Chapter 70: Fishing in Troubled Waters

Wang Wu also wondered where there were so many butterflies on Hanging Island, and it felt like he had come to a butterfly world.

The Qing warships that were burning on the sea not far away made Wang Wu feel very good, and also boosted the morale of the Ming troops who participated in the attack, and gave them the confidence to turn the tables.

The smoking ships were bound to terrify the Qing army on the island, as they were their only means of transportation back.

In the case of not knowing what was going on, the Qing army must have thought that the Ming army had come to reinforcements, so they would definitely not fall in love with the war, maybe there would have been panicked Qing troops to the nearby sea to search for ships and prepare to flee for their lives.

As long as the Qing army is shaken and chaotic, the Ming army can get a chance to breathe, and then take the opportunity to counterattack until the Qing army that landed on the island is completely wiped out.

And the process of Wang Wu leading the team to attack the Qing army's warships was not thrilling or dangerous, and it can even be said to be as plain as water.

It was about the same as the attack on the Qing army at Wushan.

One in the mountains, the other on the sea.

A bit shameless, but effective.

The sailors and battalions who stayed on the ship did not suspect Wang Wuyi and his party who were pretending to be the Qing army.

Not even asked.

It may be that the "old braids" on the back of Wang Wu's subordinates played a role, or it may be that the Qing army completely relaxed its vigilance by relying on the success of the surprise attack.

In short, fifteen Qing warships were burned one by one, and the more than 100 battalions of soldiers and dozens of sailors left behind were either engulfed in fire or captured by the Ming army.

A green battalion soldier who was searching for the Ming army nearby saw that the warship was on fire and hurried to the rescue, but was hacked to death by the Ming army who also pretended to come to the rescue on the beach, and dozens of corpses were left, and the rest fled into the forest in shock.

Wang Wu didn't make any delay, and led people to the forest.

It is intended to carry out the tactic of "fishing in troubled waters" to the end.

In the era when there were no walkie-talkies, mobile phones, and satellite phones, even if the Qing army knew that there was a Ming army pretending to be on the island, they could not pass on this deadly information to friendly troops, which gave the Ming army an absolute "time difference" to break the unwitting Qing army one by one.

Two years ago, the tiger marshal Li Laiheng and the tens of thousands of troops of Liu Tichun, the Duke of Anhui, were defeated by the small detachment sent by Li Guoying pretending to be the Ming army.

However, the Qing army on the island was not the 50,000 army commanded by Li Laiheng at the beginning, and now there are less than 1,000 people in the full battle, and the Ming army has not been completely wiped out, so Wang Wu has enough confidence to strangle the Qing troops scattered on the island one by one.

Soon after entering the forest, he encountered a group of hundreds of green battalion soldiers, the two sides fought for an astonishing short time, and dozens of green battalion soldiers hurriedly withdrew without breathing, not wanting to be entangled with the Ming army at all.

Judging from the footsteps in the forest and the nearby traces, it was clear that the green battalion had withdrawn from somewhere else.

This proves more and more that the Qing army on the island has wavered and begun to fight on its own.

As long as the Qing army did not dare to fight any further, the balance of victory would completely tilt in favor of the Ming army.

Luo Zimu was about to order the pursuit of the withdrawn green battalion soldiers, but Wang Wu stopped him, saying that the dog would jump over the wall if he was in a hurry, since this group of green battalion soldiers was in a hurry to leave, let them go, and if they followed closely behind and forced them too tightly, it would be easy for these green battalion soldiers to fight them.

In this case, Yu Mingjun will not benefit.

After all, he does not have many people under his command now, so he needs to gather some more defeated troops to form a military advantage in local areas, and then use this advantage to continuously attack and eliminate the living forces of the Qing army, and finally realize the role reversal of the Ming and Qing dynasties on Hanging Island.

Otherwise, just like that, dozens of people will fight hard with the Qing soldiers who are more than their own, and it will be completely worth the loss to turn the tailwind game into a loss game.

After hearing this, Luo Zimu no longer insisted, and led the crowd to continue the in-depth search with Wang Wu.

Soon after, a number of Ming troops hidden in the forest were found to be routed.

There are dozens of people, and there are several.

During this period, he almost accidentally injured himself.

groped all the way to contain, and when they reached a high slope in the center of the island, Wang Wu asked people to count and found that there were more than 130 people in the Ming army who followed him.

An important piece of information was obtained from these people, that is, Zhang Shangshu had withdrawn to the big fishing factory in the south.

At the same time, they also got the bad news that there was a Qing army chasing Zhang Shangshu and them.

That Qing army was dominated by Eight Banners, probably carrying tiger squat artillery.

Because the sound of artillery had been heard before.

Wang Wuzi couldn't let Zhang Huangyan be killed, and after asking the specific location of the Luo Zimu Fishing Factory, he immediately ordered the team to turn south and go straight to the Fishing Factory.

When passing through an unknown location, he collided with a group of green battalion soldiers with more than 300 people.

At that time, both sides were shocked by the sudden appearance of the other party, and just when the soldiers were suspicious, Wang Wu did not hesitate to wave his knife and shouted at everyone: "Lean on and kill them!" ”

Before the words fell, the whole person had already rushed towards the Qing army a few feet away.

The green battalion they collided with Wang Wu was the men and horses commanded by Zhou Jinzhong, the general of the Zhenhai battalion, who had been ordered by Zhou to clear the remnants of the "pirates" on the island under the order of Erdu, and the progress was quite smooth.

The billowing smoke rising from the sea made Zhou Jinzhong feel bad, and his first thought was that Taiwan's Zheng Shun people rushed here to rescue the great rebel Zhang Kou, worried that he would be surrounded by Zheng Shun's men and horses on the island and could not escape, so he had to retreat in a hurry with his battalion soldiers.

was going to join Erdu, but he didn't expect to collide head-on with a Ming army that came out of nowhere.

The forest was too dense, and Erdu couldn't see how many Ming troops were on the opposite side for a while, and when he was hesitating whether to fight or leave, the Ming army on the opposite side rushed to charge them.

Suddenly, the sound of guns continued, and the shouts of killing also resounded through the dense forest.

Before the smoke of gunfire had cleared, the two sides were already close to each other.

After a fight, there were dozens more corpses in the forest.

There were Ming troops and Qing soldiers.

Wang Wu's leading soldiers not only seized the opportunity for the Ming army, but also created an unshakable momentum.

At the same time, another Ming army, which was only more than two miles away from here, quickly rushed to reinforcements under the leadership of Xu Yuangeng, who joined the army, after hearing the shouting and killing movement here.

Xu Yuangeng is the staff who has followed Zhang Huangyan for the longest time, in addition to being able to strategize and draw, he is also easy-going, and can have fun with the sergeant, so when his subordinates have a dispute, Xu Yungeng comes forward to solve the problem.

Therefore, Zhang Huangyan is extremely important.

After the Qing army landed on the island, Xu Yuangeng led people to protect the transfer of the army's family, and after successfully placing the family in the cave, he was ready to take people to reinforce Zhang Shangshu, but he didn't expect that there was a fierce battle nearby.

Before he could think about it, Xu Yuangeng brought someone over.

There were actually only more than 100 people in the department, but their appearance made Zhou Jinzhong, the general of the Zhenhai battalion, mistakenly think that he was surrounded by the Ming army, and he lost his composure in a panic, and ordered to break through to the west.

As a result, this run was already a frightened bird of the Qing army, and many people lost their direction while running, and went around to the middle of the Ming army.

Either be killed or surrender with a knife.

Zhou Jinzhong rushed out with more than 100 people, and the rebel general Chen Dong escaped with him.

Chen Dong, who knew that he would die in the hands of the Ming army, led Zhou Jinzhong and his party around the forest with his familiarity with the terrain, intending to get rid of the pursuers who followed behind.

However, the pursuers kept sticking to them like dog skin plasters, and they couldn't even breathe after them.

"Chase!"

Wang Wu was also gritting his teeth and chasing, he noticed that there was a general in the Qing army on the opposite side, it was very likely that it was Zhou Jinzhong, the general of the Zhenhai battalion, if he could kill this person, the rest of the green battalion on the island would be leaderless, that is, the command system of the Zhenhai battalion would be completely paralyzed.

And Erdu, the leader of the Eight Banners, could not directly command the Green Battalion.

Therefore, as long as the Green Battalion loses the will to fight and gives up resistance, the more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers under Erdu don't want to turn bubbles, and it is much easier to solve them.

"How long will it take to get out!"

The more Zhou Jinzhong ran, the more anxious he became, and he couldn't care about the Eight Banners at this time, he just wanted to quickly run to the beach to find a boat to escape, even if it was a fishing boat or even a few planks.

"My lord, it's coming, it's coming!"

Chen Dong said fast in his mouth, but he actually didn't know the bottom in his heart.

He is familiar with the terrain of Hanging Island, but he is only familiar with a few places where the Ming army lives and the connected passages, and he only knows the general direction of the rest of the unexplored areas.

"Hurry up!"

Zhou Jinzhong could only pin his hopes of going out on Chen Dong, so he didn't dare to shout and scold this defected pirate at all, and followed him without saying a word.

The forests in this area are even denser than the neighborhood, and there are many animals hiding in them, and one pops out from time to time, and the souls of a group of fleeing green battalion soldiers are about to fly.

Finally, when the forest was no longer so dense, Zhou Jinzhong was unlucky and tripped over a stone, and then lost his center of gravity and quickly rolled down the hillside.

The slope was so steep that Zhou Jinzhong couldn't control his body when he rolled down, and finally hit a few bamboos firmly, and before he could wake up from his dizziness, there was a huge pain in the soles of his feet.

When I looked closely, my right foot and leather boots poked the tip of a protruding bamboo.

The tip of the bamboo protruding on the back of the right foot was two or three inches long, and the bamboo thorns were stained red with blood.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency, are you alright?"

Someone on the slope was shouting anxiously and looking down.

Then someone slowly descended the slope.

"I'm fine, come down and help me!"

Zhou Jinzhong gritted his teeth and tried to pull his right foot out of the bamboo, but after pulling it out, he was sweating profusely and didn't dare to move at all.

"Your Excellency, you're hurt!"

Descending was the general Chen Dong, who was also taken aback when he found that Zhou Shenjiang's right foot was pierced by bamboo, and hurriedly came up to help Zhou Jinzhong pull out his foot, but he also screamed in pain as soon as he pulled Zhou Shenjiang.

"Sir, bear with me!"

After Chen Dong lay on the ground and looked at it carefully, he stuffed the knife under Zhou Jinzhong's feet, and then slowly pulled the knife as a saw.

It took a lot of effort to separate General Zhou's feet from the bamboo.

But the bamboo poked in the middle of the foot could not be moved.

It's not that I can't pull it out, I'm afraid that Zhou Shen will faint in pain.

If you faint, it's no different from dying.

"Damn, don't worry about it, come here and help me go!"

Zhou Jinzhong was also a ruthless person, and he didn't care about the injury to his right foot, and motioned to the two soldiers who had just come down the slope to come and help him.

As soon as the two soldiers ran over, a group of people rolled down the slope like dumplings.

It was a battalion soldier who accidentally fell down the slope and instinctively pulled his companion down the side, causing a chain reaction that caused seven or eight battalions to roll down at the same time.

The sound of movement immediately attracted the pursuers behind.

"A bunch of trash!"

Zhou Jinzhong didn't fight anywhere, and he couldn't control these subordinates, urging Chen Dong to take them away quickly.

Before the two soldiers stepped forward to stand him, a sharp arrow roared in, and a "poof" sound went directly into his right eye socket.

The arrow path was so big that the arrow crushed Zhou Jinzhong's skull like a high-speed spinning egg, and a "grunt" came out of the back of his bare head.

Under the frightened gaze of the two pro-soldiers and the general Chen Dong, Zhou Jinzhong stood for five or six breaths before his body began to shake.

I don't know if it was driven by physical instinct or the will to survive, I shook the body of the Zhenhai battalion general a few times before he was unwilling to fall backwards, and there was a heavy "plop" sound when he landed.

The arrow that had been drilled out of the back of his head did not come back to his head, but the bloody bamboo thorn on the sole of his right foot still stood straight there.

It looks like a bamboo shoot grows from your feet.

Bloody bamboo shoots.

It was Wang Wu who shot Zhou Jinzhong.

With a hand crossbow that is.

The range is not far, but it is extremely powerful within fifty meters, and it can easily break through the double armor.

"Oh no, Lord Zhou told the pirates to shoot to death!"

With the exclamation of an unknown soldier, dozens of green battalion soldiers who came down the slope suddenly dispersed.

Running like a rabbit, not to mention how fast.

A few battalion soldiers who had not had time to get up after rolling down or before they had time to get up took two or three breaths, either lying on the ground and pretending to be dead, or immediately shouted to the Ming army who jumped down the slope: "Down, down, don't kill, don't kill!" ”

Chen Dong saw that the situation was not good and was about to run immediately, but he was bumped into the side by several green battalion soldiers who were eager to flee for their lives.

By the time he stood up again, the pursuing Ming army had already arrived.

In the flash of lightning, Chen Dong knelt on the ground without hesitation, pretending to surrender like the other green battalion soldiers, his head hanging down at the same time, but his eyes kept peeking nearby.

It was obvious that he wanted to escape into the forest when the Ming army was not looking.

As long as he entered the forest, even if the Ming army still controlled the island, they would not want to find him.

However, a familiar voice sounded in his ears: "Chen Dong, you dog thief!" ”

This voice was as terrifying as a talisman that made Chen Dong's hands and feet cold, because it was the voice of his cousin Chen Man.

Knowing that his identity was exposed, he didn't know where he got the strength to roll on the spot, and he stood up and hunched his waist to run to the nearby forest.

But after only two steps, the whole person fell forward heavily, and turned his head to look at his right foot in pain, only to find that it was no longer below the root of the foot.

The severed foot was a few feet away along with the boots.

"Who is this man?"

"It's my cousin, but it's Zhang Shangshu who he betrayed!"

"Really?"

Wang Wu raised his knife and walked towards Chen Dong, who was crawling forward with a desperate face, and behind him was a long blood mark.

Without any words, he raised his knife and slashed down.

Chen Dong's body twitched for a moment, and then he couldn't move again.

Looking at this rebel general who betrayed Zhang Huangyan, Wang Wu shook his head slightly, and casually wiped the long knife full of blood on his corpse, but heard Luo Zimu who came behind him exclaim: "General Wang, your hand!" ”

"What's wrong with the hand?"

Wang Wu looked down and saw that his left hand was dripping blood.

There were originally five fingers, but only four remained.

The little finger is no longer there.