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Almost as soon as the fleet appeared on the river, the Taiping batteries in Lion Rock and other places opened fire on the river fleet, and the shelling on both sides never stopped in the past few hours.

The rebels were extremely familiar with the Taiping army's forts in Jiuhuanzhou, Lion Rock, Tiger Mountain and other places, not only because the 12-pounder, 18-pounder, 24-pounder and 48-pounder guns used in their forts were either old goods eliminated by the rebels or cast by Daye Iron Works, but more importantly, when the artillery of these batteries was installed, the Nanjing office participated in the whole process of their installation.

It is precisely because of this that the Taiping army spent more than 3 million taels to place more than 400 artillery batteries around Nanjing, which was completely transparent to the righteous army, without the slightest cover.

Because the navy has continuously strengthened its artillery training in the past few years, compared with the beginning, the navy's artillery skills and the artillery cover of protecting land and sea have reached the point of perfection. And now in the face of the batteries built by the Taiping Army, the gunners on the warships will always guide the gunners and remove those batteries one by one with powerful direct firepower.

With the deafening sound of artillery, the muzzle of the cannon spit out a ball of orange flames, and the black gunpowder smoke turned into white smoke in the air, and soon, the entire fleet was shrouded in a white smoke, and in the fierce artillery fire, the batteries of the Taiping army were quickly swallowed up by the black gunsmoke.

All of a sudden, all the batteries were enveloped by gunsmoke and explosions, and the sky above the batteries was enveloped by the strange whistling sound of shells breaking through the air.

The sharp sound of breaking the air sounded in the air, dragging the whistling sound and flying towards the target, those shells made of steel of different calibers made all kinds of different whistling sounds, falling on the fort, the explosion raised dense smoke and fireworks, the shells that fell into the trenches also threw people's limbs, for the Taiping officers and soldiers on the fort, at this time they were like being in hell, in the violent explosion, steel fragments flying at several times the speed of sound flew on the fort, harvesting people's lives everywhere, Anyone who stands in its way will be torn to shreds.

At this time, the cannon power and bunker made of masonry and stone had completely changed its appearance, and the huge masonry was blown into the sky in the smoke of gunpowder, and everything was distorted.

The real spectacle is the "Fenghai" and four Zhenzi-class river gunboats, the grenades fired by the 254 mm naval guns, although the two warships have a huge difference in the diameter of the gun barrels, but the grenades they use are exactly the same, the 363 kg high-explosive grenades are loaded with more than 50 kg of bitter acid explosives and medicine, although their rate of fire is extremely slow, only one shell will be fired every few minutes, but whenever the shuffling sound that drags the sharp and dull roar like the whistle of a steam turbine disappears on the battery, a "tree" is hugeWhen the explosion of smoke rises into a huge smoke cloud, there will be a gun carriage in the smoke cloud so that the cannon body will travel in the air, and even the powder kegs that are blown up into the sky will explode in the air, like bright fireworks.

After each violent explosion, the ground shook during the explosion and the Taiping defenders on the fort were exposed to the waves, which were the waves produced by the explosion, and many people were even directly shocked to death by the violent shock wave, they did not seem to have any wounds on the surface, but their internal organs were already shattered.

During the shelling of the naval guns, thousands of high-explosive grenades exploded and burned on the large and small batteries of Jiuhuanzhou, Lion Rock, Tiger Mountain, etc., and the scorching flames detonated the powder kegs on the batteries, causing further casualties, and in the explosion smoke cloud of picric acid, even many leaves were yellowed by the smoke cloud - that was the residue of explosives.

The Taiping gunners on the battery would have no idea what to do, they just fled in all directions to dodge the shells that kept falling from their heads, only a few of them, and some of them fired shells into the river. Those shells were tickling.

When a small column of water rose near the warship, Wen Zishao didn't even frown, and under the bombardment of the fleet, the Taiping army didn't even have the strength to fight back.

"They're finished!"

Putting down the telescope in his hand, Wen Zishao said in an extremely flat tone.

"When all these batteries are blown up, the army troops can land directly in the area of Yifengmen. It's too slow to attack from the outer city! ”

Many people only know that the city wall of Nanjing is tall, but many people do not know that there is a city wall outside Nanjing, which is known as 180 li, and the parts of each section made of bricks add up to about 40 li, and the height of the outer earth city is about 8-10 meters, and the width of the upper part is 6-8 meters.

At the beginning, the Taiping army attacking by water bypassed the Waiguo city wall and attacked Nanjing from Yifengmen.

However, compared with the weak strength of the Qing army defenders in Nanjing, the current so-called Taiping army in Nanjing cannot be said to be strong, in addition to the so-called 200,000 "heavenly soldiers", there are thousands of large and small cannons inside and outside the city, although most of them are self-cast earthen cannons, but for the attacking troops, it is also a trouble.

In particular, most of the guns on those batteries were "foreign guns" sold to them in the past few years, which were extremely powerful and a great threat to ships. Because of this, the task of the naval fleet now is to destroy the Taiping battery, paving the way for the landing of army troops.

Everything went as smoothly as planned, and while the navy was bombarded, the marines rowing in small boats landed on the pier outside Yifeng Gate and captured the pier without a fight. Positions were immediately established immediately afterwards.

"This is Nanjing!"

Hiding in a broken wall, Qian Fakui stared at the towering city wall in the distance, and it was the first time he had seen such a tall city wall when he was over forty years old.

"This wall is tender and high......"

Muttering this, he did not forget his duty, and when an enemy appeared behind the earthen wall in the middle of the street, he immediately raised his gun, took aim, fired, and in the back seat of the gun, through the smoke from the muzzle, he could even see a cloud of blood when the bullet pierced the enemy.

11 mm lead bullet will quickly deform after hitting an object, Qian Fakui once saw people killed by "made in Hanyang", the exit of the bullet is the size of a palm, as long as it is hit, either death or cruelty.

"Whoa!"

When the bolt was pulled, a glittering bullet case was drawn from the gun body and fell to the ground, the Marine Corps was the first unit to replace the Hanyang rifle with metal fixed ammunition, compared to the paper shell bullet, the metal fixed ammunition almost does not occur due to moisture and cannot be fired, of course, its cost is higher, and because of this, now only a few troops such as the Marine Corps use.

Taking out a bullet from the cowhide cartridge box and loading it into the chamber, Qian Fakui, as the platoon commander, shouted at his comrades beside him.

"The first shift leaps forward, and the second and third shifts alternately cover ......"

As soon as his shout ended, a dozen soldiers with guns jumped forward along the street, under the cover of the building, while others covered the attack of their comrades in the rear, knocking the Taiping soldiers to the ground from the scorching bullets. Compared with the longitudinal tactics that are still being used by the army units, the Marine Corps has long begun to try the straggler tactics that can reduce casualties, and has developed a set of its own tactics in this way, and this is the first large-scale application in Nanjing.

Just when Qian Fakui was about to leap forward, when he saw clearly the Taiping Army pushing out the weapon, the whole person suddenly shuddered.

"Cannon, be careful......"

Almost as soon as his words fell, the muzzle of the cannon that had been pushed out of the earthen wall spewed out a cloud of white smoke, and hundreds of shotguns were sprayed from the white smoke. Shotguns covered half the street in an instant. So much so that several fighters who could not dodge immediately fell in a pool of blood.

"Hide ...... in situ"

While Qian Fakui and his soldiers stopped at the defensive position of the Taiping army, in the streets and alleys on the other side, hundreds of soldiers with guns under the leadership of Ma Shilong detoured through the streets and alleys to the rear of the Taiping army. As the most elite Marine unit in the Rebels, a new tactical reform is being implemented in the Marine Corps, just as now, while the troops attack from the front, two units will attack from the enemy's flank at the same time, thus forming a three-sided encirclement.

"Putting ......"

Dozens of meters from the street, Ma Shilong could hear gunfire coming from the street - the Taiping army had a huge number of muskets, and in the past few years, Fuzhong had exported more than 150,000 muskets, and in Nanjing, the Taiping army had more than half of its firearms. You can even hear the sound of cannons coming from the street, and the piercing sound of copper.

"There should be a 12-pound mountain grenade!"

Listening to the sound of artillery on the street, Ma Shilong sneered, he was no stranger to this kind of cannon, in fact, when the Marine Corps was first established, it was this 12-pound mountain grenade that was used, because of its light weight and great power. Later, these guns were replaced by light Han-style guns, and as for the obsolete mountain howitzers, they were naturally sold to others by arms dealers, and the Taiping army was probably the best trade partner - they never bargained.

Of course, Ma Shilong didn't know about this, and he only knew one thing now, that is, he had to take down this Taiping army immediately, and then seize the neighborhoods outside the city, only in this way could he take Nanjing.

"Ready!"

When the soldiers gathered behind him, Ma Shilong stretched out his right hand, he was quietly waiting for the opportunity, when there was another burst of gunfire on the street, this was the time he was waiting, this burst of gunfire meant that the Taiping army's guns were empty, and he immediately waved his hand violently.

"Rush!"

As soon as his words fell, the soldiers around him rushed into the street with their guns like tigers descending from the mountains, their rifles and their heads were bayonets glittering in the sunlight.

"Kill ......"

When the shouts of killing suddenly came from behind, the Taiping soldiers who were loading from the muzzles of their guns were completely stunned, they may have learned to shoot in line under the guidance of foreigners, but they have never learned to fight bayonets, and even those foreign adventurers who are not soldiers cannot tell them the role of bayonets, let alone tell them that the final victory in the battle is decided by bayonets.

When hundreds of marines in black uniforms with black cheeks blackened by gunpowder rushed with bayonets, these Taiping soldiers were even just scrambling to load bullets, and some even forgot that they had already loaded bullets or gunpowder, and while they were hurriedly loading, the marines who rushed to the front had rushed to their eyes.

"Kill!"

At the same time as the sudden assassination roar burst out from the soldier's throat, the two-foot-long bayonet stabbed into the chest of the Taiping army, the soldier did not hesitate to turn the gun slightly, and at the same time pulled out the bayonet, and stabbed at the frightened Taiping army around him, these past few years, at least thousands of assassination exercises were carried out every day, and the spear technique had long been soaked in their bones and blood to become their instinctive warriors, this is like a wolf that pounced into the flock, roaring with teeth and claws to stab the sharp bayonet into the enemy's body again and again.

The shouts of killing from the chest, the impact of the assassination, for a time the streets were full of blood splashes, screams and screams, those Taiping soldiers were simply vulnerable, and could even be described as a blow to collapse, just when these Taiping soldiers tried to flee backwards in horror, behind them, a group of vicious wolves rushed up.

"Kill ......"

When the bayonet sank into the enemy's chest, Qian Fakui could feel the sound of the bayonet piercing into the ribs, and he could also see the despair on the young face of the Taiping army, watching him grasp the bayonet with both hands, trying to block the desperate gaze when he stabbed into the chest, Qian Fakui did not have the slightest mercy, when the enemy fell softly, he stretched out his right leg and stepped on the opponent's chest, and pulled out the jammed bayonet, when he was about to assassinate again, he saw that those Taiping soldiers had already been killed and lost their hearts, and they threw away the knives and guns in their hands, Kneeling on the ground, shouting "spare your life".

The battle ended so quickly that the thousands of Taiping troops who had previously blocked the attack of the marines on the streets, but with a single effort, they immediately collapsed, gave up resistance, and threw the land outside the city outside the Yifeng Gate to the rebels. After the Marines took control of the same time, under the cover of the Navy, two infantry battalions of the 27th Regiment, which had been stationed on Chongming Island, then landed. It was the first army unit to arrive in Nanjing.

It was not until an hour later that the 1st Brigade made contact with the fleet at Dasheng Pass, and then the 1st Brigade took the fleet's ships across the outer city of Nanjing and came to Yifengmen.

After an interval of four years, once again, Yifengmen became the focus of the battle between the two armies. There are always amazing coincidences in history, just as four years ago, the Qing army defending Nanjing did things, and the Taiping army controlled the Yifeng Gate, and the Taiping army guarding Nanjing simply sat back and watched the righteous army occupy the city around the Yifeng Gate until Yuejiang Tower.

Under the cover of the ship's naval fire, the volunteer officers and soldiers in black uniforms continued to clean up the remnants of the ruins, and the remnants of the Taiping army who fled in the middle of the defeat chose to surrender without the slightest resistance.

Unlike four years ago, when the Taiping Army used a group of child soldiers brainwashed by "Little Heaven" as the main force to attack the city, Lin Yuqing, as the commander of the First Brigade, made another choice.

"All the pistols were concentrated in the 1st Battalion of the 1st Regiment! All pistols except for the cavalry company! Including my own pistol! ”

When this order was given, Lin Yuqing directly took off his belt and threw the two pistols into the carriage along with the belt and holster.

"When the time comes, a battalion will be used as a spearhead, with pistols and grenades as weapons, and when the bullets are finished, they will use bayonets! After the first battalion entered the city, the divisional cavalry battalion entered the ......"

When Lin Yuqing made arrangements one by one, a staff officer suddenly interjected.

"Sir, what about the city walls?"

Yes, what to do with the city wall of Nanjing?

"The city wall is handled by our navy, after we blow up the city wall, you only need to be responsible for the siege of the city, the enemy army in the city is not less than 150,000, what is our strength?"

Wearing a white navy uniform, Zhao Cunguo is extremely conspicuous in this group of officers wearing army black.

"Navy? It's not easy to open the walls with cannons! ”

"It depends on what kind of cannon is used?"

Zhao Cunguo said with a smile.

"Your army's artillery can't work, our naval artillery can't do it!"

When he spoke, his face was even more arrogant, after all, compared with the army's 88 mm field guns, the navy's warships often have more power than the 120 mm and 150 mm naval guns, and the navy has bigger big guys.

This was the source of his faith!

"Okay, wait until the walls are blown up! If you can blow up the city of Nanjing, then this siege will be the first achievement of your navy! ”

When Lin Yuqing conquered Nanjing under Lin Yuqing's confident words, Lu Shunde, the descendant of the Taiping Army's boat division, who was on the city wall hundreds of meters away, had a cloudy face on his face, and he held a telescope from time to time to observe the Han army under the city. From here, it can be clearly seen that more and more Han soldiers are boarding the pier in small boats at the pier.

"I guess there are about 10,000 or 20,000 people!"

Actually, there are not so many, after all, this area is too narrow to deploy such a number of troops, this is just an illusion, an illusion caused by too much tension.

At this time, the crumbling city wall was filled with the general pungent smell of gunpowder, and the screams of the wounded reached his ears from time to time. This is the tragic situation after the shelling of the Han army's naval division a quarter of an hour ago, and the two Western cannons that were originally placed on the city wall were blown up in the explosion - the cannon body is tilted, and it can no longer be aimed and fired!

"They're going to attack here......"

Looking at the blood stains under his feet, Lu Shunde could see the new bricks laid in some places - four years ago, the Taiping army blew up the Yifeng Gate, and compared to other places, this newly built city wall is not very strong. If it were him, he would attack here.

But how will they storm the city?

Looking at the dilapidated city wall, Lu Shunde was no longer as worried about the shelling as before, at least the previous shelling showed that even the Western fleet of the Han army had no way to blow up the city wall.

"Could it be that they have to dig tunnels too?"

Although he was worried about the situation outside the city, Lu Shunde always couldn't help but look at the city, although there was no news in the city until now, but he knew that something big must have happened in the city. Otherwise, it wouldn't, and until now there has been no will of the king of heaven.

"What the hell is going on?"

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