Lin Fei waved his hand lightly and said with a smile: "Detour to the south, although the distance has increased, but the defense of the Qing army has also become weaker, our army's attack will be easier, and the time it will take will be less." ”

"As for the river, we don't have to worry about it, I've decided to solve it with new equipment."

The staff officers hurriedly asked, "What new equipment?" ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "I have prepared a bridge-erecting vehicle for the front-line troops, and when encountering a river, I can quickly erect a pontoon bridge, and I know that on the marching route, the width of the river is mostly within two hundred meters, and our bridge-erecting vehicle is fully competent for the task of building bridges on these rivers." ”

The staff officers were skeptical, and Lin Fei continued: "I have equipped the bridge-building vehicle to the rapid reaction force, which will be used by the rapid reaction force in a unified manner, and the rapid reaction force is in Taiwan at this time, so let them rush to Shanghai immediately and enter the battle to attack Nanjing." The rapid reaction force launched an attack, and the other troops could not watch, and instructed Wei Zelong to continue the attack on Yanziji, but their attack was a feint. ”

On the one hand, he continued to attack Yanziji to attract the attention of the Qing army, and on the other hand, he sent a rapid reaction force to bypass the Qing army's defense line, so that the defense line that Li Hongzhang had painstakingly managed and the defense line that cost a lot of manpower and material resources to build were all nullified.

Lin Fei announced the dismissal of the meeting, the staff officers walked out one after another, only Xiyun left to sort out the meeting minutes, Xiyun walked to Lin Fei's side, grinned, and flattered: "Husband, people accidentally made a mistake today......

Lin Fei turned his face and said angrily: "How many times have I said this matter, you still make mistakes, how do you say I should punish you?" ”

Xiyun grimaced, "Husband can punish others as much as he wants......"

Lin Fei smiled evilly, "Then I'll take you to buy clothes, what do you think?" ”

"Ah...... Shopping for clothes? My husband must want to buy ugly clothes for others, and then let Sister Xue and Xian'er laugh at me fiercely, right? This punishment is so cruel...... But they had to say yes......"

Xiyun said with a smile, his face was full of innocence, Lin Fei smiled secretly in his heart: "Yun'er, you think about buying clothes too simply......"

On 3 May, Zhang Jiancheng led a rapid reaction force to Zhenjiang, disembarked from Zhenjiang, and made a detour directly to the south side of Nanjing.

At this time, the rapid reaction force had a total strength of 2,000 people, and with 100 trucks, Lin Fei found that the combat effect of equipping trucks separately for various combat units was not very ideal, so it was better to form a separate army and equip them with the same force, so as to form a powerful assault force.

The rapid reaction force led by Zhang Jiancheng is equipped with 20 bridge-erecting vehicles, which are very different from the bridge-erecting vehicles of Lin Fei's era, the bridge-erecting vehicles of Lin Fei's era, the bridge body is placed on the vehicle, and most of the bridge-erecting vehicle chassis is crawler-type, when used, the bridge body is unfolded on the vehicle and placed to the place that needs to be erected.

Lin Fei's bridge erection vehicle, strictly speaking, is a bridge carrier, the bridge body is placed in the cargo compartment of the Malaysian truck (that is, the LCC-5-1 truck), when it needs to be used, the bridge body is taken out of the cargo compartment by the personnel, the bridge body is wooden, with a huge airbag below, the airbag is usually shriveled, and it is filled with air when used to provide buoyancy for the bridge body.

On the battlefield, the inflation process usually needs to be fast, so Lin Fei's bridge erection car is equipped with a fast inflator, which is actually a small air pump, driven by electricity, and the air pump injects air into the inside of the airbag to make the airbag puff up, and under the action of the airbag, the bridge body can float on the water.

There is a conveyor belt on the bridge erection car, when the bridge body needs to be put away, the personnel can put the bridge body on the conveyor belt, the length of each bridge body is about eight meters, in fact, the bridge body can be made longer, the reason why it should be designed to be eight meters is because of the length limit of the cargo compartment.

Each bridge-erecting vehicle can carry four pieces of bridge body, after splicing, each bridge-erecting vehicle can lay a 32-meter-long boat bridge, 20 vehicles cooperate, can erect a 200-meter-long boat bridge, for the small river from Zhenjiang to Nanjing, 200 meters, is enough to use.

The military designation of this type of bridge erection vehicle is LCC-5-4, which is one of the LCC-5-1 truck families.

The bridge erection speed of this type of bridge erection vehicle is 30 meters and a half hours, and the bridge retraction speed is 30 meters and 45 minutes, which is already quite fast, if compared with the world level, the LCC-5-4 bridge erection vehicle is in the stage of complete leadership, and all countries in the world have not thought of equipping the troops with a separate bridge erection vehicle.

Of course, this type of bridge erection vehicle can not be built on any river, if the river speed is too fast, or the width of the river is too large, the bridge erecting vehicle can not do anything.

Zhang Jiancheng calculated the distance, from Zhenjiang to Nanjing, it is almost 100 kilometers, and this 100-kilometer area has to pass through more than a dozen rivers, and most of these river bridge-building vehicles can be competent.

There are no cement roads in these areas, some are dirt roads, in fact, Chinese merchants built cement roads, but the Qing court has realized the power of these cement roads, in the previous battles, the Chinese army is using these cement roads, quickly occupied a large area of land in the Qing State.

In recent times, it has been raining a lot, not very heavy, but it has been going down for a long time, making the ground extremely muddy, which has caused considerable difficulties for the LCC-5-1 truck to maneuver, but it is still able to pass through these muddy roads, but the speed has to be reduced to 20 kilometers per hour, and it has to stop from time to time.

Outside Jurong City, the rapid reaction force encountered a small river with a width of about 50 meters, and the speed of the water flow was measured to be about two meters per second.

On the other side of the river, the general army of Jurong Mansion personally led 5,000 Lian Yong to garrison, and when they saw the troops flying the Blood and Fire Dragon Banner coming, they immediately felt like they were facing a great enemy, and drilled into the trenches, preparing to resist the rapid reaction forces.

Zhang Jiancheng observed the Qing army's fortifications with a telescope and found that the Qing army's fortifications were simple, especially the trenches, the chest wall was very thin, and the chest wall was randomly piled up with soil, which could not block the rifle bullets at all.

Looking at the weapons of the Qing army, more than half of them used old-fashioned bird guns, that is, the kind filled with gunpowder and iron sand, and the remaining small half of the people used not old-fashioned bird guns, but - sticks, brooms, hoes, everything, they put these stick-like objects flat on their chests, and they looked exactly like they were holding guns, and they actually took these things for guns.

Zhang Jiancheng couldn't help laughing and ordered his subordinates to shoot at the Qing army, and the Huaxia army fired a volley, and the Qing army suffered a large number of casualties, because their breastwork could not stop the bullets at all.

The general soldier of Jurong Mansion wanted to play a leading role, so he stood outside the trench, waved the long knife in his hand and shouted: "Brothers, the time has come to kill all the snitches, aim and hit a snitch, and reward me with fifty taels ......of silver."

Before the general soldier of Jurong Mansion could finish speaking, he was shot in the head by a sniper of the rapid reaction force, his body fell to the ground, and the Qing soldiers scattered screaming and running.

It took only ten minutes for the resistance of Jurong Mansion to dissipate, and Zhang Jiancheng immediately ordered his troops to cross the river, and the bridge-building troops set up the boat bridge, and the rapid reaction forces quickly killed them.

Zhang Jiancheng saw that the troops had enough food, so he did not buy food in Jurong, because Huaxia had already controlled the finance of the Qing State before the war, so Huaxia currency could be freely circulated in the Qing State, and the Huaxia army could use Huaxia currency to buy food.

Although the Qing State declared the Huaxia currency illegal after the war, and strictly prohibited the use of it, it was not prohibited at all, and the Qing State also announced the arrest of all the employees of the Huaxia Dafu Bank, and this order was also a mere formality, and the Dafu Bank gave the Qing magistrate a large amount of bribes, and the magistrate chose to let the Chinese people go.

At this time, the Qing court was already extremely corrupt from top to bottom, all officials were stuffing money into their pockets, and when the country was in danger, these people were still thinking about their own interests.

The rapid reaction force used bridge-building vehicles to quickly pass through one river after another, and the Qing courts in various places hurriedly reported the news of the Huaxia Army's attack to Nanjing, but from these places to Nanjing, there were no telephone lines or telegraph lines at all, and they could only send messages on horseback. Therefore, the people who delivered the letter from the Qing court all fell behind the rapid reaction force.

Thus, a spectacle in the history of war appeared, the Huaxia rapid reaction force walked in front, and the Qing court soldiers who reported the invasion of the rapid reaction force chased behind, until the rapid reaction force was only twenty kilometers away from Nanjing, stopped to rest, and prepared to attack the city of Nanjing.

What is ridiculous is that the news sent to Li Hongzhang was sent by Jurong Mansion, which made Li Hongzhang think that the Huaxia Army was still near Jurong, and Li Hongzhang thought that it would be difficult for the Huaxia Army to quickly attack Nanjing, so he unhurriedly sent a force of 5,000 people to resist the rapid reaction force, but he did not expect that this force happened to hit the muzzle of the rapid reaction force.

The 5,000-strong troops were on the march, and they were discovered by Zhang Jiancheng's scouts, who observed the nearby terrain and found no place to ambush, so he decided to directly attack this Qing army and annihilate them all.

Zhang Jiancheng took one hundred and twenty trucks as the lead, and rushed to the Qing army, the Qing army was divided into several sections in the blink of an eye, and the end could not care about each other, and the Huaxia army then rushed over, so that Zhang Jiancheng did not expect that as soon as the Qing army saw the Huaxia army, they did the same thing together.