His subordinates reported that there were three water leaks in the hull, and Chen Ada remembered the evaluation of the American advisers, saying that the ships built in Guangzhou were far inferior to the American warships, and that it would be better to ask the American shipyard to help build them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Several sailing ships of the Hunan army collided with each other and crashed into three loopholes, but fortunately, after the Westerners invented the technology of iron ribbed wooden shells, they successfully integrated China's watertight cabin structure, and the water leakage did not capsize.

Seeing the planks on the water, Chen Ada knew that he had met Zhu Jinglun's request to destroy the enemy's sailors in the most violent way, and at the same time destroy the enemy's military heart.

Chen Ada always stood on the deck, not moving a single step, he kept holding the binoculars, he saw that the enemy obviously still had many warships, but they were all watching from a distance, hiding within the range of their shore defense guns to seek protection, he knew that the military spirit of the opponent's sailors had gone.

The flag on Chen Ada's flagship was raised, and he ordered the whole army to retreat and continue to attack Yanziji, this time he was going to land for operation, let the marines get ready, board the boat and prepare to seize the beach, the tactics have been practiced countless times, and he believes that there will be no accidents.

Yanziji's fort had just been destroyed, but at the time of their water battle, Zeng Guoquan actually sent reinforcements, these reinforcements defended on the collapsed fort, but they were killed and injured by dense explosive shells, and when they came to their senses, the opponent's landing force had already rushed up with bayonets, and the Swallow Rock fort was lost.

Zeng Guoquan rode a white horse to watch the battle on the wall outside the Yaohua Gate, and saw the boats on the river bank, and the infantry climbed up Yanziji, and re-erected the cannon on their battery, he was extremely surprised, where did these things come from?

The Taiping Army observation post guarding the Lion Rock in Nanjing City also saw these situations, and they also had the same question, and the two Sima Guo Tai even had the idea of "the heavenly soldiers have descended to earth" in their hearts, and King Hong always kept telling them that the heavenly soldiers were coming soon, and the heavenly father sent 100,000 heavenly soldiers to help them kill the demons.

Although he was excited for a moment when he saw the reinforcements, the stomach of the two Sima made him depressed again, and the loyal king Li Xiucheng asked the king of heaven that he had no food to eat in the city, what did the soldiers eat when they came, and the king of heaven said to eat mana, and the grass in the courtyard garden made people pinch into grass balls, and the king of heaven personally took the lead in eating, and after eating the grass for two days, the two simas had no strength at all, and they felt dizzy when they moved a little, and the mana of the king of heaven did not look very good.

Liang Sima was a grassroots officer of the Taiping Army, in charge of 5 corps and 25 people. As the two front-line two, they shouldn't be so poor, but the whole city has no food, the king of heaven is eating mana, what complaints do they have, but some people say that the king of heaven is big fish and meat every day, eating mana is just for show, but the two Sima don't believe it, because he was raised by the Taiping army, and the dead brigade commander once told him that if it weren't for the Taiping army, he would have starved to death, and their family was killed by the Qing demon back then, and it was the brigade commander who held him in his arms and killed him all the way from his hometown Hunan to Tianjing.

Speaking of which he is a native of Hunan, he always doesn't understand why those Hunan villagers outside the city want to put them to death, there are a lot of Hunan people in the army, listen to the old people say, when they went out of Guangxi, they were Hunan, and many Hunan villagers participated in the Taiping Army, now don't talk about the old brothers in Guangxi, the second old brothers in Hunan, there are not too many, they are all Jiangnan soldiers, and the old people say no.

Mrs. Guo didn't have time to think about it, he asked people to send the news back to the city as soon as possible, and he continued to stare at it, he soon saw that the Hunan army began to transfer troops to besiege Yanziji, but the "heavenly soldiers" on Yanziji were really amazing, repelling the Hunan army's attacks again and again, and his warships were still bombarding on the river, so that the Hunan army could not encircle Yanziji at all.

The "heavenly soldiers" not only occupied Yanziji, but also constantly sent troops from the big ships to the shore, many of them, with thousands of people.

After these soldiers repelled the Hunan army, they did not give up and fought down, there were cannons and rifles, the same as the soldiers of the loyal king, but the battle seemed to be more disciplined than the soldiers of the loyal king, and it was comfortable to look at it neatly.

Taking advantage of the retreat of the Hunan army, these "heavenly soldiers" actually opened the Hunan army's defense line, although the Hunan army arranged three lines of defense outside the Shence Gate and Jinchuan Gate, but the defense on the river bank was not tight, the other party advanced along the river bank, coupled with the support of gunboats on the river, and drove straight into the Yifeng Gate outside the Lion Rock.

It was already mid-May when Zhu Jinglun received the first battle report, and Chen Ada wrote that he had occupied the riverbank position and opened up to Yifeng Gate, but the Taiping army refused to open the city and let them in.

Zhu Jinglun understood, this was not trusting himself, in other words, Zhu Jinglun would not rashly believe in the army of unknown origin, and suddenly arrived at the city and asked to open the door, who knows if it was a trick of the Hunan army.

As for asking for food, it was really hungry, and whoever was arrested didn't care who wanted it.

Zhu Jinglun suddenly decided that he was going north and went to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in person.

He is really interested in this magical organization, the mystery shrouded in them is too strong, but this is not the reason, as a monarch, he can't go to the territory of a force with an unknown attitude because of this kind of thing, the reason why he went is because he wants to ensure that the plan to support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and nail the Hunan army can succeed, then he must win the trust of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and what can be more sincere than a monarch visiting in person.

To put it mildly, he pressed himself to Tianjing as a hostage, so that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could be 100% assured to cooperate, otherwise no matter how nice it sounded, I am afraid they would not be at ease, this is human nature, if the British or the French jump out now and tell Zhu Jinglun how they plan to support Zhu Jinglun, there are no requirements, no conditions, Zhu Jinglun is not suspicious.

So after receiving the news, Zhu Jinglun simply explained to Chen Zhiting, regardless of the opposition of Chen Zhiting, Fang Shan and others, he led the fleet to the north without hesitation, the fleet is the salt ship of Pan Shicheng's family, he not only inherited the business of Pan Chengxun's family, but his family's salt merchant business still did not let go, and he is not only a salt merchant, but also has the title of salt transport envoy given to An by the Qing government in the past.

Because it is necessary to transport a large amount of salt from the salt works on the Leizhou Peninsula to all parts of Guangzhou every year, even Guangxi ate his salt in the past, so he has more than 200 salt ships at home, and now these salt ships are full of grain, 100,000 quintals of rice purchased from the exchange, half of which is counted as his own military rations, and half is intended to be given to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, not for nothing, but for sale, he believes that the gang of robbers will not be short of money, and there will be no shortage of treasures if there is a lack of money, Hong Xiuquan's Tianwang Palace is extremely luxurious, and it is split and sold for 20 million taels, Zhu Jinglun will definitely not make a counteroffer.

The speed of the sailing ship with pure sail power was too slow, and it set off from Guangzhou, and the next day Zhu Jinglun threw off the fleet, and he took a communication ship in the army, a 200-ton sail steamship, which was the ship that sent the news back to Guangzhou, and this ship would carry Zhu Jinglun to Tianjing, if it was a sailing ship to Guangzhou, it would take half a month, and the steamship would arrive in about ten days.

When I arrived in Shanghai, I took a short rest and visited the soldiers who were about to set off for battle, the soldiers of the Second Army of Xin'an.

Xu Rongcun was very effective, and he was able to find a military camp for the Ming soldiers in Shanghai, which was enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people.

This is really hell, Da Ming sent a letter to go north to seek the Qing, but in Shanghai, the territory of the Qing court, calmly stationed the army.

But things are so weird in this era, three years ago, when the foreigners went to fight Beijing, Shanghai Daotai also hooked up with the foreigners to fight a joint operation to resist the Taiping Army, compared to the Ming Dynasty to defeat the Qing Dynasty's army stationed in Shanghai, it is not too bizarre.

No one in the Chinese government came out to interfere, but the foreigners protested, because Zhu Jinglun was stationed in the concession and spent a lot of money to organize hundreds of warehouses in the ocean, which is another reason why neither Su Songtaidao, who managed Shanghai, nor Li Hongzhang's Huai army, did not interfere, Su Songtaidao may not want to cause trouble, but Li Hongzhang's attitude is incomprehensible, the Changsheng army in his hands is stationed in Jiading, Qingpu and other counties, maybe Li Hongzhang wants to see the results of the battle between the Ming army in the south and the Hunan army.

Unexpectedly, at this time, the concession had been colonized, and Li Hongzhang and others had become warlords.

Zhu Jinglun did not delay, added coal, water, visited the soldiers, and went straight to Tianjing the next day, which was nearly two days, and when he arrived in Tianjing, it was already the end of May.

Chen Ada firmly controlled Yanziji, and captured a landing point, this landing point is extremely important, because this is Xiaguan, the Ming Dynasty called Longjiang Pass, Zheng He's treasure ship was launched from here, is an excellent port, the most important thing is that it is close to the Lion Rock area protruding in the northeast of Nanjing City, supported by the forts on the city wall, each other is horns, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Xiaguan was originally in the hands of the Hunan army, the Hunan army in Tianjing City, the Yangtze River bank, there are only two camps, as early as May 1862, Zeng Guoquan led his troops into the Yuhuatai outside the Tuntianjing City, his other brother Zeng Zhengan garrisoned the Sanxia River, and the Hunan army general Peng Yulin led the water division to Xiaguan, which is the earliest sign of the formation of the Tianjing siege battle.

Zeng Zhengan's original name was Zeng Guobao, because in 1859, his brother Zeng Guohua was killed, he changed his name to Zeng Zhengan, probably vowing to do it. It is a pity that after he stationed his troops at the Sancha River, although he blocked the repeated counterattacks of more than 100,000 people of the Taiping Army and tightly tied the fence of the siege of Tianjing, he died of illness in Yuhuatai at the end of that year.

Peng Yulin's defense of Xiaguan was relatively smooth, and before he occupied Xiaguan, he had already annihilated the sailors of the Taiping army. Peng Yulin is a very dedicated person, has been in command of the Hunan army and sailors, for which he repeatedly refused the Qing government's additional officials into the knighthood, after the attack on Anqing, the Qing court awarded him the post of governor of Anhui, he wrote three times, "to the ministers from the army, long residence in the warship, straw hat short clothes", "once the body is sent to Xinjiang, advance and retreat hundreds of bureaucrats, ask the name of the sentence does not know, ask Qian Gu does not know", "and have no learning", "more than Yu is not up to the task", and finally the Qing court can only appoint him as the commander of the navy.

The Qing court sealed Zeng Guofan's subordinates, but his subordinates couldn't resign, and Yixin's people in power may not be happy.

However, Peng Yulin is definitely not a martial artist as he himself said, and the officers of Zeng Guofan have no martial arts, and even the sentry commander who directly leads the troops must be a scholar, and he must be the kind of scholar who reads the books of sages and sages very rigidly, and sincerely defends the way of Confucius and Mencius, because these people hate the Taiping Army's rebellious cult the most.

Peng Yulin was unwilling to even be a governor, preferring to stay in the army and fight with the Taiping army, which shows the extent of their hatred for this evil force that destroys culture. In fact, Peng Yulin's cultural level is quite high, although he is only a talent in terms of fame, but he is still well-known among Hunan literati, because his painting level is very high, he can be regarded as a painter, according to the West, an artist.

But the artist still can't do the regular navy, after the Ming fleet entered the Yangtze River, the first time there was a direct confrontation with Peng Yulin's sailors, and all of a sudden the Hunan army sailors were blinded, these flat-bottomed sailing ships were completely defeated in the confrontation with Western-style warships, whether it was firepower, or the solidity of the ships, they were far inferior to the Ming naval fleet, and the failure had nothing to do with the command ability, it was completely a technical gap.

And this gap is the most difficult to make up, the so-called Qiao woman is difficult to cook without rice, Peng Yulin didn't know how to deal with it at that time, when the Ming Navy attacked Xiaguan, he didn't hold much and withdrew, he knew that he couldn't hold it at all, Xiaguan is a deployment of defense inside and outside, and the defense is the front of Tianjing City, and the Ming fleet attacked from the rear, completely unable to guard.

So Chen Ada didn't have too much trouble to occupy Xiaguan.

Occupying this place is equivalent to opening up the connection with Nanjing City, but unfortunately Chen Ada still can't enter the city.

Stepping on the lower pass, Zhu Jinglun entered the barracks, and asked the army about the situation of the Hunan army for the first time, he always attached the most importance to the Hunan army, and the reason why he wanted to fight Tianjing was to nail the Hunan army here.

To Zhu Jinglun's surprise, almost all the soldiers said in unison that the Hunan army here was far worse than Jiang Yili's Hunan army? Will the Zeng brothers' genuine Hunan army be as good as Jiang Yili's miscellaneous cards? Isn't that a joke!

Zhu Jinglun was extremely puzzled.

At this time, he didn't have time to figure out what was going on, so he immediately asked people to rule Tianjing.

"Let's just say that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is coming, and the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has arrived, let them go out of the city to meet them!"

Zhu Jinglun said to his own guards, it's time to put up the score, the princes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are all very big, which shows that he recognizes this thing, if you don't put the score, I'm afraid they will look down on you, the generals from the peasant background are often like this, it is said that the princes of the Taiping Army travel, one by one, they have to use a dozen or even dozens of people to carry the sedan chair, Hong Xiuquan's sedan chair needs hundreds of people to move, the ghost knows what these people think. (To be continued.) )