Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 337

Xijin Ferry, Zhenjiang Water Camp.

Ma Degong's hands were trembling slightly, revealing the extreme tension and anxiety in his heart.

All the officers are similar.

"General, Bashan led the Manchurian troops out of Zhenjiang City, and they are here."

Ma stood up vigorously, he clenched his fists with both hands, feeling that even his legs were trembling, he clenched his fists and hit his legs a few times, hitting the skirt armor with clangs.

"How many have you come?"

"It should be two thousand five hundred."

Ma Degong paced around in circles, trying to relieve the tension in his heart.

"grown ups?"

"Can we do it?"

Hearing the hesitant and doubtful words of his subordinates, Ma Degong resolutely made up his mind. He shook his head, "A person's dead egg is on the sky, and he will not die for tens of thousands of years. There is no turning back when he shoots the bow. Let's do it!"

"Everything will go according to plan."

"Go, life and death are up to you, wealth and honor are in the sky, let's fight here!"

The generals gritted their teeth, nodded with difficulty, and then retreated.

Zhenjiang Water Camp is loose on the outside and tight on the inside.

Everyone is very nervous, but as Zhao Sheng said, the Manchurian Tartars are not invincible. In the past few months, the Master of the Ming Dynasty has wiped out [-] Manchurian Tartars piecemeal in the south of the Yangtze River. , Green camp is countless.

If you add the Han army flags and green battalions that were wiped out in Huguang, Jiangxi and Xuhuaishan, the Ming army wiped out tens of thousands of Qing troops in just a few months.

"Tartars also carry a head on two shoulders, and they only have fists and legs, and they are not three-headed and six-armed. If you go down with a knife, you will still open your stomach. We are not fighting these two thousand and five Tartars alone. There are countless people on Jiangzhou a few miles away. The imperial camp is there, and reinforcements can come at any time, we are just a bait, and the main force is the imperial camp!"

This is a hoopla.

Mindful and careless.

The chances are great.

The risk is not small, but the reward is higher.

There is no way for Ma Degong and others to retreat, and since the Qing Dynasty, the situation in the past few months has actually made him secretly dissatisfied.He and Tian Xiong captured Emperor Hongguang and sent him to the Qing Dynasty. He was already the commander-in-chief when he was under Huang Degong's command. The town lieutenant general, and then changed to the navy lieutenant general.

The number of soldiers is getting smaller and smaller, and now the Zhenjiang Water Battalion has only one thousand soldiers.

But now Yan Jinglue and Chen Jin didn't even plan to give him a chance, they were trying to force him to death.

All the birds are hiding.

Horseshoe bursts.

Bashan led [-] troops stationed in the Eight Banners of Jiangning to arrive, accompanied by Chen Jin, Admiral of Caojiang and Governor of Anhui, Zhang Dayou, Governor of Jiangning, and Chen Tai, Governor of Water Transport.

"Cheer up, don't reveal your secrets." Ma Degong urged.

He took people outside the camp to meet him.

The Eight Banners soldiers rushed to the gate of the camp arrogantly.

"The humble Zhenjiang deputy general Ma Degong paid a visit to Chen Junmen, Chen Butang, Zhang Fuyuan, and Ba Dutong."

Bashan looked disdainfully at this guy who didn't even know his surname Guarjia.

Chen Jin was very embarrassed. He took a look at the Zhenjiang water camp and found that it was still in order and there was no panic, so he was a little satisfied.

"Jiangzhou has been lost, and the Ming Navy has already landed on the island. They may rush to Xijindu to land on the beach at any time. I am afraid that your camp will not be able to defend, so I specially invited Bashan Deputy Commander to come for reinforcements."

Ba Shan said very bluntly, "Give up the camp and go to the side to garrison for defense, and hand it over to our Manchurian flag soldiers."

Ma Degong looked at Chen Jin, "Junmen, the brothers have a high will to fight and are willing to fight to the death for the court. Why don't you ask Ba Tutong's banner soldiers to stand behind us and lead the battle for us, so that we can stand at the front. When we are all dead, please ask Ba Tutong to take the top."

Chen Jin was a little surprised, thinking that Ma Degong was a good slave.

Ma Degong patted his chest and said excitedly, "Junmen should know that I once captured Hongguang in Wuhu and belonged to our court, and it was extremely easy for Ming Dynasty to detain me. I will never repeat myself with Wu Shengzhao, Li Chengdong and the others in my life. This life can only be loyal to the Qing Dynasty to the end!"

Ba Shan nodded, "You are wise, but although you are loyal, you are not an opponent of the thief, and you are still helping to defend this critical ferry. Let us guard it."

Chen Jin also said, "Vice General Ma, please put the overall situation first. The admiral understands your loyalty. Let's hand it over."

Ma Degong pretended to be aggrieved and agreed, "Please Ba Dutong, Chen Junmen, Zhang Fuyuan, etc. enter the camp first, and finally let my battalion soldiers exit in an orderly manner, and hand over some of the armor and baggage in the camp together. For you guys."

"Hurry up, don't delay things." Bashan was impatient.

"The final general understands, but please ask the Manchurian soldiers to wait outside first, go out first and then enter, so that there will be no chaos. If the camp is small, thousands of people will squeeze in, and it will be even more chaotic."

Chen Jin didn't think much about it at this time, so he just brought some servants into the camp.

What he is more concerned about now is how many shore fire artillery, how many floating city water fortresses, and how much gunpowder are there in the Zhenjiang camp.

More than a hundred Eight Banners followed into the camp.

Ma Degong led the way, and everything was as usual.

The remaining 2000 Eight Banners waited impatiently outside the camp, and asked the Zhenjiang Water Battalion soldiers to let out of the camp before entering.

While the Eight Banners were waiting, Xie Xiao, the general of Ma Degong here, brought them tea, steamed buns, etc., "Masters of Manchuria have worked hard, please wait here for a while, and wait for the battalion soldiers to come out, Come in, I've waited so hard."

The banner soldiers were quite satisfied with this sensible Han soldier, so they got off their horses one by one, sat on the ground casually, took tea and steamed buns, and began to eat.

In the early winter of November, the sun was shining on my body, but it was quite warm.

in camp.

Ma Degong led Chen Jin, Ba Shan and others all the way to his Chinese army tent in the camp.

"Junmen, Department Hall, Fuyuan, Dutong, please."

Ma Dehe invited a few people into the tent, and arranged their soldiers outside.

"I'm going to get the artillery, ammunition, fort and other account books in the camp and hand them in. Please wait a moment." Ma Degong flattered and withdrew.

Turn around and walk into a tent.

"The fish has been hooked, hurry up and fire the cannon!"

Ma Degong growled excitedly.

There are several cannons in the army tent, and Ma Degong is also a ruthless man, if he wants to rebel, then he should do it.

"I didn't expect these people to be so easy to deceive. They deceived a governor, an admiral, a governor and a governor in one go. Damn it, send it."

"Based on this, don't you have to be worthy of a Marquis?"

His servants in the account were also excited and immediately lit the fuse of the cannon.

Several cannons rumbled at the same time. These cannons that had been moved and hidden near the Zhongjun account a long time ago were quite a few, and they had already been aimed at the Zhongjun tent.

In order to enhance the lethality, the cannon is not filled with iron ball lead bullets, but small lead bullets, and a larger lead bullet is placed on the outside. When the cannon is blasted, countless large and small lead bullets are shot. out like hail.

The distance is only a few dozen steps away.

The cannons hidden in several military tents fired at the same time, fanning towards the large tent of the Chinese army.

Chen Tai, Chen Jin, Ba Shan, and Zhang Dayou in the big tent of the Chinese army, together with more than 100 Eight Banners guards outside, were swept away immediately.

When he heard the sudden sound of the cannon, Chen Jin's face changed drastically and he felt that there was something wrong. Bashan rushed out at the first time, but it was too late.

Ma Degong is a must-kill strategy. In order to be safe, he adjusted more than a dozen cannons and hid them here.

What's more terrible is that this guy is extremely insidious. He was even afraid that he would not die, so he hid many boxes of gunpowder in the Chinese army's tent in advance, covered them with things, and surrounded the Chinese army's big tent.

The shells swept by like hail.

The buried gunpowder was finally ignited.

With a loud bang, the entire tent of the Chinese army was first blasted into pieces, and then blasted into the sky by the buried gunpowder.

The three of Chen Jin, plus the more than 100 Eight Banners outside the tent, couldn't escape, so they were all blown up.

The shattering explosion and the flames that soared into the sky were also signals to Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou.

Admiral Ruan Jin, who was in charge of commanding the navy, heard the explosions, drew his sword without hesitation and ordered the whole army to attack.

More than 400 battleships, including 36 big bird battleships with more than [-] guns, began to rush out of the port.The sails of these warships are all painted with huge nine-headed birds.

The Nine-headed Bird battleship is now a Class-A battleship in the Daming Navy. It has a double-layer gun deck and 36 cannons. Although there is still some gap with the sailing battleships of the Fanren, it is already advanced for the Tartars at the moment. too much.

Around the nine-headed bird, there are many smaller warships.

There are even many small gunboats of the sampan type. These small boats have a steerable gun installed at the bow, stern, and midship. The guns are not big, that is, they can fire a pound of shells. The rotatable steering has no dead angle, the rate of fire is also fast, and the action is flexible.

Although it is small, it is quite powerful. It can be manipulated by a few people, and it is even more powerful with the nine-headed bird.

The sound of artillery in the battalion alarmed the Eight Banners outside the camp gate, and they stood up immediately.

The soldiers from the Zhenjiang water battalion were still shouting, "It may be a fire in the gunpowder room." While shouting to them, they ran quickly into the camp.

The tartars also realized that something was wrong, and shouted to get on their horses, and someone rushed in with a knife.

The gate of the camp was also closing rapidly at this time.

Behind the gate of the camp, a lot of battalion soldiers had secretly gathered at some time. They raised their bows and raised their guns, and attacked the banner soldiers who were rushing without hesitation.

"Inverted!"

"The Zhenjiang Battalion mutinied!"

Tartar also saw that something was wrong, and shouted loudly.

They never expected that the Zhenjiang camp would turn against them.

What is even more frightening is that Admiral Chen Jin, Vice Capital Bashan, and Jiangning Governor Zhang Dayou have all entered the camp.

"Save the adults!"

The co-leader, Etun, is the deputy general of Bashan and the second in command of the Eight Banners stationed in Jiangfang. He didn't enter the camp just now, but stayed outside the camp.

At this time, he also understood how terrible things had happened. He jumped on the horse, shouted loudly with a knife in his hand, and ordered the Eight Banners to attack quickly. They must immediately enter the camp and rescue Du Tong and others.

The brave Jiangning Eight Banners began to rush towards Shuiying.

And Ma Degong's subordinates had already made arrangements. They had previously hidden many armored soldiers in the tents near the gate of the camp, and they also transferred many coastal defense forts here.

When the cannon fired in the camp, they quickly closed the camp gate and pushed the cannon out.

Gunners and archers ran up to the gate walls and archery towers to occupy favorable positions at the first time. Facing the charging Eight Banners, they were even more nervous and excited to fight back!

(End of this chapter)