In the middle of the night, the moonlight is dim and the starlight is even darker.
The monkey looked up at the night sky and felt that the clouds were hanging very low, as if they were about to collapse.
He was suddenly startled and said to Geng San: "It won't rain!"
Geng San was also worried about this and said: "I can't tell!"
Wang Da frowned and said: "If it rains, it will be really unpleasant to fight."
The monkey said angrily: "If it rains, the gunpowder will get wet. How can wet gunpowder be ignited?"
Wang was shocked and said: "What should we do?"
The port is about three miles wide. Jiang Dujun's boats are divided into more than a dozen piles, with nearly a hundred boats in each pile, spaced apart from each other, occupying the entire port.
If the enemy navy arrives, it can only stop between Jiangdu's boats. When Jiangdu's boats are detonated, the fire will surely sweep through all the enemy's warships.
This is Liu Bowen's plan, provided it doesn't rain.
Geng San thought for a while and said: "Otherwise, if we put wooden planks on the boat, as long as the rain is not heavy, the gunpowder will not get wet!"
The monkey shook his head and said: "No, the wooden planks suddenly erected on the boat are too suspicious. The enemy will definitely guess that gunpowder is hidden inside!"
Wang DaDao: "Then take out all the gunpowder. Once they land, we will rush over and kill them. We can win without gunpowder! Save the gunpowder and use it again when attacking the city to avoid wasting it!"
The monkey glared at him and said: "How can it be that easy? The enemy is not stupid? They knew that we occupied Dantu Town, but wouldn't they have thought that we would ambush us at the port?"
Geng San said: "Yes, as long as they don't disembark and send scouts to investigate first, our ambush will be useless!"
At this time, the wind was getting stronger and stronger, and the leaves were blowing loudly, and the branches were swaying like ghosts.
Wang Da said in a rough voice: "This won't work, that won't work either, so what should I do? When the rain falls, not only will the plan fail, but so much gunpowder will also be gone!"
Geng San's face suddenly turned pale and he said: "If the gunpowder falls into the hands of the enemy, I'm afraid the king and the princess will not let us off easily!"
Wang stood up abruptly and said hurriedly: "Don't think about it, quickly take back the gunpowder! Han Er, quickly lead a team of people to take back the gunpowder!"
Geng San also quickly stood up and ordered his generals to recover the gunpowder.
"Don't move!" the monkey shouted: "Have you forgotten the princess's daily teachings? The more critical the situation, the more you must stay calm!"
Wang Da was startled, looked at each other with Geng San, and slowly crouched down in the grass again. The other generals who were preparing to take action also squatted behind the two of them.
Wang Da took a deep breath and said: "Monkey, you are right, you must stay calm at critical moments. I thought about it calmly and felt that I should take back the gunpowder!"
The monkey looked up at the sky and said solemnly: "No need to take it back, the rain will not fall!"
Geng San was stunned and said: "How do you know?"
The monkey said slowly: "Before I crossed the river, I went to see Mr. Liu again and told him the date of crossing the river. Since he didn't raise any objection, it won't rain!"
Wang Da said angrily: "What kind of excuse is this? No matter how awesome he is, he is not the Dragon King. Is it his responsibility to take care of the rain?"
The monkey snorted and said: "You know nothing. My wife said that Mr. Liu knows astronomy and geography. If it rains tonight, he will definitely know it in advance!"
Wang Da scratched his head, his eyes were as big as copper bells, and said: "Knowing astronomy from above and geography from below? Is he really that amazing?"
The monkey was about to speak when suddenly, a black shadow came from a distance, quickly approached the entrance of the forest, and said with cupped hands: "Three generals, the Tatar navy is coming!"
They were the scouts sent out to investigate.
The monkey was overjoyed and said: "Let the brothers prepare the oil!"
The herald immediately issued the order, and several soldiers carried a bucket of oil and poured it into the ditch dug in advance.
There are dozens of archers behind each ditch, and the arrowheads in their hands are also coated with pine oil.
A quarter of an hour later, I saw huge black shadows appearing on the river in the distance. The black shadows were approaching from the shore. They were the warships of the Yuan army.
General Yuan, who led the army, knew that the enemy was in the nearby town of Dantu, so he was very cautious and only allowed the big ship to dock on the shore without letting the soldiers disembark.
With a bang, the big ship lowered its planks, and several scouts got off the ship to investigate nearby.
Just as the scouts stepped on the wooden planks to land, they suddenly saw fire flashing in the forest in the distance. The Yuan army leader shouted: "There is an ambush, leave the port quickly!"
However, before the order could be carried out, the enemy's rockets had already been fired, targeting not the Yuan army's warships, but Jiangdu Army's own boats.
Just when the Yuan army general was confused, he heard loud rumbling noises and fire snakes spewed out from the enemy's small boats, sweeping up the nearby Yuan army ships in an instant.
The rumbling sound continued, and not long after, more than a dozen small boats of Jiangdu Army were all set on fire.
The fire was raging on the river! Most of the warships of the Yuan army were caught in the fire, and only a few warships farther away from the shore survived.
At this moment, the cry of killing suddenly rang out!
The three men led by Wang and others rushed to the shore and fired fiercely at the Yuan army who was fleeing in the fire.
The surface of the river was ablaze, and the screams of the Yuan army echoed across the shore.
The battle lasted for two hours.
Most of the warships of the Yuan army and the boats of the Jiangdu army were burned. Most of the Yuan army was burned to death, a few were shot to death, and some were drowned. Only more than 2,000 remaining soldiers escaped.
The monkey turned his head and glanced at his soldiers.
I saw everyone cheering in unison, full of fighting spirit, not hesitating at all because the road back to the north bank was cut off, I couldn't help but secretly rejoice.
That night, the soldiers returned to Dantu Town to rest.
At noon the next day, the army used dry food and then cut down trees to make siege ladders. At night, the army came to camp outside Zhenjiang City.
Early on the third day, according to Liu Ji's strategy, the three of them each led 10,000 people and attacked the east gate, south gate and north gate respectively, but left the west gate open.
The Zhenjiang garrison originally had only 20,000 men, but they had just learned that 10,000 navy troops had been defeated by Jiangdu's army, and their morale was extremely low.
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Chen Zhaoxian originally wanted to resist, but as soon as the enemy attacked the city, they became unstoppable. Wang Da's army only took two hours to attack the city wall.
Seeing this situation, he had no intention of resisting anymore and led the defenders to withdraw from the west gate and retreat towards Jiqing. In this way, Zhenjiang City fell into the hands of Jiangdu Army.
After Wang and the others entered the city, they learned that there were more than 100,000 shi of food in Zhenjiang City. In addition, there were countless weapons, clothing, medicines and other supplies.
They quickly sealed up the treasury and sent people to deliver the good news to Jiangdu. When Zhang Yangquan learned about it, he was very happy and sent a letter of commendation to the three of them.
"Haha, damn, this battle was so enjoyable! The king praised us all in his letter. Monkey, have you ever been praised like this by the king?"
On the upper floor of the west gate of Zhenjiang City, Wang and three other people were sitting around a table. In the center of the table was an exquisite brocade box, with Zhang Yangquan's letter of commendation lying in the box.
The monkey said: "No."
"Where are you, Geng San?"
"No."
Wang Da said proudly: "How about it, brothers didn't trick you, right? If we hadn't taken the initiative to fight for it, how could we have won such a great victory?"
The monkey was in a good mood and couldn't help but praise: "It's really all thanks to you this time."
Wang Da grinned and said: "The difference between you and me is that we are missing a big victory! Hehe, I defeated Fang Guozhen with the wild boar back then, so I know what it feels like, but this is your first time to experience it!"
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Geng San smiled and cursed: "This guy is getting carried away again!"
The monkey said seriously: "The letter from the king said that there are many good shipwrights in Zhenjiang and asked us to send them there immediately. This matter needs to be handled urgently!"
Geng San followed: "The Prime Minister Zuo also asked us to send a group of civil servants over, saying that there were too many new government offices and there was a shortage of civil servants."
Wang Dayi waved his hand and said: "You go ahead and do these two things. I will be responsible for knocking down all the counties around Zhenjiang!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a general came in from the door, it was Wang Da's subordinate Han Er.
"Three generals, there is a scribe outside asking to see you!"