Six 75-mm breech-loading guns and one 150-mm short-barreled howitzer fired in unison, taking advantage of the rate of fire and range of the breech-loading guns, and constantly hitting the fleet on the river.

Under the heavy shelling, a number of enemy ships were immediately shot, and even a small river gunboat, only about 100 tons, was hit by a 150-millimeter grenade.

The violent explosion not only destroyed the superstructure, but also caused a fire.

However, the other ironclad ships quickly left the port with artillery bombardment, and then broke away from the river.

And many subsequent transport ships, also suffered heavy shelling, these transport ships are much less protective capabilities, when the leading transport ship was hit and caused a large number of casualties, the transport ship simply raised the white flag.

And when the subsequent transport ships saw this, they also raised the white flag very simply!

They simply surrendered.

If you don't surrender, you can't do it, these transport ships are all unprotected ordinary river steamships, many of them are ordinary river passenger ships, not to mention that there is no slightest defense, and even the hulls of many transport ships are still wooden.

Not to mention a 150-millimeter shell, even a random 75-millimeter grenade can cause serious casualties to them.

They didn't want to die under the heavy shelling, so they simply surrendered.

And Jian Liangzhi, who had already escaped the shelling on the ironclad ship in front, just sighed lightly and did not speak after watching the white flags raised one after another by a transport ship on the side.

He had expected this situation before, and he had thought that he would be able to rush out a few transport ships, but he didn't expect that the sailors and captains on these transport ships and the soldiers on them were so afraid of death.

Such troops, don't do it!

Anyway, these troops are not his descendants, but with the support of Shao Bing and some of his henchmen some time ago, he controlled this force in his hands, but many of the middle and lower-level officers in it are actually the same people.

Back then, they may have served Jian Minggang.

But now Jian Minggang is finished, and it is replaced by his son Jian Liangzhi.

However, Jian Liangzhi is a fart, and it is impossible to convince them.

It's not impossible to follow you Jian Liangzhi when it's okay, but in this life-and-death situation, they won't follow Jian Liangzhi to break through at the risk of death.

If you are sent to death like this, it is better to take refuge in Lin Ziran directly.

Now Lin Ziran is also the guard of Luo'an County, and he is already in the same status as Cheng Lingfeng and Jian Minggang before.

Following Lin Ziran is much more promising than following Jian Liangzhi, at least, following Lin Ziran can eat enough, the food is not bad, and you can receive money every month and send it home.

Of course, this is the idea of ordinary soldiers and lower-level officers, because it is possible for them to truly surrender to Lin Ziran and integrate into it.

As for the middle and high-level officers, they are not stupid, and they used to think that they could continue to enjoy the glory and wealth by taking refuge in Lin Ziran, but now they know that Lin Ziran has never reused the officers of Toucheng, especially the senior generals of Toucheng, none of them have been reused, and they are basically only given idle jobs to raise.

For the sake of their personal future and glory and wealth, they are no longer very inclined to surrender to Lin Ziran.

Of course, if it is a desperate situation, Toucheng is also their main choice.

Anyway, there can be a false position, maybe I can find another opportunity to make a comeback in the future.

No matter what, it's better than going straight to the wild and being a rich man!

Of course, surrender is a must-have thing.

Lin Ziran didn't even use the generals who surrendered, let alone the generals who were forced to surrender helplessly, and the middle and senior officers who surrendered before, although they were not in any danger to their lives, were also under house arrest.

But to put it mildly, my life can be saved, and I can regain my freedom and become a rich man in the future, which is better than resisting to the end and being beaten to death.

After comprehensive consideration, it will be found that even if they know that Lin Ziran will not reuse the surrender generals, and even put the surrendered generals under house arrest, in the absence of other better options, they will still give priority to surrender, followed by surrender.

Now the people on these transport ships are basically in this mentality!

Similarly, now that there are a large number of defenders in the city, they also have the idea of surrendering in their hearts, especially the ordinary soldiers and low-level officers, many of whom are already thinking about what to do after they surrender to Lin Ziran.

In this case, when the 1st and 2nd Divisions launched a general attack, especially when the 1st Corps began to storm the ruined city walls, no matter how resolute Li Dingjun's orders were, the defenders had no heart to resist.

Some units would also shoot at first to intercept the operation, but as the shells came in, they quickly hid.

And some troops, even more simply, raised their flags directly under the leadership of the officers.

So much so that the first general offensive operation was a bit anticlimactic.

For this general attack, Lin Ziran finalized a large number of operational plans, especially the artillery cover was carefully arranged, and the first division of the main attacking force also formulated a detailed combat plan, and even prepared a battalion of assault death squads, ready to brave the enemy's firepower to climb the ruins and open the gap, so as to meet the follow-up of the troops.

But all this is useless.

After Lin Ziran watched from the hill outside the city for about a quarter of an hour, he just retracted his gaze!

There's nothing to look at, because at this time, almost all the defenders in the city are already in battle......

The next battle is nothing more than the end.

So he called several people over: "After entering the city, control the strategic place, search for the defeated soldiers, and control their warehouses, docks and other places as soon as possible, so as to prevent some people and dogs from jumping over the wall and burning down the warehouse!" ”

This Dingjiang fortress is a strategic fortress, and there must be a large amount of food and ammunition stored in it, these things are trophies, and they cannot be easily destroyed.

Around six o'clock in the afternoon, the Luo'an garrison had completely controlled the entire Dingjiang fortress, well, in fact, this place is not big, this place is a very pure military fortress, and there are not even a few ordinary people.

Speaking of Dingjiang County, it is actually on the south bank of the Dingjiang River, that is, on the other side of the river of the Dingjiang Fortress!

This kind of purely military fortress is not large, and the other party's troops have all defected under the leadership of grassroots officers, so the follow-up control of entering the city is very easy, and even strictly speaking, there is no resistance.

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