Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 255 Zuo Menggeng - Called the Little Marquis
"what?!"

Zuo Liangyu felt dizzy when he heard the shout of the sentry cavalry, and nearly fell down.

Finally held on.

Go downstairs in a hurry.

On the stairs of the city wall, Zuo Liangyu met the sentry cavalry coming up, and Zuo Liangyu reached out and grabbed his collar, and shouted with a strange flush on his face, "Say! What's going on? How could my son be captured alive?!"

The sentry cavalry cried and said, "Master Hou, the enemy army not only has iron ships, but also many cannons, and the muskets are also very powerful.

The former army of our navy has been defeated under the leadership of Chang Zongbing, even Chang Zongbing is dead or alive, but the young master is not reconciled, and insists on Xu Zongbing commanding the rear army commander and civilian ships to fight again.

As a result, before they got close to the enemy warships, they became a mess on the river due to the poisonous smoke thrown by the enemy.

The two iron boats of the enemy took the opportunity to rush into it, pinched the handsome boat from left to right, boarded the boat, and captured the young master alive! "

Hearing this, Zuo Liangyu felt his eyes darken for a while, and a fishy smell rose from his mouth.

He opened his mouth to ask another question, but he spat out a mouthful of blood and fell down.

"Master Hou!"

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Xu Ensheng surrendered on the spot, Zuo Menggeng was captured alive, and then the "Zuo" flag on the commander's boat was cut down.

Seeing this, many soldiers on the left lost the will to resist, either surrendered on the spot, or fled when they saw the opportunity.

"Zuo Menggeng has been captured, the rest will surrender and not be killed!"

Every warship of the Yangtze River Navy has soldiers took out loudspeakers and shouted on the still chaotic river.

This time, more soldiers on the left surrendered.

In this way, the water battle on the river directly entered the final stage.

On the river bank, however, the fighting continued.

Some warships of the Yangtze River Navy chased the fleeing left warship to the north bank of the river. Lu Guangzu, who was stationed on the north bank, saw this and ordered his subordinates to bombard it with a small number of cannons and shoot arrows.

Although it did not cause much damage to the soldiers of the Yangtze River Navy, it angered the soldiers of the Navy.

At this point, the soldiers on the left on the shore dare to attack them, aren't they looking for a fight?
So the general commanding on the warship immediately ordered to fire.

And this time it is no longer live ammunition, but explosive ammunition. Previously, only live ammunition was used in water battles. First, the explosive ammunition was used to avoid igniting too many warships in the navy on the left, which would put one's own side in danger of falling into flames.

Second, the most important prizes in water battles are warships. If the warships are all burned, there will be fewer captures.

Warships that were broken or sunk with live ammunition had a chance to be put away, and could be used again after being repaired.

If the fire burns, there will be nothing left.

But for the left troops on land, the soldiers of the Yangtze River Navy were not so polite.

Dozens of explosive bombs fell, and Lu Guangzu's soldiers, which were arranged in a dense formation on the bank, suddenly turned upside down and retreated one after another, never daring to come to the bank to attack the Yangtze River Navy.

The same goes for the South Bank.

The generals Zhang Yingxiang and Wu Xueli were also stationed by the river to prepare for the water battle.

Seeing that the Yangtze River Navy chased the left navy warship to the river, they took the opportunity to attack, and were bombarded tragically.

Not only that, tens of thousands of elite soldiers led by Hong Niangzi and Yang Zhan also attacked from the southwest.

Immediately, the more than 6 troops led by Zhang Yingxiang and Wu Xueli were completely defeated.

It's not that the two of them are too incompetent, it's that the strength of the troops under their command is too weak, it's that the elite soldiers of the three towns on Hong Niangzi's side are too fierce.

Before the battle, they first bombarded with many artillery, and then many musketeers who used bright flintlock guns fired in turn, causing a large number of soldiers and horses on the left to be killed or injured before they came into contact with them.

This way of fighting, even the most elite soldiers and horses on the left can't handle it, let alone most of the soldiers and horses on the left can't be called elite soldiers.

In this way, Zhang Yingxiang and Wu Xueli fled all the way, not even guarding Jinkou Town, and fled directly to Jiangxia City with the remnant soldiers.

Zhu Yuxi's Jian Guojun advanced by land and water, occupying Jinkou Town, the wharf by the river, and the water village of the left navy in one fell swoop.

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Zuo Menggeng got his wish and met Aimee Zhu.

It's a pity that it was not Aimee Zhu who became his prisoner, but he was sent to Aimee Zhu's imperial boat after being captured.

Well, at the same time, he fulfilled his second wish - to board the strange iron captain.

At the same time, two recent wishes were realized, but Zuo Menggeng was not happy at all.

Seeing the female soldiers of the Suzaku Battalion with knives, guns and full armor all around him, he was trembling instead.

"You still don't bow down when you see Jian Guo?"

At some point, the female soldiers leading him stopped, and one of them kicked him hard.

Zuo Menggeng's legs were already weak, so he immediately knelt down and cried without even looking at anyone: "His Royal Highness, please forgive me, the sinner Zuo Menggeng is willing to surrender!"

"What's the use of me accepting your surrender? If your father Zuo Liangyu also surrenders, you can avoid death."

A clear and bright voice came from above, Zuo Menggeng looked up subconsciously, and saw that Aimee Zhu was not only beautiful, but also heroic and majestic, so he immediately lowered his head and said, "The sinner would like to persuade father to surrender, but only the princess Your Highness can spare the lives of my father and son."

Aunt Zhu was slightly surprised.

She had prepared the "electric baton" at first, thinking that Zuo Menggeng had to experience the sourness of the "electric shock" in order to force him to persuade Zuo Liangyu to surrender.

Unexpectedly, Zuo Menggeng was so afraid of death that he offered to surrender when he came.

She just mentioned a topic, and Zuo Menggeng said that he would help persuade Zuo Liangyu to surrender.

However, thinking that in history Zuo Menggeng still had an army of 20 after being defeated by Huang Degong, but he also directly surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yuxi felt that his current performance was taken for granted.

In the final analysis, Zuo Menggeng is just a son who was raised and abandoned by Zuo Liangyu.

Greedy for life and afraid of death, weak and incompetent, even if he has some ambitions, once he encounters some setbacks or failures, he will immediately give up and degenerate himself.

But now she is the one who is going to recruit Zuo Liangyu's troops, it's a good thing for her that Zuo Menggeng is so weak and incompetent.

Aunt Zhu said: "I have a letter of persuasion here, you can copy it and put your fingerprint on it.

Then I will send someone to send your letter to Jiangxia along with the handbook, and hand it over to Zuo Liangyu. "

Zuo Menggeng said: "I can write a letter of persuasion, but I'm afraid that my father will become more ill when he hears the news of the navy's defeat, and may not be able to manage military affairs.

Previously, I was acting as the agent for military affairs, but now that I am not here, those who may be ambitious in the army may not necessarily obey my father's command.

If I want to persuade my father to lead his troops to surrender, I am afraid that the sinner will need to go to Jiangxia in person. "

Hearing these words, Auntie Zhu showed surprise.

She didn't expect Zuo Menggeng to have such an opinion after calming down.

Hao Guangming on the other side also said: "Historically, Zuo Liangyu died in early April, but now he is probably very ill.

Hearing the news of the navy's defeat and the capture of his son, it is possible that his condition may worsen and he will be unable to manage affairs.How about this..."

After saying that, Hao Guangming offered Zhu Yu a rather clichéd strategy.

Zuo Menggeng knelt on the deck, and couldn't help feeling even more disturbed when he didn't hear Auntie Zhu's reply for a long time.

His knees were hurting, but he didn't dare to think about it.

So he used his brain again, lowered his head and said: "If Your Highness the Princess doesn't trust the sinner, you can send a large army to follow the sinner to Jiangxia City. The sinner is willing to open the city gate and persuade the troops in the city to surrender."

Hearing this, Hao Guangming at the old house in Zhulin immediately stopped talking.

Auntie Zhu also realized something, and immediately said: "Take this person down first so that he can be placed under custody."

"Yes."

With Zuo Menggeng taken away, Zhu Wei said: "Master, Zuo Menggeng's method seems to be simpler and more feasible."

"Indeed." Hao Guangming admitted, "Just do as he said."

Originally, Hao Guangming's strategy was to send hundreds of elite soldiers to send Zuo Menggeng into the city, and at the same time feed Zuo Menggeng a medicine from later generations, scaring him that it was poison, and he had to take the antidote within the time limit to avoid death.

Then tell him that there might be a way to alleviate his father's illness—although Hao Guangming didn't know what disease Zuo Liangyu was suffering from, but if he wanted to alleviate his illness and delay his death for a period of time, later generations of medicine could still do it.

It's just that he didn't expect that Zuo Menggeng would actually propose to be a "Little Lord Called".

How to say that Zuo Menggeng's identity is also there, and the left has lost both land and water armies before, so morale must be low and people's hearts are uneasy.

At this time, Zuo Menggeng was asked to call the door and persuade the defenders in Jiangxia City to surrender, which is indeed very possible.

This is much simpler than Hao Guangming's plan.

After hearing Hao Guangming's approval, Aimee Zhu immediately used the walkie-talkie to discuss with Hong Niangzi, Zeng Ying, Yang Zhan, and Liu Wenxiu how to implement this matter...

　Second more.

　　
　
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