Chapter 297: Heading North Against the Current

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When the Dream Division completely occupied New Orleans, the task force slowly sailed into the port of New Orleans, after which they left a regiment to guard the port of New Orleans and deal with the follow-up, and the other troops boarded the ship one after another and began to move north along the Mississippi River, aiming directly at Vicksburg.

Originally, Mo Haiwen and Shi Dakai both persuaded Li Yongji to sit in New Orleans and not take any more risks in person, after all, Li Yongji's status is too special, and if something happens, the shock caused will definitely not be ordinary.

You must know that although the Chinese Empire has been established, the founding time is still very short, there are still many internal and external troubles, and the temporary peace is only because Li Yongji is too strong and overwhelmed by force.

However, it was precisely because Li Yongji rose too fast that he did not accumulate enough, and the reason why he was able to suppress the whole country was only by relying on the invincible army under his control. But the problem is that so far, the army of the Chinese Empire has only recognized Li Yongji as one person, and there is no other person who has the ability or prestige to control the overall situation, not even the emperor's elder brother, Li Yongchang, the righteous king.

In other words, the establishment of the Chinese Empire was all based on an invincible army, and that invincible army could only be completely mastered by Li Yongji.

Before, although Li Yongji was not in the country for a long time, he would talk to the country almost every day, and he would also call the officers below directly for many military orders, so even if he did not show up for a long time, he still relied on the radio, even if he was thousands of miles away, he still controlled the domestic troops to death.

It is precisely because Li Yongji still controls the troops. still uses voice and radio to show a sense of existence to the important generals in the country, and Prime Minister Shen Shiming will be authoritative in the country, otherwise, Shen Shiming will definitely not be able to sit in his position, and those national defense forces will not listen to Shen Shiming's words.

It is because they understand the importance of Li Yongji that Mo Haiwen and Shi Dakai are so cautious, because they are both very satisfied with the current state of the country, and they are also very satisfied with Li Yongji, and they are very afraid of what they will look like once they lose Li Yongji.

Therefore, according to the original intention of Mo Haiwen and Shi Dakai. In other words, according to the original intention of Shen Shiming and other important ministers of the Li family, Li Yongji should be tied to the palace and not go out, because as long as Li Yongji, the founding emperor, still exists, there will be no chaos.

But it's a pity that Li Yongji has become the emperor, but he is still reckless, especially this kind of change of name and surname A person who came all the way to California to pioneer the land, and the emperor should not be a general. also personally led troops to participate in the American Civil War, no matter how you look at it, it is a bit unreliable.

Mo Haiwen and Shi Dakai are both people who read poetry and books, especially love to read history, and they chat in their spare time. They all feel that their emperor is too different. If you really want to compare the emperors of the past dynasties, I am afraid that only the Emperor Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty can compare, they are all the same absurdity and the same boldness.

As a matter of fact. It's not just Mo Haiwen and Shi Dakai who have this idea, almost everyone who knows the truth has this feeling, but it's a pity that those who know the truth are Li Yongji's hardcore descendants. In addition, Li Yongji is the founding emperor, and he is not a master of persuasion at all, so he can only let him mess around like this.

In fact, these people don't understand Li Yongji at all, and they don't know that since Li Yongji had a child, it seems that he suddenly had an epiphany, he not only wants to grasp the monstrous power, but also does not want to be bound by this power, he hopes to live a free and easy life, live a happy life.

After all, Li Yongji is the soul of a modern person, and he used to be an otaku, but otaku are not necessarily born to like otaku, and many situations may also be involuntary, such as lack of money, such as work restrictions, etc.

In other words, Li Yongji's heart is eager for freedom and unrestrained, he actually doesn't like to be stuffy in one place, and even a long time ago, when he was in modern society, he had the idea of traveling around the world.

However, Li Yongji in his previous life, with no power, no power and no money, and his family dragged him down, he worked hard to make money, and he had to support his family, so he didn't dare to expect to travel around at all, because he didn't have that condition.

Later, Li Yongji traveled to this time and space, and also obtained the time and space trading system against the sky, and his heart did fluctuate, but at the beginning, he was just busy making achievements, busy founding the country and becoming an emperor, and busy making China no longer bullied by the great powers.

Now, these goals have been basically achieved, the Chinese Empire has become a great power, and it is a very powerful country, but at this time, Li Yongji is not satisfied, he is not satisfied and can only stay in the inner courtyard of the deep palace to listen to the nagging of those ministers, or just be a time and space trader, he also hopes to do more things, do more things he likes to do.

What does Lee Yong-gil like the most? He may have liked a lot, but so far, he has found that his favorite thing to do is to personally lead his troops and then sweep the world with an invincible army to win victory after victory!

If he hadn't had this kind of thought, he wouldn't have gone so radically and jumped out so much, after all, with the advantage of his golden finger, accumulation and farming development are the king.

In fact, Li Yongji himself knows that he is going too fast, and his foundation is unstable, but this is his heart, he just likes this kind of day, there is no way, so he can only follow his own heart and take this kind of road that seems a little incredible to most people.

If it is according to Li Yongji's own heart, that is, what he wants is a happy one, and one qiē must let himself be happy first, otherwise every qiē is all false.

He made money, he trained troops, he overthrew the Manchus, established an empire, and a series of other things, all of which seemed to be very great, but he himself understood that if he wasn't willing to do these things, he would never have done them.

Therefore, Li Yongji now began to believe in a truth, the most important thing is to be enlightened, if he accidentally fails, the country will be divided, and the people will suffer...... So what's the matter?

In other words, Li Yongji's current mind is actually very simple, that is, if he lives, he must follow his wishes, after he dies. What a flood!

Of course, this is an immature idea, according to Li Yongji's words in his previous life, how can he be in his thirties, so he should not have this impulse.

But the problem is that a person's thoughts are actually influenced by many factors, in addition to experience, it is also related to one's biological age, or hormone secretion.

Li Yongji was a middle-aged man in his thirties in his previous life, but now he is. It's just a teenager under the age of seventeen, and it's the time when the blood is at its strongest.

And perhaps because of the relationship between time and space trading system, Li Yongji's qi and blood are much more vigorous than normal people, and he has strong explosive power and vigorous energy that ordinary people do not have, which also makes his hormone secretion different from ordinary people.

Li Yongji is now 1.84 meters tall and weighs 81 kilograms, in this era, he already looks very strong, but many people don't know that. He has already reached an astonishing 1,500 kilograms, or 1.5 tons, in the bench press, and 1,880 kilograms, or 1.88 tons. Almost two tons!

This value is absolutely abnormal, at least normal humans will never reach this value, because normal people. The muscles and bones will definitely collapse if they can't withstand this force.

It is important to know that this is not a Hercules pulling a wagon with wheels. That's bench press, that's weighting! An eighty-one kilogram guy, with a bench press of 1.5 tons and a weight of 1.8 tons, is absolutely evil!

It is precisely because he knows that he is abnormal, so Li Yongji usually pays attention to the control of the amount of people, he has always looked like a normal person in front of people, and only in private will he be happy.

In addition to his special physique, Li Yongji now sleeps very little, he only sleeps two hours a day.

This is not to say that Li Yongji doesn't want to sleep more, nor does it mean that he doesn't sleep well, on the contrary, his sleep quality is particularly good, and all of them are dreamless sleep.

The problem is that once Li Yongji sleeps for two hours, he will wake up naturally, and he will not feel the slightest sleepiness during this period, even if he takes sleeping pills, it will not work.

But there is also a disadvantage, that is, once he is sleepy, then he will automatically fall asleep after holding on for half an hour at most, and he will not wake up naturally after thunder during the period, and he must wait for two hours before waking up naturally.

In addition, his meal volume is also much larger than that of ordinary people, Li Yongji's meal amount, if calculated in terms of rice, is the maximum meal size of 30 ordinary people, so in order to reduce the meal time, his usual diet is mostly high-calorie food, and meat-based.

In short, Li Yongji knew that he was abnormal for a long time, which was somewhat controllable in the past, but since he came to the Red Fort in Hollywood, it was probably the outbreak of adolescence, and his abnormal index also broke out.

This kind of strange situation not only gave Li Yongji a strong physique, but also changed his personality.

Fortunately, after all, Li Yongji has rich experience and is very good at restraining this change, and he is quite good at concealing it, so until now, even those soldiers who trained with Li Yongji only know that this commander named Li Yuanzheng has extraordinary courage and energy.

In short, whether it is a change in the body that leads to a psychological change, or a depression in the past, it is absolutely impossible to let the current Li Yongji'an stay in the office to watch the text and stamp, what he desires is to personally lead the troops, attack and take, fight and conquer, and win one victory after another in the war, only in this way can he feel physically and mentally happy.

Of course, Li Yongji is now personally leading the troops, in addition to personal preferences, there is another reason, that is, the supply problem.

The unit that Li Yongji is building now is a quasi-motorized infantry division that uses almost all modern equipment, except for no tank armored vehicles, he has almost all of the other motorized infantry divisions.

The combat effectiveness of such a force is naturally terrifying, but the consumption of materials, or the dependence on logistics, is also quite terrifying, even if Li Yongji has simplified it and removed a lot of non-essential equipment.

Therefore, once Li Yongji did not follow him personally and could not use his space-time trading system to replenish at any time, then his powerful motorized infantry regiment would most likely lose its most important mobility.

After all, this motorized infantry division is equipped with a large number of motor vehicles, although there are no tanks and armored vehicles, but there are a large number of military jeeps and military trucks, and it has achieved non-foot marching, which is almost no different from the motorized infantry division in modern society.

The consumption of fuel by a division's motor vehicles is quite terrifying, but in this time and space, the oil industry has not yet begun, so it is impossible to obtain fuel from this time and space. So all the vehicles, including the fuel used by the five steel battleships, were bought by Li Yongji from modern society.

Therefore, if Li Yongji does not follow the large army, then he will have to provide a transport team to transport fuel supplies, which is a big consumption and will strictly drag down Li Yongji's maneuver.

Suffice it to say, since setting foot on the land of New Orleans, stepping on the soil of the United States. Li Yongji has a plan, he wants to rely on this powerful and outrageous dream division, in a lonely state, to fight all over the United States, and play a game in this era, only he can play, even in modern society is not easy to achieve - a great in-depth battle!

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The section of the waterway from the Port of New Orleans to Vicksburg is part of the lower reaches of the Mississippi River. Due to the inflow of the Ohio River, the volume of water has increased dramatically, with an average annual runoff of 13,400 cubic meters per second, and the water depth of the lower reaches of the Mississippi River is quite deep.

In addition, the Mississippi River flows through mostly plains. The low velocity of the water makes the Mississippi River a natural waterway.

According to the known number jù, the area of the lower Mississippi River, the main stream area. That is, the average water depth of the main channel can reach 3.65 meters, which is already quite deep. Generally speaking, it is possible to carry a 2,600-ton steel passenger ship or barge.

The Suzhou belongs to the Jiangwei II class, although it has been refitted, but the displacement has also reached 2,400 tons, it is said that this tonnage can go through the Mississippi River, but the tonnage of the Mississippi River is only a reference, and it is mainly a passenger ship barge, not a warship.

The draft of warships is generally relatively deep, just like the Suzhou, which has a displacement of only 2,400 tons, but the draft reaches 4.3 meters, so it can only advance a short section in the Mississippi River, and cannot really go up the Mississippi River.

It is for this reason that the flagship Suzhou stayed in the port of New Orleans, and the task of the firepower platform along the river was handed over to the four Jianghu-class warships.

The four Jianghu-class warships of the task force were originally designed to walk on rivers, so they not only had a small tonnage, but also had a shallow draft.

Among them, due to the modification, the draft of Changshu and Kunshan is only 2.8 meters, and the draft of Taicang and Jiading is only 3.1 meters, which is completely suitable for the Mississippi River.

As for the wooden sail clippers equipped with only anti-aircraft guns and diesel engines, the average draft is only 2.6 meters, and it is perfectly fine to go down the Mississippi River.

In this way, Li Yongji, with the Kunshan as the flagship, took three other Jianghu-class frigates, and other wooden troop carriers, started the motors, and kept going north along the Mississippi River to reach Vicksburg as quickly as possible, because as far as he knew, the situation in Vicksburg was already precarious.

In fact, the straight-line distance from New Orleans to Vicksburg is more than 300 kilometers, and in modern society, it is only four or five hours to drive from New Orleans to Vicksburg, which is much faster than a ship.

But in this time and space, it was still 1863, although there were roads connecting New Orleans and Vicksburg, but they were basically dirt roads, not high-standard roads, so if you were driving, the bumps would be uncomfortable, not to mention the damage to the vehicles during this period, as well as the loss of soldiers' morale.

In other words, taking a boat to Vickersburg, although it may seem like a car is not as fast as driving, it is better than a smooth one, which can keep the soldiers in good shape and morale, so that the soldiers can get enough rest, stay in the best condition, and be ready to fight.

In this way, the people did not stop the ship, and the first detachment of the entire task force also walked for four days in a row before arriving at the battlefield of Vicksburg.

When Li Yongji and his troops arrived at Vicksburg, it was June 15, 1863, which was the flood season of the Mississippi River, and the water level was quite high. And Li Yongji did not arrive directly under the city of Vicksburg, but took the initiative to stop the ship six kilometers away from Vicksburg.

The reason why the ships stopped in this place is because further on, the river is too narrow for the ships to fight, and the United States naval forces on the opposite side, or the ironclad ship cluster of the United States, have already rushed towards them, and if they continue to move forward, the distance between the two sides will be too close, and it is not conducive to giving full play to their own firepower advantage.

Of course, the order to stop the ship was not given by Li Yongji. It was sent by Mo Haiwen, because Mo Haiwen was the commander of this fleet, and Li Yongji was only the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary force.

Although even the ships of the fleet are from Li Yongji's hands, Li Yongji rarely participates in naval training, so although there is a basket of theories, his actual combat quality cannot be compared with Mo Haiwen, so the fleet is under Mo Haiwen's orders.

This is also an order made by Li Yongji himself, that is, once the army is on the ship, no matter how old the army officer is, he must also listen to the captain or admiral at this time. Therefore. When on the water, the words of the captain or fleet commander are the highest orders.

Therefore, after discovering that the ironclad ships of the United States on the opposite side had rushed towards him, Mo Haiwen stopped the fleet in time, and then started with the Changshu, turned slightly sideways, and faced the front with the slanted side of the ship, followed by the Taicang and Jiading. The last one is the Kunshan where Li Yongji is located.

This formation, which is similar to the Long Snake Formation, was arranged before, and putting the Kunshan at the end was naturally for safety. And after the Kunshan, there is the wooden troop carrier and supply ship of that vote.

Since there was radio communication, the ship was stopped at the front, and the ship was immediately notified later. The speed of stopping the ship was much faster, and because of the formation, when the first Changshu began to stop and cross. The three frigates behind also followed suit, that is, striking diagonally.

The reason why he is facing the front diagonally is to maximize his firepower advantage while minimizing the damage to his own side.

You must know that the artillery arrangement of the Jianghu-class frigate is both front and rear, and the body can be horizontally in order to fully exert its firepower advantage, and at the same time let the bow and stern artillery fire attack the enemy.

At the same time, because the guns of the Jianghu-class frigates are all rotating turrets, they can provide a large angle of attack, and because of this, they are slightly sideways, rather than completely sideways, which does not affect their firepower, reduces the area of the attack, and can also be more mobile and flexible.

Of course, judging from the current situation, due to the surprisingly strong artillery fire of the first detachment of the task force, Mo Haiwen does not plan to let the troops fight in maneuver, but only intends to let all the warships anchor and stop and use them as firepower platforms with peace of mind.

The reason for this is that if you shoot in a mobile way, it will affect the accuracy of shooting, even if your own artillery has a higher rate of fire, and the same is true for the gun-aiming radar.

The problem of the accuracy of artillery firing is affected by many factors, and a slight shaking will seriously affect the firing accuracy of artillery, let alone shooting during navigation.

Therefore, most of the shooting training of the Imperial Chinese Navy emphasized shooting at the ship, and there was very little training in shooting during maneuvering, in other words, the pursuit of stability, accuracy and ruthlessness.

In this era, naval battles were generally not played like this, and most of them were firing during the maneuver of both sides. The reason why it became such a tactic is because the accuracy of the naval guns in this era is ridiculously poor, once the distance between the two sides exceeds 500 meters, it is a high incense to be able to hit one of the 100 shells, and once it exceeds 1,000 meters, it is the favor of the god of fate that can hit one of the 1,000 shells.

Therefore, because of the poor accuracy, if you don't want to engage in close fire, you can only shoot in motion, and you don't expect a high hit rate, only an increase in the chance of not being hit.

In other words, in this era, unless our advantage is too great, or a support attack on the ground, it is generally not possible to honestly stop the ship and fire, which will increase the chance of being hit.

However, this is obviously not in the consideration of the Chinese Navy, especially the officers and men of these four Jianghu-class frigates.

This section of the river is narrow, and can accommodate up to four ships at the same time, which itself reduces the room for maneuvering, so instead of maneuvering to dodge, it is really better to stop and increase the accuracy of the artillery's multiple hits.

The guns of the Jianghu-class frigates are all modern artillery, with high rate of fire, fierce firepower, and high accuracy, especially the installation of a new generation of gun aiming equipment, which can be measured by radar and laser, plus the computer system calculates the shooting elements, as well as a series of automated equipment such as automatic reloading equipment, the gunner only needs to aim at the target, and then when the computer tells him that he is ready, the button can fire.

In addition, the four Jianghu-class frigates have strong communication capabilities, which can implement data sharing, once the target is found in front, even if the ship in the rear cannot directly visualize the target in front, it can also attack the target by guò curving to increase the density of firepower to improve hits.

Therefore, although the ship was stopped six kilometers away from the other side in advance to prepare for battle, in fact, the ironclad ship cluster on the opposite side was already within the effective firepower of the first detachment of the task force!

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