Fort St. Philip and Fort Jackson, despite having less than 20 guns, held out their resistance. The fleet of the Chinese Empire signaled to it to surrender, but the commander in the fortress refused to surrender.

The warships of the Chinese Empire continued to bombard, blowing up the fort to a pulp, and the river mud next to the fort was even more bombed as if there had been a huge earthquake, the ravines were staggered, and it happened that the water level of the Mississippi estuary poured into the gully with the tide and seeped into the fort, and the Confederate soldiers in the fort were miserable, demoralized, and complained.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Bordegaard hurriedly led the guards to flee to New Orleans on horseback. He naturally knew that after his intention to blockade the enemy ships with two fortresses failed, the estuary could not be defended, and with his little naval strength, he was definitely not an opponent of the enemy, and now the infantry in New Orleans City, seeing that there was no way to resist such a scale of the Chinese Imperial Army, it was better to prepare early, but it was a pity that his hometown was going to fall into the hands of this Oriental, thinking about it, Boredad felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

The warships of the Chinese Empire led the troop carriers onwards. There was almost no resistance along the way, and there were no mines or anything like that. At Sharma, four miles from the city of New Orleans, the fleet met some resistance, but after a burst of bombardment by several gunboats escorting the landing fleet, the makeshift field guns and hundreds of infantry on the shore were immediately blown up and scattered.

Approaching the crescent-shaped bank of New Orleans, troop carriers began to land, and within two hours, more than 8,000 officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Infantry Division had successfully landed, and the dense crowd of soldiers filled the banks of the river outside New Orleans.

At this moment, the commander of the Confederate defenders, Bored, thought that there were only 5,000 Confederate defenders in New Orleans, and more than half of them were newly recruited New Orleans city workers, etc., and they did not have much combat power at all. And his escape, Mansfield, the commander of the New Orleans city defense, saw this, and also led his troops to retreat upstream.

The withdrawal of the defenders of New Orleans made the people of the city very angry. Before the troops of the Chinese Empire entered the city of New Orleans, they began to set fire to the numerous cotton warehouses and merchant ships on the docks in the city, and began to smash and loot the shops and banks in New Orleans.

By the time the infantry divisions of the Chinese Empire rushed into the city of New Orleans, the city was almost on fire, and the cotton cotton cloth on the merchant ships in the docks and docks could no longer be extinguished. Smoke billowed from all over the city of New Orleans, and there were varying degrees of fire in various neighborhoods.

The frenzied citizens of New Orleans rushed out with muskets and iron pipes to confront the infantry of the Chinese Empire, and after being fired by several volleys of guns, they fell to the streets, bleeding all over the ground, and the rest of the thug citizens were suddenly awakened by their drunkenness, and they all ran away with their heads in their arms and hid in the city.

The city of New Orleans was thus occupied by the troops of the Chinese Empire.

Then, Fort St. Philip and Fort Jackson, surrounded by warships and thousands of Chinese imperial infantry, saw the smoke billowing from the city of New Orleans, and learned that the defenders and commanders had fled, and the city of New Orleans had been occupied by the enemy.

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The city of New Orleans is also known as Crescent City because the Mississippi River that flows through the city bends like a crescent moon. At this moment, in the city hall in Crescent City, Wang Mingshan, deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Empire, Wang Haiyang, commander of the 2nd Infantry Division of the Sixth Field Corps, and Xi Baotian, commander of the 8th Infantry Division, led a group of staff officers to discuss the military situation.

Wang Haiyang and Xi Baotian congratulated Wang Mingshan and said, "Congratulations to the Pacific Fleet led by Deputy Commander Wang for its victory in the first battle!" At a slight cost of 46 killed and 120 wounded, nearly 1,000 enemy troops were destroyed, several enemy ships were destroyed, and New Orleans, the largest port town in the southern United States, was captured! ”

Wang Mingshan smiled and said: "Joy, joy!" This battle is just the first battle, and the later battle of our Chinese Empire to conquer the United States mainly depends on your army, and Commander Wang and Commander Xi, as the two main infantry divisions of Liuye, are the first to bear the brunt, and the credit is great, and our fleet is just cooperating with you to attack along the river! ”

Wang Haiyang and Xi Baotian laughed. Xi Baotian looked at the smoke still rising in the city, and said with some resentment: "Damn foreigners, set fire to so many good cotton!" It's a pity! Otherwise, how much cloth will have to be woven back to China! ”

Wang Haiyang echoed: "Yes, in the future, we still have to seize the enemy's warehouse as soon as possible." These materials are a lot of wealth! By the way, if it weren't for Commander Peng for us to quickly capture Louisiana and Arkansas, occupy the middle and lower reaches of the Mississippi River, and control the entire Mississippi River to rescue Lin Qirong and the Hexi Legion trapped in the upper reaches, I can't say that the brothers would really want to go to Mississippi and go there, I heard that it is also very rich! ”

Wang Mingshan said: "Master Wang doesn't have to regret it, Commander Peng has already taken it into account. Do you know that our Pacific Fleet sent this time, not only our 18 warships, but also 10 large and medium-sized cruisers, etc., which detoured to South America a long time ago and rushed to the Gulf of Mexico, should have sent troops at this moment, preparing to land from the port of Mobile in Alabama, attack the two states of Alabama and Mississippi, give the Southern Union a little color, collect some interest, and force it to withdraw from the action against the United Kingdom of Hexi! ”

Wang Haiyang exclaimed, "Really? But several infantry divisions of the Sixth Field Corps have all been deployed, and which infantry division can be deployed? Could it be that even the troops of other field regiments have been transferred? Wang still thought that the General Staff was only sending our Sixth Field Corps to attack the United States this time. ”

"Not bad! This time, the emperor attached great importance to the United Kingdom of Hexi, and specially transferred 2 infantry divisions from the 1st field and 1 infantry division, artillery division, and special divisions from the 2nd field, with a total of about 50,000 troops, divided into several batches to come to the United States. Wang Mingshan said: "With the addition of the 2nd and 8th Infantry Divisions of your six fields, as well as the 1st Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division of the Sixth Field Corps in the early stage, in this way, there will be as many as 7 infantry divisions in the entire American continent, as well as an artillery division and a special division, which is more than the entire Nanyang and Southeast Peninsula." ”