Chapter 48 Bloody River Surface

Jin Shenghuan was stunned and said to himself: "Indeed, compared to Liu Liangzuo, the navy of the imperial army is a big trouble."

At this moment, there is already a connection between Zhang Xuan and Luo Rucai.

And what is the contact channel?

It's the Huaihe River.

However, the lower reaches of the Huaihe River to Hongze Lake are all controlled by the navy. If the control of the navy can be lifted,

Then the entire Huaihe River can be freely traveled up and down.

Maybe Cao Ying can mobilize troops through the Huaihe River and transfer the main force of Cao Ying under Shouzhou City to Fengyang City within a day or two.

With such great benefits in front of us, Liu Liangzuo is naturally unimportant.

"Yes." Jin Shenghuan agreed immediately.

Then he led his soldiers to the east. The sound of thousands of war horses beating on the ground gradually faded away and became unheard.

"Sir, do you think General Jin can succeed here?" Zhang Su asked.

"It doesn't matter whether we can succeed or not." Zhang Xuan said with a sneer: "As long as we alert them and ask them to change their location, it will take several days of work. In this way, we will be cleaner."

If the navy can't defeat it, then attack the port. This can be regarded as Zhu Yuanzhang's old wisdom.

However, Zhang Xuan's pontoon bridge did not allow them all to cross the river in the afternoon. When Yuan Shizhong's troops crossed the river in the afternoon, dozens of warships came upstream from the downstream, with dozens of sails flying in the air.

For a moment, all the soldiers on the pontoon were panicked.

Yuan Shizhong's Yongcheng camp was the most unlucky. It was their turn to cross the bridge at that time, and when they saw a ship appearing downstream, the whole bridge was panicked.

This Yongcheng camp was originally a newly built camp, and most of them were surrendered by government troops. It was okay if there was no chaos. How could this chaos be controlled? On the several-mile-long pontoon bridge, in order to seize the road, they themselves moved

knife.

At this moment, Yuan Shizhong was beside Zhang Xuan. Yuan Shizhong looked extremely ashamed and said: "This official is incompetent, please punish me."

Zhang Xuan smiled softly and said: "You can just blame the battalion officer for this matter, how can you blame the elder brother?"

For this situation, Zhang Xuan had already set up a plan. Once such a situation occurred, all soldiers would retreat to both sides based on the middle line of the pontoon bridge.

This program has been taught to officers at all levels.

It can be said that, logically speaking, even a soldier knows what to do when something like this happens.

But the ability to implement a plan is much more important than formulating a plan.

It was obvious that a plan had been made before, but it ended up being so bad that Zhang Xuan didn't know what to say.

Moreover, it seemed that the navy and navy wanted to avenge last night's attack. They were also extremely cruel. They poured kerosene on the pontoon bridge and set it on fire. The two broken bridges suddenly burst into flames and followed the flow of water.

Swinging, for a moment it seemed like he was among the fire dragons. Even if he was a soldier clinging to the pontoon, he still had to choose one among the water and fire.

That's all.

But I saw the cannonballs and arrows on the ship actually shot above the water.

They hit none other than the Yongcheng camp soldiers floating on the water.

At least a thousand soldiers from the Yongcheng Camp fell into the water and were hit by these crossbow arrows and cannonballs. Bloody flowers suddenly appeared in the water.

For a moment it seemed as if the river water was going to turn red.

Zhang Xuan's canthus is about to split.

He had seen many killings, but killing people who showed no resistance without leaving any room for mercy still made Zhang Xuan furious, not to mention killing Zhang Xuan's subordinates, which made Zhang Xuan even more furious.

But what could Zhang Xuan do? He couldn't fly above the river to sink the army's ship.

"Who is the general of the army and navy?" Zhang Xuan said almost word by word.

Zhang Su said: "Sir, I learned from the prisoners in the camp that the army that defeated General Zhou was led by Shen Tingyang."

"Shen Tingyang?" Zhang Xuan asked.

Zhang Su then told Zhang Xuan some of Shen Tingyang's resume and said: "Shen Tingyang could not stay for a long time because of the emperor's orders, so he defeated him once and withdrew to Huai'an. It seems that he is preparing to go to sea."

"Shen Tingyang is a capable minister. If he can be used by me, there is no point in going to the south of the Yangtze River." Zhang Xuan sighed, and then wrote Shen Tingyang's name on his sleeve.

This is a new habit for Zhang Xuan.

Just write your name on the sleeve.

Zhang Xuan is gradually leaving the front line, and I'm afraid he won't be asked to kill anyone with a knife in the future. Therefore, the damage to Zhang Xuan's clothes has also become much better.

When there are no conditions, of course, anything can be done. But with the conditions, Zhang Xuan now always wears a plain white cotton singlet. Although the cuffs are still tightened, writing on the body will not be invisible.

The reason why Zhang Xuan did this was that he originally wanted to make a small notebook and record it immediately, but he found that writing with a brush needs to be dried before he can put it away. What he wrote down in the daytime was already gone when he read it at night. It became a ball.

During the march, I didn't have time to get any pencils and charcoal strips, so I had to write on my clothes casually.

At night, I recorded them one by one on paper.

What he remembers most are capable ministers and generals.

He is very fond of Shen Tingyang. After all, this era is the era of the ocean. A minister like Shen Tingyang who can do things, knows how to do things, and understands the ocean is really a treasure in Zhang Xuan's opinion.

"There are so many talented people in the Ming Dynasty." After Zhang Xuan finished writing, he sighed, his voice turned cold, and he turned to the topic and said, "Who is this naval general now?"

"It's Wang Xincui. It is said that he was promoted by Lu Zhenfei. He is a hereditary guard official. As for which guard he is, I'm not sure." Zhang Su said.

"Remember this matter and investigate it in the future." Zhang Xuan said, and he secretly thought in his heart: "I, Zhang Xuan, will definitely get retribution for what happened today."

Zhang Su said: "Yes."

No matter how angry Zhang Xuan was, he could only watch the officers, soldiers and navy go away in a show of force.

It seemed that they had suffered the consequences of yesterday's night attack and had already withdrawn when they did not dare to stay for a long time and the sun was still several fingers above the ground.

"Leave the matter of cleaning up the mess to the second brother." Zhang Xuan looked at the swollen sails of the official and military ships and said, "Try to fish up the bones of the brothers and let them be buried in peace."

"Yes." Zhang Su said.

On the official ship, Wang Xincui felt relieved.

Wang Xincui thought to himself: "In today's battle, I didn't lose a single soldier, but I killed at least three to five thousand thieves, which is enough to wash away yesterday's sins. Sir Lu, even if you punish me, you can't take my head off my neck."

When he thought of this, Wang Xincui was overjoyed and burst into laughter.

Wang Xincui fought with high spirits in this battle, which made Wang Xincui very proud.

The official ship went smoothly, and when we arrived at Linhuai Port, although the sun had already set, the afterglow had not yet faded. However, twilight was slowly rising, and the visibility dropped a little.

Wang Xincui stood on the bow of the ship, looking at the port.

There are many places in this port that have not yet been cleaned up. Many broken ships last night were just pulled to the sides to free up the main channel.

Even now, there are still curls of smoke floating out, as if the fire last night has just been extinguished. As for the port, it is a bit too quiet.

On weekdays, these gangsters cannot be restrained at all. When they get off the boat, they do whatever they want. They gamble, play with women, and so on.

After all, most of these sailors are water divisions. They have been in contact with each other for hundreds of years. In the Qing Dynasty, they were actually called the Cao Gang. This shows the decay of their internal relations. It is really difficult to get them to enforce orders and prohibitions like the army.

"Could it be that Master Lu was furious today and suppressed these Qiu Ba because too many people died yesterday and everyone had no idea." Wang Xincui thought to himself.

Although I thought it was a little strange, I didn't take it to heart.

After a while we docked.

Immediately, someone put a long wooden plank on the boat, and Wang Xincui got off the boat under the escort of several soldiers.

At this time, other ships also docked.

A gunshot burst out somewhere.

"Kill---" Countless shouts of killing rang out in an instant, and a big flag with the word "gold" was raised suddenly.
Chapter completed!