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Chapter Sixty Five Timely Rain Li Mingxun

In the second year of Longwu, soldiers and horses passed by the south bank of Qiantang River, and smoke and dust were like dragons. However, the war did not break out. Although Fang Guoan, the Duke of Yue who was relied on the Gancheng by the Lu regime, controlled 100,000 troops, had no will to resist and fled. Within three or five days, he shaved his head and surrendered, and the defense on the Qiantang River collapsed.

However, Wang Zhiren's troops, who were in charge of the downstream defense line, were alone and chose to avoid it for a while and took a boat to the Zhoushan Islands.

Zhu Yihai, the King of Lu in Shaoxing, never thought that he would retreat so quickly. You should know that in order to win over Wang Zhiren and Fang Guoan, he used all the taxes of the three governments of Ning Shaotai as military pay for the two departments. However, the rebel army that supported him as a governor could only make a living by raising money and food, so that most of the rebel army fled, but he never thought that these two departments were so unbearable.

But Zhu Yihai was not the one who accepted his fate. He went to the outer sea under the escort of Zhang Mingzhen and others, but he had too many family members and had to appoint relatives. General Jingyi Mao Youlun escorted his wife and children and then went to Taizhou and then to Zhoushan. However, he never encountered Zhang Guozhu's troops, a Qing navy, who was attacking from the sea.

Qiantang River, Turtle Gate.

Zhang Guozhu laughed and jumped onto a big sand boat, kicked open the door of the official hall and walked in. He saw a group of women and children inside tremblingly and looking at him in horror. There was a white-faced man in front of them, holding a steel knife, but the hand holding the knife was trembling, his legs kept trembling, and he shouted tremblingly: "You... don't come over, don't come over!"

"Hmph, you deserve to play with a knife!" Zhang Guozhu stood there like a piece of iron tower. He took off his iron helmet, shook the pig's tail behind his head, and gritted his teeth.

With a bang, the knife in Mao Youlun's hand was thrown to the ground. Zhang Guozhu laughed and stepped on Mao Youlun's chest. He touched his white face and scolded: "Do you want to die or live?"

"Sir, please spare me, please spare me, I surrender, surrender!" Mao Youlun hugged Zhang Guozhu's thigh and begged for mercy loudly.

Zhang Guozhu kicked Mao Youlun away, looked at the wives and concubines of the Lu Jianguo in the official hall with a lewd smile, and said, "What are you going to surrender?"

Mao Youlun jumped up, pointed to one of the women with a nervous expression and said, "This is Zhang, the concubine of Lu Ni, and I am my niece. I am willing to offer it to the general and serve the general. The rest are Lu Ni's concubines, and they are also dedicated to the general."

"It's so shameless. Your Highness trusts you so much, and asks you to send me to Taizhou, but you go to the river and the sea to transport private money. It's really damn!" Zhang scolded angrily.

Zhang Guozhu laughed, stepped forward and teared Zhang's clothes open, and asked Mao Youlun: "You niece is quite informative. Come on, come on, you and I are all generals of the new dynasty, enjoy together, share women today, and share wealth tomorrow. Come on, come on, come on, come on..."

Mao Youlun dared not refuse to follow, but he leaned over, but Zhang bit his arm. Zhang Guozhu laughed and pulled off his belt. Just as he was about to vent his anger, suddenly came from outside, "Jiang, Master Jiang, come and see, a boat is coming downstream!"

Zhang Guozhu cursed and said to Mao Youlun: "It must be Wang Zhiren's miscellaneous counterattack. I will go and deal with him first. You can play with Zhang first. When I come back, I will make you and this little girl obedient."

After saying that, Zhang Guozhu walked out with his pants and ordered people to rise and attack the downstream.

Zhao Sandao looked at the Manqing naval master who was rushing down from the upstream, laughed and said to Gu Sanmazi beside him: "San Ye is indeed a clever plan. We hang the Ming army flag and use sand boats and blessing boats in front of us. These idiots are indeed fooled."

Gu San nodded and said, "Because of being deceived, Zhang Guozhu has hundreds of ships, we only have more than 30 large ships and more than 20 small ships. Can it be done? It's better to turn the rudder and go out to sea, go into the sea, and let the gunboats clean up."

Zhao Sandao stepped on the deck under his feet and said, "Zhang Guozhu is not a fool, he will definitely not go out to sea to fight. Don't worry, I have four additional ships and more than twenty fast crabs. Plus your sand fleet, it's enough for Zhang Guozhu to drink a pot. Third master will quickly be on the sand ship. When I break the enemy's formation, you will lead people to surround the enemy's retreat."

Gu San laughed and said, "I have let you, the younger generation leave for the past few years, but I look down on me, Gu San. I am not as good as you when it comes to playing with these Thai ships, but I still have the strength to ride on the road. At that time, Gu San led my brothers to join the club, but I haven't accepted the letter of honor. Today, you can't let the brothers watch it."

As he said that, Gu San had already put on his clothes, and said with a silver mountain armor, holding a short spear, full of courage.

"Okay, the third master is proud. I, Zhao Sandao, are in front of you today, and the third master will cover up and kill you!" Zhao Sandao laughed out loud.

Gu San said: "That's right, in the past you killed me and I killed you, it was really meaningless. It was also refreshing to kill these Tartar traitors today."

After saying that, Gu San got off the boat and boarded a fast crab. Zhao Sandao ordered the drum to beat. A slogan came from the deck. The huge Gale warship set sail quickly under the slogan of sixty oars.

These four Garuda ships were seized from the Battle of Manila. They were originally changed to arson ships by the Spanish and repaired them. Before the Garuda ships made by the community were mass-produced, this was the core of shallow water combat in the inland rivers.

These four cabbage ships are heavy cabbage ships. All the pulpmen are on the lower deck, with thirty oars on one side, and three oars on each oar. There are 180 oars alone. The upper deck has a half-man-high bulwark. During the war, as a combat platform, there are sixty musketeers and forty oarers waiting to fight. In addition to three four-pound cannons on the bow and stern of the ship, there are ten one-pound circumferential cannons on both sides. The full load displacement of these four cabbage ships is about 250 tons, and the draft is 1.8 meters long, which is suitable for large river combat such as Qiantang River.

"Reload ammunition!"

As the two sides approached, Zhao Sandao issued an order to load ammunition on the flagship Centipede. On the front and rear turrets, all three and four-pound cannons were loaded with solid ammunition. The medley gunmen also loaded with medicines respectively, and the jumping hands held cyclone cannons to deal with it. The drums rumbling on the battlefield, and the paddlers shouted in unison and rowed quickly. Soon, the speed of the four ships reached a high speed of eight knots.

Boom boom boom boom!

The first person to fire was Manqing Naval. Half a mile away, the bowl-mouth gun on the opposite ship was spoken, but the accuracy was very low and landed next to the Centipede. The splashing water made Zhao Sandao covered in water. However, he supported the mast with his hand and stared at a large sand ship in front, shouting to the gunner: "It's it, let's fight again soon!"

Gu San had become the murderous devil at this time. When he waited for the fourth ship, a steel knife slashed over. Gu San did not block it. The mountain armor on his body and the chain mail lined blocked the blade. Gu San waved his axe and slashed the Qing army in half. The bursting blood fell like heavy rain. Gu San looked at the group of Qing soldiers retreating and cursed: "Go up and die quickly!"

Zhang Guozhu had only more than 30 large sand ships, which were sunk by artillery, and was captured by many elite soldiers of Gu San. He was already scared and did not care about the soldiers behind him. He repeatedly urged the helmsman to lift the sail and run to the outer sea. The ships beside him could only follow suit. Gu San spat and cursed: "There are no timid rats, I have gone abroad, and some people will deal with you!"

"Brothers, follow me on the fast crab and follow Lord Zhao's ship!" Gu San shouted.

His brothers were red in their eyes and responded: "Follow Lord Zhao, go and kill the captives again!"

Gu San said: "It's not to kill the enemy, but to steal money. The Qing Gu must have a ship with treasures in front of him, so they must not let them run away. The club is this kind of good at taking advantage of the seized ships and treasures. Half of the seized ships and treasures will be soldier. Let's go with you!"

An hour later, in Hangzhou Bay, Zhang came out of the captain's office of the Humpback Whale cruiser. Behind the empty door, the prince of the Supervisor was already sleeping. Zhao Sandao stood by with his knife in his arms. Seeing Zhang, he nodded, and he had already saluted. He kicked the two guys beside him, one Zhang Guozhu and the other Mao Youlun, and asked: "Please follow us to Zhoushan. These two will be handed over to the Supervisor together!"

Mao Youlun even shouted for his life, but Zhang Guozhu had some courage and said to Zhao Sandao: "Hmph, you are just fighting stubbornly. The world is already from the Qing Dynasty. I was like you, fighting Zhu Mingyuzhong in Huai'an, fighting in Nantong, and Chongming. But when I went to Zhoushan, I was still not full and was discouraged. I just couldn't eat this. Why can you Zhu Ming show off your power? I can't even eat white rice for you!"

Zhao Sandao also knew that Zhang Guozhu had made contributions to Nanming, and later surrendered in Zhoushan. He smiled and said, "Don't show his merits. When he arrives in Zhoushan, even if the governor does not kill you, I will kill you. You are dead!"

Zhoushan sea area.

Wang Zhiren stood at the stern of the boat and looked at the scene before him, and tears fell like rain. He escaped from Shaoxing. The ships and soldiers were preserved intact. He wanted to join Huang Binqing and jointly seek great achievements, but Huang Binqing took advantage of the reason that he worshipped Longwu as the truth and supported the Lu Jianguo as the reason, and took advantage of the situation to rob the military and rice robbed by the soldiers from Shaoxing.

Seeing his ship being sunk one by one, he cursed: "Huang Binqing, the prince, is so domineering that he is so domineering that he is happy with his relatives. He doesn't want to unite in the country during the national crisis. He deserves to die, damn it. Emperor Longwu is so loyal to such a person, it's all!"

"Mr., what should we do?" asked the servants beside them, and several servants shouted, "Let's fight with the dog god."

Wang Zhiren shook his head: "I won't do such evil things. You should disperse me. I will disperse me with the money on the boat. I will go to Nanjing!"

"Does the Duke of the Kingdom want to take revenge with the hands of the Eastern Cap?" asked one person.

Wang Zhiren shook his head: "No, I am defeated so far, and I am betrayed the emperor. Now I can only repay the consequences of one death. But I am unwilling to die in this nameless place. Even if I die, I will die upright. Before I die, I will meet the old thief slave Hong Chengchou for a while!"

Everyone knew that Wang Zhiren had decided to die and did not dare to persuade him again. Wang Zhiren wanted to have a hammer and chisel, and said, "My Wang family cannot be left to be humiliated by the yellow thief, so they sank to the bottom of the sea. Let me go!"
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