Chongzhen Undergraduates

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!" A burst of rockets was fired from the boats on both sides of the Yangtze River Navy, and the first row of arson boats immediately burst into flames, rushing straight to the left fleet with whistling fire.

"Run, run downstream." Facing the fire array rushing from upstream, the only way left was to quickly run downstream.

The group of sailors led by Zuo Menggeng were quite experienced, and they were not in the same formation that Cao Cao used to connect the ships together in Chibi, so they all chose to flee for their lives together.

"Hurry up, hurry up and sail the boat, and cross the river while it's in chaos." Jin Shenghuan saw that the fleet on the left was in chaos, and immediately ordered from the most downstream position.

"General, according to your instructions, all the brothers from our battalion have boarded the boat just now. The general is so wise!"

Jin Shenghuan took the lead and started to cross the Yangtze River with his men, thinking that his subordinates were the Qianfeng Battalion, which was located at the bottom of the river.The rest of the fifth battalion saw that Jin Shenghuan's troops had already sailed, and hurriedly boarded the boat and wanted to run along, but they were still laughing at Jin Shenghuan's eagerness to board the ship to die, which would be half a beat behind.

When Jin Shenghuan's subordinates floated across the Yangtze River and reached the lower reaches of Anqing City, the ships of the last fifth battalion completely collided with the warships on the left, and many ships circled in the river in a mess.

This time, no one can escape.

Hundreds of thousands of young adults and civilian husbands stood on Jiangxinzhou to watch the battle, and they did not help at all.

Zuo Menggeng's main infantry could only stand on the shore, acting as a bystander.

"Trash, it's all trash!" Young Master Zuo yelled angrily, but there was nothing he could do, the sailors were driving the boats, and the sailors' soldiers naturally wanted to keep the boats. The boats were there, so there was nothing wrong with that.

The sky that looked like it was going to rain didn't rain.Zuo Menggeng really wanted to pay homage to Lord Dragon at this time, praying for a heavy rain to wipe out the arson boat.

The arsonist boat ignited many ships along the way, and the burning became more and more fierce. Most of the sailors on the left escaped the fire attack and drifted downstream desperately, but many soldiers from the fifth battalion did not have time to cross the river and were killed. He drove back to Jiang Xinzhou.

At this time, the Yangtze River Navy stopped setting fire to the boats, because the boats on the left had all drifted away far away.The river surface of Jiangxinzhou has been completely controlled by the Yangtze River Navy. Zuo Menggeng stood on a high slope on the river bank and watched helplessly.

"Da~da~da~beep!" There was a sound of a trumpet that had never been heard before, accompanied by a low-pitched ox horn, and two kinds of trumpets came from upstream at the same time.

"Look, young commander, that's the dragon flag!" Liu Jingting followed the voice and looked upstream. On the largest battleship, the Zheng character flag had already been lowered, and a bright yellow dragon flag was slowly rising.

"The dragon flag and phoenix flag above..." Before Zuo Menggeng finished speaking, he also saw the dragon flag that had been raised to the top of the flagpole: "Your Majesty?!"

At this moment, the hearts of the whole Jiangbei were chilled. Who would have expected Zhu Youjian to hide such a trick in the upper reaches.

"How many people do we have?" Zuo Menggeng hurriedly asked, no one knew how much was lost in this water battle.

"Only the 3 elite soldiers from the first five battalions crossed the river, and the 5000 soldiers from the last five battalions only crossed the river. Jin Shenghuan's [-] soldiers were only ten miles downstream." The entire navy ran downstream, and everyone else was blocked. In Jiangxinzhou.

It is said that Zuo Liangyu has many troops, but in fact there are only 7 to [-] regular soldiers, and the rest are all mobs.

"They are sailors, so they can't fight on shore. If we attack Anqing now, we may have a chance to turn the tables." Liu Jingting is worthy of being a counselor. At this time, everyone has lost their fighting spirit, but he put forward a different opinion.

"Sir, what you said is very good. The elite soldiers are still in our hands. There is still a chance. Hurry up and go to Jin Shenghuan and ask him to lead people to prepare to attack the city." Zuo Menggeng had already regarded Liu Jingting as a life-saving straw, and grabbed him hand, ordered excitedly.

On the side of the Yangtze River Navy, except for a dozen large ships lying in the middle of the Jiangxinzhou waterway to monitor the river, all the other ships went downstream to chase the enemy.

"Confession: The emperor personally conquered, and all the ships on the left side surrendered and did not kill. We must capture every ship as intact as possible." Seeing the huge results of the battle, Zhu Youjian was already overjoyed.

Just the tens of 10 people on Jiangxin Island are enough for him to feel beautiful.What's more, the ships in the entire middle reaches of the Yangtze River have basically been retained. As long as they are chased along the way, almost none of those ships will be able to escape. That should be a huge fortune.

Zheng Chenggong must have stood by Zhu Youjian's side, and let Shi Lang do all the chasing of the captives. When Shi Lang received the order, he was so anxious that he was going crazy. Even if he caught pigs, he couldn't catch so many pigs at once.

Chapter 167: Overcoming Difficulties Together

Forty-five thousand against thirty thousand, the battle suggested by Liu Jingting actually has little chance of winning, but it cannot be said that it cannot be fought.

The crux of the problem is that this is an offensive and defensive battle, and Zuo Menggeng's troops are the attacking side.

However, Anqing is not a strong city. From the ninth year of Chongzhen to the 17th year of Chongzhen, Anqing was breached several times by various parties, and it was already riddled with holes.If it was really a strong city, Liu Jingting would not really suggest this.

At this time, it was getting late and it was raining.The dark clouds that had been holding back for a whole day finally came down.

When people are unlucky, misfortunes never come singly. During the previous water battles and arson boats, not a single drop of water fell from the sky.Now the left side is ready to attack the city, but it is raining heavily.

"Why isn't Jin Shenghuan coming?" Zuo Shaoshuai lost his boat, so he could only stay in a dilapidated house outside the city to avoid the rain.

"The rain was too heavy, the river swelled, and they were blocked on the other side of a river." Hou Fangyu touched the rain on his face, and walked in from the outside, soaked all over.

If the first five battalions hadn't made enough preparations to go ashore half a day in advance, in such a heavy rainy day, if the soldiers didn't even have a place to shelter from the rain, the soldiers on the left might mutiny.

"I think it's all an excuse. Forget it, I know that it's not easy for them, so let them find a place to shelter from the rain." Zuo Menggeng suddenly became concerned and came down.

"Mr. Liu, when do you think it's better for us to start attacking?"

Liu Jingting looked at the heavy rain outside, thought for a while and said, "When it gets dark, if the heavy rain doesn't stop, we'll attack while it's raining. If the rain stops, we'll attack in the middle of the night."

"Awesome!" The room was not big, Huang Shu could only stand under the eaves, half of his body was soaked by the rain, but he did not forget to flatter him.

"Master Huang, how about being a striker?" Zuo Menggeng glanced at Huang Shu. He now felt that Huang Shu was in the way and couldn't help him.

"Me? I don't understand military affairs." Huang Shu was frightened and told him to go to war, but he didn't dare.You can have the courage to scold the emperor in the Wuying Hall, but you must never have the courage to slash the enemy with a knife.

"Master Huang, don't be humble. You are our military supervisor appointed by the imperial court. If you don't understand military affairs, I'm afraid no one here will understand except the young commander." Huang Shu stay away.

"Come on! Change Master Huang's armor and take him to the forward battalion. Let Li Guoying take good care of him."

"Young commander, let me go, I really don't understand military affairs!"

Zuo Menggeng spoke, and immediately rushed over to the two guards, who had nothing to say, set up Huang Shu and dragged him out.Huang Shu struggled desperately, and his lower body slid along the muddy road, covered with dirty yellow mud, as if he had returned to the moment when he was hit by a board in Nanjing.

Speaking of the Yangtze River Navy, Zhu Youjian had a headache when he saw the crowd of people, but the key was that it was raining.

"So many people, how are they arranged tonight?" Zhu Youjian wanted this group of people. They are all good labor. Whether they are lost on the battlefield or become refugees, it is a pity.

But it is very difficult to resettle so many people at once without even a single civil servant.If you bring hundreds of civil servants here, maybe you can stabilize it all at once.

This is the role of civil servants. The stability and unity of the rear cannot be separated from them.Some traversers may only like to kill and have fun, and tend to overlook the importance of civil society.

"I just went ashore to ask. These people haven't eaten a grain of rice for a day." Zuo Maodi is a civil servant, but unfortunately his strength is not in politics, so he can only shake his head.

"Go, bring me the general first." To do things, you must first find someone to lead, so that you can carry out the plan in an orderly manner.Zhu Youjian didn't have enough people at hand, so he could only defeat the idea of ​​surrendering the general.

Xu Yong was very unlucky. Although he escaped the Jiujiang catastrophe, he failed to cross the river and was forced to live on Jiangxinzhou.

At first, the men and horses of the last fifth battalion were a little unwilling to surrender because of their large number of people, but when Zhu Youjian's dragon flag battleship lay in the middle of the river, all the ships dared not move.

The boat didn't dare to go, and the people in Jiangxinzhou naturally became a lone army. Just such a lone army, without food and grass, couldn't hold down hundreds of thousands of young men.

The 10 people Zuo Menggeng led had already thought of fleeing, if not for the suppression along the way, it is estimated that more than [-] people would have escaped.

When the peasants saw the emperor's dragon flag, they immediately mutinied and surrounded the soldiers and horses of the fourth battalion. Xu Yong and others had no choice but to surrender to Zhu Youjian.

"Your name is Xu Yong?" Zhu Youjian probably only remembers Jin Shengheng, Zuo Menggeng's subordinate, who made the history of Nanming too many names, and he is not a historian who specializes in studying Nanming.

"Criminal Xu Yong, kowtow to my emperor, long live, long live, long live." Xu Yong was as slippery as a loach, when he saw Zhu Youjian, he knelt down and kowtowed with a plop.The other three commanders saw that the one who was not in a hurry all wanted to find a chance to save his life.

"Listen to me four of you, take your men and set up a tent here. Before dark, if I still see someone standing outside in the rain, I will drag them out together and chop them down."