Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Is there any news from Anqing City?" Zuo Menggeng lay on a soft couch, with his legs resting on the shoulders of the two women, allowing the beauties to knead them.

Hou Fangyu completely changed the name of Zuo Menggeng. Now the whole army unanimously called Zuo Menggeng "Young Marshal", and Hou Fangyu called Zuo Menggeng very naturally.

"The letter of persuasion has been sent to Anqing. The leader of the army in the city is Huang Degong, who is the henchmen of the eunuchs. Tanma said that there are 3 people guarding the city, and there are no other reinforcements nearby."

Zuo Menggeng also learned to be smart after suffering a dull loss in Jiujiang. Before attacking Anqing, he sent many scouts.Hou Fangyu is now Zuo Menggeng's staff officer, second only to Liu Jingting.

"The siege will start at noon tomorrow. The first five battalions will go ashore first, and block the retreat on the north bank for me outside the city. The last five battalions will lead other people to attack Anqing. Tell those untouchables that they will have food if they capture Anqing, otherwise they will all die." Get me hungry."

Zuo Menggeng raised his head and took a sip of the wine fed by the girl beside him, quite confident.This style of play is the true inheritance of Zuo Liangyu. Zuo Liangyu and Li Zicheng have fought many times in the Central Plains, and this is the way every time they break into the army.

When the army drove the refugees away, they first attacked the positions of the officers and soldiers. No amount of officers and soldiers could withstand the successive attacks of so many people.As long as the officers and soldiers are exhausted, the main force of the invading army standing on the sidelines and watching the battle will attack quickly.

"Young Marshal really uses soldiers like a god." Hou Fangyu couldn't help admiring him for the first time in the military.

In the early morning, the people who had been noisy all night were finally not scolded and slept until dawn.The last five battalions, which had been pressing behind the Chinese army before, also disappeared, and went far downstream, while the last five battalions, who were guarding the Chinese army, were busy preparing for war.

The young and strong are not prepared for it. Driving these people to fight, they can't even shoot a spear.The weapons they could have were wooden sticks and bamboo spears, and they were all found by themselves.

Zuo Menggeng moved slowly along the north bank of the river with only a dozen large ships, monitoring the whole situation from a distance.

"Young Marshal, the first five battalions have already landed. Did you transfer the boat to transport the people on the island?" Huang Shu was so tired that he was out of breath. Now he was completely an errand for Zuo Menggeng, and his status was not as good as before.

"Okay, I'm too soft-hearted, I don't want to see those people suffer. Go and transfer all the boats and let that old man in Anqing see our strength."

The shipping of tens of thousands of people is a huge amount of work. Even if there are indeed many ships on the left, and a single ship makes two trips, by the time the fleet returns to Jiangxinzhou from outside Anqing City, it will be past noon.

"General, I haven't had a drop of water since morning. I'm too tired." The guards around Jin Shenghuan kept complaining that their battalion was unlucky, and when they attacked Anqing, they drew a striker.

"I also hid some dry food on the boat. You take it and distribute it to your brothers. Remember, when the fleet arrives, you must get on the boat immediately, and the first batch will rush downstream, leaving the people behind alone."

Jin Shenghuan counted the time, seeing that noon had passed, he felt a little anxious.

"General, didn't we let those peasants take the lead? Wouldn't it be worthwhile for us to be the first to charge?" The subordinates were puzzled. Jin Shenghuan knew how to preserve the strength of his battalion in all previous battles. Why did he just think about it today? Filled up.

"Don't ask too many questions, follow the order." Jin Shenghuan looked up at the sky, it seemed that another heavy rain was coming.The entire sky is gloomy and terrifying, as if you can touch the dark clouds with your hands.

A burst of bugle horns sounded, and countless large and small warships docked on the shore of Jiangxinzhou. The crowd swarmed up, without discipline at all, and they were all crazily crowded on the larger ships.

Those messy living utensils were thrown all over the floor, and these old and weak women and children were running around crying.The sailors on board tried desperately to maintain order, but with little effect.

"Look, what's that?" Someone got on the boat and couldn't help but glance at the upper reaches. At the very near bend in the upper reaches, a white cloud floated over the river at a speed far faster than that on the river. ship.

"It seems to be a ship. Is it a warship sent by the general?" There are too many warships on the left, and too many people. I am afraid that no one can know which ones are our own and which ones, except for a few general soldiers. enemy.

"Wow! What a big boat, will we be able to sit on such a big boat?" The people on the boat were a little envious. The speed of the boat coming from the upstream was too fast, and the size of the hull could already be seen while talking. .

"That's a good idea, haven't you seen that the big ship is much bigger than the warship our young marshal rides on. Only those high officials are qualified to sit on this kind of ship, and we can sit on this kind of cargo ship under our feet That's fine.

Then Jiang Xinzhou stopped him, and when the news reached Zuo Menggeng's boat, Zuo Menggeng was still taking a nap.

"Marshal, did you arrange for hundreds of large ships to arrive upstream?" Hou Fangyu thought it was Zuo Bu's hidden family property, and upstream did not dare to report it urgently, but asked softly.

"What ship? Where did it come from?"

"The ones coming from the upper reaches are almost at Jiangxinzhou, and they are under the banner of "Zheng"."

"We don't have a general surnamed Zheng. Could it be the enemy?" Zuo Menggeng was also confused. How could there be a fleet coming down from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River at this time? They were gathered to Wuchang by Zuo Liangyu a long time ago and brought them all the way here.

"How many boats are there, and how big is the boat?" Zuo Menggeng jumped up, kicked away the girl who was about to dress him, and hurriedly got out of the cabin with her upper body naked.

"The boats at the beginning are all big ships. It looks more than twice the size of the boat you are sitting on. The fleet can't see the tail." Hou Fangyu has never seen a lucky boat on the sea, and the biggest one is Zuo Menggeng. This is a large ship of the Yangtze River Navy.

"It's broken, that's the boat of Zheng's family from the Fujian navy. They are the enemy army, blow the horn quickly, blow the horn quickly!" Zuo Menggeng looked at the side of the boat, and immediately peed out of fear. The upstream fleet was almost there. The stern of the left flotilla was up.

With a sound of "boom", Zheng Chenggong's leading warship fired first, and several black shells flew directly to the shore of Jiangxinzhou, sprayed several blood mist in the shallow water area, and finally plunged into the river, setting off a wave of high tide. spray.

"Quick, bring out our cannons too." There are also cannons on the left side, but there are no fixed cannons installed on the warships of the Yangtze River Navy. Even the battleships of the Zheng family are not the battleships covered in cannons in Europe in this era. style.

Fuchuan is a three-masted and three-hard sailing ship, and the Yangtze River Navy can't afford cannons at all, at most they can have some rockets.The Zheng family's lucky boat almost inherited the ocean-going shipbuilding technology of Zheng He's era. Although it was not as large as it was at the beginning, it was still enough to install more than a dozen cannons.

"Boom~" After the first ship fired its guns to show its position, the entire upstream fleet immediately changed its formation, patted the team along the center of the river, and fired collectively towards the shore.

Some ships on the left that were trying to escape were hit first. The distance between the two fleets was too close. When the guns fired, the ships still on the shore were simply targets.

Chapter 166: Jiangxinzhou Water Battle

Those people who had just squeezed into the boat were scared to pee when they saw it. These people had no fighting power, let alone sailing. Seeing that there was no way out of the boat, they immediately turned around and jumped towards the shore.

The crowd on the shore was even more terrified and ran back desperately. Whoever runs away from the boat at this time will survive.

"Quickly, order all the ships to block them." Zuo Menggeng saw that it was impossible to expect a land battle. The timing of the opponent's capture was too coincidental. The strongest infantry on his side had already landed. A large number of young men and civilian husbands are useless at all, leaving only the weakest navy.Fortunately, there are enough ships, at least it seems that the scale is larger than the other party.

With Zuo Menggeng's military order, all the ships surrounding the entire Jiangxinzhou gave up carrying people and began to resist, especially the two rivers that were not attacked, Wu Yangyang struggled to meet them upstream.

All of a sudden, the fleet facing the enemy from the upper reaches increased, and the offensive suddenly decreased. Even the leading warship had begun to be entangled by the ship on the left.

Jumping gang battles are the mainstream of water warfare in this era. There are many boats on the left side. Seeing that a few small boats are about to lean on it, the artillery on Zheng's boat can't bombard so many small boats.

"Haha, more than boats, labor and capital let you eat. Can you eat so many boats?" Zuo Menggeng had already hid in a high place on the north bank of the river, watching the battle from a distance, laughing triumphantly .

The drums started to beat, the left side was no longer in a panic, but divided into several strands, and began to block the river in an orderly manner, trying to forcibly stop Zheng Chenggong's fleet.

"Young Marshal, shall we start attacking the city?" Hou Fangyu saw that the battle situation had stabilized. The left side had a clear advantage in numbers, and the main force had already reached the north bank, so another battle could be launched at the same time.

"Don't worry, show Anqing to me first, clean up the Zheng family, and then clean up Anqing." Zuo Menggeng was so inflated at the moment, he felt that his military ability far surpassed his father, and he was simply an invincible existence of Ming Dynasty. Even if they meet the legendary Houjin Army, they can beat the shit out of them.

On Zheng Chenggong's side, seeing that the occupation has reached a stalemate, and it has been fighting for almost half an hour, if this continues, the Yangtze River Navy will not be able to take advantage.

Standing on the ship tower behind Zheng Chenggong watching the battle, Zhu Youjian sighed deeply, and said to Zuo Maodi: "I still want to capture all the ships, which seems to be an extravagant hope."

"This Zuo Liangyu's method of controlling people's hearts is very strong. There are so many people gathered together that they won't disperse."

These two people were obviously not talking about the same thing, but Zuo Maodi obviously still had some respect for Zuo Liangyu, at least for a general, being able to effectively control hundreds of thousands of troops was not an easy task.

"No matter how powerful you are, you are still my enemy, and you are in critical condition. Zheng Chenggong, please set the fire on fire." Zhu Youjian said to Zheng Chenggong from a distance.

"The former army dispersed and set fire to the boat." Zheng Chenggong swung his knife, and Shi Lang immediately ran off the boat.Immediately, there was a burst of semaphore, and all the Yangtze River Navy on the river began to lean towards the two sides quickly, and various trumpets continued, and the entire fleet opened a big hole.

The battle had lasted into the afternoon, and the fleet of the Yangtze River Navy was divided into two rows, leaving a large open river in the middle.The left side was preparing to counterattack, and saw countless small boats, bamboo rafts, and wooden rafts floating on the upper river.

The difference between these bamboo rafts and wooden rafts and the left one is that they all have a white sail on them, with the help of wind and water current, they are extremely fast.

Countless arson boats rushed over together and went down the river, piled up with hay and firewood, the formation alone was terrifying.

"It's not good, it's an arsonist ship, hurry up and disperse." After seeing the approaching ship from the left side, the sailors all turned pale, paddling in panic and trying to avoid it.

But they were on the water, the speed of the boat was too slow, and there were so many boats, they crowded into each other and formed a pile. Except for the boat closest to the shore, none of them had a chance to escape.