Huang Wei gasped when he saw this mood. He had never seen such fierce artillery fire.
Several soldiers who joined the army beside Huang Wei were trembling a little when they saw this situation. Although they had heard about the dangers of Liu Haijun, they did not expect that it would reach this point.
At this moment, the three Iowa-class battleships on the sea once again moved slowly and aimed their muzzles at another fort.
As the Iowa-class battleship fired another salvo, the "Zhen" fort of the Dagukou Fort was also shrouded in gunfire.
In this way, the three Iowa-class battleships led by Commander-in-Chief Liu conducted continuous roll calls at the remaining forts of the fort.
In just one hour, the fort that the Manchus and Qing dynasties had spent decades carefully constructing was completely destroyed and turned into ruins.
At this time, Huang Wei, who was behind the Dagukou fort, saw in his telescope that all the forts had been destroyed by the enemy. He looked up to the sky and sighed, "Although I want to kill the enemy, I am not strong enough, so I will die today."
After Huang Wei finished speaking, he ordered his counselors to start collecting broken troops everywhere, and then set an ambush on the only road from Dagukou Fort to Tianjin City, hoping to land the troops from Liu Hai for a decisive battle.
At this time, Liu Hai saw on the destroyer Nanchang that the fort had been destroyed, and nodded with satisfaction.
But he seemed to have thought of something else. His next step was to conduct a beach landing. If the enemy had an ambush in the rear and suddenly appeared, the losses to his troops would be considerable.
"Send a telegram to Liu Da and order him to bombard the vicinity of the Dagukou Fort and the landing point we selected."
After receiving the order, Liu Da once again moved the battleship forward so that the battleship was only about 3 kilometers away from the coast.
At this point, their naval guns once again adjusted their direction and began to bombard all possible ambush areas near Dagukou.
At this time, the people led by Huang Wei were ambushing the Dagukou Fort on the only way to Tianjin.
He thought well. Once the enemy came, he led these hundreds of people to suddenly appear. Even if he could not stop Liu Hai, Liu Hai's army would lose thousands of people.
As a result, as soon as he set up his ambush, there was a roaring sound in the sky again.
Huang Wei had received formal military training and was very sensitive to the sound of artillery. As soon as he heard the sound, he knew it was a large-caliber cannon.
Faced with this situation, Huang Wei shouted loudly: "Stay down and don't move. Don't run around."
You know, there is a saying in the army that recruits are afraid of guns and veterans are afraid of guns.
There is a reason for this, because when firing artillery, the artillery is generally far away from the target. Generally, the range of the artillery shells ranges from a few seconds to more than ten seconds. Veterans are rich in experience and can judge the artillery shells from the rhythm changes of the sound of the artillery shells.
Whether it will hit you or not, and whether you need to avoid it.
Especially when the density of artillery is not very high, the probability of a shell from behind hitting the crater of a shell in front is very low, so veterans will calmly use the crater to avoid the next shell.
The new recruits were inexperienced, so they naturally felt frightened when they saw that the cannonballs had no eyes and could fall everywhere, exploding into large areas.
Therefore, Huang Wei now asked his generals and soldiers not to run around to avoid causing greater casualties.
But this time his experience had no effect, because they were facing a 406 mm caliber cannon. This shot came down nearly 100 meters in radius, and there was almost no possibility of survival.
Therefore, no matter how well they hid in their positions, they could not face the shock wave caused by the 406 mm caliber artillery shells.
Fortunately, Liu Da was shooting on the sea surface and could not see this side at all. He only fired blindly, so only two shells landed at their ambush location.
But this was enough for them to endure. As the two shells exploded on the ground, two small mushroom clouds were formed, and then the shock wave began to spread around with sand, gravel and fragments of the shells.
The Qing army within the explosion range of these two shells only felt a burst of earth shaking, followed by a burst of illegal hand-holding, and then an invisible shock wave rushed in.
Some soldiers who were close to the center of the explosion were immediately blown to pieces, while many soldiers who were far away from the center of the explosion appeared to have no casualties, but in fact their internal organs had been shattered.
With just two rounds of artillery shells, Huang Wei's ambush caused huge casualties to the army, and the remaining people now have no fighting spirit and are all lying there trembling.
When Huang Wei saw this situation, he knew that the situation was over. If he tried to force an ambush here again, he was afraid that the soldiers would mutiny.
So Huang Wei had no choice but to retreat quietly with those who were still alive.
At this time, the shelling on the sea was still going on. Liu Da was not stingy with the shells this time. He fired a burst of bombardment near the fort and the selected landing point, blasting all the suspicious locations.
In the end, when almost all the artillery shells under Liu Da's hands were shot down, Liu Da ended the bombardment and slowly returned to the main fleet.
After Liu Hai knew that the bombardment had been completed, he ordered the Iowa-class battleship to immediately replenish the shells, and the other warships moved forward slowly.
Following Liu Hai's order, the entire Nanyang Navy began to move forward, slowly approaching the Tianjin coast.
At this time, more than a dozen landing ships followed the main fleet.
These are modern special-purpose ships, the "Yulian" class (Type 079) medium-sized landing ship, with a displacement of more than 1,000 tons and a load capacity of 200 tons. The weapons are four Type 61 25mm double-barreled cannons.
This landing ship was designed and produced in the 1970s, and a total of 31 ships were produced. However, due to the passage of time, they could no longer keep up with the trend of the times, so they were slowly retired.
It happened that Liu Hai needed it, so now he didn’t even have any money, so he had to give it all to Liu Hai directly.
This time Liu Hai came to Tianjin and led a total of 15 ships.
Now this physical landing ship appeared at the forefront of the entire fleet. Each of them carried an artillery piece, 200 soldiers, and their combat supplies.
At this time, the Qing troops on the shore also discovered that Liu Hai's side wanted to land, but they had already suffered heavy losses due to the shelling, and some troops could not even find their heads.
Therefore, Liu Hai's login was very smooth. The Type 079 landing ship quickly reached the shore, and then the front baffle was lowered, and hundreds of soldiers rushed out from it.
At this time, the small artillery on the Type 079 landing ship also started firing to provide fire cover for these soldiers.
At this time, the Qing soldiers were already in a mess. Some wanted to move forward desperately to block the enemy's landing, while others were so frightened that they ran away with their heads in their hands.
As a result, Liu Hai's first wave of landings only had more than 3,000 people, but they quickly occupied a large area of landing sites, and the Qing troops were either killed or fled.
Liu Hai saw this situation in the telescope behind him, nodded with satisfaction, and said to Liu Wei who was standing next to him: "The landing went very smoothly. Now order the troops to start disembarking in large numbers."
"Yes, Marshal, I'll give you the orders right away."
Liu Wei quickly got out of the cabin and issued orders through communications to other transport ships, asking them to quickly approach the coast, then lower the lifeboats and let the soldiers on board start landing.
Although the transport ships Liu Hai bought this time were not professional ships, Liu Hai was more thoughtful and equipped these transport ships with several times the number of lifeboats.
Therefore, each transport ship can now transport hundreds of soldiers to the shore at a time.
In this way, the transport ship slowly moved forward, and when it reached a certain distance and could no longer move forward, it lowered the lifeboats one by one.
Then the sea became lively. Nearly a hundred transport ships each lowered their lifeboats. Then countless soldiers got off the lifeboats along the fence, and then rowed desperately to the land.
Liu Hai stood on the Nanchang and looked at the lively scene in front of him with his telescope, with a smile on his face. As long as the army landed before this wave of attacks, there would be no problem with the subsequent attack on Tianjin.
At this moment, the Iowa-class battleship, which was replenishing artillery shells in the rear, rejoined the formation.
Liu Hai felt that he could not let the Iowa-class battleships sit idle like this, so he ordered him to lead two Sovereign-class battleships on a patrol.
Liu Hai's order was also to prevent the Qing army from suddenly launching a counterattack.
Because now is the time when they are at their weakest. Since the frontline positions have not been fully established, Fang’s landing troops are continuously coming ashore. If the Qing army organizes 10,000 to 20,000 people to suddenly launch a counterattack at this time, it may cause huge harm to itself.
of losses.
But Liu Hai really had a high regard for these veteran soldiers of the Qing army. With the fall of the Dagukou fort and the loss of frontline positions.
Now the Qing army wished that his parents would give him two more legs so that they could evacuate to Tianjin as soon as possible.
At this time, Zhang Peilun was organizing city defense in Tianjin City. He had mobilized all the wealthy households in Tianjin City and requisitioned all their private soldiers.
You must know that Tianjin City is a wealthy place. Zhang Peilun's desperate search actually allowed him to organize another 10,000 or 20,000 people in Tianjin City.
These people, coupled with the original Huai army that had already trained and patrolled the camp, brought the number of defenders in Tianjin to more than 50,000 at this time.
What's more important is that because these people have the support of the great powers, everyone has a fast gun in their hands.
If we didn't look at their combat effectiveness and just looked at their equipment and clothing, people would think that they were the most elite army to fight the Qing Dynasty.
But as soon as I walked in and took a look, the secret was immediately exposed. Although these people were holding guns, they were all a little at a loss.
There were even one or two timid ones who started to tremble all over.
But Zhang Peilun couldn't care less about that now, as long as he was able to shoot, all the young men were driven to the tower by him.
Now Zhang Peilun's idea is to speak for Li Hongzhang about Tianjin's foundation.