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Chapter 268 The Battle of Poyang Lake (2)

It is said that the eyes are the windows of the soul, but sometimes it is your eyes that deceive you, because sometimes you can’t see Mount Tai, and sometimes you can’t tell the essence from the surface. in this way.

He saw his mighty artillery fire, the hundreds of small boats in front were all scrapped, the smoke and embers dispersed, and there was no one on the white lake, so he thought that Zhu Yousong's navy was killed. He wiped it all out.

In fact, let alone wiped out, not a single one was wiped out, not even a single one was injured.

It turned out that this was deployed by Zhu Yousong long ago. He used hundreds of small boats to fight against hundreds of large and small warships of the Qing army. The disparity in the number of people is so great, and the equipment is even more unequal. Xu Yong's big boats are well-equipped with artillery, while Zhu Yousong's small boats only carry 30 people, not to mention the guns and guns are not even prepared for bows and arrows.In the eyes of ordinary people, this is undoubtedly going to be beaten to death.

But Zhu Yousong has his own style of play, of course it is not a conventional style of play but a special style of warfare, especially for these 500 people, most of them are Zhuang soldiers from the Green Willow Villa, trained by He Zhaoxiong and his daughter He Zhaoxiong, a famous underwater elite, was born in the green forest. He was nicknamed Iron-armed Canglong.There is also He Xuanjiao, who is known as a chivalrous woman. The greatest skill of their father and daughter is to be in the water, and being in the water is similar to being at home.

His father and daughter trained a team of 2000 Zhuang soldiers, all of whom are good players in the water. They can stay underwater for half a day after taking a breath. They killed the rich and helped the poor in the Hongze Lake area, and they specially fought against the imperial court. The local government was terrified when they heard about the defeat of the army, and there was nothing they could do about them. Come across from Song.

When Zhu Yousong personally marched to Huai'an to deal with Liu Zeqing, a warlord who supported his troops and refused to listen to the court, he happened to pass by the Green Willow Villa. At that time, Zhu Yousong was rescued by the chivalrous woman, and the three heroes went up to the mountain to make friends with martial arts, and subdued the iron-armed dragon, and then recruited the Green Willow Villa for the imperial court.

Now the vast majority of the two thousand five hundred sailors are Zhuang Bing of the Green Willow Villa, and a small number are selected from the Caojiang navy who are familiar with water skills. Zhu Yousong handed over the two thousand five hundred people to He Zhaoxiong's father and daughter are in charge.

Under the command of He Zhaoxiong and his daughter, 1000 sailors came to meet Xu Yong's navy. The equipment of these 500 sailors was very simple. People hold a chisel in their left hand and a hammer in their right. The remaining [-] people each have two knives, one is a water splitting knife, which is about the same size as a single knife used on the shore, and the other is a dagger.The rest of the horses, guns, bows and arrows, etc. are not used.

When Xu Yong's navy fired at them, they looked very close, but in fact the distance between the two sides was still several hundred meters. As soon as the cannon sounded, 500 people including He Zhaoxiong and He Xuanjiao jumped out of the boat and shot into the lake. , and then disappear.

Therefore, from a distance, these soldiers seem to have been blown away, but in fact they jumped off the ship themselves, and then these empty ships were left to lure the enemy, and Xu Yong's navy fired hundreds of shells to nothing. Zhu Yousong didn't intend to take these small boats, and they weren't worth a few coins. He could make a fortune by wasting Xu Yong's naval artillery.

But the 500 people underwater will not stay in place, but bring their special guys to swim to Xu Yong's warship like water ghosts. They swim fast in the water, Moreover, Xu Yong's warship was also moving towards them quickly, so that the distance of several hundred meters was quickly connected.

A thousand soldiers with chisels and hammers will set to work, which is to chisel ships under the water.The remaining 500 people were responsible for the cover. They had daggers pinned to their waists and water-split knives in their mouths, and they were on guard all around.Because no matter how good their kung fu in the water is, after all, the visibility is quite low at a depth of several meters.

And their opponents are tens of thousands of sailors, not landlubbers. If they are discovered, they will definitely fight fiercely in the water. It takes longer.These He Zhaoxiong father and daughter had been deployed long ago, and everything went according to the battle plan.

Xu Yong, the navy commander of the Qing army, was very proud. When he heard that there were people under the ship, there was more than one, and there was movement under all the big ships. Make a loud noise.

"There is indeed someone!"

He immediately understood that he had been fooled. The soldiers on the small boat just now were not wiped out by his artillery, but ran into the water. This was to destroy his warship. , his [-] navy will be ruined, and this battle will also be ruined.

So Xu Yong didn't dare to go forward any more, ordered the fleet to stop, and quickly organized a death squad to solve the hidden dangers under the ship, and quickly selected a team of thousands of people from the [-] sailors. Led by a guerrilla general with good water skills, these people took off their armor, bare shoulders and bare hands, leaving only a small short sleeve, holding a short knife in their hand, and plopped down like dumplings.

Xu Yong was still not at ease, and ordered each warship to organize a group of spearmen and archers, both large and small, and asked them to stand at the bow of the ship and stab at the bottom of the large ship, and shoot arrows into it at the right time.

Now Xu Yong's tens of thousands of sailors stopped rushing to the other side, and they no longer looked for Zhu Yousong's big boat. Some were holding bows and arrows, some were holding spears, and tens of thousands of eyes were all staring at the lake.

The clear surface of the lake has become a bit cloudy now, because blood froth comes up from time to time and is then melted by the lake water.

But the clanging under the big boat still didn't stop. "Master, what should we do?" Xu Yong still has many lieutenants, generals, and partial generals under his command. Their death squads have been going down for a long time, and there are so many archers and spearmen on them who are constantly shooting and stabbing underwater. stab, but it doesn't seem to do much.

The commander of the navy has no more recruits now, and the complacent look on his face has long since disappeared. When he became angry from embarrassment, he had no choice but to send more people underwater.But as long as his people go down, none of them come up. They are all meat buns beating dogs, and they never return.

The bang bang from the water under the boat continued, beating the hearts of these fake Tartars and real traitors one after another.Xu Yong had a vague premonition, but he couldn't just retreat like this!
(End of this chapter)