And for the same reason, in the lower reaches of two rivers, there are often cases where two rivers cross each other.

This is also one of the reasons why Mai Ke considered the two together when formulating the strategic plan for the decisive battle between the two rivers.

Therefore, for the cities along the way, the basic strategy is to watch their actions!

If they dare to stop the Heavenly Army, then you are welcome and resolutely destroy it!

If they honestly guard themselves, then the Celestial Army will open the net and let them go.

The most welcome thing for the Celestial Army was that they would raise the city and surrender, so that the Celestial Army would take over the city, connect it with the base area in Guangxi, and officially incorporate it into the administrative system of the Celestial Kingdom, including the military protection system.

The army marched eastward, and none of the four county-level cities it passed through at the beginning dared to trouble the Heavenly Army, including Fengkai County, Yunan County, Chunqing County, and Yun'an County. Among them, Fengkai County was the happiest, and simply surrendered to the Heavenly Army, becoming the first county-level city in the history of Guangdong to surrender to Guangxi.

Mai Ke and others also simply put Fengkai County under the jurisdiction of our state government, and Sven was still in Wuzhou, and he personally came over to arrange various affairs.

By the time the Heavenly Army moved to the next coastal city, all the affairs of Fengkai County had been arranged.

The main thing was the addition of a regiment of the Celestial Army, and in this period, special protection was given to the prefectural orders of the affairs of this time.

After four counties, in front of it is Zhaozhou, the first prefecture-level city in Guangdong!

This place is no stranger to Mai Ke, because he has fought fiercely with the third uncle of Mrs. Ning Ningrui's second grandfather's family here!

That guy is the biggest obstacle for Serenity to take over the patriarch.

His name is Jianingling, and he is the third son of Jingrui's second grandfather, and Jingrui also calls him the third uncle.

In order to compete for the inheritance of the head of the family, he used all the means to force Jingrui into the Black Dragon Pond and destroy the corpse.

He was later captured by Mai Kesheng and is still imprisoned in the prison system of Heaven.

For this kind of people who endure cannibalism for selfish gain. Mai Ke hated it deeply, and he would never be soft when punished.

This place in Zhaozhou originally also had the power to wear goofs, but later after the Black Dragon Pond Fortress was built, the Qing army's naval divisions attacked it many times, except for two deliberate attempts to put it in. Hardly a single attack was successful.

As a result, these sailors of the Qing army took their anger out on the boat gang stationed in Zhaozhou.

Because there is no solid defensive system here, after the Qing army encircled and suppressed it many times, in order to preserve its strength, it withdrew into the Black Dragon Pond fortress.

Now, the sailor stationed here is the Manchu general Peng Yulin, who has gone to great lengths to establish a new sailor since the last time he accompanied the governor of Liangguang to participate in the purge and failed. Coming from Gwangju, although they did not try to break through the fortress again, they built a defensive line outside the fortress to prevent the Celestial Army from attacking the Black Dragon Pond Fortress at the beginning of the day, going down the river to the east, and capturing Gwangju.

He always believed that the Qing army had eliminated the Heavenly Army several times but all of them ended in failure. was the greatest threat to Manchu rule.

Therefore, he built the iron locks on the section of the Xijiang River in front of Zhaozhou every day and the fortifications on both sides of the river. More importantly, the purchase and construction of new division ships and new weapons.

Therefore, the strength in Gwangdong and Gwangju also spared no effort to support him.

In his opinion, the defense of the Zhaozhou River section can be called impregnable, and it is difficult for the heavenly army to break through!

In order to stop the Heavenly Army, Peng Yulin tried his best.

Not only that, but he also received the full support of Cheng Bao, the prefect of Zhaozhou.

The third place came out strongly. It is Ye Nantian, the chief soldier of Zhaozhou.

In addition to his own 3,000 Qing soldiers, he also had a hard snag with the Admiral's Mansion, and asked for 1,000 reinforcements, all of which were under his command.

The recent edict approving the order to exterminate households has put on a completely legal cloak for Chengbao's national mobilization. This made his orders more effective and provided a solid foundation of manpower and material resources for the defense project.

To put it simply, there are three layers to this defense.

The middle layer is the power of the water.

Peng Yulin's fleet has exceeded the number of the previous two clearances combined, reaching a total of 300 gunboats. The armament is also the latest shipboard guns.

These ships were all on the river, lined up in battle formation, and were ready for battle.

It's a line of defense on the water.

In front of this battleship, there are also barrage fortifications, which is the credit of Cheng Bao.

In order to stop the eastward advance of the Celestial Army, these two actually came up with the most stupid trick to build a fixed barrage on the river.

They blocked all the shallow parts of the river, leaving only one passage in the middle part, and only one boat could be spared.

Even the middle passage has a gate, which is usually closed tightly.

Normal running water can only flow under the gate.

Bottom defense is what is taken underwater.

In front of this surface fortification, there are two more barriers.

One is a giant wooden horse, which is tied together with a whole large log, and no matter how it lands, it can stand upright in the water and block the boat.

The other is the Hengjiang Iron Cable.

In the past, Ning Ling plotted to kill Mai Ke and make him fall into the Black Dragon Pond by boat, which was produced in Zhaozhou.

In order to produce enough iron chains in time, Cheng Bao concentrated all the blacksmiths in Zhaozhou, worked overtime day and night, and made fifty chains, each of which was long enough to block the river.

The most insidious thing is that these chains are all underwater, and the incoming ship will definitely be stopped.

The third layer of defense is to erect a pontoon bridge in the air, which starts from Jilong Mountain in the north, reaches Huding Mountain, and passes over the Xijiang River.

The main foundation of the pontoon bridge is five thick iron cables, spread side by side, running from north to south, and all of them are covered with wooden planks.

There is a pontoon bridge that is not terrible, what is terrible is that there are many guns prepared on the pontoon bridge, which can condescendingly shoot at the ships below.

They also prepared a large number of explosives packs, which could be thrown down from the pontoon bridge and blow up the enemy ships once they had broken through the defensive line.

In addition to the light artillery arranged on the pontoon bridge, the defenders also arranged a large number of heavy artillery on the hills on both sides, many of which were originally installed on the coastal defense front.

Of course, the original city defense artillery that defended Zhaozhou City was also transferred here.

Peng Yulin's entire energy was focused on buying new ships and new weapons, the original fleet had been destroyed anyway, and he didn't keep any of them, but just brought the personnel over.

The three hundred warships are all ironclad ships, and they are no longer the wooden structures and iron sheets of the previous generation.

The armament is also the latest ship-based artillery, plus a flint that can fire in bursts from dams.

This is already comparable to the technical level of the core sailors of the Heavenly Army.

As far as the level of Peter's current fleet is concerned, except for Paul's ships that are trained in battle, most of the ships of the old ship gang are below this level.

(To be continued......)

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