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"Marines, start landing!" Brigadier General Liu Zhongming ordered. At this time, the Qing army in Wusongkou Fort was already unable to protect itself, and naturally there was no extra strength to block the landing of the Xinhua army. In fact, Shanghai is just a small county town. Except for the garrison of Wusongkou Fort, there was no Qing army garrison in the rest of the places, and the usual security was also taken care of by the officials of the county government.

Several hundred officers and men of the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the Xinhua Marine Corps took dozens of small boats and rowed quickly to the shore. Their goal was to seize the docks in Shanghai so that Marine Corps transports and merchant ships could dock and speed up disembarkation. Otherwise, relying on these small boats alone, the 2nd Marine Brigade and the 31st Infantry Brigade of the Army, more than 12,000 people, would have taken two or three days to disembark from the ships. Time on the battlefield is too precious to be wasted.

At this time, the city of Shanghai was already in chaos. The huge explosion sound from the Wusongkou Fort made the people in the city panic and flee the county seat one after another. Shanghai's county magistrate fled to Suzhou with his family for the first time. So much so that when the 1st Battalion of the 2nd Brigade of the Marine Corps of the Xinhua Army landed, it was not hindered in any way, and it took control of the wharf in Shanghai.

Subsequently, the transport ships and merchant ships moored on the sea docked, and a large number of soldiers of the Xinhua Army disembarked from the ships and began to march towards the county seat of Shanghai. It was two o'clock in the afternoon. The county seat of Shanghai was already under the control of the Xinhua Army. There are only a small half of the people in the city left, and the rest of the people. The head had already fled in advance. Even these remaining ordinary people also hid back at home, and the family hugged each other, trembling, for fear that the Xinhua Army would break into the door and hurt them at any time.

However, these ordinary people are obviously thinking too much. The Xinhua Army simply wouldn't do that. That was all false propaganda by the Manchu government. Some of the brave people began to look through the windows at the strange costumes. Soldiers of the Xinhua Army with spears on their backs came from the street.

After taking control of the county seat of Shanghai, the 2nd Marine Brigade attacked the rear of the Wusongkou Fort by land. Originally, under the fierce shelling of the 1st Fleet of the Xinhua Navy, the thousands of Qing troops guarding the fort had already suffered heavy losses. Even the generals were killed. When the rear of the fort also appeared after the Xinhua Army. These Qing troops collapsed in an instant. The rest of the people surrendered to the Xinhua Army one after another.

The large forces of the Xinhua Army began to land in Shanghai. The Navy's 1st Fleet returned to the fleet to take over the task of protecting the fleet. The 4th Fleet of the Navy began to sail up the river, and their destination was the Jiangnan Navy Division Camp in Nantong. The main force of the Jiangnan Green Battalion has already gone to Jiangxi to fight. Only the sailor remained. The strength of the Jiangnan Naval Division is strong, with more than 5,000 people. Daying is located in Nantong. There are dozens of shore defense guns. However, with such defensive strength, it is estimated that there is no problem in dealing with the British, but it is not enough to deal with the Xinhua Army.

When the 4th Fleet of the Xinhua Navy arrived in Nantong, it was already 6 o'clock in the evening. At this time, the sun is setting, and the afterglow of the setting sun is sprinkled all over the land. The Jiangnan Naval Division Battalion, built on the edge of the Yangtze River, was the most important surface force of the Qing army in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and together with the Poyang Lake Naval Division and the Dongting Lake Naval Division, it was responsible for guarding the security along the Yangtze River, clearing out river pirates, and so on. The Yangtze River has always been busy with trade, and it has also bred many people who rely on waterways to seek depth. The most important task of these major water divisions of the Qing army is to eliminate these river bandits. It's just that the Qing army can be competent to deal with river pirates, but it is not enough to deal with the navy of Xinhua State.

The Jiangnan Navy Division Camp covers a vast area, with three wharves, and both sides of the wharf are full of moored warships. The entire Jiangnan Navy Division has hundreds of warships, large and small.

When the 12 'Shark-class' cruisers of the 4th Fleet of the Xinhua Navy appeared outside the Jiangnan Navy Division's camp, the entire camp exploded. The sailor soldiers, who had finished their drills and were ready to have dinner and then go to have fun, hurried to the warships on the dock and the batteries on both sides of the sailors' camp at the urging of the officers. The adjutant general in charge of the naval battalion, Fuzhu Longa, jumped to his feet and ordered the whole army to enter a state of combat readiness.

"Someone is coming, immediately send someone to Jiangning to report to Lord Niu and General De." Fuzhu Longa ordered with a calm face. Lord Niu refers to Niu Jian, the governor of Liangjiang, and General De is General Dezhubu of Jiangning, and You Bo, the governor of Jiangnan, led the army to Jiangxi to fight, and in the entire territory of Jiangsu, only the Jiangnan Naval Division and the Eight Banners led by Jiangning General Dezhubu remained.

"Yes, sir!" An officer of the Sailor Division replied, and then left the Sailor camp with a few of his own soldiers without looking back. Going to Jiangning to deliver a letter is a good errand, at least you don't have to face the vicious Xinhua army. The 300,000 Qing troops have been fighting around Guangdong for so long, and they can't even enter Guangdong one step, and these generals now know how powerful the Xinhua Army is. Now that the Xinhua Army is attacking the Jiangnan Naval Division, it is obvious that it cannot be kept here, and if it stays, it can be described as nine deaths.

"All ships are ready, priority is given to attacking the target, those warships moored on the dock of the naval battalion, open fire!" Brigadier General Ye Feng, commander of the 4th Fleet of the Xinhua Navy, ordered. Only after the destruction of the warships of the Qing Army's naval division was given priority could the safety of the 4th Fleet of the Xinhua Navy be guaranteed. Fighting in narrow inland rivers, the warships of the Xinhua Navy were large and not very flexible, and if they were close to the warships of the Qing army's naval divisions, they would probably pose a danger. After all, if the Qing army attacked with fire, the wooden 'Shark-class' cruisers would not be able to stop it.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The 12 'Shark-class' cruisers of the 4th Fleet of the Xinhua Navy hit the hull of the ship on the river, and bombarded the warships of the Jiangnan Naval Division that were moored on the dock with the fire from the side side. At this moment, the officers and soldiers of the Qing army's sailors were desperately running towards the warship. wants to sail out of the port to meet the Xinhua army. After all, if the warship stays on the dock, it is a live target for the Xinhua Army.

"Boom!" A shell hit a small boat of the Jiangnan Naval Division, which was only capable of carrying more than a dozen people. The shell exploded, and the entire ship disintegrated in the explosion, and the Qing soldiers on board suffered heavy casualties in the explosion, and those who were lucky not to be killed also fell into the water.

One warship after another was destroyed by the Xinhua Army, and the officers and men of the Jiangnan Naval Division on board suffered heavy losses. Wooden warships, most of which have a displacement of only a few dozen tons to a hundred tons, such a small ship simply cannot withstand the fierce shelling of the Xinhua army, not to mention 105 mm shells, and even 75 mm naval guns can be destroyed lightly. In particular, after replacing smokeless gunpowder, the power of the shells of the Xinhua Army was at least twice as high as when black powder was used.

"Bastards, damn the Xinhua Army, where did they come from?" Jiangnan Navy Counselor General Fuzhu Long'a, watching the warships under his command being destroyed one after another, his teeth were about to be crushed. As one of the few Manchu generals who knew how to fight water, Emperor Daoguang valued him very much. However, after the defeat in this battle, it is foreseeable that his future will be completely ruined.

"Why didn't the artillery on the battery fire? Sink those Xinhua warships. Fuzhu Longa said angrily. Although there are only 12 warships of the Xinhua Army on the river, but the fierce firepower can not reach the Jiangnan Naval Division, if it continues like this, I am afraid that it will not be long before the warships of the Jiangnan Naval Division will all be lost, and the warships are gone, so can it still be called a naval division?

"General, the warships of the Xinhua Army are five miles away from the shore, which is beyond the range of our shore defense guns, and we can't reach them at all!" A pipe band said with a bitter face. The warships of the Xinhua Army stayed outside the range of the Qing army's batteries, which made the Qing army only passively beaten.

"Alas!" Fuzhu Longa sighed heavily, looking very aggrieved. This kind of battle is even more aggrieved than when I faced the British.

Some heroic officers and men of the Jiangnan Navy Division began to maneuver the warships to rush towards the warships of the Xinhua Army. Their luck was better, and when the artillery fire of the Xinhua Army was not placed on them, they had already successfully driven the warship away from the dock. However, they launched an attack on the warships of the Xinhua Army, which was an act of seeking death.

Seeing that some warships had rushed out of the naval camp, some warships of the Xinhua Army immediately changed the targets of the shelling and regarded these warships as the primary target.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The shells exploded on the surface of the river, splashing columns of water. Those warships that rushed out of the naval division camp almost passed through the rain of bullets and bullets of the Xinhua Army, and if they were not careful, they would end up with a shipwreck, and people would die.

A warship that had just broken out of the naval battalion was hit by a 105-mm shell, and the entire warship immediately disintegrated in the explosion.

Soon, the warships that rushed out of the naval battalion were silent under the attack of the Xinhua army. The huge casualties frightened the officers and soldiers of the Jiangnan Naval Division, and they no longer ran to the dock, but began to flee. No matter how much Fuzhu Longa tried to stop it, it was useless.

The 4th Fleet of the Xinhua Navy, after destroying the warships of the naval division, began to fire at the batteries on both sides of the naval division. Although the batteries on both sides have dozens of shore defense guns, they are still useless in the face of the Xinhua Navy. Their cannons could not reach the warships of the Xinhua Army, and they were completely in a state of passive attack, and soon these two batteries were destroyed.

After destroying the Jiangnan Navy Division's battalion, the 4th Fleet of the Xinhua Navy began to return to the mouth of the Yangtze River. At night, it is very dangerous to stay in the narrow channels of inland rivers. If the enemy attacks with fire, it's over.

On March 8, the Xinhua army began to march up the river towards Jiangning. (To be continued......)