Chapter 535: Take advantage of your illness to kill you
More than 3,000 Shandong sailors quickly approached the wharf by boat, and at this time, only a few of the ships stationed around the wharf were sand-type warships that could fight, and most of the rest were all kinds of merchant ships.
Galen merchant ships are small in size, but they carry the most cargo, and are favored by maritime merchants.
In addition to the large number of sailors carried by these small chain boats and sub-mother boats, those medium-sized and even large warships and fortune boats were completely different infantry of the Shandong army, and even a small number of horses were carried.
They were accustomed to the turbulence of the sea in their years of training, and they all clenched the swords and guns in their hands, staring at the Zheng banner on the opposite water city, and their goal was to plant the banner of the Shandong Army at the head of the city.
The purpose of Fang Cai's artillery bombardment was to announce to the other three-way soldiers and horses that the sailors were in position, and it was inevitable to kill and injure Ding Kou and some civilians of the Zheng family.
This bombardment was the beginning of a full-scale offensive, and since then most of the warships and boats have been moving forward, with a number of medium-sized warships remaining behind.
These ships did not carry infantry troops, but were equipped with a large number of firearms and shells.
The main naval artillery of the Shandong Army is the Franco-cannon manufactured by Jem and the Portuguese who defected to the Shandong Army, although it is not comparable with the Western one, but the power is also stronger than the ordinary naval artillery.
Whether it is a naval division or an infantry army, these various soldiers and horses from approaching the dock to seizing ships and landing on the shore one by one, although these links of the Shandong army have gone through countless exercises, but it still takes a lot of time.
In order to affect the Shandong army to attack the city because of some unexpected factors, such as the maritime merchants at the dock, Wang Zheng decided after consulting with the staff office that the Shandong army besieging the city could implement a military order to kill without mercy depending on the situation.
In Wang Zheng's view, this battle of Anping is the key to his denial of Dingjiangnan, even if it hurts some people or merchants in the city, he will not hesitate to do so.
At this time, the formation of the Shandong Navy Division was not completed, and it was said that it was the time when the enemy was not stabilized, and everyone understood this truth, but it was not so easy to do.
The commander of the Zheng family in charge of the dock was Zheng Qi, the general of the family, and when he received the report and hurried here with a large number of Dingkou, all he saw was the scene of merchants and ordinary people scattering and fleeing.
The Zheng family has been walking on the sea for many years, and the Kinmen artillery battle in the past few years was so powerful and majestic, who would have thought that how long it had passed, and they were beaten to the doorstep.
For the Zheng family, this is like being slapped in the face.
Zheng Qi stopped the collapse of Dingkou at the first time, and led the thousands of people who rushed to support to board the water city to set up defenses, originally he wanted to close the water gate when the Shandong Navy Division was not approaching, and use firearms to return fire, so that there would be enough geographical advantages to win.
But because the Shandong army came too quickly, and no one in the Zheng family got the news in advance, it seemed to appear out of thin air.
This sudden change made most of them panic, the dock was already congested with people and ships, and it would be blocked for half a day if it was not done well, and after the accident, there were both those who were in a hurry to go in and escape, and those who wanted to turn the rudder and leave.
This caused the serious consequence of traffic paralysis, and several large warships that the Zheng family had originally arranged outside suddenly became live targets, and they couldn't run, so they could only watch the other party's dense boats approaching.
The boats of the Shandong Navy Division were all sailors who were responsible for cleaning the ships on the outer docks, and these sailors were originally recruited in the coastal area of Denglai, and some of them were water thieves.
The water thieves used to be a tyrant in Denglai, and the local government was powerless to suppress it, but Wang Zheng was born, and after several major battles, all the leaders who dared to shout were exterminated, and only one Jiang Da, known as the black fish, remained.
With the support of Wang Zheng, Jiang Da quickly unified the water thieves in the Denglai area, and followed him to lead the water thieves into the Shandong Army, which is the origin of the first batch of sailors of the Shandong Army Water Division.
Even now, no one else knows that the famous black fish on the waterway is actually an undercover agent of the Shandong Army arranged by Wang Zheng in Wuwen River earlier.
In a sense, these water thieves are even more ruthless than the inspection department.
What they did was originally to lose their heads and fight against the imperial court, and they lived a day of licking blood with knives all day long, and they were also familiar with water warfare.
In other words, they are the "warriors" on the water.
Even if the boat was accidentally sunk, most of the sailors would be able to jump into the water with their excellent water skills, looking for an opportunity to approach the merchant ships and Zheng family ships that were huddled together, and suddenly appear to give them a hard blow.
The Zheng family sailors are good at large-scale naval battles, and their sailors are all hard stubble at sea, and the larger the battle, the stronger the combat effectiveness, while the Shandong sailors can't win the Zheng family sailors in naval artillery battles, so they have to work hard in other aspects.
Success and defeat are like this.
No matter what means Wang Zheng uses to win, despicable methods will do, in the words of Grandpa Mao in later generations, even if there are no conditions for winning, create conditions to win.
The Shandong Naval Division was established not long ago, and for many years it only served as the task of transporting soldiers and horses and guarding the coast, and did not experience the large-scale naval battles of the Zheng family, and was only good at small-scale and relatively crowded dock battles, Hubo battles,
The real purpose of surrounding them in all directions is actually only one, that is, to climb onto the opponent's warship, rush in and kill their sailors, and take the warship into their own hands.
The Zheng family could never have imagined that the Shandong Sailor would be such a scoundrel in his style of play, not caring about any morality and rules at all, the weaker you are, the more ruthless he will be, and he wants to crush you in one fell swoop.
This is also a helpless way, Wang He did not want to build his own fleet, and had a naval battle of the century with the Zheng clan to determine the status of the sea hegemon.
However, at present, Shandong has no technical personnel to manufacture large warships, and second, it cannot find any way at all, which belongs to the very initial stage, and it is often half the effort.
Speaking of which, it is still the inspiration that the anti-Japanese drama of later generations brought to Wang Zheng, although he has no guns and no cannons, Zheng has already built it for me, just like the Poyang Lake water battle of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang mainly used small and medium-sized warships, defeated the strong with the weak, and defeated Chen Youliang's large fleet.
The Zheng family's warships and the merchant ships coming and going on the dock were crowded together, and they couldn't exert half of their due combat effectiveness at all, and they could only watch their own side be eaten up little by little by the small boats of the Shandong Naval Division.
Seize the ship, it is inevitable.
The water gate no longer wants to be opened, and the warships have to go out, but the merchant ships have to enter, and they can't move a single step when they are congested.
A short and fierce shout of killing sounded on several Zhengjia warships on the perimeter patrol posts, and it turned out that the sailors of the Shandong Army climbed onto the periphery warships and merchant ships like ants.
If the Zheng family sailors die, there will be one less, but the crazy Shandong sailors seem to be endless, and they will not let go of the merchant ships, anyway, any ship parked on the dock now must hang the flag of the Shandong army.
The slightest resistance is a stormy attack.
Most of the people on the boat were directly hacked to death and thrown into the sea, and the remaining few people had already lost any fighting spirit and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands to surrender listening to the constant shouts of killing everywhere.