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"Pass the order, the battleships of the Sixth Fleet will quickly occupy the Yanziji Water Division Dazhai, and as for the other water village, it will be handed over to the First Fleet, and the Yuanzi formation will go straight to the Qinhuai River with me!" After Wang Zhenbang consulted Geng Jingzhong, he issued the latest order in this Jinling territory.

"In addition, when the first squadron arrives at the Waijinchuan Gate, eight hundred marines will go down to the Waijinchuan Gate to deter me first, and I want the Qing army in the entire Jinling City to panic." Geng Jingzhong added on the side.

"Do you hear me, give a quick order!" Wang Zhenbang said to the flag commander beside him.

The flag commander nodded busily and began to run to the front deck to give orders. The fleets on both sides also acted quickly after receiving the order, and the battleships were not downwind, but they were not against the wind, and the speed was not too fast, so they slowly approached Jinling City.

In this part of Yanziji, there are thousands of kilometers of river banks from east to west that can moor large ships, and even if all the warships of the Jiangning Naval Division of the Qing Army are docked near Yanziji, there is no problem, of course, this does not include those small boats. The Sixth Detachment also arrived here very quickly. But at this moment, Yanziji has been in chaos, and the people nearby and the Qing army left behind in the village are fleeing in a panic in the direction of Jinling City to the south.

The defeat of the Qing army's naval division is certain, otherwise their warships will not be able to come back, seeing that the Mawei naval battleships are so neat and each is a big ship, and the sides of the ship are exposed with black holes, they are all people who deal with the warship artillery all day long. Although the power of such a warship is specific, they do not know. But it's certain that they're far more powerful than their original ships.

The Mawei Army's very light yì took over this water village. By the way, the ferries on both sides of the river were also controlled. In fact, at this time, where are the merchants and people on the ferry, and when they saw the Mawei military ship coming over, they were all worried that the Mawei battleship would fire and they would be blown up for no reason, so they had already spread their feet and ran in the direction of Jinling City!

In fact, at this time, the Qing officers in the city had already learned the news of the arrival of the Mawei battleship, but they did not send a single person out of the city. The officers on the tower also knew it. The naval guns on the Mawei battleship will not be decorations at all, as long as he dares to take people out of the city, without running to the shore, he will be sent to the west by the cannonballs of the Mawei army. On the side of Ningwu of the first detachment, it took two quarters of an hour for the battleship to finally drive to the side of the Waijinchuan Gate, which is the location of the Yangtze River Bridge in the later generations, and the Waijinchuan Gate is only more than a kilometer away from the river bank.

"The Marines begin to land!" This place does not have a pier though. The fighters could not get straight down from the battleship, but the battleship had rafts on board. The soldiers on each battleship had already prepared this, and one by one the rafts were flushed, quickly opened, and then put into the water, and the soldiers began to land on this thing.

The history of the raft is also very long, this thing is very convenient to make, cut off the limbs and head of the whole cow or sheep, and then peel off the skin completely, soak it in clear oil and salt water for several days, take it out to dry, and then suture the wound and air leakage, leaving the wound of one leg as an inflatable hole, it becomes a skin bag. When used, the leather bags are inflated into bulging leather bags, and tied to the frame side by side, which becomes a simple means of crossing the river and transporting. This thing can be used individually, or it can be connected in multiple ways, and it can be used in a group and flexibly separated. However, in addition to crossing, you can only drift down the river, not against the current. Although this thing was not very popular in Fujian originally, there were still some people who could make it.

However, the navy found the usefulness of this thing very early, like the battle of the Japanese army, the soldiers are more troublesome to land, and the battleship will not be equipped with many small boats at all, so this raft is a good choice, when not in use, seal the zài cabin, and then take it out in advance to inflate when you use it, which is very convenient. But five years ago, after Geng Jingzhong drifted with this thing once, his behavior was stopped by the people around him, it was too dangerous, that is, when he rowed a boat, he was escorted by more than a dozen boats behind him. However, this raft has been popular in Fuzhou for so many years! Rich sons are vying to follow suit, and they are happy to do it!

The rafts on the navy's side were not large, but they were not small, and for each one of them, twenty soldiers descended down the rope ladder to the raft and began to row towards the shore. From the shore to the outer city wall of Jinling City, there is actually only a short distance. The Qing army quickly retreated to the inside of the outer city wall. This is the outer Jinchuan Gate, and it is still some way away from the real Jinchuan Gate. But at this moment, the Qing army defenders on the Jinchuan Gate outside the gate were also nervous, and the military academy kept praying that the reinforcements from the inner city could come quickly, otherwise he could not guarantee that he could hold it when the Mawei Army attacked in a big way.

Although the city wall where the Outer Jinchuan Gate is located is only a part of the Outer Guo City, it is not actually the real city wall of Jinling City. However, it does stand in the way of the horsetailed warriors. On the left side of the Waijinchuan Gate is Longwan, and on the right, is the mouth of the Qinhuai River. They are all waterways, and there are no roads to connect them. The city wall, where the Waijinchuan Gate is located, extends eastward to the Shangyuan Gate. If the horsetail warriors wanted to attack the city, or if they wanted to get close to the real Jinling wall, they had to enter from here.

Eight hundred Marines disembarked from the thirty-six ships and quickly assembled on the shore. In normal times, their training is a little different from that of other soldiers on the battleship, they practice guns and fight, and there is a special commander to command, it is a newly promoted captain of the Marine Brigade - Qin Xin, who has accumulated military merits and has risen to this position, and he soon came to the outside of the Waijinchuan Gate with 800 soldiers. At such a close distance, the Qing army still did not dare to attack the city, not only because they did not have an advantage in numbers, but they were even more afraid of the Mawei battleships in the distance.

When the first detachment leaned on the riverside to let the soldiers land, the Yuanzi formation also overtook them from the side and continued to sail towards the Qinhuai River not far away. On the deck, Geng Jingzhong can clearly see through the guò telescope that the walls of Jinling City are indeed very strong. The surface of the city wall was full of large stones, the smallest of which was one zhang long and two feet thick. The gap between each other is not possible for a single finger to penetrate. Even the outermost city wall is five or six zhang high, and the width is not known for the time being, but it will definitely not be small when you think about it. After all, Jinling City was once the capital of the 300-year-old Great Empire, and it was naturally meticulous in the construction of the city wall. In terms of design and construction quality, there will certainly be no problems.

In fact, the huge rocks alone are extremely huge obstacles. Unless there is a howitzer for later generations, it is basically impossible to explode. Although they had flowering shells, solid shells, chain shells and grape shells, the gunpowder used in these shells was actually black powder, no matter how pure it was, no matter how small it was made into small particles, the power was far less than that of later generations. As for the solid bullet falling on it, the biggest possibility is that there is a small white dot. Grape bombs and chain bombs and the like, don't even think about it.

Therefore, it is unlikely that such a wall will be broken by force. If you use a ladder, there is no ladder that long. The two ladders are connected, and the carrying capacity is not enough. At the same time, the defenders on the city walls will also fight back desperately. Now there are only 800 people on the shore, and they can't afford to be tossed like this. Therefore, the only way to really attack the city gate is to break the city gate. The weakest point in the entire Waijinchuan Gate is the City Gate.

"Take the squadron as a unit, disperse, two squadrons attack an outer city gate, if the enemy army goes out of the city, you will retreat, and if you don't go out of the city, you will snipe the Qing army at the head of the city!"

"Yes!"

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Bang Bang Bang"

In just five minutes, around the Waijinchuan Gate, gunshots rang out continuously. The Waijinchuan Gate had already been firmly closed, and the soldiers of the Mawei Army could not enter, but the order they received was to shoot outside. The marines are the most elite group of soldiers, and there are only 800 marines in a detachment of nearly 7,000 people, and they are the main force at the forefront even when they board the ship in close combat at sea.

At this moment, the two squadrons, that is, two hundred people, were scattered, staring at the city from a distance of a hundred meters. As long as the Qing army dared to raise its head above the Jinchuan Gate outside, a series of Mini bullets flew over, and many Qing soldiers were killed on the spot on the city. In this way, the Mawei Marine soldiers only fired a few shots, and the Qing troops at the head of the city did not dare to raise their heads at all. At this distance, the Qing army on the head of the city also has archery, the head of the city is so high, the archers can also shoot arrows from a hundred meters away, and there is a relatively large lethality. But the horsetail warriors didn't just stand there and let the Qing archers shoot at the target, and they still moved from time to time. In addition, there are few bows and arrows for the Qing soldiers here in Jinchuan Gate, and the only few archers were sent to the west by the bullets of the warriors when they shot arrows.

On this side of the Qinhuai River, the Qinhuai River cannot allow Mawei battleships to enter, after all, this is just an ordinary river that is not wide and not deep, even a fifth-level battleship can't go far, and several fifth-level battleships are just going to shell the Xishui Pass under Geng Jingzhong's order, and today's task is just to destroy the Xishui Pass set up by the Qing court here! (To be continued......)

PS: Yesterday's update was only a few seconds late, and I'm going to make up for it twice as much today, I'm tired!