Chongzhen Ming Dynasty: Starting from Meishan Chapter 465 Building Nu Navy
The third day of April.
"Uncle, the Wei River has thawed."
"Our navy can finally set off."
Geng Jimao excitedly walked into the Tianjin Weishui Village.
Kong Youde, who was drinking a small drink, glanced at Geng Jimao: "Eldest nephew, haven't you always been wary of Ming Gou? Why are you so uncharacteristically anxious to go to Dagukou this time?"
"Uncle, this is different." Geng Jimao waved his hand and said.
"My nephew is not afraid of the Ming dog, but the old dog Chongzhen."
"But Chongzhen is not at Dagukou now, and the Ming army in Dagukou is just a lone army without backup. This is a great opportunity for you and me, Kong and Geng, to make contributions."
"It's just a Dagokou, how much credit can it have?"
Kong Youde shook his head and said: "Moreover, the person guarding Dagukou is Yan Yingyuan. This man once defeated ten kings in Shanyang. He may not be easier to deal with than Chongzhen. So it is really unpredictable whether we go to Dagukou or not."
"If I had a choice, uncle, I really don't want to go."
"Wouldn't it be nice to drink a little wine at home? Isn't it beautiful to hug your wife and concubines and make babies?"
"Old uncle, why have you become like Uncle Kexi? You have nothing to do but sleep with your wives and concubines. You have already given birth to more than twenty boys and girls. If you don't think it's enough, you keep making more."
"Boy, that's because you haven't met a good woman and haven't tasted her taste."
Speaking of this, Kong Youde smacked his lips again, and said with some envy: "When it comes to good women in this world, I have seen quite a few of you, uncle. There are many young and old who can be considered top-notch, but not many top-notch ones."
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"Uncle, you've been drinking too much, can women still tell the difference between the best and the best?"
"Boy, you don't understand this, women are different from women."
"Let's just say that our Queen Mother Zhuang of the Qing Dynasty is undoubtedly a top-notch woman."
Speaking of this, Kong Youde lowered his voice and said: "Eldest nephew, we and I will talk about this behind closed doors today. Don't talk about it everywhere, otherwise your uncle will be in trouble."
"Uncle, who do you think I am?"
Geng Jimao said with consternation: "Can I be that kind of person?"
"I know you have a strict mouth, so I'm telling you these things."
Kong Youde chuckled and said: "But, there are more excellent women than Empress Dowager Zhuang, and there are two of them. One is Fan Wencheng's house-filler. I was lucky enough to meet your uncle once, and I almost died after seeing this one."
If you take away the soul of your old uncle, he will really be a peerless beauty with a smoky look and charming behavior."
"Could he be the one who made the Ten Kings so angry?" Geng Jimao's heart ignited the fire of gossip.
"That's right, that's the one." Kong Youde said with a low smile, "Look at it, my eldest nephew, this one has already caught the eye of the Ten Kings, and sooner or later he will surely be their forbidden love."
Geng Jimao asked again: "Who is the other one?"
"The other one is Wu Sangui's concubine, but I haven't seen this one before, I just heard about it."
Kong Youde smiled and said: "However, Wu Sangui, Liu Zongmin and even Li Zicheng competed for this one, which shows that she is also a first-class beauty."
"You mean Chen Yuanyuan? Then she's a kiln girl."
Geng Jimao lost interest for a moment and said again: "Uncle, let's get down to business. Yan Yingyuan is actually not as powerful as you think. The reason why the Ten Kings suffered defeat in Shanyang was mainly because they underestimated the enemy."
"But this time in Dagukou, neither the Nine Kings nor we can underestimate the enemy again."
"So, why should we be afraid of a mere Yan Yingyuan? We should hurry up and take the navy there. If we get there too late, the Green Camp may have already been captured, and we will lose the chance to make meritorious deeds."
"Okay, let's set off." Kong Youde stood up helplessly.
This is certainly not because of Geng Jimao’s repeated urging.
It was because Dorgon had already issued an imperial edict. As soon as the Wei River thawed, the navy had to rush to Dagokou as soon as possible without any delay. Kong Youde did not dare to disobey Dorgon's order.
The two walked out of the gate of the camp and saw nearly two hundred warships of the Navy already ready for departure.
Jiannu's navy was formed by merging part of the Dengzhou navy led by Geng Zhongming and part of the Dongjiang navy led by Shang Kexi and Kong Youde. Its main force was the navy led by Kong Youde.
Therefore, Kong Youde was the admiral of the Navy, and Monk Geng Zhongming could only be the commander-in-chief.
However, Monk Geng Zhongming Kexi rarely interfered with the navy and only asked Monk Geng Jimao Keyi to take charge of it.
The Jiannu Navy had less than 200 warships in total, half of which were bird ships with 400 materials, and the remaining half were Haicang ships and Cangshan ships with only 200 or even 100 materials.
Furthermore, the equipment of the Jiannu Navy was also relatively backward.
The bird ships of the Ming Navy are already equipped with red cannons as standard, but the main equipment of the Jiannu Navy is still only Fran cannons and bowl-mouth blunderbuss, and it has not been replaced with red cannons until now.
Each of the 400-material bird ships is equipped with eight Fran cannons.
The Lincang ship or the Cangshan ship only had three to five Franconian cannons.
This time when troops were sent to Dagukou, the Jiannu Navy was in full force.
Although there was a headwind from Tianjinwei to Dagukou, it was smooth water. Coupled with the promotion of the oar, it only took less than three hours to arrive at the Jiannu Camp, five miles outside Dagukou.
Hearing that the navy had arrived, Dorgon personally brought people to greet him.
Dorgon rarely did this kind of act to win over people's hearts since he became the regent of his imperial father, but today Dorgon still condescended to leave the camp and come to the river to greet him personally.
"The slave Kong Youde/Geng Jimao/Shang Keyi came to see the emperor and the regent."
Kong Youde took his deputy Geng Jimao and Shang Keyi to the shore early.
When he saw Dorgon walking over, he quickly waved his sleeves and knelt down to say hello.
"Ping Shen." Dorgon personally helped Kong Youde and signaled Monk Geng Jimao to stand up.
Dorgon didn't say any unnecessary nonsense to Kong Youde, and said directly: "King Gongshun, you are supposed to be tired from coming so far, so I should at least give you half a day to rest, and wait until you have regained your strength before joining the fight."
"However, today happens to be the synodic high tide, and the spring tide level this month is particularly high."
"Now is exactly when the water level is at its highest. If the navy joins the battle, it can directly approach the cannon towers on the west and south sides of Dagukou and launch close-in shooting at the Ming troops in the cannon towers."
"So, it can only be the soldiers of the hard-working navy."
"Master, what are you talking about?" Kong Youde said enthusiastically.
"It is an honor for me to serve you, my master, and the Qing Dynasty."
Monk Geng Jimao was even more confident and said: "Master, just look at it, our navy will definitely assist the King of Purgation in recapturing Dagukou as soon as possible."
"Very good, then you'll have some work."
Dorgon nodded happily upon hearing this.
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On the other side, Azig is also already deploying an attack.
Dorgon also asked people to build a sand table about the topography of Dagukou and nearby areas.
Sand tables have been around since ancient times, but the sand tables with such detailed mountains, rivers and rivers were brought over by Chongzhen, and were quickly imitated by Jiannu and Dashun.
After all, it's not a secret.
"Gadahun." Azig's eyes first fell on the Zhenghongqi Gushan Ezhen Gadahun, and said in a deep voice, "You take ten Niulu to take charge of the Ming army's gun platform on the left, Wu Sangui and other five green battalions The soldiers are under your control."
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"Hey." Gadahun's eyes stayed on the sand table. After hesitating for a moment, he still asked, "Prince Su, the tide today is a strong tide. The incoming sea water has filled the trenches outside the Ming army's gun platform. The water is deep. It's less than a foot long, which is equivalent to a deep and wide moat. How are we going to get across?"
"You don't have to worry about this." Azig said with a smile, "The navy has arrived at Dagokou. The navy will use warships to assist you. You can take the navy's warships to get close to the Ming army. Taiwan launched a direct attack."
"That's good." When Ga Dahun heard this, he felt relieved. As long as the navy arrived, there would be no problem.
Azig turned his attention to another general of the Zhenghong Banner: "Jixiha, you lead the other ten Niulu of the Zhenghong Banner to take charge of the Ming army's artillery platform on the right. Jiang Xiang and other five battalions of green soldiers are under your control. In addition, The Navy will also dedicate half of its warships to assist you in the battle, and you also don’t have to worry about being blocked by the trenches of the Ming Dog Gun Tower."
Ji Xiha nodded silently. In his heart, he didn't think highly of the idiot Azig, but who made him the royal father, regent and the twelfth brother of the ten kings? He could only obey orders.
Azig finally turned his attention to Wu Sangui, Xia Longshan, Jiang Xiang, Wang Fuchen and other Green Camp generals. Wang Fuchen and Jiang Xiang were still wrapped in white cloth, with faint traces of blood seeping out.
Azig couldn't help but frowned when he saw this: "Wang Fuchen, Jiang Xiang, just leave your troops and horses to your deputy generals or generals. You don't need to go to the battlefield. You'd better stay in the camp." Let’s recuperate, it’s just a small town, and it’s not yet to the point where we need to go into battle with injuries.”
"Hey." Wang Fuchen and Jiang Xiang respectfully agreed.
Wu Sangui and Xia Longshan secretly said that they had made a mistake.
If I had known, I would have cheated like Wang Fuchen and others.
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Yan Yingyuan and others had already seen the Jiannu Navy from the watchtower.
"Jianheng, the Jiannu Navy has finally arrived at Dagukou." Chen Mingyu said solemnly, "If nothing else happens, Jiannu will launch an attack soon, and this time he will most likely launch a general attack on the left and right guns at the same time.
, this is undoubtedly a severe test for our gun platform."
While talking, Chen Mingyu's eyes turned to the gun platform ahead.
Looking down from the watchtower, you can clearly see the whole of Dagukou.
By now, the protective walls of Dagukou and the protective walls of the left and right gun platforms have all been reinforced.
The reinforced parapet is about five feet above the horizon, with a thickness of one foot at the bottom and five feet at the top. There are also battlements on the top of the wall, and on the outside of the parapet is a forty-five-foot
degrees of inclination.
The interior of the Sanhetu retaining wall is also reinforced with wood.
This is equivalent to a "reinforced concrete structure" retaining wall.
However, this is just the original version of reinforced concrete.
