Chapter 340: Artillery Attack
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There are many islands in the Penghu archipelago here, and the rumbling of cannons when the combined fleet attacked the Xiaomenyu Fort should have alarmed the nearby pirates.
I just wonder if they fled from the wind? The pirates here and Zheng Yiguan's group should be allies, nominally at the disposal of Zheng Yiguan, at this time, the pirate gang that thinks they are unbearable for a war should go to Zheng Yiguan's old nest base to prepare to huddle together to keep warm, right?
The next target selected by Huang Sheng is Xiweiyu, not far from Xiaomenyu less than ten nautical miles, the entrenched pirate leader is called He Bin, this kid has forty or fifty warships, is more violent and bloody, has plundered the coastal areas of Fujian, and has done many things that hurt nature and reason.
The Huangjia sentry ship has been monitoring Xiweiyu and found that within three days, the warships under He Bin's command not only did not escape, but continued to sail into the port.
The Huang family's warships were still in order, first adopting the mode of surrounding the port and monitoring a radius of twenty nautical miles and slowly approaching.
The new warships then attacked the pirate forts in the harbor, which was not challenging, and the British and French warships used rifled guns to attack the Dagukou fort with hundreds of smoothbore guns.
One of the pirates' artillery here was nothing more than a few bulky Hongyi cannons, and it was quickly acquired.
In order to show military might, knowing that He Bin, the pirate leader here, should not surrender easily, he still sent a sentry ship and ten sentry horse ship captives captured from Xiweiyu to surrender conditionally.
Half an hour passed, and the pirate den was not seen raising the white flag, and it was obvious that the persuasion to surrender had been refused.
It doesn't matter, communicate with them with artillery, and the flowering shells continue to fall into He Bin's home port on Xiweiyu, and when the enemy's ship artillery fire is basically cleared, Li Guozhu's warships swarmed in, and the battle to seize the ship began.
In order to avoid unnecessary casualties among his own soldiers, Huang Sheng gave up this victorious attack to the idle Li Guozhu pirate troops.
Li Guozhu's command was already impatient, one by one screaming and rushing, although their equipment was unsatisfactory, but jumping to seize the boat is their combat skill, those Japanese ronin combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, but in half an hour, He Bin's warships all changed their flags.
Li Guozhu only killed dozens of people in the battle, and more than 100 wounded were treated in time by the Huang family's medical soldiers, and those Japanese ronin wounded constantly bowed to the medical soldiers to express their gratitude.
Immediately the landing battle began, He Bin thought that his territory had depth, and he could use the fortress on land to resist stubbornly.
Who knew that the Ming army had artillery that could pull and run at a longer range, and his plan to hold on to the fortress was doomed to be aborted.
He Bin's base camp was built at the foot of a mountain, more than three miles from the sea, and there was a stone castle about 200 steps in circumference and more than two zhang high, and eighteen Hongyi cannons were arranged on the wall.
His command used hot weapons, arquebuses, spears, bowls, etc., and more than a thousand minions were defending the fortress.
The fortress is not small, enough for everyone to go in and hide, but He Bin is not worried about two or three thousand slaves, for fear that they will suddenly turn against the water when they find out that a strong enemy is coming, and these people are locked outside.
When Huang Sheng arrived with a large army, he found two or three thousand people who did not flee at all, not all of them Han Chinese, but also Japanese, Korean, Luzon, and even blond Westerners.
They are all survivors of previous looting by He Bin, working as cattle and horses on the island, and many of them have become numb.
They didn't care who took them away, and when they saw the Ming army landing, they immediately knelt down one by one and begged to surrender. Huang Sheng needed the population anyway, and after pacifying these people, he asked someone familiar with the situation of the castle to tell the layout there again.
The Huang family's private troops landed to participate in the battle, with ten hundred musketeers and all the artillery and grenadiers, and Li Guozhu led more than 2,000 troops carrying huge shields and ladders to prepare for the siege of the city.
Li Guozhu's pirate morale was high, because the Huang family's warships almost destroyed the enemy's ship's artillery fire, their losses were limited when they joined the gang in the broadside battle, and they gained a huge amount of joy one by one.
There was no more than a lot of that that pirate carried, and everyone knew that the wealth in breaching this pirate's long-held fortress should be staggering.
Li Guozhu saw that the army's heart was available, and he knew that this fortress was not easy to fight, so he still said to Huang Sheng: "My lord, if you are humble, please fight, and all the sons and daughters under your command are screaming, is it good for the humiliation to take them to take the lead?" ”
Xu Xinsu had heard that He Bin's fortress was impregnable, and seeing that Li Guozhu was ready to take someone to personally admire him, it seemed that this brother was ready to show his loyalty to Lord Huang with his bloody military exploits.
It's a pity that he only brought dozens of subordinates, and there was really nothing to show for him, so he had to say: "Lord Huang, the dozens of arquebusiers brought by the humble position have all experienced many battles to defend the city, and they are experienced and can attack together with the Li Guozhu brothers. ”
Huang Sheng looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "The two of you are not afraid of life and death, the official knows, attacking the fortress, the Huang family is an expert, you don't have to suffer huge casualties, you can just lead the team to block He Bin's retreat." ”
The island where He Bin was entrenched was a long strip running north-south, and the Huang family's private soldiers attacked from the north, and Li Guozhu led his men to block the south so that the pirates would not collapse and flee all over the island. It's much easier to capture a captive!
Li and Xu were greatly moved, this Lord Huang is interesting enough, they have taken the initiative to prepare to bear huge casualties to be willing to fight hard, but Lord Huang did not let him, and expressed his attitude to let his command fight a tough battle.
Their men and horses are the capital, and they were forced by the situation to fight just now, and now of course they are down the slope and obey the order, even if the property in the fortress is not shared by their own subordinates, it doesn't matter.
After all, there is too much uncertainty about whether such a strong city can be successfully conquered, and even if it succeeds, I am afraid that my troops will collapse.
Li Guozhu and Xu Xinsu sent all their subordinates to block the passage about three miles wide in the south, but neither of them went in person, but stayed, they wanted to see with their own eyes how Lord Huang attacked this stone-built fortress.
The Huang family's private soldiers were very busy, and they were all making preparations according to the plan, and the engineering troops used prefabricated parts to build three lookout posts 500 steps away from the enemy's fortress, the artillery positions had been completed, and the armored fighting vehicles were all advanced into place and lined up neatly.
The location of He Bin's fortress was higher than the position of the Huang family's private soldiers, and their fort wall was seven meters, so the Huang family could not effectively observe what to do, so three six-zhang high lookout posts were successfully built and put into use.
The artillery commander Gou'er personally went to the lookout post to direct the three rifled guns to fire, with the aim of killing the six guns that the enemy had deployed on this wall.
He Bin's fortress is surrounded by mountains on one side, with three fort walls, and six Hongyi cannons are arranged in each, which is also powerful, and the accuracy and range are not good.
The biggest drawback is that it is cumbersome and heavy, with a large recoil, and a strong battery is needed to fire, so it is wishful thinking to move the position in a hurry.