Liu Liangzuo's flagship suffered a severe blow. After raising the banner of retreat, he fled west by boat.

In the Qing Navy, there were endless sounds of knocking on the gong, but it was too late to withdraw the troops by the sound of the gold medal.

The Ming army's centipede ship was a clutch, and the Qing army was unable to turn for a while. It was entangled by the Ming army and then fought fiercely. Only seventy or eighty two hundred warships fled to Dantu Town east of Zhenjiang, and most of the rest were lost in the middle of the river.

The Qing army warships were either destroyed and silent by the Ming army or captured by the Ming army. Thousands of Liu's navy soldiers died and surrendered. The river was full of driftwood and corpses.

The Ming army warships were tall, and they could look down on the Qing army warships on the deck, and the Qing army on the deck had no place to hide. Therefore, the Ming army soldiers shot and killed the Qing army below from the top deck and bombarded the Qing army on the deck with grenades. The Qing army was evasive and were either shot to death, bombarded or forced to carry water.

Many Qing army warships were captured by the Ming army because of heavy casualties and heavy losses on the ship, and the sailors were unable to control the warships.

However, the Ming army suffered great losses, with more than ten warships burning down, and more than ten warships suffered severe damage, and even the five gunboats each suffered varying degrees of damage.

On the south bank, Mandahai saw the Qing navy retreating, and was furious and wanted to move forward several times, but was stopped by the Yangtze River in front of him.

On the south bank, in addition to the artillery array, Mandahai also has more than 10,000 elite soldiers. He dared to guarantee that as long as Zhao Zamao dared to go to the south bank, he could beat Zhao Zamao's shit out, but at the moment he could only watch the navy fail.

"Kill the Qing dog!" The Ming soldiers roared on the river.

Various warships chased the fleeing Qing navy into the northern passage. At this time, the naval guns covered the sandbank again. Wang Deshun led more than ten warships and rushed directly to the sandbank.

The Qing army defenders on the sandbank suffered heavy losses in the artillery battle. Now that the Qing navy was defeated, the sandbank was bombarded again, the Qing army above immediately collapsed.

"Kill the Qing dog!" rushed to the edge of the sandbank, and the ship board was opened. The Ming soldiers on the deck directly picked up their weapons and jumped into the water. While roaring, they rushed towards the sandbank. Behind them, the Ming soldiers' warships were aimed at the sandbank, and shells passed over the heads of the Ming soldiers, splashing mud pillars on the beach, destroying the sporadic obstructions of the Qing army.

At dusk, the water war ended.

The Ming army occupied Shazhou, and the navy chased to Dantu Town, east of Zhenjiang. The remnants of the Qing navy retreated into Zhenjiang. The Ming army finally returned.

On the river, there were burning wrecks of warships and cruise ships everywhere. The Ming navy salvaged items and rescued the wounded.

During the entire process of the Qing army on the south bank, they fired three rounds of cannons and witnessed the entire water battle, Mandahai was completely stunned.

He set up a pocket formation, which originally meant that the navy commanded the Ming army warships into the southern channel, and then the Shazhou Fort, the South Bank Fort, and the Qing Navy encircled and suppressed Zhao Zamao's navy from three sides, but now the navy was defeated and the Shazhou Fort was also lost.

In this way, Zhao Zamao opened the waterway to Zhenjiang, and from Chongming to Zhenjiang for more than 500 miles, both sides of the Yangtze River will be threatened by Zhao Zamao.

Although the Qing army had a cannon formation on the south bank, the cannons were inconvenient to move. Ming army ships appeared near Dantu Town and fired guns to bombard the Qing army camps to provoke. The Qing army was furious and could not help but be helpless.

They had strong troops and were not afraid of Zhao Zamao on land, but the navy was defeated, but Zhao Zamao in the water had no choice.

In the next few days, the Ming navy army several times, after all, Zhenjiang fired artillery to provoke the Qing army, and even made a stunt. They landed on the shore and challenged the Qing army's defenses, attacking the shore and county towns.

This made Mandahai extremely angry and could only continue to mobilize troops to return to the front line of the Yangtze River.

In Zhenjiang City, in the hall, Mandahai was thunderous and thunderous. The Qing generals on both sides all bowed their heads and lowered their hands, while Liu Liangzuo and Zu Zerun were kneeling in the middle.

"It's unreasonable! Jiang Fang has been operating for four years and the navy has been established for three years. You actually asked Zhao Za to approach Zhenjiang, so how can I explain to the court?" Mandahai cursed.

In recent years, the Qing army has made great efforts in river defense and coastal defense, and has invested so much that it has even affected the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's cavalry and infantry army.

If it were in the past, the Qing army had already swept across Huguang, but the Qing Dynasty had limited financial resources. In recent years, in order to prevent Zhao Zamao's attack, part of the military expenditure was allocated to the navy and for the construction of forts, so many green camp soldiers did not even have cloth armor, but only gave a gray cloth jacket and a hat.

Now the Manchu Qing Dynasty sacrificed so much and invested a lot of money to build the navy, as well as the Jiangfang who had been operating for several years, was actually defeated by Zhao Ming. How could Fan Wencheng feel that Mandahai, who was in charge of the Jiangfang?

If the Ming army attacked Zhenjiang and cut off the canal transportation, the Qing court would be furious, and Mandahai would probably be held accountable again.

"Prince, the slave has fought to the death. It's really because the pirate artillery is too sharp." Liu Liangzuo knew that he had to defend himself at this time.

Zu Zerun also said: "Prince, the pirate's gunship is the same as the artillery. When the navy defeated, the turret could not stand. The slave wanted to keep the green mountains and not be afraid of burning firewood, so that he could still serve the Qing Dynasty in the future, so that he could live a life of silence."

Mandahai was furious and stepped forward and kicked Zu Zerun and Liu Liangzuo over, "Dog slave, are you shameless!"

When the water war broke out in the Yangtze River, Zhu Yihai and others were in urgent consultation outside Hangzhou city and in the Ming army camp.

After reporting to Mandahai's return to the Yangtze River, Zhu Yihai began to attack Hangzhou City. After a few days, the results were minimal, but the casualties were very serious.

In the dark night, the sky was drizzling. In Zhu Yihai's handsome tent, many generals stared at the sand table with heavy expressions.

Zhu Yihai said annoyedly: "According to the scouts, Mandahai transferred another Qing army from Huzhou to the north. The Qing army north of Hangzhou was less than 30,000. The 40,000 Qing army in the direction of Ningguo was also trapped by Li Chengdong in Wenji Mountain. This was an excellent opportunity for Gu to capture Hangzhou, but several attacks failed to shake the city defense of Hangzhou, but instead suffered thousands of soldiers. If this continued, the army would not be able to capture for a long time and the soldiers were exhausted. Not only would Bo'an take the risk of restraining Mandahai's efforts to waste, but the army would also have the danger of repeating the same mistakes."

Everyone was silent when they heard the words. The old general Zhang Mingzhen said in a deep voice: "The city of Hangzhou is high and thick, the Qing army in the city is sufficiently strong, and the food and grass can be eaten for one year. If you attack according to the current method, it may be difficult to break through Hangzhou."

The Zhejiang Army must take advantage of the Mandahai being restrained by Zhao Ming to quickly seize Hangzhou, otherwise the Zhejiang Army's battle to restore Hangzhou may fail again.

Zhu Yihai frowned and said, "Do you guys have other strategies?"

Wu Zhaosheng sighed, "I tried to dig the tunnel. Yesterday, the tunnel was discovered by Qing dogs in the city, and they exploded the tunnel and poured water on the river, losing hundreds of brothers."

The tent was speechless for a while, and Fang Guoan, who had been gloomy for a while, suddenly gritted his teeth in anger, "Your Highness, I have a plan."

Zhu Yihai raised his eyebrows and said happily: "What are the plans for the general? You can speak quickly!"

Fang Guoan had a gloomy face and was silent for a while and said: "Your Highness, it has been raining for days, and the water levels of Qiantang River, Fuchun River, and Dongtiao River have risen. The army can build dams upstream to block the water, and build earth dikes downstream. When a small tide occurs, the sea water flows back into the river, pull out the upstream soil bags, blow up the dam, and flood Hangzhou."
Chapter completed!