Chapter 1062 I have seen stupid, never seen how stupid
Zhang Linong led his troops to land, which actually took a long time, because landings these days were still very primitive. If there were no ready-made docks to use, then a beach landing would be necessary.
Basically don’t count on large ships for beach landing, and there are no special landing ships. Generally, small boats carried by large ships are used for landing. These small boats are generally multi-purpose. If the ship sinks and you need to escape, these boats are life-saving.
Ships, if sea supplies are to be carried out, these are the ships that transport supplies back and forth, and transporting people is also their main task.
As for these small boats, a large ship cannot actually carry too many, so when there is no dock, it is quite troublesome to transport people or materials, requiring many round trips.
Therefore, the first batch of Marines to land was less than 200. After these people landed, the small boats would return and then transport the second batch of Marines.
The weapons they carry are limited to personal equipment. The heavy weapons are two-pound shotguns weighing over a hundred kilograms. As for those field cannons, don't expect to be able to bring them with them.
Because there were relatively few people landing for the first time, Zhang Linong did not act rashly, nor did he directly lead the troops forward from the depth. Instead, he organized the troops on the beach and listed a defensive formation, and then waited for the arrival of the second batch of landing troops.
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At this time, in an open space hundreds of meters away from the island, hundreds of people dressed in disorder also gathered one after another. Their weapons were not uniform, and they could even be vaguely divided into two groups.
The number of them was relatively small. About 200 of them were uniformly dressed. They were basically dressed like Fuso warriors. A few of them still held matchlock guns and wore plate armor.
The other group of people is larger in number. There are about 300 people with messy clothes and weapons, and many of them are wearing Hanfu and with their hair tied up. Needless to say, these people are basically pirates, eh
, to be more precise, the pirates of the Tang Dynasty!
Many of them came from the coast of Datang a few years ago when the Tang Navy was fighting against pirates!
The transfer of these pirates can basically be regarded as the expansion history of the Tang Empire. When the Tang Empire occupied Guangdong and Guangxi, they escaped from the waters of Guangdong and Guangxi. When the Tang Dynasty occupied the coastal areas of Fujian and Zhejiang, they again
After running away from this sea area, some of them went to Ryukyu, and some continued north or simply ran to the coast of Korea.
The pirates who ran to Ryukyu didn't live in peace for a few days. The Tang Dynasty navy killed the Ryukyu Kingdom. As a result, the Ryukyu Kingdom was finished and the Ryukyu Kingdom became the Tang Dynasty Ryukyu Mansion, so they continued to run. This time they all
He ran to the coast of Fuso in one breath, and then completely colluded with the Fuso people.
The Osumi Islands have become the gathering place for several large-scale pirates!
But although the pirates settled in this place, pirates are pirates after all. They were not able to shake the rule of the Kanfu clan in the Osumi Islands. On the contrary, they cooperated quite happily with the Kanfu clan. The Kanfu clan provided them with ports, supplies, and even sold their stolen goods.
channels and earned huge profits from it.
The Tang Empire would naturally not tolerate this kind of thing!
This also led to the armed forces on Yakushima, in addition to the armed forces of the Kanfu family, there were also the forces of pirates!
Moreover, after Zhang Linong took out his binoculars and took a look, he found that the pirates had more troops than Gan Fu, and the pirates' equipment was even better.
Although on the surface the pirates' clothes were messy and their weapons were inconsistent, Zhang Linong saw that they had a lot of matchlocks and shotguns, and some of them wore plate armor.
Thinking about Ganfu's warriors, they had very few guns and plate armor, and no artillery was seen.
No wonder these pirates can survive on Yakushima with such arrogance, their emotional strength is stronger than the Ganfu family's strength on the island.
But, so what, whether it is these pirates or the warriors of the Ganfu clan, it is destined to be impossible to withstand the attack of the Tang Navy today!
Zhang Linong had already made up his mind. After his troops arrived, he would first set up a temporary dock, then unload the field artillery. After the field artillery landed, he would do the damn thing.
In addition to a marine battalion under his personal command, the Marines he led also had marines on various ships of the Ryukyu Squadron. There were more than 300 people in total, with a total strength of 800, which was much better than that of the pirates and Kanfu clan on the opposite side.
The total number of troops would be even greater.
However, before launching the attack, Zhang Linong honestly listed out the defensive formations and asked the soldiers to use the engineer shovels they carried with them to dig fortifications, mainly to build breastworks.
Breast walls are very useful in defensive operations. They can effectively reduce the opponent's long-range firepower. Of course, the defense against artillery is not very good, but there are no powerful artillery on the opposite side!
While Zhang Linong was waiting, the pirates and Ganfu clan's warriors across from him obviously knew that they could not continue to wait like this. Even a blind man could see that the Marines on board the more than 20 ships on the sea must have
There are more than two hundred people, and there will definitely be more soldiers of the Tang Dynasty navy who will land one after another.
So after some discussion, the two groups decided to strike first!
As a result, they began to charge forward in a chaotic formation!
But when he saw them rushing up, a smile appeared on Zhang Linong's lips. It was really bizarre that these pirates wanted to take the initiative to attack.
Didn't anyone tell them that if a swarm of bees rushed up like this, they would be beaten into a hornet's nest!
Didn't anyone tell them that before launching a charge, they should push up the artillery and bombard it first, but now, several of their artillery are lagging behind.
The half-empty artillerymen desperately tried to push the artillery to the front line, but they could not catch up with the speed of the infantry who had begun to charge forward!
Seeing this scene, Zhang Linong immediately ordered: "Send a flag to the fleet and request artillery support!"
"The whole army is obeying orders, checking guns, loading bullets, and preparing to fight!"
The semaphore soldiers began to wave the small flags in their hands, signaling to the fleet on the sea, requesting naval gunfire support. At the same time, the soldiers also put down their excavations, began to check the guns in their hands, and then loaded them.
At the same time, Major General Feng Qirong on the fleet also used his telescope to see the semaphore of the landing force, and immediately issued an order: "Every ship prepares artillery support!"
Although it is said that they are separate ships, in fact, the only ones that can really get close and provide artillery support now are the two frigates, and the other capital ships need to continue to block the port.
Of course, other transport ships can also provide artillery support!
The transport ships these days are all armed transport ships!
Not to mention a navy transport ship, even a private merchant ship, if you don't bring a few cannons with you when you go to sea these days, you can't expect to come back alive if you encounter pirates.
The two frigates approaching at the risk of running aground were close to the land, so they were able to open fire earlier!
When those messy pirates and warriors rushed up and entered the 500-meter firing range of the naval guns, the two frigates, which had anchored directly to ensure the stability of the shooting, also opened fire!
They have a total of more than 20 side guns that can be used for bombardment. These more than 20 guns are nothing to a decisive battle between fleets.
The navy's sea battles often involve dozens or hundreds of artillery pieces, and the results are not very good, otherwise the navy would not be focusing on howitzers.
Unfortunately, although the grenade has completed preliminary research and development and has begun preliminary trial production, it is still in the process of improvement. Most of the small quantities of grenades produced have been taken away by the Guards. So far, the Army and Navy have only received
A small number of grenades were used for testing.
In actual combat, don't count on grenades for the time being.
However, for fleet battles, more than twenty artillery pieces are nothing, but for land bombardment and supporting ground troops in combat, this is enough and appears to be very powerful.
You must know that the Tang Army's artillery configuration is very large, but in the infantry division of more than 15,000 people, there are only 56 field guns. On average, in actual combat, a battle of several hundred people
, at most it would only be supported by a few artillery pieces.
However, today, there are less than 200 Marines on the shore, but they are supported by more than 20 naval guns, and the caliber is not small.
There are nine-jin naval guns, five-jin naval guns, and forty-eight-jin and twenty-four-jin mortars.
Waiting for the artillery fire to fire at the more than 500 pirates and the warriors of Ganfu clan who are rushing towards the opposite side!
That scene was truly spectacular!
When Zhang Linong heard the rumble of gunfire from the sea, he saw clouds of white smoke coming out of the two frigates on the sea, with small black dots flying out of the white smoke.
These little black dots flew over his head, and then fell into the enemy hundreds of meters away!
He saw with his own eyes that after a solid cannonball fell, although its kinetic energy was quickly absorbed by the soft sand, it still knocked away five or six pirates before that!
If the shelling power of solid bullets is only average, then those grenades are much bigger!
When a grenade weighing 48 kilograms exploded above the pirates' heads, Zhang Linong himself was shocked!
He could clearly see that when a ball of fire flashed and white smoke rose, at least 20 pirates fell directly under the cannonball!
After the navy's naval gun support fire only launched the first round of shelling, the pirates who rushed up had nearly a hundred casualties, and then the remaining people involuntarily stopped charging and stood there blankly!
The next moment, they all turned around and ran away faster than when they rushed over!
Seeing this scene, Zhang Linong held back his excitement and wanted to laugh, and after a long time he suppressed his words: "A bunch of fools!"
After serving in the army for many years, he has never seen anyone charge at a naval gun. Back then, even the puppet Ming rebels would not be stupid enough to do this!"