Chapter 359: The Gate of Space is established

"What's going on, how could the Commander give such an order."

"What about the captain, are we going to do what Lord Baimeng orders?"

"Stop the shelling and confirm with the flagship again, why is Lord Bai Meng doing this?"

"Nope! Even if Lord Baimeng's order is true, I will not do it, this is a betrayal of the Empire, this is irresponsible to all naval soldiers. Continuing the shelling, the Chu army sailors turned back and could not let this group of oriental monkeys approach. ”

Seeing that the Chu army retreated and re-attacked, many French soldiers had already realized that it was not good, and they and others might have fallen into the tricks of the Chu army, so after thinking about it, Lord Bai Meng might have an accident.

Because there was also movement in the flagship just now, there was a sudden sound of gunfire, and the flagship was changing.

Most of the French ships stopped shelling according to Bai Meng's order, and Omar Niu and the others had already understood that Yang Dongfang Yang envoy used that unstoppable magic trick again, and flew to the enemy ships, so they shelled those French ships that were still shelling.

The same was true for Yang Dongfang's side, the tacit soldiers violently adjusted their guns and shelled those French ships that did not obey orders.

At such a close distance, there was basically no need to aim, and the French ships that did not obey the order were quickly severely damaged and suffered heavy casualties, but they did not dare to fire on the flagship.

First, this is a violation of the military system, they have already disobeyed orders, and now they are attacking the chief officer's warship, which is tantamount to rebellion.

Part of the reason is that the color is already dark, and at such a close distance, it is easy to hit other friendly ships by hitting the flagship, which makes the already chaotic French ship group even more chaotic, and aggravates the melee, dragging all French ships into the battle, and they don't need outsiders to fight, and their own people will be wiped out.

So what they can do is to make a difference, to distance themselves from the flagship.

But where could they go on the narrow Touqian Creek, and there were enemies up and downstream.

Soon the warships that did not obey the order were sunk, and the rest of the French ships, led by Bai Meng, announced their surrender, lowered their flags, and the New People's Army and the Chu Army's sailors pedaled to control them

All the battleships, so far ten French warships were captured, and six battleships were sunk in front of the head of the creek.

As soon as the battle stopped here, the three French ships that were continuing to fight with the ironclad ship hurriedly fled, before they were four against two, they had not taken advantage, they did not know the power of the ironclad, they were shelling the ironclad, but did not achieve any results, but was sunk by the ironclad ship, and at this time they were even more seizing the way and fleeing.

However, in the end, another one was sunk, and only two ships, the Lucy and the Demon King, escaped and disappeared into the night, and the New People's Army was not pursuing.

On the third day, however, they met again with Omar's seven warships thirty kilometers off the northeastern Tamsui River, only to sink another Demon King.

Of course, that was later, at that time, the West and the Demon King converged with the two French ships of the Tamsui River, and they wanted to go to Keelung, and the four against seven were still defeated, and only the Lucy escaped.

As for the French infantry that landed, they surrendered after dawn the next day.

The detachment led by Bai Meng was basically wiped out, weakening most of the naval strength of the expeditionary French army, and the French army did not dare to attack Tamsui, and the Chu army was temporarily safe and began to regain Changhua in the south.

Not to mention the aftermath, Yang Dongfang took the people of the guard regiment ashore that night, generously handed over all the captured French ships to the Chu Army Naval Division, and asked Omar Niu and others to leave some people to help train and drive operations.

Following! Yang Dongfang and the others went straight to Tamsui City along the official road next to the bank of the Touqian Creek, and were warmly welcomed along the way.

Zuo Zongtang and Shen Baozhen took the initiative to go out of the city to greet them.

"Yang Dashuai, look, that one is our Zuo Shuai, and the one next to him is Lord Shen!" The official sent by Zuo Zongtang to pick up Yang Dongfang pointed to Zuo Zongtang and the others in the distance and explained, Yang Dongfang nodded with a smile, and then strode forward.

The sound of gongs, drums, and suona stopped, it was Zuo Zongtang who waved his hand and stood up alone, Yang Dongfang also signaled his subordinates to stop and walk forward tacitly, the two were less than three meters away, staring at each other.

didn't say a word for a long time, but laughed at the same time, or Zuo Zongtang said first: "Yang Dashuai is really a young hero, extraordinary in his instrument, courageous, Ji Gao admires, I won't say thank you, please enter the city to celebrate this victory for me!" ”

Yang Dongfang replied: "Zuo Shuai is also heroic and majestic, I have been friends for a long time, I didn't expect to meet Zuo Shuai here, Xinghua is also admired, and it is our duty to resist external humiliation with the descendants of China, please!" ”

The two politely spoke, excited and happy, and entered the city together to receive a warmer welcome, and the people on both sides of the street clapped their palms and praised.

The two of them went to the official residence, Yang Dongfang didn't ask anything else, he didn't worry about anything, let Zuo Zongtang lead the way, and the guests were as they pleased, which won the favor of the generals of the Chu army, and the evaluation of Yang Dongfang was much higher, after all, the two armies did not form an alliance, let alone a relationship between superiors and subordinates.

Therefore, in the face of Yang Dongfang's open-minded actions, I have to admire and secretly praise that it is no wonder that the New People's Army can develop to this point.

At the same time, he also roughly understood Zuo Zongtang's meaning, and did not have much scruples about joining the New People's Army, and both sides behaved very friendly during the day, and that night, Yang Dongfang and Zuo Zongtang and Shen Baozhen talked about Tianming, and after dawn, the news came out, and it seemed that there were many places where the Chu Army and the New People's Army had not been negotiated, and they broke up unhappily.

Yang Dongfang himself and the people of the guard regiment also suddenly disappeared from the island.

This matter spread quickly, causing a lot of repercussions, but fortunately, at this time there was a good news, the Chu army recaptured Changhua, and went south to recapture Chiayi, the French ships withdrew from Tainan, and they were unable to eat Taiwan, but they came up with a clever plan for themselves.

He took the initiative to send a messenger to reconcile with the Chu army, saying that he would not attack Taiwan, and wanted to form an alliance further, and was willing to fund the Chu army to resist the New People's Army, develop science and technology, and carry out industrial and technological exchanges.

At the same time, Zuo Zongtang Jianguo was proclaimed emperor, and for a while the Chu army and the French army became ambiguous.

This episode in Taiwan ended too quickly, and it was just that it came and went in a hurry, and this matter will not be mentioned for the time being.

After disappearing from Taiwan, Yang Dongfang went directly to Jiaxing, and then ran from Jiaxing to Hangzhou, then Zhoushan, Ningbo and other places.

Of course, it is more about visiting Feng Yuniang, paying tribute to some Western gadgets, winning a smile from the beauties, and comforting the happiness of leading the troops.

So after Feng Yuniang counted him down a few words, she praised him a few more words.

Just as he rushed to Ningbo and other places, and had just strengthened the coastal defense and sent artillery and ammunition, the French navy re-formed a joint fleet with the British navy and sailed up the southeast sea, but they did not provoke the Taiping army in Fujian, because that would be meaningless.

Instead, the first shot hit Ningbo, but was repelled by shore artillery, did not take advantage, and continued north to Zhoushan, Hangzhou, and then Shanghai, into the mouth of the Yangtze River, wanting to turn to Nanjing, to support the Huai army's Yangzhou, but in Jiangyin hit a nail, was blocked by the heavy artillery of the Jiangyin Fort, and the cooperation of the Sanjiang Naval Division counterattacked.

The two sides suffered mutual losses, and the number of British and French warships was far from the scale when they entered the South China Sea, so they did not dare to really fight a decisive battle with the New People's Army in the Yangtze River.

In order to preserve the advantage of the sea route, he had to withdraw from the Yangtze River, and at the same time, because the Manchu Qing had to continue north, escorting troop carriers, and rushing to Shandong with infantry to defend Jinan and Tianjin to help strengthen the Qing army.

Avoid the Yellow River being cut off by the New People's Army.

After the British and French battleships did not make a breakthrough in Zhejiang, Yang Dongfang did not stay long in Hangzhou and other places, and appeared directly in Nanjing.

At this time, Nanjing gathered a large number of soldiers and population, and after the end of the Jiangnan battlefield, the various measures of the New People's Army made the city and the city prosper rapidly.

First, it became the base for the offensive on the Eastern Front, second, the main communication route between Suzhou and Hangzhou was restored, and third, the Anqing Ordnance Institute was moved here, and at the same time, many processing plants were started.

According to Yang Dongfang's instructions, he also explored iron ore in Dangtu County, west of Nanjing, by the Yangtze River, and prepared to build a steel plant here and develop a smelting industry.

"Marshal, Commander Tie has taken Chuzhou and Lu'an, and is dividing his troops to attack Fuyang, Huainan, and Bengbu, and then threaten Xuzhou and Yangzhou."

When Yang Dongfang still had Taiwan, Tie Thirteen had already sent troops to cross the river, and Tie Thirteen's purpose was to break through each other, attack Huainan and Bengbu first, and make it look like he was going to capture Xuzhou and Yangzhou at the time, so as to contain Bao Chao, who did not dare to go west to help Fuyang.

In fact, he first captured the entire territory of Anhui in Jiangbei, and by the way, Sun Kaihua in Xinyang was also done.

Yangzhou, Huai'an and other cities were deliberately left to Li Hongzhang, so that he had to put heavy troops in it, consuming energy and materials.

Of course, this is Yangmou, and the Huai army can see it at a glance, but they also have to defend it, because this is their fundamental, if they don't defend it here, it will be equivalent to directly abandoning Jiangsu.

At present, they do not have the courage to do so, so Li Hongzhang is in a tangle, facing the erosive situation, worried, and overnight, his relatives and family members have begun to move to Shandong, preparing for the worst.

Of course, Yang Dongfang arrived in Nanjing to plan for the future, and traveled around to explore the terrain near Nanjing, and finally he chose the door of space somewhere in the Purple Mountain.

There will be a division stationed here, so the first person to guard this place is the next expansion of the guard regiment, and all the people of the guard regiment will be directly expanded into brigades, and all personnel will be deployed from Sichuan, using non-local officers and non-local soldiers.

So after spending one million prestige points to build the space gate, Yang Dongfang went directly back to Tieshan in Sichuan and built the space gate in Tieshan instead of Chengdu.

After all, with the development of the future, after the aircraft becomes a conventional weapon and equipment, the Chengdu Plain is not very suitable for defending the space gate, of course, even if you don't consider anything else, Chengdu is not very suitable for the establishment of the space gate.

In this way, the county near Iron Mountain also benefited from this, and it developed and prospered rapidly for a period of time in the future, of course, Iron Mountain was blocked as a forbidden area and became a mysterious place.