According to the gentleman's agreement between him and Ziyang Zhenren, Chongzhen waited in Hukou River for a total of five days, which was the last chance for Ziyang Zhenren and Zuo Liangyu and his son to surrender and plead.

However, these five days also have a certain harvest, on the evening of the third day, Yuan Jixian, the governor of Huguang, and He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, and the two feudal officials came to Chongzhen's big tent together, kneeling down and asking for guilt.

Searching for the memory of this body, these two ministers have a good official reputation, and they are both anti-Qing heroes in history, although they have colluded with Zuo Liangyu, but later fell out with Zuo Liangyu.

After Zuo Liangyu died of illness in Jiujiang, Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng led 200,000 elite soldiers under his command, and surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty collectively without moving a knife or a gun, and became a shameful Han girl.

These two ministers completely broke with Zuo Mengeng, took thousands of righteous men under their command, united with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong's old department, embarked on the road of resisting the Qing Dynasty, and supported the Southern Ming Dynasty for many years, but never surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, showing a high national integrity.

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen is of course optimistic about such a minister.

Therefore, Chongzhen issued a decree to not blame the two of them for the past, so that they could be reinstated and continue to serve the imperial court.

These two people were grateful, and after thanking them, because they were grateful for the emperor's grace, they gave Chongzhen all the city defense maps of Jiujiang and the deployment of troops.

In addition, they made a military order in front of Chongzhen, willing to go to Jiujiang to persuade Zuo Liangyu to surrender the city.

But two days after the two left Chongzhen's camp, they suddenly wrote a blood letter, Zuo Liangyu and his son reversed, and now the power fell into the hands of Zuo Mengeng and Wu Shen, they were in collusion with Ma Shiying, refusing to surrender and admit their guilt.

These two ministers were ready to mutiny, and when the emperor attacked Jiujiang, it was the day they started up.

After Chongzhen read the blood book of the two adults, he was furious, and immediately ordered Li Yan to cross the river to fight, cross the river in one go, enter Jiujiang, and clean up these unscrupulous ministers and thieves.

Li Yan, Huang Degong, Ma Bao and Liu Zhaoqi have already made preparations and are waiting for the emperor's will.

Therefore, Chongzhen's will was handed down, and 300,000 Ming troops heard the order, and thousands of warships, large and small, loaded with Ming troops, lined up on the river, and marched to the opposite bank together.

"Fire!"

As soon as the warships of the Ming army arrived in the middle of the river, Ma Shixiu gave an order, and the cannons on the opposite bank roared.

The earth-shattering sound of artillery hit the water column into the sky, the smoke billowed into the sky, the fire soared into the sky, countless soldiers and warships of the Ming army were blown to pieces, dead bodies flew sideways, and blood stained the river red.

But the Ming army was not afraid of death, whether it was the sailors or the generals on the shore, braving the smoke and artillery fire, bravely moving forward, these sailors rowed desperately, and the guns on the ship also roared wildly, while hitting and approaching the opposite shore.

The Ming soldiers who were knocked into the river struggled desperately in the water, and some of them swam to the opposite bank with knives in their mouths......

The warship that rushed to the front, and when it was still a few hundred meters from the shore, the sailors of Jiujiang dispatched.

Ma Shixiu personally commanded, he boarded a big boat and rushed to the front, thousands of warships lined up on the river, the two sides began to bombard each other with artillery, after a meal, the distance between the two sides approached the range of the bow and arrow, the archers of the two armies fired thousands of arrows together, in the thick smoke of the cannonfire, countless arrows rained down on the ship to cover the sky and the sun.

The soldiers on both sides were hit by arrows one after another, some were shot into hedgehogs, some were cut into the river, and some were hit by artillery after being hit by arrows, the hull of the ship caught fire, and the soldiers covered in fire flew into the sky......

Some small warships were overturned by the huge waves caused by the cannonballs, and the soldiers on board became fishing turtles, struggling in the water......

After another half an hour, the shells and bows and arrows of both sides stopped, the ships collided together, and the hand-to-hand combat began, and fierce white-knuckle combat began on the ship and in the water, and the deaths were uncountable......

In the melee on the warship, Huang Degong, who was dressed in iron armor, was the most eye-catching, he drank two bowls of wine, and carried a pair of iron whips to kill three ships of thieves and generals.

Later, every time they jumped on a warship, the soldiers of the thief army on the ship did not dare to engage in the battle, and jumped into the river one after another. At this time, Liu Zeqing's general Bai Yongfu came to fight Huang Degong with a sword.

Bai Yongfu felt that his martial arts were not bad, but

was smashed into the river by Huang Degong's three whips.

At this time, Ma Bao was even more courageous, flying around on the boat, and the innate four-layer force cultivation was brought into full play, and the soft whip gun in his hand was haunting, and he even picked out more than a dozen Nanming generals, including Pang Ji.

Ma Shixiu's sailors couldn't resist it and began to retreat.

"Don't retreat, those who retreat die!"

Ma Shixiu, who was holding a ghost-headed broadsword, personally charged into battle, he jumped onto the warship of the Ming army, and after cutting down several Ming soldiers one after another, he encountered Liu Zhaoji, who was led by the sailor.

After the second general killed more than a dozen people on the boat, Liu Zhaoji cut Ma Shixiu into the water with a knife, and after Ma Shixiu was rescued on the boat, he was covered in blood, and his soldiers would protect him and retreat quickly.

At this time, Liu Zhaoji's main task was not to kill the enemy, but to command the sailors to rush across the river and transport the soldiers on the boat to the other side of the river as soon as possible.

Therefore, Ma Shixiu's sailors were defeated, and Liu Zhaoji commanded nearly 20,000 sailors to follow up quickly, and the warships were full of Ming troops, and under the control of the sailors, they were full of power to pursue the thief army, and soon reached the shore.

Under the command of four generals, Li Yan, Huang Degong, Ma Bao and Liu Zhaoji, the officers and men of the Ming army were like wolves and tigers, and after abandoning the ship and landing on the shore, they continued to pursue and destroy the remnants of the enemy.

At this moment, Zuo Mengeng came to support with a cavalry, and 10,000 iron cavalry joined the riverside battlefield like a whirlwind and clouds.

Among them, Wu Shen also participated in the battle with more than a dozen martial arts masters.

The situation on the battlefield quickly changed......

Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen