Half a day later, Gu San got ashore from the wharf of Zhenjiang Fucheng and went to the commander's headquarters in heavy rain. During the fight, his body was covered with blood. The color of his armor was no longer visible. The rain slid down from his body, leaving blood footprints all the way, and blood clots and corpses fell from his body from time to time.

There were soldiers everywhere in the city, and a large number of soldiers were advancing in the rain in the rain. After gathering, they went to the dock. Gu San's evil aura attracted many people to look at him. Many new recruits lowered their heads and did not dare to look at Gu San. Gu San saw so many people heading to the dock boarding the boat, grabbed one person and asked, "What are you doing? Are you going to retreat?"

"We have received a military order and boarded the ship and stood by!" The captain was a small team leader, and after saluting, he said.

"We have won the Yangtze River, why should we withdraw!" Gu San exploded instantly, but no one responded to him. Gu San ran to the government office with a cold face. He rushed in with great strides, as if he was asking for guilt.

Zhao Sandao held his knife and blocked the door, looked at Gu San, and said, "Brother San, if you don't adjust your mood, I suggest you not go in. This is the commander's headquarters, not my squadron headquarters. If you act too arrogantly, the guards will detain you without hesitation."

Gu San stopped, looked at Zhao Sandao viciously, and said angrily: "My fleet is in sight, why should he order me to stop moving forward..."

"The majesty of your consul cannot be offended. Third brother, this is my advice!" Zhao Sandao did not respond, but gave way and finally reminded him.

Gu San took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and walked into the command room of the command center. Li Mingxun was leaning over the map and doing work on the map with several staff members. He glanced at Gu San who came in, and did not look up, and asked casually: "How strong is the Qing army navy?"

"They can't be called a navy at all, and they are not even as good as the Ming army!" Gu San said gritting his teeth: "Their ships are very poor, and there are very few professional naval warships, mostly transformed with civilian ships and cargo ships. The shotguns fired by our artillery can penetrate their sideways. They don't have many artillery, most of which are Flangers, and there are no threats to our Calais sailing ships at all. We won a huge victory in Yizhen, sunk at least one hundred and forty ships, caught more than two thousand people, and at least three times the Qing army drowned or killed. The only pity is that the Gaodi team successfully landed, and we just destroyed their ships. This former Liao army had 6,000......"

"The Gaodi part has nothing to do with us." Li Mingxun said casually.

Gu Sanyi was speechless at the moment. He knew that the entire United States army looked down on the Green Camp, so he had to say: "But we missed the opportunity to attack Pukou. At least 10,000 people arrived in Jiangnan. If we attack now, we could stop at least 5,000 troops, otherwise..."

"Those Eight Banners have nothing to do with us," Li Mingxun finally raised his head.

Gu San punched the table, attracting the attention of all kinds of staff in the command room. Gu San said: "Your Excellency, you must know that if you don't pay attention, then there will be 50,000 Qing troops, and Wang Zhiren has led his troops to Songjiang Prefecture. We only have one-third of the enemy's strength and can only retreat!"

Li Mingxun sat on the chair and asked with a smile: "General Gu, how many reinforcements Duoduo brought from the north did not cross the river?"

Gu Sandao: "If you follow your current plan, all the elite Eight Banners soldiers will cross the river. With the Gaodi army, there will be 25,000 people. If you add the ones killed and captured by the fleet, there should be 15,000 to 18,000 soldiers. Most of them are just green camps. In fact, most of the combat power of the Duodou army has completed crossing the river."

"This is not very good." Li Mingxun picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea.

Gu San was stunned for a moment and said loudly: "Your Excellency, the enemy's strength is too much higher than ours. If we don't retreat, we will undoubtedly lose. Many brothers will be buried in Jiangnan!"

Li Mingxun laughed softly after hearing this. This laughter triggered the common laughter of many staff officers in the command. Amid the laughter one after another, Gu Sanxian was extremely embarrassed. He looked around and found that everyone's face was relaxed, as if all this was what they wanted to see, as if the current situation was very beneficial to their own side.

Gu San still didn't understand, but he knew one thing, that he must have made something wrong and made a big joke.

"I must not know what happened!" Gu San said angrily.

Li Mingxun shook his head: "General Gu, you know everything. In fact, as the frontline commander, you are more detailed than I know. Unfortunately, you are bound by your inertial thinking and become... stupid and cute."

"Your Excellency, what's wrong?" Gu San asked in doubt.

Li Mingxun smiled and said, "Since the Qing army gathered forces that we were invincible in Jiangnan, why did we fight hard?"

"Is that the only way to retreat? My navy and army, nearly 30,000 elite soldiers and hundreds of warships, just retreat without fighting?" Gu San gritted his teeth and stared at him and questioned.

Wu Mu couldn't stand it anymore and cursed with a smile: "You idiot, Jiangnan and Jiangbei are from the Qing Dynasty, but the Yangtze River is ours. If Jiangnan cannot defeat it, can't we attack Jiangbei? There are only 20,000 to 30,000 Green Camps there, and there is also a big fat sheep like Duoduo!"

"Jiangbei?" Gu San was stunned suddenly, and then laughed happily. He shouted: "Yes, we can attack Jiangbei. Duoduo is not our opponents by relying on the green camp soldiers in his hands. Yes, yes!"

Yizhen.

In the Qing army camp, Duoduo was urging the Baoyi slave to pack up his things and prepare for fast horses. Half an hour later, he was about to lead more than a hundred white-armored soldiers to Pukou, where he crossed the river to Nanjing.

The news has been heard that all the Eight Banners soldiers crossed the river, and Hong Chengchou had already supervised the entire Jiangnan army to press the entire line towards Zhenjiang Prefecture where the Dongfan Island barbarians gathered. Hong Chengchou, a loyal slave, was very supportive of Duoduo's strategy. Before the Eight Banners soldiers arrived, Hong Chengchou ordered the Zhejiang soldiers who were good at water wars to cross the canal and involve the Dongfan army so that they could not leave easily.

According to Duoduo's idea, as long as he can take over the troops of the East Fan and wait for his personal arrival, he can lead at least 60,000 troops to besiege Zhenjiang. Even if Dongfan controls the Yangtze River waterway, he will not be able to escape unscathed. As long as he hurts Dongfan, the changes in Jiangnan this year will not happen again.

However, Hong Chengchou's crossing operation failed. Various artillery arrayed on the west bank of the canal fought against the Dongfan Island Barbarians. However, he never thought that Dongfan had long ambushed a squadron in the direction of Changzhou. The fast crab boats and sampans that broke into the Qing army fleet that was crossing the river, causing a large number of casualties, but also burned and sunk a large number of ships.

Duoduo's first reaction to the news was that Hong Chengchou was half-hearted. The small canal was calm and the waves were not allowed to cross the river without a boat? Even if you were to build some bamboo rafts and wooden rafts at will, you could cross it. Even if the Dongfan Navy was powerful, it would be impossible to use shipwrecks to block the river. Hong Chengchou, a dog, was afraid that the Green Camp would suffer too much casualties and did not want to damage the canal.

"Damn it, Hong Chengchou, the old mao, will send orders. If I am still west of the canal when I arrive at the front line, I will definitely behead him and show it to the public!" Duoduo angrily scolded the messenger.

At this moment, the general of Zhending, Lu Guonan, ran to the tent and said urgently: "Master, the Eastern Fleet is here again!"

"You dog slave, why are you panic? Let those ships hide at the ferry. Be careful of the fire boats. If there is a fort, can the Dongfan people still attack?" Duoduo cursed.

Lu Guonan knelt on the ground, with pig tail hanging on the side on his bright head. He kowtowed to the ground, letting the whip in Duoduo's hand whip him on the back. After Duoduo finished whipping, Lu Guonan said: "Master, this time is different from last time. Dongfan is afraid that there are other conspiracies, and the slave really dare not be good at it!"

Duoduo snorted coldly, took a knife out of the camp, and cursed: "You dog slave, if you are a person from the East, I will have to peel your dog."

"Now it's getting worse and worse. These Nikan slaves are all too talkative. They should kill a group of them to know that the master is the master and the slave is the slave!" Duoduo cursed and rode towards the ferry.

Two days have passed since the last water battle, and the heavy rain has stopped. Under the clear sky, the wide waterway of the Yangtze River is unobstructed. Above the water surface, the masts are like forests. The Eastern Fleet is lined with two columns, spanning half of the river. Only seven or eight fast crab boats are rowing in the waters near the ferry terminal. From time to time, the four-pound cannons at the bow of the boat opened fire on the ferry berthed. On the cannons on both sides of the ferry, the red cannons are also fighting back, and the artillery fired by both sides continues to bombard.

"If these idiots send ten fireboats to attack the ferry at this time, how could these ferries survive? I see that the Eastern Band is just like this, and I don't understand such a simple truth!" Duoduo said disdainfully on the shore.

The man from Lu pointed further away and said carefully: "Master, look, there seems to be a fleet there!"

Duoduo looked at it and it seemed that there was a fleet of ships hiding there at the bend of the waterway in the distance, but it seemed that most of them were big-bellied cargo ships and civilian ships, but they were not like warships. Duoduo frowned slightly and was quite puzzled. When several Canadian ships rushed to the front and bombarded the ferry at the ferry. The Qing navy ships either fled in all directions or abandoned the ship to escape. After the Canadian ships, there were more than 40 small boats of all kinds, and the ships were loaded with heroic Marines.

In the downstream, such a huge fleet appeared and was sailing towards the north shore quickly. Duoduo's eyes widened and suddenly understood: "Dongban is to seize the ferry, and they must not succeed. Lu Guonan, dispatch your cavalry to counterattack the enemy's formation!"

On the banks of the river, the Marines jumped off the boat and pulled the boat toward the shore. After landing, most of the team members went ashore to form a flintlock guns, pretending to be bayonets, all flintlock guns were forward. Behind them, the gunners, with the cooperation of sailors, unloaded the twenty-four-pound mortars and four-pound copper guns. By the time the Qing cavalry arrived, the river bank had more than 800 marines, three four-pound guns and six mortars.

Thousands of cavalry roared over, but did not directly attack the Marines' formation. The bayonets shining in the sun would make the war horses instinctively scared. No matter how those cavalry beat the horses, the war horses would go around when they saw the sharp bayonets, completely ignoring the cavalry on the horses exposed to the enemy's muzzle.

Bang, bang!

The Marines fired the first round of volleys, and the elite male servants of Lu fell to the ground like fallen leaves in autumn. After a few muffled sounds like spring thunder, the flowering bullets emitted by the mortars exploded in the cavalry group, causing huge chaos.

"Retreat and let the Red Barbarian cannons blow away this strange formation!" Duoduo saw that the infantry had not arrived yet, so he had to send the artillery of the shore defense turret. However, the Red Barbarian cannons on the turret were moving very slowly, and they finally aimed at the hollow square formation. After only two or three rounds of bombardment, the turret was silent. It turned out that the marines who went ashore downstream captured the turret.

The speed of the Marines landed beyond Duoduo's expectations. When the first wave of infantry arrived, the Marines had already reached more than 3,000, divided into two sides and attacked the ferry. The defenders at the ferry collapsed in an instant. After occupying the ferry, a large ship full of marines and ammunition supplies was approaching. More and more soldiers disembarked and participated in the battle, occupying a bridgehead at the Yizhen Ferry.

Duoduo was riding on the horse and was furious. He had killed seven or eight Green Camp generals, but he still could not allow the group of Green Camp soldiers to break through the hollow square formation at the ferry of the East Ban people. The generals from the Green Camp were silent and dared not say anything. The battle lasted for two days. By the afternoon of the next day, Duoduo had to face an army of at least 5,000 people. Although all the Green Camp soldiers who went to Pukou west had returned, Duoduo was no longer sure to wipe out the enemy army in front of him.

"Master, if the island barbarians can land from Yizhen, they can also land from the Guazhou Ferry. If the island barbarians occupy Yangzhou, the two sides of the canal will be corrupt!" Lu's man said to Duoduo carefully.

Duoduo also understood this truth. When he saw the Eastern Front army landing in large numbers, he understood that he had been attacked by Li Mingxun. From the beginning, Li Mingxun did not hesitate to announce a plan to the generals and allies of the Lu Supervisor, that is, to attack Jiangnan this time, if he could beat the Qing army, he would fight, and if he could not defeat him, he would retreat.

The Ming army believed it, and the generals of the United States believed it, so the Qing army also believed it, but they never thought that Li Mingxun did not follow the rules and suddenly gave up on Jiangnan and fought in Jiangbei. In two days, he occupied two ferries in Jiangbei. At this time, Duoduo no longer wanted to sweep the island barbarians and clear Jiangnan. What he had to do was how to quickly transfer the troops from Jiangnan back to defend Yangzhou and the Grand Canal.

"Oh, if you say so, Duoduo has gone to Yangzhou?" Li Mingxun asked back when he heard the information brought by the intelligence officer in Jinshan Temple.

He Wenrui said: "Yes, the Qing barbarians have entered your lords. Duoduo wants to protect the Grand Canal."
Chapter completed!