The time came to mid-May of the 18th year of Chongzhen.
A warm current swept across the Central Plains, and the temperature along the Huanghuai River increased by more than ten degrees overnight. The Yellow River, which had been frozen for almost half a year, completely thawed, and ice floods formed.
Under night, Badahai quietly lurks in the wilderness on the east bank of the Yellow River.
Tonight, it was the turn of Niulu, where Badahai was located, to send troops to ambush the route. Niulu Ezhen then sent them to Badahai. Although Badahai was very dissatisfied, he could only bring Huang Deheng to the Yellow River to lurk.
Jiannu dug a trench dozens of miles long around the city of Xuzhou and built a ten-foot-high protective wall outside the trench. The blockade was very tight.
But no matter how tight the blockade is, it cannot be watertight.
Especially at night, Ming army couriers often try to infiltrate.
As a result, Jiannu sent out a large number of Ye Bu Shu and ambushes. Ye Bu Su was like a ghost wandering in the dark night, and the ambushes were ghosts hiding in the dark, often making Ming army messengers unable to guard against them.
In the past few months, countless Ming army couriers were hunted down by Jian Nu Ye Bu and the ambushing army.
"Master." Huang Deheng's voice rang out under the still night sky, "Have a drink of water."
While talking, Huang Deheng took off the sheepskin bag from his waist and handed it over. It was filled with clean water.
"Shh!" Badahai made a silent gesture, and he vaguely heard something unusual.
Seeing Badahai's gesture through the dim starlight, Huang Deheng quickly put away his sheepskin handbag, took out the fire folding bag from his leather bag, and prepared a mutton-fat torch.
At a certain moment, a black shadow sprang up from the wilderness ahead like a ghost.
Badahai suddenly jumped up. As he stood up, he already put a heavy arrow on the bow string and drew the big bow. At the same time, he shouted loudly: "Torch!"
Huang Deheng rowed the torch as quickly as possible and lit the torch.
After lighting the torch, Huang Deheng threw it forward with all his strength.
The burning mutton-fat torch drew a dazzling trajectory in the air and landed in the night sky above the black figure, illuminating the black figure at once. It was indeed a meticulous work of the Ming army!
It's easy to tell whether the Ming army was careful or not, just look at the hairstyle on the top of the head.
When moving at night, Jiannu usually keeps his head bare, exposing the golden rat tail on the back of his head.
Therefore, if anyone is wearing a bamboo hat or a felt hat, he must be a courier or craftsman of the Ming army, so just shoot him.
Badahai released the bowstring without hesitation, and with a bang, the three-foot-long heavy arrow tore through the air and roared towards the back of the black figure.
The distance of less than twenty steps is basically free for Badahai.
There was just a pop sound, and the heavy arrow pierced the shoulder and back of the black figure. The black figure fell to the ground with a groan, twitched twice, and then stopped moving.
Huang Deheng waited for a moment before stepping forward happily.
"Master, you are a poor man." Soon Huang Deheng came back with a dark face.
"I'm not even a big boy, and I don't have secret wax pills or anything on me."
"As expected." Badahai smiled and added, "After such a long confrontation, Mingguo has learned his lesson long ago, so how could he bring money or letters with him."
However, before he finished his sentence, he suddenly heard the sound of kacha.
"What's the sound?" Huang Deheng whispered, "Master, I seem to hear some breaking sound."
"Hush, be silent." Badahai put out the torch and signaled Huang Deheng to be silent. The surroundings returned to silence, as if nothing had happened.
Soon, the sound of kacha kacha sounded again.
Badahai and Huang Deheng turned their heads almost at the same time and turned their gaze to the west.
The place where the two men lurked was actually quite far from the trench, but not far from the Yellow River, only a dozen steps away.
Looking at each other, Badahai and Huang Deheng reacted almost at the same time, and then shouted in unison: "Navy! Ming Navy! Ming Navy!"
Along with the roar, Badahai drew his big bow,
And put a rocket on the bowstring of the big bow.
Huang Dehuan quickly lit the rocket again with the fire stick.
The next moment, with a muffled sound of a bang, the rocket on the string flew into the sky with a piercing scream, drawing an eye-catching trajectory in the night sky.
Then, piles of beacon fires rose up in the nearby wilderness.
As these beacon fires lit up, castles were revealed one after another under the night, and these beacon fires suddenly burned on the castles.
Moreover, in addition to the beacon fires burning on these castles, there were also red cannons one after another, and the muzzles of all the red cannons were pointed towards the river ahead.
Not long after, piles of beacon fires were also lit on the west bank of the Yellow River.
Under the beacon fire, castles were revealed on the west bank of the Yellow River. The castles were also equipped with red cannons, and the muzzles of the red cannons were also pointed at the river.
At this time, if you look down from a high altitude, you can see a magnificent scene.
On the east and west banks of the Yellow River to the east of Yunlong Mountain, dozens of castles were built along the seven or eight-mile-long river bank, and each of these castles was equipped with one or two Hongyi cannons.
But the Yellow River is several miles wide.
The beacon fire on the shore alone cannot illuminate the river.
So the surface of the Yellow River was still dark and nothing could be seen.
But if you think that there is nothing you can do to establish a slave, you are underestimating the wisdom of the ancients.
Of course, flares were impossible to appear in this era, but Jiannu thought of fire ships.
Then one by one the fire boats were set on fire from the shore, then pushed to the middle of the river, and then moved down the river.
Dozens of fire boats slowly spread out on the river, then slowly moved southward along the Lingxun River, and soon covered the entire river.
At this time, if there were indeed a Ming navy warship on the river, it would have been illuminated by the fireship's fire and would have nowhere to hide.
Badahai's heart immediately rose. If there were no warships on the river, then he would have lied about military information and would be severely punished. It would also be possible to chase the flag.
Huang Deheng, the dog slave, is even more nervous than Bada Hai.
If Badahai is punished, his fate will only be more tragic.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But fortunately, not long after, dozens of dazzling red lights suddenly appeared on the river.
Accompanying the red light was the sound of huge bombardments, which were the Ming Navy's warships firing cannons.
Obviously, after finding that there was nowhere to hide, the Ming navy warships fired their guns first, trying to destroy the fire ship released by Jiannu before their position was exposed.
But firing cannons will also reveal the location.
The red muzzle flash is the most dazzling pointing light.
So the Hongyi cannons on the castle on the shore also fired.
An artillery battle between the Ming Navy and the Jiannu Artillery suddenly took place. The cannonballs made dazzling trajectories under the night, crisscrossing the entire river.
From time to time, cannonballs hit the castle on the river bank, causing smoke and dust to rise.
From time to time, artillery shells hit the Ming Navy warships on the river, hitting the mast, which immediately broke, and hitting the parapet on the side. The parapet immediately shattered inch by inch. If unfortunately it hit the parapet near the waterline,
The side was the most unlucky. A big hole was immediately punched out in the bulkhead of the ship, and the river water quickly poured in through the big hole.
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Zheng Hongkui's face had turned into black coal, almost three points darker than the night.
Before setting off from the naval camp in Qingjiangpu, Zheng Hongkui had already anticipated this, so he did not choose to sail during the day, but took the risk of running aground and sailed at night. What he was worried about was the red barbarian cannon of Jiannu.
As a result, we went to whatever we were afraid of, and in the end we were bombarded by Jiannu and Hongyi artillery.
Seeing the dozens of red cannons mounted on the castle on the shore firing continuously, Zheng Hongkui was so angry that his teeth were broken. These slaves were really hateful, and they actually built the castle.
What makes Zheng Hongkui even more angry is that the castle built by Jiannu obviously borrowed from the Ming army's gun platform. It was also built very short, but the protective wall was built extremely thick and had a large inclination.
Therefore, the cannonballs from naval warships hitting Jiannu's castle had almost no effect.
"Uncle, we can't continue fighting like this!" Zheng Cai walked up to Zheng Hongkui with a face filled with gunpowder smoke and roared with a black face, "Our cannonballs can't hurt Jiannu at all, but Jiannu's cannons can hit us hard!"
Speaking of this meal, Zheng Cai said again: "Now we have only two choices, either to retreat the same way, or to rush over desperately. It is impossible for Jiannu to block the entire river section. The section of the river with cannons is at most
Seven or eight miles long."
Zheng Hongkui turned to Wang Chengen and asked: "What do you think, father-in-law?"
This winter, Wang Chengen was with Zheng Hongkui's navy.
With him, he brought more than a thousand kilograms of peppers collected from Huai'an Prefecture.
Wang Chengen said hurriedly: "Everything depends on Mr. Zheng's calm decision."
This time Zheng Hongkui was stumped.
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The huge sound of cannons soon disturbed Chongzhen in his sleep.
Putting on his clothes and getting up as quickly as possible, Chongzhen led Zhu Cijiong to the gun platform No. 1 on the top of the ninth peak. This gun platform has the widest view and can clearly see the river that is more than ten miles long to the east.
The scholar on duty tonight is Zheng Sen, who immediately paid tribute to Chongzhen.
"Excuse me." Chongzhen waved his hand and asked, "What's going on with the sound of cannons?"
Zheng Sen pointed to the east and said, "Your Majesty, our navy has arrived."
"Navy?" Chongzhen opened his telescope and pointed it at the river in the east, and said, "The temperature has increased a lot in the past few days, and the Yellow River has also thawed. It's almost time for the navy to come back."
Zheng Sen said: "But the navy seems to have been stopped by Jian Nu."
While talking, Chongzhen had already adjusted the focus and clearly saw the situation on the river.
But after just observing for a moment, Chongzhen said: "This is also an expected result. The fort built by Jiannu borrowed from our musketry. The navy's Hongyi cannon has no effect on Jiannu, but Jiannu's Hongyi cannon can't be used by Jiannu."
It can pose a threat to naval warships. According to this strategy, our navy has no chance of winning."
As early as more than two months ago, when the slaves were digging trenches and repairing walls, they were building forts.
From that time, Chongzhen had foreseen that the Navy would encounter huge challenges.
