Chapter 577: Within the range of artillery fire

In the fifteenth century, Zhangzhou Bay was still a deep water bay, and there was no problem with the large ships on it, but this time Yang Shi was too big, and the time he agreed with Lin Mengchu was an hour after the battle started, according to his understanding, at this time, the Ming army brigade had been defeated, and the next problem was to have the navy beat the water dogs.

No one thought that it would become such a situation, on the battlefield under the city of Zhangzhou, the sound of killing shook the sky, the Ming army surrounded Yang Shishi's two teams, as if ants gnawed bones, a little weakened, the fire gun soldiers are now more in white-knuckle fighting, spearmen often take the Ming army's long knives in battle.

The distance of the Huazhou army to ensure the superiority is almost gone, and the rattan soldiers and other Ming troops took turns to impact the formation of the Huazhou army, but fortunately, the belief that the formation is the key to victory or defeat has not been lost, and the officers at all levels in Huazhou are maintaining the formation of the formation, and the Huazhou army, which pays more attention to cooperation, can still have a slight upper hand in the local battle.

The situation encountered by the team led by Yang Shi was even more embarrassing, they were under the protection of the firearms, brandishing broadswords and spears and rushing towards the formation of the Ming army, but when they rushed into a distance, they would be pushed back by the Ming army's fresh force that was quickly transferred.

After such a long battle, the Ming army is not as brave as before in terms of momentum, after all, such a battle will always make people feel tired, and the momentum and will of the Huazhou army to fight to the death are always maintained, which is not to collapse and support until now.

Lin Mengchu, the commander at sea, didn't want to come to the battlefield too late, in this case, his merits would not be visible at all, at most he would be a name for cleaning up the battlefield and assisting friendly forces, so he also wanted to come here early to join the battle. However, the sea fog on this side of Zhangzhou covers the sky and the sun, even if Zhangzhou Bay is a good port, ships must be cautious in traveling in it, and this dense fog makes people very confused about the judgment of time and space, and several old sailors who are responsible for observing the wind even think that an hour has passed.

As the ship gradually approached Zhangzhou City, the dense fog at this time began to gradually disperse, Lin Mengchu finally heard the earth-shaking shouting sound on the shore, and there were already agile sailors who climbed the mast to look at the situation on the battlefield, but the content of shouting at the bottom was "I only saw the Ming army fighting around a few soldiers and horses on the battlefield."

Hearing this report and seeing this scene, Lin Mengchu also broke out in a cold sweat, knowing that the situation of Yang Shi in the field was not good, thanks to the fact that he came early, if he came late, I am afraid it is not a matter of no merit, and the rescue is not effective, and he bears the responsibility.

The fighting Ming army was some distance from the shore, but it was still within the range of the artillery, Lin Mengchu gave the order loudly, on the one hand, he arranged the artillery on each ship to be in place, and asked each ship to send fifty people to carry firearms and prepare to fight ashore.

The sea breeze slowly increased, the speed of the sea fog dissipation gradually accelerated, the vision became clearer and clearer, the Ming army fighting on the shore, all the attention was focused on Yang Shi's two teams, the battle naturally needless to say, it was a desperate fight, even if it was in the outer circle, they were all nervously prepared, looking at Deng Minyue and the surrounding scheduling, ready to go up as a new force at any time.

I don't know if that person glanced back at the sea first, his gaze could not be taken back, looking at the six giant ships that seemed to suddenly appear in the void in Zhangzhou Bay, he opened his mouth wide, and he didn't know what to say or do.

Big, is the simplest deterrence, looking at a behemoth like a battleship, slowly approaching the shore, the first to see the Ming army, actually forgot to report the news, just there staring blankly.

This kind of stupidity and quietness, as if it would be contagious, slowly expanded, those Ming troops on the beach looked sluggish one by one, and some people's legs began to tremble, these people were originally guards and horses sent from various places, and their combat effectiveness was not strong, not to mention the will to fight, seeing such a huge ship. In addition to fear, there was no other reaction in his heart, Deng Minyue saw the impact of Yang Shi, and the Ming army on the opposite side was a little unable to resist, and knew in his heart that if he didn't send a new rotating force, the Ming army would be defeated.

Deng Minyue waved the command flag in his hand and gave orders repeatedly, but he didn't hear the response of the general who was ordered, and he couldn't help but be furious, ready to let the pro-soldiers call the general over to punish the crime, but he didn't expect the reaction of the pro-soldiers below to be much slower, and it took a long time before someone said in a trembling voice:

"Sir, look at the ...... on the sea"

What to see on the sea! Deng Minyue turned his head to look at the past with hatred, and was stunned for a moment, he didn't even notice that the Ming army facing Yang Shi was no longer able to support it, and the Huazhou army led by Yang Shi was directly cut down and scattered, and the distance between it and the army surrounded in the center was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, Deng Minyue felt that he was slacking up and down, and this slackness was not because he was holding the victory, but because a kind of despair spread to his heart.

Several of the huge ships on the sea had already begun to turn in the harbor, turning their sideways parallel to the coastline, and the existing people on the first ship fired a small cannon.

The sound was not loud, the range was not far, and even just landed on the land on the shore, some people suddenly relaxed, surprised by such a large ship, but only such a small sound drop, but then the laughter stopped, and the guns on the ship opened one after another.

The swarthy muzzles of the guns protruded from the inside of the cannon doors, and the seemingly smooth hull of the ship seemed to be covered with countless stingers.

Next, the ground shook, and the battlefield between Zhangzhou Bay and Zhangzhou City trembled as a matter of course, and the shouts of killing had disappeared at this moment, leaving only the sound of cannonballs whistling and the desperate howls of the soldiers below.

There was no explosion or roar of shells falling to the ground, only the screams and wails of the soldiers, for hardly a single shell missed, every shot fell into the pile, and every shell stirred up a large splash of blood, and the ship, under the control of the helmsman and sailor, approached the shore as close as possible.

Every time they approached a distance, it was a round of shelling, and the Ming army on the shore quickly collapsed, and these people even forgot to flee in horror, but desperately crowded inside, and the formation was already chaotic, and the soldiers of various guards and various military camps were crowded together, and some people finally reacted, regardless of any military law orders, and fled away from the battlefield and away from the coastline.

Yang Shi's reinforcements and the reinforcements who were surrounded in the center all heard the shock and terrifying roar of the earth shaking the mountains, but in the environment full of firearms in Huazhou, such a sound can only mean that their reinforcements are coming.

Under the orders of the officer, the rattan soldiers advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and gradually oppressed the Huazhou army, but the chaos caused by the artillery bombardment completely disrupted their formation, and in the face of the Huazhou army, which was greatly boosted, they really couldn't hold on, they were wrapped in the chaos, and they could only go with the flow.

In fact, even if the gunboat is completely close to the shore, the range of the artillery is the farthest and it can't knock down the battlefield on the side of the rattan soldiers, but the whole army is in chaos, and they can't maintain a formation in it, the battle of the rattan soldiers is actually a lot similar to the Huazhou army, if they can't maintain the formation, then they don't have much advantage in individual combat, and they can only follow the rout of the crowd.

When the artillery bombardment of the battleship reached the fourth round, the soldiers within the range of the artillery had already run clean, and the Ming army was still breaking and fleeing, because they didn't know how far the opponent's artillery could hit, and it was the right thing to escape from this place as soon as possible.

If the Ming army has a second force to attack in the other direction, it will really cause a catastrophe, but fortunately, the strength of the Ming army's soldiers and horses to besiege the east of Zhangzhou City is already stretched, so it can be regarded as lucky!

The soldiers and horses around Yang Shishi were about 3,000 people left, and they retreated to the city wall, there were no pursuers around them, and the people guarding the city gate had already put down the drawbridge, ready to receive Yang Shi into the city, but Yang Shi did not move, arranged for his officers to line up in formation, and then shouted at the city:

"Call out all the artillery, call it all out for me!"

Deng Minyue was surrounded by his own soldiers and got on the horse, looking at both sides blankly, obviously victory was within reach, but he lost it in an instant, he was really unwilling, and he even wondered in his heart whether to send troops to ignore the attack of naval guns and storm Zhangzhou City.

Suddenly, in the direction of Zhangzhou City, suddenly the sound of artillery was also sounded, and the Ming army finally couldn't support it at this moment, and it was an organized escape at first, but it turned into a big rout, people squeezed and trampled on each other, and officers at all levels couldn't control the situation at all.

The crowd was still so dense that a single shell could achieve maximum damage, and the personal soldiers around Deng Minyue didn't care about anything, put him on his horse, and escorted him in the direction of Fuzhou......