Tang Ning's next target was Shanghai, and Hong Kong Governor Bao Ning persuaded him not to go, and now the Taiping army is making a lot of trouble, Shanghai is not "peaceful", and the Qing court can't even control the Shanghai Customs.

Tang Ning said with a smile: "I came all the way to see the Taiping Army, if I can try the Taiping Army's soldiers, it would be better, I have not used these German mercenaries, and I have trained with the Taiping Army." ”

Bao Ning thought he was joking, just with these hundreds of people?

Anyway, the Great Orient is heading for Shanghai, the Great Qing Kingdom, I'm here!

At this time, the Qing Dynasty was eventful, Emperor Xianfeng sent Xiang Rong, the former governor of Guangxi, as the minister of the Qincha, and built the Jiangnan camp to besiege Tianjing, the capital of the Tianping army, and the Jiangnan camp was established in February 1853, and it has been almost three years so far. Xiang Rong's army was the elite green battalion of the Qing army (Han Eight Banners, because the Manchu Eight Banners had been almost abolished due to the favor of the imperial court as early as the time of Emperor Kangxi, and the Qing court relied heavily on this regular army composed of Han people from the time of the Kangxi Ping Three Feudatories. ）

The Green Camp army numbered 100,000, and the Taiping Army claimed to be 500,000, but they were nothing more than a rabble without training, so neither side was sure of defeating the other, and they had tested each other in the past three years without a large-scale decisive battle. However, in this period, Xiang Rong was a mistake in general, his green battalion soldiers were not strict in discipline, exploited the people, and a large number of soldiers actually married wives and had children on the battlefield, but the Taiping army continued to march westward, cultivating elites who could fight, and now, Shi Dakai has planned to enter Jiangsu from southern Anhui and seek a camp in the south of the Yangtze River, and Lord Xiang Rong is ignorant.

The Duke really knew that he would come to trouble, and he had just arrived in Shanghai for three days, and then decided to take the Great Eastern to drive along the Yangtze River waterway straight into the dangerous battlefield, and the British consul in Shanghai, Ali Guo, persuaded him not to get into danger, and the Duke of London, the dignified Duke of London, the British Empire, had an accident on his land, and he had to bear the responsibility.

Tang Ning smiled and said: "I, the soldiers, are not enterprising enough, and I have more than enough self-preservation, so don't worry, Lord Consul." ”

Ali Guo was puzzled: "Why did you go to the battlefield? It doesn't seem like you're always in style. ”

Downing: "Oh? What should I be? ”

Aliko: "You're a scientist...... Academics are far away from the battlefield, you are the elite of mankind, do not get involved in such a dirty and terrible thing as war. ”

Tang Ning: "Hehe, which major am I a scientist?" ”

Aliko: "This ...... It seems that there are many majors, electromagnetism, chemistry, naturalism, microbiology, genetics, medicine, uh, dizzy, you're a great god, okay? ”

Downing: "Haha, okay. To put it bluntly, I'm also a military scientist, and this time, since there is a war, I want to pull the team out and slip around, don't worry, do I look like a die-pie? ”

Seeing Tang Ning's confident appearance, Ali Guo was a little relieved, but he had already mobilized the warships of the British Royal Navy, followed from afar, and was ready to escort him at any time.

Tang Ning left the Faraday couple and Lin Fei in the British Concession in Shanghai, and took Qi Taiyu and the intelligence officers he had sent to the Great Qing Kingdom to wait for him in Shanghai, and the Guangdong merchant Xu Rongcun, who had been waiting for him for a long time, boarded the Great Orient and left Shanghai to go deep into the Yangtze River. This is the reason why he is not in a hurry to build a super giant ship, 10,000 tons can enter the Yangtze River, no matter how big it is, I am afraid it will be suspended.

Wireless telegraphy has spread all over China's major cities, but the Great Qing Kingdom actually refused to use it on the grounds that it could not directly send Chinese, and still used the original "800 li expedited" fast horse communication, which is embarrassing.

Xu Rongcun, who has studied both Chinese and Western, has admired Tang Ning, a mixed-race person, like a god, Tang Ning can do whatever he wants, Tang Ning doesn't say, he doesn't ask, just take his capable subordinates and follow Tang Ning to trespass into the land of soldiers.

Qi Taiyu finally couldn't help it, and when there were only three of them at a time, he asked, "Taipan, what are we going to Jiangning for?" ”

Tang Ning said indifferently: "Let my soldiers smell the blood of the battlefield." ”

Oh, then there won't really be a war, Qi Taiyu came to his own conclusion, he knew that the Great Eastern was fast, no ship could catch up, and this big guy would not sink if he was bombarded a few times, so as long as he stayed on the Great Eastern all the time, it should be safe.

The Azure and metallic Great Orient is really the most beautiful ship of this era, and it has attracted much attention everywhere, and their group came to Zhenjiang in such a gaze, thinking that Qi Taiyu, who would have been hiding on the Great Eastern, was shocked to hear Tang Ning order the Great Eastern to dock. However, at this time, Tang Ning changed into a ruthless warlord leader, and Qi Taiyu didn't dare to ask any more questions.

Zhenjiang is the territory of the Taiping Army!

A cruise ship broke into the strategic point of the peasant army, which ......

Governor Gil Hang'a, who was assembling and besieging on the outskirts of Zhenjiang, couldn't figure out what the strange ship of the Great Eastern was coming, and after some entanglement, he got out of the way, and the foreign adults could not be provoked or not. At this time, Tangning had already hoisted the flag of Luxembourg on the Great Eastern, which was three horizontal red, white and light blue tricolor flags, but the governor of Jiangsu thought it was a French ship, and the French flag was three vertical red, white and blue, which happened to be a bit similar.

Tang Ning really didn't come to make trouble, he gave the Taiping army quite enough time to react, and stayed in the river for a long time before docking, at this time, even the Taiping army's guard, inspector Wu Ruxiao, had already run out, holding a broken telescope to observe this terrifying giant ship. The organizational structure of the Taiping Army was formulated in accordance with the "Zhou Li". The army is the basic unit, and the army has a military commander. The commander and above shall have the official positions of supervising the army, the general system, the general, the commander, the inspector, and the prime minister. This inspector is second only to the prime minister, of course, there are dozens of prime ministers in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there are thousands of kings in the later period.

The cronies were shocked: "Dashuai, this is a foreigner's ship, and the Qing Demon doesn't have such a big ship." ”

Wu Ruxiao: "...... I've never seen a strange ship of this size and this color......"

Cronies: "Could it be that the Qing soldiers were sent to negotiate?" ”

Wu Ruxiao: "Did the Qing soldiers send foreigners to negotiate?" No way. Foreigners are not a good thing, lose his mother, fire! ”

The Hunan army went down the river from Huguang, and fought fiercely, however, in the early days, its weapons and equipment were mainly cold weapons, Zeng Guofan also realized the importance of advanced firearms in the war, he managed to purchase some foreign guns, cannons, and set up artillery bureaus and ordnance institutes in Wuchang, Anqing and other places, and gradually equipped the Hunan army with a large number of firearms, from 1854 to 1856, Ye Mingchen, the governor of Tongguò and Liangguang, purchased more than 1,800 foreign artillery, mainly used to equip the naval division, but in general, its firearms are still bird guns, After the defeat of several major battles, many guns and cannons fell into the hands of the Taiping army.

The religion of the Taiping army is "worship of God", which is derived from Christianity, and has won the sympathy of some foreigners, and they can also purchase some advanced weapons, and even the Taiping army is more clever than the current Qing soldiers in terms of weapons.

Since Tang Ning personally developed guns, he knew all kinds of weapons well, and as soon as he saw the movements of the Taiping artillerymen in the telescope, he knew what they wanted to do, and immediately gave orders to hide, retreat, and prepare to return fire.

It was difficult for the ship to turn around, and the Great Eastern had not yet left the range of the Taiping Army's coastal defense guns, and the cannon rumbled, and the soldiers of the Great Eastern successfully smelled blood.

The Great Eastern was constantly surrounded by huge waves stirred up by shells, and it looked like it was in danger, and it turned around with difficulty.

The Great Eastern's guns were only mounted in front, and when escaping, it was simply impossible to return fire. When the gunners of the Taiping Army saw the foreign devils fleeing from the wolf, they all laughed and celebrated with their palms.

The turbine steam engine ship has no other ability, and the ability to escape can be said to be the best in the world, and the generals on the "turtle boat" of the Taiping Army's sailors can't help but shout: "Grass damn it, run faster than rabbits!" ”

Hey? Stopped, the sailor generals were overjoyed, because they thought of what a great credit it was to capture such a large ship, so dozens of turtle ships of the sailor coincidentally chased towards the Great Eastern, as excited as if a big ingots had fallen from the sky to rob them. The turtle ship was huge enough to carry dozens of warriors, including more than two dozen oarsmen.

The captains of the Raiders of the Lost Ark even ordered "Do not fire cannons, lest you hurt the ship!" ”

The Taiping warships had already entered the range of the Krupp breech-loading rifled guns of the Great Eastern, which had already turned their heads, but Tangning never ordered the guns to be fired to encourage the Taiping army to "engage in battle".

The Taiping battleship had come within 500 meters, and the accurate firing range of the FN-1855 manual rifle was reminded: "Your Excellency, the other party has entered the rifle range. ”

Tang Ning observed the battlefield slowly, and he had already seen the motley army with large blades and arquebuses on the Taiping battleship led by him excitedly looked.

His Holiness the Grand Duke of Luxembourg once again said: "Don't worry, if we shoot so far away, we won't smell blood." ”

He was not in a hurry, of course the captain was not in a hurry, he also saw that most of the soldiers of the Taiping Army were cold weapons, this matter was too embarrassing, the army of the Grand Duke, who claimed to be the world's most ** army, actually wanted to attack such an enemy, and it was really not a glorious deed to spread it.

200 meters! Now, some of the eye-catching hunters seemed to be vaguely able to see the excited smiles on the faces of the sailors of the Taiping Army, the disciplined marines did not have anyone to speak, the Great East was as quiet as a cemetery in broad daylight, and the soldiers on the side of the ship were all reaping the souls of death.

The azure Great Orient is so delicate in the bright sunshine, which is the crystallization of the top technology of contemporary technology, but unfortunately, no one in the Taiping army has any unfavorable associations with this world's top technology, and thinks that this is a merchant ship that cannot fight back and strayed into the territory of heaven.

100 meters! Now, some hunters with sharp ears can already faintly hear the excited screams of the Taiping soldiers, these strange words and voices are probably their last language, the soldiers who can be excited on the battlefield are good soldiers, however, these Taiping soldiers don't seem to think that they are on the battlefield, the Great Eastern does not look like a battleship from any point of view. The two front-mounted guns, which had never been fired, seemed to be ornaments, identical to those found in the Prussian king's palace.

50 meters! The voices of the Taiping soldiers sounded in his ears from the Great Eastern, which was as quiet as a ghost, and Tang Ning even heard the leader of the ship at the front shouting: "What a tall ship, quickly check if the ladder is enough!" ”

Yes, even if the Great Eastern does not fire a single shot, it will be difficult for the Taiping army to board such a tall hull, and the Taiping soldiers are now worried about the difficulty of picking up treasures.

The Hessian marines were neatly lined up on the side of the ship, and the eerie muzzles of the FN-1855 were aimed at the incoming Taiping soldiers.

A Taiping soldier standing at the bow of the ship brandished a broadsword and shouted fiercely, "Lay down your arms!" Otherwise, the chickens and dogs will not be left! ”

Finally, the Grand Duke of Windsor gave a loud order: "Free fire!" ”

All the marines were sniper-level sharpshooters, and they didn't stay for 300 meters, and now they were at a distance of 25 meters, and they could shoot the enemy even with their eyes closed.

The muffled sound of the FN-1855's distinctive smokeless propellant was finally unveiled for the first time in the world.

The snipers were unwilling to be mediocre and used their violent skills one after another, and Tang Ning watched the vivid lives pass by in a frenzy in his heart, like the feeling of annual herbs being whistled by the north wind, and bright red blood-colored bullet holes appeared on the heads of the Taiping soldiers, as if they were playing an e-sports.

The two dozen or so soldiers on the first Taiping battleship were harvested by the hunters in an instant, and the time occurred in five seconds.

Free firing was made, and the hunters began to aim at the soldiers on the second Taiping battleship. The second battleship had several arquebuses on board, and the incident was so sudden that not a single soldier had time to fire a single shot, and in eight seconds, all the soldiers and oarsmen who were in sight were shot.

"That's a lot of guns! Chief! Come on! The reload speed of the FN-1855 was completely beyond the imagination of the Taiping army, and the sailors who rushed ahead to grab the treasure desperately beckoned their team to shout.

The bullets of the hunters almost killed a living life with one shot, and the ten Taiping warships that had no time to turn around were "chickens and dogs were not left".

The Krupp cannon also began to operate, sinking the battleships that had lost their oarsmen and were therefore sitting on their feet, and because of the proximity, they were almost a single shot.

It's a pity that the rate of fire of this old-fashioned cannon is too slow, and after each shot has to be repositioned, it takes two minutes to shoot a shot, and it took twenty minutes to clean up the dozen ships that can't run away!

The commander of the Taiping Army, Wu Jiandian, watched his benevolent and righteous division and mighty division being slowly blown away, just like Ling Chi was executed, and his face was like ashes. The Taiping Army, which did not have a telegraph system, could not command the water battle in the rear, and the eight battleships that survived the tiger's mouth sporadically hit the old-fashioned smoothbore guns, and almost none of them could hit the Great Eastern, and they did not dare to get too close, because the "muskets" on the Great Eastern were extremely strange, and the accurate range of the smoothbore guns had not yet arrived, and the bullets of the Great Eastern killed their gunners.

The Great Eastern began to take the initiative to approach the remaining warships of the Taiping army, and the Taiping army began to turn around and flee. In the process of chasing the enemy, two warships were sunk, these were all the most "elite" professional warships of the Taiping Army, and then there were hundreds of civilian and merchant ships composed of troop carriers, not even artillery. The Taiping army unbelievably forbade the escape of the six surviving warships, and forced them to turn back and work with the troop carriers to encircle and suppress the Great Eastern with the locust strategy.

The locusts were useless, even if they came to the vicinity of the Great Eastern, they couldn't climb the tall hull at all, they were all sent to death in vain, of course, the hunters didn't give these hopeless Taiping sailors any chance to get close. The Grand Duke of Windsor divided the soldiers into two groups for 15 minutes, taking turns to rest, and beat the Taiping Army's sailors.

When the last professional warship was sunk, the Taiping Navy finally completely routed, ignored the orders from above, and fled for their lives, which was something that the Great Eastern was powerless and did not want to stop.

Wu Ruxiao's 3,000 sailors were routed by a cruise ship!

This anti-sky cruise ship was aimed at the shore defense batteries in Zhenjiang one by one and destroyed them one by one. Not to mention the destruction, the Grand Duke of Windsor also planned to enlarge the soldiers to go ashore and take a turn.

Wu Ruxiao was so angry that his beard was shaking, he was too bullying! Fight to the death! The red-faced and thick-necked Wu Dashuai commanded all his subordinates to prepare to deliver a fatal blow to the foreigners who tried to land and recover all the blood debts.

In order to prevent an ambush, the Great Eastern found an open waterside to dock, leaving half of the soldiers to guard the Great Eastern, and half of the soldiers formed an "expeditionary force" of 150 people, and walked down the gangway in an orderly manner.

There were still 7,000 people left in the Taiping army, of which 6,000 were involved in the decisive charge, and the brave soldiers were armed with bright broadswords and spears, as well as a small number of smoky arquebuses and flintlock pistols, rushing from all directions, this is the locusts on land, but they are not facing the green plants waiting for death, but the Grim Reaper Marines.

If the Marines were still a little nervous at the beginning of the war, by now, they already have the feeling of veterans on the battlefield, and these darlings of the cold weapon era are here to send them to death and train the Marines to be brave.

The distance left for the hunters to shoot was only 150 meters, and at 50 meters, the great power of the Taiping army's decisive charge finally gave the huntsmen the opportunity to take down the "magazine partition" and give the Taiping army the deadliest blow with the incredible rate of fire and firepower. （http：／/.）。

At the peak of the Taiping Army's most powerful charge, a soldier rushed to a distance of only ten meters from the Marine Corps with a broadsword, but at this time, the nearest comrade behind him was more than 150 meters away from him, this brave soldier needed to fight 150 tall German mercenaries alone, one of the captains was holding a Colt revolver, and finally, he was going to kill with his own hands, and the opportunity was rare.

The knife hand who felt that the atmosphere was not right stopped, he turned back, there was no comrade-in-arms by his side, how lonely he was.

The lonely swordsman twisted his neck again and confronted the 150 messengers of death, and he, broken, shouted like a mad beast.

All the sacrifices were just sent to death in vain, and none of the foreigners' soldiers fell, and even the dust on their white faces was not stained.

It's so pitiful, baby, all the Marines don't want to shoot. Then, seeing the crazy knife man throw away the knife, he knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and in a short time he bled out.

No matter how ruthless the soldier was, he had compassion, and the captain bit it and said, "Go back!" ”

The swordsman who put down the butcher's knife couldn't understand German, but he instinctively understood, because the foreigner's voice was so gentle, as if Guanyin Niangniang had descended to earth.

"Thank you! Thank you for not killing! The knife man had tears and snot flowing together, wiped a handful of snot from the back of his hand, and returned to the camp safely, where his head was cut off by his own people, and the head that rolled to the ground was still smiling happily.