The green horses were sailing to the south of the city.

The Five-Li Yuli Formation, three-enterprise into nine-level siege.

The famous general of Wu'an was intimidated, and the Qin King's clothes were stained with blood.

I am very energetic and will never return without success.

"Waring in the South" Southern and Northern Dynasties: Wu Jun

——I am the dividing line—

Wankou Town is one of the peripheral nodes of the water network transport system with Yangzhou as the core. It is named after the first slight turning point connecting the river, Hangou, the main road of the Grand Canal. It has become the location of Guanshi, which is the collection of many travelers, merchants, corresponding foot money, and boat money from Jiangdong.

Therefore, not only are there many dispatched officials from the Transport Department, the Salt and Iron Inspection Institute and the Jieya Promotion Office, and the Xiaosan Office, there is also an exclusive guardian of the grain, the canal patrol soldiers, and the corresponding high outer walls of the wood to protect this place to provide the source of financial resources for the court and Jieya, so as not to lose any losses in the troubled times.

However, at this moment, this large stronghold called Wankou Town has also become an important defense node in Huaiyang to prevent the Taiping Army from entering the hinterland of Huaiyang. On the basis of being further strengthened, multiple silted areas were set up in the river, including wooden piles and bamboo trays that penetrated into the bottom of the river and sinking ships.

Chai Zaiyong, who was already a deputy captain of the boat division, was also squinting at the messy arrow towers, whistle towers and small formations on the shore, and fled and collapsed in the collapse of the bombardment of small cannons and splashing smoke. As for the so-called ambush and blocking methods along the river, it became an absolute joke here.

The multi-layered baffles on the ship gang and the cannon position that can rotate in a limited angle of rotation and vision, plus the calibrated crossbows and muskets equipped with firefighters, most of the low-rise water wheels submerged in the water; making these modified vehicles and ships look like small city bases that move on the water surface, which is enough to deal with most situations from the water and on the shore with ease.

As for the corresponding means in most water battles, they are useless in front of these armed vehicles and ships. This can be seen from the traces of smoke and fire, and repairing and replacing the rear ship baffles. It is difficult to ignite the hull that is constantly watering by rockets alone. The more threatening crossbow stone cannons require another accurate head, and often after firing once, the corresponding firearms cannons cannot escape the counterattack.

As for using drifts from the upstream to hit or set off a fireboat, it is unrealistic. Because this is the Hangou section of the canal with calm waves and uneven waves, rather than a large river with rapid flow. Therefore, the one who can truly poses a corresponding threat to these vehicles and ships that flip along the Cao River is that after being blocked, the ants carrying the boats nearby are covered by arrows from the shore and attack by helping jump on the side.

However, in front of the cannon-firing shots, crossbows and fire guns armed on the ship, and a small number of arson bullets that can still burn on the water, it is just a kind of implication of arbitrage. What's more, these vehicles and ships do not traverse alone, but often play a target that attracts the enemy along the coast, and then the teams following on the shore will detour and cooperate with the tactics of chasing and annihilation.

Therefore, when the newly formed boat troops from Jiangdong were prepared accordingly and determined to enter the Jiangbei Caohe River at any cost; the so-called clearing and solid wall-like interception methods of step by step resistance and layer-by-layer harassment and attack were arranged along the coast. As Wankou Town became closer, arrows radiated from behind the walls became increasingly dense.

At this time, several sharp horns sounds came from the direction of the dike on the river surface, and the soldiers working on the dike also began to board the boat and leave. However, in the Wankou Town, which was hit in a mess, they suddenly opened from the side door, and rushed out to kill the dike on the dike on the dike not far away.

Then, it was unsurprisingly enveloped, and the fireworks and bullet arrows burst out from the recent ships; it swept across the ground like rice, and the blood flowed into a river. The defeated army was left with only a few figures and fled back to the death. At the same time, amid the sound of the horns of the message, the Zhoushi army team that followed along the river finally arrived at the other side of Wankou Town, and launched an attacking formation amid the orders and whistles of the entire team.

At this time, Wankou Town seemed to have finally reached a critical point, and its morale was very depressed and suddenly collapsed. It pushed and trampled each other through several doors that had been opened, and fled out of a group of people. Therefore, these boat troops, which had just arrived in the southeast of Wankou Town, had to transform from a horizontal phalanx into a column that was more conducive to pursuit, and encircled and intercepted along the dilapidated walls.

At the same time, not far from the north of Wankou Town, the support of the Shouhao Army who was running along the avenue was also rushing towards him under the leadership of Zhongli regiment Zhong Taizhang; then he looked at the thick smoke column gradually rising in the distance, and paused his head and said in a daze:

"Are we late?"

However, he continued to lead the team forward without giving up, and saw behind the heavy willow trees shrouded on both sides of the canal in the distance, there were masts of the Taiping Green Flag hanging one after another. Zhong Taizhang couldn't help but look at the left and right:

"I don't want the thief army to go deeper into this! However, the governor and I have a good reputation and support, and have married me, so I can't return it in vain. But I don't know if any heroes dare to follow me to try their best?"

"I only wish to follow..."

The left and right who came from the village party also responded in unison; then they became a formation that was conducive to the offensive battle, with swords in front, spear wings and crossbows in the middle, and a few horses rushed towards the smoke and fire.

However, not long after, they encountered the "thieves" running faintly as the fireworks blown back from the north wind blowing back, and without hesitation, they waved their swords and guns to defeat them and kill them. Then they saw that they had already occupied the Taiping soldiers and flags on the walls.

At this time, a loud noise suddenly came from the water in the distance, which made Zhong Taizhang lead the reinforcement army so shocked that his hands and feet were numb. Many people with limited courage simply fell to the ground with weak legs and feet; and the few horses of the Attack Army rushed one after another.

After the smoke bursting from the big bunch on the river quickly dissipated, a large gap several meters wide appeared at the original position of the dike. The fierce water flow that gathered above wrapped around countless pieces of earth and wood and residues, and various debris washed away the edges of the gaps and continued to collapse and widen, and then turned into a large swath that hit the bottom of the anchored ship.

In the river, Chai Zaiyong also made a big sigh of relief. The specific casualties of the past few days of breakthroughs and transition were mainly due to mental fatigue and loss of material equipment. After all, during the attack, they had already broken through more than a dozen blockade lines that were intercepted by various rivers.
Chapter completed!