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Although Ma Jiyuan didn't see the battle process clearly, the result of the battle was clear, as evidenced by the dead bodies everywhere outside Anjiang Gate.

Ma Jiyuan said with a smile: "General Zhao, your new army is really well-trained, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has always been good at cavalry shooting, and now he has met a nemesis, and now the emperor's Northern Expedition is just around the corner!" Ma Jiyuan was happy in his heart and called the general to Zhao Guodong.

Knowing that, Zhao Guodong pouted and said: "Lord Governor, this is nothing, there is a regiment of 3,000 people guarding outside Anjiang Gate, plus dozens of cannons, so that the Qing army will rush out and apologize for his own crimes!" ”

Zhang Liang and a few admirals listened to Zhao Guodong blowing the conch in the back and pouted, you Zhao dog can really blow, you really have a cow that doesn't blow a camel. The Qing cavalry attacked your fortified positions, and if you can't win the battle, your entire army will commit suicide.

Ma Jiyuan didn't know that Zhang Liang was secretly scolding the army here, he only knew that he had just arrived and saw the army's complete victory, and he was happy in his heart.

"General Zhao, when will the artillery be ready? After all, it's the first day of junior high school, and there are still 14 days left until the 15th! ”

"Please rest assured, Your Excellency!" Zhao Guodong pointed to the transport team on the side of the canal and said: "The overnight preparation of the brothers under the last general has built an improvised road from the river to the position, and it is estimated that all the cannons will be transported to the gun position today!" The next step depends on whether the navy brothers can fight accurately! After Zhao Guodong finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Liang who was standing behind.

The Navy's 21-pounder gun weighed 3,000 catties, and there was no gun carriage that could fit it, and the wooden gun carriage could not bear the weight of 3,000 catties. Therefore, Zhao Guodong built a simple wooden steel-clad track between the wharf and the position, modeled on the Guangdong Iron and Steel Plant, which solved the problem of artillery transportation.

However, this simple track is not so easy to build, thanks to the poor road construction in the Ming Dynasty, all the roads out of Yangzhou City are dirt roads, and there is no roadbed or anything at all. In addition, there has been a great war here in Yangzhou for more than a month, and tens of thousands of people have walked back and forth, and the original small road has already become a muddy road. After the fleet arrived last night, Zhao Guodong found that the cannon arrived but could not get off the ship, which was a death to Zhao Guodong.

However, at the critical moment, a porter attached to the second division came up with an idea, that is, to build a simple track in the style of a steel mill.

Zhu Hongsan has 15,000 combatants in each division-level unit, but this is not all, there are also more than 10,000 logistics units in the battle, and these people are usually responsible for ensuring the logistics supply of a division, as well as various earthwork tasks during the battle, and there is nothing that cannot be left on the front line. However, when it comes to the critical time, these people will become reserve forces, which can be regarded as a supplement to the main force, which is also the reason why Zhu Hongsan spent three million silver dollars to form each division, after all, there are nearly 30,000 people in one division, and those logistics troops usually have to participate in training, and it can be explained by spending a lot of money!

The porter was originally a worker in a steel mill, and he was tempted to join the army because he could get a share of land, but he could only stay in the logistics unit first, and now he saw the sad face of the commander before he told his suggestion.

Zhao Guodong was overjoyed when he found out, and immediately promoted a second lieutenant platoon commander to the porter, and asked him to lead people to start building this simple track.

The second lieutenant took thousands of men to level the land overnight, and then brought bricks and rubble outside the Anjiang Gate to fill the puddle, and laid iron-clad rails on top of it, so that a small track of less than four miles was built.

With this thing, the speed of transportation has been greatly accelerated, and thirty artillery pieces have been transported in one morning, and Zhao Guodong estimates that all the artillery can be transported by dark, and it will be loaded on the gun position at dawn tomorrow.

Ma Jiyuan nodded again and again after hearing Zhao Guodong's words, turned around and asked Zhang Liang: "Admiral Zhang, if the artillery is installed, do you guarantee that you can blast open the city wall in five days?" ”

Zhang Liang hurriedly replied: "It's totally possible, but the last general wants to ask Admiral Zhao, where are we going to bombard?" After all, Yangzhou City is one of the strongest cities in the world, and it is easy to pick a weak place to start! ”

Zhao Guodong pointed to a city gate in the southeast corner of Yangzhou City and said, "Start with Xu Ning Gate!" We have found Yangzhou locals, this section of the city wall of Xu Ningmen was repaired by the city wall of the Song Dynasty during the Jiajing period, the outside is the best city bricks, and the rammed earth inside is from the Song Dynasty, which is very unstable for hundreds of years, and the thickness of the city wall of Xu Ningmen is only seven or eight zhang, which is far better than the Anjiang Gate! Our army has been shelling this section of the city wall for the past month, and a lot of wall bricks have been blown off outside, so it's up to your navy to do the next! ”

Zhang Liang looked up at the section of the city wall that Zhao Guodong was referring to, that section of the city wall was in the middle of nowhere, and there were no buildings outside the city, but it was a good place.

After Zhang Liang asked the location, he arched his hand and said: "Please rest assured, Your Excellency, the last general will go back to organize and arrange now, and you will definitely not delay your affairs!" After Zhang Liang finished speaking, he took himself down and rushed to the artillery position to arrange.

Ma Jiyuan watched Zhang Liang leave, and said to Zhao Guodong: "General Zhao, the navy has made a guarantee, are you ready here?" ”

"Lord Governor, our army is ready, as soon as the city wall is broken, it will attack the city immediately, and the last general has already transferred five regiments and 15,000 men to prepare to capture the city!"

Ma Jiyuan is a civil official, he is good at administration, he doesn't understand this kind of war, the emperor sent him only to be a nominal commander-in-chief, as for the details, the generals of the army and navy still need to arrange. Now Ma Jiyuan saw that the army and navy had arranged everything, and said with appreciation: "Okay, brothers, everyone knows the importance of Yangzhou to the Beijing Division, so Yangzhou must be taken down, and the other governors will not talk about it, the governors are waiting for your good news here!" ”

Zhang Liang led his men back to the fort on the hill, which was now busy, and the navy soldiers were in full swing to build the fort. Navy artillery is different from army artillery, naturally this battery cannot be built, so the navy can only do it themselves. In order to catch up with the schedule, all 1,000 people from the navy were put into construction, and some officers also took off their clothes and joined the labor.

Zhang Liang came to a half-built fort and shouted, "Brothers! Brothers! ”

Zhang Liang is the admiral of the navy, and when all the naval soldiers saw that the chief officer had something to say, they stopped what they were doing and gathered around Zhang Liang!

Looking at the sweaty naval soldiers, Zhang Liang shouted: "Everyone knows what's going on!" Now Yangzhou City is in front of us, and the army can't beat these wastes and has to blame us, and now we are here! Let the army see the combat effectiveness of our navy! ”

Zhang Liang's words caused a burst of laughter from the navy, not all of them were navy on the hill, and there were some army forces who helped, but the leader was only a company commander, he was soft-spoken, but he didn't dare to say anything, only secretly scolded these water rats who didn't understand the rules in his heart!

Zhang Liang and the other soldiers laughed and then said: "But Lao Tzu and you ugly said in the front, Lao Tzu has already made a guarantee in front of the governor, and he will definitely open the city wall of Yangzhou within five days, and cut off my Zhang Shuiyu's head if he doesn't complete the task!" But don't worry, before I lose my head, I cut off the heads of the two of you, the first mate cut the first mate, the first mate cut the second mate, and the second mate cut the boatswain, the boatswain is cutting you, and none of them can run anyway! Did you know? ”

All the naval soldiers shouted loudly under the leadership of the two pipe belts: "Please rest assured, Lord Admiral, we will definitely complete the mission, and we will not let Lord Governor cut off Lord Admiral's head, and our head will be able to stay!" ”

Because the navy has been adrift at sea for many years, the robe Ze has a lot of feelings, and now these guys are also funny when they listen to Zhang Liang!

Zhang Liang scolded: "Okay, everyone work!" Wait for Yangzhou Lao Tzu to give everyone half a month off, drink and prostitute horses, don't forget Lao Tzu! ”

All the navy soldiers laughed and began to work hard, and Zhang Liang also took the lead, took off his beautiful official uniform, and worked with these brothers.

With the help of the navy and the army, the heavy artillery fort outside Yangzhou was finally repaired on the night of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and all the artillery was installed.

These heavy artillery have become Ma Jiyuan's heart, and on the morning of the second day of the new year, before dawn, he brought several generals of the army to the fort to prepare to test the artillery.

Ma Jiyuan saw that the heavy artillery tower was divided into two layers, all the cannons had been installed, and the black and bright cannon body was reflected by the morning sun.

Ma Jiyuan had been a magistrate and had also guarded the city, and the cannons he had seen were all made of bronze, and they were larger than these naval cannons, and now he saw that the naval cannons were smaller than the bronze, and he couldn't help asking: "Admiral Zhang, isn't this cannon bronze?" ”

Zhang Liang used to be a water bandit, how do you know what material the cannon is, but he talked to some masters of the factory when he received the warship in Guangdong, and he knew some fur.

"My lord, we are short of copper in Guangdong, the cost of a copper cannon can be cast into three steel cannons, and the steel cannon is light and powerful, since His Majesty developed iron ore in Qiongzhou, our cannons have been replaced with steel cannons!"

Hearing the words Qiongzhou Iron Mine, Ma Jiyuan's heart hurt, his second son Ma Shaoji died there.

Zhang Liang didn't know Ma Jiyuan's sadness, and then said: "My lord, this steel cannon has many advantages, it is lightweight, has a long range, and is powerful, but it has a shortcoming, it is not durable. The last general heard from those cannon casting masters that this kind of steel cannon has a lifespan, each one can only shoot about 200 times, and after the service life, it will be returned to the furnace to be made, which is very troublesome! ”

Ma Jiyuan was stunned when he heard Zhang Liang say this, what if these cannons exploded halfway through use?

"Admiral Zhang, these cannons...

Seeing Ma Jiyuan say this, Zhang Liang hurriedly said: "Don't worry, my lord, these cannons are all new guns, and they were newly replaced when they went north from Nanyang last year!" ”

Ma Jiyuan was relieved when he heard Zhang Liang say this, nodded and said, "Okay, now that the sun is rising, Admiral Zhang will start testing the cannon!" ”