Chongzhen Ming Dynasty: Starting from Meishan Chapter 466 The fierce battle begins
Due to the astronomical tide at the beginning of the month, the rising sea water filled the trenches around the gun platform, so visually, the left and right gun platforms and Dagukou were separated into three isolated islands.
And in fact this is indeed the case.
The left and right guns have indeed become isolated islands.
Fortunately, both gun towers have sufficient supplies stored.
At least for half a day and half a month there will be no worries about the shortage of food and ammunition.
Just as the two of them were observing the muskets on the left and right, the scream of a cannonball tearing through the air sounded again in front of them. That sharp scream could really pierce a person's eardrums and even make a person's head explode.
"You are a thief." Chen Mingyu immediately cursed with a dark face.
"Jiannu's Hongyi cannons are shelling the cannons on the left and right again, and they really don't stop."
Yan Yingyuan raised the telescope and said with a smile: "Gongchen, it's been so many days, you're still not used to it?"
From the first day when the Ming army began to strengthen the left and right cannon tower walls, Jiannu's Hongyi cannons never stopped. However, at the beginning, the number of Jiannu's Hongyi cannons was small, so the firepower was sparse.
But starting yesterday, Jiannu's artillery firepower suddenly became much denser.
Needless to say, more Hongyi artillery must have been urgently transferred from Beijing.
However, since the slope protection had not been hollowed out by the Jiannu at that time, no matter how many Hongyi cannons the Jiannu had, they could not stop the Ming army from reinforcing the protective walls of the left and right cannon towers.
The reinforcement of the protective wall that blocked Dagukou would not be able to stop it even more.
Because the left and right gun towers were not breached first, Jiannu's Hongyi artillery could not reach Dagukou at all.
But starting yesterday, as the protective wall outside the gun platform was hollowed out by the Jiannu, Jiannu's Hongyi cannon could finally pour projectiles on the gun platform's protective wall.
Yan Yingyuan looked forward through the distance,
I could see clouds of dust splashing from time to time on the front guard walls of the left and right gun platforms.
That was the dust thrown up by the cannonballs of the Jiannu slaves hitting the parapet wall. From time to time, pieces of dust would fly up from the parapet wall.
Although the strength of Sanhe soil is far better than that of ordinary rammed earth, it is still Sanhe soil after all. It will still be damaged if it is bombarded by Jiannu's Hongyi cannon day and night.
Fortunately, the damage is not serious.
At least it is impossible to collapse in a short time.
However, the battlements on top of the parapet were seriously damaged.
According to Yan Yingyuan's estimate, there will be no problem if he persists for about half a month.
As for what to do after half a month, there is no need to worry too much.
Firstly, the navy had already returned by that time, and secondly, the tide could not always remain at its highest level. There would be a rising tide and a receding tide. All we had to do was wait until the tide receded before we could think of ways to strengthen the slope protection.
Chen Mingyu felt unhappy and asked with a dark face: "Jianheng, I made a visual inspection and found that Jiannu's artillery position is only about 800 steps away from the left and right gun emplacements, and only 1,500 steps away from our artillery camp.
Step, this distance is actually within the range of our artillery battalion's 4-inch field gun, why haven't you let the artillery battalion launch a counterattack?"
The 4-inch field guns of the Ming army were all placed at Dagukou, and there were only ten squatting tiger cannons on the left and right sides.
After a pause, Chen Mingyu added: "Even if we can't destroy Jiannu's Hongyi artillery, we can at least force their artillery positions to move farther away, so that the threat to the left and right gun emplacements will be smaller."
Yan Yingyuan waved his hand and said, "No, it's not time to use the artillery camp yet."
"Not yet?" Chen Ming asked anxiously, "Then when will we wait?"
"Wait until it's time to use the artillery battalion." Yan Yingyuan said as if he didn't say anything.
"I don't understand, what are you waiting for?" Chen Mingyu said angrily.
"Not only were the 4-inch guns not allowed to fire back, but they also deliberately only loaded half of the gunpowder in the previous battle, deliberately making Jiannu mistakenly believe that our 4-inch guns could only fire seven or eight hundred steps. Why did you do this?"
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"I can't tell." Yan Yingyuan said quietly, "Maybe it can be of great use."
"Perhaps it can be of great use?" Chen Mingyu smiled bitterly and said nothing more.
In any case, Yan Yingyuan is the commander-in-chief of Dagukou and Chen Mingyu's immediate boss.
Yan Yingyuan turned back and looked at the vast North Sea behind him and asked: "Gongchen, it's almost time for Duke Min's navy to arrive at the sea outside Dagonkou by now, right?"
"Most of them have already reached the open sea, because the North Sea has already thawed."
Chen Mingyu said: "I hope the Duke of Fujian will not rush to launch an attack. It is best to wait until the warships of the Jiannu Navy penetrate into the trenches outside the left and right gun platforms, or to launch a sudden attack after nightfall. Only in this way can we
Annihilate the Jiannu Navy in one fell swoop, otherwise some fish will inevitably slip through the net."
"You and I don't need to worry about it here." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile, "The Duke of Fujian has been traveling all over the world for many years. What kind of battles has he not seen? So he knows better than us what should be done to completely annihilate the Jiannu Navy."
"That's true." Chen Mingyu was relieved after hearing this.
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Just as Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu expected.
The navy led by Zheng Zhilong had already arrived at the sea outside Dagukou.
Even the Wei River has been thawed and opened to navigation, not to mention the Beihai.
Upon discovering that the North Sea had thawed, Zheng Zhilong immediately led the navy to rush over.
And not only Zheng Zhilong's navy came, but also another navy led by Zheng Hongkui.
Zheng Hongkui's navy originally fought in cooperation with Xu Yingwei, but there was no enemy situation on the Gaizhou Guard side. Xu Yingwei had nothing to do, and even led the army to start building gun platforms in the direction of Haizhou Guard. He planned to build a cannon platform in the east of Liaohe River.
A blunderbuss platform was built on the bank of the Liaohe River to block traffic on the east and west banks of the Liaohe River.
Xu Yingwei was busy repairing the gun platform, so Zheng Hongkui brought his navy to help Zheng Zhilong.
Although the two brothers did not pay much attention to the Jiannu Navy, which was adapted from the Dongjiang Navy, there is a saying that goes like a lion fighting a rabbit with all its strength, so in order to ensure that the Jiannu Navy was annihilated in one fell swoop, the water mobilized
Naturally, the larger the division's strength, the better. The two brothers did not intend to leave even the slightest chance to the Jiannu Navy.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, Zheng Zhilong ordered to stop when he arrived about 30 miles away from the sea outside Dagukou.
Zheng Zhilong has been traveling all over the world for many years, so he naturally knows that the sea level has a curvature, and a bird ship with 400 materials has to hide 30 miles away, and even the mast will be blocked by the sea level.
But once within 30 miles, the mast will be observed from the shore.
If it goes within 20 miles, half of the bird ship's hull will be exposed to the sight of the slaves on the shore.
Of course, this refers to the bird ship with 400 materials. The bird ship with 2,000 materials needs to be anchored at a farther distance, otherwise it will be easily seen by Jiannu or the lookout post of Jiannu Navy.
The navy's more than 400 warships can be anchored 30 miles away.
But Zheng Zhilong still sent Shi Lang with several small boats to approach for reconnaissance.
After noon, Shi Lang came back and reported to Zheng Zhilong: "My lord, the Jiannu Navy has arrived at Dagukou now, and it is estimated that it will launch an attack on Dagukou soon."
"Okay." Zheng Zhilong nodded happily and said to Zheng Hongkui, "Fourth brother, send the order to all the warships to weigh anchor. All the Hongyi cannons should be loaded with ammunition first, and they will follow me to attack the defense as soon as it gets dark.
At the mouth of the river, after arriving at the mouth of the Wei River, Fourth Brother, you will lead a group of naval forces to block the Wei River and cut off the retreat route of the Jiannu Navy first."
"Yes." Zheng Hongkui solemnly promised.
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At this time, the atmosphere inside the large tent of the Jiannu Army was somewhat stagnant.
Fulin looked around and found that whether it was Dorgon, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Hou Fangyu and other Han ministers, as well as Manchu generals such as Luck Dehun and Luo Luohun, they all looked a little nervous.
Obviously, everyone including Dorgon was unsure.
Therefore, Fulin deeply remembered the name Yan Yingyuan.
This Yan Yingyuan is not simple, but he only has five or six thousand partial troops, and he is still trapped in a corner of Dagukou, but he can actually make the Manchu civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty so fearful.
Footsteps sounded, and Cao Eryu hurried in.
"Master, the bannermen of the red flag and the soldiers of the green camp have joined the navy."
"Let's go to Jinglan." Dorgon turned around and walked out. Hong Chengchou and other Han officials, as well as Luo Luohun, Luck Dehun and other Manchu generals also hurriedly followed.
There is already more than one well-mounted carriage that can be set up.
By the time Dorgon led Fulin and others up the wooden ladder to the war shed on the roof of the Jinglan carriage, twenty Niulu bannermen under the red flag and twenty thousand soldiers from the tenth battalion and the small green battalion had already boarded the navy.
of warships.
The navy has nearly two hundred warships, the bird ships of 400 materials carry an average of nearly 200 people, the Haicang ships of 200 materials carry an average of 80 people, and the Cangshan ships carry 30 people.
Azig's military ability is actually quite good.
Since there were 20 red cannons in the town of Dagukou, Azig did not rush to attack Dagukou. Instead, he first aimed his spearhead at the left and right gun platforms.
Obviously, Azig planned to seize the left and right gun platforms first to break the Ming army's diversion.
At this time, the outer trenches of the left and right gun platforms had been filled with seawater and were connected with the Wei River and the Beihai. Therefore, the warships of the Qing Navy could easily enter the outer trenches of the gun platforms.
The external trench, thirty paces wide, is equivalent to a river channel nearly 50 meters wide and over 3 meters deep.
Nearly 200 warships loaded with Qing flag soldiers and green camp troops soon surrounded the two Ming army gun platforms.
However, the strange thing is that the Ming army on the gun platform has remained silent, but allowed the warships of the Qing navy to surround it. I don’t know if it is because they are helpless or if there is some other conspiracy?
Then, with the sound of a cannon, nearly two hundred warships of the Qing army simultaneously leaned their bows against the protective wall of the gun platform.
The bow of the warship had just approached the protective wall, and the green battalion soldiers who had been waiting for a long time took the lead in jumping to the 45-degree protective slope, and then stepped on the protective slope to launch an upward attack.
The green battalion soldiers adopt a standard array.
The one who rushes ahead is always the knife player.
More than five hundred green soldiers carried heavy wooden signs and rushed up the protective wall with roars.
At this time, the Ming army on the cannon platform finally reacted. Thousands of Ming army musketeers stood up from behind the protective wall almost at the same time, holding self-fired cannons and pulling the triggers. The smoke filled the air in an instant.
Immediately afterwards, a huge blast of gunfire came from afar.
