Chapter 328: Shut the door and beat the dog
Zheng Yiguan is also accustomed to using firearms, how many casualties will the siege troops cause if there is no artillery fire in attacking the fortified city? So he brought as many cannons as he could. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Xiamen City is less than 20 miles away from the port wharf, as long as everyone works hard and transports more cannons to attack the city, Xu Xinsu will not be able to escape.
Zheng Yiguan's main target in Xiamen this time was Xu Xinsu, because Xu Xinsu was the head snake in this area, and he had contacts with pirates from all walks of life, with the Dutch East India Company, and with the Portuguese in Macao.
Zheng Yiguan wanted to get the best conditions for Daming Zhao'an, and he turned into an official and a soldier to play two sides and three knives, but Xu Xinsu made him very unhappy when he was in the wind and rain, and one mountain could not tolerate two tigers, so Xu Xinsu had to die.
In history, Zheng Yiguan did it, Xiamen City was breached, Xu Xinsu and more than 1,000 defenders were killed, after Zheng Yiguan looted, there was no survivor in the center left, and the property was looted.
Now he is afraid that he will not be able to do it, and it is difficult to say whether he will be blocked by the evil Lord Huang Sheng and killed here, but I don't know if Xu Xinsu has been killed by Zheng Yiguan!
Xiamen Port is very lively, and the offensive of the Huang family's fleet is like a wolf and a tiger, and it is lightning fast!
Zheng Yiguan is not an idle person, he has already defeated the Fujian Naval Division, sent more than a dozen sentinel ships to monitor the sea surface of the nearby twenty nautical miles, and any fleet approaching will report to Zheng Yiguan's big tent.
Where would they have thought of the Infernal Affairs, all the sentinel ships have defected silently, and the pirates on board will soon appear in the ranks of the Ming army to persuade their former accomplices to surrender.
Zheng Yiguan's warship in the port was not in a state at all, they were eating, drinking, and playing with the women who had been robbed.
Suddenly, the cannon rumbled, and the pirates were dumbfounded. Of course, it was the Huang warship that was shelling unilaterally.
Fifty-two warships spewed shells and landed on any Zheng Yiguan warship that dared to resist, and soon several warships were on fire, presumably hit by powder kegs.
Many of the ship's unclothed sailors and gunners jumped into the sea to flee for their lives, and the screams of the women were extremely piercing. Zheng Yiguan's sailors were still relatively combative, and immediately several warships reacted and began to counterattack, which was nothing more than artillery coming and going, and shells flying indiscriminately.
It's a pity that they are too vulnerable to attack, and they can't fight three rounds of artillery fire before they stop cooking.
Since the Huang warships were all rifled guns and smoothbore guns, their accuracy and speed were well complemented, and they could attack all the way from far to near.
Many of the enemy's smoothbore guns were knocked out when the ship was ready to flank the ship, and the Huang family's shells were so poisonous that they exploded a large area, and the pirates cried and shouted that their mothers were embarrassed, and they jumped into the sea one by one like dumplings.
Immediately, Zheng Yiguan's fleet, those still powered sea ships, began to flee.
The Huang warship began to be loaded with dumbbell bullets and chain balls, which were specially designed to deal with the masts of enemy ships. As the name suggests, the cannonball is like a dumbbell-shaped, and like two iron balls connected by iron chains, when it is hit, it spins rapidly, and when it falls on the deck of the enemy ship, it is extremely destructive to the mast.
Those prisoners who were supervised by the Ming army and used to persuade them to surrender, they were originally passively persuaded to surrender, but now they saw that their former comrades-in-arms were beaten to death by the officers and soldiers, and they were already sincerely persuaded to surrender, they actually wanted to save the lives of those former robes.
They shouted desperately, telling Zheng Yiguan's pirates to lay down their arms, it is useless to resist any longer, you will be killed. Gradually, there were ships with white flags, and slowly they began to increase.
An army without faith, disorganized, and living by robbery can only fight a good fight, and once it is hit hard, it will soon collapse and flee in all directions.
If you can't escape, you can't escape, the Huang family's warships are prepared and unprepared, and they have already formed a trend of closing the door and fighting dogs, and they are also concentrating on attacking Zheng Yiguan's part of the troops, which is several times the overall strength of this force.
Although Zheng Yiguan now has six or seven hundred seagoing ships, there will not be more than 200 warships of the No. 3 Fu ship and above. There are 1,200 seagoing ships in the port of Xiamen, most of which are troop carriers and supply ships, and there are only about 60 warships and armed merchant ships.
And some of the artillery on these warships were transported to attack the Zhongzuo Station, and the gunners of course also went with the artillery, so these sixty or so warships were not fully equipped, and the fighters were not satisfied.
Of course, this gave the Huang family warships an opportunity, in the case of being raided, under the group beating of the Huang family's local superior forces, only a dozen warships had time to react, and seven or eight warships counterattacked, but unfortunately they lost their resistance after only hitting no more than three rounds of artillery.
The biggest advantage of the Huang family's warships is the propeller technology that came out more than 200 years in advance, and the speed is incomparable.
They were not as tenacious as the Japanese ronins, and seeing that there was no possibility of slipping away from the Ming warships, they quickly raised the white flag obediently.
A large-scale naval battle in the true sense of the word since the Huang family's warship left the division lasted less than half an hour before it ended.
There were not many beheadings, but a lot of captures, more than 50 complete warships were captured, transport ships and supply ships became lucky because they had no combat effectiveness, and almost all of them became the private property of the Huang family, and there were about 120 ships.
More than 1,000 people were captured, and the number is still growing, because Ling Hong organized many small boats to hunt for pirates who jumped into the sea to escape for their lives.
Of course, there were many gold and silver treasures on the pirate's ship, and it was too late to count them for a while, so it can be seen that the pirate leader Zheng Yiguan also plundered a lot of goods when he invaded the port of Xiamen.
There are also more than 50 Ming warships, which were originally the spoils of Zheng Yiguan's victory, but now they are all benefits left to the Huang family!
rescued more than 500 women who had been robbed by pirates and were about to take them back for pleasure, and more than 300 strong men, who seemed to be dressed as sailors and gunners of the Ming army.
It seems that Zheng Yiguan needs a lot of sailors and gunners, and may be ready to coerce them into being pirates.
The soldiers of the Huang family were very busy, they knew that the family would immediately go to the center and left to relieve the siege, but unfortunately there were no war horses, after unloading the armored chariot, the coachman commander Zhu Rongguo decided to use people to pull the cart, and soon the two coachmen with eight or nine rescued Ming troops were ready.
Although these Ming troops did not know which part of the Ming army came to save them, it was obvious that these Ming troops were much stronger than them, and everyone was in good spirits and well-armed.
The shock caused by the hundreds of artillery pieces attacking the pirates just now made them dare not disobey the order, they are insiders, and they know that this Ming army is definitely not easy to mess with, and it is safer to be obedient.
Using people to pull the chariot, it is easier to switch to the advancing state when engaged, as long as you pull the chariot on the spot and turn around and push the carriage directly with your hands, you can attack and advance, people and horses are different, long hands, although the advance is a little slow, but it is more stable, and the speed can keep up with the heavy infantry.
Ge Chengjie's chariot driver, as the head of the family, was one of the few coachmen to take part in the voyage, and he often took the coachmen to maintain the armored chariots so that the salty and humid sea air would not rust the steel parts.
After the installation of the armored combat vehicle, all the coachmen are conducting a safety hazard investigation, and they must ensure that they can be pulled out and hit.