Before the end of September, the People's Army had already taken most of the areas south of the Yangtze River, and only Yunnan and Sichuan had not yet occupied some areas in the south of the Yangtze River.

The largest enemy in skirmishes had just over 5,000 troops, and the KPA was on the verge of collapse at the touch of a button.

No matter who led it, as long as it was the enemy of the People's Army, the People's Army would defeat it as quickly as possible, but there was no time to persuade the enemy to surrender, and now the goal of the People's Army is to unify the land of China as soon as possible.

In the battle to occupy the area south of the Yangtze River, only the battle of Jinling City is a big battle, Jinling City as the capital of the Ming Dynasty, once the capital falls, Jinling City can immediately become the new capital of the Ming Dynasty, and mobilize the Ming army in other regions to continue fighting.

There are many people loyal to the Ming court in the Nanzhili area, including the Ming army forces and the landlord armed forces, and finally Jinling City gathered more than 100,000 defenders, with tens of thousands of elite Ming troops, loyal to the Ming court officials and generals want to fight, relying on the top three cities in the Ming ruling area, blocking the people's army.

More than 100,000 troops held Jinling City, and the People's Army launched an attack with more than 50,000 people from six divisions of the First Group Army under the personal command of Wang Shengrong, and the battle lasted only half a day, Jinling City was completely controlled by the People's Army, and less than 20,000 Ming troops escaped from Jinling City, and most of the Ming troops surrendered.

In this battle, the howitzer showed its might, under the howitzer attack, the Ming army did not even dare to continue to stay on the city wall, morale was lost, and finally relied on siege vehicles, grenadiers, and first soldiers, the people's army successfully captured the city wall, and then occupied the entire Jinling City.

Jinling City was captured by the People's Army, and there was almost no enemy in the entire area south of the Yangtze River who could stop for a few hours, and the sharpness of the People's Army's muskets and artillery was not something that the enemy armed with broadswords and spears could resist.

When the People's Army occupied most of the area south of the Yangtze River, the People's Navy led by Navy Commander Zhou Yi had already come to the mouth of the Yangtze River.

At this time, the People's Army had gathered nearly 50 divisions and as many as 400,000 troops on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and in the Huguang and Jiangxi sections of the Yangtze River, the People's Army had already prepared a large number of ships that could allow thousands of people to cross the river at a time, and the People's Navy had also brought a large number of ships over to allow thousands of people to cross the river at a time.

According to the plan drawn up by the Ministry of War before the war, the People's Army will cross the river in three ways, but the main place to cross the river is Jiangyin County, the capital of Changzhou in Nanzhili, and the people's navy will escort the river-crossing fleet.

The People's Navy sailed into the Yangtze River, and in the waters near Jiangyin and Jingjiang, the People's Navy met with the first Daming Naval Division, and the general who commanded this Daming Naval Division was called Wu Jingwei; more than half a year ago, the People's Army invited Wu Jingwei to send people to watch the military exercises, and a few months ago Wu Jingwei verbally expressed his sincerity to the People's Army.

Seeing the Daming Naval Division led by Wu Jingwei, Zhou Yi immediately ordered the flag commanders to order all ships to prepare for battle.

Wu Jingwei's fleet stayed in place, and the fleet of the People's Navy was constantly approaching, and when the distance between the two sides was less than 1,000 meters, the largest ships in Wu Jingwei's fleet hung white flags one after another, all the sails were lowered, and the gun doors were tightly closed.

Knowing the situation of Wu Jingwei's fleet, Zhou Yi was a little disappointed, but more relieved, the People's Navy has not experienced a large-scale battle, and no matter how much training it has, it is not as good as a real battle, but the battle is always dead, and it is better not to break out into battle.

Moreover, the surrender of Wu Jingwei's naval division is a great thing for the People's Navy, and when the "battle of crossing the river" is over, Zhou Yi will send people to take over Wu Jingwei's fleet and select ships and personnel from them to join the People's Navy.

The People's Navy has a greater attack power in naval battles with howitzers, but in terms of the number of ships, it is still far from being able to compare with the assembled Daming Naval Division, and before the war, more than half of the forces in the Daming Naval Division have already expressed their sincerity to the People's Army, and as long as they can accept these ships and personnel, the strength of the People's Navy will grow explosively.

However, Zhou Yi could not let too many Ming troops enter the People's Navy, at most half of the current number of the People's Navy, and if he gave some things, the People's Navy would be able to integrate them.

In addition, experienced Daming Naval Division personnel can be selected to serve as instructors to train naval recruits, and even they will become teachers for the naval university to be established in the future.

On the largest ship of Wu Jingwei's fleet, looking at the People's Navy sailing in the distance, Wu Jingwei's face was very complicated, I am afraid that all the south of the Yangtze River has fallen into the hands of the People's Army, and the People's Army has easily occupied one city after another, I don't know how many people have surrendered in advance like him.

Wu Jingwei is a native of Guangdong, and most of the people in his naval division are Cantonese, because the People's Army occupied Guangdong, Wu Jingwei led the fleet to Fujian, Wu Jingwei and some officers in the fleet took their families with them, but the families of ordinary soldiers stayed in Guangdong, and the People's Army not only did not attack the families of the soldiers, but also gave them land.

It can be said that most of the people in this naval division led by Wu Jingwei have a certain good impression of the People's Army, and in a detailed understanding of the situation in their own homes, they are not even willing to fight with the People's Army, which is the main reason why Wu Jingwei surrendered to the People's Army.

From Guangdong to Fujian, from Fujian to Zhejiang and then to the Yangtze River, Wu Jingwei saw that the People's Army had the strength to destroy the Ming Dynasty in less than ten years, and such a People's Army was no longer something that his naval division could decide the outcome of the war.

Looking at the ships of the People's Navy from afar, Wu Jingwei faintly had a feeling that this fleet was very powerful, and it was very likely that the People's Army would put those sharp muskets and artillery on the ships.

The two fleets approached, and Wu Jingwei personally took a small boat to the flagship of the People's Navy to hand over the fleet to Zhou Yi, who also sent people to take a small boat to Wu Jingwei's fleet to take a small boat to supervise each ship, and then commanded Wu Jingwei's fleet to sail to the south bank of the Yangtze River and temporarily docked on the shore.

For the time being, the People's Navy did not have time to receive Wu Jingwei's fleet in its entirety, and its more important task was to escort the People's Army in Jiangyin across the river.