When Duan Hongxiao, on behalf of Lin Ziran, went to Ge De to negotiate and discuss the future of the Luohai Navy, Lin Ziran himself was not busy.

Commanded the troops to continue to cross the river.

At this time, however, there was no obstacle to the troops' crossing of the river.

Luo Hai's navy made two small attempts to break through, and after suffering certain losses, he simply abandoned Shao Bing.

At the same time, the tens of thousands of troops of the Second Division who forcibly crossed the river also successfully repelled Shao Bingsuo's troops, occupied the beachhead of the ferry, and then covered the troops to continue to cross the river.

Subsequently, Lin Ziran commanded the First Division and other troops to continue to cross the river by wooden boats, and at the same time, the pontoon bridge of the engineering unit also continued to be built.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the first small pontoon bridge was successfully built, and more personnel, as well as war horses and light artillery, began to cross the river through the small pontoon bridge.

At the same time, a second large pontoon bridge is also being built, and when the large pontoon bridge is also built, it will be able to allow a large number of heavy vehicles and heavy artillery to pass.

In the evening, Lin Ziran crossed the river by boat with a large number of headquarters personnel, and after crossing the river, Lin Ziran immediately convened a new round of military meetings and began to deploy the next stage of operations.

The strategic core of the next stage of the operation is naturally to continue to storm all the way south, go straight to Luohai City, and strive to control Luohai City as soon as possible.

Under this strategic premise, the 1st Division also acted as the vanguard and quickly moved south, continuing to pursue Shao Bing's rout, the 4th Division followed, the 2nd Division, which had just experienced the battle of crossing the river, followed behind, and the 6th Division and the 4th Mixed Brigade, which were still in the rear, would continue to be reorganized and protect the rear at the same time.

Ground operations have reached this level, in fact, there is no difficulty, because at present, on the west bank of the Luo River, there is basically no large main force of Luohai County that can resist Lin Ziran's army moving south.

In the eastern shore area, although there are still tens of thousands of enemy troops, they will not be able to fly for a while.

What's more, the Luo Hai Navy has already chosen to take refuge in Lin Ziran, and with the Navy blocking the Luo River, the tens of thousands of Luo Navy can't make any waves.

At around seven o'clock in the evening, Duan Hongxiao returned and brought a group of senior generals of the Luohai fleet, the leader of which was naturally Ge Chengbin.

In order to show the importance of the navy, Lin Ziran personally led people to greet him at the dock.

Lin Ziran's style also surprised Ge De begging them.

Lin Ziran came to greet him in person, this face is big enough.

Since Lin Ziran gave face, Ge De begged them to naturally give Lin Ziran face, no, as soon as he got off the boat, he walked in front of Lin Ziran in unison, and then shouted in unison: "Humble to meet your lord!" ”

This is a subordinate who pretends to be a subordinate!

Lin Ziran nodded lightly with a smile, then took two steps forward and took Ge Deqiu's hands and said, "Brother Ge, it's been hard all the way!" ”

"My Daheng Navy has a soldier like you, Brother Ge, it is really my Daheng's luck!"

The meaning of these words is naturally to praise God's begging them to choose to surrender in order to protect the naval warship.

Ge Deqiu naturally didn't want to support him, and immediately said again and again: "My lord's words are serious, as Daheng Navy soldiers, we are fighting for the unification of Daheng, this is a matter of duty!" ”

Fighting for the reunification of Daheng, this is the slogan shouted by Lin Ziran, and it is also the slogan of the current Luo'an garrison to launch a southward operation.

It is intended to show that their war is not an ordinary feudal town fighting for territory, but to unify Nanhai Prefecture and Daheng!

Although there is no difference between the two in fact, the political meaning of the representation is different.

After a few hellos, hello, hello everyone, Lin Ziran announced on the spot that the Luo'an fleet and the Luohai fleet were merged into one to form the Nanhai Prefecture fleet, with Duan Hongxiao as the commander of the fleet, Ge Deqiu as the deputy commander, and a number of sub-fleets, which basically continued to appoint the original naval officers.

Regarding the navy, Lin Ziran's attitude is much more relaxed.

For the generals who surrender to Cheng can be used, there will not be too many concerns, which is completely different from treating army generals.

This is because it is difficult for the navy to rebel, and Lin Ziran basically does not need the navy to rebel.

This is not only because the navy cannot go ashore to fight, but also because in the huge Nanhai Prefecture, except for him Lin Ziran, no one can afford to raise such a huge navy.

After the merger, the Nanhai Prefecture Fleet has six ironclad ships of more than 1,000 tons, and more than 30 inland river warships of less than 1,000 tons.

In the future, if a number of large-tonnage ocean-going main ironclad ships that are still left in the port of Luohai County can also be added, then the scale will be even larger.

In the port of Luohai City, there is a large ironclad ship of more than 8,000 tons, and two large ironclad ships of 5,000 tons.

The cost of maintaining a large navy is enormous, requiring salaries, maintenance of ships, and training at sea, which ordinary small feudal towns cannot afford.

How to say it, in Nanhai Prefecture today, except for Lin Ziran, who controls Luo'an County and is about to control the entire Luohai County, there is no one who can maintain such a large navy.

This, in fact, is also the reason why Ge De begged them to surrender to Lin Ziran neatly!

Seeing that Shao Bing was about to finish, if they didn't surrender to Lin Ziran, what would they do with such a large fleet? Drink the northwest wind?

After a simple welcome ceremony, Lin Ziran also boarded the Ningchang ironclad ship, which has the largest tonnage in this fleet, more than 3,000 tons.

This ironclad ship is not the same as the inland river ironclad ships that Lin Ziran had before, the previous inland ironclad ships generally had a shallow draft, and the upper building was relatively tall, and it looked like the center was unstable.

The Ningchang in front of him is slender and has an estimated draft of about four or five meters.

In addition to the tall chimney, the tall mast and sail structure are still retained.

The layout of the ship's guns is the traditional shipside guns, and at least thirty guns are deployed on the whole battleship, and most of them are large-caliber guns, and the whole ship is still mainly wooden, but the whole ship is covered with thick wrought iron armor belts, and there are thick wooden armor belts in the wrought iron armor belts.

This is a standard ocean-going warship!

At the same time, it is also the first real ocean-going steam ironclad ship that Lin Ziran has seen since he came to this world.

What to say after reading it, Lin Ziran feels that this thing is not very reliable.

Although it seems that more than 30 large-caliber smoothbore guns are deployed, these guns are useless, and the gun layout can basically only withstand the direct fire of enemy ships.

When he boarded the battleship to look, taking advantage of the fact that there were no naval officers around, he lowered his voice and asked Kong Deyi on the side: "If this ship came to break through the blockade line before, can we stop it?" ”

Kong Deyi also glanced at the surroundings, and then also lowered his voice and said: "We are all grenades, it is impossible to directly penetrate their armor belt, but the trajectory of our grenades is curved, and this shell falls directly on their deck, hum, the ship is estimated to not sink by then, but the people on the deck and bridge must be dead." ”

As he spoke, Kong Deyi pointed to another small-tonnage battleship on the side, and then said: "It's not easy to fight this kind of ship, the whole thing is like a turtle shell!" ”

Kong De was referring to a gunboat next to the Ningchang, which was not big, estimated to be eight or nine hundred tons, but this thing was completely covered with steel.

In the central part of the hull was a huge bulging gun room, in which four guns were deployed.

At this time, Duan Hongxiao also walked over, and saw Lin Ziran and Kong Deyi looking at the gunboat on the side, and immediately said: "My lord, this is a new type of gunboat brought by Brother Ge and them, this kind of gunboat has only appeared in recent years, using the layout of the ship's waist gun room, concentrating protection and firepower, the protection ability is very good, and the large-caliber artillery equipped with it is enough to penetrate the enemy's armor!" ”

"And this kind of warship used on inland rivers, because there is no sail, the number of guns can be arranged in a centralized manner, so the protection capacity is quite good."

Comte nodded and said, "It's really good!" ”

This is a heartfelt statement, when they intercepted and fought before, most of the damage was the traditional wooden-hulled ship next to the artillery battleship, as for this turtle-shell-like ironclad ship, it really has not been injured.

But I don't know if there was a shock to death.

After all, a 150-millimeter high-explosive bomb can shock and kill people without direct killing.

Lin Ziran also nodded slightly, this ironclad ship is really an iron can, with a tonnage of thousands of tons, but there are only a few large-caliber guns, this kind of ironclad ship is really difficult to fight for ordinary army artillery.

So he quickly said to the adjutant who followed behind: "Make a note, let the Ordnance Department develop long-barreled naval guns and considerable armor-piercing shells!" ”

The technology of steel breech-loading rifled guns has already been developed, even if only two kinds of guns are now made, it does not mean that others cannot be made.

Army artillery needs it, and it needs naval artillery.

After instructing the adjutant to write it down, Lin Ziran didn't ask more.

After continuing to walk around for a while, Lin Ziran took people off the boat.

In the evening, Lin Ziran held a small banquet for the senior generals who stayed here, including several new naval officers such as Ge Deqiu.

Naturally, everyone was happy at the banquet.

Even Lin Ziran was in a good mood and drank a few glasses.

The next day, Lin Ziran continued to lead the troops south, at this time, the second large pontoon bridge had been built, and a large number of artillery troops and baggage began to cross the river.

At this time, the first division of the forward force and part of the cavalry unit were already more than 20 kilometers to the south.

Yesterday, the 1st Division and the 1st Cavalry Brigade and the 2nd Cavalry Brigade pursued all the way south, after all, Shao Bing still fled south with thousands of remnants.

Shao Bing could not be allowed to flee back to Luohai City with thousands of remnants or cross the river to the east, and then slowly integrate the troops to continue to resist.

This time, they want to go all out, directly entangle Shao Bing, and give Shao Bing any chance to breathe!

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