After Liu Hai drove away the foreigner, he immediately ordered the army to move forward, and soon the fleet arrived at the sea outside Tianjin.
After Liu Hai's navy arrived at the sea off Tianjin, they did not take immediate action. Instead, they ordered the helicopters on the Nanchang and other warships to take off to investigate the gun emplacements near Tianjin.
At this time, Tianjin was already heavily guarded. Although Li Hongzhang had been transferred to the capital, his power was still operating rapidly.
This is all because of Zhang Peilun's mediation.
The Empress Dowager Cixi in the capital also knew that today's Tianjin could not do without Li Hongzhang's people, so she turned a blind eye to Zhang Peilun's overstepping of authority.
This picture shows Perun waiting for Li Hongzhang for several days. What he was waiting for was that Li Hongzhang was transferred to the capital to serve as Minister of Military Aircraft.
He had already understood by now that the imperial court had not accepted his and Li Hongzhang's suggestions, and it seemed that they wanted to fight to the death with Li Liu Hai.
Although Zhang Peilun believed that the imperial court's deployment in Tianjin was not enough to resist Liu Hai, as Li Hongzhang's escape from isolation, he still had to make a final struggle.
Therefore, after Zhang Peilun knew that war was inevitable, he actively urged the forts in Tianjin to prepare for war.
This time, the foreigners were also very supportive of Zhang Peilun. All kinds of artillery shells needed for the fort were now continuously transported to the fort by the foreigners.
The artillery shells produced by the Tianjin Manufacturing Factory that were originally used by the fort have now been piled aside as backup.
In addition to defending at the fort, Zhang Peilun also pulled all the patrol battalions near Tianjin and the Huai army into Tianjin city.
You must know that in the past, the Qing Dynasty made an agreement with foreigners that no troops were allowed to be stationed in Tianjin City.
This time Zhang Peilun obviously violated the treaty at that time, but this time the consuls of various countries in Tianjin seemed to be blind to this.
In addition to these, the consuls of various countries also went all out this time. They gathered all the guns in the consulate and gave them to Zhang Peilun.
Even the guns of the escorts owned by the consuls of various countries in accordance with regulations are now all disarmed and used to support Zhang Peilun and guard Tianjin.
Although Zhang Peilun received a large amount of guns and ammunition, the people under him had no combat experience at all. Most of them were just trying to scare the common people. If they were really allowed to go to the battlefield, they would not know what would happen in the end.
While Zhang Peilun was nervously preparing for the battle, Liu Hai's helicopter had already circled several times in succession at Tianjin Fuda Jiakou Fort, taking photos of each gun position in the fort.
This fort is located where the Haihe River enters the southeast of Tanggu, Binhai New Area, Tianjin.
Since the Ming Dynasty, troops have been stationed and fortified. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, two brick and wood forts were built, which were called the "South Fort" and the "North Fort".
In the eighth year of Xianfeng (1858), Seng Gelinqin was ordered to take charge of defense. Three forts were built on the south bank and two forts were built on the north bank. They were named "wei", "zhen", "sea", "men" and "gao" respectively.
The name means that the fort is majestic and guarding the heights of the gateway to the sea; there is another one built on the north bank, commonly known as the "Stone Seam Fort". Since then, the Dagukou Fort has formed a complete seaport defense system.
As for the defense system of this fort, after so many years of continuous repairs, it is considered a very strong fortress in the entire world.
If other countries in the world want to use their navy to attack Tianjing Guard, they must first face the threat of this fort.
Based on the level of warships in various countries around the world today, if they want to confront this fort, the warships on the sea will be at a great disadvantage.
Therefore, Zhang Peilun now regards this fort as his life-saving straw. In addition to the heavy artillery installed on the original fort, Zhang Peilun also urgently purchased some new artillery from various countries to carry out firefighting on the five forts of Dagukou Fort.
Reinforcement.
However, these measures are already a drop in the bucket in the face of cross-era tactics.
The helicopter circled around the Dagukou fort. After completing the reconnaissance, it returned to the four modern-class destroyers on the sea.
After the investigation by these four helicopters was completed, the information was quickly sent to the command room of the Nanchang.
With this specific information and precise coordinates, the next thing will be much simpler. Liu Hai did not plan to have any cover this time, and directly ordered the missile ship to prepare cruise missiles to attack these targets.
As various data were input into the missiles through the computer, the main force of this attack was a modern-class destroyer. Each of them opened its own vertical launch silo, and the missiles left the warship one by one and flew towards the intended target.
It should be said that the fort was also carefully designed by the Qing court. Even with large-caliber artillery on the sea, it would take some effort to shoot at it.
But this time he was vulnerable to the cruise missile attack. After two rounds of 36 missile attacks, the main emplacements of the Dagukou Fort had been completely destroyed.
At this point, the first obstacle to Liu Hai's march into the capital has been eliminated by more than half.
The rest are small forts and small-caliber artillery, and such targets cannot be attacked by missiles.
Liu Hai held a telescope on the Nanchang and watched the Dagukou fort from a distance. He saw thick smoke billowing there and a lot of gravel splashing everywhere. It seemed that this missile attack was very effective.
Liu Wei, who was beside Liu Hai, also used a telescope to observe the situation in the distance, and then suggested to Liu Hai: "Commander, although judging from the situation, the damage on the other side has been considerable, we should still observe it again."
Liu Hai nodded, and then ordered: "Let the helicopter take a look at the current situation of the Dagukou Fort?"
Following Liu Hai's order, the four helicopters took off again and then flew towards the fort.
The situation of this investigation was exactly as Liu Kai expected. The large-caliber artillery and main fortresses of the Dagukou Fort had been destroyed.
After receiving the information, Liu Hai smiled and said to Liu Wei on the side: "Order our Iowa battleship to dispatch. There is no danger now. It's time for them to show off their skills."
"Yes, I will send the report now."
Following Liu Hai's order, it was sent from Nanchang to three Iowa-class battleships via radio waves.
As the commander of the battleship Huangdi, Liu Da naturally once again served as the commander of this bombardment mission.
Liu Da took the battleship Huangdi as the lead and the two battleships Qin Shihuang and Han Wudi as the flanks, and slowly approached Otani Pass.
At this time, the Dagukou Fort was already in chaos. They had never thought that there were such weapons in the world. The Dagukou Fort that the Qing Dynasty spent a lot of money to build and the heavy-caliber artillery purchased had not even been fired yet.
Almost everything was destroyed by the opponent.
While these people were anxious and panicking, billowing smoke appeared on the sea in the distance. Under the smoke were three huge ships.
At this time, Huang Wei, who was the commander-in-chief of Otaniguchi Fort, saw the three giant ships slowly approaching in the distance, and his hands and feet were already cold with fear.
Huang Wei was very clear about the performance of these three giant ships. When the Beiyang Navy was defeated and the entire Nanyang Navy was dispatched, it was only with this class of warships that the Japanese combined fleet was unable to fight back. Then in
The Battle of Jingdong and the continuous bombardment of Japan's Kyoto made the entire Japanese government and people panic.
The current four battleships of this class can be said to have become the heroes of the common people at the bottom of the Qing Dynasty. And now Huang Wei has to face three battleships of this class.
But although he was a hero before, he is now an enemy. Huang Wei gritted his teeth and said, "Pass on my orders. Every fort is ready to act according to my flag."
Following Huang Wei's order, the remaining gun positions of the fort were also prepared for a desperate battle.
At this time, the three Iowa-class battleships stopped advancing 5 kilometers away from the Dagukou Fort, and then began to turn and aim one side of their huge bodies at the Dagukou Fort. At the same time, each
The nine huge cannons on the battleship also began to adjust their angles.
Huang Wei could see clearly with a telescope in the distance and knew that the three giant ships were about to bombard Taniguchi next, so he gritted his teeth and struck first.
"You give me my order to raise the red flag, use the flag language to tell the gun position, and focus on attacking the giant ship at the front."
As Huang Wei's order was conveyed, the remaining gun positions of each fort began to change their angles, and first fired a salvo at the battleship Huangdi.
However, due to the long distance, only two or three of their dozens of shells hit the battleship Huangdi.
And these shells that hit the battleship Huangdi were all shells with a caliber of about 150 mm, which had no effect at all on the behemoth Huangdi.
As soon as these shells came into contact with the armor of the Huangdi battleship, they were bounced off, leaving only a patch of darkness on the Huangdi's armor.
In the distance, Huang Wei saw the first round of attacks. Although he hit a few shells, the giant ship on the opposite side remained motionless, and he felt very anxious.
"My orders are to continue the attack. Hit his superstructure, but don't hit his armor."
The fort below once again adjusted the angle of the muzzle, preparing to launch the second round of salvos, but before they could fire, the three Iowa battleships on the sea launched the bombardment first.
The three Iowa-class battleships fired 27 rounds of 406 mm caliber artillery shells in this salvo.
These salvos concentrated on attacking the "Wei"-shaped fort in the south fort. As these 27 heavy artillery rounds fell on the four sides of the "Wei"-shaped fort, the entire V-shaped fort was immediately shrouded in smoke and dust.
Huang Wei, who was behind the Dagukou fort, felt his heart go cold when he saw this situation. He knew the power of these giant cannons. With this round of salvo fire, it seemed that the "Wei" fort was about to
It's finished.
However, Huang Wei still held the hope of being safe and immediately sent scouts to the well-positioned fort to check the situation.
However, as time went by, there was no need for the scouts to go and check, because the smoke and dust slowly dissipated, and it was obvious from the sight glasses that the "Wei" fort had become a piece of rubble, without a single