"Let's go!" Lin Shuijie shouted. Some of the soldiers in the Frogman Camp carried buckets to put out the fire, while others rowed the oars and drove the Cangshan boat to leave the enemy fleet. However, the fire on the Cangshan boat was no longer controlled. After approaching the small boat on its own, Lin Shuijie and the others jumped into the water and swam back to their own boat.

The rebel fleet responded and sent a small boat to pursue the small boat that had attacked them. The small boats of the Huai Army used their sails and quickly fled at the highest speed. The small boats of the rebel navy were almost chasing the Dongjiangkou, but they failed to catch up with the small boats that the Huai Army attackers were riding. Instead, they encountered a group of Huai Army warships that were going downstream, and were beaten to pieces.

In this battle, although the night attacks of the rebels and the Huai Army were not successful, the Huai Army still achieved certain results, burning down sixteen large rebel ships and sinking forty-three jump boats. None of the Huai Army Navy's Frogman Battalion was killed, and only three were injured. On the other hand, the record was very ugly. The rebel army's land division did not even get close to the Huai Army's fort, and was killed by more than 100 officers and soldiers by the Huai Army scattered soldiers intercepted on the way, and finally escaped in shame.

While the Huai Army on the North Road achieved a small victory, the Huai Army on the South Road was heading towards the Humen Fort.

Two hundred Yebusui led by Iron Hammer took the lead in front, and five thousand infantry led by Hao Yaoqi, Wang Fuchen and Gan Hui followed closely behind. Another hundred officers and soldiers of the Navy Frogman Battalion took four small boats loaded with mines and advanced east along the river. The task of these Frogman Battalion soldiers was to prepare to wait for Yebusui and the infantry to seize the Humen Fort, and immediately sail the boat into the estuary of the Pearl River, find the location of underwater stakes and river stops, put down the mines, blow up the underwater obstacles, and open a waterway for the Zheng family navy moored at the estuary of the Pearl River.

There were three beacon towers of rebels along the way. The hammer's night did not stop and cleared the three beacon towers one by one. They all adopted the method of sneak attacks at night, first destroying all the open and secret whistles, then entering the beacon tower, eliminating the rebel soldiers who were still sleeping inside, and pulling out the beacon tower.

After a night of marching and continuous combat, the three beacon towers were solved without stopping at night, and ambushed in a forest ten miles away from the fort.

The sky gradually became brighter, and the infantry and Li Guodong's main force who followed the night without seizing were also hiding out at night. After dawn, the Huai Army hid in the woods to rest.

"Report!" Ye Bubu took back his clothes, entered the woods where the main force of the Huai Army was hiding, and reported to Li Guodong: "Report to lord, we have eliminated three beacon towers. It will be dark tonight and you can break through the fort."

Li Guodong stroked his beard with satisfaction and nodded: "I did a pretty job. He marched fifty miles overnight and fought three consecutive battles! What a miracle!"

He marches fifty miles a night and can fight three battles in a row. Such achievements can only be achieved by an army with the extreme morale and beliefs of a certain group of later generations. It is already very good that Li Guodong's failure to collect nights can reach the level of a strong army in the world. The feudal army of this era had no faith at all. Li Guodong instilled in the army with national thoughts and national hatreds, in order to inspire the fighting spirit of the army.

Iron Hammer and the others are only ten miles away from the Humen Fort, but they need to wait patiently during the day. After all, they only have 300 people who are not collected at night. There are 500 defenders on the fort and there are many firearms. Even if Hao Yaoqi and his infantry arrive to attack the fort, they will suffer great losses.

So Li Guodong would not let his elite troops sacrifice in vain. He likes to achieve the greatest victory at the lowest cost.

The people who were not allowed to rest in the woods at night, and the hammer arranged for the soldiers to take turns to sleep. From six in the morning to seven in the evening, there were thirteen hours. The hammer arranged for two shifts, each shift for six and a half hours, and then changed shifts to allow another warrior to rest.

When I was eating in the middle, I didn’t make a fire to cook, but instead ate the dry food I carried with me and drank the drinking water in the kettle I carried.

Tiehai and Yebushe sat on the ground, opened the package they carried with them, took out the noodles and jerky mutton from it, and nibbled the noodles and jerky glutinous rice with carrot filling with water in the kettle. After eating, everyone took out a small handful of dried shrimps with skin from the package, as if they were eating peanuts, and finished a small handful of dried shrimps.

Dried shrimps are a must-have food for special forces such as frogman camps and stragglers. Just like the principle of eating carrots, soldiers can enhance their vision by eating these vitamin A-rich foods. On weekdays, these special forces often eat the liver of animals. Reasonable eating habits make them not have night blindness.

The army back then had very severe night blindness. Almost all soldiers had night blindness. They had to fire torches before they could act. These problems did not exist for Li Guodong's special forces. Even if they were marching at night without seeing their fingers, they would not need torches.

The sky gradually darkened. Tiehammer took out his pocket watch and took a look. It was already half past six. He took a sip of water and woke up the sleeping warrior.

"It's dark, let's go!" Tie Hammer gave the order.

We set off at 7 o'clock in the evening. In order to avoid arriving at Humen Fort too early, the hammer allowed the soldiers to march at a slow speed. In just ten miles, we marched from 7 o'clock in the evening. We walked for more than three hours before we walked outside the Humen Fort.

A few days ago, a few days ago, Ye Buguyan came to the outside of the fortress to reconnaise. The hammer knew the light and dark posts of the Humen Fortress. The layout inside the fortress was also drawn into a picture. After careful research, the night attack plan was prepared in advance.

At around 10:30 in the evening, for later generations, nightlife had just begun. However, in this era of no electricity, people went to bed early. It was already midnight. The defenders stationed at the fort, except for the sentries that were waiting at night, were sleeping soundly.

The hammer quietly approached the first secret sentry based on the location marked on the drawings. The rebel sentry was not very vigilant at all. In fact, in the dark, he could not see clearly behind the darkness. This rebel soldier was as blind as most people in that era. The sentry's task was mainly to focus on the location of the city gate and the city wall. Torches were inserted on the battlements of the city wall, and lanterns were hung on the city gate tower. They could see the light in the dark. However, when someone came from behind, they could not see it.

The sentry vaguely heard another movement behind him. When he turned his head, he was covered by someone's mouth, and then a sharp steel knife pierced into his heart.

After the hammer destroyed the first-place secret whistle, he detoured and leaned up from behind the second-place secret whistle. In a blink of an eye, the second-place secret whistle's neck was cut off.

There were two other people who were not allowed to take their eyes at night and approached several secret whistles hiding in the dark.

After clearing all the secret sentries, Ye Busuo began to attack the sentries in the open. The hammer in a night uniform climbed up from a city wall, walked along the city gate tower, and went all the way, and successively dealt with the three sentries we met on the land, and put the rope under the city to let his comrades climb up.

Thirty Ye Busui came one after another, and Tiehai led his comrades to the direction of the city gate tower. He dealt with the two sentrymen standing outside and kept guarding. Ye Busui rushed into the city tower and approached the arrow tower. They found that there were more than fifty soldiers sleeping inside.

More than 30 Ye Buyan took action cleanly and in a blink of an eye, he killed fifty rebel soldiers sleeping in the arrow tower.

The city gate was opened, and the rest of Yebusuo who had been waiting outside rushed into the city. The soldiers rushed towards the barracks, while Tiehammer led ten soldiers to the beacon tower.
Chapter completed!