"It's finally here." Looking at Yanziji not far away, Yan Fei, who had been on the boat for a long time, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Originally, at the speed of ocean-going fishing boats, it didn't take too long to get from Tianjin Wei to Jinling City. But Yan Fei brought a whole large fleet this time. The speed of the entire fleet depends on the slowest ship, not the fastest one.

Hundreds of sailboats swayed at speeds of two to four knots, and it was not until this time that they reached the river outside Jinling City.

At this moment, Jinling City had already reacted. There were thousands of soldiers and horses deploying defenses on the edge of Yanziji. There were still several cannons on the nearby hills that were firing at the fleet on the river.

Unlike the Qing Dynasty, which has always emphasized the skillful bow and horse skills in history and specializes in reversing history, the Ming Dynasty's army actually moved forward in the correct direction of the firearms army a long time ago. For example, the famous Qi family army is an army with a high degree of firearms.

The most fundamental reason why they were beaten into slag in the late stages is that the bureaucrats completely ruined the foundation of the country.

When the soldiers fought bloody battles on the front line, they couldn't even get enough food and military pay. Even the whole family could starve to death. The firearms they used in their hands could either explode their own people or they could not use them at all.

In this case, the army of the Great Bright Firearms, which had been brilliant and could fight the world with the invincible ones, gradually subsided and became a joke to the enemy.

The soldiers and horses in Jinling City were all Taiping soldiers. When the north was destroyed, they were still singing and dancing in Jinling City. If you want to talk about combat effectiveness, there must be not much at all.

As for the Western goods bought from Aojing, the power is top in this era. However, the quality of the gunner is definitely very poor, because there has been almost no practice in the past.

White smoke rose from the top of the mountain on the distant shore, and the roar of the shelling sounded very imposing. Unfortunately, it was extremely bad in terms of accuracy. Although there were a lot of water splashes on the river, it was very far away from the fleet.

"Knock off all the cannons." Although it felt useless, the existence of cannons was a threat after all. So Yan Fei quickly ordered that all the cannons set on the top of the mountain be knocked off.

Compared with the gunners on the mountain, Yan Fei's artillery is much better. Not only does it have various ranging equipment that can be called black technology for this era, but they are also the champions of this era with strict training in their daily lives.

The lack of training in the army is also one of the drawbacks of this era. In this era, the army that can be trained once every ten days is called elites. Such elites have to train almost every day against Yan Fei. Moreover, when they are crushing advantages in equipment, organization, morale, logistics and supply, etc., it is natural to be beaten into a slag.

In this era, the mainstream of the Ming army was that it was not trained at all. At most, it was just a matter of cheating when a face-saving project appeared.

The 88 cannon was a cannon, but the artillery soldiers on the top of the mountain had no common sense. Not only were the artillery and artillery positions placed openly, but they were also very forward and directly exposed themselves to the fleet's firepower.

But that's true. The artillery of this era is basically direct-fired cannons, and they can't even hit the front point without placing it.

The difference in artillery skills and artillery quality between the two sides quickly appeared intuitively in the eyes of the ship and the people on the shore.

The artillery on the mountain fired slowly, and after firing for a long time, dozens of shells all fell into the river. I don’t know if there were any unlucky fish to be killed, but none of the people on the fleet were injured.

After Yan Fei's shooting, he entered the coverage range in just a few rounds. The powerful high-explosive bomb flew like Thor's lightning, like Thunder God's lightning, and the flames and firelight filled the top of the mountain completely enveloped the top of the mountain. As for the artillery and artillery on the top of the mountain, they were nowhere to be seen at this moment.

After the shelling was over, before Yan Fei could order the gun to turn to bombard the troops and horses that were deployed on the shore, the people on the shore were already in chaos and even many deserters appeared.

Army that have not received training in the modern world will also fall into great chaos when they encounter artillery attacks. People in this era have never seen such a terrifying storm. The terrifying explosion and thunderous roar really scared them all.

The Taiping soldiers who could not train in the Two Sessions in the past year dropped their weapons and fled towards Jinling City. The generals at all levels did not stop them, but instead rode horses in front.

The garrison here has been vacancies for a long time, and when they were in real battle, they found that there were too few people. There was no way to spend money to pull the green beggars in the street to change their military uniforms and use swords and guns to charge the numbers.

These green beggars were extremely arrogant when facing ordinary people, but at this time they really went to the battlefield and saw the horror scenes that were bombed on the top of the mountain not far away, as if the mountain collapsed and cracked. They were all scared to death. At this time, they would not know what military discipline or honors were. The most important thing was to escape home.

"You dare to fight at this level." Looking at the soldiers and horses that were scattered directly by the river in the distance, Yan Fei smiled and shook his head.

Although I had known that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers here was extremely poor, I didn't expect that even the people had collapsed before they logged in. This was really bad.

Wang Dehua behind him kept flattering and flattering Yan Fei. However, Ni Yuanlu's face looked very ugly.

No matter how bad these soldiers are, they are still the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty. It is indeed a pity that the Ming Dynasty chief assistant was very sad. The Ming Dynasty's army has become so rotten. If Yan Fei was not born around him, God would know what the Ming Dynasty would be like now!

The resistance army itself dispersed, and Yan Fei did not waste shells to plow the land, but began to land on the battlefield directly.

Yanziji is an extremely important ferry, and there is no shortage of plank roads and docks. Although the ferry was taken away early, Yan Fei did not need to directly let the ship transporting troops lean up under the escort of the ocean-going fishing boats and start to take off.

At the same time, there was chaos in Jinling City. The sound of shelling before was heard by everyone in the city, and the panic naturally led to chaos in the city. After the troops who were originally deployed on the riverside fled all the way back, the panic atmosphere was pushed to a climax.

If Qian Qianyi and others were incapable, a large number of defeated soldiers fled back and no one would clean up the team to control the spread of panic, allowing these people to spread the panic to the entire city. At this time, Qian Qianyi and others were gathering in the palace in Jinling City to discuss with King Fu how to deal with it.

"Why didn't you fight, you ran away without fighting?" At this time, King Fu was 40 years old. Because of his good maintenance, he looked fair and slender, and had a very demeanor. He also heard that the front-line soldiers fled without contacting the imperial army. In panic, he directly questioned the Duke of Wei, Xu Wenjue and others who held military power.

Xu Wenjue and the others also blushed. The army was so badly beaten beyond everyone's expectations. It would be fine to say that they were defeated after fighting with the imperial army, but before they even got ashore, they collapsed first. This shameful performance really makes people have nothing to say.

If we talk about the fact that there are still troops who can fight, Xu Wenjue and others and military generals at all levels have their own personal guards who have provided a lot of money. These people have good food and clothing and are well fed and have enough money to pay, and they also have training on weekdays, so they still have combat effectiveness.

But these servants are the core of military generals at all levels, so how can they be easily used? Those sent out are either farming or working in various shops and workshops, or green beggars pulled out of the streets directly. It is natural for them to defeat the war.

"Prince." Qian Qianyi, who has a good face, stepped forward with a righteous look on his face, and then started the party-competition mode. "The generals of the front line are afraid of the war and fleeing, which will cause great loss of morale among the military. They must be severely punished. Minister of War and Right Deputy Governor Ruan Dacheng should be responsible for this!"

There were two courts in the Ming Dynasty, the formal one was in Beijing. There was also a court with the same institution in Jinling City, which was used to support the elderly. The Minister of War in this court was Ruan Dacheng, who once defected to Wei Zhongxian for nine thousand years. Later, he was directly impeached and fell by the Donglin Party. After he returned from Fu King, he vigorously retaliated against the Donglin Party and was mortal enemy of Qian Qianyi.

At this moment, Qian Qianyi seized the opportunity and attacked Ruan Dacheng fiercely, not caring about the imperial troops that had already begun to land outside. The Donglin Party would rather destroy the country than fight for power for its own party first, and was not weaker than the Qing Dynasty, who would rather give outsiders than domestic slaves.

The manifestation of selfishness to the extreme is everything about the Donglin Party.

Ruan Dacheng snorted coldly and responded directly with contempt to Qian Qianyi's attack. This bastard is only good at talking and has no use except being able to disgust people. Ruan Dacheng doesn't care about him at all at this moment.

Feeling Ruan Dacheng's contemptuous look, Qian Qianyi, who thought he was insulted, was immediately furious and was about to launch a verbal attack like a storm. However, at this time, Ma Shiying, as a peacemaker, came out to smooth things over. "Everyone, it's not the time to say this. The imperial army has come over, what should we do next!"

Yes, the imperial army has arrived at the gate of Jinling City. How should we deal with the imperial army now?

The nobles such as Xu Wenjue felt regretful. If they had known that the army under their command was so bad and unpredictable, they might not dare to rebel. As nobles who are of the same relatives as the country, no one can do anything to them as long as they do not rebel. But what else can they say after the cannons were fired? They could only lower their heads and speak without saying anything.

As for King Fu, although his skin is good, he is a waste with no ability. In fact, the princes of the Ming Dynasty are basically like this. Because they are all raised like pigs. Naturally, he had no choice but to anxiously urge the ministers below to make decisions.

Qian Qianyi and the people of the Donglin Party were extremely masters in the struggle, but when it was really a big military and national affairs, they were all irritated. They all said that this kind of thing should be the Minister of War Ruan Dacheng, and they directly began to shirk responsibility.

Ruan Dacheng was originally a member of the Donglin Party, and his abilities were similar to Qian Qianyi and the others. At this moment, he couldn't come up with any ideas.

In the end, everyone's eyes looked at Ma Shiying. No matter how they looked at him in their hearts, Ma Shiying was at least recognized as capable.

"It's impossible to defeat the field battle." Ma Shiying did have some ability and directly expressed his thoughts. "Now we are defending Jinling City. With the walls of Jinling City and tens of thousands of defenders, we can hold on for a while. In addition, we send messengers to Zuo Liangyu, Liu Liangzuo, Gao Jie, Liu Zeqing and others to let them bring their troops to rescue as soon as possible!"
Chapter completed!