"Beep-beep-"

The next day, when Zhu Yunwen was always paying attention to the movements of the Bohai Navy, the Bohai Navy, who was resting in Huailou Town, also got up in a hurry to whistle.

Due to the enemy territory, the first thing the whole army did when they got up was to put on their cuirasses and skirts, and the rest of the armor was to be put on when they encountered an emergency.

With the remaining grain, Bohai Haijun was comfortable eating a pot of hot rice.

Before departure, each team lays down a white slip on the table of the house, and the borrowing fee for each house is five cents, which is stamped with a white strip.

The seal is wooden, each with a texture, one for every 100 households, the texture is different, and the content is which team is the 100 households with white stripes, which is considered the basic anti-counterfeiting.

When the army was opened, they encountered the destruction of the bridge again soon after, but fortunately, with Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement, by the time the army arrived at the damaged bridge, the bridge had been repaired, and the army crossed the river smoothly.

Today's target is Gaoyou in the south, and Zhang Shicheng used this city to block the million-dollar army.

Of course, it is said to be million, but Zhu Gaoxu estimates that the number should be around three or four hundred thousand.

After this battle, Zhang Shicheng also attached great importance to the defense of Gaoyou, so the defense of Gaoyou city can be said to be very strict.

On the way to Gaoyou, they passed through Zhangjiagang and Qingshuitan, and not surprisingly, the people of these towns felt that the Bohai Navy was brutal because of the propaganda of the imperial court, and they all fled.

In this way, it is convenient for the Bohai Navy to play white strips and eat white food.

After a day of traveling, at dusk, Zhu Gaoxu and they finally arrived outside Gaoyou City.

"This Gaoyou City is not big, but the city defense is doing well, it seems that Zhang Shicheng did a lot to repair it back then."

In the north of Gaoyou City, looking at Gaoyou City in the south, Zhu Gaoxu teased, and then instructed everyone: "Rest in Wangjia Lane behind us, continue to go south tomorrow, and camp in Zhaobo Town." ”

"Yes!" Chen Chang and others responded, and then began to arrange for the army to rest.

Their actions were seen by the defenders of Gaoyou City, and they hurriedly drove the boat through the water gate and sent the news to the south.

At the same time, the two divisions of Meng Zhang and Yang Zhan, who had divided their troops, were also marching separately.

Meng Zhang led the cavalry, all the way to the south, the towns and villages he passed through were avoided by him as much as possible, anyway, now the people in Huaidong are in danger, and the defenders of the guard do not dare to go out of the city at all, which gives them time and opportunity to clean up their traces.

Compared with them, the Bohai Navy led by Yang Zhan is difficult to find.

They collected the iron cannonballs fired at Yunti Pass, and after smelting all the weapons and iron materials of the defenders of Yunti Pass into iron cannonballs, they carried the rough iron cannonballs and began to move south.

On board, sailors sharpen iron shells, smoothing out the potholes on the surface of the shells.

Since the ship carried molds for cannonballs, it was not difficult for them to make iron cannonballs.

Although there are many disadvantages of iron mold casting cannons, they are not much of a problem when used to cast cannonballs.

Iron shells, even if they are used on land, are not guaranteed to be fully recovered, let alone at sea.

Therefore, as long as the iron cannonball does not damage the breech, it can be used for water warfare at sea.

For the Bohai Sea soldiers, although they talked and laughed, their eyebrows were always filled with a trace of sorrow.

They all knew that the naval division of the Southern Army was entrenched at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and it was far more difficult to attack the mouth of the Yangtze River against the current than at sea.

Without the help of the local people, the ships going up the river would not necessarily be faster than people walking on the shore.

For a while, everyone was in a solemn mood, but in the ship's room, Yang Zhan lowered his head and wrote about the experience of this naval battle.

From Chenghuang Island in the north and south to Dengzhou, to Yunti Pass, and then to the present......

In his writing, the advantages and disadvantages of the Bohai Navy were carefully counted, but in general, the advantages outweighed the disadvantages.

For Yang Zhan, the shortcoming of the Bohai Navy is that the actual combat experience is still too little, which cannot be compared with the Peaceful Naval Division.

If the warships of the Bohai Sea were given to the sailors of the Pingwu Division, then the Pingwai Naval Division would only need 50 warships of 3,000 materials to eliminate the Japanese who were hiding in the South Seas.

"Tuk-tuk—"

"Come in."

There was a knock on the door, and Yang Zhan opened his mouth without raising his head.

Between breaths, the door opened from the outside to the inside, but it was Hu Lun's figure who walked in.

Yang Zhan saw that it was him, and took out a letter directly from the table.

"This is my handwritten letter, as long as you see my father, then this time you can at least be 80% sure."

"And what about the other two?" Hu Lun took the letter and asked a question.

"There are two other achievements to see if my father can control Chen Xuan."

Yang Zhan said and lowered his head again, and Hu Lun nodded and turned away when he heard this.

After a short time, the Bohai Navy put down a hundred sand boats, and on this sand boat, Hu Lun headed towards the shallows to the west.

When he arrived, he took out the Yangzhou Mansion Jinyi Wei token he had prepared earlier, and recruited a horse from the nearby yamen.

The horse rode south and finally arrived at Haimen at dusk.

Today's Haimen has been taken over by the Southern Army Naval Division, and using the token of Yangzhou Mansion Jinyiwei, Hu Lun was successfully sent to Chongming by ferry.

At this time, Chongming Island was not as large as in later generations, but a sailor camp composed of a main island and dozens of Shazhou.

On top of those Shazhou, there are basically one or two forts, which are more than the number mastered by Hu Lun, and it is obvious that the naval division of the Southern Army is not lazy, but during this time, the batteries in Shazhou on the Yangtze River are constantly increasing.

If nothing else, there are countless such forts on the Yangtze River waterway from here to the capital.

Rao is a strong ship of the Bohai Navy, but in front of this group of batteries, the Bohai Navy, which is limited by the speed of the ship against the current, is no different from a live target.

If the naval division of the Southern Army still set up iron cables to cross the Yangtze River in Zhenjiang and Changzhou, it would be difficult to cross the Yangtze River.

Although the Iron Cable Hengjiang has appeared many times from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the present, all of them have suffered disintegration, but it is the disintegration of the upstream to the downstream, not the disintegration of the downstream to the upstream.

Moreover, there are two typical examples of Jin destroying Wu and Sui destroying Chen, and the tactics of crossing the river with iron ropes have also begun to progress, gradually changing from a single water battle to a problem that can only be solved by water and land cooperation.

Hu Lun has also served in the Bohai Navy for many years, and he naturally knows in his heart how much trouble Bohai will encounter if the naval division of the Southern Army refuses to move closer to Bohai.

At present, the Bohai Sea cannot afford to consume, and every day of stay is more dangerous for them.

Because of this, Hu Lun cheered up his spirits, and seeing that the ferry was approaching Chongming Island, he sorted out his mood and followed the ferry to land at the Chongming Ferry.

Here, dozens or hundreds of warships of various sizes cross the mouth of the river, and there are also many collected sand boats and Wuxiao boats.

Hu Lun didn't have to think much about these ships to know that they were fireships that had been collected and prepared for fire attack.

If the fireboat goes down the river at night, what will happen to the Bohai Navy that tries to go upstream, Hu Lun didn't have to guess, and a picture of a famous sailor lighting a fire fold and jumping into the water after dropping the torch came to mind.

The oil and gunpowder loaded by these fireships were enough to blow up and sink the warships in the Bohai Sea.

"Please ......"

When the sailor's voice sounded, Hu Lun also boarded the Chongming Station on Chongming Island after a short inspection.

Later, he was received by a Qianhu official and went to the city of Chongming Qianhusuo, where he saw thousands of sailors.

There were no more civilians in the Thousand Households, only sailors who were preparing for war.

Hu Lun was introduced into the yamen of the Thousand Households, where he met a middle-aged military attache who was somewhat similar to Yang Zhan.

"This official is Yang Li, the chief military officer of Pingwu, dare to ask what news is coming from the north?"

Yang Li didn't know Hu Lun's identity yet, so his expression was very solemn, as if he was worried about hitting the north to the river.

Hu Lun looked left and right, and Yang Li also got up and said, "You don't have to follow." ”

"The last general commands!" The generals responded, and Hu Lun also followed Yang Li's footsteps, and soon the two came to the study in the backyard.

Before entering the study, Hu Lun checked all the places with his eyes.

As a Jinyi Guard, he naturally knew where the Jinyi Guard would hide if he wanted to listen to the root of the wall.

After making sure that there was no Jinyi guard, he handed out the letter after entering the study: "This is the news from the north, Yang Qianhu has specially explained, please burn it after reading it." ”

The Qianhu official of Yangzhou Mansion is also surnamed Yang, so there is nothing wrong with Hu Lun's words.

Yang Li took the letter, opened it and saw that his pupils constricted, but he quickly regained his composure.

He read the contents of the letter with a solemn face, in which Yang Zhan mentioned the time and place of their appearance, and when they would enter the Yangtze River estuary.

The time is the third son of the first month of April, that is, tomorrow night, and the location is the Jiangnan Waterway in the south of Shazhou, Chongming.

Obviously, Yang Zhan was going to cross the sea directly, arrive at Songjiang Mansion in the south, and then go north via the Songjiang Prefecture waterway.

Yang Zhan didn't need Yang Li's help much, the first point was to give Hu Lun an order, and the second was to increase the defense of the Jiangkou north of Chongming, especially Liao Jiaozui.

On the fourth day of the first lunar month, Yang Zhan transferred 56 warships of more than 2,000 materials to appear here to engage the naval division of the Southern Army, so as to cover the 57 warships of 1,500 materials in the south to secretly cross the south mouth of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, in addition to the transfer in hand, Yang Zhan also needed Yang Yu to transfer the warships stationed at the south mouth of the Yangtze River to Liaojiaozui to participate in the battle, giving them the opportunity to go to the capital.

"I kind of get the ......"

Yang Li frowned and read the letter, and then burned the letter in front of Hu Lun.

His voice was raised a little: "If the thief army sailors go south, I will lead my troops to block them at the north entrance, but the north entrance is in charge of Chen Dudu, and I have to tell him the news." ”

Yang Li was worried that the partition wall had ears, so he opened his mouth to explain the defense of the north and south entrances.

Obviously, Chen Xuan always kept a hand on Yang Li, and he transferred the strongest Pingwu Shui Division to the south mouth of the Yangtze River, perhaps because he felt that the last naval battle was a little strange, so he was on guard.

However, in this way, it was convenient for Yang Zhan to secretly cross the south mouth of the Yangtze River.

Yang Li handwrote an order, and said in a high-sounding voice: "If there is still news in the north, you can cross the Yangtze River at will with this handwritten letter." ”

"Thank you, Chief Officer Yang, the news of the last general has been delivered, retire."

Hu Lun got what he wanted, and naturally turned around and left after making a fuss.

After he left, Yang Yu also wrote a copy and sent someone to send it to Chen Xuan, who was stationed in Sanpukou, Changzhou, Jiangnan.

Although the distance between the two is more than 60 miles, with the help of the slender man in Jiangnan, the faster sand boat can deliver the news within four hours.

Not surprisingly, after the news arrived, Chen Xuan immediately led the Yangtze River sailors to set off from Sanpukou and arrived at Chongming at the end of the next day.

After disembarking, he saw that the hundreds of sand boats in the ferry had been loaded with powder barrels and oil canisters.

These sand boats, together with the more than 300 sand boats he brought, are enough to make thousands.

With these fireships, he has the confidence to find his way back on his home turf.

The Yangtze River is not as easy as the sea and the Huai River, and it is easy for Bohai warships to enter the Huai River, which does not mean that it is easy to enter the Yangtze River.

"Chen Dudu!"

Yang Li led people to the ferry from afar, shouting as he walked.

Chen Xuan also turned his head when he heard this, and looked behind him while seeing Yang Li.

Behind him, stood a sixth-grade official in his thirties.

Chen Xuan saw Yang Yu coming, and hurriedly introduced: "Lin Yushi, this is Yang Li, the chief officer of the Pingwu Water Division, and he intercepted the news this time. ”

"I see, I have heard the name of Chief Soldier Yang for a long time, and now I see that it is indeed worthy of the name, and the lower official is in Beijing to supervise the imperial history Lin Jiayou, and I have seen Chief Soldier Lin here......"

As Chen Xuan spoke, Lin Jiayou, who was sent by Zhu Yunwen to check the loyalty of the two, nodded lightly and greeted Yang Li.

The supervision of the imperial history is subordinate to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the official position is seven grades, which can be described as extremely low compared to Chen Xuan's second grade and Yang Li's third grade.

However, with the back of the Imperial Procuratorate and the support of the emperor, Lin Jiayou was full of style, and he had no intention of fighting with Yang Li.

Seeing this situation, Yang Yu frowned slightly, he had not heard that the supervising imperial history was still in Beijing.

Just after thinking about it for a while, he understood what this so-called supervising imperial history in Beijing was.

If you say something good, you will reward them, and if you say something bad, you will come to supervise them.

In this regard, Yang Li was not afraid, but very dissatisfied.

A seven-grade superintendent of the imperial history also dares to put on a show in front of himself, the third grade, really think that he is muddy?

Yang Yu wanted to have a seizure, but Chen Xuan was familiar with him, and while stepping forward to fight him, he couldn't help but whisper a reminder.

"This is a disciple of Dr. Chaozhong, be careful......"

"Dr. Fang?" Yang Li was confused for a moment, but quickly thought of Fang Xiaoru, who served as a doctor of literature.

Because Zhu Yunwen started the mode of recommendation under the advice of this group of people, Fang Xiaoru and others kept recommending their disciples to enter the officialdom.

Think about this group of Confucian students who couldn't even pass the Jinshi exam, and they entered the officialdom in large numbers just because of a recommendation.

At first, they were quite restrained, but they just entered the history museum as editors.

But this year, they began to meddle in real power, and constantly interfered with the yamen such as the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the local three divisions.

This Lin Jiayou thinks he is one of them, no wonder he looks down on his group of martial artists.

"Lin Yushi praised it falsely, I don't know what Yushi came to do? But does the imperial court have a decree? ”

Yang Li returned the salute, but Lin Jiayou only bowed his head when he saw this: "The imperial court sent officials to reward the three armies, but I never thought that since General Yang received the news that the thief army's sailors were going south, he followed Chen Dudu to inspect. ”

"Dare to ask General Yang, when will the thief army sailor be here?"

Although Lin Jiayou is a Confucian student, he really can't respect these martial artists in front of him.

Looking at his actions, Yang Li was also very dissatisfied, and began to plan how to find revenge for this guy in the future.

It's just that on the face, Yang Li is still respectful: "According to the news from the Jinyi Guard in Yangzhou Mansion, it should arrive in Liaojiaozui from dusk today to early tomorrow morning." ”

"That's why I wrote to Governor Chen."

"Thank you Brother Yang for telling me, otherwise I would still be waiting in Sanpukou to help Yangzhou." Chen Xuan expressed his gratitude, and Yang Li also picked up the conversation:

"I want to level the water division to go to Liao Jiao Tsui, and the Yangtze River water division will take care of the south mouth of the Yangtze River, what do you think about it?"

Yang Li spoke bluntly, and at the same time, he also knew that Chen Xuan was a little wary of himself, so this time Mao Sui's self-recommendation would definitely be rejected.

"That's not necessary, what if the thieves go to the south exit?"

A voice sounded, but not from Chen Xuan's mouth, but from Lin Jiayou's mouth.

Lin Jiayou clearly remembered that Yang Li's father and son had received Zhu Gaoxu's favor, although Yang Zhan had died in Guangxi, but who knew if Yang Li would join the enemy?

It is the best way to let him garrison the south entrance and Chen Xuan garrison the north entrance.

"Hehe......" Chen Xuan saw Lin Jiayou take the initiative to stand up, and laughed embarrassedly twice, and then said to Yang Li:

"Lin Yushi is right, it will not be good if the thieves go to the mouth of the Nanjiang River."

"Nanjiangkou, it has to be handed over to Brother Yang, as for Beijiangkou and Liao Jiaozui, it will be handed over to Zaixia."

Chen Xuan echoed Lin Jiayou's words, but they all knew that since the Bohai Navy was heading south, it was likely to appear in the north.

If they don't show up at that time, Chen Xuan and the others will also have time to go to the south entrance to participate in the defense.

"Since that's the case, then the general will be ordered ......" Yang Li's expression was suddenly difficult to see.

Seeing this, Chen Xuan hurriedly reassured: "If the battle in Beikou is fierce, maybe I will transfer Brother Yang to help." ”

"That's good." As soon as Yang Li heard that he could participate in the war, his face was slightly better.

Such a change in expression was seen by Lin Jiayou, and he couldn't help but ridicule in his heart: "A martial artist is a martial artist, and he doesn't even have qi cultivation kung fu." ”

It's just that he ridiculed in his heart, and Lin Jiayou still had to comfort Yang Yu on his face: "General Yang Bing's exploits are here, and if there is no General Yang at that time, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to resist the enemy." ”

"It's extremely ......" Chen Xuan echoed, but Yang Yan heard the words but said: "Since this is the case, then the general will transfer troops to Wujiangkou, Baoshan, and Gaoqiao." ”

"Chief Officer Yang walks slowly." Lin Jiayou made a move, and Chen Xuan also agreed.

After a short time, they saw that thousands of soldiers had walked out of the entire Chongming Institute, and counting the soldiers who had been stationed at the south entrance, there were 10,000 people.

They drove their warships out of the port and went to Gaoqiao, Wujiangkou and Baoshan in Songjiang Prefecture in the south of the Yangtze River, but more of them stopped in the heart of the river, looking like they were ready to rush to the north at any time.

This practice showed that the Bohai Navy would definitely appear in the north, so Chen Xuan also began to strengthen defense, mobilizing warships to Liao Jiaozui, and at the same time preparing fireships.

Once Liao Jiaozui is defeated, the Yangtze River Navy Division will withdraw to Chongming Island, and then it will be the time for thousands of fireships to make contributions.

Chen Xuan was preparing, Lin Jiayou was looking for a sentry tower and walked up, looking at the rolling Yangtze River, he couldn't help but talk to the officials beside him about all kinds of allusions to the Yangtze River.

Little by little, from early morning to noon and then to dusk......

Chen Xuan waited and waited in Liaojiaozui with the Yangtze River Naval Division, but never waited for the Bohai Navy to appear.

Gradually, they began to relax, and it began to get dark.

Lin Jiayou saw that there was no war to see, so he taunted Yang Yan twice, turned around and went to the house arranged for him by Chen Xuan to rest.

At the same time, the mouth of the Nanjiang River was densely packed with warships, and Yang Li, who was in charge of commanding them, went to Gaoqiao Town, chartered a separate restaurant, and invited the brothers to a lively meal.

In the midst of the bustle, a warship that was not much different from the warships of the Pingwu Naval Division came from the south, and the warships patrolling saw that the other party's flag was the symbol of the Pingwai Naval Division, and immediately stepped forward to stop it.

"Who sent you, and why are you flying our flag?"

Yang Hui, the commander of the Thousand Households of the Ping Wa Naval Division, stopped the fleet and shouted at the deck at the same time.

He had seen the running flaps of these ships early in the morning, and if it hadn't been for the fact that there were no guns on the decks of these ships, he would have been ready to go straight to the ground.

"My fleet came to send the warship on the order of Chief Officer Yang, this is an order, please come on board the ship for inspection."

Cui Jun stood on the deck and shouted to Yang Hui according to what Yang Zhan had told him, and at the same time sent someone to hand over the order with a clamp bar.

Yang Hui was surprised when his master bought the boat, but he still took the order and took a look.

After confirming that it was indeed his master's order, he also ordered someone to pick up the ship's side, walked on the boat, and walked to the cabin under Cui Jun's guidance.

In the dark night, Yang Hui could only rely on the torch in Cui Jun's hand to see the way forward.

As he stepped out of the cabin, the sight in front of him made him instantly grip the hilt of his sword.

I saw that in the cabin, dozens of artillery pieces different from those of the Southern Army were placed, and there were many gunpowder and iron shells on the side.

He is too familiar with this group of artillery, isn't it the artillery of the Bohai Navy?

"Yang Hui, don't move around......"

Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded, Yang Hui's movements stopped, and even the more than ten soldiers behind him stopped their movements and opened their mouths wide.

The sound came from behind them, causing them to stiffen.

As if mechanically, the crowd slowly shifted their gaze, and finally saw a familiar face in the dark cabin.

"Less... Few... Few... Less ......"

The soldiers who turned back first stumbled at the people in front of them, and then the soldiers who turned back were also so frightened that they sat on the ground.

"What the hell!!"

Yang Hui, who is very bold towards people, is so frightened that he is urinating at this moment, and his face is full of snot.

He saw Yang Zhan's appearance with his own eyes, but he was still wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket.

When his young master died, wasn't he wearing a mandarin duck battle jacket?

"Young master, I'm not sorry for the Yang family!"

The tall Yang Hui knelt on the ground, snorting and tearing: "If you want to say that you can't live it, it's also that the master can't stand you, you didn't cry when you died, and I cried for you for seven days!" ”

"Young master, can you take me away, I haven't begged my mother-in-law at twenty-eight, and I will be the last one when I leave, but you grew up eating my mother's milk, you can't treat my mother like this......"

Yang Hui's timidity made the soldiers around him forget to be afraid, and even Cui Jun didn't expect that Yang Hui, who was still fierce and vicious in front, would become so virtuous the moment he saw Yang Zhan.

"Young Master, ......"

"Don't cry, I'm not dead yet!"

Yang Hui was still crying, but when he saw Yang Zhan come out with a black face, he tried to grab him, but found that this guy was too heavy to grasp.

"Young master, you have been going all the way......"

"Fart, Lao Tzu cheated to death!"

(End of chapter)