Time comes in the blink of an eye.

(Okay, it's 7pm, every two hours, and the end of the fifth day is fiveam the next morning.)

Just as the battle in Suiyuan became more and more intense, and Yuan Mei and his family were in a hurry to get into the room, a fleet of three salt ships had quietly crossed the Yangtze River in the wind and snow. Then, under the cover of the vast night, they entered the Jiajiang River waterway from the south of Jiangxinzhou, and stopped the boat and anchored at the Beihekou near Bailuzhou.

Bailuzhou is the place where "two waters are divided" mentioned by Li Bai in "Climbing the Phoenix Platform of Jinling". In the Ming Dynasty, it was the villa of Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan. Now, the only thing that has been abandoned is left is the lush grass.

From the middle of the Ming Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there were seven major floods here. Each time it was flooded with a vast ocean, so no one lived there. Although it was ranked among the "Forty Scenic Spots of Jinling", only those literati and poets who were nostalgic about the past would come during the day. At night, they would not even see a ghost.

As soon as the three salt ships stopped, the hatch on the deck was opened. Nearly a hundred soldiers from the North Navy Special Operations Battalion, carrying weapons and various equipment, walked out of the cabin where they originally loaded with salt.

Each of them was wearing black and gray combat uniforms from head to toe, with a tactical vest with various accessories on their outer cover, a black and gray semi-circular helmet on their heads, and a heavy bag in their hands wearing gloves. The most eye-catching thing was the mask painted with skull patterns on their faces, and the armband embroidered with a roaring tiger head embroidered on their arms.

The Songjiang Gang led by Wei San was already shocked when he first met these people two days ago. At this moment, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the lights were floating, and I still felt frightened.

The cooperation between Songjiang Gang and Beihai Town has been taking place for a day or two. Many of them have seen the Beihai Army on board outside the country and their weapons and equipment. But this is the first time I have seen this.

Five years ago, Wang Yuanfang had a sudden idea of ​​trying to build a special team dominated by the Saurons because of the "Battle of Hunchunling". Zhao Xin also cooperated with this.

In fact, it is not just Wang Yuanfang. Whether it is Liu Sheng, Deng Fei or other time travelers in the army, they all have great high hopes for this army, striving to build this group of "Sioreast Tigers" into all-round warriors of the 18th century. It feels so good to ravage the enemies of the 18th century with the equipment tactics of the 21st century!

He spared no expense in training, and his equipment was the top-notch goods that Zhao Xinneng bought, and even the highest treatment in the North Navy. Let's put it that way, the weapons and equipment cost of more than 300 people in the Special Forces Battalion alone is comparable to the two Armored regiments of the North Navy.

This army wearing tiger-headed armbands made its debut in the Battle of Beihai Town to capture Batavia. After receiving more than half a year of training in tropical jungle, they rushed into blood to kill Württemberg mercenaries as soon as they came up, causing the Dutch to be unable to defend and had to surrender.

Immediately afterwards, some of them followed Zhao Xin to Europe and participated in the rescue of Louis XVI. Then, they were governed locally, and with just over 30 people, they made the tens of thousands of British troops siege in the city full of trouble and exhausted to deal with it.

Nowadays, in various sultanate countries in West Java and the Chinese territory of Borneo, there is a legend that King Zhao has a demon army under him. It is said that these people look like skeletons and look like tigers. They hide at night and can take human life invisibly, and even eat blood and eat people, especially like to eat red-haired ghosts.

When these legends were brought back to Beihai Town by the soldiers stationed in the North Sea, the young travelers gave the special operations camp the nickname "Soren Demon Army". As expected, Zhao Xin was naturally the Great Demon King of Sauron.

This time, the second company of the Special War Battalion came to Jiangning. He was originally sent to Shandong to carry out bandit suppression missions. After the Northern Navy captured Qingzhou Prefecture and Laizhou Prefecture the previous year, due to the strict suppression policy of Bagua Sect, a considerable number of Bagua Sects hid in the Yishan area in the southern part of Qingzhou Prefecture.

These people soon merged with the bandits on the mountain. With the secret support of the Qing government and some gentry, they appeared in rural towns, destroyed the initial establishment of the regime in Beihai Town, intercepted and killed the work teams and material transportation teams that went to the countryside to measure the land, and even disturbed the surrounding areas of Linqu County, which made Kong Shaoan very immense.

The problem is that the Northern Navy's current military strength on the Shandong Peninsula is quite tight. In addition to confronting the Qing army across the river on the south bank of the Yellow River in Wuding Prefecture, the main force is also in the new city, Changshan and Zibo in the eastern part of Jinan Prefecture. As a result, the garrisons in each county in Jiaodong are at most one company, with only one platoon. Although the recruitment plan this year is very smooth, the training of recruits for half a year has just begun.

Kong Shaoan and Sheng Haizhou jointly asked for help from the General Staff. As a result, there was a problem in Jiangnan within two days, and it was still the kind of person who was anxious.

The soldiers from the special operations camp on the deck came to the deck with the soldiers from the three boats, and there were more than a dozen people more than one person tall, about the thickness of a large water tank. Because the space on the deck was limited, only one could be opened on each boat first.

The Cao Gang members on the deck were very curious about this and surrounded them. The people from the Special Forces Camp had brought these packages onto the ship, and they all thought it was weapons and ammunition. But now they discovered that it was a big thing like a leather object, but it looked wrinkled and not at all.

Then, a soldier took out a strange box about a foot square, connected a black hose, and inserted the other end into an interface on the leather. After a while, the soldier pressed a certain position on the box, and then heard a crisp "ding dong" sound, followed by a "sizzling" sound, and the huge leather actually expanded rapidly.

When the sailors of the Songjiang Gang saw this scene, they were shocked. Looking at the swelling appearance of the "skin", Wei San said in surprise: "This, this, this, this, this is a ship?"

"Yes, it's a ship."

The answer to him was an officer from the Special Forces Battalion. Because he didn't wear a helmet and only had a mask, it could be seen that this man had a wide Mongol face, slender eyes, and two eyebrows raised like an eagle's wings. This person was no one else, but Wen Dai, who was promoted to the commander of the second company of the North Navy Special Forces Battalion not long ago.

"Be good at it! Prince Zhao's personal soldiers are really amazing!" Wei San sighed with emotion.

In the early morning of four days ago, he was woken up from his sleep by his confidant and told him to receive news from Beihai Town, asking him to immediately mobilize three thousand-stone inland boats and quickly go to Dongtai's Basin Tea Farm to pick up a group of people, and then rush to Jiangning.

A few days ago, Mianen inspected the Jiangnan Water Camp and the forts in various places with great fanfares. How could Wei San, the boss of the Songjiang Gang, not know? He was sure that Wang Changsheng's orders were probably related to this matter. In order to show his loyalty, Wei San, who had not fought or killed for several years, decided to go there himself. When he met Wang Changsheng himself, he was sure that something big happened and the Qing court wanted to arrest Yuan Mei.

Today is different from the past. The Northern Navy has even won Sheng Kyoto, and you can enter the pass by one step; Shandong accounts for half, and Guangdong and Guangxi are also starting to fight. When will the world change owners depend on the mood of the Prince Zhao.

After Wang Changsheng talked to him, he took a few subordinates to Yangzhou on the fast ship, while Wei San led the fleet and headed straight to Jiangning without stopping. Thanks to him following him, he was struggling with friendship and stuffing money along the way, so he passed the checkpoints and checked the officers and soldiers without any danger.

After more than half an hour of busyness, all fifteen black assault boats that had been filled with air were fully charged and pushed into the water, tied cables to the side of the ship to prevent them from being washed away by the river. The people from the Special Operations Camp took out the electric paddles they carried from the cabin and went down to the assault boat for installation. The distance from Beihekou to Qingliangmen is eight or nine miles. If they all rely on paddles to go back and forth, it would be too delayed.

Every time they loaded a soldier waiting on the salt boat, they walked down the assault boat along the rope ladder set up on the side of the boat. Although the number of people approved for each assault boat was 6 to 7, the number of people in the special battle camp could only sit four. Each of them was not counted as their weight, and the total weight of various equipment on their bodies was nearly forty kilograms, which was actually equivalent to six people sitting on each boat.

In fact, not all the Second Company had to sneak into the city. They would leave one line outside the city to be responsible for the response. In addition, they would cooperate with Wei San and others to take down the ambassador's office in Longjiang Pass and occupy Longjiang Ferry.

Longjiang Pass is located at the mouth of the Sanban River northwest outside Yifengmen, connecting the Yangtze River and the Outer Qinhuai River. It is actually the "Xiaguan" that later Nanjing people are well-known to them. It was first established in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It was built to prevent water from happening and built water in the lower reaches of Longjiang Bay. Because the river surface here is narrow and the wind and waves are small, it is convenient for boats to be docked and boats radiating. It has been an important water and land transportation hub in Jiangning City for hundreds of years.

In the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming court set up a bamboo and wood farm in Longjiang Pass, which specialized in taxation on bamboo, wood, firewood and charcoal. By the Qing Dynasty, Longjiang Pass became one of the seven major tax customs in Jiangsu Province, with twelve tax offices under the Tax Office, which was under the management of Jiangning Weaving.

On the way, Wen Dai and his officers, after listening to Wei San's introduction to Jiangning, unanimously agreed that Guanjin was so important, that the Qing army guarding Jiangning City would definitely defend strictly, and there were more than a dozen Qing army's fast ships there in Longjiang Ferry, and they had to divide a group of troops to annihilate them and control the ferry.

Because no one from the Special Forces Camp has ever come to Jiangnan, Wang Changsheng had repeatedly warned Wen Dai that even if he rescued Yuan Mei and his family out of the city, he would use three thousand-stone salt ships to rush through the Jiangyin defense line with more than 200 cannons, which was a dream. What they had to do was rely on sufficient weapons and ammunition to defend the dangerous areas of Shizishan and Xiaguan until their fleet smashed the blockade line of Fushan and Jiangyin Fortress Groups and then evacuated by boat.

When the last assault boat's paddle hanger was also installed, Wen Dai checked his equipment again and told the platoon leader who left behind: "Lapini, it depends on your place in Longjiang Pass. Don't make too much noise. If a fire breaks out, we will be in trouble."

Rapini rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "You are not at ease with me when I do things?"

Wen Dai said in a deep voice: "You and I don't know yet? I'm not worried about the Qing army. If you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of something."

The reason why he was worried was that from Shangguan to Xiaguan was the largest bamboo and coal trading market in the Jiangnan region. According to Wei Sansuo, there were 13 gangs on the riverside market, including timber business operations, and dozens of wooden shops.

You should know that the construction materials of this year are mainly bricks and tiles, from the construction of palaces, ships, rivers and seawalls; from the construction of houses and gardens, making furniture, and keeping warm in life, so there is a huge demand for bamboo and wood.

Wei San said that all the rafts and bamboo rafts transporting bamboo and wood from the upstream must be subject to customs duties at Longjiang Pass before they can be sold, and then transported by Hui merchants to various places in the north and south. Therefore, the shore cargo yards and bamboo and wood in the river in Xiaguan have accumulated like mountains all day long, and fireworks are strictly prohibited within the market and surrounding areas.

"I try my best, but I can't guarantee it. If the officers and soldiers are anxious to jump over the wall, then I can't do anything."

"You." Wen Dai shook his head helplessly.

Both of them joined the Northern Navy five years ago. They were trained together, went to Nanyang to fight the Dutch together, and went to France with Zhao Xin together, and knew each other's tempers well. After so many years of joining the army, Rapini still looked like he was so stupid that he was not worthy of being beaten.

On the other hand, Wei San, who was about to sneak into the city with Wen Dai and the others, was also instructing those who stayed behind: "You all remember what I said. In the future, King Zhao will be in the world. Whether we can be rich and powerful? It depends on this incident! If anyone dares to bend the trumpet (the matter is broken), don't blame me for turning against others!"

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "San brother, don't worry. Our brothers have always been Banban's sixty-fourth, so you will never be good at stealing water."

Several subordinates patted their chests to express their loyalty. When Wei San arrived on the assault boat where Wen Dai was, they bowed farewell to the side of the ship together.

Well, although Wei San always looks reckless, he is actually a person who is "smart as sharp as 96". Otherwise, he would not have spent three years fighting the Suzhou Gang bowed his head and admitted defeat, and tied the Songjiang Gang and Beihai Town so closely.

After working with the Intelligence Bureau for many years, Wei San's vision is no longer limited to a corner of the south of the Yangtze River, but is placed on the entire canal, the entire canal, and even the future of canal transportation.

In his opinion, once Zhao Xin won the world, the canal transportation that lasted for hundreds of years would definitely be abolished. The Cao Gang, which seems to be a big tree but is actually dependent on the imperial government, will definitely decline.

Unlike other Caogang branches that did not know Beihai Town, Wei San knew the terrifying capacity and speed of the large iron ship. At the same time, Zhao Xin was not worried about the canal making trouble without the canal. The territory as large as the outside of the pass and Nanyang has been built. Not to mention the placement of tens of thousands of canal workers and sailors, millions of people are just a wave. Whether it is Xin'an or Lao'an, who dares to disobey, bet on the large iron ship to be a wasteland reclamation every minute.

Wei San did not want to rely on his cooperation with the Ministry of Trade, but only became a rich man. He wanted to become an official and shine his family, so that those scholars who looked down on him could see that there were heroes among the grassroots.

Just like Wang Changsheng and Xu Dayong, they were just poor fishermen on Chongming Island before, but they were both hot officials. When Zhao Xin entered the capital and sat in the dragon court, an earl would probably be indispensable. He dare not count, but he could win the hereditary Yunqiwei.
Chapter completed!