Gu Chengzhou divided three gunboats between Hukou and Jiujiang, and after blocking the Jiujiang reinforcements that might appear on the river, the firepower that was originally responsible for bombarding the Hukou Fort was suddenly missing.

10 gunboats, each with 2 210mm guns, 2 150mm guns and a number of 75mm guns, machine guns and machine guns. If three ships are separated, the firepower of the remaining seven ships will inevitably be much lower.

Having said that, the Hukou Fort was originally 'in disrepair', and the Jiangxi army was not weak among the troops in the provinces, but it was definitely not counted. Even if an hour's shelling can't knock out the entire garrison force of the lake's mouth, the remaining sporadic strength is not a big deal...

"Those bastards from Anhui..." Hiding in a safer position in the rear, looking at the fort that had been turned into a sea of fire, Li Mingyang gritted his teeth for a while. Tell the brothers to prepare that as soon as the Nationalist Army in Anhui lands on the fort, the brothers will immediately support it. ”

After speaking, Li Mingyang glanced at his adjutant again. "In addition, what does the reply from Jiujiang say, and when does the reply say."

Hearing Li Mingyang ask himself, the adjutant hurriedly took two steps forward. "Commander, the telegram from the governor's side has just arrived, saying that the troops are already being assembled, let's hold on for a few more hours, as long as they have the ship ready, reinforcements will come immediately..."

That being said, but looking at the appearance on the battery, the adjutant's face clearly showed a worried expression.

The artillery fire from the river was so fierce that the Hukou Fort had not been repaired at all since its recovery, and he was really worried about how many defenders were left on the current fort.

"How many hours..."

If it is said to repel enemy troops. I'm afraid it's unlikely, but if it only lasts for a few hours, Li Mingyang is still a little sure.

"Send a telegram to the Governor at once. Let's just say that I try my best to persevere, and ask him to do it as soon as possible. After speaking, Li Mingyang grabbed the binoculars on the side again and looked in the direction of the fort.

On the side, the adjutant also immediately saluted. "Yes!"

It's just that when Li Mingyang was looking at the fort, outside Li Mingyang's regimental headquarters, two embarrassed officers were running over under the escort of a group of soldiers. "Captain..."

"What's wrong?" Looking at the two officers, Li Mingyang had a slight premonition.

"Commander...", gasped. One of the two officers said anxiously. "We just saw on the fort that a large number of small boats are rowing towards the fort on the river, and we ask the regiment commander for your support as soon as possible!"

"What?" Li Mingyang was stunned. He immediately grabbed his binoculars and looked at the river, but couldn't see anything.

And seeing him like this, the other of the two officers had to smile bitterly. "Commander, it's too far away. Your telescope can't see it..."

According to the special bureau's prior knowledge of the Hukou Battery. The garrison of the Hukou Fort is very weak, and the fort itself has not been repaired since the recovery, and the guns inside are all old guns of the former Qing Dynasty, and the firing range is very close, only six or seven kilometers.

That is to say, as long as the transport fleet is anchored at a distance of seven or eight kilometers from the battery, the defenders of the battery have nothing to do with them.

However, to be on the safe side, the flotilla was moored about ten kilometers from the battery. Ordinary military telescopes simply can't see such a distance. Naturally, I can't see it. On the other hand, the fort is relatively close and the terrain is relatively high. Although it had now been turned into a sea of fire by artillery fire, they could still see clearly the sudden emergence of so many boats on the river.

On the other hand, there were no telephones on the Hukou Fort, so the communication between them had to rely on their legs, otherwise the two officers would not have rushed down from the fort all the way.

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Hearing the words of the two officers, Li Mingyang nodded.

"Okay, I'll send a battalion of people to reinforce it immediately, you guys also go back, the governor has already replied, as long as we hold out for a few hours, the governor will prepare the ship, and reinforcements will come up immediately, you must hold the fort!"

The two officers glanced at each other, and nodded despite their embarrassment. "Yes!"

After the two officers left, Li Mingyang immediately gave the order, and soon the soldiers and horses of the three battalions and one battalion were ready.

The artillery bombardment from the river had been going on for more than an hour, and at this time almost everyone in the 10th Regiment knew that their side had already started with the Nationalist Army in Anhui. Just looking at the fort that had been burned into a sea of fire, not to mention the soldiers under his hands, even those officers were a little timid.

"I'm afraid I'm really going to fight hard this time..."

Seeing another heavy artillery shell explode on the battery, the commander of the third battalion said with a wry smile.

The deputy battalion commander opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but he shook his head and kept silent.

When the people below were almost ready, the third battalion commander stood in front of everyone and raised his voice. "Brothers, everyone should be clear about the current situation, the Nationalist Army in Anhui has come over, the above means let us hold on to the fort, as long as we hold on for a few hours, the reinforcements from Li Dudu's side can rush over from Jiujiang, I won't say anything superfluous, hold the fort, that's all..."

"Yes!"

Although they didn't have much in their hearts, the others still shouted in unison.

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Just when the Gan army was supporting the fort, on the river, the soldiers of the National Social Army in small boats were also constantly rowing their oars, trying to make themselves as able to land as much as possible.

According to Yan Shao's character, the most important thing is his current net worth, if possible, he will naturally equip his soldiers with the best equipment. The problem is that in this era there are really no landing craft ...

In this era, soldiers either landed directly in the harbor or, as they do now, rowed ashore in small boats. Landing craft or something, it will be at least a long time before they appear.

But it is also because of this that the landing battle will seem so cruel, especially in this era.

For example, the Battle of the Dardanelles, which took place two or three years later. At that time, Ottoman Turkey joined the side of the Central Powers for many reasons. There were many reasons why Turkey would join the Allies, including Turkey's own inclination towards the Allies and the insults of the Entente. At that time, Turkey bought a battleship from the British, and the money to buy the ship even had donations from elementary school students, but after the outbreak of World War I, the British felt that if they gave the ship to Turkey, they would spend more effort to catch the ship in the future, and finally the British detained the ship.

You think about it, in order to buy this ship. Turkey even schoolchildren donated money, and now the British have detained the ship like this, how can the Turks bear this humiliation. Plus at this time there happened to be a German battle cruiser passing through Turkey. The Germans agreed to give the ship to Turkey, which, in addition to the fact that relations between Turkey and Germany were already good, eventually Turkey joined the Central Powers.

After that, it was also one of Turkey's most brilliant battles in World War I. Battle of the Dardanelles.

How weak Russia is. Later people knew that the Entente thought it was a steam roller, but who knew that Lu Dao was lame. As a result, the Germans were defeated on the Eastern Front, and the Entente could have entered the Black Sea through the Dardanelles Strait before Turkey joined the Central Powers, using this channel to transport supplies to Russia.

As a result, Turkey joined the Central Powers, and this route was locked.

And on the Eastern Front, the Russians have been beaten and cannot raise their heads. Waiting for a blood transfusion, the Allied coalition launched a campaign against the Dardanelles. I want to open up this pathway.

During the period from 1915 to 1916, the Allies invested a total of almost 500,000 people, but because of the complex topography of the Dardanelles, coupled with the immaturity of the landing warfare in this era, and the help of the Germans in this era, etc., in the end, the Allies paid almost 200,000 casualties in the Dardanelles, of which more than 50,000 were killed and more than 100,000 were wounded.

It was also because of this incident that Churchill, who was supposed to hold the post of Minister of the Admiralty, lost his position ...

It can be said that the Entente did suffer on its own in this matter, because Turkey originally wanted to join the side of the Entente, but only because Russia, an old enemy, did not agree.

But...

It is precisely because of this war that Turkey's territory was almost completely lost, the original Turkish territory spanned three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and there was only such a small place left at the end, it can be said that from 1300, more than 600 years of efforts, directly returned to the original point in the first war.

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Since the seven gunboats on the river had been maintaining fire suppression, the defenders on the batteries could only make sporadic counterattacks when they saw the enemy attacking. And every counterattack will have no effect, and on the contrary, it will attract a retaliatory strike from the fleet on the river.

In this case, the troops crossing the river can be said to have landed on the beachhead with almost no losses. That is, at the moment when the troops landed on the beachhead, the shelling on the river stopped.

This move not only relieved the defenders on the fort, but also the officers and men of the Nationalist Society who landed.

The Yangtze River is different from the flat land, and the river surface is undulating, even with the gunboats on the river. In addition, the level of naval artillery in this era is not as good as that of later generations, and some deviations are almost a matter of course, and in addition, the officers and men of the naval army are all novices who have just joined the army for less than a year, and it is not easy to accurately hit the artillery shells on the battery. When the Kuomintang Army was rowing a small boat to the beachhead, there were even a few shells that fell on the river, almost scaring the landing force to death—————— even if it died at the hands of the enemy, what do you think happened at the hands of its own people?

Jumping from the dinghy, seeing that sporadic counterattacks had begun to appear on the battery, the officer who took the lead waved the command knife in his hand.

"The enemy on the fort is about to be crippled by the brothers of the navy, everyone rushes me, otherwise the credit this time will be too easy..."

In other dinghys, the officers who had come ashore gave the same order.

It was very open, and more than 1,000 officers and men who came down from the dinghy lined up in a loose formation and rushed in the direction of the battery. At this time, the defenders on the battery seemed to have recovered some from the shelling, and when they saw the enemy rushing up below, they hurriedly returned fire with their weapons.

It's just that at this time, there were too few weapons that could be used on the fort, and almost all the heavy weapons were destroyed in the previous shelling, and the rest could not hit the beachhead, and the defenders at the rear could only use the rifles in their hands to return fire.

The problem was that the defenders on the fort were only more than 200 people, and almost half of the previous shelling had been wiped out, and if it had not been for the reinforcements of several hundred men from the third battalion, I am afraid that a charge would have been taken by the Nationalist Army.

But even so, the hundreds of defenders on the battery were still beaten by the machine guns and grenades of the National Socialist Army, and it was only a matter of time before the battery was lost.

At the same time, the second group of troops on the river has also begun to land ...

That is, when the Nationalist Army began the landing battle, Li Liejun, who had already learned of the attack on Hukou in Jiujiang, also began to gather troops in a hurry, wanting to reinforce the past.

Hukou can be said to be the entrance of Gongwei Poyang Lake, as long as the Hukou is taken, then whether it is to take Jiujiang or go directly to Poyang Lake, it is up to Xiao Yongyan to decide. So he had to defend the mouth of the lake, but he didn't expect Yan Shao to launch an attack on Jiangxi at all, so although he announced his war readiness, he didn't take it very seriously, and the team was very loose, and some soldiers even hung out in brothels or gambling halls, and it was not easy to gather them all in a hurry.

What's more, there is a Yangtze River between Jiujiang and Hukou, and if you want to cross the river, you need to have a boat.

Since the National Socialist Army dared to come to attack the mouth of the lake this time, there would definitely be no shortage of people coming, so Li Liejun had to mobilize at least half of his troops to go over to be useful, and the ships needed for this were definitely not a small number...

By the way, these are actually minor problems, and the real problem of the Jiangxi Ganjun is internal contradictions...

In the Jiangxi army, the only ones who really followed Li Liejun with iron heart were Lin Hubu of the first division and one brigade, and there were also troops such as the Ninth Regiment and the Tenth Regiment, and the rest, including Ouyang Wu, all had their own ideas in their hearts, which had been confirmed during the Second Revolution.

Before Yan Shao started, the Special Affairs Bureau had already sent someone to contact Ouyang Wu and them, although these people did not agree, but their attitude was already a little shaken.

If it was in peacetime, it would have been fine, but at such an urgent moment, this idea has delayed the mobilization of troops even more, and now is the time when time is running out of people.

Looking at the officers under his hands, Li Liejun even had the urge to scold his mother... (To be continued......)