The battle in the river ran from morning to noon, and the Qing army on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and the Ming army in Guangxi could see clearly. Du Yinxi saw that it was not his navy who was attacked, and he was happy to sit in the mountains to watch the tiger fight. Jiergalang was very happy to see the Ming army defeated.

After hearing the commander report, Ma Jiaolin came back from victory, he immediately smiled at Luo Xiujin, Wu Sangui and others sitting in the tent and said, "Everyone, General Ma is a lucky general of our army. Everyone will follow me to come out of the tent to greet him!"

Ma Jiaolin was born in the Ming army in Shaanxi. Later, after surrendering to the Qing army, he was sent to Huguang to be the general of the navy. Such 25 boys are naturally not favored by Liaodong people such as Luo Xiujin and Wu Sangui. In the past, they had never had a good face in Hanyang, and they had always been the secondiest supply, and they could delay military pay. But now that they have won, even the general Jiergalang has to go out to greet him. These generals had no choice but to follow Jiergalang to leave a big tent.

Ma Jiaolin followed his personal soldiers into the gate. When he saw Jiergalang standing at the entrance of the tent with a bunch of people to greet him, Ma Jiaolin quickly ran a few steps and knelt forward and shouted: "The last general Ma Jiaolin defeated the Ming Navy and captured four Ming Navy gunships. The last general returned to the formation and killed the Ming Navy Admiral Ding Hai! General, this is the head of the enemy chief Ding Hai!"

After Ma Jiaolin said that, he presented Ding Hai's head with both hands. Jiergalang smiled and asked his personal soldiers to take over the head, then stepped forward and helped Ma Jiaolin up with his own hands.

"General Ma, you have made great contributions. Since you have killed the Ming army, I will submit a letter to you as the navy admiral. At the same time, you will report to the court. What is the specific reward for? I will wait for the decree!"

Ma Jiaolin heard that he was promoted from a miscellaneous general to an admiral, which was a three-level promotion! Ma Jiaolin knelt down again and thanked Jiergalang.

Jirgalang was in a good mood. Seeing Ma Xiong kneeling behind Ma Jiaolin, he asked, "Admiral Ma, who is this young man behind you?"

"The general, the adopted son of the last general, was also the leader of the Water Ghost Team last night. It was him who led the team to use gunpowder to blow up the Shenming Army gunboat!"

Jirhalang nodded repeatedly and said with a smile: "Okay! Admiral Ma is really a tiger father without a dog son. Let's leave your position as general to your son!"

Ma Xiong was originally a thousand households. He was very happy to hear Jirgalang say so, so he kowtowed and thanked him quickly. Now he has been promoted to seven or eight levels in a row!

Jirhalang said to Ma Jiaolin: "Admiral Ma, you should immediately learn how to use Ming army artillery, and repair the two damaged ships as soon as possible, and send troops to salvage the artillery on the Ming army's wrecked ships. This kind of artillery is very important to our army! The more artillery is fished out, the greater your contribution, do you know!"

Ma Jiaolin quickly nodded and agreed, saying that he would arrange for man to salvage him later.

Jiergalang turned around and said to the generals around him: "Now I will tell you clearly that the emperor and the regent sent me not to deal with the Ming army in Yueyang, but to attack Wuchang and then go down the river to seize Jiangning! Now listen to my orders! King Pingxi, you will lead your troops as the vanguard, seize Jiayu first, and the others will follow me. Let's cross the river from Jiayu and attack Wuchang!"

The senior generals under Jiergalang knew about the true intentions of his men, but the other intermediate generals did not know. Now, after hearing the general, he realized that the main target of this expedition was the Shenwu court in Nanjing. In the past, these Qing troops heard that the army was strong in combat, and Prince Yu's 200,000 troops were wiped out, so naturally they changed their fear when they heard about the Ming army. But just now, they saw with their own eyes that the arrogant gunships of the Ming army were actually destroyed by more than 100 small boats on their side, and four were captured. For a moment, these generals were full of confidence and shouted to fight to Nanjing and capture Zhu Hongsan alive.

Seeing that morale was available, Jirgalang ordered his men to start preparing and set off for Jiayu tomorrow.

Three days after the Ming army's inland fleet was eliminated, Liu Silai in Wuchang received news of his defeat in front of him.

At first, Liu Silai didn't believe it. This was the first time that the Ming army in Guangdong was wiped out by an established system. However, after a few days, the sailors who fled back from the fleet brought first-hand news, confirming that the inland fleet had been destroyed, and hundreds of officers below the Admiral Ding Hai were all killed in battle.

Liu Silai was shocked when he heard the news. In order to ensure the expedition of Japan, the Navy has transferred all naval ships to Japan. There are only these twelve gun ships on the Yangtze River. Now they are all thrown in Yueyang, how can they defend their Wuchang?

After thinking about it, Liu Silai decided to summon all the senior officials in the city to hear what they should do.

After receiving the news of the Governor General, Hubei governor Xia Yunyi, Hubei governor Zhang Jian, Wuchang governor Xu Fuyuan, Hubei Jinyiwei Qianhu Xu Yong, and Wuchang War Zone admiral Ma Kun all rushed to the Governor's yamen.

Xia Yunyi is Xia Wanchun's father and Chen Zilong's good friend. Originally, Xia Yunyi failed to organize the rebel army to fight against the Qing Dynasty in eastern Zhejiang, and committed suicide. However, when Zhu Hongsan appeared in this time and space, Xia Yunyi did not die. However, as a hard-core anti-Qing faction, Zhu Hongsan naturally wanted to use such a pioneer, and then regain Nanjing, and then sent Xia Yunyi to his hometown to be the governor. The censor Zhang Jian was originally the magistrate of Luoyuan County, Songjiang Prefecture, and Xu Fuyuan was originally a juren of Songjiang. In history, they also committed suicide with the breaking of Songjiang City, but in this time and space, they did not die, and were also sent by Zhu Hongsan to block the knife.

Now the entire Hubei Province has only one prefecture and a few counties in the hands of Zhu Hongsan, so there are not many senior officials, and only ones above the fourth rank.

As the governor of Huguang, Liu Silai also serves as the governor of Hubei. These people are officials he should be in charge of, so after entering the house, these people saluted Liu Silai and then sat down.

"My dear lords, it was a big event on the front line to call you here today! Just three days ago, Admiral Ding's fleet was ambushed by the Qing army in Yueyang and the entire army was wiped out!"

This is a big deal. Zhu Hongsan has not been defeated so badly since the rebellion in Guangdong. Everyone was stunned when they heard this.

Xu Yong, the Jinyiwei Qianhu, looked at everyone in the house and hurriedly clasped his fists and said, "Sir, Master of the Taiwan Strait is right. Admiral Ding's fleet is gone!"

Ma Kun asked from the side: "Where is Ding Hai? Ding Hai hasn't come back?"

"Admiral Ma, Admiral Ding died in battle, and only sailors with less than thirty people escaped back!"

Ma Kun was also very sad after hearing the news. Although his army and the navy were not in the way, the two often fought and the soldiers from both sides often fought together, they were in the military system after all. Now that he heard that Ding Hai was dead, Ma Kun was also sad.

Liu Silai heard the officials in the house talking, like a vegetable market, frowned and shouted, "What are you doing? You are all senior officials, what kind of morality is it to be so noisy now?"

The officials in the room stopped talking when they heard Shangguan’s words.

"Several adults, the Qing army has marched and is about to arrive at Jiayu. Let's discuss and see what to do!"

Ma Kun was the first to stand up and shouted: "Master of the Taiwan Strait, the General of Mo is requesting to fight the Qing army to die, and the General of Mo is to avenge his brothers!"

Xia Yunyi, Zhang Jian, and Xu Fuyuan were originally hard-core anti-Qing factions. After hearing what Ma Kun said, they all expressed their desire to fight the Qing army to the end.

But Liu Silai had a different idea. He was going to want the entire army to retreat to Jiujiang. The reason was very simple. Wuchang did not have an advantage. In the past, he suppressed the Qing army because of the support of the navy. Now the navy is gone, and there are only 20,000 defenders in the city, which is the opponent of the 200,000 Qing army. At the same time, due to the disaster of Zhang Xianzhong and Zuo Liangyu, Wuchang had less than 200,000 people in the city, and the most important materials for defending the city were insufficient. The food in Wuchang City still needs to be transported from Nanchang, so there is no extra capacity to transport the city guarding materials.

So Liu Silai summoned senior officials this time to announce his abandonment of Wuchang and retreat to Jiujiang. However, seeing these officials shouting and killing each one, Liu Silai couldn't say that he would give up Wuchang directly.

"Several adults, there is not enough manpower in the city now, and the materials for defending the city are also in short supply. The most important thing is that there is no navy and our flanks are without protection, so we can easily be surrounded by the Qing army!"

As a hardcore hardcore, Xia Yunyi did not die in East Zhejiang last time, so this time he wanted to die in Wuchang. After hearing Liu Silai's reactionary remarks, he stood up and said, "Mr. Liu, you have been deeply favored by the emperor, how can you be so afraid of death! We will live and die with Wuchang. If it really doesn't work, we will even commit suicide and never take a step back!"

Liu Silai was so angry when he heard Xia Yunyi say this. You, Xia Yunyi, are loyal to the emperor? I am also the emperor's special governor of Huguang. But now there is no need to do anything about the past. The five thousand new troops in Wuchang City are really important. If you retreat to Jiujiang and Ma Rufeng, you can fight. Now you are not a match for the Qing army at all.

As soon as Xia Yunyi finished speaking, another hard-working man named Zhang Jian also stood up and said, "The Master of the Taiwan Strait can escape by himself because he was afraid of death. Xia Guan was already dead in Luoyuan County. It was the emperor who saved Xia Guan. Naturally, this life must be dedicated to the emperor!" Zhang Jian is also a cruel person, and he is even more cruel to the enemy. After the breaking of Luoyuan City, he originally wanted to kill the whole family and young and old, but he did not expect that the Guangdong New Army would come at the critical moment. At this point, Zhang Jian regarded Zhu Hongsan as his life-saving benefactor.

Xia Zhang and the other two were from third-rank provincial high-ranking officials. Xu Fuyuan, the governor of Wuchang, was only a fourth-rank official. He did not dare to say harsh words to Liu Silai, so he could only glar at Liu Silai to express his resentment.

When Liu Silai saw these three people like this, he was so angry that he didn't care about Shangguan Weiyi. He stood up and said, "I am the governor of Huguang. Your Majesty ordered me to governor of Huguang's war. Therefore, I decided to start preparing today and strive to withdraw within three days!"
Chapter completed!