On the Yangtze River, a fleet of five large ships of five or six hundred materials is lining up in a horizontal line, passing through the white rain and fog, and going down the river.

These five large ships are all large ships that carry grain that are very common in the vast land of lakes and rivers scattered all over the river, and they have been reinforced and transformed so that they can go into battle to kill the enemy.

On each boat, large wooden shields were erected on both sides of the board that were wide and heavy enough to withstand shotgun bullets, and there were some large and small holes in the wooden shields.

Some of the larger holes protrude from a long oar, which ripples the river and adds strength to the big boat going downstream. The oarsmen were all young and strong men, shirtless and muscular, and their heads were covered with sweat when they had combed their hair in a bun.

The other part of the hole is the shooting hole, from the hole is a black hole hole of the barrel, look at the barrel of the barrel is thick and strong, you know that it is not an ordinary shotgun, but a powerful turtledove foot gun! Because it was still raining in the sky, in order to prevent the rain from wetting the gunpowder and fire ropes, the amidships of these five large ships were also equipped with canopies to protect them from the wind and rain.

Under the canopy, in addition to the oarsmen and musketeers, are the elite soldiers who jump gang battles.

In the water battle near the river, you can't wear heavy armor. These elite soldiers, everyone is just tight-fitting short-beaten, with light straw sandals on their feet, and the weapon armor is a waist knife, a small rattan card, plus a small axe with a handle of more than two feet long - the axe of this axe is very small, and the weight is not large, but it is a sharp weapon for melee armor piercing.

And this axe can also be used to cut the ropes that bind the pontoon, and it can also be thrown out to be used as a throwing axe!

In the middle of a boat, two generals wearing hats and robes just stood at the bow of the boat. One of them is Li Zicheng's nephew, Li Laishun, the heir of the Dashun Fengtian Army. The other person is a little older, surnamed Hu Mingyi, is a "second generation", his father was Li Zicheng's guard, and then I don't know where he went? It is estimated that he was martyred. And he grew up in Jiashan Temple when he was a child, although he shaved his head and pretended to be a monk, but he was also the same as Li Laishun, he was not good at chanting, but he just practiced martial arts hard, making a turtledove foot musket, marksmanship is very good, known as a hundred shots!

Because Jiashan Temple is next to Lishui and surrounded by streams, Li Laishun and Hu Yigun, a group of "second generations", are water-based, and some people have also learned the skills of boating.

Now these five big ships quietly sailing on the Yangtze River under the cover of rain and fog are actually all the merchant ships of Jiashan Temple - there are so many monks to feed in Jiashan Temple, it is not enough to rely on Li Zicheng's savings to sit on the empty mountain, and it is not possible to collect a few rents by relying on the land owned by the temple, so Li Zicheng ordered people to buy merchant ships to do business between Lishui and Yuezhou very early, and sometimes he will run the Yangtze River.

And the next family who does business with Li Zicheng usually doesn't have any good people, either the water gangsters of Dongting Lake or the gangsters on the Yangtze River. Therefore, Li Laishun and Hu Yigun, the "second generation" of Jiashan Temple, are no strangers to the water war.

After Li Zicheng made a comeback in the name of Li Fengtian, many heroes on the Yangtze River and Dongting Lake came to join, and half of the soldiers who followed Li Laishun and Hu Yigun to steal the Yangtze River pontoon bridge were born in the rivers and lakes!

This is really a bit out of the expectation of the gambler prince of Oza, Li Zicheng, who was born on the Loess Plateau and has been a rogue for half his life, actually cultivated the skills of a water thief.

Although he didn't know that Li Zicheng had ordered the water thief skill, the gambler Wang Ye Oza still deployed a defense on the side of the Shashikou pontoon bridge.

In the midst of the rain and steam, when the warships of the five Fengtian naval forces turned around a river, what suddenly appeared was a huge pontoon bridge with a team of heavily armed Eight Banners soldiers wearing hats and robes on the deck of a bridge!

Those Eight Banners soldiers didn't expect that five big boats would suddenly appear on the river through the vast rain and fog, but their reaction was quite fast, and after a commotion, the horn sounded through the rain curtain and suddenly sounded.

On the other end, Li Laishun also shouted angrily: "Add a paddle and hit it!" ”

As Li Laishun gave an order, the oarsman of the boat he was on began to pull the oars hard, and two white waves immediately split out from the bow, and the speed was raised as soon as it was raised, and it rushed towards the pontoon bridge in front of him!

And Li Laishun flashed to the side again, then turned his head and roared at Hu Yiji: "One shot!" Fuck it! ”

Hu Yigun had already retracted under the canopy at this time, and set up a turtledove foot musket with a lit fire rope, and found the target, and when he heard Li Laishun's order, he pulled the trigger and shouted: "Medium!" ”

"Phew!"

After a crisp gunshot, the head of a small officer who was brandishing a waist knife and directing his subordinates to deploy and meet the battle exploded like a rotten watermelon, and red, white, and gray things splashed in all directions, and the whole person was not able to do it at that time, and he couldn't even scream, as if he had been struck by lightning, and his limbs twitched and fell on the pontoon.

"Change the gun!" Hu Yigun, who had succeeded in the first blow, immediately roared, and then threw the turtledove-footed musket with empty bullets in his hand back, and someone immediately caught it, and then another loaded musket was handed to him. Without saying a word, he took the musket and set it up again, aiming it at another Eight Banners soldier who was screaming at each other, and shot it in the head, right in the shoulder of the Eight Banners!

Sure enough, it was a hundred shots, and one shot killed! Well, the projectile of the turtledove foot gun weighs one or two, and when it hits the shoulder, it is a hole-sized bowl, and all the armor, flesh, and bones will be shattered for you! Of course, the blood vessels were also broken, the blood rushed out like a fountain, and the Eight Banners soldier let out a heart-rending scream in pain, it was really impossible to survive, and it was better to wait for death than to be shot in the head!

"Phew! Bang! ”

After Hu killed the two Eight Banners soldiers with one shot, the sharpshooters of the Fengtian Army on the other two big ships also fired the turtledove foot muskets in their hands, and then two more Eight Banners soldiers fell in response!

Sporadic gunshots continued to ring, and the Eight Banners soldiers on the pontoon bridge kept being shot and fell! Although the firepower was not very dense, it was continuous and accurate, and after a while, the Eight Banners on the pontoon bridge had been beaten to the point that "corpses were all over the bridge"!

And they have no effective means of fighting back.

It was raining heavily, and there was no shelter on top of them, and of course the muskets could not be fired or even the fire rope could be lit!

Their bows and arrows were still usable, but they patrolled in the rain for a long time, and the bows of the Manchurian bows they carried had absorbed enough water, the bowstrings were soft, and the feathered arrows they shot were so weak that they couldn't even pierce the canopy on the top of the Mukden army's warships.

Although the Mukden army had the upper hand in this round of firefighting, the battle between the turtledove's muskets and the bow and arrow did not last long, and with the combined effect of the right current and oars, the five large boats soon approached the pontoon bridge made of 100 boats and planks across the Yangtze River, and then crashed into it!

"Canopy! Sail! Canopy"

Several loud noises came, overpowering the sound of water, the sound of golden drums and horns of the Qing army's alarm, and the exclamations and shouts of the Qing army on the shore and bridge!

These five wooden boats have been modified to a certain extent for today's collision, and bronze cast ramming angles have been installed on the originally flat bow. Like a knife blade, the ramming angle struck into the pontoon.

The sawdust that had been chopped and smashed flew all over the sky, and the entire pontoon bridge was violently shaken, and more than 100 Eight Banner soldiers who were approaching the impact of the five warships did not even have time to lie down and grab the plank, they were shocked several feet high, and then flew into the rolling Yangtze River. They're all wearing heavy cloth armor! After falling into the water, he couldn't float at all, but he struggled desperately a few times, and then he sank straight down, and he didn't even bubble up.

Although the Eight Banners who were a little farther away were not knocked into the Yangtze River, they could not stand firmly, and they all fell on the slippery pontoon bridge deck, staggering one by one, struggling to get up.

The people on the bridge were shocked into the water, and fell on their heels, but the people on the boat were already prepared, and before the impact occurred, they had already clung to the ropes on the deck, and then all the people, except for the musketeers, grabbed their shields, raised their axes, and shouted like "tigers get off the boat", jumped off the bow of the boat, got on the pontoon bridge, brandished their axes, and slashed at the crooked Eight Banners.

There were more than 100 soldiers on these five big boats, including the oarsmen, and now except for the musketeers who continued to shoot black guns on the boat, everyone else jumped on the pontoon bridge and cut people, and more than 400 people rushed down at once!

Li Laishun also rushed down the bow of the boat with an axe, first chopping to death a Eight Banners soldier who struggled to get up with an axe, and then shouted angrily: "Kill the Tartars to avenge the martyrs who died in Shanhaiguan and Maolu Mountain!" Kill! ”

The soldiers of the Mukden Army, who had already rushed up and had not yet rushed to the pontoon bridge, were suddenly inspired to fight - they were all proper "second generations"!

Dashun has already won the world!

After these heroes, isn't it inexhaustible to enjoy wealth and glory? But he was stirred up by these hateful tartars, and he lived a hard life until now.

How can this tartar not be hated!

All the Mukden soldiers roared like thunder and began one-sided killings on the pontoon!

"Kill all the dog Tartars and snatch back the rivers and mountains of Dashun!"

Well, they have to get back everything that should have belonged to them!

At the time of the attack on the Shashikou pontoon bridge, Zhang Chaozhen, the governor of Hubei, was leading his Fubiao to guard the Shashikou commercial port, anxiously waiting for the good news ahead. Ozha is a gambler, but he is not a gambler. His family was originally the Guangning garrison of the Ming Dynasty, and he joined the Qing Dynasty with Sun Degong, and was affiliated with the Blue Banner Han Army. can climb to the current governor of Hubei, it is really conscientious every step, and it is inevitable that he will be severely criticized for a black pot or a little mistake.

He was very opposed to Oza's "one-handed victory". The credit for winning the bet is all Oza's, and if he loses the bet, he has to be unlucky, so it's no wonder that he doesn't object.

But what's the use of his objections?

Kangxi himself is a child, and the people he trusts most are a group of Manchurian magnates who are not much older than him, not to mention that he is an old man of the Han Dynasty and Eight Banners, even if he needs Manchurian generals, he may not be much trusted.

Therefore, Zhang Chaozhen could only take half of the pacesetters to Jingzhou to take care of Ozha after receiving the order from Ezha - the main force of Jingzhou has been taken away by Ezha, and only a small number of flag soldiers and fragmentary green battalion soldiers drawn from all over the country remain, with a total of less than 2,500 people, of which Zhang Chaozhen's Fubiao accounts for half.

Just such a small number of people, he was divided into three parts, 1,000 people guarded Jingzhou City, and 1,000 people guarded the bridgehead on the south bank of the pontoon bridge - Zhang Chaozhen was very worried that Li Zicheng would copy the back road and break the pontoon bridge, but he guessed it.

However, he didn't guess that Li Zicheng, a native of Shaanxi, would also fight a water war now, and instead of attacking the bridgehead on the south bank of the pontoon bridge by land, he directly marched to the pontoon bridge from the waterway.

And guarding the pontoon bridge were his pacesetters and the Eight Banners sent to him by Babur, the capital of Jingzhou. That's a total of about 1,000 people.

When Li Laishun and others attacked, it was the turn of those Eight Banners to patrol, but they didn't expect that they were all planted in the hands of those second generations of Shun who were holding back an evil fire.

Zhang Chaozhen, who got the report from the people below, was blindfolded!

The enemy is coming from the waterway, most of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers under the leadership of Zuo Ling have been finished, and the pontoon bridge has been occupied! Most of the Eight Banners under the leadership of the Eight Banners have more than 100 small 200 soldiers, and they will be destroyed in a blink of an eye, so how many enemies are there? Thousand? Two thousand?

He only has a thousand or several hundred people left, and he has to guard the mouth of Shashi, Jingzhou City, and recapture the pontoon bridge.

How can this be used?

Since it's not enough, it's time to prioritize!

The prince himself wants to gamble, and he can't cut off his skull if he loses!

But in case Jingzhou City is lost. Then he won't be able to save his head!

As soon as he thought of this, he hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up, hurry back to Jingzhou City and keep it closed!" ”

The people below were stunned: "Futai, where do you say you want to guard?" ”

"Shoujingzhou! Jingzhou is the foundation of the imperial court in Hubei, and there must be no loss! ”

"Then, what about the prince of Jiangnan? A section of the pontoon bridge, the prince's retreat is possible."

The man's words stopped at this point, for he had already seen the Governor's vicious eyes.

Seeing that the people below were silent, Zhang Chaozhen said again: "Quick, go and give orders to the general soldiers and deputy generals in Yichang, Jingmen, Xiangyang and other places, tell them that Jingzhou is in danger, and the prince's back road is intercepted, let them immediately bring troops to Jingzhou to converge!" ”

Meaning of confluence. Of course, it's getting closer to me!

Zhang Chaozhen is now very worried that Li Zicheng's men will cross the river to fight Jingzhou after seizing the pontoon bridge!

Li Zicheng has 20,000 horses, and Jingzhou City is full of more than 1,000 defenders, even if the families of the Eight Banners can be brought to the city, they may not be able to make up 3,000.

Twenty thousand against three thousand. Can't keep it!

So he had to concentrate his forces!

As for whether Wu Yingxiong will come out of Kuimen to attack Yichang. It's not in Zhang Chaozhen's consideration.

In the midst of the rain, an army of tens of thousands of people is moving forward in the lofty mountains of Daba Mountain.

This is the elite soldiers who attacked Xiangyang led by Wu Yingxiong himself!

In this big gamble, all the people on the side of the Qing Dynasty despised Wu Yingxiong, the "big bear", the big bear. It's a bear, too! Moreover, Wu Yingxiong is still a "thousand bears" who can make thousands.

Because Yang Laijia, the chief soldier of Xiangyang Town in the Qing Dynasty, secretly communicated with Wu Yingxiong early in the morning, he completely knew about the military deployment of Eza!

Moreover, this section of the mountain road from Kuizhou to Xiangyang is also guarded by Yang Laijia's soldiers.

Therefore, Wu Yingxiong is now leading an army of 10,000 to attack Xiangyang through rugged and complex mountainous terrain, and there is basically no risk. To be honest, it's just a thousand people!

In addition, even if Yang Laijia, who rebelled from the Yanping Palace, to the side of the Qing Dynasty, was withdrawn and wanted to be a loyal minister of the Qing Dynasty, with the 2,000 town marks under one of his general soldiers, could he still deal with the 10,000 elites of the Wu family led by Wu Yingxiong?

This is the elite soldier who beat Yue Le and jumped into the river and forced Kangxi to recruit himself!

If Yang Laijia has that ability, what kind of traitor should he be? Helping Zheng Chenggong conquer Nanjing and establish the Zheng dynasty (which is how it should be), isn't he fragrant?

Moreover, Wu Yingxiong didn't think that Ezha could win Li Zicheng in a bet - he had already informed Li Zicheng of the sneak attack on Ezha crossing the river again, and it would be wrong for a fox as old as Li Zicheng to be fooled.

So this one, Wu Yingxiong is out of the old Qian, and he wants to make a net worth in Huguang, and the possibility of losing does not exist at all.

Since he couldn't lose, of course he had to behave well, so he didn't send his generals to lead the troops, but simply went on his own, leading 10,000 elite soldiers to advance at the speed of a rapid march on the rugged and winding road. Even though it was raining now, he didn't slow down.

Wu Yingxiong walked by himself this time, and saw him carrying a crutch, and according to the method taught to him by his son Wu Shifan, he put on leggings and walked on the mountain road with difficulty. The soldiers around him, everyone watched this chubby prince measuring the mountain road with his feet foot by foot, and everyone's pace couldn't help but speed up a little.

Wu Yingxiong's son Wu Shifan also participated in the sneak attack, he took his team of flintlock pipers and a team of Ma family white pole soldiers called from Chungju to walk in the front, whether it was flintlock pissiers or white pole soldiers, they were all composed of mountain people who were accustomed to walking mountain roads, although the mountain roads of Daba Mountain were difficult, but they could not stop their footsteps. Just when Li Laishun seized the Shashikou and Jingjiang pontoon bridges, the team led by Wu Shifan had quietly entered the territory of Yunyang Mansion, which was next door to Xiangyang Mansion

Now, bear, it's going to be amazing!

(End of chapter)