Chapter 312: The Endless Nanban, the Endless Cannon
The wolf smoke had already risen in Ninghai City, and Zhuo Butai believed that Mandahai in Guancheng would soon receive the alarm.
Now the most important thing for him is to face the Zheng Jun's fleet at sea, holding a telescope to look at the sea, three double-decked Western-style sailing ships broke away from the Zheng Jun's naval division's ship group, and came towards Ninghai.
"The inexhaustible Nanban!" Zhuo Butai spat hard. A few days after the Ming army's Northern Expedition was overturned, the Zheng family actually killed Shanhaiguan again, which was really unexpected. But he firmly believed that the Qing Dynasty would not be defeated.
"The warriors of the Great Qing Dynasty are listening, protect my city, protect my Great Qing, reduce the Zheng thief, reduce the Zheng thief!!"
Zhuo Butai's roar made the real Tartars in the city boil one by one, and then they all shouted and roared. Da Qingguo easily beat Da Ming, and forced Li Zicheng into a Jedi, and he saw that he would unify the northern part of the Central Plains and achieve great achievements. Zheng Zhilong jumped out to stir up trouble, and he had long known that the beautiful Eight Banners soldiers in the Central Plains Flower World would hate Zheng Zhilong to death.
"Fire!"
The saber at his waist was held in his hand, and when the three huge Western-style sailing ships entered the range of the Kamui general's cannon with ease, Zhuo Butai swung his sword and slashed forward.
Into the sea stone city, four Shenwei general cannons erupted thinly.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
With a roaring cannon sound, four twelve-pound imitation Hongyi cannon cannons erupted one after another, and puffs of pale green smoke mixed with flying dust drifted around.
The three Western-style sailing boats did not return fire, but continued to approach Ninghai City in a zigzag route.
In the smoke of gunpowder, the flames kept spitting, and the sound of the cannons sounded like a mighty symphony.
Iron balls fell one after another, splashing small splashes on the surface of the sea. Hugh said that it was twelve pounds, how big could a twelve-pound iron ball be? Although they carry great power, they can fall into the sea as an inconspicuous pebble.
With the approach of the three sail warships, the shells sprayed by the guns on the stone city gradually increased, and some of the furlong cannons that were pulled up to make up the number also opened fire.
However, the latter's position in the Chinese war has long been replaced by the Hongyi cannon, which is said to be a cannon, but it is not classified into the artillery group by the Black Ice Platform at all. The types of artillery shells of the Qing army also shifted from single iron shells to arson shells. One of the sailboats that bore the brunt of the attack was shattered by two shells, which swept diagonally above and fell into the sea two or three hundred meters behind, adding only a few not-so-large holes to the sails on them.
The three sail warships never fired back, and the distance was still one or two miles away, and the accuracy was too poor to return fire at this time. They can be at sea!
If you want to completely suppress Ninghai City, the best way is to approach the distance of two or three hundred meters below the city, and then give the Tartars a wave of saturation blows.
The Stone City into the sea was the top priority of Ninghai City's defense, because the Tartars were well aware of the strength of Zheng Jun's strength on the sea. Even if most of the artillery in Shanhaiguan has been transferred, there are still four Hongyi cannons here.
But that number is really too small.
After the three sail warships rushed to the sea 200 meters outside the city with cannonballs, the sail warships that stood sideways leaked their firepower in the eyes of the Manchu turtles for the first time.
The muzzles of the cannons were opened, and the cannons pushed out of one door were so 'dense' in Zhuo Butai's eyes, and the swarthy muzzles of the guns all pointed to the stone city into the sea.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Like the rolling thunder in the middle of summer, one cannon after another fired, and the white smoke engulfed the entire battleship. And dozens of cannonballs were poured on the head of the Stone City of the Sea one after another, and immediately set off a bloody storm in the small Stone City of the Sea Stone.
Blood splashed Zhuo Butai's face, he wiped the blood away fiercely, and continued to roar at the sea with his waist knife: "Open the cannon, open the cannon!" "Blind to the severed arm that was still pulling out at his feet.
He is not the first brother who has just entered the battle formation, the machete in his hand harvests not a hundred but eighty lives, and he has seen a lot of dead heads with severed limbs and arms, so he will not feel disgusted.
The upper and lower decks of the sail were covered with choking smoke, and the soldiers inside coughed once or twice from time to time, and although some of them had covered their mouths and noses with wet towels, tears flowed uncontrollably before the smoke was blown away by the sea breeze.
The smoke of gunpowder was smoky, but none of the soldiers dodged at all, and no one wanted to slow down what they were doing.
Quickly clear the chamber, reload the gun, reset the gun, and even adjust the height and muzzle angle before firing!
Seize every minute and every second, and use the fastest speed to completely clean up the artillery on the stone city entering the sea, this is what they have to do now.
The Qing army on the stone city into the sea was also defending the interests of the Manchu Qing with their own efforts. It's just that their artillery skills are really enough, and the number of their artillery is even more anxious!
There are three Western sail warships, and the number of guns on board is already more than 120, and under the qualitative gap between the two cannons, even if one is in the undulating sea, and the other is in the stable stone city, the Qing army has worked hard and hard, and in the past two quarters of an hour, it only hit a dozen or so shells on the opposite side, and they are scattered on the three Western-style warships!
This double-decked Western-style warship was not a thin sand ship, and a few shells were harmless to them. The luckiest one, until all the artillery on the stone city was extinguished, he didn't even have a single seriously wounded, and the only two wounded were still hit by the jumping wood chips.
Easily managed to enter the sea stone city, two large centipede ships went straight to the abandoned port on the southern coast of Ninghai City, and the Qing army's defenders there fled into Ninghai City in a battle. The Zheng army landed from there.
Zhuo Butai was very fortunate not to hang up, only to be cut through the oil skin by broken stones, but as Zheng's army drove to land in large numbers, new threats followed.
Zheng Hongkui is not in a hurry, Shanhaiguan and Yanjing City are separated by five hundred miles, even if Tartar sends troops and horses to help after hearing the news, the time in the middle is enough for him to take Shanhaiguan.
The landing of the army in the south of Ninghai City was one of them, and the landing in the north of Shanhaiguan was the second, which was to cut off the route of the Tartar defeated army to flee north. If he could, he would cut off the Tartars' escape route into the mountains to the west, and annihilate as many of the Tartar garrisons as possible.
"Push the cannons and shield carts ashore." Zheng Hongkui has a kind of pride and ambition in his heart that swallows thousands of miles like a tiger. Zheng Zhilong taught him such a large amount of capital, if he couldn't show the majesty of Zheng Jun, trample and trample on the tartars, and make the world open their eyes, it would really be rotten wood that could not be carved.
Zheng Jun's shield car was arranged and made by Zheng Zhilong. It's somewhat of an improved version of the Tartar Shield, it's faster, but it's also much lighter, and it's generally a variant that sacrifices defense at the expense of movement speed.
It is not made of pure logs, but is made of light and hard red pine wood, covered with cotton armor hammered with a hammer, and covered with raw cowhide to prevent fire.
The resulting board was only three fingers thick, but it could withstand the bombardment of the turtledove's foot at a distance of fifty paces.
But it can only be used to resist the turtledove's foot gun, the larger caliber Franc cannon or small cannon, and even the scattered bullets sprayed by the Hongyi cannon, it still can't resist. It is necessary to use the improved products after reinforcement and aggravation, otherwise it will be hit by artillery, and it will still be the end of the car crash and death.
But Zheng Zhilong was only ready to rely on it to resist the musket!
There are three types of Zheng's shield cars, large, medium and small, the large one is four-wheeled, the medium-sized one is two-wheeled, and the small one is unicycle-shaped.
And even the heaviest large shield carts, on dirt roads, four or five people can push the cart with a grunt, let alone medium and small shield carts.
In the first battle of Shanhaiguan, Zheng Jun used a shield car. Under the cover of shield carts, a mortar was sent under the city walls.
Zhuo Butai was dumbfounded.
The cannon in his hand was first wiped out by the Zheng army, and the next defenders were completely powerless to threaten the Zheng army outside.
The morale of the Qing army in Ninghai City was already extremely low, including the real Tartars, Zhuo Butai took out real money to save it, and they were all powerless. None of them are stupid, how can they not know that the advantages on this battlefield are already in the hands of Zheng Jun?
Real money is very important, but it is not as important as one's own life, in the face of Zheng Jun's cannons, the gods can't make them instantly regain their strength as if they were beaten with chicken blood.
Now not to mention that the Green Banner soldiers in Ninghai City have no morale, even those Eight Banner soldiers have been put into a bowl of blood, and even if Zhuo Butai is encouraged to do so, it will not be useful.
The disparity between the two sides is too great, not to mention the warships and warships of the Zheng army on the sea, just the dozens of artillery pieces placed on this shore can really annihilate Ninghai City. Not to mention that Zheng Jun's artillery is still being transported to the shore in a steady stream, how much the final number will be, Zhuo Butai can't say, horizontal and vertical is a very mysterious number in the eyes of the Tartars.
In the face of such an enemy, as long as he is a human, he can't raise much fighting spirit. Not to mention that they were first cut by the warships at sea.
You can't do anything, it's a waste of military power, it's better to retract your fists and think about the future!
But Mandahai's military order has not yet arrived, how can Zhuo Butai withdraw his troops?
"Fire, fire. The general has an order to enter Ninghai City for lunch! ”
Zheng Hongkui gave a somewhat unserious order to the people below, but no matter how unserious the order is, it is based on the majestic strength of Zheng Jun, which is enough for the Tartars in the city to cry and cry for their mothers.
"Two shots first. Let your men fire a few shots and see if they can hit the gatehouse! Chen Hui inspected the artillery position, his eyes were also looking at the Qing army opposite, and his face was full of relaxed smiles.
They have 30,000 people fighting 5,000 Tartars, and they still have an absolute advantage in artillery fire, which really makes people want to be serious.
"Liu Guoxuan, tell your gunners to be in place!" An officer gave the order, and after a while, the gunners of this platoon were busy. Soon, the roaring sound of cannon rang out in my ears.
The cannon made a deafening rumbling sound, and an iron bullet pierced the sky, emitting a roar, and landed at the south gate of Ninghai City, only barely hitting the city gate tower. Liu Guoxuan didn't show a different color on his face, but he secretly screamed pity in his heart.
Not being able to show his face in front of Chen Hui was a pity for him.
As a native of Fujian Xiting Prefecture, Liu Guoxuan's family suffered a disaster, so he went to Quanzhou to join Zheng Jun, who had a good salary. It took him two years to climb from a small soldier to the current artillery platoon commander.
He didn't want to spend another two years climbing from platoon commander to squad officer.
Being able to show his face in front of a general like Zheng Jun like Chen Hui is a great thing that has not been encountered in a century. It's a pity I didn't catch it.
There were five cannons in a platoon, and the first shot missed, and the second cannon was in the middle of the city gatehouse......
Cleaning up the pity in his heart, Liu Guoxuan threw himself into the next bombardment.
It's a pity, it's a pity. Next, there are a lot of opportunities in the Zheng army, and it depends on whether he can seize it.