On the water surface, the armored warships are temporarily invincible. Therefore, once they are activated, nothing can stop them. With the armored warships opening the way, the subsequent five large ships also safely approached the gates of the inner city river channel.

At this time, some city guards began to gather on the avenues on both sides of the straits and were running towards Li Ming's fleet.

The iron fences of the river gates are made of pig iron as thick as a baby's arms. In this era, no one can force a breakthrough. Therefore, the city guards are not in a hurry to chase them. In their opinion, if they want to force themselves to break out on a ship in the inner city, they are undoubtedly seeking death.

However, no one of them expected that the armored warship would have such great power. After a brief acceleration in the river, the armored warship left the big ship behind far behind and rushed towards the iron fence in front of him alone.

How could the cast iron cast in this era be the opponent of the high-quality steel that Li Ming personally directed and smelted? Although this gray-mouthed pig iron is very hard, it is very brittle. When it encounters hard and tough steel, its inherent disadvantages are revealed.

A loud "bang" sounded loudly, and the iron armored ship and the iron fence collided. The city wall above the shock fell down, and the thick iron fence could not withstand this level of impact. With a "slam" sound, it was knocked down and fell into the river one after another. The waterway, the first in the imperial city, was easily broken through by Li Ming.

Seeing this situation, Li Ming, who was standing on the second ship, immediately let go of his worries. He was very worried, because in comparison, the ironclad ship was much smaller than the wooden boat he was riding. Even if the ironclad ship could break through the iron fence, there might be some fences left on the river. In this way, he would not be able to get through with the other wooden boats behind him. However, he did not expect that the steelmaking technology of this era was worse than he thought. He had never seen such a crisp gray cast iron before, but fortunately, otherwise, his guards would have to fight out of the city gate.

Under the opening of the ironclad ship, there was no obstacle in the narrow river channel that could block Li Ming's fleet. On the shore, Li Song might not dare to make too much noise, so there were only a few thousand city guards chasing them, and these people were not in Li Ming's eyes at all, so Li Ming, who was eager to leave the city, didn't bother to turn around and cause trouble for them.

Li Ming's escape this time was not as embarrassed as the last time. In front of the powerful power of the ironclad ship, any obstacles were removed. Therefore, on the large ship behind it, the guards only needed to row the oars in their hands. Therefore, in a very short time, all the ships of Li Ming's fleet began to sail on the wide river channel of Songjiang. In this place, nothing could stop Li Ming from leaving.

Looking at the Songjiang River in front of him, Li Ming felt a sense of a wide sea and letting fish swim. When he looked back at Nanguo City, which was gradually moving away, he couldn't help but feel reluctant. After all, during a month here, Li Ming tried his best to manage this country. No matter what purpose he was for, he devoted all his enthusiasm for work here. Therefore, when he was forced to leave, he felt very uncomfortable. He knew that after leaving this time, he would never come back alone. Next time he saw the tall city gate of Nanguo City, he was when he led a large army to attack. Li Ming hoped that the time would not be too long.

When the Songjiang River is now very busy, although the river is wide, it still looks a bit too narrow under the crowded ships. Now this passage is already a route to enter the imperial city. After Li Ming opened up the trade in the imperial city, the increasingly deserted Songjiang River finally ushered in a large fleet again.

Now, Li Ming's fleet is struggling to pass through such a river. When he left the city, Li Ming did not expect such a situation. After all, when they came, there were not many transport ships on the wide river. But now, in less than two months, the changes here will be so great.

As the fleet continued to travel westward, more and more ships in front of them became. Many times, they had to wait behind the ship in front and quietly wait for the other fleets to pass by. Therefore, this state of stopping and walking greatly reduced their speed, making Li Ming feel a little anxious. At the same time, a premonition of danger began to fill his mind again.

Li Ming was very sensitive to his intuition and trusted him very much. Whenever this feeling occurred, danger was often not far from him. Therefore, when he was forced to wait in line again, Li Ming finally couldn't help but stand up and asked A to go out to find out what was going on ahead.

It is always very difficult to wait anxiously, so Li Ming is sitting on the wide building boat at this moment. Lin Long is eager to recover from his injuries and is sitting quietly in the cabin to exercise his skills. So now there is not even a person around him who can give him advice, which makes him feel more and more uneasy.

Finally, he couldn't stand the atmosphere, so he rose up and found several captains of the personal guards, and asked them to lead the team members to scatter around to observe the surrounding situation. Now Li Ming has already developed a habit. Every time I go to a place, I always have to investigate the surrounding situation in detail, so that he can avoid the assassination he had always encountered before.

After accepting Li Ming's order, A and more than 100 guards stayed on the big ship where Li Ming was, while others were led by the captains of each team and got off the boat, rode horses and went around to inquire about the news.

This time, the situation of ship blockage on the river surface seemed to be very serious. Li Ming stopped here for two hours, and the ships in front had not moved yet, which made Li Ming couldn't help but think of traffic jams in modern society. At that time, there were only a few hours of traffic jams. However, is it really so busy on Songjiang now? He always opened the trade in the imperial city, but the actual trade volume is not larger than last year. So why are there so many ships now? Sitting on the boat building, Li Ming always felt that something was wrong.

As soon as the wooden door of the boat building rang, Jia Yi hurriedly walked in and reported to Li Minghui with a solemn look on his face: "Master, the situation is very bad. I guess the emperor has already set up obstacles on the river channel, so this situation occurs. I rode a horse and ran a long way along the coast, and finally found that there was an Imperial Army camp stationed there about five miles ahead. Moreover, looking from the high river embankment to the river surface, the place where the Imperial Army was stationed was the source of the blockage of the ship. On the river surface there, it seemed that some obstacles had been placed in the Imperial Army. In order to see more clearly, I quietly approached the camp from the underworld, but I didn't expect to be discovered immediately. Fortunately, my horse was fast, otherwise there would be a fierce battle."

After listening to the report, Li Ming fell into deep thought. It seemed that Li Song had put a lot of effort into dealing with him this time. However, he had such a big move, why didn't he get any news at all? Logically speaking, although the Imperial Guard was the emperor's personal guard, he had already installed many confidants in it. The Imperial Guard had such a big move, and they should notify him. In addition, his eyes and ears in the imperial city have basically taken shape in this month. If Li Song wants to deal with him, there is no reason why he can't get the news. Could it be that his people are so incompetent? In the end, he would have to ask a little eunuch to notify him of the news? If this is the case, he would be too failure.

The most urgent task at the moment is to understand what is on the river ahead. Generally speaking, ordinary obstacles cannot stop the ironclad ships, but so many merchant ships in front of you are a big problem. You can't order the ironclad ships to attack them. In this way, your reputation will be completely destroyed.

Therefore, the best solution now is to abandon the ship. Since Li Song came up with this method to prevent himself from leaving the river, there must be something he cannot deal with in the front. If he forcibly breaks through, it will cause great casualties to his side. Using war horses to circumnavigate on the land is a good way. Now, he is waiting for the news brought back by his personal guards. If they do not find any danger, then these ships will have to be abandoned. As for the iron armored ship, Li Ming believes in Li

Song would treat it as a god but dare not destroy it. After all, the power it showed was too great. As long as Li Song had a little bit of mind, he would order people from the Ministry of Works to study imitation. Therefore, Li Ming was not worried about the fate of the ironclad ship, and just pretended that it was temporarily stored in Li Song. When he needed it, he would just take it back quietly. This should be very easy. Li Ming was even less worried about Li Song's imitation. In this era, no one could imitate this ironclad ship.

With a decision, Li Ming immediately ordered the remaining guards to prepare for abandoning the ship. He came to the cabin and told her about the decision.

In less than two hours, all the guards who went out to inquire about the news came back. After the gathering of the news, Li Ming found that there were iron armored troops on the roads of Biquan Island, which were closely guarding. It seemed that Li Song was determined to keep Li Ming here.

But Li Ming was not worried about these. Although the Iron Armored Army was strong, it was impossible to block all roads. In that case, the troops would be too dispersed. As long as Li Ming did not encounter more than 5,000 troops, he would not suffer a great loss. Even the Iron Armored Army had no more than 2,000 troops. It was obvious that the Iron Armored Army had only 30,000 in total, which was Li Song's life-saving family, so he would never send them all out, at most 10,000. On such a vast field, it was impossible for the Iron Armored Army to block Li Ming's breakthrough. Therefore, returning to the island from land was a relatively safe way.

Li Ming jumped onto the ironclad ship, discharged all the boiling water and steam in the boiler, and ordered his guard to bring the remaining kerosene on it, and then came out to lock the iron cover on the upper deck. Although he didn't know if the skilled craftsmen in the Ministry of Works could open the lock Li Ming brought from modern society, Li Ming still didn't want them to break in easily.

At this time, the personal guards were ready. After unloading the war horses from the boat, they guarded Li Ming and Lin Long, who was sitting in the carriage, and galloped towards the space they had discovered when they were exploring just now.

This place was originally under the jurisdiction of Linzhou, and Linzhou officially announced its loyalty to Li Song, so it is actually Li Song's territory.

However, there were not many local garrisons in Linzhou. According to the information Li Ming received, there were only 30,000 troops, so in such a large area, Li Ming’s two thousand men were not easily surrounded and annihilated. Li Ming chose land to obtain greater tactical maneuvering space.

Because there are many rivers in this area and most of the transportation is by water, there are only a few dirt roads on the land, just like Li Ming and others walking now, it is very dilapidated. The road is not only narrow, but also bumpy, which makes Li Ming and others with huge base cars difficult to walk and the march speed is very slow. However, the base cars are an important thing in Li Ming's era of Zhenxing, and he must not leave it here, so he must transport it back no matter what.

The sky gradually became darker, the sun had set, the nights in early summer were very cool, and the sky was emitting bright moonlight, which brought great convenience to Li Ming and others who were rushing all night. In order to avoid contact with Li Song's troops, Li Ming chose a remote country road to sneak quietly. Although it would be more difficult to walk on the base car here, after hanging four war horses, he could still barely drag and keep up with the pace of progress.

Since abandoning the ship, they have been walking for ten hours. Even the guards are all extremely persevering, even the war horses they carry are trained strictly, fat and strong, and they can't stand it after walking for such a long time. Therefore, when they passed a village and came to the endless wheat field, Li Ming gave the order to camp.

At this time, camping did not require anything special, and at this critical moment, Li Ming did not care about protecting the wheat field in front of him. After trampling the wheat under him, the guards lay on it and fell asleep quietly.

Li Ming got into the carriage. After asking about Lin Long's injuries, he came to the rear cabin, opened the radar warehouse on the roof, and released the on-board radar. Although this kind of radar could not detect too small targets, it should be able to display it if it was a brigade's iron armored army. Therefore, in case of precaution, Li Ming still carefully investigated.

Li Ming's caution really worked. On the radar screen, a bright spot was flashing more than 20 kilometers away from them. Although the movement was slow, Li Minghai City quickly judged that the bright spot was moving in their direction.
Chapter completed!