Chapter 512

Having lost thousands of brothers and more than 100 ships, Zheng Bao was distressed to death, but he had no choice.

The other side's building ships rely on many guns, rely on the shore defense, bombard each other and suffer losses. If they rush up and collide, they will run aground, and the small boat can't win, so they have to vent their anger on the wharf.

The next day, at dawn, Zheng Bao and his fleet rushed to the wharf and began shelling the warehouse buildings behind. After hitting the military port, they went to the civilian port next door. They didn't stop until they hit 80% of the solid bullets out and were ready to go to Hangzhou Bay.

Liu Yan was also helpless. The beach water on the side of the shipyard was shallow, but the water on the side of the military port was very deep. If they stopped in the past, they would definitely be hit by the other party's sea ship, so they had to watch the other party attack and finally go away.

Fortunately, the lethality of solid projectiles can no longer be described as poor. The other party dare not go ashore. At most, it will hit the roof of the warehouse and plant with holes, which can be repaired in a few days. In fact, the losses caused can be ignored at all.

This is the power of cannons in this era.

It's the real thunder. The heavy rain is small. Hitting wooden warships at sea is still a little lethal. Hitting fixed targets on shore is a waste of gunpowder and iron pills. Qin Yu spared no effort to develop rockets because he had experienced it in Yueyang.

Otherwise, if you want to destroy a city by the sea, it is estimated that thousands of red cannon can only be used for a few months. The cost is better than sending infantry directly to attack the city.

"Shit, it's cheap for these animals. If your majesty hadn't been reluctant to equip our navy with rockets, we would have to let these bastards come and go this time!"

Liu Yan looked at the Zheng family fleet disappearing on the sea level and scolded with an unwilling hate voice.

Because their losses were greater than each other, they not only lost more than 200 building ships yesterday, but also killed more than 8000 brothers and injured thousands. It can be said that the whole navy was maimed.

However, he knew it was worth it, because the nine unfinished seagoing ships on the wharf and the large carpentry workshop behind them had not suffered any loss.

Although Zheng Bao left with the fleet, in order to prevent the other party from killing the horse gun or sneaking landing and sneaking attack from other places at night, all construction sites and shipyards did not return to work immediately, but were still on alert.

At this time, Zhang Yan was worried and relieved in the palace.

It is comforting that Zheng Zhilong did not continue to attack the city and pull out the stronghold after he conquered Hangzhou, and there was no response to chaos in various places, so the actual loss was small.

The worry is that the other party is coming to Nanjing. If Zuo Liangyu can't stop it and let the other party kill under Nanjing, it's really a bad thing.

Because there are not many troops in the city. Apart from 8000 forbidden guards to defend the palace, the huge city will be defended by 25000.

For the scale of Nanjing City, the number of troops is indeed a little less. The key is that almost Jiucheng is a recruit who has not been on the battlefield, including 8000 forbidden guards and 15000 garrisons, and some of the 10000 recruits are not even equipped with knives and guns.

Zhang Yan had to constantly send people to ask Zuo Liangzuo how the war was going. While adopting the suggestions of Li Yan and others, Zhang Yan transferred the National Guard to Nanjing from nearby prefectures and counties.

As for the messengers who reported to Qin Huan, they were dispatched immediately after the meeting, and there were still several batches.

At this time, a temporary imperial meeting was being held in the main hall of the palace, and almost all civil and military officials above the third grade came.

"Empress, Wei Chen thought that for the sake of a comprehensive policy, we should immediately transfer some troops from the fifth Legion and return to Beijing."

"I seconded!"

"The minister also seconded!"

Almost half of the civil and military officials in the hall stood up and felt that it would be safer to withdraw twenty or thirty thousand field troops from the Fifth Corps and return to Beijing.

After all, no one can guarantee the combat effectiveness of the national guards and the soldiers and horses who go south to encircle and suppress. If Zuo Liangyu really loses the battle and the other party kills Nanjing, and they don't hold it, it will be a great fallacy in the world.

Think of them, the division of the millions of Huben of Daqin, who was defeated by a group of pirates. In the end, even if they beat the pirates to the bone and fly, they can't recover the national prestige of Daqin. I'm afraid they don't even know how to record it in historical books.

"Madam, the Fifth Army Corps, apart from the troops left behind in Fujian, has only 60000 troops to go south to conquer Guangdong. At this time, it is a critical period of war. If we take another half, it is bound to affect the war between Guangdong and Guangdong. Once the situation in Guangdong and Guangdong is out of control, the fruits will be unimaginable. Therefore, I don't agree to take away troops and horses and return to Beijing!"

As the head of the military and political yuan, Li Yan naturally does not feel that the sky is about to fall like those civil servants. He also knows that the troops of the two southern legions must not be taken away at this time.

Moreover, the military and political yuan has no right to transfer. As for whether the empress has the right to transfer, he doesn't know, but he guesses that the empress also has no right to transfer the army.

"I don't agree. Just a group of sea bandits just took the opportunity to sneak into Hangzhou. How much storm can they set off?

I believe Zuo Shangshu can stop the other side even if he can't quickly eliminate the thief army. At that time, the national guards everywhere will continue to reinforce the past. Can't he eliminate a mere forty or fifty thousand isolated troops? "

"That said, the battle array is risky after all. If we don't transfer it now, it will be too late if we transfer it when the thief army is near the city!"

"Well, there's no need for Aiqing to argue. Let's first see how the war is going there. Besides, the mobilization of the army is very important. You must invite your majesty, and the palace can't decide without authorization."

Zhang Yan waved her hand.

Everyone suddenly turned their eyes and said you had no right to say it earlier, which made everyone white.

If you have to ask your majesty, this time it will take at least a month or so. Plus the time of troop deployment, even the nearest fifth Legion is estimated to arrive in Beijing after March. I'm afraid what should have happened by then will have happened long ago.

The reason why people are so worried is that Zheng Zhilong has killed Changzhou Prefecture, about a hundred miles from Nanjing.

However, Zuo Liangyu did not move forward. He just marched for less than 20 miles in four days and is still wandering dozens of miles south of Nanjing.

This makes everyone very worried about whether Zuo Liangyi is a thief who wants to support the army and respect himself, or is secretly negotiating with Zheng Zhilong. After all, what people say is that he has been a Cao Cao.

But this kind of thing, especially in this critical period, no one dared to put forward it rashly, let alone impeach Zuo Liangyu for ulterior motives and evil intentions.

Zhang Yan and Li Yan don't worry about Zuo Liangyu's rebellion at all. Let alone Zuo Liangyu is a bare general. If they dare to rebel, no one will listen to him. Besides, Niu Jinxing is watching and can be directly taken by two thousand forbidden guards at any time.

Zhang Yan also sent a commander to the 2000 forbidden guards and gave her a secret message. As long as Niu Jinxing or Zuo Liangyu has the slightest sign of rebellion, they can take it first or kill it directly.

However, for Zuo Liangyu's hesitation, Zhang Yan thought about sending an envoy to ask again and asked that an explanation must be made this time, otherwise it would be difficult for people to sit and stand.