Zhang Liang heard that he could only allocate fifty small boats to himself, so he quickly stood up and said: "Lord Zhangtai, fifty small boats can only fit fifteen heavy cannons, and it is really not enough to get to the city of Yangzhou!" Don't complain about delaying progress when the time comes! ”

Ma Jiyuan thought about it for a while, and asked, "Zhang Liang, how many heavy artillery do you estimate it will take to break the city in five days!" ”

"This is estimated to be at least thirty, of course, the more the better. Adults don't know, our cannon is a steel cannon, light or light, but can not be shot for a long time, after every twenty rounds of rest for half an hour to dissipate heat, or it is easy to blow up, so if you want to catch up with the schedule, the more cannons the better! ”

"Then if you are given a hundred ships, loaded only with artillery, how many heavy guns can the ammunition personnel carry by land?"

"In this case, you can bring fifty doors!"

Ma Jiyuan nodded, clapped and said, "Okay!" Lord Zhang, you stop the transfer of generals and transport the artillery with all your might! Zhang Liang, you go back to the warship and try to dock as much as possible, if you can't run aground, prepare fifty heavy guns! Jiang Pengju, how many people do you have? ”

"Lord Huitai, I will bring a regiment of 3,000 people at the end!"

"Good! All 3,000 of you got on board to unload the artillery! Aim to set off in two days! ”

Zhang Liang heard Ma Jiyuan say this and asked: "My lord, the heavy artillery is on the lower deck, and it has to pass through the three decks when unloaded, so I'm afraid the time is not enough!" ”

Ma Jiyuan said gloomily: "I don't care about this governor, if you can't dismantle it, you will blow it up with gunpowder, this is a matter for your navy, anyway, if you don't complete the emperor's task by the time, everyone will lose their heads together!" ”

Zhang Liang has nothing to say when he hears Ma Jiyuan say this, as long as he is ready to go back and bring people to blow up the deck!

Ma Jiyuan saw that there was no problem with the three of them, stood up and said: "Since everyone has no problem, go back and prepare, tonight will be a night battle, the governor will be in the middle of the Tongzhi Yamen, and if there is a problem, come to the governor in time!" ”

The three of them had no problem and retreated. Jiang Pengju came to the door and listened to Ma Jiyuan shouting to himself, so that he could wait. Jiang Pengju turned around and asked, "Lord Zhangtai, is there anything else you want to explain?" ”

Ma Jiyuan saw that everyone else had gone out, waved his hand to make the Chinese army and staff behind him also avoid it, and then asked, "Pengju, how is King Qin?" "Although Ma Jiyuan supports the crown prince, Zhu Jiang is his own grandson after all, how can he not worry!

Jiang Peng raised his hand and said in a low voice: "Lord Hui, King Qin is now the battalion commander under the last general, and his daily training is very hard, please rest assured, the last general will definitely train King Qin to become a talent!" ”

Ma Jiyuan smiled bitterly, Chengcai has to worry even more!

Ma Jiyuan waved his hand after thinking about it and said, "There is one more thing, your tenth division is not equipped enough!" ”

This sentence can be said to Jiang Pengju's heart, now there are only two regiments of more than 6,000 people in the 10th Division, not to mention muskets, even there is no artillery. The division commander Zhang Bao asked him to come to Guazhou and wait, and as soon as the ships carrying weapons arrived, they immediately arranged for them to be transported to Yangzhou so that they could equip their men. However, Jiang Pengju has been waiting here in Guazhou for half a month, and not a single ship has come, and he also asked Lang Zhong of the Equipment Department, saying that the production capacity of the Guangdong Arsenal is not enough, and it is necessary to give priority to ensuring the equipment of the new Ninth Division of Wuchang Ma Liang, after all, he now has only one Fourth Division with 18,000 people.

Now Jiang Pengju thought that the munitions ship had arrived when he heard Ma Jiyuan's question, and asked very happily: "My lord, has the firearm arrived?" ”

Ma Jiyuan shook his head and said: "Your tenth division is estimated to be unequipped within half a year, it just so happens that most of your more than 6,000 people are full of fresh troops, they are familiar with swords and guns, this governor rushed over from Nanjing this time and asked the emperor for 5,000 armor and swords and guns, you use them first!" ”

Jiang Pengju was discouraged when he heard this, why should the army be divided inside and outside? But he can't help it, you can't change it without a musket, Jiang Pengju just needs to bow down and take the order!

After coming out of Ma Jiyuan, Jiang Pengju returned to his camp outside the city, now there are too many troops here at Guazhou Ferry, the army, navy, Jinyi Guard, Ligong, porters on the canal, the entire Guazhou Ferry is a larger town, which can put down tens of thousands of people, so Jiang Pengju's camp is located outside the city.

Jiang Pengju brought a regiment of 3,000 people this time, and the five battalion commanders were waiting for him after learning the news, hoping that he would bring good news.

Jiang Peng raised his mouth into the room and took a sip of water, and said, "You guys, let me tell you good news, the Governor has ordered us to go to the navy to unload the guns tonight, and it is estimated that we will be able to set off and return to Yangzhou in two days!" ”

These guys have been in Guazhoudu for half a month, and they are all calloused, and now they are very happy when they get the news that they are finally going to leave.

A battalion commander said, "Sir, where are the firearms?" Are the brothers empty-handed? ”

This question is not easy to answer, Jiang Pengju thought for a while and said: "There are no firearms, but the Governor has brought five thousand pairs of armor and knives and guns, let's use them first!" ”

When several battalion commanders heard that there were no firearms, they clamored one after another.

"What? It's okay if you don't have muskets and artillery! ”

"Yes, sir, shall we go back like this and not let the other brothers laugh?"

Jiang Pengju was annoyed by these guys, and slapped the table and scolded: "What's it called, your mother, you can't do anything without a musket!" ”

Everyone saw that Jiang Pengju was angry, and there was no choice but to accept the reality.

Jiang Pengju saw that everyone calmed down and said: "Yes, if you want to make a meritorious contribution and make a fortune, what weapon can't you, Lao Tzu didn't use a horizontal knife when he was in Xinyang, so he didn't fight out a division commander?" ”

Everyone didn't dare to talk back in their hearts, can they compare then and now? Now the city of Yangzhou is full of Manchu Tartars armed to the teeth, not those rogues who have no armor.

"Okay, let's disperse, the first battalion commander and the second battalion commander, you will take the troops to the ferry tonight to help the navy unload the artillery, the third battalion commander and the fourth battalion commander, you take people to help that Zhang Tongzhi load the ship, it is better to count on yourself than to count on the navy's water rats!"

After getting Jiang Pengju's general order, the four battalion commanders went out to prepare, and there was still one battalion commander left in the house, it was Zhu Jiang, the king of Qin, and now he was the commander of the fifth battalion of the second regiment of the tenth division, and he was the youngest one.

"Sir, what about me?"

"You take someone to find Governor Ma tomorrow and wait to receive the cold weapon!"

Hearing that he was going to see Ma Jiyuan, Zhu Jiang was very reluctant, he didn't like this cold-mouthed grandfather when he was a child.

Seeing that Zhu Jiang didn't like to go, Jiang Pengju scolded: "What are you doing? Do you want to disobey military orders? You think I won't dare to smoke you? ”

Zhu Jiang knew that the blind Jiang man in front of him had the order of his father, and he could whip himself, and now when he heard Jiang Pengju say this, he hurriedly said: "No problem, don't worry, sir, the lower official will definitely bring the equipment back!" After Zhu Hai finished speaking, he quickly ran out.

The next morning, after breakfast, Zhu Jiang rushed to the ferry with his five hundred brothers to receive equipment.

As soon as I arrived at the ferry, I saw that it was busy, and five of the navy warships parked in the center of the river last night had docked and run aground, and the deck was full of people, who were destroying the deck with hammers and saws. Fortunately, these are 500-ton gunboats, and the steel plates in the upper deck are not too thick, and if you change to a thousand-ton battleship, it is definitely not possible for human power to destroy, then you have to really use gunpowder.

In fact, Zhang Liang's statement that he could not disassemble the artillery was a complete excuse, because he didn't want to turn all his military exploits into the army. Warships are built with maintenance channels, what if the guns are broken if they don't leave a channel?

However, it was too hard to transport the big guy weighing 3,000 catties from the lower deck, and the tonnage of the naval gunboat was too large to enter the harbor and use the boom, so it could only be parked on the shore and carried by manpower.

Five temporary trestle bridges have been built on the shore with large logs to connect five warships, all thanks to last night. When Zhu Hai arrived at the ferry, he was just in time for the first artillery to be hoisted.

The 3,000-pound cannon was lifted out of the lower deck by fifty men, and this kind of big guy did not leave his hands behind, and where there was no force at all, he relied on ropes to borrow power. Just as he was being transported off the gangplank, suddenly a gangplank broke, and the ten people on the side fell to the side at once, and the three-thousand-pound cannon immediately pressed on his body, and the ten people who pressed it screamed miserably.

The commander of the company who commanded the work on the ship, seeing that the situation was in a hurry, quickly brought in people to raise the artillery from the new, and the ten people were rescued and saw that they had been crushed into meatloaf.

Zhu Jiang's battalion swallowed and foamed at the mouth when he saw this, glad that he was not selected to carry the cannon.

Zhu Jiang has participated in several sieges in the past month or so, and he has never seen any way to die, and after reading it, he said to the soldiers behind him: "Don't look at it, a company commander, come and take the team away, I'll go to Tongzhi Yamen!" "The commander of the first company is a soldier of the Praetorian Guard Division, and now he has been transferred to the 10th Division as a junior officer.

Zhu Jiang came alone to the Tongzhi Yamen on the edge of the ferry, explained the situation to the Chinese officer standing guard, and he had come to pick up equipment, and the Chinese officer led him to a house in the Tongzhi Yamen, which was the temporary office of the Governor's Yamen Military Chamber. However, after Zhu Jiang entered the house, he found that there was no one, and the Chinese officer who led the way said that he should wait for a while, and the secretary office would arrive in a while.

After a while, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and Zhu Jiang saw that it was his grandfather Ma Jiyuan who came in.

Ma Jiyuan still had that expressionless face, and he just snorted when he saw Zhu Jiang.

Zhu Jiang didn't dare to follow Ma Jiyuan's example, although he was the prince, but Ma Jiyuan was his grandfather, and if he didn't abide by the etiquette law, it was enough to be banned.

Zhu Jiang bowed down and said, "Grandpa, I didn't expect you to come in person!" ”

Ma Jiyuan came to the house and looked at the tall Zhu Jiang, and then there was a kind look in his eyes, but this look was only a flash, and it immediately changed into that kind of calm demeanor.

"King Qin, you have grown taller!"

"Thank you grandpa for your concern!"

After a simple conversation, the two found that there was nothing to say, Ma Jiyuan was in Luzon all the year round, and Ma Ruyan was not a concubine, so naturally he was not favored by Ma Jiyuan, so Zhu Jiang had not seen Ma Jiyuan a few times when he was a child. The grandparents and grandchildren were like living people, completely cold.