The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 400

Nanhui is on the north side of Zhoushan, which means that in two more days, Luo Mingshou will be able to reach the vicinity of the Qiantang River.

Ruan Jin then entered the cabin and bowed his head solemnly to Zheng Chenggong, who immediately helped him up with a smile, "General Ruan doesn't need to thank you, we are both men of the Han family. How can we not help each other when the enemy is captured?"

Ruan Jin immediately thought that he had been standing on his own with the King of Lu and his vassal, but he had a lot of constraints on the Taizheng Dynasty. He couldn't help blushing when he heard this, and hurriedly bowed his head and cupped his hands and said: "The final general is willing to work with the admiral to destroy the captives. Don't give up!"

Zheng Chenggong was also overjoyed, "Okay! I'm going to Hangzhou. If I have General Ruan's help, I will get twice the result with half the effort."

According to the strategy of His Highness the Assistant King, the main force of the Daming Navy cannot stay in the Qiantang area for a long time, but most of Luo Mingshou's troops are river boats, and only [-] or [-] ships are suitable for use at sea.It is very difficult to guard the Qiantang River with these ships.

Although many warships were captured in the defeat of the Gaha tribe this time, Zheng Chenggong couldn't assign manpower to drive them.But the hundreds of soldiers on Wucao Island are very familiar with these ships, because they originally belonged to their Zhejiang Navy.

As for the possibility of these people betraying the water, Zheng Chenggong is not very worried.First, he had just saved the lives of six or seven hundred people from the Zhejiang Navy, Ruan Jin seemed to have a lot of loyalty, so he certainly wouldn't do such a despicable thing.Secondly, the boats he allocated to Ruan Jin and others were all small boats, and the captured large boats were severely damaged and could not be used without repairs for a month.And Luo Mingshou brought three large ships with thousands of materials, and it is said that two of them also carried the 24-pound cannon cast by His Royal Highness the Counselor King.With these ships in town, the Zhejiang navy dare not make mistakes.

In addition, more than a dozen old-style warships in the navy, including the large ship Yanping, were obviously difficult to cooperate with other main warships in this naval battle, so he decided to leave them all to Luo Mingshou.

The Yanping is a large ship of [-] tons, equipped with two [-]-pounder guns and two [-]-pounder guns, which are even more powerful weapons to deter the Zhejiang army.

When Ruan Jin heard that Zheng Chenggong was going to hand over more than 50 captured warships to him, he clasped his hands excitedly and said, "Thank you, Admiral, the general will do his best to kill and build slaves!"

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In the early morning of the next day, fifty or so warships sailed quietly into the north bank of the Qiantang River, and the flags of Gaha were flying on the boats.

The small boat patrolling outside the Hangzhou wharf saw it from a distance, and hurriedly drove over, and saw Yu Qingsheng, a guerrilla general of the Qing army navy standing on the leading boat, and two familiar faces of Mr. Qian standing behind him.

"General Yu!" The patrolling officer greeted with a smile on his face, "The army has won so soon?"

"Yeah." Yu Qingsheng's expression was a little stiff. First, he was not very good at acting, and second, he had a dagger on his waist, so it was hard to look natural. When the grain transport boats set off, the navy does not enter the port, but goes south directly to protect the grain."

"This... the army is working too hard, right?"

"Stop rambling! The soldiers have been fighting all day, and they are still waiting for the delivery of food and grass to rest early!"

The patrol officer hurriedly nodded and bowed his waist and said, "Yes, yes, I'm going to urge the grain ship to leave now!"

The grain transport ship had no place in the navy, so I went to ask Sun Min, who was in charge of the grain escort, for instructions.After hearing the news, the latter personally looked around outside the port and saw that it was indeed his own warship, so he immediately ordered more than 20 grain transport ships to leave the dock in a mighty manner.

As soon as they left, the Shaowu brought thirty warships of various sizes and rushed into the harbor, and bombarded the fortifications along the coast without saying a word.Then the accompanying boat docked immediately, and the [-] navy infantry disembarked and landed. Led by Yu Qingsheng and others, they went straight to the Qing army's granary.

The Qing army had previously obtained control of the Qiantang River, so they piled grain and grass not far from the bank without fear, and only sent less than 2000 people to guard it.

And just now the roar of more than 50 cannons on the four Galen warships scared the Shouliang Qing army to think that the main force of the Ming Dynasty had come to kill them, and they all fled towards Hangzhou City for a while.

So Liu Guoxuan led the infantry all the way to Qingyuanli two miles away without any hindrance. A few rounds of flintlock salvos at the door scattered a small number of recalcitrant soldiers, and then began to set fire in all directions. .

On the other side, more than 20 grain ships leaving the port were quickly surrounded by warships.

After Ruan Jin ordered Gaha and the others to hang the heads on the bow of the ship, and fired a few cannonballs into the sea, the grain boats followed him to Wucao Island obediently.It will temporarily be used as the berth of the Qiantang navy of the Ming army, and the Qing army on the grain transport ship will directly serve as the coolies for rebuilding the grass-free island.

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"Sun Min must have eaten too much flower and wine again." Ma Degong slapped the table and said angrily, "It's already a day and a half behind the agreed delivery date, and the boat hasn't arrived yet. This time, I will definitely join him Book!"

The general at the side stepped forward and said: "My lord, there are four days of food and grass left in the army, do you want to reduce some rations..."

"Small fart!" Ma Degong pointed at the Xiaoshan Fortress, "I've had some success in attacking with all my life, how can all previous efforts be wasted because of lack of food?!

"Distribute food as usual, and send another boat to Hangzhou for reminders."

"Mark compliance."

As soon as the general turned around and left, a guard brought an extremely embarrassed person into the account, "Master Commander, this person said he came from Hangzhou, and he has something important to report."

Ma Degong glanced at the man's slumped state, and snorted coldly, "Look at you, you look like you just swam over..."

Unexpectedly, the man turned over and fell to his knees, and said in a hoarse voice: "My lord... the little, the little one did swim over.

"The Qiantang navy was defeated by the Ming army. Now the Ming army's warships have blocked the Qiantang River, and the grain ships cannot go south... This is Mr. Sun's handwriting."

It can be considered that the Qing soldiers who delivered the letter had some tricks. Earlier, several messenger boats sent by Sun Min were destroyed, but this person sailed to the center of the river and dived into the water, making the boat turn around to divert the Daming Navy, and he swam half of the river by himself. To go to the south bank.

If it weren't for this, I'm afraid that Ma Degong would starve to death and still look forward to the arrival of the grain ship.

Hearing Ma Degong's words, he felt dizzy and fell down on the chair.For a moment, he forced himself to stabilize his mind, first pointed at the messenger soldier and said coldly to the guards: "Everyone who has contact with this person will be executed, and the news of the food shortage must not be revealed!"

"Follow the order!"

Tian Xiong, Ma Degong's lieutenant at the side, frowned and pondered for a while, then cupped his hands and offered advice: "My lord, we must not continue to waste time in Xiaoshan right now. The upper reaches of Qiantang are narrow, and our army should go west to the Tonglu area as soon as possible, or we may have a chance to cross the river."

Another officer hurriedly echoed: "My lord, what General Tian said is very true! Besides, the general heard the word the day before yesterday that the Zhe army was collecting grain from Quzhou, and the grain trucks should be in Tonglu at this time. We can seize the grain and cross the river simultaneously." .”

Ma Degong squinted his eyes and thought for a while, but shook his head slightly, "Our army seems to have only this way at the moment, but I want to bet on him."

He tapped on the location of Shaoxing on the map, "If that person is stupid enough, maybe he can help me out of trouble..."

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