Not only the "old pole" Chen Hongfan was depressed on the river, but also the Funing Hou Zhu Guobi who had just crossed the river from Taoyuan County to the southern capital not long ago.

To be honest, Zhu Guobi thought he was pretty good. No matter how bad he was, he brought thousands of people to Nandu. He was not better than those guys who surrendered thieves in the north?

Moreover, he is Funing Marquis, so even if these guys in Nandu really look down on him, they have to offer him.

But the fact is that there are jokes about him, Funing Hou, who is as afraid of thieves as a tiger. The ministers and officials look down on him, and even the common people think of ways to make up him. These random jokes are heard from his concubine Kou Baimen.

Although Kou Baimen, who has always regarded himself as a chivalrous woman, is born in a prostitute, she is really a bit of a family and country sentiment. She is very dissatisfied with her husband's behavior of fearing thieves and not even letting her back on her body. This makes Zhu Guobi feel uncomfortable.

In order to marry Kou Baimen, he arranged 5,000 soldiers to stand from Kou's family on Chaoku Street with red lanterns all the way to Zhu's mansion. The scale was unprecedented and the lanterns reflected half of the Qinhuai River red. It was unprecedented in the history of Nandu, and there was no one to come later. It moved Kou's knights.

Now, if you just believe the nonsense outside, you won’t let me touch you. You said Zhu Guobi is angry. But now he still loves Koubaimen deeply, otherwise he wouldn’t have spent so much effort to marry someone home.

Therefore, he still treated each other gently, thinking that the rumors outside would always calm down, and when the Baimen Qi disappeared, he would still lie there in vain and let himself do it.

However, God seemed to be deliberately playing tricks on him like Funing Marquis. Just a few days after returning to Nanjing, Duke Xu Hongji of Wei called him over, and then he said earnestly that he had to nod and agreed to lead his troops to Zhenjiang to assist in the battle.

The starting point of Duke Wei was good. Thinking that Shi Kefa had to supervise the battle himself, he would have to do some effort.

He certainly can't go to people, but soldiers can do some.

Isn’t Zhu Guobi back? It’s just right?

A marquis who personally led his troops could also encourage the soldiers in front.

After attacking Duke Wei's mansion, Zhu Guobi was depressed and felt that he deserved it. If he knew that he would still lead his troops to fight against the thieves in Huaiyang, he should have directly led his troops to rescue Huai'an. In that case, he might have made great contributions long ago. Why did he ask people to arrange this way when he returned to Nanjing?

After returning home, he was so depressed that he wanted to lead troops to fight. But his concubine Kou Baimen was so happy. Not only did he cook delicious food himself, but he also drank a few drinks with her husband. Then he went to take a long bath. That night, Zhu Guobi served like a god.

After telling Kou Baimen to do this, Zhu Guobi's spiritual leader also came up. Thinking that so many soldiers crossed the river to fight, Shi Kefa personally commanded the battle, so he could not have been defeated by the thieves, so he went boldly and washed away the "shame" before washing.

What made him even more happy was that when he led his army to fight, Koubaimen actually called her sisters from the Qinhuai River to cheer for him, Funing Hou.

It was the gongs and drums, firecrackers were roaring, red flags were roaring, and crowds of people, and the scene was very lively.

There is Dong Xiaowan, who has married a famous scholar Mao Pijiang, Liu Rushi, who has married the leader of Donglin, Qian Qianyi, a literary giant, as his side room, Bian Yujing, who is omnipotent in Sai Shiqin, calligraphy and painting, and Li Xiangjun, who is the most popular among talented men Hou Fangyu...

In short, the famous girls on the Qinhuai River were here and now, and they were really better than the other ones, and they were more moved by the Marquis.

Everyone Gu Hengbo personally beat the drums and cheered for the Marquis of Funing. The song "General's Order" made the Marquis of Funing look like he was beaten with pig blood, and he wished he could stand up and show the majesty of the protector clan.

The soldiers of his troops were also deeply moved and swore that they would fight to the end this time!

However, after arriving in Zhenjiang, Zhu Guobi felt something was wrong. It seemed that except for him who had been hit with pig blood, the rest of the people were not very motivated.

During the last military discussion before the war, when the generals looked at whom they were looking forward to taking the initiative to be the vanguard, it was silent.

It may be that the heroic spirit of the Funing Hou led his troops to impress Shi Gong. Therefore, when no one volunteered, Zhu Guobi was called by Shi Gong and trusted him, saying: "The first battle to defeat the thief is all in Funing Hou!"

Helplessly, Zhu Guobi could only bite the bullet and be the pioneer of crossing the river.

He didn't expect anything else now, so he hoped that Shi Gong's prestige was enough to allow the Zhang brothers and others to keep up in time and not let him fight alone.

On the river, the fog had dissipated. The bandits were lined up at the ferry entrance, and it seemed that there were many soldiers.

Zhu Guobi felt a little confused. Just looking at the formation of the thieves, he was not ordinary thieves. Could it be that the Shun Army from the north came?

Just as he was nervous, Ma Rulong, the general of the family shouted: "Mr. Marquis, the commander has fired the flag!"

"ah?"

Zhu Guobi looked at the big ship where Shi Kefa was located in the distance, and a signal came. Then, he heard the sound of cannons rumbling, but the naval warship of Zheng Hongkui's troops fired onto the shore.

Many of the Zheng family's warships were three-masted gunships imitated by the Western Dutch. Small cannons were installed on both sides of the gunship, with one volley, and the firepower was very high.

Amid the rumbling cannons, the sound of war drums and horns came one after another.

What can Zhu Guobi do? How can there be a reason why the striker is not waiting for others to go to?

So, he made up his mind and sent a command to fight.

............

On the river, the sound of cannons rumbled, white smoke filled the sky, and the Ming army's momentum was shocking.

On the shore, there was panic, but it was not the Huai Army, but the officials, gentry and salt merchants and wealthy people who were forcibly brought to the city to "watch the battle".

As soon as the cannon sounded, the officials, gentry and rich people couldn't stand it anymore, for fear that the cannons would hit them, and they all shouted to go back to the city.

"Go, someone ran away, I'll just chop it up!"

"Some people screaming and shouting, and they've been chopped up!"

Lu Si was too lazy to look back. What he was more concerned about now was how far the Ming Navy's artillery shells could hit.

Before the war, Lu Si had already considered the killing and damage caused to the Huai Army by the Ming army, so he ordered the formation to be two miles away from the riverside.

But now it seems that many of the Ming Navy's cannons had a range of more than two miles, and several shells fell into the array of fire camps in their sight.

However, the Ming army's artillery shells were not very lethal to the Huai army. Apart from directly hitting the ground, they almost did not cause any losses.

This is because the soil on the riverside is too soft, and the shells fired by the Ming army were solid iron bullets and could not bounce on the soft ground, so the damage caused was very limited.

In addition, the Ming army's artillery shells were fired from warships on the river. There were waves on the river. The warships were not stable, and their accurate heads were half-folded and half-folded.

Generally speaking, the artillery fire fired by the Ming Navy is more like scaring the Huai Army and assisting the Ming Army in landing, rather than real "bombardment".

It would be a false statement to say that the Huai Army was not messy at all. Lu Si saw dozens of soldiers running back in panic by cannons, but they were soon ordered by the officers to retreat.

It’s not that these soldiers who have not yet been systematically trained have a lot of courage, but that since the sound of cannons sounded, Lu Wenzong of Shangganka’s flag has never taken a single step in the spot.

Gradually, when they found that the Ming army's cannon was "just thunder but not rain", the Huai Army teams naturally calmed down and no longer panic at first.

After looking for a while, Lu Si suddenly said to the generals around him: "The guns are so powerful, should we be more afraid? Otherwise, when they see us being majestic and unmoving, wouldn't they dare to get off the boat?"

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