Zheng Sen said: "But most of the scholars in Jiangnan still support the emperor and Wu Weibo. Chongzhen offended only the scholars in the north. The scholars in the north care about their lives and death? They first surrender to the thieves and then to Jiannu, and they are already enemies of our Ming Dynasty!" "It is not easy to enter the estuary of the Yangtze River," Zheng Zhilong decided to send troops, but sighed again, "If the Chongming camp is not in the hands of our army, our army may suffer heavy losses when entering the estuary of the Yangtze River."

"Please rest assured, my father, Chongming is already in the hands of Wuweibo!"

Chongming Island has not yet formed the third largest island in China, but is just a series of sandbars that are not connected together. The Yangtze River Estuary is undergoing violent land-making movements, and the floating and sinking sandbars are a huge threat to the fleet entering the Yangtze River Estuary. Therefore, without the Chongming Naval Camp, Zheng Zhilong would not dare to let his navy enter the Yangtze River Estuary.

Li Guodong certainly knew the importance of the Chongming Navy Camp, so when he went north to serve the king, he let his fleet control Chongming.

Since Chongming was in the hands of the Huai Army Navy, Zheng Zhilong had no worries. The Zheng family Navy sent troops to go north to serve the king.

In the sixth month of the lunar calendar, it is the season of southeast wind. The Zheng Family Navy set off from Kinmen, Fujian and sailed at a speed of five knots. It can sail 100 nautical miles in one day and night, equivalent to 186 kilometers. One mile in the Ming Dynasty was 554 meters, and it can sail more than 330 miles in one day and night. This speed is not as fast as any land division. It only takes about eight days to get from Kinmen to the Yangtze River Estuary.

Li Guodong waited for about ten days and finally waited for the Guazhou Yangtze River Battle that he had been waiting for for a long time.

On the river, the sound of cannons rumbled and the smoke filled the gunpowder. The Zheng family naval fleet fired at Zhao Zhilong's Ming army's Yangtze River Navy.

The Zheng family army has many Dafu ships. Taking the most common Dafu ship of the five hundred materials as an example, the Dafu ship of the Zheng family army naval army has a three-thousand jin red cannon on the bow, two thousand-pound Bolang machines on both sides, and one thousand-pound Bolang machine at the stern. In addition to the cannons, the Dafu ship is also equipped with bird guns, turtle-dove-foot guns, spray drums, bows and arrows, turtle-gun cabinets and gunpowder tanks. In addition to the Dafu ship, there are also various ships such as watercraft, centipede fastener, small sampan, etc.

Zheng Zhilong's own ship was a Western-style hull warship hanging on Chinese hard sails. It had two layers of artillery decks. More than forty cannons extended black holes from the gun door and sent a round of shells to the Ming army navy on the river.

In terms of the scale of the navy, the Zheng Family Navy was the well-deserved first navy in the Ming Dynasty. The Yangtze River Navy, which was far larger than Zhao Zhilong. At the beginning of the war, Zhao Zhilong's Yangtze River Navy was at a disadvantage.

On the Guazhou River, Chongzhen and others stood on the temporary high platform and looked into the fierce battle on the river.

"Your Majesty, Zheng Zhilong will win this battle? We can finally cross the river!" Wang Chengen looked at the fierce battle on the river excitedly.

With the rumbling cannons, water columns surged up from the river. This water battle seemed to be very fierce, but it was not easy to sink a ship. On the bumpy river surface, warships like Dafu Ship, which had only one cannon on the bow, were not easy to hit a cannon with a touching hit rate in the past. The two sides used artillery to bombard it, and they watched it lively. After fighting for a long time, they only sank a few small sampans rushing in front.

The warships of both sides are approaching each other, and this is the beginning of the real highlight.

Zheng Zhilong Navy has the advantages of being huge in scale, large in number of ships, large in number, large incandes and advanced in firearms, but its disadvantage is to go upstream. Zhao Zhilong's navy rushed down from the upstream and could use fire to attack the navy of Zheng's army with fire.

Zheng's central army, Zheng Zhilong's huge Western-style ship, stood on the stern rudder and asked his personal soldiers to issue an order: "The clutch and the sampan attack the ship to stop Zhao Nihuo!"

Centipede Clippers and small sampans rushed out of the Navy ship and rushed towards Zhao Zhilong's fire attack ship.

Seeing this, Zhao Zhilong ordered the Clippers and the Small Sampan to fight, trying to stop the Zheng family's Clippers and the Small Sampans and stop the Zheng family from destroying their own fire attack ship. However, Zhao Zhilong was a playboy after all, and Xincheng Bo was the seventh generation of children. He ate, drank and had fun all day. He would not be able to fight any more than a war. It would be really difficult for him to command the navy to fight.

Whether in terms of quantity, firepower or sailor training, Zhao Zhilong's navy was far from the opponent of the Zheng family's navy. The centipede clutch and small sampan from both sides entered the close battle. The Zheng family's clutch bombarded the opponent with the Folang machine cannon and the turtledove-footed gun. The bullets were like rain, which made the officers and soldiers on the Ming Yangtze Navy ship fall into the water. The Zheng family's clutch relied on the advantage of quantity, and at the same time dealt with Zhao Zhilong's clutch and small sampan, which made Zhao Zhilong's navy flee in a panic.

The Zheng family army's small sampan rushed towards the fire attack ship. The Zheng family sailors on the small sampan took out the bow and arrow, opened the fire can and lit the torch, the sailors pulled the bow and arrow, and lit the rockets with the torch. The sailors loosened their fingers and flew towards Zhao Zhilong's fire attack ship.

Rockets like locusts fell on the fire attack ship, and in a flash, a raging fire ignited. The Ming sailors who were operating the fire attack ship had to jump onto the small boat behind and escape from the fire attack ship.

After solving Zhao Zhilong's fire attack ship, the main warship of the Zheng family's navy rushed towards the main warship of the Zhao Zhilong navy. The two sides launched a fierce battle on the river. It was wrong. It should be the one-sided massacre of the Zheng family's navy against the Zhao Zhilong navy.

Zhao Zhilong suffered heavy losses and almost all the ships were thrown away. Even his own central military ship was hit by multiple red cannon shells, killing and injured the soldiers on the ship. The defeated Zhao Zhilong fled back to the bank of Zhenjiang on the other side with the defeated generals and the remaining warships.

"Prince, Zhao Zhilong is defeated and can no longer stop the foolish lord Chongzhen from crossing the river!" Baoguo Duke Zhu Guobi looked solemn, and hurriedly broke into the cabinet and reported to the chief assistant Ma Shiying.

"Duke Baoguo, how many soldiers do you nobles have in your hands?" asked Ma Shiying.

Zhu Guobi, Zhao Zhilong, Xu Jiujue, Liu Kongzhao, and Chang Yanling, who was still uncertain about his attitude, had an army of 50,000 in Nanjing. In addition, Ma Shiying and others recruited the city-guarding people, which could piece together an army of 100,000 to station in Nanjing.

In fact, the soldiers in Nanjing Jing Camp were hopelessly rotten, even worse than those in the capital camp. They are all vulnerable. The soldiers in Nanjing Jing Camp can be said to be the children of real hereditary nobles. If you expect them to be able to fight, it would be better to worship the Buddha and burn a few more pillars of high incense. Maybe meteorites from the sky can kill Chongzhen.

However, for Ma Shou, one advantage is that Nanjing's city is as solid as a sacred place. It is not easy to defeat Nanjing with the more than 100,000 coalition forces of Li Guodong and Zheng Zhilong. Li Guodong's 60,000 troops were 15,000 naval troops. After deducting auxiliary soldiers and cavalry, only 20,000 infantry could be used to attack the city; Zheng Zhilong's 50,000 troops were mostly naval troops, and only 10,000 infantry could land on combat, and it would be difficult to attack Nanjing with 30,000 people.

What's more, there are still millions of people in Nanjing. As long as Ma Shiying and others mobilize the people in the city, there will be hundreds of thousands of troops defending the city.

Huang Shu, Zuo Maodi, Ma Shaoyu, Chen Hongfan and others who were sent by the pseudo-Emperor of Hongguang to negotiate with Qing army envoys were already in Jiujiang. The negotiations between the two sides were progressing smoothly. Zuo Liangyu also agreed to the request made by the Qing army envoy Chen Mingxia: the Zuo family army advanced eastward to serve the king, and of course the one who was busy with Zhu Yousong.

Chen Mingxia said: "General Zuo, although Li Laoer's army is elite, it has few soldiers. Nanjing's city is solid, and Li Laoer's number of people is impossible to conquer Nanjing! As long as his army is trapped under the city of Nanjing, your 800,000 army can annihilate this traitor in one fell swoop!"
Chapter completed!