Chapter 6: Siege of Nanjing (II)

"Master General..." Zheng Nansheng wanted to say something, but was stopped by Hong Chengchou, asking him to go down to count the losses and report the war.

Zhu Yinglong's face was a little bad. Logically speaking, Hong Chengchou wiped out Zheng Zhibao's pirate fleet and captured Zheng Zhibao himself alive to clear the obstacles to crossing the south. He should be ecstatic. However, a battle report made him completely unhappy. Zheng Zhibao's more than 2,000 people under Zheng Zhibao lived in the battle. This was so strange. He didn't believe that these pirates were so strong and they all killed the Genesis Ren. Hong Chengchou, what exactly do you want to do? A huge question mark flashed in his mind?

"Issuing an order to convene a military meeting in the front of the imperial army. The new army's deputy brigade level and above, all other deputy generals and above participated in the war. The location is in Qionglin Garden, and the time is set at 3 o'clock tomorrow morning."

After issuing this order, Zhu Yinglong ordered people to pass Zhuoba from the military camp.

"What does Mr. Zhuo think of this battle report?" Zhu Yinglong handed Zhuoba the latest battle report that Hong Chengchou ordered Fei Ge to send a letter to Yangzhou Palace.

Zhuoba's heart skipped a beat. Who is Hong Chengchou? Has he been defeated? He took the battle report suspiciously, looked at it ten lines at a glance, and his thin face was happy and then sad, and he said: "Master Hong wins the flag, the emperor should be happy."

"Yes, I should be happy to have completely wiped out Zheng Zhibao's fleet and captured the enemy's chief general alive, but I can't be happy. Do Mr. Zhuo know why?" Zhu Yinglong asked.

"Mr. Hong surrendered, there are Gan Tianhe, and no two thousand pirates will survive. This..." Zhuoba dared not say that this was too complicated. Obviously, the emperor had seen through Hong Chengchou's thoughts and came to him just to confirm it.

"Bold and meticulous, Hong Chengchou, you really have a delicate heart!" Zhu Yinglong closed his eyes, then suddenly opened it, shot out two strange lights, and said sternly, "I see that he is judging a gentleman's belly by his villain's heart. Who do he treat me as? Qin Shihuang or Emperor Yang of Sui?"

Zhuoba said silently. Hong Chengchou did too much this time. If it were another emperor, he might not care at all. Maybe he would praise him, "You can kill well!" The person in front of him was not. He had completely understood Hong Chengchou's scheming. This battle completely covered the emperor's light, so he had to make mistakes, and the mistakes he made could not be small, at least offset most of his contributions. Throughout history, those who are ministers, especially military generals, are most afraid of one thing. The great achievements shock the master. Hong Chengchou was afraid, and it was also a kind of self-protection. It has to be said that Hong Chengchou's proficiency in power schemes has reached the peak. Unfortunately, he met a different emperor. He had never been afraid that the contributions of his subordinates could shock him. Hong Chengchou was undoubtedly too rash in doing this.

"Forget it, you are in this matter, I don't want the third person to know." Zhu Yinglong waved his hand. Some things he had no way to change. People's hearts were originally a volatile thing. Those pirates were injured and covered in blood. It would not be too much to kill them. They could also give the Nanjing court a wake-up call. Hong Chengchou knew very well that he could only stay on the second line in the next battle. Yuan Chonghuan would play the lead role in the entire Nanzheng, so his butcher knife could only increase his reputation and would not have too many negative impacts on the battle situation.

However, Zhu Yinglong still underestimated Hong Chengchou. It was not until more than ten years later that Zhu Yinglong saw the true intention of Hong Chengchou's sword. The ones above were not without them, but only half of them were occupied, but more of them, Hong Chengchou's positioning even exceeded Zhu Yinglong's current thinking range. He did not want to be a "Bai Qi"-style killing god, but saw Zhu Yinglong's ambitions in the ocean. Haiquan. For now, Haiquan was definitely not given by others, but wanted to kill. What Hong Chengchou had to do was the murderous knife in Zhu Yinglong's hand, leading the Ming navy to fight the world.

Song Xiance was a little worried, but he would not show it on his face. He is now the chief general of this navy army. Everything about his future and destiny of the entire army. His mission is to block the Yangtze River Navy that may come from Zhenjiang.

"Sir, look!" A personal guard beside Song Xiance pointed at the sailmast that appeared on the water and sky line in front of him and said.

"Here, the speed is pretty good!" Song Xiance raised a sneer on the corner of his mouth. With his respectful face, it was almost the same as howling in the eyes of his subordinates. I really don't know how the emperor would like such a person. However, with him, the macaque on Marshal Yuan's face was nothing.

Just as Song Xiance set up a formation and was ready for the battle, his opponent was actually a timid and fearless fool. As soon as he saw Song Xiance's fleet, he turned around and left without shooting or shooting an arrow.

Song Xiance saw the enemy navy suddenly retreating in the telescope. He was surprised for a long time. He judged that the other party was afraid to fight and wanted to run away. He immediately ordered the flag soldiers to send flags and the whole army chased after him.

Song Xiance was very cautious. This was his first battle in his life. His task was to block, but it was absolutely wrong to allow reinforcements to retreat. Although such a force may not have much to do with the overall situation, it may bring certain trouble to the next crossing of the river. The purpose of the blocking involves defeating the enemy. Therefore, he ordered the army to chase after him without hesitation. In order to fear that the other party would use any conspiracy, Song Xiance ordered to maintain a certain distance from the other party, and to launch a full range of artillery fire within the range of his own artillery and outside the range of the other party's artillery, and to fight with all his might, completely chasing the Yangtze River Navy and then fighting, and the Yangtze River Navy did not have any power to fight back.

In an instant, the sound of cannons rumbling on the river surface was deafening. One warship after another of the Yangtze River Navy was shattered in the artillery fire, and the number of officers and soldiers who died increased sharply. More than half of the casualties were killed in half an hour, and the morale had long been gone.

A miracle happened. Before the eight thousand Yangtze River Navy, who reinforced Zheng Zhibao, had even fought with Song Xiance, he raised the white flag due to huge casualties. Song Xiance only spent some artillery shells to capture 4,000 people and dozens of warships, including the Deputy Admiral of the Yangtze River Navy. The contribution was like a waste of time. Of course, Song Xiance himself was also shocked by the war weapon such as artillery. Dozens of artillery have such great power. If there were hundreds or thousands of them, wouldn’t it be invincible in the world?

After the statistics of the results were reported, Song Xiance, with the assistance of the First Detachment of the East China Sea Fleet who came to support him, took advantage of the situation to sweep across the south bank of the Yangtze River. In addition to a few escapes, the navy admiral was not caught on his flagship, and the Yangtze River Navy was unexpectedly destroyed in Song Xiance's hands. It is probably an unexpected result between Hong Chengchou and Zhu Yinglong.

Song Xiance picked up a huge contribution for nothing, and he was embarrassed to receive this contribution even though he was embarrassed to receive it!

"Your Majesty, Song Xiance took down the Yangtze River Navy." Mao Xiang excitedly held the battle report he had just received, and pushed the door open like a whirlwind and walked into the study room of the Shanggong Palace.

"Oh!" Zhu Yinglong and Zhuoba looked at each other and stood up in surprise.
Chapter completed!