The time for Zhang Jiayu to come was just right. If he came half a day later, Nanchang City would be completely broken. The loss of Nanchang would inevitably lead to a passive resilience in the entire Jiangxi battlefield. The front line against the Qing Dynasty would have to retreat to the Ganzhou area, so that the emperor could not complete the emperor's instructions to capture Jiujiang in time and seize Wuchang's strategic goal before Yongli.

In addition to achieving the established goals, he also had to use the Qing Dynasty to weaken Jin Shenghuan's power, which was difficult to grasp. There was a reason why Zhu Hongsan chose Zhang Jiayu to lead a war zone, that is, Zhang Jiayu's fighter jets were very well grasped. Zhu Hongsan discovered it when he was in the Military Affairs Office that year.

After Zhang Jiayu arrived at Fengcheng to station, he sent three waves of scouts to Nanchang every day to investigate. At noon on the 20th, the scouts heard news that there was movement in the Qing camp, and the Qing army began to drive away the people to prepare to attack the city.

After receiving the news, Zhang Jiayu knew that Nanchang was coming at the last moment. After almost a month of siege, the endurance and morale of the Nanchang defending army were basically exhausted. The most important thing was that because of the Nanchang fire, the city's defense supplies that were originally prepared in the city were burned to a maximum of 70% and almost no more after the battle in this month. Therefore, Zhang Jiayu estimated that the Qing army was preparing to conquer Nanchang in the last battle.

Knowing that the enemy's actions will be simple next. Fengcheng is less than a hundred miles away from Nanchang and can arrive in the second half of the day. Zhang Jiayu ordered Ma Kun and Ma Rufeng to be called, plus Ding Hai, the admiral of the Inland Fleet transferred from Guangdong, to prepare to start the Nanchang Battle.

After occupying Ganzhou, Zhang Jiayu saw that the Ganjiang River was abundant and the shipping was developed, and he was ready to use the navy to go down the river. After all, the most powerful thing about the Guangdong New Army was artillery, and a warship could be equipped with dozens of artillery pieces, which was extremely powerful when it was close to fire.

After Zhang Jiayu had this idea, he wrote a letter to the emperor Zhu Hongsan, asking the emperor to transfer several naval officers. There were no shortage of sailors in Ganzhou, but the captain was very short. After receiving the letter, Zhu Hongsan also supported Zhang Jiayu very much. The navy's ships were too drafty and were all sea boats. Unlike the flatbed ships in the inland river, he would fight in the Yangtze River Basin in the future. It was the top priority to properly form a group of inland river fleets.

The emperor agreed that the Military Affairs Office immediately wrote to Yan Qingshan on the Zhoushan Islands, asking him to find a capable person to be the admiral of the Inland Fleet. After receiving this message, Yan Qingshan immediately thought of his godson Ding Hai, who was 34 years old this year. He followed Yan Qingshan to fight for houses on Luomahu for many years. He was the best candidate for the admiral of the Inland Fleet.

Ding Hai has now become the captain of the first-class battleship, leading a giant ship of more than 1,000 tons to roam the sea with great scenery. He was very unhappy when he heard his godfather asks him to go to the inland to be a water mouse again.

Yan Qingshan saw that Ding Hai didn't like to go, and cursed: "You turtle grandson, do you know? It's hard to get on the previous step in the navy. You see, the navy has more than 50,000 people now. You have been a captain and you have no hope of becoming an admiral of the squadron in this life. But it's different to go to the Inner River Fleet. His Majesty the Emperor will definitely occupy Nanjing in the future. Then, he will definitely rely on the Inner River Fleet, not to mention the Inner River Fleet was invented. If you go, you must be the Admiral of the Fleet. If you go, you must choose the chicken head and ox tail yourself!"

Yan Qingshan said something about Ding Hai. Now, the old pirates and old pirates in the navy are no longer popular. His godfather Yan Qingshan has also repeatedly proposed to go home to retire. Now those who come to be captains must be literate, and it is best to understand Spanish and communicate with those Spanish instructors. His worst shortcomings are cultural subjects. Who knows what those winding letters are reading! Maybe the godfather said that letting himself go to the inland fleet is a way.

Ding Haisi thought about it and agreed to Yan Qingshan as the admiral of the Ganzhou Inner River Squadron. At the same time, he also took away ten captains and one hundred skilled naval soldiers.

Originally, Ding Hai thought that the inland fleet had just been formed, and at least there could be more than a dozen ships, but when he arrived in Ganzhou, he realized that he had been fooled by Zhang Jiayu. There were ships, and it was quite large, but it was transformed by merchant ships. It was just a few gun windows on the merchant ships and ten artillery were placed on the merchant ships. When Ding Hai came, he complained, "This is not a warship, there was no waterproof warehouse, the ammunition warehouse and the kitchen were together. The sailors were all sailors on the merchant ships, and they had no sense of combat, so they had to train from scratch. What made Ding Hai most dissatisfied was that there were only three warships converted from merchant ships, and the others were sand ships and Mengchong. Did Lord Zhang think that modern naval battles were like before, and they were all jumping gangs to fight? Ding Hai complained in his heart, but there was no way. He had already come here, and he could only use all subjective initiative to solve the difficulties himself.

In the past six months, Ding Hai begged his grandfather many times, and finally expanded his large fleet of three warships into five. This made the army very dissatisfied, because the artillery of the warships was all embezzled by the army, and the artillery dedicated to the navy had to be transported until the Yangtze River route was completed. In this way, Ding Hai's small inland fleet grew up slowly in the wind and rain.

After Zhang Jiayu waited until all his generals under him came, he told him about the current situation and prepared to get off in the evening and strive to arrive in Nanchang at dawn tomorrow.

"Dear generals, I am going to send General Ding Hai to lead five warships to occupy Zhangjiangmen, Nanchang, and then the army enters the city to help Jin Shenghuan defend the city, and the navy eliminates the Qing Dynasty's navy! As long as the water passages on Zhangjiangmen and Ganjiang River are in our hands, Nanchang will not be able to conquer Nanchang. After a long time, the Qing Dynasty will naturally retreat. At that time, we can occupy the strong ships and cannons, and we can follow and pursue them, and strive to wipe out them all before the Qing army retreats to Jiujiang!"

Zhang Jiayu's method is a safe method. Although the five warships were broken in Ding Hai's eyes, they were a huge figure in front of the Qing navy that had just been built. These warships were modified by Zhang Jiayu from a 100-ton merchant ship. The inland river was narrow, and this big guy with a width of four meters, twenty meters long and one meter of water was completely invincible. It was much stronger than the small boats made by the Qing army that only five or six people were made.

When Ma Kun heard this plan, he wanted to make the navy take the lead. The army has always been inconsistent with the navy, because a 1,200-ton warship costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which can form an army division. In recent years, in order to allow the navy to develop, the emperor opened up the first-class warships, and even a smaller second-class warships have built dozens. The army has only only eight divisions, and half of them have just been formed in the past six months. Now, Ma Kun heard that Zhang Jiayu still wanted the navy to take the lead. How could this be done?

"Mr. Zhang, I don't think there is any need to be such trouble. This battle is enough for our army. The Navy also asks Lord Ding to take his large fleet to clean up the river bandits, so as not to break the meat and fish!"

Ding Hai was very annoyed when he heard Ma Kun's words and ridicule him. However, Ma Kun had the military rank and was the lieutenant colonel. He didn't dare to directly criticize each other, but it would be okay to say some sarcastic words.

"That's right, the army brothers are all worth ten thousand, and the navy is ashamed of themselves, but I don't know who was rescued by our navy in the Battle of Jiangyin that year?"

Ma Kun was one of the battalion commanders who followed Qian Yong to Jiangyin. If the Navy hadn't risked his life to approach the shooting, the Army would have probably died in Jiangyin City. Although the Army escaped safely in the end, hundreds of brothers died in the army in Jiangyin. When Ma Kun heard Ding Hai talk about his glorious history, he would stand up and go crazy.

Zhang Jiayu knew that these Qiu Bas would do it as soon as they said they could. They were all frightened and fired. Seeing Ma Kun standing up and going to do it, he quickly shouted: "What are you going to do? I have the imperial edict from His Majesty the Emperor and the absolute command of the Jiangxi Land and Navy New Army. Do you dare to disobey the imperial edict?" After saying that, Zhang Jiayu Fox pretended to be a tiger's power and quickly took out Zhu Hongsan's imperial edict in one fell swoop.

Zhu Hongsan had absolute authority in the new army. When he saw the imperial edicts Makun, Ma Rufeng, Ding Hai and other generals, he quickly knelt down and said he didn't dare.

Zhang Jiayu felt relieved when he saw the suppression of Qiu Ba, and said, "Okay, let's do what I just said. Lord Ding's fleet is mainly attacking Zhang Jiangmen!"

Hearing Zhang Jiayu say this, Ma Kun stood up and asked, "Mr. Zhang, does the emperor's imperial edict say that Lord Zhang only has the power to command but does not have the power to make decisions at the moment?"

Zhu Hongsan was afraid that Zhang Jiayu would be a layman in command of the experts at the time, so he wrote in detail about the imperial edict that Zhang Jiayu was only responsible for strategic matters, that is, where to fight, and how to fight, he still had to listen to the generals.

Zhang Jiayu didn't expect Ma Kun to ask, "Well... Is this... This is indeed written in the imperial edict, but..."

When Ma Kun heard Zhang Jiayu admit it, he continued, "Okay, the last general asks you to have a duel with the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty outside Nanchang City to see if it is the Eight Banners of the Ten Thousands or our new army is powerful!" After Ma Kun said that, he did not give Zhang Jiayu a chance to react and took Ma Rufeng out to prepare.

Seeing Ma Kun so disrespectful, Zhang Jiayu was so angry that she trembled all over. He pointed at Ma Kun's back and said to Ding Hai: "General Ding, these guys are so angry that they are so angry. What if they fail?"

Zhang Jiayu didn't understand the combat effectiveness of the new army. In his impression, the new army was probably the same as the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners. Now, how could he not be afraid when he heard that Ma Kun was so arrogant?

However, Ding Hai, who is also a new army, still knows the new army well. You should know that Qian Yong's regiment of 3,000 people with 3,000 people with the attack of 50,000 people in the Qing Dynasty. Although he had an advantage in the territory at that time, the combat effectiveness of the army can be seen.

"Mr. Zhang, don't worry, these local rats have the ability to be crazy. Their Fourth Division has a total of 18,000 people, which is 6,000 more than the other divisions. I guess they can withstand the charge of the 50,000 cavalry of the Qing army in front!"

Zhang Jiayu was shocked when he heard Ding Hai say this. He didn't expect the new army to be so powerful and asked quickly: "Is this really the case?"

Ding Hai nodded, "Ma Kun comes from Qian Yong's first division. This guy is so thick that he can't fight a battle that is unsure. What's more, Qian Yong and his team used 3,000 people to resist the attack of the Han army flag in Jiangyin. Although our navy has helped a lot, the combat effectiveness of these local rats is still good!"
Chapter completed!