Chapter 835 Heroes

According to the Yangtze River in Dangtu, more than 100 miles away from Nanjing, more than 700 warships stretch for seven or eight miles and drive rapidly along the river to Nanjing. Zhu Chenhao's army took more than three days to walk hundreds of miles of water from the day they left Poyang Hukou. If they hadn't stayed in Anqing Prefecture for half a day and waited for the distribution of grain and materials withdrawn from Nanchang, they would have arrived in Nanjing long ago.

For the loss of Nanchang, it is naturally expected. Since Zhu Chenhao has decided to give up Nanchang, although it is painful, it is not unacceptable. He was just angry that Wan Rui dared to disobey his orders and did not withdraw all the soldiers and horses to follow the army. 15,000 soldiers and horses were sent to Nanchang City, which was his most annoying.

If this 15,000 people join in, they will have a real 100,000 army on hand. Although the soldiers pulled in and captured Nankang Jiujiang Anqing three mansions are also among them, these are also people, and they can still play a role in fighting a war.

It's useless to say anything now. The back road behind him has been cut off. According to the news from the morning, Wang Shouren sent people to capture Nankang and Jiujiang, that is to say, the road back to Jiangxi has been completely blocked. Now there is only one thought about capturing the road to Nanjing.

Zhu Chenhao's flagship was in the middle of the fleet, escorted by iron-headed ships on the left and right. Standing on the deck and watching the thousands of sails across the blue water and blue sky in front of him, Zhu Chenhao's heart was less troubled. When he was squinting and admiring, but listening to the footsteps behind him, the voice of the military division Liu Yangzheng came: "Your Majesty, a big good thing, a big good thing, the news in Nanjing has arrived."

Zhu Chenhao turned around with great joy and saw Liu Yangzheng holding a piece of parchment in his hand. Naturally, it was the message sent by the carrier pigeon in Nanjing. Zhu Chenhao split his hand and looked at it quickly, and a smile appeared on his handsome cheeks.

"Hahaha, it's just the right time. Feng Xiaoyi and others learned about Song Nan's blocking plan. I was worried that Song Nan would be unfavorable to me after arriving in Nanjing City early, but now we have learned about his plan in advance. Now I can let Song Nan have a taste of defeat and death. Isn't he claimed to be the god of the Ming Dynasty? After he, the Ming military god, was defeated and slashed by me, let's see who in the court dares to challenge us.

Liu Yangzheng arched his hand with a smile and said, "Congratulations to the emperor. With the other party's battle plan, we can get twice the result with half the effort. It is said that Song Nan's plan is really vicious. If we hadn't learned about it in advance, we may have suffered a big loss. The sight is unclear at night. If he really sneaks into the fleet with a fire boat, although we will definitely win, we will lose a lot.

Zhu Chenhao nodded and said, "It's a pity that such a good plan has been learned by us. How do you think we should deal with it?"

Liu Yangzheng said: "It's not difficult to deal with it. It's just to arrange the defense of warships near the river bank. Send ten iron-headed boats to the left of the river bank. When their boats go out, they immediately drive up to crush and crash. The iron-headed boats are fire-resistant. What if they start a fire? At most, we destroyed a few warships, but we destroyed his whole plan.

Zhu Chenhao laughed and said, "Yes, in addition to sinking them, you can also use the Folang machine on the iron-headed ship to bombard them. I can't wait to see this scene. Song Nan wanted to spit blood when he saw this scene."

Liu Yangzheng smiled and said, "When we repel his ambush fire, we will send heavy artillery ships to gather at the mouth of the mouth, and several rounds of bombardment can collapse the blocked obstacles and fortifications on the mouth of the mouth. At that time, nothing can stop our army from entering Nanjing. Feng Xiaoyi's thousands of soldiers and horses made trouble in the city again, and our nearly 90,000 soldiers and horses covered and entered the city. Before dawn, Nanjing City will be the capital of the emperor.

Zhu Chenhao's smiling body trembled and waved his hand and ordered, "Go and reply to Feng Xiaoyi, saying that we will go to the estuary when it is dark. As soon as the army breaks through the estuary, they will rise up in the city, so that we can successfully enter the city and land."

Liu Yangzheng nodded and agreed, lifted his robe and left. Zhu Chenhao shouted again, "In addition, taking Nanjing, Feng Xiaoyi and the three of them immediately promoted to the position of general and asked them to do everything for me."

Liu Yangzheng hurried back to the warehouse. A moment later, three carrier pigeons flew up and flew straight downstream. At the same time, the flag on the flagship changed, and all the ships were full of wind from the side sails. The fleet accelerated, like a moth rushing to the fire, running fast to the downstream without hesitation.

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The sun slowly set from the horizon, and the golden afterglow disappeared, the sky and the earth were shrouded in light blue twilight, and the four fields became bleak in an instant. This is the cold spring in February. After the sun sets, the air is filled with a feeling of coldness.

Meizizhou lay quietly in the river, like a huge fish. The arched back splits the river in half and changed the river flow into two channels from north to south. The Yangtze River here was originally nearly five miles wide, but the width of Meizizhou was more than two miles, which caused the river flow on both sides to be less than one li wide. Although it still looks extremely wide, it has lost a lot of the power of the river. In fact, this is exactly the result that Song Nan wants to see. Choosing here is to make the river two narrow sections with the help of the diversion effect of Mei Zizhou. In this way, General Zankou and Mrs. Song's rocket launchers are within range.

There is no light on the dark river, only the roaring water is rolling, and the dead plum continent is also dark. However, under the cover of darkness, nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses are staring at the river with their eyes wide open. If these eyes will shine like stars, you will find that this plum continent is all over It's a twinkling star.

At the beginning of the update, there was a faint fire shining on the river in front of him, which shocked Song Nan's spirit hidden behind the reef. After a while, he rushed over with several warships holding sails like arrows. Ma Ming whispered, "I'm coming."

Song Nan shouted in a low voice: "Don't act rashly. This is an outpost. Once you find something abnormal, the ship behind will turn around and leave."

Sure enough, several ships slowly slowed down when they came to the calm place of the water at the head of the continent. Some people on the boat held up the wind lanterns and looked around. Although they were dozens of steps away, the movements of the rebels on the ship were faintly discernable. The rebel soldiers peeped at Mei Zizhou across the river, and even had the intention of disembarking to check the river Xinzhou.

Song Nan's heart raised his throat. Zhu Chenhao was really careful, but whenever he encountered something like Jiangxin Island, he was afraid that he would be careful and be ambushed on the island. But soon, the rebels on the ship were blocked by the reefs in the waters in front of Meizizhou. Because of the river upstream, the soil in front of Meizizhou was washed away, and the large and small reefs were densely covered with rocks. This was not a good place for ships to dock.

seemed to hear the rebels on the ship curse a few words. Someone threw a torch from the boat from the air to the shore of Zhoutou. The torch drew an arc in the air and landed in a bush, and soon lit a thicket of grass.

"It's not good." Ma Ming shouted in a low voice.

"What?" Song Nan frowned and asked.

"Where are the soldiers lurking? I'm afraid this fire will burn people. If it is burned and jumps up, it's over."

Song Nan was shocked and looked up at the bank of Zhoutou River under the rock. The burning barren grass was very fierce, but the bushes here were all piled together, and it was impossible to spread. However, if they really hid in the grass, the inevitable burning screams and rolling were found by the rebels in the river.

However, nothing happened. The soldiers on the rebel warship on the river deliberately stayed for a while. When they were extinguished from the dead grass, they turned the bow and rowed away against the current. Presumably, they thought there was nothing wrong and returned to the river to signal.

After the enemy ship left, there was a noisy sound at the fire below, and Ma Ming looked down and shouted, "What's going on?"

"Admiral Ma, the Qiu Duoyun brothers were burned."

"Ah?" Ma Ming was surprised, "Where is someone really?"

Song Nan jumped down the rock and went all the way down the slope to the place where the fire started. She saw a soldier lying on the ground with his eyes closed. The soldiers around him were plastering his legs with river mud. The soldier's upper body was unhurt, and his legs were burnt black, emitting a smell, and he was already in a coma.

The surrounding soldiers reported the situation to Song Nan. The torch of the rebels ignited the grass and burned to Qiu Duoyun's leg. Everyone thought he would roll and scream, but they didn't expect Qiu Duoyun to say a word and bit a branch to resist. The flames burned his legs, but he did not move to prevent the rebels from finding an ambush.

Song Nan knelt down on one knee, looked at Qiu Duoyun's closed eyes, took a water bag to feed him water, and took several mouthfuls of water into his abdomen. Qiu Duoyun woke up and struggled to salute after seeing Song Nan. Song Nan patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't move, I'm afraid your leg is useless. You're very good."

Qiu Duoyun didn't dare to look at his legs and gritted his teeth and burst into tears.

Song Nan said, "Don't worry about the way out in the future. From today on, the second half of your life of Qiu Duoyun will be managed by my Song Mansion. Your parents are also supported by the Duke of Zhen. In addition, when you are better, I will order someone to make you a rolling wheelchair to push you around. In addition, your military position will be promoted and retained; Ma Ming, after returning, he will be promoted to the internal affairs position of Shenshu Camp and enjoy the treatment of thousands of households.

Ma Ming said, "I understand the humble position."

Qiu Duoyun's eyes filled with tears of excitement and thanked him repeatedly. Song Nan said, "I should thank you. If you hadn't taken care of the overall situation, our ambush tonight might have failed. All this is what you deserve, and I don't think it's enough. First, someone will carry you to a safe place and discuss this matter after the war. Don't worry, your legs won't be burned in vain. Wait and see. The rebels will be a hundred times sadder than you tonight.