At this moment, Yang Shuijiao couldn't care about Yang Xiuqing's worries, and hurriedly followed the large army and hurried away.

It is only forty miles from Niushou Mountain to Nanjing, and it takes only two hours to come to a place about five miles outside the gate of Nanyutai Huacheng.

In the dark night, there was a changing red light in front of him, and there was a faint shouting of killing, indicating that something had happened in Nanjing, Yang Shuijiao was anxious and urged: "Let's hurry into the city." ”

Five miles away, it was pitch black, Wang Feng and Hong Xuanjiao's dark cultivation in the later period could not see the city wall in front, the so-called distance of five miles was completely estimated by memory, not to mention judging whether the city gate was open or closed, and whether there were any defenders on the city.

However, Hong Xuanjiao didn't send anyone to investigate at all, but beckoned domineeringly: "The artillery brigade is ready, shoot in five minutes!" ”

There is no way, there is an organized artillery unit in hand, Hong Xuanjiao has the qualifications to be domineering!

Ninety-six 75 small mountain guns were rumbled and pushed to the front of the formation, lined up, and the shells used were all copper-shelled shells, a small part of which was smokeless gunpowder, which lasted less than five minutes, and the one in the middle fired first, and it was the smokeless gunpowder shells that were fired.

In the darkness, the direction could not be determined, and the only way to see ahead was the light of the moment the shells landed.

"Bang!" In the distance, a ball of fire bloomed, and I happened to see the black shadow of the city wall, about fifty meters away.

"Bang Bang~~" The left and right cannons raised the muzzle slightly, followed by fire, the approximate distance was, this time the purpose was positioning, after two screams, a cannonball hit the city wall. The other exploded ten meters from the city gate.

"Put!" The artillery brigade commander pressed his right hand hard!

In an instant, nearly 100 cannons were fired in unison. In the distance, sparks bloomed on the city wall, and the smoke rose into the air under the reflection of the firelight. If you have good eyesight, you can even see the corpse being thrown away!

"Up!" Hong Xuanjiao also waved violently.

The soldiers of the two brigades immediately rushed towards the city gate, and she did not leave any troops to guard the artillery, because the soldiers of the artillery brigade not only opened artillery, but also had no bad marksmanship and grenadier skills. What about free time? They can only train and retrain, and participate in all kinds of exercises and all-army competitions.

A brigade with 2,700 full-strength combatants is not much, but it is enough to withstand the sneak attack of tens of thousands of troops of the Taiping Army.

And Hong Xuanjiao is confident, don't look at the small caliber of the 75 small mountain cannon, the power is weak, but under the intensive bombardment, it is enough to collapse this section of the city wall before rushing.

Shells swept overhead, screeching and exploding. The firelight in front of them was connected into a film, and everyone was extremely excited to witness the bombardment of the artillery array.

But it didn't take long for the artillery to stop firing. On the one hand, the walls have collapsed, and on the other hand, artillery technology has not yet been perfected. The main thing was that there were problems with the heat resistance of the barrel, and the rate of fire of the 75 small mountain gun was eight rounds per minute. At this rate, firing continuously for two minutes, the barrel must be cooled down.

Theoretically. The use of nickel steel can increase the strength of the barrel, but the problem is that China is a country with poor nickel ore resources, although modern Chinese military industrialists use vanadium steel to perfectly replace nickel steel, but there is no large-scale vanadium titanium magnetite in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the nearest mining area is also in Anhui and Hunan, and the quality is not too good.

Second, including nickel steel, vanadium steel, manganese steel, tungsten steel and other alloy steels known to Wang Feng, although the Democratic Alliance established the Institute of Materials Science, but limited by the technical environment at that time and the scientific literacy of scientific researchers, the progress of research and development was very slow.

At present, only the most easy to synthesize high manganese steel has been successfully developed, its strength, wear resistance, the defect is the lack of heat resistance, in modern society, it is generally used in excavators, forklifts, shovels, rails and tank armor, etc., although it is not too counterpartial, but the dwarf inside the general, in any case, the heat resistance of manganese steel is no longer a problem, but also better than simple steel, temporarily the new artillery of the Democratic Alliance, the barrel is basically cast by high manganese steel.

Although the dense salvo for two consecutive minutes stopped, the burning fire reflected the opening of the city wall red, like a bright light in the night, Hong Xuanjiao beckoned again: "Hurry up, hurry up and enter the city!" ”

The soldiers quickened their pace, and after 20 minutes, they all entered the city of Nanjing, and as for the commanding heights that the Democratic League forces had always occupied, they would be occupied by the artillery brigades behind.

"Over there!" Yang Shuijiao stretched out her hand and pointed to Yang Xiuqing's mansion.

The large force quickly moved over.

Nanjing City is still the same, except for the scattered luxury mansions, it is full of ruins, in the night of the mutiny, every mansion passed by is a black light blinding, in a short period of time can not figure out who owns, the soldiers do not pay attention, pass by, just see the Taiping Army appeared, whether it belongs to Wei Changhui's side or Yang Xiuqing's side, immediately grenades and guns together to greet, first hit and then say!

Yang Xiuqing's Dongwangfu is located in Huangnigang near the Hanxi Gate, that is, the area of today's Nanjing Medical University, it is still quite far from Yuhuatai, the most convenient route is actually from the Hanxi Gate into the city, but outside the Hanxi Gate is the Qinhuai River, the Democratic Alliance lacks the boats to cross the river, and then enter the city after building a raft, I am afraid that the sky has already dawned.

Speaking of which, Wang Feng does have plans to let Yang Xiuqing live, not for anything else, just for Yang Shuijiao.

After another forty minutes, the Dongwang Mansion appeared in front of him, but the scene suddenly made Yang Shuijiao anxious, there was a clear shout of killing, begging for mercy and the screams of women in the mansion, there were tongues of fire in many places, and the outside of the mansion was surrounded by water, it was obvious that Wei Changhui had entered Yang Xiuqing's mansion, this is the rhythm of destroying the door.

"Wang Feng, save the eldest brother!" Yang Shui grabbed Wang Feng's arm anxiously and screamed.

"Shui Jiao, it's useless to be anxious, when it comes to this, we can only pray for Yang Xiuqing's hard life, and it is expected that Yang Xiuqing will not be found lightly." Wang Feng patted Yang Shuijiao's shoulder and said, "Mortar preparation!" ”

The gunners of each platoon skillfully assembled the mortars, and in the chaotic situation, the top priority was to attack the Dongwang Mansion, and then concentrate their forces to attack Wei Changhui or Qin Rigang, and then capture Hong Xiuquan, and wait for dawn to find out the shape, and then try to control the city of Nanjing.

"His Royal Highness King Yan! Someone's coming! "When the Democratic Alliance army suddenly appeared in front of the Dongwangfu, the Taiping army besieging the Dongwangfu also discovered that a large number of unknown troops were approaching.

Qin Rigang's heart slammed suddenly, and when he looked back, he was here with a bright fire, and there was no light in the distance, and at a distance of nearly a thousand meters, he could only see a hazy figure in the dark night, and he couldn't tell which side it was. (To be continued......)

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