Chapter 145: The Night of the Scuffle

Qin Liangyu was furious, where are the bandits who even dare to rob the official ship, the military flag of the Nanao Town Water Division is hung on the ship, and the military salary is heavy on the ship. This is the important land of Gyeonggi, on the edge of the Tianjin Acropolis, and it dares to attack and rob with open fire, and there are still Franco machine guns, and there are still Wang Fa, and there are still Tianli.

"Protect the marshal, turn the ship sideways," there was a chaotic shout outside, which reflected the maneuverability advantage of the propeller boat, and the four ironclad ships quickly maneuvered, surrounding Li Jing's boat, a pilot boat, and three baggage boats in the middle, and quickly opened the gun window and shooting hole. The searchlights on the top of the ship were also lit up one after another, and the snow-white pillars of light were swept in all directions. The lookout constantly reports the situation around the surroundings through a brass microphone system.

On the hill by the Haihe River, Ji Tinglan, the commander of Tianjin's right guard, looked at the searchlights that were strafing from all sides, and the flag of the Nanao Town Sailor that was clearly visible under the light, and was so angry that he scolded Li Sancai for being a bastard. He sent a house slave to attack a southern merchant fleet, disguised as a bandit, and he came to clean it up, but when he fought, he found that the other party was an officer and soldier, and those boats looked like ships transporting military salaries and baggage.

He brought more than 4,500 people with him. He changed into the clothes of the common people, and brought ten Francophone cannons, 300 Lu Mi guns, and 25 turtledove guns (the performance of the Cantonese fire guns surpassed Lu Mi guns), and the house slave said that the other party had 100,000 taels of silver and 30,000 loads of grain. Not only did he pay all for himself, but he paid 100,000 taels first, and after the deed was completed, he had 500,000 taels of silver. It turned out that the other party was an officer and soldier, and it was really a fucking dog.

"My lord, what should I do. On the opposite side are officers and soldiers, it seems that they are the sailors stationed at Yingkou, and it is estimated that they have come to the capital to receive food and salary, and now they have been pitted by Li Sancai, an old horseman," the commander Zhou Tong said angrily.

"It's already been fired, and it's not a fool on the other side, there are Furlong cannons and turtledoves, and we have turtledoves in this area, how to explain it. His grandmother's. Ji Tinglan also had a headache. I thought that Li Sancai wanted him to do private work, but if he didn't listen to Li Sancai on the canal in the past ten years, he would only end up, that is, he would disappear or encounter bandits. Otherwise, a lot of private work is done by Ji Tinglan, and Lao Ji dares to collect money, and he dares to take any job. However, this time I knew that it was an officer and soldier, and I didn't take this job if I killed him.

Li Jing's face was pale, and he knew from the Francophone cannon and the sound of gunfire that where were the bandits, and it was clearly the guards of the right guard of Tianjin. This is their defense area, and after this, it is almost to Tanggu and go to sea.

Climbing up the watchtower from the mast centipede ladder wrapped in an iron barrel, the iron cylinder and the outside of the watchtower also had three millimeters of armor, looking at the ships surrounded on all sides, and the musketeers on the hills on the opposite riverbank, he could see clearly in the telescope, those with tripods were clearly the sharpest arquebus turtledoves of the Ming Dynasty. Li Jing's face was very ugly. This kind of firearm was originally in the Chongzhen era before a large number of people entered the army service. I didn't expect there to be so many of these guards.

The turtledove was a popular heavy arquebus in Europe during this era. The turtledove is the Chinese version of the European Musket heavy arquebus. The Musket is powerful, with a range of up to 400 yards (360 meters), which can pierce plate armor at close range, and can still shoot through planks or light armor at a distance of 150 meters.

Originally, the advantage of the Ming army was in the artillery and the bird, but because the Houjin wore heavy armor, the bird's gun could not penetrate, so the original advantage was greatly weakened. In order to change this situation, the Ming army proposed that they should practice shooting the hands and faces of enemy soldiers, and at the same time create large bird guns that could penetrate the iron armor.

Xu Guangqi played the turtledove that was introduced to Macao. After the Portuguese arrived in Beijing, they practiced the use of firearms for the Ming court, which was affirmed by the emperor. Xu Guangqi then formulated a detailed reform plan, Xu believed that artillery could only be used to defend the city, field battles must use light artillery and large bird guns, the Ming army needed to establish 15 elite units specializing in the use of firearms, according to Xu's plan, each unit was equipped with 16 Western cannons, 80 medium artillery (lighter artillery), 100 eagle guns, and 1,200 bird guns.

The Eagle Gun (Hawkbill) brought by the Portuguese was the European-style heavy arquebus Musket. The Musket was a popular infantry weapon in Europe at that time, and was widely used by the armies of Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal and other countries.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Xiong Wencan, the governor of Liangguang, sent a hundred turtledoves into Beijing that were originally used to deal with Haikou and purchased, and the guns of these turtledoves weighed about 16 kilograms, four feet two inches long, five feet five inches long, and weighed 26~27 kilograms. The outer diameter of the mouth is more than one inch and three points, the diameter is more than six points (19 mm), the outer diameter of the bottom of the gun is more than 2 inches, and the medicine is one or two or three coins, and the lead is one or two five or six dollars (56 grams).

In addition to the turtledove that hit a single projectile, there were also turtledove guns that shot scattered bullets at that time. According to the "Jing Guo Xionglu", the turtledove hits four buckshots at a time, which is suitable for water warfare. In the "Lianzhou Mansion Chronicle", it is said that the turtledove is "four guns per mouth", and the book also says that the turtledove is divided into a pigeon and a large body. In the "Records of Soldiers", it is recorded that there is a kind of "big bird gun", the gun tube is four feet long, and a fork rod is installed on the gun bed. This kind of big bird gun hits lead bullets of one or two to one or two or six dollars, and the charge is two-thirds of the weight of the bullet. From the description, this large bird is a type of turtle dove.

Li Jing knew that these guards could be equipped with such sharp firearms, and they were definitely obtained from Guangdong after doing private work for Li Sancai and the Donglin Party for a long time. He knew that Daming's guard was rotten, but he didn't expect it to be rotten to this extent. These soldiers are not short of money and food because they eat this main artery, and they look like they are all elite soldiers, these people should be a force secretly ambushed by Donglin in Gyeonggi, and there is no other guard soldier like a beggar here.

There were only two battalions of more than 1,000 soldiers in Nanao Town, but the four boats anchored on all sides, opened the muzzles, and pushed out a three-pounder gun, and the Apocalypse rifle began to shoot outward, and the soldiers on the opposite side of the ship were holding iron shields. Able to block lead.

On the opposite hill, the turtledoves kept firing, and although the five ironclad ships were able to block the two taels of lead of the turtledoves, the four wooden boats were not, and they were constantly penetrated, and a large number of sailors were killed and overboard. These sailors were all hired by the Ministry of War and were responsible for transporting the supplies to Dagukou. Losing so much is still Li Jing's trouble.

Li Jing ordered, all of them fired, shoot freely, and they were all fucking bullied to the door, so that they knew that they knew that Ma Wangye had three eyes.

There was a series of booming sounds, and there was one three-pounder gun in the bow and stern of the ironclad ship, and three three-pounder guns on each side of the hull. Flames erupt in turn, the three-pounder cannon is loaded quickly, two rounds a minute, and the water-cooled casing is fine as long as there is water, this is the Haihe River, how can there be a shortage of water.

Ji Tinglan and Zhou Tong saw that there was still artillery on the opposite side, although it was not heavy artillery, but there was still no problem in hitting these oared wooden boats. And the rate of fire was so fast that he almost didn't want to go up and down, and his own soldiers were overturned in the river by shotguns one by one, and his heart was like dripping blood.

The right guard of Tianjin is full of 6,500 soldiers, and because of the black income, it is not bad for money. Ji Tinglan didn't eat a penny of empty salary, but actually raised 6,500 soldiers, and another 900 people, including 500 people in the first battalion of cavalry and 400 people in the first battalion of muskets, these families were equipped with 300 Lumi guns and 25 turtledoves. In the entire north of the Yangtze River, only he has such sharp firearms, and the imperial court is not equipped with them. has always been the capital of his own bragging, but he didn't expect it to become a fatal flaw this time.

Ji Tinglan's heart sank, looking at these southern soldiers less than a thousand people, today is to kill them to the death to eliminate them here, once the news leaks out, it will be a big crime to kill the head.