On 8 February, after Lin Haijiang had made all the preparations, Hull, who was sent by Lawrence, handed over the paperwork and silver taels at the Tianjin wharf, together with Huang Weiguang, a household squire who had just been reinstated, and Mu Yin, the secretary of the military department.

Looking at the boxes of silver being transported to the Zhenyuan, Huang Weiguang, the household servant, had a feeling of wanting to cry without tears, and Lin Haijiang, who was standing on the side, didn't understand, why were the people in charge of money always so picky?

The military department Shangshu Mu Yin was very happy to turn around on the Taishan ship, the two ships have been given the names of Longwei and Longsheng by Xianfeng, and the names of the ships on the side of the ship are also being altered.

After handing over weapons and silver taels with Monk Greenqin's staff, Lin Haijiang loaded the first batch of Taiping prisoners transported to the old port and set sail.

Standing on the deck of the Longwei, with thousands of blue waves rippling and the sound of waves, Lin Haijiang turned his head to look at the Yellow Dragon Flag fluttering in the wind, took a deep breath, looked around at the generals Wang Faren, Xu Dawei, and Liu Quansi beside him and said loudly: "Look! This is China's maritime frontier! From today onwards, we will take responsibility for her, and we would rather lose a thousand troops! Don't lose an inch of land! Is it to expand the territory and become famous through the ages, or to lose the land and infame to the ocean? Everything will be in our own hands! Thousands of years of Huanghuang, dynasties change, only this sea frontier is truly eternal! Warships are floating land, and justice and justice are only within the range of our cannons. ”

If Lin Haijiang's declaration was heard by Mu Yin, the secretary of the Ministry of War, he would definitely be able to make the old man angry on the spot, this is a Cao Ying who has escaped from the great rebellion!

However, Lin Haijiang's subordinates have become accustomed to it, and under the continuous exaggeration and brainwashing, they already have the so-called initial national consciousness, and Lin Haijiang knows that an army that knows why to fight and has a military soul is truly invincible.

After returning to the port of Guangzhou, transferring prisoners of war and replenishing ammunition, Lin Haijiang was very busy, and he, the newly appointed commander of the Guangdong Navy, could be described as a black eye.

Thanks to the multi-faceted care of Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui, there is no interference from General Guangzhou in military affairs, so everything is going smoothly, and Lin Haijiang has no time to deal with how many belongings he has at the moment, because he is still on an errand.

Xianfeng's order to bombard Nanjing on the 15th day of the first lunar month had been officially issued, but the time left for Lin Haijiang was already very insufficient, Ye Mingchen and Bai Gui saw Lin Haijiang off at the dock late at night, and Lin Haijiang repeatedly demanded that the fleet, supplies, and vigilance should be strictly kept secret, and the Guangzhou side only told Ye Mingchen himself.

Lin Haijiang thought that his actions were extremely secret, how did he know that Xianfeng, who had no sense of strategic secrecy, had already issued an edict to the world to bombard Nanjing Ye Mingchen City on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month to deter the flood rebels and bandits!

When Lin Haijiang learned that the news of Ye Mingchen, who was in his secret operation, had already leaked, the Longwei and Longsheng were already approaching the Jiangyin fortress guarded by Ye Mingchen of the Taiping Army.

The Longwei and the Longsheng are both third-class battleships, and they are already very reluctant to go straight up the Yangtze River, and the action has long been exposed, and the direction of the Taiping Army has been prepared, so Lin Haijiang can only choose to break through forcibly and retreat immediately without stopping after the bombardment of Nanjing.

Anyway, this shelling of Nanjing is of greater political significance than practical significance, it is nothing more than Hong Xiuquan's Northern Expeditionary Army hit Tianjin, and Xianfeng will also send his own warship to give him some color, and the consciousness is basically that you don't make Lao Tzu comfortable, and Lao Tzu won't let you feel better.

In contrast, whether it is Hong Xiuquan or Xianfeng, in Lin Haijiang's opinion, they are both a pair of bastards, one lacks strategic vision, and the other spends millions of taels of silver to be comfortable.

And in Nanjing City, the news that the two Qing Demon Giant Ships went straight up the river shocked the entire Tianjing! In the Heavenly King's Mansion, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, Feng Yunshan, the king of the south, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, Shi Dakai, the king of Yi, Qin Yuegang, the king of Yan, Hu Yihuang, the king of Yu, Chen Chengrong, the marquis of Dingtian, Li Junliang, and others all gathered together and were silent.

It can be said that it is Lin Haijiang's two giant ships that made these princes of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom temporarily give up the dispute, Hong Xiuquan squinted his eyes and inspected the Heavenly Kingdom Cadre City below, only Yang Xiuqing looked very relaxed.

Yang Xiuqing's smile reminded Hong Xiuquan of the female official Hong Jiumei and the female champion Fu Shanxiang not long ago, and couldn't help but be angry, he, the king of heaven, should be subject to Yang Xiuqing, the 'king of the east' who controls the kings?

Hong Xiuquan looked at the North King Wei Changhui and Yan King Qin Yuegang who bowed their heads silently and Chen Chengrong, the North King Wei Changhui and Yan King Qin Yuegang are their own people, and Dingtian Hou Chen Chengrong is nominally a person from the East Palace, but in fact he is a minister under the curtain of Wei Changhui, the North King, but there are some false and real odds in this, and it is still too early to look at it.

The silent atmosphere was finally broken by the Wing King Shi Dakai, who stood in front of the map on the central table and pointed afar: "The Ten Thousand Ships Battalion has sent fire attack ships and gunboats for the second time to explore the reality of the demon giant ship, and the Qing Demon giant ship is made of Western Oceans, and the hull is wrapped with thick copper skin, and my fire attack and artillery bombardment have no effect.

Moreover, there are many artillery guns on the Qing Demon Giant Ship, and the range is extremely long, roughly about five times that of my thousand-pound copper cannon, and the firing is all flowering shells, with huge damage, and the two ships carry at least 1,000 soldiers.

Hong Xiuquan frowned and said, "Is there really no way?" Let the Qing demon act recklessly? ”

Dongwang Yang Xiu glanced at the crazy Hong Xiuquan, cleared his throat and said, "That Qing Demon Lord is Lin Haijiang, the demon leader who ruined my big things in Guangzhou before?" ”

Yan King Qin Yuegang hurriedly arched his hand and said, "It's this person!" ”

Yang Xiuqing smiled slightly: "How can Nanjing City be hit by a few shots if it is so big?" If the Qing Demon relies on two big ships and echoes the two big battalions in the north and south, this is my henchman's trouble, and the other key is this Lin Haijiang? But I know this matter by myself, and I don't want to work hard to be a god! ”

Yang Xiuqing got up and nodded to Hong Xiuquan, then turned around and left, the kings present hurriedly got up to send each other, looking at Yang Xiuqing's back, a trace of cold gaze appeared in the eyes of Wei Changhui, the king of the north.

Hong Xiuquan took a deep breath and said to Shi Dakai: "Since Wang Dongcheng is full of confidence, we can even think too much, but the fortress of Jiuhuanzhou needs to be strengthened more, and we must find a way to buy some Western artillery to strengthen the fortress." ”

Shi Dakai hesitated and asked, "I'm afraid the price of buying Western artillery is quite expensive, and all Western countries have prejudices against our heavenly kingdom, one is afraid that the trade routes will be blocked, and the other is that it is said that the holy treasury can be allocated without silver. ”

"Oh? Where did the money go? Mentioning the silver, Hong Xiuquan immediately became energetic, and Li Junliang, the Marquis of Heaven, said embarrassedly beside him: "The Heavenly King spent a lot of money on expanding the Heavenly King's Mansion and recruiting the new Wang Niang some time ago. ”

Speaking of this, Hong Xiuquan naturally understood, the silver was repaired by himself and married a woman, so his face flushed slightly, and he said to Shi Dakai: "It's not too late to think about the Jiuhuanzhou Fortress, it's not too late to do it when you have the silver." ”

Looking at the back of Hong Xiuquan leaving, Shi Dakai felt that his chest was uncomfortably blocked, his throat was sweet, and he spat blood with a wow, and the Tianwangfu knife players on the side hurriedly surrounded him.

Yang Xiuqing, who returned to the Dongwang Mansion, immediately asked Fu Shanxiang to come, but after a while, a girl dressed in a yellow Taiping Army costume was heroic and slightly middle-named, and Yang Xiuqing saw the person and smiled slightly: "Shanxiang!" I've been working hard for you recently! ”

After seeing the salute, Fu Shanxiang said quietly: "Dongwang is nine thousand years old, and it is all something within his duty Fu Shanxiang!" ”

Yang Xiuqing hummed and said, "I heard that you once had a meeting with Lin Haijiang's little demon in Guangzhou?" He can't bear to kill you? ”

Fu Shanxiang was slightly stunned and said: "At that time, I was under the pseudonym Li Li, and I was later rescued by Mr. Miles, an English businessman, and Mr. Miles was helping us contact us to buy foreign guns and cannons. ”

Yang Xiuqing nodded and said: "What I'm worried about is that Lin Haijiang's little demon should respond to the two big camps of the Qing Demon Jiangnan and Jiangbei, if my water camp loses control of the river, let the north and south Qing demons echo each other, the consequences will be unimaginable." ”

Yang Xiuqing glanced at Fu Shanxiang meaningfully and said: "Mr. Miles, you have to follow closely, in addition, I hope you can go to meet the demon head of Lin Haijiang, I can not stop him from shelling Tianjing, but after that, he must immediately withdraw from Mr. Miles Jiangyin to the north of Mr. Miles, otherwise I will let him die without a place to be buried." ”

Fu Shanxiang gasped, and reached such an agreement with the Qing Demon that was tantamount to betraying the kingdom of heaven? Fu Shanxiang wiped the cold sweat from the corner of his forehead, but nodded without saying a word.

Yang Xiuqing sighed helplessly and said: "The sails of the Qing Demon Giant Ship are said to cover the sky, and the range of artillery fire is more than several times that of me, and there is no possibility of defeating whether it is a fire attack or a rush attack, and only these two ships cost four or five million taels of silver, and ordinary artillery has no effect on it at all, so we can only induce them to appease the Qing Demon for the time being, so as not to fight for both sides, and when we buy a Western cannon that can destroy this ship, we will be designing to lure and destroy the Qing Demon Giant Ship." ”

Fu Shanxiang knows that once Dongwang makes a decision, it means that you only need to implement it, although Yang Xiuqing is very easy-going on the surface and seems to like brainstorming, in fact, what he dislikes the most in his bones is that others refute his opinions and decisions.

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