broken inch by inch, if unfortunately hit the side near the waterline, it was the most unlucky, the bulkhead of the ship was immediately punched a big hole, and the river water quickly poured into it from the big hole.

……

Zheng Hongkui's face has turned into black charcoal, which is three points blacker than the night.

Before setting off from the sailor camp in Qingjiangpu, Zheng Hongkui had already expected it, so he did not choose to sail during the day, but risked running aground at night, what he was worried about was Jiannu's Hongyi cannon.

As a result, he was afraid of anything, but in the end he was shelled by the cannon of Jiannu Hongyi.

Looking at the dozens of Hongyi cannons on the castle on the shore that kept firing there, Zheng Hongkui was so angry that he gritted his teeth, these Jiannu are really hateful, and they actually built the castle.

What made Zheng Hongkui even more angry was that the castle built by Jiannu was obviously borrowed from the Ming army's platform, and it was also built very low, but the parapet wall was built extremely thick, and there was a large inclination.

Therefore, the shells of the naval warships hit the castle of Jiannu, which had almost no effect.

"Uncle, you can't fight like this!" Zheng Cai walked up to Zheng Hongkui with a face of gunpowder smoke, and roared with a black face, "Our cannonballs can't hurt Jiannu at all, but Jiannu's cannonballs can hit us hard!" ”

Speaking of this, Zheng Cai said: "Now we only have two choices, either go back the same way, or rush over desperately, it is impossible for Jiannu to block all the river sections, and the river section with cannons is at most seven or eight miles long." ”

Zheng Hongkui turned his gaze to Wang Chengen and asked, "What about the father-in-law?" ”

This winter, Wang Chengen was with Zheng Hongkui's sailor.

With more than 1,000 catties of peppers he collected from Huai'an Mansion.

Wang Chengen hurriedly said: "Everything depends on Mr. Zheng's calmness. ”

This stumped Zheng Hongkui.

……

The huge sound of cannon fire soon alarmed Chongzhen in his sleep.

Dressed and got up as quickly as possible, Chongzhen took Zhu Cijiong to the No. 1 platform on the top of the ninth peak, which has the widest field of vision, and can clearly see the river more than ten miles long in the east.

The scholar on duty tonight is Zheng Sen, and he immediately saluted Chongzhen.

"No." Chongzhen waved his hand and asked, "What's going on with the sound of cannons?" ”

Zheng Sen stretched out his hand and pointed to the east and said, "Holy Lord, our sailor has arrived. ”

"Sailor?" Chongzhen opened the telescope and pointed at the river in the east, and said, "The temperature has risen a lot in the past few days, and the Yellow River has thawed, so it's almost time for the sailor to come back." ”

Zheng Sen said: "But the water master seems to have really been stopped by Jiannu. ”

As he spoke, Chongzhen had already adjusted the focus and saw the situation on the river surface clearly.

But after only observing for a moment, Chongzhen said: "This is also an expected result, Jiannu's fort borrowed from our guntai, and the sailor's Hongyi cannon has no problem with Jiannu, but Jiannu's Hongyi cannon can pose a threat to the sailor's warship, according to this way of fighting, our sailor will not have a chance to win." ”

As early as more than two months ago, when Jiannu was digging trenches to repair the wall, he was building a fort.

From that time, Chongzhen had already foreseen that the sailor would suffer a great challenge.