Once the situation in a certain port is tense and it is necessary to strengthen the defense, a batch of these floating batteries can be temporarily transferred to fortify. Compared with the batteries built on land, the water battery ships are low-cost, can move, and are more practical. Moreover, the cannon equipped on the ship is amazingly powerful, like a small mosquito, seemingly inconspicuous, and it is definitely not a pleasant thing to be bitten by it. Therefore, the nomenclature of the mosquito ship does not mean that the hull is small and weak.

It is based on this concept that Zhao Yun hoarded a large number of old-fashioned wooden boats in the previous sales activities of replacing cement ships with wooden boats. It is to convert them into "mosquito boats". It is used for the defense of the waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, otherwise with the vertical and horizontal waterways in the south of the Yangtze River, no heavy artillery will be able to move.

And if there is a big enemy on the Yangtze River, regardless of whether the artillery on the "mosquito boat" is advanced or not, what its range is, and what its power is, if hundreds of shells fly over at the same time like mosquitoes, it will probably not be able to cope with it no matter how solid its armored defense is. After all, Zhao Yun was only guarding the Yangtze River, not fighting the enemy on the vast sea. How wide is the Yangtze River in Jiangsu and Shanghai? In particular, how wide can the Yangtze River in the Wusongkou and Jiangyin sections be, and then only a few openings will be firmly jammed to keep the enemy at sea out.

In Zhao Yun's thoughts, we often use crowd tactics on land, why can't we adopt ship tactics in water warfare, even if these artillery pieces are not very accurate, but the Yangtze River channel is so wide, if you want not to suffer shells, then you have the ability to climb ashore.

In the world after the 19th century, large-caliber artillery was the most powerful weapon. On the ocean, it is carried on a large battleship, and on land, it is a strong fortification. But as a result, the battleship and the battery developed into a pair of enemies who were mutually reinforcing, compared to the battleship, the huge cannon with black holes on the battery was eerie, and because the battery was a fixed building, if the battleship did not enter its own range, but went another way, secretly crossing the Chen Cang, the battery would be reduced to an ornament.

And on the Yangtze River there is no such problem, in Jiangsu, the Yangtze River has only one channel, must pass through Jiangyin, the water battery and the same equipped with large-caliber artillery warships, the cost can be described as a world of difference, but the power of the loaded artillery is not much different, belongs to the low-cost, very cost-effective artillery platform, although it can not go to the sea and the battleship to compete for power, but it can also give the battleship a huge deterrent, for coastal defense and this kind of fire has a very huge advantage.

Compared with the land forts that consumed a lot of civil engineering and labor and were built over the years, the water forts had a greater advantage in addition to the low price, that is, this kind of forts could be moved. According to the actual situation, a large number of water areas that need to be strengthened can be arranged to "garrison the choke pass and its strength can resist armor ships," and a group of reinforced batteries on the water can be formed in a short period of time.

As a matter of fact, this kind of warship has a big drawback, that is, it cannot conduct ocean-going operations, and can only hold key points on the water. It is of certain value to cooperate with the defense of land batteries and carry out mobile defense on water. However, the Zhejiang Navy, which has no giant ships, wants to use it as the basis for its own navy capital ship, which is completely inapplicable.

The facts were as Zhao Yun thought, although Zhao Yun threw out a Nassau-class battleship, although Lu Dujun was greedy for it, he still chose the "mosquito ship" because he was shy.

It wasn't until Zhao Yun gave him a battleship on credit, that Lu Dujun picked and chose to take eight "mosquito ships" with 305 caliber guns and eight "mosquito ships" with 280 caliber guns from Zhao Yun's hands, together with the Nassau-class battleship on credit, and the British torpedo boats purchased before to form a "giant artillery fleet" that closely defended Hangzhou Bay.

Of course, the fleet was formed, and the sixteen "mosquito ships" and battleships were still on the boundary of Jiangsu, and Lu Dujun still had to send someone to take over, so the group of Fujian navy that had just been recruited by Lu Dujun and some of Lu Dujun's descendants became the personnel of the receiving team.

After some "hypocrisy", Lu Dujun promised Zhao Yun that he would not get involved in Zhao Yun's territory for the time being, but Lu Dujun, the tiger, was gone, and this did not mean that others did not care about the Huahua Jiangnan occupied by Zhao Yun.

Due to the prosperity of Old Man Deng in southern Anhui, the Anhui veterans who were far away in Tianjin took the opportunity to make a comeback, shouting that Old Man Deng would unify the south of the Yangtze River and take southern Anhui as the base, and then the five provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Anhui returned to the Anhui system. Xu Shuzheng, who was close to Shanghai, also jumped out and served as the Yangtze River patrol envoy, and the generals of the Anhui system in Tianjin also appeared one after another.

Regardless of the appearance of these politicians, Zhao Yunming handed over his military power on the face, leaving Zhu Xi and Zhou Luo, two direct veterans, to support the scene. At the same time, he is also suing Jixian County, he still retains his direct status in southern Jiangsu, and has not switched to the Anhui system, after all, if he plays the banner of the Anhui system, it will be blatantly against the direct line of Jixian County, and now Zhao Yun is just a new separatist warlord, this kind of thing happened every day in the 20s, and there are not many Zhao Yun.

Sure enough, Zhao Yun's small plan was also tacitly approved by Jixian County, after all, this Feng Department, Anhui Department, and Sun Cannon are working together to deal with the direct family, and one less opponent is better than one more opponent. At the same time, he also sent a telegram to inform Zhao Yun that if he crossed the river, it would not be a matter for Qi Dujun alone, but the enemy of all direct warlords.

Zhao Yun, who didn't want to set himself on fire at present, naturally gave Jixian a satisfactory answer in action. With the acquiescence of Jixian County, the Qi Overseers could only pinch their noses and recognize Zhao Yun's actions, and settled down in Yangzhou, Jiangbei, and continued to be called the Jiangsu Overseers.

With military power and territory, the next thing is to discuss Zhao Yun's name.

"Everyone, everyone, please be calm and listen to the old man. All of you here have both talent and morality, long-term vision, and all have the appearance of the mayor of Nanjing. But the old man thinks that this mayor must meet one point. In the hall of the Nanjing Municipal Assembly, a group of heads from all walks of life were discussing important matters, and an old scholar with a white beard stood in front of the stage and said impassionedly.

"I wonder what the old gentleman is talking about?" Someone in the audience asked rhetorically.

The old pedant stretched out four fingers, "Four words, people are stupid and have a lot of money!" ”

"Hahaha!" As soon as these words came out, everyone laughed.

"You think it's funny? Please look at these post-war photos, everyone here only saw the anointed land of Jiangnan, and probably they are all thinking about how to collect taxes! However, what everyone did not see was that the place of the war was all in Nanjing, and the local industry and commerce in Nanjing were destroyed a lot, and the people were displaced, which needed to be dealt with. ”

"Money is needed to deal with the aftermath, which of you is ready to pay for it? You may think that it is enough to let the local authorities in various places go to restore themselves, but everyone is an old soldier, don't forget that there is a catastrophe after the war, if you only care about fighting for a position here, and do not deal with it in time, then once the plague breaks out in the densely populated area of Nanjing, the result is not what you want to see! ”

There was no mischievous boos this time! The fall of Nanjing City was very fast, but this was caused by Zhao Yun's violent means, and afterwards the defenders in the city were killed only fifty or sixty people, and the wounded were only four or five hundred, but this is a war after all, some houses are still inevitably injured by mistake, the city experience is a war and people are panicked, and those who make trouble are even more incalculable, as for the recovery of industry and commerce is a thorny problem, but the most difficult thing is the aftermath of those who fled in all directions after hearing about the war, which is a considerable amount! The warlords of all stripes had spent money on soldiers and equipment before, and now they could not take out much money at once. In the past, such things were scavenged from the local area to fill the hole. But now that the rich are holding their money bags, and private armed forces are emerging in an endless stream, how much can be scraped out of the city in order to avoid intensifying the local resistance? Even if it is scraped out, it will greatly weaken the interpersonal relations in the city, and then it will drag on and slow down the recovery time. The heads of the roads who have long regarded this anointed land as something in their hands, and it is right to think about it, it is time to find someone who is stupid and has a lot of money to pave the road first.

Listening to what the old gentleman said, there is indeed some truth. Then first according to the old gentleman's meaning, find a thing that is, oh, people are stupid and have a lot of money, first stand up and deal with the aftermath. ”

"Yes, it's better for this person to be a native of Jiangsu, otherwise someone in Jixian County will make a fuss again." Someone interjected.

"Being stupid is not the key, the key is having more money. The aftermath is a large amount of money, and most of the people who can come up with such a large amount of money in Jiangsu are industrial and commercial people. "However, the people who can be brought to the stage are all eight-faced, and they have long known the post-war conventions, and now they are all cats without showing their heads.

Either you are sick or you are traveling, and no one can find it. And after all, they are all businessmen, and they are the last in the ranks of Shinong industry and commerce, although the status of businessmen in the early years of the Republic of China has improved, but they have not suddenly been able to ascend to the real power position of the mayor of the provincial capital of a province.

"Famous, rich, and careless! Do you think it's okay? Someone asked in the midst of the momentary silence of the room.

"What your Excellency said is not..."

"Hehe, the hero sees the same thing!"

"Yes, the bell must be tied to the bell, both public and private, and this person should be responsible for this place. It seems that he is still a native of Jiangsu, and with this identity, he can be less noisy! ”

Zhao Yun was really shot in a hurry, there was no way, there was too much money. In the eyes of others, it is a big gold ingot.

How much money Zhao Yun has, no one really knows, even Zhao Yun himself is confused. However, the deputy county magistrate Xu who helped Zhao Yun shout was too much for Aunt Liufang, and real estate was bought all over the country, and that faction couldn't even be done by the overseers of a province. I don't know how many people will blush when they look at these things. That's right, you're an arms dealer and a businessman, but you also have the identity of a county magistrate!