"What a tactic to capture the thief first!" Li Guodong sighed. Shi Lang's water battle level is indeed strong. Although he is not as good as Zheng Zhilong, other navy troops can't find a navy general who can match Shi Lang. Seeing the small sampan leaning towards his ship, Luo Ming shouted anxiously: "Start the cannon and fire the gun! Don't let them lean on it!"

Luo Mingshou's central military ship spit out flames from time to time, and the shells roared towards the small sampans that were galloping, but the small sampans were dodged by the small sampans. The shells fell on the water one after another, and the waves stirred the small sampans to shake.

A row of archers and bird gunners appeared on the thief's large ship. They were about to shoot arrows at the small sampan that was approaching. At this time, two centipede fasteners and three galleys spit out flames at the same time, and grape bullets flew out of the gun mouth. The shells tied with hemp ropes and wrapped in kraft paper on the outside, the hemp ropes broke and kraft paper was broken. The bullets inside were like heavy rain, sprinkled on the military ships of the thief's army, which immediately caused a bloody storm.

The grape bullet looks like a bunch of grapes when it is not wrapped in kraft paper. This is a naval shotgun. Unlike the army's spherical shotgun, the shape of the grape bullet is not round, but like a bunch of grapes. The projectiles in the inside are thicker and more powerful than the shotgun. This is because the naval artillery can withstand higher chamber pressure and can send heavier shotguns out.

There were almost few people on the deck of Luo Mingshou, swept by grape bullets, who could still stand firm. The bird gunner, archers and gunners fell in pools of blood, and the deck was filled with blood, and the wounded soldiers fell among the piles of corpses and howled in pain.

More than a dozen small sampans took the opportunity to lean on the enemy ship, flew up one by one, and hooked Luo Mingshou's warship. Soon dozens of sailors holding axes and machetes jumped onto the enemy ship.

About a quarter of an hour later, Luo Mingshou, who was escorted by two soldiers, knelt in front of Li Guodong in a tied manner.

"General Shi, come and ask. After all, my country's Duke is not familiar with water wars. He is your defeated general." Li Guodong turned to Shi Lang and said.

Shi Lang bowed slightly and said "No", then turned to look at Luo Mingshou: "You are waiting for Liu Xiang, you are unlucky today. I met Mr. Shi! What else do you have to say?"

"So it's from the Zheng family!" Luo Mingshou was tough and raised his head and shouted loudly, "The Zheng family was ungrateful. Li Dan and Yan Siqi passed away one after another. Zheng Yiguan (Zheng Zhilong) ignored the deep brotherly love, first killed Xu Xinsu and Liu Xiang! Today, Luo fell into the hands of your Zheng family. If you want to kill and cut them, you will go to the emperor! Luo is another hero twenty years later!"

"Come here!" Shi Lang turned his head and shouted, "Put this thief out and kill him! Hang the mast on the head and recruit the subduing bandits!"

"Slow!" Li Guodong shouted and stopped Shi Lang. "General Luo is also a hero. Please let him go once."

After saying that, Li Guodong personally relaxed Luo Ming. After all, this person was also a hero who fought against the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty in his original time and space, and Li Guodong couldn't bear to kill him.

Luo Ming was very moved and immediately knelt in front of Li Guodong: "The sin is willing to surrender!"

"God up quickly, General Luo!" Li Guodong helped Luo Mingshou up, "In the future, you and General Shi will follow me. Do your best to expand territory for my Ming Dynasty!"

Luo Mingshou said: "Thank you, Duke! I will let the men surrender!"

Then Luo Mingshou returned to his middle-level ship, and sent a flag-tongued signal and ordered all the navy officers and soldiers under his command to surrender.

"General Luo abandons the darkness and turns to the light, which is my blessing for the Ming Dynasty! In the future, I, Li, will have another arm!" Li Guodong laughed.

The future world is a world where oceans compete for hegemony. Whoever controls the ocean will control the world. If you want to conquer the ocean, Li Guodong's naval generals are far from enough. With Luo Mingshou and his pirates surrender, this will make Li Guodong one step closer to developing a powerful navy.

The surrender of the rebel navy allowed the Huai Army to gain control of the Ganjiang River. After controlling the Ganjiang River, the gate of Ganzhou was opened.

The control of Ganjiang River fell into the hands of the Huai Army, and Ganzhou, surrounded by water on three sides, became an isolated city. Gao Jinku was isolated and helpless and surrounded by all sides. If he insisted on not surrendering, then what awaited him would be the fate of destruction. Li Guodong had no good feelings for Gao Jinku. In the original history, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren failed anyway. It was because Gao Jinku defended Ganzhou that Li Chengdong's reinforcements could not reach Nanchang and eventually destroyed the Nanming.

Ganzhou City is surrounded by three rivers, Ganjiang, Zhangjiang and Gongjiang. It can be said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. However, the rebels lost the navy, and Ganzhou City is like a weak lamb facing a pack of wolves and no longer has a barrier to protect it.

When the Huai Army Land Division landed, the first thing to conquer was Meilin Town on the other side of Ganzhou, which is today's Ganxian location.

Meilin Town is located on the other side of Ganzhou, with about two thousand rebels stationed.

The Huai Army launched an attack with 20,000 naval divisions and 10,000 land divisions. The Huai Army Navy, which won the Ganjiang River Battle, transferred all the inland gunboats.

"Fire the cannon!" Navy general Shi Lang roared.

The mortars on inland gunboats raised their muzzles high. After the gunners loaded the medicine bags, they stuffed the heavy sixty-four-pound shells into the muzzle and ignited the cannon.

Deafening sound of cannons came from the river. The gunboats spewed out flames, and white smoke filled the air. The huge sixty-four-pound shells rose into the air, rose into the sky, and pulled out arcs, accurately landing in Meilin Town, where the rebels were stationed. After the first round of shooting, the officers and soldiers on the gunboats replaced the flowering shells and continued to bombard Meilin Town.

Thirty inland gunboats poured more than 3,000 flowering bullets into Meilin Town within an hour, blowing the town into a sea of ​​fire.

More than 10,000 troops of the mainland division launched an attack. The city wall was not high and was ravaged by heavy shells from inland gunboats. When more than 10,000 well-equipped infantry rushed to the city wall, the defenders in the city opened the city gate and surrendered.

The surrendered rebels in the city walked out of Meilin Town, and Li Guodong was allowed to accept the surrender of these soldiers.

The city gate was wide open, and teams were still wearing Qing army robe and red tassel hats on their bodies, but the braids behind their heads had long been cut off and walked out of the city gate and surrendered to the Huai army.

"You have already used the banner of King Gui, why are you still wearing fake Tartar clothes?" Wang Quan asked a prisoner.

The captive replied tremblingly: "Go back to General, our original mandarin duck war jacket is too ragged and can't be worn anymore, but the court has no money to change us into new military uniforms. It was because the Tartars came, so we changed into new military uniforms. We cut off our braids when we heard the news about Nanchang anyway, but there were no military uniforms to change."

In fact, this kind of thing is normal. There were many Green Camp soldiers who had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and so far they were still wearing the Ming army's mandarin duck battle jackets; there were also many left the Green Camp soldiers. Anyway, the Ming army who came back were still wearing the Qing army's robe. Neither the Ming or the Qing Dynasty, there were so many clothes for them to change.

After capturing Meilin Town, the Huai Army's Land Division crossed the Ganjiang River, and more than 5,000 people set up positions on the west side of Ganzhou City, blocking the only way to retreat to defend the enemy.

Ganzhou is a strong city with a strong city and a large number of guards in the city, reaching as many as 40,000!

Originally, Gao Jinku had only more than 5,000 soldiers, but after he announced his loyalty to King Gui, the gentry in Guangdong and Huguang tried to get him enough weapons and equipment to equip him with 40,000 troops, and also allocated a group of men to Gao Jinku. This is the case that Gao Jinku's soldiers reached more than 40,000.

Some of Gao Jinku's men were still wearing Qing army clothes, but the braids on the back of their heads were cut off. They were also Ming army; some of them were wearing tattered mandarin duck war jackets, which were old clothes that the Gao family army eliminated when they surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and now they were worn by those new recruits; some of them simply wore the clothes of ordinary people, and there were no more military uniforms for them to wear anyway.
Chapter completed!