"Hurry, fire!"

On the newly built fortress on the south bank of the Yellow River, the entrance of the Li Canal, the general of the Shun Army who guarded Tianfeikou, Lan Yingcheng, one of the eighteen cavalry who broke through with Li Zicheng after the defeat in the Nanyuan War, waved the Yanling Sword and shouted in despair.

Beside him, more than a dozen cannons sprayed flames at the same time.

The whistling shells cut through the sky and instantly hit the yellow river with waves, stirring up vague water columns. One of them even hit a small boat. The shot put weighing more than ten pounds with the kinetic energy of high-speed flight, stirring countless debris on the wooden boat. The ship's ship and a soldier in red were immediately beaten to fall into the river. Then the entire wooden boat quickly sank on the river surface. All the soldiers on the boat struggled for a few seconds and disappeared into the yellow waves.

But this makes no sense.

Because at this time there were many such small boats on the wide surface of the Yellow River.

I don't know how many!

There were countless dense crowds, just like the locusts covering the arid land of Guanzhong in his memory, covering the rushing Yellow River. All the boats were loaded with soldiers in red. The silver helmets on their heads looked like silver waves on the river. The ragged boatmen stood firmly on the boat in the fire of artillery, and supported the same broken boats to approach the south bank with all their might. This scene made him so familiar. In the past, with the shouts of not paying food, the common people also helped them rampant the world and swept the Ming Dynasty.

And now, they are helping Ming Jun.

"This is really funny!"

He said with a helpless smile.

The sparse artillery fire could not stop the forced transit of more than 2,000 ships. After Qingkou City surrendered without fighting, not only the fishing boats on Hongze Lake, but also the fishing boats on all rivers and lakes around Huai'an, small ferries, and even some cargo-carrying sand boats all joined the ranks of helping the imperial court. Even the fishermen on Baima Lake and Baoying Lake south of Huai'an did not have to work hard to support their small boats. In this water town with countless ditches, they could come and go freely through any place they wanted to go.

The emperor came to the slogan of dividing the fields, which was like a spell, causing them all to fall into a state of almost madness.

Why did these fishermen have to risk their lives to go into the water and struggle to survive in the waves of rivers and lakes?

Isn’t it because of land annexation that they have no land to plant? Isn’t it because of their lands that have been forced to be taken away by landlords? They have no land in almost the richest land in this country, and even struggle to survive in rivers and lakes, they have to bear a lot of heavy taxes, count taxes, fish classes, and even fish fry taxes, and the salt of pickled fish has to be paid extra taxes. The tax burdens of all fishermen have lost their harvest.

All the emperor was cancelled when he came.

Can those fishermen not go crazy?

The crazy fishermen drove more than two thousand dilapidated boats, and then loaded with three infantry brigades of the Ming army to start the battle of crossing the river.

"Damn, what are you doing?"

Lan Yingcheng kicked an artillery soldier to the ground and pulled out his sword and shouted.

A weak flame appeared at the muzzle in front of the latter, and then the shell fell into the mud less than a hundred feet away in front of the turret, even the nearest Ming army had to be more than one mile away, which scared the Shun army infantry under the turret that were about to fight against the Ming army.

"Sir, that gunpowder is getting wet!"

A veteran next to him pulled the artillery behind him and said with a smile.

At the same time, all the artillery stopped shooting and looked at Lan Yingcheng expressionlessly.

Lan Yingcheng held the knife and looked at the dry gunpowder in the wooden barrel, then suppressed his anger and looked at these guys. When he saw that some soldiers were already touching the hilt of the knife, he finally gave up his efforts completely and kicked the cannon with a hateful blow. Then he waved his hand and simply left the fort with dozens of personal soldiers. He rode his own war horse under the turret, rushed to the main force of the Five Thousand Shun Army who were lined up, roared with a horse and waved his sword and shouted: "Brothers, kill, fight for the King of Breaking!"

After saying that, he rushed straight to the Ming army that had already begun to set foot on the south bank.

"Quick, array!"

In the mud and sand on the south bank of the Yellow River, Huang Xu, commander of the Second Infantry Brigade of the Ming Army, jumped out of the fishing boat, pulled out his sword and shouted.

Behind him, the flag bearer quickly raised the brigade flag of the Second Infantry Brigade. A red-bottomed golden dragon hugged the white sun and yellow moon, but near the flag was a white vertical strip, with the seven-character brides of the Second Infantry Brigade embroidered on it, flying above his head. The flag and three golden horizontal bars on his chest, and a row of three golden four-pointed stars on the horizontal bar in the middle, immediately became the center of all the landing soldiers on both sides. Soon, the first batch of landing Ming troops completed a formation of a thousand-man level before the arrival of the Shun Army.

"Rise the gun!"

Amid the roars of officers identified as military ranks, all the soldiers raised the bandit guns with bayonets in their hands at the same time.

The Shun Army vanguard entered the range.

"Open fire!"

The officer's roar rang again.

The bandit guns instantly spewed out a blazing flame, and dense bullets kept hitting the opposite Shun Army soldiers. The latter immediately fell, but the rest still waved their swords and guns and shouted. The mud that almost exceeded the ankles seriously limited the speed of Shun Army. In twenty seconds, they only advanced less than thirty meters. And the Ming soldiers who fired the first round of bullets at the same time completed the loading of bullets in about twenty seconds.

Then he aimed at the target again and opened fire. Shunjun fell down again, but the rest were still shouting to attack. Ming soldiers quickly completed the third round of loading. Because of the difference in speed, in fact, there was no obvious separation of the shooting at this time. In the densely arranged formation of the four teams, all the soldiers were just loading bullets and shooting at the fastest speed they could achieve. Gunshots kept ringing on this empty river beach, and the attacking Shunjun kept falling down amid the gunshots.

Just half a minute later, the Shun Army was defeated!

"Occurrence, continue to attack!"

Lan Yingcheng, who was commanding behind, roared angrily.

Several familiar faces ran over in front of him, one of them looked at him with an apology, then lowered his head and continued to run backwards.

At this time, behind the Ming army's formation, more and more small boats were docking. Then the red-clothed soldiers on the ship quickly jumped out and rushed towards the two wings of the formation, standing there to check their bandit guns in full swing. On the long river bank where Lan Yingcheng's sight was reaching, there were more small boats docking. The second infantry line had even formed, and was led by a military flag and his officers, heading here with neat steps.

"kill!"

He roared in despair.

Immediately afterwards, he activated the war horses to rush towards the formation in front, but the hundreds of cavalrymen behind him turned their horses' heads one after another.

Lan Yingcheng ignored them. He rushed towards the Ming army with the last four loyal subordinates, but the silt on the river beach quickly stopped him from moving forward. The war horses were getting slower and slower in the mud. Huang Xu's sabre opposite him pointed forward. The Ming army lined up quickly held the bayonet rifle and moved forward in a neatly horizontal line. Just when Lan Yingcheng and his five-person war horses were finally trapped in the mud and could not move helplessly, the encirclement of more than a thousand bayonets quickly surrounded him.

"Those who surrender are exempt from death!"

Huang Xu said calmly.

"I would rather die than surrender than be able to come!"

Lan Yingcheng waved the knife and roared angrily.

Huang Xu didn't say much, then waved his hand down, and then stabbed countless bayonets at Lan Yingcheng and the others. The latter's resistance lasted for only a few seconds, and the bayonets flashing with cold light stabbed into their bodies one after another.

"Send the dead body back to the north shore!"

When the soldiers pulled out the bayonet, Huang Xu looked at the fallen corpse of Lan Yingcheng and said.

The two soldiers immediately stepped forward and raised Lan Yingcheng's body and sent it to the boat on the shore. Huang Xu pointed his sword forward in his hand, and the remaining Ming army lined up toward the fort. In fact, after Lan Yingcheng left the fort, the cannons there had stopped firing. At this time, seeing the defeat of the Shun army, the defenders on the fort ran down and lined up under the fort waiting for the arrival of the Ming army. Soon Huang Xu took his subordinates to board the fort and boarded the fort. At this time, most of the boats had already reached the south bank, and teams of Ming army were marching south in an orderly manner on the river beach, and the resistance they encountered was almost insignificant.

In this way, the Ming army broke through the natural danger of the Yellow River.

When Yang Feng crossed the Yellow River, his forward had already arrived at the city of Huai'an.

However, the battle in Huai'an did not happen next. After Qingkou and Tianfeikou fell in tears, Yuan Zongdi knew very well that there was no point in defending Huai'an. As long as the Ming army's fleet entered the Li Canal through Tianfeikou, conquering Huai'an would be nothing more than a problem of putting the invincible general's artillery outside the city and then firing a few shells at the city wall. Huai'an is indeed a solid city, but in the face of those hundreds of pounds of stone bullets and flower bullets, there was no strong city at all. Even the solid fortresses built in Liaodong for years of war could not stop this thing, let alone Huai'an, who had not experienced war for hundreds of years, and the people in Huai'an City were eager to try and ready to stab him in the back at any time.

If that's the case, I'll even fuck!

Just after the first Ming army's cannon carrying the invincible general's artillery, dragged by hundreds of boatmen, slowly passed through the lock at Tianfei's mouth little by little, Yuan Zongdi led the main force of the five thousand Shun army to flee Huai'an and headed south to Yangzhou. When he left, he deliberately did not inform the former Ming army generals. So after he left, the remaining 40,000 new recruits who were expanding in Jiangnan in the city were simply chopped off another former Ming army general Li Yuchun, and Tian Xiong, who had captured Hongguang with Ma Degong in history, and then opened the Huai'an city gate to welcome the throne into the city.

At this point, Huai'an conquered, and the Ming army pointed at Yangzhou.
Chapter completed!