Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 165

Songjiang, Desheng Port.

Desheng Port, formerly known as Tangkou, is located at the estuary of Yantietang into Huangpu River. During the Jiajing period, Japanese pirates repeatedly committed crimes. Tang Kekuan, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty, defeated the Japanese pirates here and changed its name to Desheng Port.

However, at this time, Desheng Port was full of remnants of Huang Fei's navy that had been routed from Taihu Lake. Countless ships sailed eastward from the south of Taihu Lake, scrambling to be the first and chaotic.

When we arrived at Desheng Port and stayed away from Suzhou, we finally settled down a bit.

Since Ming Dynasty, Desheng Port has become a prosperous town, with a half-mile-long market town, department stores, butchers, teahouses, pharmacies, inns, restaurants, silver shops and pawnshops.

Huang Fei's fleet retreated and was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief temporarily away from Suzhou. Huang Fei, the admiral and commander-in-chief, was finally able to try to gather troops and reorganize the team.

I was in a hurry when I ran, and I didn't have time to bring food, grass and luggage, so I had to go ashore to replenish at this time.

So Desheng Port immediately became a busy market. Soldiers on board brought their families ashore to buy food, buy vegetables, collect firewood and fetch water, or dig some wild vegetables to catch some fish. There were also those who lost their families and called for their families everywhere. Name, hope to reunite.

At this time, although the Songjiang Mansion not far away was flying a green flag, its defenses were empty. The main force of the green battalion followed Yan Myong Li Yuchun and others to go north to Suzhou, and the governor of the Ming Dynasty Shen Youlong, the governor of Wang Yongzuo, the governor of water transportation, Wu Yi and others also followed Zhu Yihai to supervise the country. Went to the countryside with the team.

For a while, such an important port as Desheng Port made Huang Fei and his fleeing fleet a place to stay.

not far away.

Li led [-] Tatars in pursuit all the way along the river. Although Huang Fei did not take the Wusong River in the north to go to sea, but went to the Huangpu River in the south, it was still within his expectations.

He followed all the way like a very patient wolf king. He followed closely and carefully concealed his whereabouts. With his experienced experience and enough patience, he was still stalking and lurking until now, and he was not in a hurry to attack.

And this patience has also brought good results. As they moved away from Suzhou and Taihu Lake, Huang Fei's defeated army became more and more relaxed. They no longer ran away in a hurry. Full of victorious harbor.

During this dry season and water shortage period, the water surface of Desheng Port is not wide, and the countless ships are out of order, so the large and small ships are crowded together in a disorderly manner, overwhelming the ground.

This defeated army also had no military discipline, let alone much vigilance.

Li Soltai's subordinates simply pretended to be businessmen and arrived at Desheng Port. They were even dragged by an officer to pick up the goods directly on their ship for sale.

They easily came and went in Desheng Harbor, and even boarded many ships. The Ming army was unsuspecting, and they entered and exited freely like a market.

Li Shuitai was very cautious, after repeated testing and observation, and even pretending to go there himself, after returning, he was finally convinced that these Ming troops were really unsuspecting.

"This Huang Fei is also known as a veteran, how did he fight all his life?"

After ridiculing Huang Fei, Li Sutai quickly drew up a battle plan. The whole army lurked to recharge their batteries. At midnight, after a full meal, the soldiers split into two groups and set fire from both ends of Desheng Port.

Desheng Harbor is crowded with boats, big and small boats are close together, forming a piece of land.

The cavalry set the fire very smoothly. They prepared rockets, sulfur, kerosene and other fire starters in advance, and it happened that the south wind was blowing. So in the middle of the night, the Ming army in Desheng Harbor took their wives and children to sleep on the boat. When it was fragrant, countless rockets struck.

Like a fire meteor.

The fire took advantage of the wind and spread rapidly.

Fire broke out at both ends of the port. When the Ming army found out that they were attacked and wanted to flee, they found that the ships were too close together and could not escape quickly. The two ends were set on fire, igniting countless ships, and burning the entire fleet in the middle. .

Countless Ming soldiers had to abandon their boats and dive into the water, but at this time the fire was ignited by the strong wind, and there were raging flames everywhere on the water, and they could only fall into a sea of ​​fire when they dived.

There were screams everywhere.

Many soldiers tried to make their way out of the boat, but in vain.

In the fire, Huang Fei, who was resting in a mansion in a small town on the shore, was awakened. He quickly put on his armor and mounted his horse, and broke out under the guard of his servants. As a result, he didn't run very far before bumping into the captive cavalry who were intercepting him.

After a scuffle, Huang Fei hit three arrows in a row.

He fled to the river and jumped into the water, but was still grabbed by the Qing army with a rope hook and dragged up from the river to take prisoners.

There were almost 2 people who fled here from Taihu Lake, but they were burned to the ground by a fire. Thousands of people were burned to death directly, and the rest lost their boats and were injured. He became a captive of Li Sutai's tribe.

Li Shuitai defeated the 2-strong army with only one fire, and then spent three days capturing prisoners. He entered Songjiang Fucheng, and transferred Lieutenant General Shen Pan and the Green Camp to capture prisoners together. Songjiang City was everywhere They are all smoky and embarrassing captives.

After this battle, the last regular navy in the north of Ming Dynasty was wiped out.

Satisfied, Li Soltai began to write letters to Suzhou to report his victory.

"Report, General, Suzhou Tufutai sent servants to see, Suzhou is lost!"

"What?" Li Sutai was stunned.

"How could Suzhou be lost? Wu Zhikui was defeated by me in the first battle, Huang Fei's tens of thousands of troops were defeated even thousands of miles away, and now I have killed them all. How did Suzhou lose?"

"The slave doesn't know."

"Hurry up and call someone here. I only know how to search for this national treasure on weekdays, but I don't expect it to be incompetent now. I must take a copy of him." Li Sutai was furious, and he joined forces with the national treasure to suppress Suzhou Well, he, the assistant minister and Mei Lezhangjing, also had the intention of monitoring the national treasure of Tu.

Usually Tu Guobao is corrupt and raided, but Tu Guobao is also very sensible, and he will never lose his filial piety, so he usually turns a blind eye to it, but now that the city is lost, he will also be punished. implicated.

Soon, Tu Guobao's servant was brought in.

"What's going on, how could Suzhou City be lost?"

The visitor looked around, "I report to the servant, this matter involves important secrets, the confession can only come from my mouth and into the ears of the servant, and must not let a third person know, otherwise the consequences will be serious."

Li Soltai was furious at this moment, and impatiently waved his servant back.

"Okay, now it's just you and me, let's talk."

But the servant took a few steps forward, "Please take two steps forward to listen to the servant."

Li Soltai took a few steps forward, and the two stood facing each other.

"The thing is like this..." The servant leaned closer to his ear and said, but his voice became smaller and smaller, and Li Sutai couldn't help getting closer.

Then the next moment, there was a sudden sharp pain under the ribs.

The servant did not know when he had pulled out a sharp thorn from his sleeve, and pierced fiercely under his ribs, the position was extremely precise, piercing his heart from the side of his ribs, killing him with one blow.

He wanted to scream, but he felt that all the strength in his body was being pulled away. He opened his mouth wide, but he could only spit out blood.

The man stabbed a few more times.

Finally, he helped Li Sutai down, then drew his knife and cut off his head, pulled a flag to wrap his head and left.

off account.

"Li Shilang rewarded me with the braised pig's head in the tent. I'm still in a hurry to return to Suzhou to answer my orders. I'll go first. Next time the brothers return to Suzhou, I'll treat guests to a drink. By the way, the servant told me to give it to the court." Write an important memorial, so that you don't go in and disturb without order."

After finishing speaking, the man hurried away with the burden, and soon rode out of the city.

Li Soltai's servant didn't care, and stayed outside the house, but he didn't see any orders or movement in the tent for a long time, and finally couldn't resist knocking on the door, but there was still no response.

Some alertly opened the door and entered.

But he suddenly saw Li Sutai sitting in the room, but there was a braised pig's head on his body.

The head that belonged to Li Soltai disappeared.

The servant was frightened and lost two of his three souls. He stumbled forward and saw a piece of paper stuck on the chest of the pig's head.

"The one who killed Li Sutai, the servant of the Tartars, was Zhu Wu, the admiral of the Great Ming Jiangnan!"

Looking at this, the servant let out a desperate roar, attracting the rest of the servants outside, but when they saw the scene in front of them, they were all dumbfounded and screamed in despair!
(End of this chapter)