Section 185 captures Wu Chung

Thinking that his master often blew his nose and wiped it directly on the oil slip with his hand and continued to chop vegetables, Fu Ji felt that this was simply a matter of two shijie.

The poultry is divided into different parts according to the standards of the Ròu joint plant and refrigerated, and then processed into food supply units. This approach is first of all hygienic and, secondly, effective control of the amount and nutritional content of the food supplied to each soldier. Simply chopping and boiling 10 jī ducks with bones is difficult to measure at the time of distribution, and it is impossible for every soldier to receive consistent quality food, and the difficulty of monitoring the quality can exacerbate fraud. The soldier who distributes food can give two jītuǐ to someone and only two jī paws to others, depending on their relationships and likes and dislikes.

After taking the split supply, things are exactly the same, except for a slight difference in the big xiǎo. One person is a jītuǐ -- the number of jītuǐ is supplied according to the number of heads, and if there is a shortage, it is necessary to compensate the quartermaster and the cooks -- this is unequivocal, and this is the "quantitative management" that Wen Desi has always advocated.

Splitting the supply maximizes utilization, and nothing is paid for a single poultry that is sent to the processing center. In addition to ròu and edible offal and blood, the parts that are not suitable for consumption are dried and ground into feed and féi. Even the feather máo does not làng the fee, and all of it is packed and shipped back to Lingao, where it is sterilized, and the down is stored for future down jackets, and the poor quality is processed into feather máo powder for feed - Xun Suji is also working with several chemistry experts to see if it can be used to make soy sauce.

Fu Ji soon became a journeyman. When he sent boxes of decomposed haode parts to be sent to the cold storage freezer cart, he couldn't help but smash his mouth - when will it be his turn to eat these good things?

Eating at the cooking processing center is much better than in the camp. The three meals were brown rice, and the big pot of jī soup and duck soup boiled cabbage - it was boiled with clean jī shells and duck shells, and the taste was not bad. After dinner, the jī shells, which have no edible value, are recycled and ground into bone meal, which is said to be used in the féi field.

"Australian gentlemen are probably from poor families." Fu Ji thought so. I can't help but feel a little intimate with these people.

The sailors who withdrew to Tiger Mén rested for a few days, and the big whale also sailed on the river several times, and when the river began to feel a chill, Chen Haiyang finally received an order from Lingao:

"The negotiation contact was fruitless, and the ship immediately anchored in Baietan."

"Now we're going to shell Canton -- it seems that we've come to this point." Chen Haiyang sent the telegram to the confidential NV secretary beside him, "Immediately convene a meeting of the detachment leader and all the elders"

The day of the fleet's departure was chosen on November 1. It was a sunny day, but the autumn mood on the Pearl River during the Xiǎo Ice Age was already very obvious, and the soldiers changed out of tropical military uniforms and changed into long-sleeved sailor uniforms with thicker chūn autumn styles. The five squadrons of spy boats and artillery boats attacking Wu Chung sailed away on a sampan, long dragon and other xiǎo boats.

The whale hobbled along the fleet, and its dazzling objects and constant spitting black smoke stood out in the fleet. People on both sides of the strait are saying that this is the "monster" of Australians.

They have now initially established a "prestige" in the Pearl River Delta region, and the people know that the Australians are strictly disciplined, never disturb the people, and as long as they obey the orders of the Australians, their lives and property will not be threatened. Maybe you can change your fate and hún more haode days. The fleet was heading upstream, and there was a group of good shipowners who followed the fleet in all sorts of big ships, loaded with all kinds of Australian foods and fruits that might be of interest, ready to be sold to the fleet at any time. Many rich children who have nothing to do on weekdays know that Australians are not good men who kill the rich and help the poor, so they are relieved and bold to hire a boat to follow behind and watch the rare diorama - the scene of the Australians shelling the tiger mén has spread in this area, and many people want to see the rare scene of beating * with their own eyes. As you can guess, the Australians are heading to Wuyong, which has recently been crowded with officers and soldiers, repaired forts, and brought in a lot of Hongyi cannons.

"It's going to have to be a big fight." The idlers who hired the ship to eat and drink, and followed the fleet with the NV people in their arms, talked like this. Very enthusiastic anticipation to see a vigorous and spectacular artillery battle.

Xu Tingfa, who was stationed in Wuchong, heard the arrival of the soldiers, and a lot of black smoke appeared on the river. He quickly changed into armor and led his soldiers to the lookout. I saw that on the river in the distance, dozens of black smoke billowed into the sky, and there were more than 20 big ships and countless xiǎo boats on the river, densely along the Pearl River to Wuyong. This appearance reminded him of the scene when he was in Tiger Mén.

The defenses of this place in Wuchong have been greatly strengthened in the more than a month after the Battle of Tiger Mén. Officers and men densely arranged 10 hastily constructed earthen and stone structures or sandbag artillery forts, and installed 84 Hongyi cannons and 160 Dafolang machine guns -- almost all the Hongyi cannons in Guangdong were collected, and even the cannons that were originally intended to be transferred to Fujian, Shandong, and Beijing were misappropriated.

Li Fengjie sent 3,000 troops here, of which 2,000 were Shui Yong. , there are so many people that they can't even stand on the battlefield. There were also 24 ships of the Navy, half of which were improvised salt and rice boats.

However, Xu Tingfa, who was in charge of the defense, did not think that he could hold Wuchong at all, unless the wooden stakes and chains driven at the mouth of the river could stop the thieves' ships.

In order to cheer up the generals who were said to have been frightened, or to supervise them not to escape, Li Fengjie originally planned to send the Guangzhou soldiers to Wuchong to supervise the battle. However, the city of Nantou in Dongguan, where he was stationed, had been blockaded by thieves, and the messengers could not reach it. Li Fengjie had no choice but to resend Zuo Bu's political envoy Chen Yingyuan to Wuyong.

After Chen Yingyuan arrived in Wuyong, he summoned Xu Tingfa, and after talking, he felt that this person was passive and avoided the war, and he was simply a "surrender faction", so he simply kicked him away and personally arranged Wuyong's preparations.

Wuchong is the outer mouth of Huangpu Port, named after the Wuyong River in Huangpu. At the confluence of the Wuyong River and the Pearl River, there is an island of xiǎo called Ma Chung Wai. The main defensive position of the Wuchong Fort was located on this Xiǎo Island.

Chen Yingyuan personally supervised the two counties of Nanhai and Panyu, recruited a large number of people, and built a civil structure fortification in the south of Machong Wai. There are 44 cannon holes on the thick and high ramparts, and 44 Hongyi cannons are erected.

In addition to laying three rows of wooden piles to block the river surface on the channel, there is another iron chain across the river, the iron chain is anchored with wooden rows, and there is a sand boat with special mén nails on the iron chain, and there is a 10mén large Franc cannon. In addition to stabilizing the iron chain and preventing it from being swept away by the river, the purpose of this ship was also to prevent the enemy from directly sending fire ships to burn the iron chain -- all the tactics that Chen Yingyuan had seen in the book to break the iron chain on the Hengjiang River were burned with fire. So he deliberately responded.

Because he heard that the artillery fire of the thieves was very powerful, and the distance was far away, he ordered all the newly built artillery positions to be pushed forward, and some of them were simply built on the tidal flats, and he learned from the generals and soldiers that the thieves would often use the xiǎo boat to land and send troops to attack the * platform from the flank and rear, so that the cannon would be ineffective. Therefore, there were extensive arrangements of bamboo sticks, thistles, and horses on the periphery of each fort, and a hundred soldiers were added to each of them, ready to fight the landing thieves at any time. In order to prevent the soldiers from being killed by the superior artillery fire of the bandits, he ordered to dig a trench on the river bank for the soldiers to use to avoid the artillery fire, and wait for the thieves to land, and then jump up to meet the white blades.

I don't know why, Chen Yingyuan is full of inexplicable confidence in the white-bladed and hand-to-hand combat effectiveness of officers and soldiers -- since the firearms of the thieves are powerful, hand-to-hand combat must be very commonplace. As soon as I see the officers and soldiers coming out, they will be defeated in a white-knuckle battle. Therefore, his idea of employing troops was to ensure that the soldiers would survive under the superior artillery fire of the thieves -- at least until the thieves rushed to the edge of the trench.

Xu Tingfa was very respectful to Chen Yingyuan, and he simply obeyed his words. Chen Yingyuan did what he wanted him to do. When he was consulted, he was always dealt with with words such as "only adults are the first to look forward", "adults are wise", "the last general does not read much, and his strategy is even more shallow".

Originally, he was a Xiǎoxiǎo coastal defense general, and his status could not be compared with Guangdong Zuo Buzheng. Trying to hold your own opinion is just self-deprecating. However, he was extremely unimpressed with Lord Chen's various arrangements. In his opinion, unless a thick fortress was built with "solid stones", such a cannon fortress that was nothing more than a wall facing the river would have no effect at all. Needless to say, the shells from the thieves' cannons are indestructible, and the large 10,000 enemies thrown by the thieves' "lightning strike boats" can blow up the gunners as soon as they fall to the wall.

As for the practice of pushing forward the fort, it is even more absurd. Could it be that if you push forward, can't the other party retreat? In addition, the fort was pushed forward, and the cháo water rushed to erode the fort, and after a long time, I am afraid that the thieves did not come to open fire, and the fort itself was washed out first.

He was watching the enemy's situation, and suddenly saw that Chen Yingyuan had personally led his own soldiers and generals to go up to Mayong Wai through the pontoon bridge erected on the Wuyong River. It seems that he is ready to go to the front line to supervise the battle. Xu Tingfa didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly got off the watchtower and went to the island with his own soldiers.

Chen Yingyuan was wearing a three-grade official uniform, wearing a black veil, a cloak, and a sword hanging from his waist, and climbed to the highest point of the Machongwei Fort surrounded by a group of personal soldiers, which was very majestic.

"This is the mén household of Guangzhou, the lock and key of Yangcheng, the soldiers must work together today to destroy this ugly species," Chen Yingyuan shouted loudly in a high-pitched voice.

Xu Tingfa hurriedly rushed forward and asked him to go to the north bank to supervise the battle.

"Where's the general?" Chen Yingyuan looked generous, "That is, coming here to supervise the war on the order of Lord Fujun is related to the safety of the provincial capital, how dare students dare to be greedy for life and afraid of death?" ”

Xu Tingfa secretly complained -- if this Zuo Buzheng really died here in a moment of confusion, his responsibility would be great. At the moment, one of his cronies took care of him, went to contact Chen Yingyuan's personal general, and as long as there was a slight danger, he hurriedly hugged him across the bridge and ran away. To this end, he let his own soldiers control the pontoon bridge over the Wuyong River.

On November 1, 1630, Li Guangfa's 13th Squadron escorted the survey ship "Haitian" as the vanguard, and the task force arrived at the Wuyong Fort, 30 kilometers from the city of Guangzhou.

Escorted by a spy boat, the Haitian first approached Wuchong to measure the depth of the water. When the ship sailed into the cannon of the Wuchong Fort, Chen Yingyuan immediately ordered the cannon to be fired. Suddenly, a cloud of gunpowder rose from the entire Machongwei Island, and all the gun positions on the fort, regardless of direction or shè cheng, all opened fire. All kinds of shells pulled smoke trails of different heights and distances towards the Haitian shè, most of them landed far away from the ship, and only a few shells approached the side of the ship.

The Haitian immediately turned around and left the shè cheng. It has obtained sufficient information on the depth of the water, and at the same time has a rough indication of the range and power of the island's artillery.

A few minutes later, the information was communicated to each squadron via flags. Chen Haiyang ordered the 13th Squadron to take the lead and approach Ma Chung Wai Island to start shelling.

The four cannon squadrons, following the old method, approached the battery in a column formation, approached to a distance of five hundred meters under heavy artillery fire from the battery, and then turned the rudder.

Although the maximum distance of the Hongyi cannon of the officers and soldiers could reach 1,000 steps, because this time the fort was not arranged on the pier platform of lùtian, but behind a thick civil and engineering wall, the opening of the wall was very open, and there was no room for adjustment of the left and right upper and lower angles, so the shells could only be fired according to the fixed angle of fire. Although the continuous fire was spectacular, the shells rarely flew close to the secret service boats.

The 13th Squadron completed the rudder rotation under artillery fire, firing shè spherical shells and incendiary bombs at a distance of 500 meters. The squadrons behind also turned the rudder one after another to follow up the bombardment.

A round of artillery bombardment by four squadrons smashed the entire battery on Ma Chung Wai Island. In some places, the walls have collapsed. Most of the artillery has been completely silent. No matter what the officers shouted, the interceptors had already begun to flee. As for the water warriors who were transferred to the island to defend the fort, they fled faster - compared to the officers and soldiers, these temporary workers had a weaker will to fight, and as soon as the cannon sounded, they began to run away one after another.

The Fu Bō Army still used the old tactic, and after the battleships equipped with cannons eliminated the threat of enemy artillery counterattacks, the artillery boat squadron threw shè large-caliber grenades at close range: the artillery boats approached 400 meters from the shore and bombarded the island with 280mm mortars. The violent explosion engulfed the fort like cháo water, and after a few rounds of artillery, most of the Wuchong fort had been destroyed and the shore was empty. Sampans and xiǎo hairboats, carrying naval soldiers, began their landing on the beachhead south of xiǎo island.

The officers and soldiers who had been ambushed in the trenches in advance and Shui Yong did not suffer many casualties in the shelling, and suddenly jumped up at this time and rushed over with a shout to the sailors, but Chen Yingyuan believed that the white-knuckle combat in which the Ming officers and soldiers were better than the thieves was unfounded - the victors of the white-knuckle battles always belonged to the well-disciplined and well-organized and well-trained troops, and in just five minutes, about 50 people fell under the bayonets of the sailors, and only 2 sailors were killed by bows and spears because they were caught off guard.

Now that the southern shore of the Ma Chung Wai Fort had been lost, the few remaining mén cannons on the fort had completely failed. Only a few soldiers continued to resist by relying on the trenches.

While launching a frontal attack, another company advanced on the north bank of the Pearl River on a sampan and xiǎo, and because it was able to cover the flank and rear of the Wuchong Fort, Chen Yingyuan had assaulted and arranged three sandbag forts and hundreds of water warriors a few days earlier.

The spy boats followed the landing force, ready to "wash the floor" of the officers and men's batteries with artillery fire at any time, and the typewriters on the Xiǎo hair boats were also ready to fire at any time. At this time, a southeast wind suddenly blew on the river, and the water level rose sharply, and the three artillery forts were flooded in an instant because they were too close to the shore. The fire accumulated on the gun barrier was all soaked through. Shui Yong and the gunner lost a little courage and broke up without firing a single shot.

Xu Tingfa saw that the fort on the north shore was missing, and knew that if he didn't escape, he would be caught in front and back, and he would be blocked on the island and wait for death. Immediately shouted: "Send the adults away quickly"

Chen Yingyuan's personal soldiers rushed up, and helped him onto the horse without saying anything, and Xu Tingfa immediately took the personal soldiers to open the way. Fleeing in the Luàn army, he was the first to run across the pontoon bridge and get out of danger.

The cover behind the defensive fort has been breached, and the open back of the Wuchong fort can only be relied on with bamboo sticks, thistles, and horses. The marines pulled 2mén 12-pound mountain grenades from the sampan and bombarded them from behind the Wuchong battery, and the few men and horses still holding out on to the island completely broke up.

The landing sailors poured onto the island like cháo water, and the hundreds of officers and men on the island had already broken up, suffering heavy casualties from artillery fire, rifles and bayonets. Some of the soldiers and Shui bravely fought and retreated, retreating to the Wuyong River. The Wuyong River is about 10 meters wide, and there was originally a pontoon bridge connecting Xiǎo Island to the north bank of the Pearl River. After Xu Tingfa rushed across the bridge with Chen Yingyuan, the hundreds of soldiers who were originally guarding the bridge dispersed in a hurry. The sailors who had previously landed on the north shore quickly seized the bridgehead and fired a dense barrage of bullets at the officers and men and Shui Yong who were trying to seize the way. On the bridge deck, people suddenly turned on their backs, and the dead bodies leaned on each other.

In the face of the enemy who was blocking the front and chasing after the enemy, the officers and men had no way to retreat, and finally they were completely annihilated in the two-way attack. 216 were killed and 200 were captured.

After the fall of Ma Chung Wai Island, the defense system of the entire Wu Chung Fort completely collapsed. The officers and men who were guarding the various roads, batteries and warships did not wait for the attack to collapse and flee. As if peacefully accepted, the seamen occupied the batteries and barracks in turn. A detachment of xiǎo boarded the already empty sand boats tied to the chains and dismantled the chains that traversed the Pearl River. The huge chain was apparently a valuable trophy - enough to recover tons of iron.