Feng Yunshan originally wanted to consolidate his territory, wait for the civil administration to be better, lay a solid foundation, and then expand his power, but the Taiping Army's rapid march faster than a thousand miles in history completely made Feng Yunshan's plan come to naught. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He had to passively accept reality and adjust quickly.

At this time, the newly restructured captive army, the main elite, did not have time for intensive training. However, this just confirms Feng Yunshan's sentence: The method of training soldiers well is to go to the battlefield to fight on the ground, and those who survive are elite soldiers.

Although this is a bit cruel, it is indeed effective. The Minzhuang and Heaven and Earth Congregations who originally participated in the Taiping Holy Army in Daozhou and Guiyang Chenzhou have grown into a fierce army with a strong murderous aura after dozens of large and small battles.

On the tenth day of the second lunar month, after less than two days of hasty preparations, 10,000 soldiers of the 1st Division of B, under the leadership of the division commander He Lu, set off from the east gate of Guangzhou City, went to the wharf and took a boat along the Beijiang River, rushed to Shaozhou Mansion, and met with hundreds of local Shaozhou soldiers who were guides there.

The naval warship fleet composed of the 5th Division A led by Luo Xuan and the 5th Division B led by Liang Peiyou, transported to Lin Fengxiang's 1st Division A and Chen Yucheng's 3rd Division, had already bypassed the waters of Hong Kong Island and came to the waters of Dapeng Bay.

The Governor of Hong Kong Island, although he knew that this was the rebel sailor, was waging a war against the Manchus, but from under his nose, the fleet of ships was mighty, although most of the ships were still small wooden sailing ships, but the number of them was still terrifying.

The Dapeng Association of the Guangdong Naval Division was stationed on the Dapeng Peninsula, and the general Li Zhide, who led the troops, was Li Jianwei's father, and he had already sent someone to express his surrender. As soon as the naval division of the captive army arrived in Dapeng Bay, Li Zhide sent two small boats with white flags to meet them.

Luo Xuan is not afraid of any ambushes, in the face of his absolute overwhelming strength, even if there are any conspiracies, he can't help himself. Just kidding, not counting Lin Fengxiang and Chen Yucheng's land soldiers, there are more than 20,000 sailors led by himself and Liang Peiyou, plus the ships that transport the land division, there are nearly 800 large and small warships, not to mention those few Western warships that are huge enough to completely crush the Qingshui Division.

Li Zhide is a military general in his forties and was born in the army. He was tall and burly, and he was a bit like a scholar's son, Li Jianwei, two completely different types.

Li Zhide really surrendered sincerely, of course, his subordinates did not want to die in vain, and they were all in favor of surrendering and begging for the army. However, for the dozens of Manchu banner officers and soldiers in the Dapeng Association, because they were all his subordinates and had been with each other for many years, they always had some affection, but Li Zhide did not do anything about it, but sent them away by land in advance pretending to be ordinary people.

Luo Outline learned that not only did he not blame Li Zhide, but he thought that Li Zhide was a lover, plus he was about the same age, and they were both sailor generals, and for a while, the two quickly became acquainted with each other, like brothers.

Li Zhide was grateful for Luo Xuan's kindness, and his wife and children were all in Guangzhou, so he volunteered, selected 500 henchmen, led more than ten main warships, and immediately led the sailors to continue along the coast and march eastward.

The remaining 1,500 soldiers were transferred back to Guangzhou to accept the unified arrangement of the Holy King. The Dapeng Association Battalion and Shuizhai Fort were all temporarily taken over by the garrison of Bao'an County. At the same time, in order to be able to take over the new territory at any time, Luo Xuan called the warships of the Dapeng Association as transport ships and rushed to the border of Bao'an County, preparing to pick up the 4,500 soldiers of the 3rd Brigade of the B 3rd Brigade who were waiting there, follow the back of the main battle fleet, and take over all the way.

Li Zhide told the highest-ranking general, Luo Xuan, that not far ahead, there were two counties of Haifeng and Lufeng in Huizhou Prefecture, which were close to the sea, and the county seats were all from the estuary of the river, and large warships could directly approach the county seat. These two counties basically have no city defense, that is, hundreds of local city flood soldiers, as long as the fleet is together, it is estimated that they will immediately abandon the city and flee.

In order to save time, and at the same time, try to let those urban flood soldiers flee less, so as not to cause disaster to the village. Luo Xuan decided to separate from Liang Peiyou's two armies, and pounced on Haifeng and Lufeng counties at the same time, and immediately besieged the county seat with lightning speed and forced the county to surrender.

Unexpectedly, the county order of Haifeng was very tough, and the Qing soldiers and people in the city were organized to counterattack with guns and earth cannons.

This can annoy the capture army, Luo Xuan ordered the five warships of the Fifth Division and dozens of Red Dan warships, directly surrounded the county seat, covered it with artillery and then poured shells in turn, after a stick of incense, several white cloths were hung on the city tower of Haifeng County that was blown up as white flags. Seeing that the Qing army in the city surrendered, Luo Xuan asked the warship to stop the meeting, and sent people up to inquire, it turned out to be the people in the city and the congregation of heaven and earth, and directly arrested several officials and county officials, opened the city gate, and invited Luo Xuan and them to enter the city to rest.

Luo Xuan sent the green battalion soldiers in the city to escort them to Guangzhou, and asked the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade to divide some and enter the county seat of Haifeng County to settle the people. The 5th Division he led did not even get off the ship, but turned the bow of the ship and continued to march east along the coast.

Then, the naval divisions of the two armies joined forces, lined up in an arc formation for a month, and slaughtered the Jieshi Naval Division Battalion where the Jieshi Water Division General Military Administration of the Guangdong Water Division was located.

According to the establishment, there should have been more than 3,000 people in the Jieshi Naval Division, even if the Qing army was seriously paid empty salaries, there should always be thousands of people, but where are the remaining water divisions at this time? The 5th Division fired two rounds of shells from the 5th class warship and the wooden sailing gunboat, which had the longest range of artillery, and was in the middle of the naval division's camp, but there was no one in the empty ground, and the warship at the dock was nowhere to be seen.

Luo Xuan and the others sent several small boats to check and found that the entire camp was empty. continued to expand the scope of the search, and finally, more than 100 people were found in a cave, but they were the old, weak, sick and disabled people in the sailor.

It turned out that Wu Yuanyou, the commander of the sailor who fled here, knew that the rebel sailor was menacing, so he ordered the sailor of Jieshi Town in advance to retreat to the camp of the sailor in Nanao Town with him.

Luo Xuan understood as soon as he heard it.

According to the intelligence analysis of the General Staff of the Capture Army, the Nanao Zhenshui Division belongs to both Guangdong and Fujian provinces. There are no subordinate battalions under it, all of them are this standard, a total of five battalions, a total of 3,500 people. It is divided into two parts, the left part is subordinate to Fujian, and the right part is subordinate to Guangdong.

Obviously, Wu Yuanyou, the commander of the Guangdong Water Division, was shrinking his forces and gathering them. In addition, it also led the disaster to the Fujian sailors, so that they also had to come to help.

It seems that there will be a fierce battle in South Australia!

easily occupied Jieshi, a heavy place in coastal defense, and Lu Fengcheng in Jieshi Bay next to it was like an egg peeled open, begging the captive army to eat it casually.

Maybe he didn't feel much energy, but for the small city of Lufeng, Luo Xuan had no interest, and directly asked Liang Peiyou's Fifth Division to come forward and occupy it.

Although the 5th Division did not have Western warships, there were many red and single warships in the division, and most of them were large ships, and although there were not many guns on each warship, they added up to an astonishing number.

It is also that the Luohe River outside Lufeng City is too narrow, and the red single warships are lined up in a row, and they are so densely packed that they can barely squeeze nearly a hundred, and they can't put it if they squeeze it any more, and they are worried about being attacked by fire.

However, after the guns of the Red Dan battleship were fired at the same time, Liang Peiyou, who had always envied the Western warship on Luo Xuan's side, only to find out at this time that the Red Dan battleship was actually quite good, as long as the tactics were proper and the firepower was concentrated.

Of course, this is also because there are only a few earth cannons in Lufeng County to defend it, and it is not moving, so that Liang Peiyou's red single boat can arrange the artillery formation in an orderly manner, if it is really a naval battle, it will not be so smooth.

The county commander of Lufeng, who was going to wait and see, asked people to open the city gate in a panic at this time, and knelt outside the city gate and shouted his wish to surrender, just begging not to hurt the people, and he didn't know whether he really loved the people or was afraid of death acting and loving the people, but Liang Peiyou was a rough man, and no matter what his purpose was, he was escorted to Guangzhou City along with other Qing soldiers in the city.

The rest of the follow-up to garrisoning the county seat and sweeping the surrounding towns and villages was handed over to the officers and men of the 3rd Brigade who arrived later.

The officers and men of the 1st and 3rd Divisions of the First and Third Divisions, who were sitting in the cabin, did not even get off the ship under the orders of the division commander, and directly became passers-by.

The army of the captives to the east set off overnight and drove to Nanao Island, where the Nanao Navy Division was stationed.

This time, the strategic arrangement was not drawn up by Luo Xuan, but was drawn up by two staff officers of the General Staff Headquarters after discussing them with the staff officers of the 5th and 5th Divisions and the 5th Division B, as well as with several foreigners who had surrendered.

The people of the General Staff, at the suggestion of those British naval officers, named all the warships with more than 10 large guns in the entire naval division, and gave them the same title as people. It is said that it is so easy to command.

The captured fifth-class warship was regarded as the flagship of the Fifth Army, and because it was captured by the Humen Fort, it was named "Humen"; The two wooden sailing boats, because one was captured by Chen Kaiyi's army and the other was captured by Chen Yucheng, happened to be captured when they were captured and hit four holes, so one was called "Chen Kai" and the other was called "Four Eyes"; Another fast warship was damaged by the Shajiao Fort because of its really fast speed, so it was called "Feisha", a steam-armed merchant ship, which was temporarily completely used by the original warship, because it was a steam engine, the staff members named it "Iron Bull".

The new plan was to make appropriate changes to the original plan, that is, to directly land the 1st Division and the 3rd Division in Huilai County, capture Huilai, and then continue to capture Puning and Jieyang, and finally besiege the capital city of Chaozhou.

The sailors, on the other hand, did not alarm the coastal Chaoyang and Chenghai counties, but directly besieged the Nanao sailors. The troops were divided into two routes, one was served by the 5th Division B, which took the initiative to attack in the west of Nanao Island, and the other way, the main force of the 5th Division led by Luo Gang went around to the east of Nanao Island to intercept the Qing army's naval division and flee to Fujian.

After the arrangement was completed, Luo Xuan ordered the five captured British warships to take the lead and take the lead in attacking the naval division on Nanao Island. (To be continued.) )