Back to Ming Dynasty with Industrial Revolution System

Chapter 458
"Master Zhifu, the Kyushu Army has already withdrawn. They turned to attack Wuxi County, and our Suzhou City escaped disaster!" The merchant envoy returned to Suzhou City and brought good news to Chen Hongmi.

"Great, the Kyushu Army has finally left, and our Suzhou City survived the disaster. This time, the people in the city all cheered. It is our Suzhou City's luck!" A group of big merchants and aristocratic families couldn't help but celebrate.

Chen Hongmi was a little melancholy: "Is Suzhou City just standing by like this? If the court pursues it in the future..."

In fact, it was no wonder that Chen Hongmi was in a dilemma. It was the magistrate like Chen Hongmi who was unlucky when something happened, but the really powerful people in Suzhou City only wanted Suzhou City to be healthy, and their power in Suzhou City would not be affected.

"Master Zhifu, what are you talking about? The merchants in our city raised 60 taels of silver to the Kyushu Army this time, in exchange for the safety of Suzhou City." The merchant envoy said dissatisfied.

"Forget it, our city of Suzhou shouldn't have participated in cruel wars." Chen Hongmi was held hostage to negotiate peace with the Kyushu Army, so he could only accept the current facts.

Since the city of Nanjing cannot be saved, it is better to keep the city of Suzhou.

At this time, Chen Jisheng, Xu Ji, Changyi, Cao Youyi and others entered the spacious Yangtze River Estuary on the troop carriers of the Zhili Fleet and the Beiyang Fleet.

Daming officers, soldiers and fishermen on Chongming Island watched the mighty fleet pass by the island from a distance, not knowing where it was.The only official who knew that it might be the Kyushu Army from southern Liaoning had nothing to do with the passing Zhili Fleet and Beiyang Fleet.There is no fort on Chongming Island, and even if it had one, it would not be able to deal with such a huge fleet.

The Zhili Fleet and the Beiyang Fleet traveled upstream along the Yangtze River and arrived at Zhenjiang through the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The fleet traveled unimpeded along the way, with only a few fishing boats.When these fishing boats saw the group of warships like a fortress on the sea, they were frightened and hurried to the shore to avoid it.

"How does it feel to control the sea? In our view, Nanming is all loopholes. As long as we concentrate on breakthroughs, we can be as powerful as a broken bamboo." Zheng Zhilong stood on the deck of the Dachu, looking at the occasional villages and towns on the south bank, as well as the rising smoke. Get angry.

In the face of the Zhili Fleet and the Beiyang Fleet, the Yangtze River, which the southern regime relied on in the past, looked weak.

"Our soldiers can go ashore at any port or shoal on the Yangtze River, but the officers and soldiers can't defend it at all. In this way, the soldiers and horses of the four towns in Jiangbei cannot cross the Yangtze River to support Nanjing City. Their advantage has become our advantage. It has to be said that it is convenient to have a strong navy.” Cao Youyi, the general soldier of Tianjin, said with emotion.

"The navy is burning money. It is the military leader. Apart from cheap troop carriers and cargo ships, there are few plans to build new ships. In fact, three fleets are more than enough in our sea area." Zheng Zhilong said As the fleet commander of the Beiyang Fleet, he is well aware of the military expenditure of Haiju, and knows that the maintenance of a sailing battleship requires a lot of money.

"When our father-in-law Sanbao went to the West in the Ming Dynasty, there were ministers in the court who thought it would cost a lot to maintain the fleet, and then it gradually fell into disuse." Cao Youyi also misses the time when the Ming Navy was strong.

At that time, the Daming Navy was developed from the Chaohu Navy, and now there are hardly any big ships along the Yangtze River.

"Commander, Nanming warships are found on the Zhenjiang River ahead. There are about [-] ships, and there are two Dafu ships!"

The scout ship in front of the fleet came back with news.

"The fleet surrounding Nanjing City has been discovered. Get ready to fight!" Zheng Zhilong said excitedly when he heard that Nanming could gather about [-] warships on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

In this way, the Ministry of the Navy can also gain military exploits in this operation to conquer Nanming!

The naval officers of the two fleets who got the news recovered from their laziness, and all of them were gearing up excitedly.

The Zhili Fleet has two formations, the Victory and the Atlante, and the Beiyang Fleet has three formations, the Daqi, the Dachu, and the Dayan. There are more than 30 warships alone, not including the hundred ships. There are several times more warships and grain ships than the Nanming navy assembled on the south bank of the Yangtze River!
The Nanming navy stationed on the south bank of the Yangtze River was originally supporting each other with Jiangbei. If Jiangbei was attacked, the troops near Nanjing City would be transported to Jiangbei in batches for defense.If there is civil strife in Jiangnan, troops from Jiangbei can also be transported to the Jiangnan area to suppress the rebellion.Although there are fewer ships, they are the only channel for communication between the north and the south in this era.

It's just that the admiral of the Nanming Navy has just taken office, and it was hard to recruit [-] warships from Wuhu and Changzhou that can be used for water warfare and two big blessing ships that survived the battle between the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Navy and Zheng Zhilong.This is already all the navy assembled by the Nanming regime near Nanjing.The rest of the navy is controlled by the guerrillas of the Ming army in Lianghu, Jiangbei, and Guangdong and Guangxi. They are blocked by information and they don't know that Nanjing City is threatened by the two fleets of the Kyushu Army.

The southeast estuary of Fuzhou Fucheng is the main gathering place for government-built shipyards. The Nanming regime, whose power is limited to Nanjing City, will not have time for Fuzhou Fuzhou to produce a batch of warships.What's more, Shen Youlong, the governor of Fujian, has not clearly supported the Nanming regime. It is still the same thing whether Shen Youlong obeys the orders of King Fu and the current Emperor Hongguang.

"Admiral, it's a warship of the Kyushu Army. They surrounded us!" When the Nanming Navy discovered the Beiyang Fleet and the Zhili Fleet, the Nanming Navy's ships staying near the Zhenjiang Dock had already been blocked by the two fleets. .

The admiral of the navy was resting in the camp on the shore at this time. He never thought that the Kyushu Army would raid Zhenjiang thousands of miles away, and he was shocked: "How many warships did they come?"

"Hundreds of them, and many warships are several times larger than our largest blessing ship!" Said the navy general anxiously.

"Our Dafu boat is nine feet long, and it already outshone ordinary ships. How could there be so many warships bigger than the Dafu boat?" The admiral couldn't believe it.

"If you don't believe me, Admiral, please go and investigate with me!" Said the navy general.

The Admiral of the Navy went to the high ground next to the Zhenjiang Dock to observe the situation on the river.

I saw the Zhili Fleet and the Beiyang Fleet blocked the Zhenjiang Dock in the north and south directions respectively, and a cannon was aimed at the crowded and chaotic Nanming Navy.

"What kind of monster is that? Is there really such a big ship on the Yangtze River?" The admiral of the navy saw the three-deck-sized Victory, as well as smaller sailing battleships such as the Da Chu and Da Qi, and the Constitution. Cruisers, those are larger ships than the Daifuku Ship.

His face turned pale.It is rumored that the Kyushu Army Fleet that defeated the ship king Zheng Zhilong is better than seeing it.

(End of this chapter)