After the bomb attack, the walls of Jiangyin Fortress were in a mess. The blue Song Dynasty flag was blown off. The soldiers who survived the attack fled in a hurry. They thought those huge guys in the sky were messengers sent by the gods, so how could they have the courage to fight.
It was just a bomb attack. Coincidentally, the bomb also detonated the boiler of the steam repeater. The high-temperature and high-pressure boiler exploded with astonishing power. Half of the entire city wall built along the mountain collapsed, and countless soldiers were crushed to death underneath.
, the air wave of the explosion threw countless corpses and wall bricks into the air, and many airships were affected.
The walls of the fortress were bare and unprotected. The surviving Tibetan soldiers fled towards the city wall and ran down the mountain. As a result, they were intercepted by the pneumatic machine gun on the airship. The machine gun firing pointed lead pellets was not very powerful.
However, the rate of fire is very high, and it is still quite lethal against native soldiers wearing only cork life jackets.
The machine guns devoured the lives on the ground. Wen Jun had no choice but to retreat to the river under the protection of his men. There was Zhao Jing's Hunjianglong submarine. No matter how powerful the airship was, it could not hurt the underwater submarine. The Tibetan soldiers had lost control.
The remaining officers of the Qing Army gathered together and used iron shields to cover Wen Jun's evacuation. The submarine was small and could not hold so many people. They would rush out of the fortress and retreat by land despite the airship's gunfire.
"You are the spark for the restoration of the Song Dynasty! You must find a way to survive, and we will meet again later!" Wen Juan clasped his fists at the young officers, walked away with tears in his eyes, and rappelled to the water through the rope. The submarine was ready and waiting.
Wen Jun and his two soldiers had already entered the cabin door, so they dived urgently and disappeared into the vast mist of the river.
Wen Jun escaped, but the others were in dire straits. They had no ability to resist the attack from the air and could only be slaughtered. Fortunately, the airship did not carry enough bombs. After one round, they could only rely on pneumatic machine guns and small
The bombs launched an attack. The rate of fire of the machine gun was too high and it could not last long. The small iron-shell grenades were not lethal enough. Those people who traveled to Song Dynasty lost their effectiveness when they fled into the mountains and forests. In the late autumn of Jiangnan, the trees were still green.
, the people from the Song Dynasty who were good at fighting in the forest left the corpses on the ground, abandoned the Jiangyin Fortress, fled into the mountains and forests, and scattered thousands of people in pieces.
The soldiers on the airship descended to the fortress wall, re-erected the Ming flag, and sent out soldiers to collect the scattered Ming soldiers. The fortress defenders and navy soldiers were gradually gathered in. Sun Ren, the fortress guard, had been hacked by the people from the Song Dynasty.
With his head dead and the navy leader Wen Getao missing, Liu Ziguang had no choice but to temporarily appoint men from the Red Shirt Regiment as their officers. He took out the weapons and weapons from the fortress warehouse to rearm the defeated soldiers and divided them into small groups.
Go out and hunt down the people traveling in Song Dynasty.
At this time, Jiangyin County sent officers to inquire about the news. Liu Ziguang revealed his identity and asked Jiangyin County to close the city gates and send personnel to assist the army in hunting down the enemy. He also sent people to notify nearby prefectures and counties of martial law. The officers and soldiers came out to arrest the small man, who was short in stature and had a dark complexion.
of Nanyang people.
Thick smoke still billows on the Yangtze River waterway. Many ships sank to the bottom of the river, and many ships were carried down the river with blazing flames. Dead bodies were piled one after another on the river. With such a commotion, shipping on the Yangtze River must at least be stopped.
For three to five days, the economic losses caused are incalculable.
The salvage of sunken ships and corpses, the rescue of wounded soldiers, the repair of fortresses, and the pursuit of escaping enemies involved the water transportation yamen, the Yangtze River Navy, Jiangyin County and other yamen. This place belongs to the boundaries of Wuxi Prefecture, and Wuxi Prefecture is in the south.
Under the jurisdiction of the Governor-General of Zhili, there were so many things at once. Liu Ziguang had no energy to coordinate these things. He only pursued the remaining enemies in Song Dynasty.
The native people of Nanyang have very strong ability to survive in the wild. Even in the uninhabited primitive jungle, they can live very well. What's more, it is the land of plenty in the south of the Yangtze River. There are fish in the river, crops in the fields, fruits in the gardens, and chickens in the small villages.
Ducks, pigs and dogs. Even in the wilderness, there are many hares, voles, snakes and other things that can satisfy their hunger, so the native soldiers are not worried about eating. What they are afraid of is the cold!
Although the winter in the south of the Yangtze River is gentle, it is not something that these natives who grew up in tropical areas can bear. Moreover, for the convenience of water fighting, they only have a pair of linen trousers on their bodies, and their upper body is covered with a cork that does not keep them warm.
They were wearing life jackets, and their feet were even bare. Their lips were purple from the cold, their upper and lower teeth were chattering desperately, and they couldn't speak.
After a group of Tibetan soldiers escaped from the fortress, they came to a small village in panic. Along the river, there were farmhouses standing next to each other, with uneven roof tiles and piles of rice and melon sheds. This group of Tibetan soldiers entered the village with knives, killed and looted, and robbed
A lot of people with clothes and food left in a hurry again. When the pursuit troops of the Red Shirt Regiment arrived, they only saw corpses on the ground and a few burned houses and barns. The remaining people in the village volunteered to bring out hounds to help the army in the pursuit.
This group of robbers went around sounding warning gongs.
The south of the Yangtze River is densely populated, and the villages are not far from each other. The people in other Zhuangzi soon heard the news about the bandits. They closed their doors one after another and organized young and strong laborers to stand guard with farm tools, hatchets and other things. The Tibetan soldiers were all small groups.
During the activities, they did not dare to break into the heavily guarded villages. The complex water network terrain in the south of the Yangtze River made them quickly lost, and they were gradually overtaken by the pursuers. In addition, there were airships monitoring and commanding from the air, and the officers and soldiers of nearby prefectures and counties
After joining, the encirclement and suppression work became easier, and the hungry and cold Tibetan soldiers fell into the trap one after another and were captured without help.
On the contrary, the officers of the Qingjunhui all escaped safely, because they themselves were Han Chinese. Except for their slightly darker skin color, their height and body shape were not much different from those of Jiangnan people. As long as they took off their armor and threw away their weapons, they pretended to be ordinary local people.
They couldn't tell the difference, and the arresting officers and soldiers only paid attention to the natives with obvious features, so they naturally ignored them.
This was a tragic victory. In order to annihilate the 3,000 brigade of the Song army, countless ships, more than a thousand officers and soldiers, and dozens of civilians were lost. The Jiangyin Fortress was also blown up beyond recognition. The Yangtze River waterway was seriously blocked. The only one who was thankful was Liu Ziguang.
Not only did the direct troops suffer no losses, they also exercised their actual combat capabilities in large-scale bombing.
The battle lasted for two days and two nights from the start of Wen Getao's navy to the capture of the last Tibetan soldier. All nearby officers and soldiers came over, and the navy's warships also gathered on the Jiangyin River. The court's
The edict was also sent, and it did not reprimand anyone. Instead, it comforted everyone with kind words, and added the authority to temporarily recruit soldiers and horses in Jiangnan to Liu Ziguang's imperial envoy function.
In this way, whether it is the soldiers of the garrison or the warships of the Navy, they will all be at Liu Ziguang's disposal, but Liu Ziguang is not very happy, because along with the imperial edict came the information from the Nachang: This time such a fuss has happened
The court was very angry about the big turmoil. Many bigwigs attributed this responsibility to Liu Zi's bald head, saying that before he went to Jiangnan, everything was calm, but after he went, there was a smoky atmosphere. The well-behaved officialdom of Shanghai Dao was able to rebel collectively and had always been friendly.
Travelers traveling to and from the Song Dynasty actually met with each other, causing war to break out in the south of the Yangtze River. All of this was caused by Liu Ziguang. For this, he had to be punished accordingly. The censors made generous speeches, and the ministers slandered him.
The emperor supported him, and the Ministry of Revenue, who represented Rishengchang, said a lot of good things about Liu Ziguang on this issue, saying that although it was causing chaos in Jiangnan, within three months, the imperial envoy would rectify the officialdom in Jiangnan and bring economic benefits.
It will be revealed, and when the time comes, the right and wrong will be clear.
There must be someone in the officialdom. Liu Ziguang was lucky to have formed an alliance with Hu Yimin, but in addition to Rishengchang, he also needed more help from the officialdom. The officialdom of the Ming Dynasty was too deep. It was difficult for him, a nouveau riche, to find powerful civil servants.
As an alliance, Jiangnan Weaving and Shanghai Road are currently under his control, and there are no suitable people to stuff them. This feeling of holding huge sums of money and having nowhere to spend it is really unpleasant. He must cultivate his own civil service power, Liu Ziguang made up his mind again
Determined.
The task of salvaging sunken ships and dead bodies and dredging waterways was handed over to the water transport yamen, the task of appeasing boatmen along the river, the task of hunting down the fleeing enemies in the Song Dynasty was handed over to the Yangtze River Navy, the task of continuing to hunt down the remaining enemies, appeasing the people, and rebuilding the Jiangyin Fortress was left to the local prefectures.
In the Yamen, Liu Ziguang sat in the Jiangyin Fortress and took charge of the overall situation.
In this battle, 3,000 Song and Tibetan troops were wiped out. Except for the 600 to 700 people who died on the water, most of them were killed at the head of the fortress. Only more than 300 people were captured alive. These prisoners were all
He was shackled and sent to the capital to show his military exploits. After handling military affairs, Liu Ziguang was preparing to climb a mountain and return to Shanghai by airship. Suddenly someone came to report that Wen Getao, a hundred households in the navy, asked to see him.
Wen Getao, that arrogant Baihu, didn't he disappear? Why did he come back? Liu Ziguang hurriedly called him in, only to see him walk up to the top of the city covered with wounds, and he was defeated after Natou: "The defeated army
General Wen Getao pays homage to the Governor."
"You were defeated. I don't blame you. One thousand versus three thousand had no chance of winning. But it would be outrageous for you to run away from the battle. You left so many brothers behind and ran for your own life. Now that the situation has been decided, you run out again. That's okay.
What's going on?" Liu Ziguang said calmly.
"A lot of brothers died in this battle. I didn't die just to get some money back for them. Sir, look what it is." Wen Getao looked calm and pointed at the river.
The Hunjianglong submarine is surfacing, with a white flag flying on the conning tower.