To the right of the Vickers fortress is the jungle-dense, water-soaked valley of the Yazu River, which is crisscrossed with numerous backflows and swamps, and it is extremely dangerous for warships to go down.

Wang Mingshan proposed that the fleet try to march from the right side, through the jungles and swamps of the Yazu River valley, and encircle Vicksburg from the flank. However, after tentatively dispatching three warships, it was found that as long as a fleet of more than five warships could turn around in the river valley, Wang Mingshan's suggestion could not be implemented.

To the left of Vicksburg is the mountains. However, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion found that there were some relatively flat beaches in the immediate vicinity of Vicksburg, and if they marched south of Vicksburg along the west bank of the Mississippi River, crossed the river into a slightly flatter beach, and then went around the back to attack the fort, there was hope of capturing.

To this end, Peng Yulin formulated a bold and risky battle plan, he sent Wang Haiyang with 5,000 soldiers, turned back, and attacked Clay Brow from the flat area of the Mississippi River more than 60 kilometers downstream, preparing to pass through the heart of Mississippi along the way, blowing up bridges, demolishing railroads, and destroying transportation, and destroying Mississippi to the earth.

At the same time, he sent people to make a detour to Jackson City to spread rumors that a large number of Chinese Imperial captives had marched south from the Louisiana border, and the Confederate ** team was distracted.

At the same time, Peng Yulin personally led the two main forces of Xi Baotian and Shi Zhengao down the west bank of the Mississippi River, found a flat beach south of Grand Bay, and prepared to attack.

After making proper preparations, Peng Yulin deliberately chose a rainy night, turned off the lights of all warships, and ordered all steam engines to be turned off, just to let all warships and troop carriers open their sails, and let many soldiers quietly pull boats on the riverbank, and slowly and silently sailed the warships up the river. Because the wind of the storm was strong, it was in the direction of the upstream, and the current was not very turbulent, although the sailboat was going upstream, it was relatively smooth.

By the time the fleet was halfway through, the sky began to light up, and the sentries on Vicksburg immediately noticed a problem in the river beneath the cliffs.

Pemberton, the commander stationed in the fort, received the report and immediately ordered an attack.

Suddenly, Vicksburg fired a volley of guns and bullets, attacking the fleet, and because it was pitch black, there was no accuracy. However, one troop carrier was damaged by artillery hits.

Peng Yulin also immediately ordered the entire fleet to immediately open up at full speed and move forward quickly, preparing to rush directly through the defensive area of the fortress. At this time, the speed of the ship increased, and the fleet rushed through the batteries one after another. Although the dense artillery fire passed through the fleet, fortunately, after rushing upstream, the fleet inspection found that only one transport ship had been destroyed, one frigate and four troop carriers were injured, the others were intact, and the entire fleet rushed through the fort battery blockade area largely unharmed.

Immediately afterwards, Peng Yulin led the fleet into the flat river beach, and without reconnaissance, he directly and boldly led three divisions of nearly 27,000 soldiers to rush to the back of Vicksburg.

Pemberton hurriedly led his troops out to meet the attack, but because the weapons of these Southern Alliance ** teams were relatively backward smoothbore guns and smoothbore guns, compared with the infantry division of the field regiment led by Peng Yulin's men, which had become elite, it was far behind.

The rifles worn by Pemberton's Southern Confederate army in Vicksburg were still breech rifles, the best officers used only Colt naval pistols, and even some were flintlock muskets with an effective range of only 400-500 yards, and the best Enfield P1853 front-loading rifled rifles had an effective range of only about 600-700 yards.

In particular, the breech smoothbore guns had to stand up straight and charge, and the soldiers of the Southern Army were accustomed to the form of war, so they lined up in a dense formation and rushed towards the Chinese Imperial Capture Army.

On Peng Yulin's side, almost most of them are equipped with the latest Mauser breech-loading rifled rifles, with an effective firing range of 900 yards, far exceeding that of the Confederate Army. The most important thing is that because it is a rear-loading rifled rifle, it is loaded with customized copper-shelled bullets, which can be quickly loaded directly on the ground, whether it is effective range, accuracy, and firing frequency, it far exceeds the enemy.

At this moment, the artillery of both sides has not yet been revealed, only a few field guns have been erected sporadically and have begun to fire.

After a crackling burst of gunfire, the Confederate soldiers who rushed towards them were dumbfounded, and then fell into fear. I saw that the soldiers of the Southern Alliance Army who rushed to the front fell in rows as the guns rang out, like wheat straw being harvested, and the originally dense offensive formation, starting from the outermost outer, shrank in circles and became sparse.

Pemberton in the rear was completely dumbfounded!

He hurriedly told the infantrymen who were charging in front to slow down and retreat, and at the same time hurriedly asked the artillerymen to set up their guns and prepare for the artillery battle.

To his disappointment, most of the Southern Alliance troops used bronze smoothbore guns. Before they could open fire, the small-caliber Krupp camp field guns on Peng Yulin's side had already begun to be erected and opened fire violently, this kind of artillery was already light in weight and easy to set up.

Dozens of shells hit and bombarded the artillery camp of the Southern Alliance Army, and immediately people turned their backs, and then the artillery of the Southern Alliance Army also began to return fire, and the gap between the two sides was immediately manifested.

Overhead of the Confederate troops, shells rained down. The league ** team was beaten so that they couldn't raise their heads, their eardrums were still shaking from the last artillery, and the second round of fire came again, and they were completely beaten and powerless. After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the troops of the Southern Alliance suddenly found that their side had lost more than 2,000 people, and the Chinese Emperor's ** team on the other side was only killed and wounded dozens of people by artillery.

And at this time, Pemberton understood the difference in weapons and firepower between the ** team of the Southern League and the ** team of the Chinese Emperor. He hurriedly ordered all the soldiers to retreat back to Vicksburg. But Peng Yulin would not make it so easy for them.

Peng Yulin personally led the 4th Infantry Division of Liuye, and Xi Baotian and Shi Zhen Gao also led the 8th Infantry Division and the 2nd Infantry Division respectively, forming three directions, charging the Southern Alliance Army that was preparing to return to the fortress, relying on the range of muskets to continuously pursue the enemy, and killing and wounding thousands of Southern Alliance troops, which allowed Pemberton and other Southern Alliance troops to hide in the fortress.

At the same time, Peng Yulin, who was a little anxious, led Xi Baotian and Shi Zhengao to besiege Vickersburg from the three flanks of the hinterland of the fortress, but at this moment, the Vickers Fort was tightly guarded, and the terrain was peculiar, in this siege battle, the weapon advantage of the Chinese Emperor's ** team could not be exerted like a field encounter, and the range of the artillery in Vickersburg still exceeded the range of the Mauser rifles in the hands of the soldiers of the Chinese Empire, and many soldiers who rushed in front were killed and injured by the artillery of Vickersburg, In desperation, Peng Yulin could only send troops to uproot all the strongholds on the periphery of Vicksburg, and besiege the remaining 23,000 soldiers of the Southern Confederate State in Vicksburg and completely blockade them.

At this point, the duel between the two Peng is basically over, and the situation in Vicksburg has been controlled by Peng Yulin.