The Ming army that had crossed the fence quickly gathered around the camp gate, and some agile Ming army shooters climbed up the towers on both sides to cover the attacks of the infantry. Seeing that the camp gate was opened by the Ming army, the Qing army in the camp had lost their fighting spirit. There were not many armored Nanchang brought by Dong Weiguo, most of them were sailors and civilians. At this time, they were only thinking about how to escape.

"Subsist early!"

"Subsist early!"

"Those who sit can avoid death!"

The Ming army, who rushed into the camp, continued to attack and shouted in unison.

Among the Qing army's armored soldiers, some of them were captured in Jiujiang and followed Dong Weiguo to engage in this military adventure after being released. These people were very experienced. They knew that if the fierce resistance caused casualties to the Ming army, they would probably not be forgiven, but if they surrendered honestly, they would probably not have any worries about their lives.

"surrender!"

"surrender!"

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, these experienced veterans immediately threw down their weapons, rice bowls and dough cakes, and squatted on the ground with their hands in their arms - this is the standard posture for surrendering to Deng Ming's troops. Deng Ming's subordinates have now found that this posture can ensure that the other party cannot suddenly start and hurt people, nor can they hide weapons, so they require all surrenderers to adopt this action. Last time when they surrendered in Jiujiang, the Ming army also corrected the movements of the prisoners, and those who reacted slowly were even beaten with sticks.

In addition to these smart people, some green camp soldiers who had been captured had forgotten this standard movement in panic. They first fell to the ground as they used to. After seeing the movements of their companions with good memory, they quickly squatted up and hugged their heads, proving to the Ming army that they did not hide their swords under their bodies. Many civilians and sailors saw that they had no way to escape, and they followed these experienced comrades and surrendered to the Ming army for mercy.

Dong Weiguo, who was in the central army, hurried to the lake surrounded by guards. He was surrounded by chaos, and the Qing army, who had not been caught by the Ming army, rushed to the position of the fleet.

At this time, on the lake, the Qing army on the ship suddenly heard the sound of drums behind them. They turned their heads and were shocked to see a red flag rushing towards them. After transporting infantry x, these Ming army warships hid behind the lake bay not far from here. After passing the attack signal through arrows, the Ming army hurriedly set off. When they arrived, the Ming army's infantry had successfully opened the camp gate.

Some Qing soldiers on the boat looked at the chaos of camps, and then looked at the Ming warships that were coming quickly. Finally, some people ignored their companions, and even ignored the life and death of the governor, urging the sailors to quickly loosen the cables and raise the sails to escape.

Although these Qing army ships wanted to escape, most of the people on the ship had already arrived. After the sailors were busy unbuttoning the cables, the Ming army warships approached a lot. The manpower needed to lift sails was also lacking, not to mention the urgently needed oarsmen. In desperation, many sentries went to do the oars, trying to make the boat move faster.

In fact, there were enough oars and sailboats, and these Qing army ships could not be compared with the Ming army's clutch. The navy in Jiangxi had been destroyed in Jiujiang, and the lighter grain ships were all completely lost. These ships brought by Dong Weiguo were all bulky and inconvenient ships. These ships could only travel in Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River, and the canals could not be entered. Dong Weiguo originally wanted to send grain to Nanjing or Yangzhou, and even if he completed the task or changed the ship, he continued to transport it to Beijing.

These large ships filled with food were very heavy in the water. They were allowed to stir up trouble in the water with the panic-filled Qing military oars, but they were like slow snails and could not leave the anchorage for a long time.

"Why is it not moving again?" A Qing army officer who was eager to leave was already sweating as he looked at the Ming army warships getting closer and closer. He was almost the first to shout, asking the sailors to leave their companions on the land to escape first, but after a long time of struggle, the ship never sailed out of the anchorage.

"The anchor is hung again!" After rowing hard for a long time, the boat did not move. Finally, someone realized something was wrong. A sailor ran to the side of the boat gang and took a look, letting out a desperate scream.

After hurriedly put the anchor away, several sailors on the boat were busy hanging sails and asking the sentry to help roll it. Soon the soldiers and sailors were called to paddle again, but the anchors that were not kept fell into the water and tied the boat back to the leash.

Several paddlers came over when they heard the sound and pulled the anchor cable together. However, the boat had just sailed for a short distance. The anchor landing at the bottom of the lake may have dragged too many water plants and rocks. Four or five people could not pull it up with force.

"You have to pour the boat down for a while and then pull it up." said the experienced sailor.

"Nonsense!" The officer jumped over with red eyes, pulled out his sword and slashed towards the anchor rope.

While the boat was busy cutting the anchor rope, another boat passed by its side, becoming the first lucky person to leave the anchorage. However, despite successfully leaving the shallow water area, the speed of the boat was still unreasonably slow. The Qing soldiers above were rowing like crazy, but the boat still slowly moved forward calmly. Since the paddling soldiers were not all sailors, their movements were not consistent, and they were not very good at listening to the horns and paddling uniformly. In addition, there was not enough manpower, and even though one person used his strength to feed, the boat still couldn't get up.

"The sails have risen, and they can't be faster." A sailor said anxiously, reporting to the officer on the ship: "There are too many goods, and you want to throw them away!"

The Ming army ships in the distance galloped over, and the distance between the two continued to be closer. Although the ship was driving, the speed of the distance being closer seemed to be the same compared to when he was still in place just now. At least the officer could not see the difference between them.

"Take it!" The officer made a quick decision. Although these foods are important, they are gone, so what's the use of food?

Not long after a man got out of the cabin, he poked his head out and complained: "Master, the big bags of food are tied very tightly."

"Cut!" The officer said nothing more. He took a look at the enemy ships holding the red flag and jumped out of the cabin. In front of him was a grain bag like a hill. The officer and his subordinates fought together, cutting the band saw and cutting the ropes tied to several large bags of rice.

"It's too heavy!"

The two of them tried desperately to drag the rice buns onto the deck, but when they dragged their pockets out of the pile of grain, they were exhausted and panting. When loading the grain, they used many civilians to ship it, and it was not done in a short while.

A few more paddlers were summoned, and everyone worked together to finally lift a bag of rice on the deck. Just as they were about to push the bag of rice into the water, a Ming army ship had approached and could see the figures standing on the deck of the enemy ship.

"It's over." The officer finally became desperate. The Ming army would not take long to catch up with him. There was still more rice in the cabin, and he could not even say anything and pushed into the lake.

Looking back at the food of the ship, the officer finally made a decision: "Save the sails and we surrender!"

If the grain was pushed into the lake and still couldn't escape, it was hard to say what the angry Ming army would do. The officer ordered the rice bread that had just been dragged back into the cabin and shouted sadly to the soldiers around him: "Such a large ship of food should be able to give us a way out, right?"

"Yes, yes, the Lord said it well, we should calculate it anyway!" After figuring out the truth, the subordinates agreed and pushed the food back with all their fingers. When the sails were lowered, the Qing soldiers also lowered the green flag. A sailor took out a piece of red cloth and raised it to the highest point of the mast to show the ship's determination to turn against him.

When Dong Weiguo rushed to the lake with his guards, only half of the ships remained at the anchorage. A large number of Qing soldiers took off their clothes and jumped into the water, hoping to swim on the boat to escape. Some soldiers began to struggle and call for help after jumping into the water. In desperation, they forgot that they could not swim.

The shouts of killing behind him were getting closer and closer, and soon Dong Weiguo heard the sound of persuading surrender coming from all around him. The unwilling Dong Gongshu led the guards to rush left and right among the riots and snatched a mound.

Looking towards the direction of the camp, Dong Weiguo saw that a red flag had been raised there, and a large number of Ming troops were chasing from all directions. There was a team of cavalry rushing in front. Wherever he went, the Qing army fell down one after another. If there were still people who continued to escape or remained upright and did not surrender, they would ruthlessly chopped over.

Looking at the lake again, Dong Weiguo's heart completely became cold. A large number of Ming army clutches had already arrived near the water camp. The front was only half a mile away, and each ship was almost over the galloping horse, obviously driven by well-trained sailors.

The farthest Qing army ships that escaped from the anchorage were hundreds of meters away, and the first few ships had already lowered the sails and raised the red flag. Dong Weiguo saw that the Qing army ships behind him also imitated the leader and began to lower the sails one after another. He knew that the Qing soldiers on the ship had already understood that they could not escape the pursuit of the Ming army at all, and could only hope to exchange the food on the ship for the leniency of the Ming army.

Thousands of Qing soldiers crowded around the water camp anchorage saw this scene one after another. After seeing the speed of the Ming army's ship approaching, the Qing soldiers who fled on the ship accidentally urged the sailors to drive the ship.

"Subsist early!"

The Ming army's shouts became clear and loud. Dong Weiguo looked around. No one was left on the shore and there were any resistance. They all hugged their heads and squatted down according to the Ming army's request. Although the Ming army had not arrived at the mound of Dong Weiguo at this time, there were already people around the Qing soldiers who were preparing for the future and squatting on the ground first.

"Mu..." Dong Weiguo saw the enemy general's banner clearly, his body shook, his right hand relaxed, and his sword fell weakly to the ground.

"Why did he remember reconnaissance as soon as he met me? Why did he come all his skills when he met me?" Dong Weiguo screamed in anger and raised his head to question Cangtian: "How could he bully me?"

In this battle, the Ming army suffered less than 20 casualties, killed more than 200 Qing soldiers, and captured more than 3,000 enemy soldiers. After the war, Zheng Yaojun did not immediately go to the camp to celebrate with his companions, but instead searched for enemy soldiers who were shot to death on the battlefield with other crossbowmen. Every time he found an enemy who was killed by himself, Zheng Yaojun would take out a dagger and dig out the crossbow arrow from the corpse.

These pure iron crossbow arrows are also part of the city redemption fee given by Zhang Changgeng. The capital is currently unable to provide weapons of the same quality, so Deng Ming encouraged crossbow soldiers to recover crossbow arrows by themselves.

"What's the point of summarizing this battle?" Zheng Yaojun was looking for it, thinking in his mind that there would definitely be a summary meeting after the war in the Ming army. As a standing army sergeant, Zheng Yaojun is not qualified to attend the officers' meeting for the time being, but he must speak at the team discussion meeting.

When he went to Nanjing with Zhang Huangyan last year, Zheng Yaojun brought his wife and sister, so he did not choose to risk his return to Zhoushan, but joined Deng Ming's army. Although Zheng Yaojun was a archer at that time, he was illiterate and lacked understanding of the situation. However, he obviously had the talent for fighting. He stood out in several battles in Huguang and his combat skills were also rapidly improved through military training. After the battle in Huangzhou, he was assigned a delicate crossbow. After arriving in Chengdu, he was not surprised to be left in the standing army.

Now Zheng Yaojun has known nearly a hundred words and has given himself the name he is using. The number of words has reached the officer qualification standard set by Deng Ming. If the army is expanded in the future and more officers are promoted from the sergeants, Zheng Yaojun has a great chance.

At the team discussion meeting in the evening, Zheng Yaojun mainly spoke about lurking and cooperating with the team. The latter was the focus of Zheng Yaojun's speech. He felt that the Ming army still had many problems. When cleaning the battlefield, he found several fatal injuries on several enemy soldiers. He also saw a seriously injured enemy soldier with his own eyes. He continued to be hit by crossbow arrows because he was reluctant to fall down. Although the enemy soldier had lost his combat effectiveness, the Ming army's shooter subconsciously kept attacking because of his nervousness until he fell completely.

Zheng Yaojun felt that this might be because the cooperation between the Ming army was still problematic, and not everyone was on the tense battlefield. They could accurately judge the degree of threat to the target at all times - wasting firepower was inevitable, but it would be bad if the waste was too serious. As for how to improve the training method, Zheng Yaojun had no idea and did not make any suggestions. In addition to Zheng Yaojun, several Ming army shooters also made similar reports.

...

After Mu Tan returned to Jiujiang the next day, he went to report the results of the battle to Deng Ming.

"It's Dong Weiguo again?" Deng Ming was surprised: "Hasn't he just left?"

"Yes, we have sent us a boat and food. The boat is not good and suitable for use in Poyang Lake, but not for the Yangtze River. If the admiral wants to enter the canal, these boats will be really bad." Mutan has inspected all the ships, and he reported to Deng Ming: "But there is a lot of food, which is enough 300,000 stones."

In addition to Dong Weiguo, there were hundreds of Qing soldiers who were captured in Jiujiang. After identification, they took a tael of silver and left, and the experienced veterans fell into the hands of the Ming army again. The experienced veterans did not suffer much loss, and almost no cold hair was injured. Most of the people killed by the Ming army were the Green Camp sent from Nanchang. These people did not have any experience in fighting with the Ming army. They resisted the most fiercely and suffered extremely heavy casualties.

"Do they think my money is too easy to get?" Deng Ming frowned. The Jiujiang Green Camp received the severance fee ten days ago, so I will get the second one.

Mu Tan observed Deng Ming's expression and asked tentatively: "Do you not give them severance payment?"

"Well, I think about it." Deng Ming thought for a moment and asked, "Do they all have armor?"

"Some people have, but most of them are not." Mu Tan replied. These people had just been released. Jiangxi Governor Zhang Chao did not immediately fill up their equipment. Only Dong Weiguo's confidant guard once again handed over the full set of equipment to Mu Tan.

"I don't even have armor, it's a loss." Deng Ming's brows frowned even more, but he finally shook his head: "It's better to send severance payments. We even give away auxiliary soldiers we don't want. It's not appropriate for them not to give them, but I have to think of a way in the future, so I can't always do this."

"Affect the order."

"Dong Weiguo should give me one tael of silver. He has only been there for more than ten days and has been delivering food to me again. It's really hard for him." Thinking of 300,000 shi of grain, Deng Ming felt that giving out 500 taels of silver was nothing: "I originally thought that we would not be old in Jiangxi and Huguang, so there is no need to establish a very important person system, but maybe it is necessary to set up a special one for Dong Gongshu."

"The Dong Gongma refused to leave," Mutan smiled: "He wants to see the admiral."

"What did he want to do when he sees me?"

"He wants to bribe me." Mu Tan told Deng Ming that after catching Dong Weiguo yesterday, the other party offered to give Mu Tan a sum of money, asking him to let these ships and grain go with great help.

"Will he just put the 300,000 s of grain be released? Is he a three-year-old child?" Deng Ming sneered.

"I cried almost the same as a three-year-old child." Mu Tan told Deng Ming that yesterday Dong Weiguo begged to let him go, saying that if he lost the food, his whole family would hang himself. He also assured Mu Tan that he was willing to give all his property to Mu Tan.

"His output is worth 300,000 shi of grain?" Deng Ming asked in surprise. If you want to bribe Mingjun, you must use wealth instead of real estate. It is hard to imagine that a governor of Dong Weiguo could raise about 300,000 taels of silver in a hurry, and it is estimated that 30,000 will be left.

"Of course not enough. Dong Buzheng patted his chest and said that there was 20,000 silver. He didn't know whether it was true or not. He said a bunch of oaths of holding a ring of grass and rings, and was willing to give me his two unmarried daughters." Mu Tan said with a smile: "Dong Weiguo said that if he didn't return the food to him, his two daughters would have to send them to Ningguta."

"Oh, that's just that it's not worth it. I really can't do business, but I actually show my trump card when I come up." Deng Ming commented disdainfully: "It's far worse than Zhou Peigong."

Then Deng Ming fell into deep thought, and Mutan waited quietly, knowing that the coach was digesting the content he had just reported.

"How did Dong Weiguo remember to see me later?" After a while, Deng Ming asked another question.

"I told him that I did accept bribes, but the premise of accepting bribes is that I cannot implicate myself. So if he gives me 20,000 yuan in silver and two daughters, I will help him speak in front of the admiral." Mu Tan told Deng Ming that Dong Weiguo seemed to have heard of Gao Mingzhan's bribes, and Mu Tan explained to him that he accepted Gao Mingzhan's bribes and then helped Gao Mingzhan come up with an exchange plan that would allow Deng Mingzhan to agree.

"So that's it." Deng Ming laughed: "What is your plan?"

"It's porcelain. The porcelain from Jiangxi is very good. There is a business in Yanping that specializes in collecting porcelain in mainland China, but it is difficult to receive porcelain from Jiangxi, which is too far away. Even if the admiral doesn't ship it to sea, he will collect some here and ship it to Huguang to sell it at a good price."

"Well, it's really good. Now that the Yangtze River shipping is in our hands, the porcelain can be sold to those with IOUs first," Deng Ming thought for a while and nodded: "Then I will meet Dong Weiguo, but their two daughters..."

"I understand." Mutan laughed loudly: "Don't worry, admiral, I'm not ignorant of the importance of the humble position."

After talking about this incident, Deng Ming asked about this post-war summary again.

"The standing army is much stronger than the soldiers recruited." Ming army officers had this feeling when they were in Jiujiang, and this battle deepened the influence of Mu Tan.

"Of course, one fucking a day will of course be much stronger."

"Weizhi believes that we need more standing troops, or add more military training days."

"We have to pay four kilograms of grain a day for military training. We can't engage in production. We also have to let them rest properly, otherwise we will not be able to work the next day. When will the Du Mansion have a million people before we talk about this?" Deng Ming shook his head: "What else is there?"
Chapter completed!