Of course Zhou Lang wants to go.

For him, the status of Tagu Port is much more important than Fengdanxun, and if the situation is unfavorable, Tagu Port is also a way out. If the drum port could not be defended, Zhou Lang would not fight to the death, but concentrated his forces to retreat to the left battalion, and then went to sea from the left battalion.

But you can't tell Chen Guanghui about this.

Instead, he said, "Brother Chen." The Qing army came from the sea, if the drums were not guarded and the Qing army was allowed to land, Fengshan County would be in danger. Now that the land route of the Qing army is blocked in Banping Mountain, and I block its sea route, then Fengshan County can sit back and relax! ”

As soon as Chen Guanghui heard the same truth, he did not stop it.

"In this way, there is Brother Lao Zhou! If Brother Zhou is in danger, please tell me urgently, and I, Fengshan County, should do my best to help. ”

Zhou Lang was not polite, and immediately said: "Food, blades, or one or two of the alliance commanders." ”

Chen Guanghui said happily: "Brother Zhou, don't worry, I will send someone to send it early tomorrow morning." ”

Zhou Lang shook his head: "I hope that Brother Chen will send it tonight, and our army will set off immediately." ”

Zhou Lang's tone made Chen Guanghui feel a strong sense of crisis, and he didn't dare to delay, so he stood up immediately.

"Even so, I dare to postpone it in the future, so I will go back to the alliance commander."

The commander of the alliance is Chen Zhouquan, who calls himself the generalissimo of the alliance leader, and Zhou Lang's generalissimo of the auxiliary country of the South Road, and now he is called the southern marshal.

Chen Zhouquan is also under great pressure now, and Zhou Lang's current behavior is completely in line with his interests, it is simply a cylinder for him, in Chen Zhouquan's view, the northern Banping Mountain is blocked by Zhou Lang's Yiren Colin with troops, and now Zhou Lang has to go to Dagu Port to help as a thief sailor, just to ask for some food and weapons, where is he reluctant.

So he sent two thousand loads of military rations at once, plus the one thousand loads of military rations that he had given to Feng Danxun before, and now the food in Zhou Lang's hands is very sufficient. In terms of weapons, a thousand spears were sent, and even a hundred bows and 100,000 arrows were given rarely.

Zhou Lang did not delay, the third watch made rice, and the fifth watch set off.

Chen Guanghui sent each other all the way, sent and sent, and the two places gathered for fifteen miles, and he sent ten miles.

Say goodbye at the last and bow deeply.

"Brother Chen. Nan Shuai! Take care. ”

Zhou Lang returned the salute: "There will be a period later!" ”

The situation in Tagu Port is much better than Zhou Lang expected.

Wei Lianli's performance exceeded Zhou Lang's expectations.

This Wei Lianli is a character who is a big man in a green building, his background is very low, he has no backbone, he doesn't even have much courage, he rarely argues with others, and even his soldiers look down on him, but he never cares, but always has a pleasant face.

But this kind of person has the ability to pull down the face, and he is smart and good at solving problems in his own way.

Zhou Lang sent Wei Lianli to play the drum before, because Colin was here, and Colin asked Zhou Lang for help. So Zhou Lang sent Wei Lianli, because Wei Lianli is the leader of the Heaven and Earth Society, at least now he is the leader. Previously, he had been in charge of helping Zhou Lang communicate with the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society under Colin, and with him by Colin's side, it was easier for Zhou Lang to control Colin.

Unexpectedly, the Qing army suddenly went south, Colin went to the left camp that needed him more, and Wei Lianli could only stay in Daguxun by himself. But Wei Lianli really doesn't understand military affairs, but he is good at using people. He doesn't understand, as long as someone does. There were also twenty experienced mercenaries here in the left battalion, who had been left behind due to illness.

Wei Lianli invited them to the local Langzhong, helped them open an important one, and personally ran before and after serving every day, except for two who unfortunately died of trauma infection, everyone else has now begun to play with women, Wei Lianli found them more than a dozen local kiln sisters.

After coming to Dagu Xun, seeing Wei Lianli using lowly service and sending women to other people's beds to do things, Zhou Lang could only sigh secretly, is this simply a way for profiteers to corrupt corrupt officials. But the effect is still good, I don't know if it is out of gratitude for saving lives, or recognition of Wei Lianli's way of doing things, after these dozen foreigners recovered, they were very helpful.

It was still difficult for the two sides to communicate completely, using simple words, plus sign language gestures, they successfully made Wei Lianli understand the importance of the fort, before Zhou Lang arrived, they continued to strengthen the fort, and maintained the dozen or so cannons left by the Qing army, eliminated several of them that were unqualified, and selected artillery for drill.

After Zhou Lang arrived, he found that the order here was better than he imagined, although he didn't agree with Wei Lianli's method, but he had a certain understanding of this person's ability.

Now Zhou Lang immediately summoned the officers, took over the drumming flood, and appointed Fischer to take full charge of the defense. At the same time, we will continue to train the army, from two exercises a day to three exercises a day, and strive to increase the combat effectiveness of the army as much as possible before the arrival of the Qing army.

The military problem is the only problem now, and Zhou Lang himself personally participated in the training, not to take the lead, but that he really needs to learn military experience.

Now Zhou Lang has basically understood the concept of Western military training, and the purpose of letting soldiers mechanically practice skills such as pace is not entirely for orderly maneuvering on the battlefield, but more importantly, for soldiers to learn to obey. In order to achieve the desired effect as soon as possible, Zhou Lang fully supported corporal punishment, and he did not intend to compete with Napoleon for the reputation of the first general to oppose corporal punishment.

With high salaries on the one hand and punishment on the other, this progress is very fast. At least the 800 soldiers in Tagu Harbor are now walking in unison quite neatly, and the bayonet fight is also in shape. But Fischer still thinks that soldiers are not professional enough, and he says that it is only done by training soldiers to turn the skills they have mastered into their abilities, so that they will not lose their formation even if they are shot on the battlefield.

Westerners can play the game of lining up to shoot, can make soldiers line up to meet the opposite rifle volley, and can still keep the formation unchaotic, which may no longer be explained by the spirit of bravery, but can only be trained into machines with inhumane training.

After understanding these ideas, Zhou Lang fully supported Fischer's suggestion to strengthen training, and he hated to let the soldiers train twenty-four hours a day.

The urgency of time made Zhou Lang really hope to have a peaceful half a year to use for him, but it was impossible for the Qing army to give him this free time, and three days after coming to Dagu, the Qing army's fleet appeared outside the port.

Zhou Lang stood on Drum Mountain and looked at it, seeing that the Qing army had more than 120 ships.

He was not afraid, these ships were generally not big, and there were only a dozen or so ships equipped with cannons, and even these dozen or so ships could not be compared with the Western battleships, trying to find them in the telescope, and they could only see that the most battleships had about ten guns, which meant that their capital ships only had ten guns, while the British third-class battleships had more than sixty cannons.

But this is still not something that Zhou Lang can fight against now, there are only twelve gun emplacements on the two batteries, and because a few broken cannons have been thrown away, there are only eight cannons in total on the two batteries. With a disparity ratio of eight to more than one hundred, one to ten, it is not so easy to block the Qing army.

The artillery battle soon began.

According to Fischer, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for naval guns to beat shore defense guns, first, the power that warships can carry is not comparable to that of batteries, so the batteries can be equipped with cannons of larger caliber and longer range, and second, the space of warships is limited, so more cannons can often be installed on the batteries. Another reason is that stable turrets are easier to aim.

However, at present, it is limited by the number of artillery, and it loses to the Qing fleet in terms of firepower. The only hope of victory, Fischer put on the war of attrition, although the amount of ammunition on Zhou Lang's side was also insufficient, but there was also a Fengshan County to support, while the Qing army was floating on the sea, there was no reliable base to use, once the opponent's gunpowder was consumed, it could only retreat.

As for the head-to-head victory, Fischer believed that it was unlikely that his side would defeat the Qing army, unless a miracle occurred.

The miracle did not appear, but it was a little accidental, and after the start of the war, it was discovered that the accuracy of the Qing army's naval guns was surprisingly poor. Not to mention hitting the battery, there are few that can fall into the harbor, and most of the shells don't even know where to fly. More than an hour after the start of the battle, the battlefield was filled with smoke and dust, but the Qing army did not hit a single shell on the target, but the coastal defense artillery commanded by mercenaries on the battery hit several warships, but there was no absolute result, and a cast iron shell could not destroy a warship.

But in the poor artillery skills, there are more numbers, and they can also be encountered, and gradually the shells of the Qing army began to bombard the forts, at this time the artillery performance of Zhou Lang's men began to be clumsy, and the mercenary officers who commanded them were calm, but the gunners' movements were deformed, they were still loading, but the movements became no longer smooth, and the artillery fire of the counterattack became sparse, a total of eight guns, four in the north gate of Xiongzhen on the drum mountain, and four in the Qihou battery on the flag mountain, just a few guns, the gunner's operation became panicked again, I didn't hear a single cannon for a long time.

The Qing army on the opposite side began to approach, apparently they also passed the panic mentality, and found that the cannon on this side was a paper tiger, which could not cause fatal damage to their warship, after all, the cannon on the battery was also left by the Qing army, the so-called red-coated cannon, the performance was like that, the technology of the late Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Lang was still watching the entire battlefield at the peak of Drum Mountain, he didn't feel that at the final stage, he was still looking forward to the consumption of gunpowder by the Qing army, but when he saw through the telescope, the Qing army actually took a rotation, and the two ships retreated, retreated to the small fleet two miles behind him, and actually replenished the supplies.

This made Zhou Lang feel that the Qing army's material reserves were relatively sufficient, and secondly, they were afraid that they had made up their minds to capture Dagu Port, so if it really went on, it might be who could consume whom.

Zhou Lang knew in his heart that it was time to decide to leave. Seeing the current posture of the army, I am afraid that under the cover of the big ships, I am afraid that I am going to send small boats to grab the beach nearby, Zhou Lang decided to send troops to intercept them on the beach, and once they find that they have signs of landing, they will immediately send troops to rush and attack them one and a half crossings.

After repelling the landing of the Qing army, no matter what the result is, withdraw when it is time to retreat, do not drag mud and water, and the province will not be able to go.

As for Fengshan County behind Dagugang, where can you still get those comrades of the Heaven and Earth Society at this time.

But at this time, a sail shadow suddenly flashed in the afterglow of the telescope, and Zhou Lang immediately looked over, a big ship!

"What is this?"

When he saw it clearly, Zhou Lang couldn't help but exclaim:

"Lucky!"

Xie Qinggao's ship came at this juncture, what would he do?

Zhou Lang always knew that Xie Qinggao was unwilling to rebel with him, so Xie Qinggao suddenly came here, was it just an accident, did he just come back from Manila, then he would join the war or retreat.

Zhou Lang was really not sure about Xie Qinggao's choice at this time, and this choice would determine Xie Qinggao's fate, and it was also very likely to determine Zhou Lang's choice in the future.

Zhou Lang saw Xie Qinggao's boat suddenly appear behind the Qing fleet, and slowly sailed, just when he was five miles away, white smoke came out of his boat, Xie Qinggao actually opened fire, and his cannonball fell into the small boat fleet dragged by the Qing army, splashing high.

Zhou Lang looked at this scene, his heart was mixed, Xie Qinggao finally made the decision that Zhou Lang wanted, but Zhou Lang was not happy, but felt that there was something heavy pressing on his heart, because Xie Qinggao's choice was against his heart, and he changed his mind for Zhou Lang, which made Zhou Lang feel that he owed something.

This sense of indebtedness made Zhou Lang no longer happy with the retreat of the Qing army, and he went down the mountain with stiff steps to greet Xie Qinggao.

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