Chapter 864: Besieging Fuzhou

Standing on the tall shipbuilding, looking at the curved coastline, Wu Ping's mood was agitated, and finally, after seven or eight days of sea journey, the fleet sailed to the Liaodong Peninsula.

However, the islands passed along the way were basically deserted and uninhabited, and the fleet reached the southernmost point of the peninsula, the central left office of Jinzhou, and after going ashore to search, they only saw the ruined and abandoned castle, no army, and no civilians.

The left of Jinzhou is the Lushun of later generations, and it is the closest place in southern Liaoning to Dengzhou, but there is no population, so there is no meaning to occupy.

So Wu Ping ordered the fleet to march northwest around the coast from the middle and left, and after more than an hour, arrived near Kiba Station.

When he saw the man running wildly from the clairvoyant mirror, Wu Ping had a smile on his face. The dock was too small to support the big ships, so two two-masted ships were ordered to dock.

Two two-masted ships carrying more than 200 soldiers. Quickly approaching the dock, the soldiers went ashore one after another, and when they were in line, they saw a group of Qing soldiers running towards the beach.

The ship's artillery opened fire one after another, and dozens of shells fell towards the ranks of the Qing soldiers, and the Qing soldiers fell in scattered places.

Two more ships came to the pier, and the number of soldiers ashore reached 500, and under the leadership of a guerrilla general, they headed in the direction of Kiba Station.

Niu Lu is a real warrior of the Eight Banners, so when he heard that the Ming army was coming, he didn't care about gathering troops to meet the enemy, because he had experienced countless battles with the Ming army, and he never looked at the Ming army.

However, after a series of cannonballs and more than a dozen of his subordinates were stoned to death, he quickly sobered up, looked at the countless sailing ships on the sea, and realized that with his own hundred and ten people, he was not the opponent of the Ming army at all, so he decisively led his troops to withdraw to the Kiba Station, pulled out all the mules and horses, and ran north with his family. But this time his army was also in chaos, he wanted to flee with his family, and his bannermen naturally wanted to take their families with him, so he found that there were only seven or eight bannermen behind him, and the whole Kiba post crying and shouting was a mess.

Niu Lu stuffed his wife and several children into the carriage, rode a horse and fled north with seven or eight bannermen, ignoring the chaotic Kiba Station behind him.

And when he had just escaped from Kiba Station, the 500 Ming army also attacked, and the sound of fire guns rang out.

The entire Muchang post is only more than 100 banners and hundreds of people, how can it withstand the attack of the 500 Ming army, if Niu Lu does not flee to prevent his subordinates from resisting, he can still block it for a while, he has lost his leader in this escape, and he can't resist.

The fighting soon ceased, and more than a dozen bannermen were killed, and most of the rest surrendered. Most of the bannermen were the bannermen of the Han army, that is, the former soldiers of the Dongjiang Army, and they did not have much courage to resist.

After learning about the Qing army's strength on the Liaodong Peninsula from the mouth of the captive, Wu Ping left 500 people to clear the Manchu soldiers and civilians at the southern end of the peninsula, and the fleet continued to march north, reaching the sea near Jinzhouwei on the second day.

Jinzhou Wei used to be the guard of the Ming army in southern Liaoning, the location is very important, now there are more than 300 soldiers of the Eight Banners stationed here, of which there are 100 people in the Eight Banners.

In the face of the huge Ming fleet, the Eight Banners of Jinzhou did not flee and did not dare to fight, but defended the castle, and at the same time sent fast horses to the north to send a letter to ask for reinforcements.

Wu Ping sent 3,000 soldiers ashore and 10 red-coated cannons ashore at the same time, led by Lin Fusheng to conquer Jinzhou, and the fleet continued to march north. The three hundred Qing troops are not worth staying for a long time again.

Lin Fusheng commanded 3,000 troops to surround the Jinzhouwei Castle, and the artillery bombarded the city wall without stopping.

The Qing army in the city tried to raid out of the city and destroy the artillery of the Ming army, but was shot by the Ming army, leaving dozens of corpses and retreating into the city.

The strength of the Ming army is ten times that of the Qing army, there are as many as a thousand guns alone, not to mention all kinds of artillery firearms, three days later, the city wall was broken by artillery, the Qing army broke through the city, and the Ming army had a fierce battle, one hundred true eight banners for the vanguard, after a death battle, tore through the defense line of the Ming army, fled in the direction of Fuzhou.

Three hundred Qing soldiers fled less than one hundred, and the Ming army also killed more than two hundred, Lin Fusheng was furious and ordered all the more than 100 Qing soldiers who surrendered to be executed.

After a slaughter, the city of Jinzhou became an empty city, Lin Fusheng led nearly 3,000 soldiers to attack north along the land route, breaking through several Manchu forts along the way, arriving at the city of Fuzhou, and joining Wu Ping's main force.

The news of the Ming army's attack from the south had already spread throughout the Liaodong Peninsula, and the remaining Qing troops gathered at the castle one after another. The Eight Banners were basically all soldiers, even the Han Army Banner that surrendered later.

By the time Wu Ping led the fleet around Changsheng Island and arrived at the coast of Fuzhou, more than 1,000 soldiers had been mobilized in the city of Fuzhou. Thousands of soldiers blocked the coast, making it very difficult for the Ming army to get ashore.

There is no big wharf here in Fuzhou, and the three-masted sea ships cannot dock at all, and they can only transport troops in small boats if they want to go ashore. And thousands of Qing soldiers were guarding the coast, making it not so easy to go ashore in small boats.

As a result, three Galen ships sailed close to the three-mile position on the coast, aimed at the Qing army on the coast, fired a hundred cannons, a large number of shells fell near the Qing army array, and dozens of Qing troops were killed by artillery.

However, the Qing army did not retreat in the face of artillery and blocked the coast with bows and arrows.

As soon as the cannon rang out, the cannon fired cannonballs, and even more silver, and it was not cost-effective to bombard the soldiers on the shore, and after two rounds of artillery, it stopped.

Under Wu Ping's orders, Sima Nan commanded 3,000 soldiers to row small boats and force them ashore.

The ship slowly approached the shore and entered the range of the Qing army, and countless arrows flew from the shore, and the shields of the Ming army snapped.

Not to be outdone, the Ming gunners fired at the Qing army on the ship.

More than a dozen small boats approached the coast, the Ming soldiers waded on the shore with shields, the Qing army shouted and killed, the two sides fought together, the sound of fire, the sound of fighting, the shout, the blood stained the coast.

Just when the Ming army and the Qing army were fighting on the coast, Lin Fucheng commanded more than 2,000 Ming troops to arrive by land and launched an attack on the Qing army from behind, and Wu Ping took the opportunity to send more soldiers to force the landing in small boats.

After a fight, the Qing army left four or five hundred corpses behind and retreated to the city of Fuzhou. More than 5,000 Ming troops surrounded Fuzhou.

There were a large number of Qing troops in the city of Fuzhou, and they did not attack the city in a hurry, but set up a wall outside the city to surround Fuzhou.

Wu Ping did not intend to continue the attack, but decided to use Fuzhou as a bait to mobilize the Qing army in Liaodong. So he besieged Fuzhou and began to build wharves and barracks on the seaside, putting on a posture of staying for a long time.

A large number of Ming troops suddenly appeared in southern Liaoning, and the news quickly spread to the north, and there was a lot of noise in the cities of eastern Liaoning, such as Gaizhou and Haizhou. A few days later, the news reached Shengjing, which immediately made Shengjing shake! (https:)

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