Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 146

Xishan Island.

Huang Fei is still mobilizing for war, because the army still carries a large number of family members and belongings. This huge wandering fleet of more than 5 people is still busy at this time to settle the family members and those broken irons.

A major feature of the Huangfei navy now is that their soldiers take their families with them, even when they are fighting and marching, they are not divided into battalions. The soldiers of the first battalion and their families are all in the same battalion, together with their respective belongings. , Take it wherever you go.

Although this is convenient for everyone to take care of their families while wandering, it also seriously hinders the combat effectiveness of this army.

Just like now, they finally arrived at Taihu Lake next to Suzhou, and started to build a forward base on Xishan Island, but it was very chaotic.

Everyone is very loose, and even from the morning, there are always firecrackers ringing, one after another.

Huang Fei didn't even bother to ask, and knew which family was marrying a daughter and which family was marrying a wife. Tens of thousands of troops moved together, like a moving city. With so many people, weddings and funerals were inevitable.

Even though they are in the army, and even in wartime, everyone seems to be used to the current way of life. They get married when they want, and they even hold banquets and celebrate lively.

A new house is set up here to welcome the newlyweds to get married, but there are people hanging up white lanterns and throwing paper money to mourn the dead old man.

Standing on a high place on the island, Huang Fei could only frown as he looked at the big camp on the island that was busy like ants. Without these people, the soldiers had no intention of going out and stayed on Chongming Island. It can be taken wherever you go.

Huang Fei and the others even planned to arrange their family members to move to Suzhou when the city of Suzhou was captured, and even to take over the prefectures and counties of Susong in the future. The soldiers were stationed in various places, and the family members also moved to garrison, just like the places in the early Ming Dynasty. Like the guards, they garrisoned with their families.

A fleet hastened back with a startling news.

Wu Zhikui did not follow the agreement, and attacked Suzhou City alone in advance without authorization, but was ambushed, and the deputy commander Lu Zhiyu died in the battle. Now the leader is placed on the city gate, and Wu Zhikui was defeated. His life and death are unknown. He and his military dependents were scattered in all directions.

An elite Tartar cavalry came from Jiangning for reinforcements and killed countless people.

Hearing this news, Huang Fei's tall body couldn't help shaking a few times, and he almost lost his footing.

"Isn't there only a thousand counterfeit thieves guarding the city of Suzhou? Even if Wu Zhikui Lu Zhiyu is ambushed, tens of thousands of people will be annihilated by thousands of people?"

The general who came to report was the general of the fleet that Wu Zhikui had seen before. He brought two to 3000 people and hundreds of ships, but was scared away by more than a hundred captives.

After escaping from the battlefield, he made a careful detour along the lake, rescued some rout soldiers who fled into the lake, collected some messy news from the rout soldiers, regardless of whether it was contradictory, and came to report to Huang Fei.

"I heard that it was all conspired by Hong Chengchou, Tian Guobao, and Wu Shengzhao. In fact, tens of thousands of elite men and horses were ambushed in Suzhou City. In addition, the false admiral Wu Shengzhao and the false general soldier Li Chengdong did not go to Chongming at all, but ambushed not far from Suzhou City In addition, tens of thousands of Tartar elite cavalry have been begged from Jiang Ning long ago, just waiting for us to run into them."

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" Huang Fei interrupted the guerrilla dissatisfied loudly, "Both Wu Shengzhao and Li Chengdong have already entered the boundary of Changzhou, and there are only a thousand fake cavalry in Suzhou city, and it is even more impossible to ambush outside Suzhou city." Tens of thousands of horses."

"Marshal, but the entire army of Wu Zongzhen has been wiped out. Our navy is not good at land warfare, so we might as well withdraw first!"

"Withdraw? It took such a long time to finally reach the city of Suzhou. Now that a battle has not been fought, you all say withdraw?" Huang Fei was angry, withdrawing and withdrawing. This is the word he has heard the most in recent years.

Withdraw from Dongjiang to Denglai, from Denglai to Huaiyang, from Huaiyang to Jiangnan, where can we withdraw again?

"Marshal, don't be arrogant. Although we claim to be one hundred thousand people, there are no more than 2 who actually fight. How many elite and brave soldiers do these [-] people have? We lack armor and weapons. What if we abandon the boat and go ashore? Compete with the captive cavalry? Now that the city of Suzhou is full of strong soldiers, we can't fight."

Many generals began to hesitate, and even gave up.

When they heard the name of the Tartar cavalry, they all felt weak in their bones, and they didn't have the guts to ask them to go ashore to confront the Tartar cavalry.

"Retreat, retreat, where to retreat, when to retreat, where is there any place to retreat?"

Just as he was talking, a servant rushed over in panic.

"No, the news of the annihilation of General Wu's army has leaked out, and it has spread. Now the island is panicked, and some people have already started to snatch ships and flee with their families."

"Report, Liu Shen will lead his family and hundreds of people to sail to Suzhou to surrender!"

"Report, Zhao Shoubei has already led people south!"

In just a short moment, when the news of Wu Zhikui's defeat spread, the advance base on Xishan Island in Taihu Lake was in chaos. Some generals went directly to the enemy by boat. Some people took the boat and ran away with their families, and more soldiers fell into panic. among.

The whole island is getting more and more chaotic.

Huang Fei looked at the whole island and found that it was indeed in chaos.

This scene reminded him of the scene before the fall of Dongjiang Town, almost exactly the same.

The Daming Navy fleet of 5 people he worked so hard to maintain collapsed just because of a defeat in the battle report, "Block Xishan Island, block the pier, no one is allowed to leave the island, and they are not allowed to board the ship. Those who violate it will be killed!" He vomited blood and roared.

But a group of generals around him shook their heads with ashen faces.

"Marshal, it's unstoppable. The soldiers' morale is broken and they can't gather together anymore. Let's retreat."

Huang Fei was not reconciled.

But the chaos in the entire Xishan Island continued to escalate and intensified. Countless soldiers left their teams and ran back to their camps to meet their wives, children, and children. Seeing the panic-stricken and crying family members, they almost left the army without hesitation and began to drag their families. Take the mouth and run to the pier.

Because there were too many people at the pier, they were panicked and disorderly, and a stampede began to appear. The stampede exacerbated the panic, and it became more chaotic. Finally, some people began to draw their knives to cut people to open the way, and their own people started to kill their own people.

Bleeding, trampled.

panic.

Huang Fei's heart was bleeding when he saw this scene, and he knew that the situation was over.

Even if he is still determined now, I am afraid that no one will listen to him except his servants.

"Withdraw, send your servants to the pier to maintain order. Whoever dares to charge and chop people indiscriminately will be executed directly. Even if you want to withdraw, you must maintain order. If you want to walk together, you will run around like headless chickens. , is just asking for death."

With Huang Fei's sigh, the offensive that Chongming Yiyang Wang supervised the country's court that had been brewing for a long time was completely declared a failure.

Before firing an arrow, Huang Fei's tens of thousands of sailors collapsed, and many sailed directly to surrender.

Far away in the direction of Suzhou City, Huang Fei was ashamed and angry, yelled a few times, vomited blood and fell to the ground. The servants rescued him and carried him to the pier to evacuate.

(End of this chapter)