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Chapter 281 Forced Crossing the Yangtze River (4)

The [-] death squads led by Li Quan and Liu Chunhong were divided into four general banners and ten small banners. More than a dozen of them went ashore and grouped their subordinates into groups of ten. For the actions of this group, dozens of groups touched each fort fort under the cover of night.Li Quan and Liu Chunhong crouched on a high place with steel knives in hand, hiding their bodies and watching the movement of the artillery battalion.

Theoretically speaking, it is more than enough for ten people to take care of a fort, because now there are only four Qing army guards for each fort, and the rest are all asleep. Even these four Qing soldiers are now sleeping. Because Li Quan and the others came at the right time, the three or four hours between the third watch and the fourth watch was the time when people were the sleepiest and sleepiest during the night.

Therefore, these dozens of groups succeeded very quickly. Most of them touched the fort and the Qing army didn't know it. It was easy to overthrow the Qing army, but dismantling the forts and smashing the cannons made these movements relatively large.

But there are also times when it is unreasonable. Some teams were discovered when they were dealing with the Qing army guarding the fort.

When only more than a dozen forts were destroyed, the artillery battalion of the Qing army exploded. With the sound of shouts, whistles, gongs, the sound of soldiers running and gathering, and the sound of people shouting and neighing, the entire artillery battalion started to move.

Li Quan didn't like it, so he quickly drew his knife and rushed to the gate of the artillery barracks of the Qing army.

"General, how can you and I stop the Qing army's thousands of horses and horses?" Liu Chunhong asked worriedly.

"If you can't stop it, you have to stop it. Give the brothers enough time, otherwise our trip will be in vain. I block the gate of the camp. You turn to the dark corner on the side to try to set the fire. We have to give these The bastard is looking for some trouble, let the brothers over there smash a few more cannons without being disturbed, go!" Li Quan urged.

"Take care, general." Liu Chunhong was reluctant to leave, but had to, and told her affectionately.

"Miss, take care too, I'm fine here, don't worry, I have my own measure. Remember, if it doesn't work, go back to the river, and they won't be able to hurt us when we get into the water!" Li Quan was warm in his heart. Said that this might be a farewell, Li Quan comforted her like this, but also told her.

Liu Chunhong nodded at him, "Don't worry about the general, Xiaohong will protect herself. You must take care of yourself, general!" After speaking, she jumped up and down with the steel knife and disappeared into the night.

At this time, a group of men and horses rushed out from the camp, shouting and screaming, holding torches, the leader was a general with iron helmets and armor, carrying a long machete in his hand, Li Quan could see his face clearly by the light of the fire, his five senses were still counted. He is upright, but his skin is purple, his face is either pitted or hillocked, he has a long beard, and he looks about 50 to [-] years old.

As soon as this general came out of the camp, Li Quan jumped out of the darkness abruptly with a knife in his hand, startled the general on the horse, pulled the reins violently, sat down on the horse's front hooves, hissed into the night sky, and almost Throw this off the horse.

It took a long time for the general to stabilize his body. Seeing that there was only one person standing across the road in front of him, and he was not riding a horse. He was wearing navy clothes. After looking for a long time, he didn't recognize him.

"I am Emperor Zhu Yousong of the Ming Dynasty who drove down to Jinyiwei to command the affairs and in charge of the East Factory to punish Qianhu Li Quan. Who are you?" Li Quan pointed at this general with a knife in his hand.

"I'm going to let you die today. I'm Ma Shixiu, the commander of the artillery battalion. How dare you come here to die. Let me recruit you!"

It was Ma Shixiu who was coming, and now he couldn't sleep, because someone yelled in his ear a few times, and the woman he snatched ran away screaming, and he didn't even have time to wear his clothes.When Ma Shixiu woke up and heard that someone swam over to demolish his fort, he was so frightened that the cannon was his life, and demolishing the fort meant killing him.But how did they come here? The vast river turned out to be swimming. Could it be that there are still water ghosts in Zhu Yousong's camp?
Fortunately, Ma Shixiu learned that there were not many water ghosts coming, so Ma Shixiu hurriedly sent an order for all to assemble, arranged clothes indiscriminately, put on helmets and armors, mounted a knife and led people, and rushed out. Unexpectedly, he ran into Li Quan as soon as he left the camp.

He felt that Li Quan was too bold. He dared to stop his horse by himself. You must know that there are thousands of troops behind him.

Li Quan fought with him twice, wiped his head and ran away, of course to lure them to the side, Ma Shixiu led his horse and chased them, but Li Quan ran to the dark place, after a few steps Ma Shixiu stopped chasing, he had to take The man went to the fort, but as soon as he turned his horse's head, Li Quan jumped out again.

But Ma Shixiu also has a way, with so many people under his command, he asked a guerrilla general to lead people to deal with Li Quan, and he led a large team to the Jiang'an Fort.

But he didn't go very far this time, when someone behind him suddenly shouted: "The boss is in trouble, the camp is on fire!"

Ma Shixiu looked back, it's not that, at some point, his big camp caught fire, the fire grew bigger and bigger, the flames soared into the sky, and the flames soared, shining red for a long time.

Ma Shixiu knew that this must be the fault of Li Quan and the others, but he must not go back, and the fire in the camp had to be saved, so he had to divide the troops again, and sent a general to lead a team back to the camp to fight the fire. He personally led the fort Flying horses come everywhere.

When he arrived at the fort, he was dumbfounded. Dozens of forts were beyond recognition. The corpses of his soldiers were splashed with blood everywhere.

It was still going on over there, Ma Shixiu was very angry, and shouted: "Kill them all! Quick, find some people to rush to repair the fort!"

At this time, Li Quan and Liu Chunhong both appeared on the bank of the river. Seeing that Ma Shixiu led a large number of Qing troops to kill them, the fort was almost destroyed at this time, and they had to save their strength, so they hurriedly shouted: "Withdraw, withdraw quickly!"

The five hundred death squads retreated quickly, and of course those who retreated slowly died heroically. When Ma Shixiu led a large number of Qing troops to the river, Li Quan and others had already jumped into the river and disappeared, so they had to shoot randomly into the river. The arrows retreated, and the fort had to be repaired quickly.

After investigation, nearly a hundred cannons of various types were intact, and none of them survived. Especially the heavy artillery such as the red cannon was severely damaged, and it was difficult to repair the fort.

But no matter how difficult it is, it must be repaired urgently, otherwise what will the Ming army do if they forcefully cross the river?But when Ma Shixiu was organizing emergency repairs, Li Quan and Liu Chunhong led hundreds of people ashore, shouting and killing them again.Ma Shixiu lost his temper, so he had to lead people to fight again. Li Quan led people to run again, and when they reached the river, Li Quan and others jumped into the water again.

Then Ma Shixiu learned to be smart, he sent a team of soldiers to guard the fort, and the Dobu archers stared at the river to prevent Li Quan and others from coming ashore to make trouble, while ordering people to rush to repair the fort.

This time Li Quan and others did not come to make trouble again, but the scout who reported the incident came over, "Report to the master, a large number of ships of the Ming army were found in the river."

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