"Boom! Boom!" Two cannons fired, and two smoke rose from the port side of the "Amur River" that was driving at low speed, and two solid iron balls hit a Qing army patrol ship at close range.

The ship came from the upstream with a small tonnage and its style was also an old-fashioned Chinese hard sailboat, but it was extremely arrogant on the river surface. It seemed that it was a bullying the Dashun army, both Shaanxi and Gansu and Henan people, who were not familiar with water, were always showing off their power on the river surface with more than ten other ships. While they were placing useless bird guns on the Yuezhou area on the southern bank, they were smugly and insulted loudly, as if they were arrogant.

However, when they went out today, they obviously forgot to look at the almanac. They saw two "huge" ships urging black smoke rising from the downstream quickly. The splashes on the bow of the ship made them stunned. The ship was driving so fast! But their surprise quickly turned into fear, because when the two fast ships approached a distance of dozens of meters, the two eight-pound cannons on the side began to fire in succession.

The nearly straight ballistic shells penetrated the thin hull of the patrol ship in an instant, and created two huge holes near the port side waterline. The river water poured in. More than ten Qing navy on the ship looked at each other, then shouted, and they jumped into the river with wooden boards and other floating objects, and then tried to stay away from the sinking place of the ship.

The two steam gunboats, which were obviously more arrogant than the Qing army's patrol ships, did not delay. They drove at full speed and easily split the water waves, chasing the remaining Qing army's patrol ships on the river.

"As fast as lightning, a good boat! What a good boat!" Guo Sheng, who was standing on the bank of the river, looked at the "fighting battle" on the river surface, and was so happy that he slapped his thighs, saying, "Zheng Siwei, this guy, has no other skills. He has mastered his skills in his tortoise armor. He has been huddled in the city of Jingzhou all day long, and did not dare to go out of the city to fight with us, but he sent some patrol boats to disgust people. Now, I finally beat these bird boats to sink and feed them to the fish!"

Guo Sheng had reason to be happy. Last month (April), they repeatedly attacked Jingzhou City, but the Dashun army, which lacked heavy weapons to attack the city, had never been able to conquer it, and had no choice but to give up. In fact, they were not the case at all, but who made them (Li Guo, Gao Yigong and other troops) lose a lot of baggage and heavy weapons when they broke through Ningxia, Shaanxi and northern Shaanxi through Sichuan to Hubei. The group of artillery that once played an important role in the Huaiqing Battle was also lost. Now there are only two or three small-caliber 4-pound short-barrel howitzers left with them can barely be used, but the tragedy is that the shells have been exhausted and turned into a pile of broken copper and iron. The flintlock guns handed over to them by the East Coast were mostly damaged, some were caused by improper maintenance, but more were due to excessive use, which shows the difficulties of Guo Sheng's troops fighting all the way.

Li Guo and Gao Yigong's troops fought with the Qing army of the northern Shaanxi Army for several months, and then successively fought with local militia, Hui Mikian horse team, surrendered Qing Shun army, and the Eight Banner Mongolian troops, and finally fought a bloody road and entered Huguang for thousands of miles. They joined Li Zicheng's troops. When the army broke through northern Shaanxi, which had a high number of more than 100,000 people reached Jingzhou Prefecture, there were only more than 40,000 people who could fight, and the losses were extremely heavy. However, the more than 40,000 people who arrived in Hubei were all elites who had lived for the rest of their lives. The combat power was extraordinary. Based on them, they could easily pull up a unit of more than 100,000 and 200,000 people.

Li Zhengang was silent after hearing this. He and Guo Sheng were both Luo Rucai's old subordinates. To be honest, they didn't care too much about the life and death of King Chuang. What they care about was how to deal with the situation if King Chuang had a few shortcomings. To be honest, this army is really tied together by King Chuang. If King Chuang is unexpected, God knows how many people will surrender to the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. The 200,000 people in front of him are probably going to be dispersed half of them, and then everything will be done.

"It's a pity not to see the King of Chuang. Dong...My Marshal Mo intends to join forces with King of Chuang to fight against the Tartars. The goods that were unloaded yesterday were meeting gifts. Guo Shuai, don't show such a strange expression. Everyone understands what the title of Dashun Ninghai Defensive Commander you gave to you at the beginning, but it's just for the purpose of winning people's hearts. To put it bluntly, Marshal Mo wears it if he wants to wear it, and throws it away when he doesn't want to wear it without any loss. Over the years, he has collected it.

To be honest, many of our old brothers have nothing to do with Dashun. Even if you run over to pull people, you may not be able to pull them away." Li Zhengang quickly broke the silence again and said, "Now, the camp trained by the commander of Mo Dashun, is a stand-up team. There are more than 6,000 people who practice hard every day and their combat power has improved rapidly. In addition, there are also the number of Semu cavalry as a thousand five, which are also rare elites, not to mention the black vassal ghost slave soldiers and East Coast musketeers, whose strength cannot be underestimated."

"How can I have any ideas?" Guo Sheng said with a wry smile, "I am so happy that the old brothers who were sent away now have a good place. How could I go and pull people randomly to ruin their future? Although I am desperate for a long time, I also know that he is an extraordinary person. In Shandong, many people in my camp praised him as a hero. He is now willing to wear a big hat, which is a kind of love, and we have to receive this love. Now he has sent people to send 800 muskets, big and small fires.

Sixteen cannons, two hundred armors, five hundred swords, and two thousand spears. I'm going to tell you, yesterday I sent someone to send a letter to Bohou (Li Guo) overnight. There are so many good things, and there are so many jealous people, especially those yellow-clothed cannons. With this cannon, I'm afraid that they can't capture Jingzhou City? This time, Zheng Siwei will definitely be beautiful! Unfortunately, when we retreated from Gansu, many artillery were not enough to take away. Most of them were destroyed on the spot, and a small number fell into the hands of those Huihui. Otherwise, they would have been so procrastinated under the Jingzhou City for so long!”

"Let's do this, you have sent so many things, and you can't let you go for nothing." Guo Sheng suddenly said, "I will take you to meet Bohou and Cihou (Liu Fangliang), discuss with everyone, and then fight to meet the King of Chuang. This is a good thing. We are now in a corner of Huguang, with both food and equipment shortages. It is best to be able to join forces with General Mo. At present, the generation of Yuezhou is the three generals Li (Guo), Gao (Yigong), and Liu (Fangliang). After everyone has reached an agreement, they will go to Changsha to meet the King of Chuang. The King of Chuang should be very happy when he hears it. By the way, there are some orphans of martyrs in our camp, old, weak, women, children, or wounded and sick. It is a pity for them to join us. Let's see if they can take them away and hide under General Mo..."
Chapter completed!