Zhang Menglin's loud order was like throwing a stone on the calm lake, and the eighty or ninety people on the Junshan immediately became busy like worker ants, carrying ammunition, holding the rudder, and turning the muzzle, and everyone entered the battle state with nervousness......

Like a swimming fish, the Junshan slid a beautiful arc on the river, the small hull was already diagonally across the river from southeast to northwest, and the five cannons of the gunboat radiated a cold light under the refraction of the sun.

The speed of the gunboat ...... sharply reduced, and the five cannons spewed out scorching sparks during the gliding.

Five gunboats with twenty-eight guns, one cannon after another, did not seem to have been cut off since the fire was opened. And it turned out that five firewheel gunboats could really drown the small South Gate battery, which was equipped with only twelve guns and had a maximum caliber of 105mm. After all, the twenty-eight guns on the five gunboats also had a three-inch caliber at the lowest, and the largest was a 120mm caliber. That's not a level of power!

Zhang Menglin is very annoyed now, the naval artillery has already fired three rounds, but it doesn't seem to have much effect. This efficiency is really a bit embarrassing, "It's all carefully shown to Lao Tzu, aim and then hit, aim." ”

Standing next to the 120mm main gun, Zhang Menglin yelled.

Zhang Qing, the main gunner on the side, silently calculated in his heart, deaf to Zhang Menglin's roar.

"Aim and fight, aim = fight again-" In the same way, Lin Yuecheng, the general of the Xiaonanmen Fort and the deputy general of the Anqing City Guarding Association, was also shouting loudly.

How many times the cannon has been fired, and there has been no harvest of results, and no one has a lot of psychological pressure.

"Closer, closer......" Other gunboats have already chosen to close the distance. The Yueyang is less than 100 meters to the left of the Junshan. Under the command of Vice Admiral Fan Chuntang, the 250-ton gunboat S-shaped rapidly approached the battery.

"Boom, boom, boom—" The Qing army's artillery was firing. Lin Yuecheng will not give up this opportunity. Command the artillery of all gun positions to concentrate on firing at the Yueyang. For a while, the shells smashed over.

And the main gun on the Yueyang, the 120mm heavy gun, is also hurrying up. Bombardment of the same gun emplacement on the small south gate fort kept coming.

Amid the sound of explosions and screams of flesh and blood, the two sides fought fiercely.

An hour later, the number of gun emplacements on the small south gate battery, which was still returning fire, had been reduced to eight. The Junshan had stopped on the river about a mile from the battery, and the ship's main guns were constantly bombarding one of the main gun positions on the battery. It is in a very dangerous situation, but at the same time it has great opportunities. Crisis, crisis, is the coexistence of danger and opportunity.

So far, the Junshan has not been damaged at all. It was hit by a shot on the left side of the ship, and it was directly blown up into a large gap more than a meter long. The secondary gun at the aft end of the port side was also missing after one hit. Directly through the blast hole fell into the river, and all the members of the gun position died. In just ten minutes after it stopped now, the Junshan was hit by two more shells, but it didn't cause much damage.

"Boom ......"

In the deafening explosion, the air wave directly knocked Lin Yuecheng to the ground. The main gun position of the Little South Gate Fort has been blown up!

Lin Yuecheng, who came back from his stunned state, couldn't believe what he saw at all. How could such a thick protection of the main gun position be blown up? When he supervised the construction and repair of the Xiaonanmen Fort, he used the only batch of reinforced concrete in the main gun position, how could it be blown up?

After being greatly threatened by the Qin army south of the Yangtze River, Anhui had a great dispute over the garrison strategy.

Zhang Yao insisted on sticking to Hefei and Luzhou. It is believed that Anqing is on the edge of the Yangtze River, and the sailors of the Qin army are incomparably sharp, and they are not a place for the army to fight. Of course, the governor did not agree with Zhang Yao's opinion, and was bent on defending Anqing. But Wenge, the governor, is mostly a gimmick. The real power in Anhui is more in the hands of Zhang Yao. Especially for the deployment of war preparation materials, a lot of reinforced concrete was taken by Zhang Yao to repair Hefei and Luzhou, and only a little drizzle fell into Wenge's hands.

This little drizzle was all used to build the small south gate fort. The main thing is the main gun emplacement of the battery. It was the only 105mm heavy gun on the battery. But it couldn't stop the Junshan from going against the sky, and the shells happened to enter through the window of the gun emplacement. Detonated all the ammunition on the gun emplacement, and naturally the entire gun emplacement exploded.

This cannon of the Junshan directly laid the foundation for the victory of the Qin army's artillery battle. After the detonation of the main gun position. The Qing army on the Xiaonanmen Fort is like having no backbone, it has no fighting spirit, and it has no fighting spirit. When the artillery battle lasted for two hours, the entire small south gate fort was dumb.

In the battle of Xiaonanmen Fort, the Qin army won the victory, which made a good start for the entire Anqing siege battle.

Just as Liu Xian said, the Xiaonanmen Fort missed in two hours, like a basin of cold water poured on the heads of the Anqing defenders. The morale of the Qing army was greatly reduced.

In the following day, the Qin army, which landed on the north bank, lightly swept the Qing army positions around Anqing City.

Wenge is not a qualified military leader, and the war thinking in his mind is still stuck in twenty years ago, and it is still an old-fashioned war centered on 'city defense'. The main force of the Anqing Qing army was guarded in the city, and all the strategic places outside were only slightly deployed to defend, or simply not a single soldier was arranged.

On the second day of the landing, the Qin army annihilated the two city walls in the south and west of the city with artillery fire, and then the engineering troops carried out blasting, and blew up a huge gap of six five or six zhang wide on the south and west city walls, and the fighting spirit of the Qing army in Anqing completely collapsed.

This Manchu Jinshi thirty-four years ago, a Manchu nobleman who enjoyed a reputation among contemporary scholars for his good work, flowers and birds, ended his life in this way.

And the shock brought to the world by Anqing's change of hands is far beyond the death of a Wenge.

Because after the Qin army seized Anqing, it had the foundation to march into northern Anhui, and the decisive battle of Huai'an between Qin and Huai was about to start, and the Qin army's actions could shake the military spirit of the Huai army to some extent.

Seriously, now the elite of the Huai Army is in Sichuan, and the other is in Huai'an. As for his hometown in Anhui, he really relies on Zhang Yao's Songwu Army to support the table.

If the Qin army moves north. No one believed that Zhang Yao could carry it.

However, Liu Xian arrived in Nanjing by warship immediately after the Anqing War, and then crossed the river to Yangzhou. It was obviously a personal expedition against the battle of Huai'an. The Qin army that occupied Anqing was also like a hibernating bear, nesting in Anqing and refusing to move. It doesn't seem to mean 'taking advantage of others'.

Li Hongzhang had already arrived in Huai'an at this time, and the various units of the Huai Army in the entire North China flowed into the 'Huai'an City' like rivers flowing into the sea.

According to a report from Huai'an, the only site of the military intelligence department in northern Jiangsu, the strength of the Huai army has exceeded 40,000.

Among them, the main force of infantry is Li Hongzhang's pro-army line, that is, Li Hongzhang's pro-army supervision in the initial period of the Huai Army, and the pro-army of Fubiao after serving as the governor of Jiangsu. Then it is the military camp after the Huai army has gained a firm foothold, and now it is unified under the command of Li Hongzhang's cousin and brother-in-law Zhang Shaotang, with Zhou Liangcai, Huang Yuanliang, Li Sheng, Yan Banggui, Zhang Wenxuan and other generals.

These people have already come out one after another, such as Li Sheng, who is the best in the mix, with Li Hongzhang's two battalions of personal soldiers after years of hard fighting, the army has been expanded, and it has been named 'Shengzi Battalion', and has been promoted to the rank of Registered Admiral, rewarding the name of Heyong Baturu. It is a canon.

But now as soon as Li Hongzhang is closed, he has become a general under Zhang Shaotang.

The total strength of Li Hongzhang's army was close to 10,000 and it was well-equipped.

And then there is Pan Dingxin's Ding Army. As one of the basic plates of the Huai Army when it was established, Pan Dingxin's status in the Huai Army was not inferior to Liu Mingchuan. It is the descendant of Li Hongzhang's lineage. At present, there are 16 battalions of infantry and 3 battalions of horse troops, with a strength of 10,000 people. The infantry team is divided by Wu Congfa, Tang Hongcheng, Pan Dingli, Nie Guirong, and Han Zhaoyang. The horse team is led by Wan Guoshun.

Then there is Yang Dingxun's army, and the whole army is composed of 15 battalions of infantry and 3 battalions of horse teams. Plus the artillery team is as high as 10,000 people. It's just that Yang Dingxun's five battalions of infantry were stationed in Yangzhou for a generation, and they were swallowed by the Qin army a long time ago. Now it is ten battalions of infantry and three battalions of horses, plus artillery teams, with a total of seven or eight thousand people.

According to a report from the Military Intelligence Department, Yang Dingxun is bent on revenge, and his voice is very high. And if you look at the history of the original time and space, among the many Huai army generals in Huai'an, he Yang Dingxun is the one who should be most grateful to Liu Xian. If it weren't for Liu Xian who changed history, Yang Dingxun would have hung up ten years earlier. In the original plane, he died in the battle of the Twist.

Then there is the Wu Yi Army led by Nie Shicheng. The latter was originally brought out by Li Hongzhang's sixth brother Li Zhaoqing, and Ye Zhichao's department in the Battle of Hubei was part of the Wu Yi Army. After Li Zhaoqing's death, Wu Yijun did not have a serious leader, and existed in an almost scattered form. This time, Nie Shicheng, a junior of the Huai Army, was able to take the position, also because he caught up with the Huai'an War.

At present, the Wuyi Army has 11 infantry battalions and 2 artillery battalions, with a total strength of more than 6,000 people.

Coupled with the horse team led by Tang Renqian of no less than 5,000 and the artillery team led by Luo Rongguang, the total strength of the Huai'an Huai Army must have exceeded 40,000.

On the Qin army's side, in addition to Liu Xian's garrison regiment, it was Qi Dalin's integrated Fourth Division [missing a brigade], plus Song Zuoxian's Guards Cavalry Brigade and the First Artillery Regiment led by Roy.

The total number of troops has also reached 30,000!

Especially when Qi Dalin led his troops to the north, he brought all the cavalry battalions and artillery battalions of the division with him. Although Liu Xian only had 30,000 people, his artillery power and cavalry mobility were definitely very strong.

The battlefields on both sides were set at Huai'an, but if the Qin army really hit Huai'an, the Huai army would have lost the war.

Because the actual control line of the Qin army was in Ziyinggou in Gaoyou Prefecture, and to the north was a narrow area sandwiched between Gaoyou Lake and Sheyang Lake. The width is only about thirty miles, and the length is twenty miles. After this narrow land is Baoying, and then to the north is the Jing River, and after the Jing River is Huai'an City. [Not the Jing River of Shaanxi]

So the focus of this battle is actually on the narrow land of these twenty miles. The role of the cavalry was not to fight back between battle formations, but to bypass the roundabout attack of Sheyang Lake.

In this frontal battlefield, if you don't want to go around Sheyang Lake, then you can only fight the narrow ground. Therefore, this station not only attracted national attention, but also attracted a large number of foreign field observation groups.

Qin Jun rejected the applications of the United States and Germany, but 'I Daqing' did not refuse!

ps: Before Sheyang Lake was not silted up, it was almost half the size of Hongze Lake. (To be continued......) R1292