Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 703 Deciding the Battle of Jiangnan
Above the big river, there is a vast mist, and with the sound of creaking and creaking, the swaying sails began to cut through the dense river fog and revealed themselves. Gradually, a group of colossal creatures appeared and changed as the sun rose higher and higher. On the open river.

Song Qingshu fleet.

The peak morale of the Netherlands has more than 2 large and small merchant ships floating in every corner of the world. The number of the British Royal Navy, which rules the world with the Union Jack flag, does not seem to exceed it. But now, Song Qingshu has already approached the peak of the Netherlands, the overlord, from Taiwan Compared with the towering giant trees in Southeast Asia and the Indochina Peninsula, the shipbuilding resources are far from comparable to that of the small Netherlands. With full firepower, now the Far East sea area reaches India, and the number of Chinese ships has reached more than 4000. Song Qingshu's fleet, battleships, transport ships, and supply ships There are more than a thousand ships, and sailors are hired from all over the country, with more than [-] sailors.

At Jinling Port, Shi Lang's speech was not bragging at all.

What Song Qingshu is most afraid of is that Wu Sangui crossed Poyang Lake and invaded Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The army spread like mercury flooding the ground. Song Qingshu, who lacked cavalry mobility, would be passive, and the local regime that had just improved would also rot. I don't know how many years it will take.

Fortunately, Wu Sangui was also afraid. He seemed to have made the mistake of Chen Youliang back then. He didn't make up his mind to fight Yingtian directly. The fighters you have are handed over to others.

At that time, Chen Youliang still tried his best to attack Hongdu City, but Wu Sangui did nothing for more than a month, just waiting in Nanchang, waiting for the good news from Yingtian.

But even if Jinling is lost, Song Qingshu doesn't really care. In one and a half months, he not only transferred back 35 national defense troops from Bamin, but also assembled 120 gunboats as the main force. The country emphasizes democracy, but the army is not yet democratic. The army of the Ming Empire with the fighting power of the modern army is now only loyal to him. As long as Wu Sangui's main army is destroyed, even if Emperor Chongzhen rushes out, he still has the strength to lock him back in.

What's more, Emperor Chongzhen seemed to be calmer and calmer than he imagined!

And there is an old fox Zhou Yanru staring there.

"Marshal, Jiujiang is ahead!"

With a cry of surprise, Song Qingshu's attention was suddenly drawn back, and he suddenly opened the binoculars. In the river fog that had almost dissipated, a blue city slowly came into view.

The mouth of the three rivers, the thoroughfare of seven provinces, thousands of years ago, it was also called Chai Sang, the place where Zhou Yu trained troops, but now, the greatest significance to Song Qingshu here is the ticket to enter Poyang Lake.

More than 200 years ago, Chen Youliang also entered here, but he never walked out of Poyang Lake alive. Looking through the binoculars at the garrison of Wu Sangui's army wandering around on the blue city, Song Qingshu waved his hand unceremoniously.

"attack!"

It was not until [-] that the most powerful British Royal Navy in the world fully formed its strict national naval system, including uniform uniforms, military ranks, and a series of strict military regulations, which can be seen as early as [-]. In [-], Ming Dynasty had the strength to organize a national naval fleet, which sailed as far as Africa. Now Song Qingshu's fleet, inheriting the boiling blood of Zheng He's fleet, is also the fleet with the most sophisticated organizational structure and the highest efficiency at the same time.

As soon as the order was issued, the roaring Horn roared throughout the fleet. Ten battleship cables at the front of the fleet creaked loudly. With the howling wind from the river, these ships were in a semi-surrounded state, completely enclosing Jiujiang City along the river.

"Open the cabin!"

Amidst the roar of the gunner, the iron chains above the two rows of side gun bays were creakingly pulled up, and then the black muzzles were slowly pushed out of the gun bays one by one.

Song Qingshu’s impression of naval battles is either that the aircraft carrier is full of planes flying in the sky, or the giant ship’s heavy artillery. The Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-] has lingered in his mind for a long time. Nowadays, the caliber of naval guns is getting bigger and bigger, although the existing technical conditions have not yet been met. The technology of the breech-loading guns of the Armstrong guns of later generations, but the power of the latest [-]-pounder guns has far surpassed the most advanced Hongyi cannons of this era.

During the roar, the two hundred cannons on the river roared together, and at the same time, the twelve Hongyi cannons on the head of Jiujiang City also tore their fuses, and the roaring shells slammed into each other's heads like meteors.

Hit by the heavy shells, the towering and ancient Jiujiang North City Tower collapsed from top to bottom like the Titan disintegrated. Dozens of tons of rubble poured down the city wall, and then flew out together with Two Hongyi cannons weighing several thousand kilograms.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Jiujiang City was captured by the 33th Division, [-]th Division, and [-]rd Division of Beifu on the follow-up troop carrier. The Wu Army Zuo Daying who guarded Jiujiang fled from the city to Nanchang. The ticket to enter Poyang Lake was in the hands of Song Qingshu At the same time, this door was also closed. Unless his navy was defeated, the navy that Wu Sangui had painstakingly managed for several years would be buried here just like Chen Youliang was back then.

In the early morning of the next day, except for Haidayu, which was a giant transport ship, which was stagnant in the Yangtze River, the remaining 120 large and small battleships entered Poyang Lake one after another. The state capital and the other side occupied Nanchang, and the Wu army in Changyi formally confronted each other.

Only when you really face Song Qingshu can you feel his strength, and go to the shore to watch in person. On the other side, the 120 battleships did not gather together, but stretched from the upstream firewood shed to the downstream Yugan. The Ming army stretched out more than ten miles longer than him.

Moreover, his own fleet of building ships seems to be majestic enough. Considerable Song Qingshu's fleet, each of which is almost a closed water fortress, is not only not timid in size, but also has a flat and steady hull, which is thicker than Wu Jun's building ships. a bit.

Not just ships, after occupying the east bank, the Ming army has always carried out good civil engineering, using sacks to pack sand, and the huge army that went north from Bamin began to pile up fortifications along the riverside near Raozhou and build earth hills Lunbao already has a battleship like a fortress on the water, and if a land battle cannon is built on the shore, its firepower will become extremely terrifying.

"My lord, the bandit ships in the Song Dynasty are in disarray, and there is no formation. Take advantage of this opportunity, the army will come out and attack the army directly. The general is willing to be the vanguard of the army. Please give me an order!"

Following Wu Sangui to patrol the riverside, he can be regarded as one of his generals. The hero Xilu Mayaozi Wang Fuchen, who had surrendered from the Dashun Army, was the first to put down his binoculars and beg loudly.

However, he also put down the binoculars, and under Wu Sangui's bald head, on his handsome face, which was almost comparable to that of King Heguojun in later Qing palace dramas, there was a smile more terrifying and ferocious than an African hyena. , snorted disdainfully.

"You idiot! You only saw the Song bandits' warships scattered around, but you didn't see that they were like a big dragon panning east, and their energy was endless. Once you attacked the Chinese army and didn't go down for a while, the Song boats nearby would be like dragons. The minions are entrenched like that, cutting off my back, and when the time comes to bombard me from all sides, even a ship made of iron will be smashed into a rotten sieve!"

"Besides, what's the rush? Although Song Qingshu is very strong now, he is besieged on all sides, unstable inside and outside, and the Jiangxi aristocratic family is blocking him, supplying hundreds of miles of food, but now we are sitting in Nanchang, food and grass. It is abundant, and Yue Le is now deeply trapped in Sichuan and Yunnan, and he is entangled with that Zhang Xianzhong, we have no worries about the future! Advancing and retreating well! It should be Song Qingshu who is so anxious!"

"This Poyang Lake, who is Chen Youliang and who is Zhu Yuanzhang, it has not yet been decided!" He raised his head arrogantly, Wu Sangui reached out and clasped a melon skin hat with gemstones on his bare forehead,

"My lord, what about us?"

"Didn't he, Song Qingshu, build forts along the river? Let's build them too, and see who consumes more! Wear this king's decree, and go to the nearby counties and counties to catch those muddy legs, and build all the water villages around here, and each camp will strictly guard the city. , Do not attack without authorization, those who disobey the order will be beheaded!"

Now that he has sat and read Song Qingshu for more than a month, dispatched troops and sent generals to this Poyang Lake, holding Zhao Shiang's letter from Jinling Flying Pigeon in his hand, Wu Sangui really decided to drag it to the end, and arrogantly ordered, Immediately after, he took the horse's reins out of the hands of the man, turned over, and among the ashes trampled by his horse's hooves, Wang Fuchen, Li Benshen, Wu Zhimao and Ma Bao and other generals of the Wu army threw their sleeves and knelt down.

"twitter!"

While Wu Sangui was observing the river, Song Qingshu was also observing the other side, but his brows were about to tighten a lot, and Wu Jun on the other side gave him an impression.

So much like myself!
Wu Sangui's warships are arranged a bit like Cao Cao. The towering ships are formed of iron chains. In the towering ship towers, the dark red barbarian cannons also reveal hideous muzzles. Song Qingshu lacks data on the power of Wu Jun's artillery. , but he didn't want to try it with his battleship.

Moreover, in the binoculars, on Wu Sangui's patrolling boat, the patrol soldiers carrying guns on their backs actually had bayonets on the muzzles of their guns. From this point of view, even in terms of tactics, Wu Sangui has also studied his own tactics, and he has a good understanding of this. followed suit.

In the afternoon, there were still a large number of Jiangxi people. The tenants were driven to the riverside, and they also used sacks to pack soil and began to build their earth hills and fortifications. Song Qingshu was worried when he saw this scene.

If it was in the sea, he, Song Liangchen, would have a hundred ways to take Wu Sangui and these small boats with low drafts for a circle in the wind and waves, and finally let them feed the Sea Dragon King, but now it is an inner lake, and Poyang Lake is said to be small, but it is not small. It is not too big, and there is not so much room for maneuver. It is the main battlefield of this building ship. On the contrary, my sea ship with a very deep waterline is not so easy to use. If I want to attack, I can only resist Wu Sangui's attack. Artillery attack.

"Who is Zhu Yuanzhang? If it's Chen Youliang, I really can't tell!"

Putting down the binoculars, Song Qingshu couldn't help shaking his head in embarrassment. This determined that the battle in Jiangnan was not as easy as imagined.

(End of this chapter)