Li Guodong has his own ace to deal with the rebel Guangdong Navy, which is the Navy Frogman Battalion under his Navy Marine Corps. The so-called Navy Frogman Battalion is actually a Navy special force. After the Navy is officially established in the future, it will be reorganized into a Marine Special Forces.

Most of the transport ships of the Huai Army were relatively large tonnage and could not pass the watershed, so the engineers cut down wood in the mountains and forests by the Xunwu River to create a batch of rafts.

When all the small navy warships that could pass through the watershed were transported to Xunwu River, the raft was also built and completed.

The comfort of riding the raft is definitely not as good as that of the ship, but the warships have to carry more artillery, ammunition, and sailors, so fewer passengers can ride. Therefore, in addition to himself and his generals, Li Guodong gave up all the other vacant seats on the warship to Jinyiwei and Dongchang. More than 90% of his officers and soldiers of the Land Division went to ride the raft.

After successfully passing the watershed, Li Guodong sent someone to Fujian to ask Zheng Zhilong for help, hoping that Zheng Zhilong could send a navy to help him.

The navy fleet flowed down the Xunwu River. After arriving in Longchuan, this river will gather together with Liutian River, Shazhou River, Anyuan River and other tributaries of Dongjiang River, and then continue to go east to Heyuan, Huizhou, and finally enter the Pearl River.

The Huai Army often scattered at night but did not collect it, marched along the banks of the river and reconnaissance in front of the fleet. The speed of march on land was slower than that of the ship, so it was divided into two shifts. One was marching during the day and returned to the camp to rest at night; the other was marching at night and sleeping on the ship during the day.

"The Grand Marshal, you are almost at Longchuan County, and you will arrive in thirty miles. There are only more than 1,000 rebels in Longchuan, and the gentry in the city recruited about 3,000 young men to help defend the city." Ye Bubu, who was spying on military affairs, came back to report to Li Guodong.

"Longchuan County is located by the river and has to fight. The fleet will be moored on the shore after another twenty miles, preparing to attack Longchuan County!" Li Guodong issued an order.

The navy fleet arrived ten miles away from Longchuan County and moored. A team of land division soldiers walked down from the boat and the raft. Some of the engineers set up camps and set up camps, while others began to cut down wood and build siege weapons. Li Guodong sent him to the night and continued to spy on the military situation in Longchuan County.

While preparing for the siege, Li Guodong called Zhang Shuheng.

"Zhang Dusi, please sit down." When Zhang Shuheng walked into Li Guodong's central army tent, Li Guodong pointed to a chair and said.

Not only did Zhang Shuheng not sit down, he kneeled on the ground: "Master, you gave this life to me. As long as you give me a command, I will definitely go through fire and water for me! Master, there are no outsiders here, so I can just call my name."

Li Guodong said: "Although there are no outsiders, you have to remember that you are doing things for the current emperor, not for me! No matter when, you cannot break the relationship between us, otherwise once you know that his Jinyiwei is actually controlled by my people, I am afraid that you and a group of Jinyiwei brothers may lose your head! No matter whether there are outsiders or not, you must call our country's Duke or Duke of Chu, I call you Zhang Dusi!"

The Jinyiwei was the personal army of the emperor and was specially used to serve the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. If Chongzhen knew that Li Guodong had put his hands into his Jinyiwei, not only would Zhang Shuheng and a group of Jinyiwei have to be unlucky, but Chongzhen would definitely be suspicious of Li Guodong.

Zhang Shuheng stood up, saluted, and sat on a chair.

Li Guodong said: "I invite you here today. I plan to take the factory guards and follow the army into the city after I break through Longchuan City! I want to uproot the Longchuan gentry and their family! The Ming Dynasty is the Ming Dynasty's Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty's gentry and clan! The clan power of the Ming Dynasty can ignore the king's law, and I have long wanted to remove the clan power that can surpass the king's law! We can't do anything else, so let's start with Guangdong first!"

Clan power is actually a type of gentry power. The Ming Dynasty's king law only reaches the county level at most. Administrative units below the county rely entirely on gentry to manage. Gentlemen use clan power to have the power of life and death on the people under their rule, and can completely ignore the king's law.

Clan power and gentry privileges sound different, but the patriarchs in every place are all served by people with fame and honor, so that they can protect the clan and reduce taxes.

Since it was almost dark when the Huai Army arrived outside Longchuan City, the next morning, the Huai Army did not attack the city, but instead built siege weapons, dug trenches, and prepared for the siege battle.

Wang Quan pointed to the Lihu Lake in the northwest of Longchuan City and said, "Brother, we don't have to spend so much effort to attack the city. As long as we send a small team to take over the Lihu Lake water gate at night, open the gate to release water, the defenders in Longchuan City will all become fish and turtles."

Lihu Lake is actually a reservoir. In the early years of Duanping in the Song Dynasty, Song Yi, the prefect of Xunzhou, built an embankment and stored water to form Lihu Lake. As long as the embankment was occupied and the embankment was opened, Longchuan City would be flooded underwater.

Li Guodong shook his head: "If the water floods Longchuan, will the innocent people in the city and around him suffer? The people stationed in Longchuan are not Jiannu, they are all from the Ming Dynasty. Why should we take such a ruthless move in the civil war? But brother, you still make sense. We must occupy the embankment to prevent the rebels from jumping over the wall and letting the water flood us."

So Li Guodong called Tie Hammer and asked him to take two hundred Yebu and two hundred scattered soldiers to take down the opposite Lihu dam. Li Guodong also allocated more than a thousand self-produced musketeers to assist in the battle.

The battle to attack the Lihu Dam was without any suspense. After the 1,400 Huai Army arrived near the dam, the scattered soldiers suppressed the bows and arrows and bird guns with rifled guns. Then the self-generated musketeers lined up in neat formations to approach the defenders' camp, and a few rows of guns broke the 500 defenders.

After easily taking down the Yihu Dam, the Huai Army had no worries when it attacked Longchuan City.

On the morning of the third day, the Huai Army's attack on Longchuan City began. Groups of heavy armored infantry of Huai Army walked in front with large square shields, followed by self-generated musketeers, crossbowmen and archers of the Man Eight Banners. Infantrymen carrying simple cloud ladders and simple trench bridges followed behind. In order to save time, the Huai Army did not even build shield vehicles. Only more than a dozen large-scale siege weapons were built, and then a broken ship was pulled from the river, turned the ship upside down, and turned it into a chariot.

"Fire the cannon!" Wang Quan roared.

Because the large transport ships could not pass the watershed, the two super siege cannons could not be transported, so the Huai Army could only rely on the existing cannons to attack Longchuan City.

However, the artillery in the Huai Army's current hands were already beyond the control of Longchuan City. The Huai Army set up twelve-pound field artillery, six-pound field artillery and sixty-four-pound mortar artillery, aimed at the Longchuan city wall, and launched a fierce shelling.

The dense shells kept hitting the city walls, and soon knocked out all the bricks. The city walls were covered with bumpy shell craters, and the defenders at the city were also beaten to death and wounded. Especially the flowering fire shells fired by the 64-pound mortar cannon, which poses the greatest threat to the defenders at the city. Every shell fell on the city, a bloody storm was swept up. The soldiers guarding the city fell in a pool of blood, and the wolf teeth slapped, Yaksha and other defending weapons were smashed to pieces. The large iron pot with golden juice was blown into the sky. The hot gold juice splattered everywhere. The soldiers who had no time to dodge were sprayed on the body by the gold juice, making heart-wrenching screams.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the Huai Army's formation advanced to the moat.

The long-range soldiers following the heavy infantry immediately began to suppress the city.
Chapter completed!