When the tide was high, the transport ships washed up on the beachhead and brought a large number of men, equipment and supplies to the shore.

The engineer battalion, in conjunction with naval engineers, began to build improvised piers and trestles and build beachheads.

The reconnaissance battalion began to search around the beach, and the remaining battalions began to advance to the distance specified in the landing plan, and began to construct defensive positions and camps.

The Dahan Navy, which had experience in several large-scale landings, made personnel arrangements and division of labor in an orderly manner and acted quickly, and soon the landing site had begun to see scale.

According to the latest information provided by the Ministry of Intelligence, there are not many garrisons of Soochow on the entire island of Zhuyazhou, and the administrative level of the entire Zhuyazhou in Soochow is only equivalent to a county in the interior, although the territory is larger than some counties.

The naval army of Eastern Wu has never been stationed in Zhuyazhou, and there is no port in the entire Zhuyazhou, only a few small fishing villages near the sea.

This time the scale of the main fleet of the Yellow Sea Fleet was even greater than that of the Guangling landing.

There were four Taishan-class sail battleships, eight Huashan-class cruisers, twenty Changan-class cruisers, and twenty reconnaissance ships.

Dispatching such a large-scale fleet, in addition to showing off its strength, also has the idea of looking for a decisive battle with a new naval army in Eastern Wu, and even plans to directly attack Panyu Port.

Moreover, after the occupation of Zhuyazhou, the navy will build a naval advance base here, which will be responsible for cruising the Maritime Silk Road and blockading the mouth of the Pearl River.

In the future, a shipyard for ship repair and a military repair shop will be built here to maintain warships and repair artillery and firearms.

This time, there were some administrative officials who accompanied the navy to form the government of Zhuyazhou, and there were also some mineral exploration personnel to see if there were any minerals in Zhuyazhou and could be self-sufficient.

On the day of the landing, the reconnaissance battalion had already explored the surrounding area for dozens of miles, and found no city except for a few fishing villages and small mountain villages.

However, this is also in line with the information provided by the Ministry of Intelligence, in the entire Zhuyazhou, there is only one larger city, called Qiongshan, which is the county seat, and there are no cities in other towns and villages, only one mountain village.

The next day, the Marine Corps, which had completed the task of building the landing site, began to search and advance to the entire island of Zhuyazhou as a battalion.

Lu Su had also landed ashore, and he ordered the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions, each with five battalions, plus two reconnaissance battalions, for a total of 12 battalions, to search the whole island in a radial pattern.

He once again emphasized to them the military discipline of the Han army, absolutely not to disturb the people, and try to capture the army of Eastern Wu alive if it encounters it.

The reconnaissance battalion was all on horseback, so it was the fastest maneuvering, and they were tasked with searching the northernmost part of the island, and the only city, Qiongshan County, was in the north of the island.

The commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the 1st Marine Division is Tai Shixiang, the eldest son of Tai Shici, who made a small mistake in the Wehrmacht and came to the Marine Corps again.

He took his whole battalion of brothers and rode all the way north to search and advance, passing by several villages, and the people in the villages saw the Han army and hid in their homes.

Tai Shixiang's courage has always been very big, and he took the reconnaissance battalion and went straight to the north of the island.

Sure enough, in the northernmost part of Zhuyazhou, on the coastline near the strait, I found Qiongshan County, but the county seat is not big, the city wall is only two zhang high, there are only two city gates in the south and north, and the sea is outside the north gate.

The city gate was wide open, and the locals didn't seem to know about the arrival of the Han army, and they were still going out of the city and entering the city normally, working and resting normally.

There were more than a dozen soldiers dressed as state soldiers at the gate, and when they saw a group of cavalry coming from afar, they panicked to close the city gate and disperse the people.

Tai Shixiang asked several snipers under his command to shoot to scare the other party, and a few bullets hit the city gate with a few bullets sticking to the scalp of the state army, leaving a few bullet holes.

Unexpectedly, as soon as this gunfire rang out, the Wu Guozhou army guarding the door knelt down and surrendered, and the big swords and spears were thrown on the ground, all of which were cold weapons.

Tai Shixiang was not worried about any ambush on the other side, so he rushed to the city gate, collected his weapons, drove the prisoners to the side, and rushed into the city with a large group of cavalry.

There were no pedestrians on the street, as if they had taken refuge in their houses when they heard the gunshots.

He rushed directly to the location of the county office, only to see that Wu Guozhou's army was kneeling at the gate of the county office, and there were several people who looked like officials.

As soon as he asked, it turned out that the other party was the county commander, county lieutenant and other civil and military officials of Qiongshan County, Zhuyazhou, and when he heard that the Han army had arrived, he didn't think about resisting at all, and surrendered directly.

Tai Shixiang hurriedly sent someone to deliver a letter to Lu Su, and while taking over the defense of Qiongshan County, he easily made a great achievement.

Lu Su heard that Tai Shixiang had accepted Qiongshan County, and the officials of Qiongshan County had surrendered, so it seemed that it would not be difficult for him to control the entire territory of Zhuyazhou.

He discussed the next step with Gan Ning, and the two agreed that Gan Ning would lead the main fleet to Panyu to see how the Eastern Wu Navy was doing.

Leave a fleet to protect the Wenchang landing site, and the future naval base was also chosen to be built at the landing site in Wenchang, which was originally a good harbor.

After the division of labor between the two was clear, Gan Ning led the main fleet north to find the port of Panyu near the mouth of the Pearl River, which was the largest port in Jiaozhou and the South China Sea.

Zhuyazhou is not far from Panyu, and the naval fleet will arrive in a few days.

However, off the coast of the Pearl River Estuary, there are many islands and reefs, and the hydrological conditions are very unsatisfactory.

The Han Navy, which was not familiar with the local sea conditions, did not dare to act rashly, but sent a reconnaissance ship to the Pearl River Estuary to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and by the way, to survey the sea conditions and waterway details here.

The three reconnaissance ships cautiously and gradually went deeper from the sea off the mouth of the Pearl River, and then put small boats to survey the water depth and the distribution of reefs, and drew up a nautical chart.

After going deep into the mouth of the Pearl River for dozens of miles, he encountered the naval army of Soochow.

It turned out that Lu Xun received a flying pigeon from Qiongshan County on the day the Han Navy landed on Zhuyazhou, and immediately made the Eastern Wu Navy strengthen its vigilance.

The new naval army of Soochow was only established the year before last, and the first sailing ship was launched, and in the past two years, it has only built five improved version of the building ship, five 300-ton sailing ships, and three 500-ton galleons.

The building ship is built on the basis of the original building ship, with the keel method and watertight compartments, which can sail in the near sea, mainly to load the naval army for gang combat, and only a few five-inch guns.

The 300-ton sailing ship and the 500-ton sailing ship were both copied from the Han Navy, with one and two gun decks respectively, and the 300-ton sailing ship had ten five-inch guns, one at the bow and one at the end, and four on each side.

The 500-ton sailing ship had six guns on each side and two on the bow and stern, with a total of 16 six-inch guns.

Wu's artillery technology has improved compared with the first-generation artillery technology during the Battle of Xiangyang, mainly because the level of steelmaking has improved, but it is still far inferior to the Han army.

Its five-inch artillery has a firing range of only 250 zhang, and its six-inch artillery has 350 zhang, and the firing range is not as good as that of the Han army, but now the naval artillery battles all occur at close range, within 100 zhang, so the difference is not obvious.