Chapter 127: Artillery Coverage
The attack plan was to fire three rounds of ten artillery salvos, and fifteen grass skimming ships rushed straight to the port, and after such a blow, the unprepared pirates should not be able to fire their artillery, and at this time they should be aiming at the giant flagship 'Liaodong' that appeared under their noses. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
All the gunners were waiting for the order to fire a salvo, and the gunners on the pirate battery were waiting for the Ming warships to enter the firing range, and Sakashima suddenly felt that something was wrong when he looked at the Ming warships that were no longer advancing, because he saw the muzzles of the guns that were black against the forts.
Those cannons don't look as big as the Hongyi cannons on the fort? It's so far away that they want to test shoot?
The answer was available in the next second, but unfortunately it was no longer his turn to use his brain.
Huang Mingli's command flag fell, and the command flag of the captains of the eight warships fell immediately, and in the command to fire immediately from the gun position, ten flowering shells crossed a graceful arc and accurately fell into the gun on the mountain bag.
The Ming loaders quickly cleared their chests, loaded, and prepared for the second round of salvos, which was actually redundant, and the shrapnel from the explosion of ten flowering shells completely covered the fort, which was only twenty paces square, and there was only a simple pergola made of wooden stone flakes on it.
The pirates there were not dead but also wounded, no one was able to get up quickly, the three cannons were buried in the collapsed pergola, and the pirate leader Sakashima was in a trance with more than ten shrapnel and didn't even have a chance to snort before he went to see Amaterasu.
The second round of artillery fire came again, still flowering shells, and by this time the fourteen straw skimming boats had already lined up in a long line and rushed into the waterway, and the enemy artillery did not fire, and the head of the family, who had been watching the battle and fearing casualties under his command, sat down.
In fact, such worries were unnecessary, and in order to deal with the invasion of the West, the Manchus built many artillery batteries and deployed a lot of artillery purchased from Westerners.
In the Second Opium War, how many enemy ships were able to sink when the Anglo-French forces really used advanced rifled guns Armstrong artillery to attack?
The Tianjin Weidagu Fort built by the Manchu Qing Dynasty with a lot of money had hundreds of smoothbore guns that were not too backward at that time, including two 12,000-pound steel cannons, nine 10,000-pound steel cannons, more than 20 5,000-pound steel cannons, and more than 20 Western steel cannons.
The final result was less than two hours, and the British and French troops who came from thousands of miles completely occupied Dagukou in less than two hours, and captured a total of 518 artillery cannons of the Manchu army, including more than 100 copper cannons.
Historical experience tells us that no matter how strong the fort is, and no matter how dangerous the geographical location, in the face of the enemy's advanced artillery, it is certain that it cannot be beaten by the invaders alone.
It was easy to destroy this group of pirates, but it was more difficult not to sacrifice a single soldier, and when the skimming ships passed through the waterway, the enemy bombarded them with twelve pounder red-coated cannons at close range, and each shot caused heavy casualties to our troops.
Because there were a hundred or dozens of soldiers on each of the straw skimming ships, it was too dense, and most of them were musketeers and heavy infantry who were preparing to seize the dock and log in.
It was clear that the artillery of the fort had been killed by the Ming army, and now only the arquebus was the arquebus.
At this time, Huang Sheng didn't know that most of the arquebusiers in the old nest of the Japanese were also killed, and the port was simply undefended at this time.
The 'Gaizhou' was the first to enter the port, and the layout here was exactly the same as the sand table in the command cabin, and the captives really did not play tricks, and there were more than 20 ships of different specifications docked in the harbor.
For example, there are seven or eight ships the size of the Ming horse ship, most of these ships are not equipped with artillery, only a fixed gun that is a few sizes larger than the Ming gun, and there is no one on it at all.
These ships may not all be pirates, they may be fishermen or slaves, and it is obvious that there are no less than ten fishing boats here, and the ronin should not go out to sea to fish, right?
Although they did not see any enemy attacking, the soldiers of the Huang family still marched step by step, and the warship turned its rudder to dock on the starboard side, and the gangplank with palladium hook was already erected on the starboard side like a drawbridge.
The 'Gaizhou' was the first to land on the starboard side, and in the blink of an eye the gangplank was lowered and firmly hooked to the dock, and the two small flag heavy infantry immediately held the 'armor-piercing spear' in one hand and the steel shield in the other, and then unfolded and advanced twenty steps to stand still.
A musketeer of the general banner and a group of infantry archers also followed closely behind and stood still aiming ahead, and no one fired a shot, because no target had been found.
The dock was full of people fleeing to the north of the pier, and the Huang family musketeers did not hit them in the back.
One nine-pounder rifled bow gun and four four-pounder smoothbore guns aboard the Gaizhou were aimed at the suspicious structures on the docks, and the sailors used all the clairglasses and telescopes as they nervously searched for the muzzles of pirate guns that might pop up out of nowhere.
The 'Fuzhou' also docked, and they were also replicating this attack process, and then the grass skimming boats all sent the fighters to the dock safely, and finally the 'Quang Ninh' entered the port and docked in a hurry.
The soldiers of the Huang family have already pulled out the cordon for three hundred steps, and every musketeer is staring intently ahead, shooting possible enemies at any time, everyone knows that the master of the family is about to land on the shore, but he can't be attacked by the enemy.
The Liaodong was too big to avoid unnecessary trouble and not enter the narrow waters without completely occupying the pirate's lair, and to make sure nothing went wrong, seven No. 2 Fuku-class warships were also cruising outside the harbor.
Twenty horse-boats also came in at this time, and they leaned into the small boats in the harbor to search and take prisoners, and one of the horse-boats did not have many soldiers, a group of heavy infantry came aboard the ship with their shields, and a group of musketeers followed to cover, and everyone shouted slogans and marched forward.
The soldiers of the Huang family all practiced a sentence in Japanese: "The Ming officials and soldiers suppressed the Kou, raised their hands and surrendered to avoid death." "They keep repeating things like this in Chinese and Japanese.
There was no resistance, and few of the people on these ships were not ronin, and when they saw the Ming army boarding the ship, they all ran to the deck with their hands raised and knelt down.
Huang Dongshan, the commander of the attack on the pirates in the port, saw that the soldiers had gained a foothold at the docks, and brought out the twenty-seven pirate captives whom he had personally participated in the selection and said to them: "I have seen that your fort was destroyed by our army without firing a single shot, and now I will give you a chance to let your little companions live." "
The pirate captives were half chilled and came to their lair, and the Ming army actually let all the captives go to the deck to watch the battle.
This is Huang Sheng's tactics of deliberately arranging Huang Dongshan's attack on the heart, the highest level of a soldier is a soldier who surrenders without a fight, Huang Dongshan is also familiar with military books, and his teacher is thorough.
The captives stood on the deck, despising the actions of the Ming army, believing that the Ming army was preparing to use their captives as hostages to intimidate the home port battery, so that the battery did not dare to fire for fear of killing its own people.
Huang Dongshan proudly told them: "Today is to let Er and others see how the officials and soldiers of the Celestial Empire treat the frogs at the bottom of the well who dare to be disrespectful to our army and try to resist in vain. ”
Only a few of these captives could understand Chinese, and Shang Muming translated in Japanese with his head held high, and all the captives understood.
A few prisoners didn't believe it at all, with a look of contempt, they also thought that the home port fort should have the strength of a battle, who knew that the battle started, the fort did not even shoot a single shot, and the Ming warships rushed into the port.
Seeing that it was this young Ming army official again, these prisoners were all depressed, and they no longer had the spirit of the last time they were on the deck.
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