Chapter 247: The Great Training Army (5) -- Artillery Fire

Next, Ou Ziwen asked people to pull out the flag of the British army and replace it with the five-star red flag of the Ming Dynasty. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Although there was no accompaniment, Ou Ziwen asked the soldiers to play and sing the national anthem in unison. As the sea breeze blows, the red flag flutters in the wind. The eyes of the soldiers were also unconsciously focused on the national flag.

In everyone's heart, there is a sense of pride. This is the honor of being a Ming person and the pride of being a Ming soldier.

Later, Ou Ziwen sent some canned food, biscuits, soda and other food to the natives, and also gave a few captured British muskets. Let them guard the national flag well, and don't let the flag fall and get dirty before the Ming army returns.

Whether it was food or muskets, the natives had only seen it with the British. And looking at the rarity of the British army's food, it is obviously very precious. Now Da Ming not only does not bully them, but also gives them such things, just to keep a flying red cloth, which is simply too worthwhile.

made the indigenous patriarch, with a group of male and female natives, kneel and bow towards the neat Ming army, and be grateful. Of course, they were not only grateful to the Ming for their food and muskets, but also to the Ming for helping them drive away the hateful white people.

When Ou Ziwen left North Andaman Island with all the soldiers of the Second Marine Division. The natives of that island have been in place for a long time.

The adjutant stood beside Ou Ziwen, looking like he wanted to speak and stopped. Ou Ziwen only glanced at it, and understood his question. He asked with a witty smile, "Aren't you surprised, why didn't I leave soldiers stationed on North Andaman Island?" ”。

"Yes! Checkmate! You actually took the island of North Andaman Island, why didn't you leave a single soldier behind. Isn't this the same as giving up the island you have gotten? ”。 The adjutant replied honestly. He was a farmer who migrated to Siam. Later, he was attracted by the gold of Daming and moved to Daming. When he joined the army again, he joined the navy. In his temperament, he still maintains the sincerity of the croppers.

His temperament is also very appetizing for Ou Ziwen. The two have worked together for so many days and get along well. Conversations like this have been asked more than a dozen times.

However, Ou Ziwen is still very proud of his strategic vision, so he is willing to explain. He said that the reason why he didn't leave soldiers to guard this island was because there were too many islands here, and if he had to arrange them everywhere, the forces would be very scattered.

Therefore, the best way is to choose a few islands with dangerous locations and good terrain as one of the garrison points of the Ming Dynasty.

Like this North Andaman Island, the terrain is not advantageous, and the location is not so outstanding, so it is not considered. Maybe in the future, after the Ming Dynasty completely controls this place, he will immigrate to this place and gain a firm foothold here!

But at the moment, it can't!

With the momentum of subduing the North Andaman Island, the 2nd Marine Division formed a series of storms all the way to the Cocos Islands. At first, the British troops stationed there had not yet reacted. It wasn't until I saw the fluttering five-star red flag that I knew that it was the Ming army coming.

However, the news of Burma's gift to the Greater Benko Islands was known to the British army in advance. Therefore, after seeing the Ming Navy approaching, he was not surprised. And because it has been arranged for a long time, the number of troops has reached more than 1,000 people. Although more than 900 are Indian soldiers, this scale is still not small.

And there are two rusty warships parked on the edge of the island, armed with a total of sixty-four cannons. In normal times, it would be more than enough to protect Grand Coco Island with this power. But now it's extraordinary. Even if the British army was prepared, it was still of little use in the face of the Ming army, which was hundreds of times larger than itself.

As a result, the British troops on the island failed to persuade and began to intimidate the Ming Dynasty to leave. Ou Ziwen is too lazy to talk nonsense. Directly ask the artillery on the ship to finish the shells of today's exercise.

Don't stop until the time comes!

This order made the artillerymen, who had been firing hollow shells, overjoyed. They all changed to solid bullets and vented their anger vigorously towards the target on the shore.

Chen Jiasheng also wanted to fight the two broken British warships. As a result, as soon as the ammunition was filled, the sound of cannon booming was heard in my ears. But it was the other warships that were already impatient to open fire.

I saw more than a dozen sparkling shells, flying towards the British warship. Those British soldiers, too, knew that it was not good, and followed to fight back. But in terms of range, Daming's shells have always maintained an advantage over the world.

Therefore, the shells of the British army fell on the surface of the sea in a very orderly manner, and exploded two or three meters high. The nearest one is still more than ten meters away from the Ming warship. I didn't even touch the hair.

At this time, Daming's cannonballs had really hit the British warship.

As a result, the roaring cannon roared several times louder, and the eardrums of the people were thundering. In the midst of the waves of fire and the billowing smoke of gunpowder, the two British warships sank to the bottom of the sea very sadly.

This situation made the soldiers of the Second Marine Division burst into cheers in unison.

Chen Jiasheng also shouted! Although he did not sink the warship, it was an enemy ship. As long as it's gone, he's happy.

But when he cheered, the always calm knife neck had already fired!

The target was the British army on the island.

When one of the adobe houses collapsed, Chen Jiasheng, Qin Daniu, Hu Gouyu and others cheered again.

Because it was not easy to destroy these British garrisons. After all, the British were not unaware of the range of the Daming shells. Except for the third-generation light cannon, which has not yet been equipped with the whole army, the British have no way of knowing. The first two generations of Light Cannons were calculated by the British army to have an approximate range.

As a result, when the British army was building military facilities, it had a targeted estimate of the security range. It's just that the area of Big Coco Island is not large, and no matter how you retreat, it is very close to the range of the artillery.

This allowed Chen Jiasheng and their shells to destroy the target. It is also the lack of strong building materials on the island that makes the houses very unsturdy, otherwise they would not be so easy to destroy.

Seeing that the red-sleeved gendarmes in charge of counting the merits of their team wrote down the merits of their team, the neck of the knife, which had always been solemn, also showed a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and smiled like a spring breeze. Hu Gou saw the rest and shivered unconsciously. complained in a low voice: "Captain, it's better that you don't laugh!" ”。

It's really weird with this big yellow tooth! It makes people feel panicked and a little unsteady.

The ears of the knife neck are quite clever, and he immediately put away his smile and turned to look. Shen asked what Hu Gou was muttering.

caused Hu Gou to panic, with a flattering smile on his face, and hurriedly said that it was nothing.

Fortunately, at this time, the cannon roared, so that the knife neck did not listen carefully. Otherwise, the next training will be enough for Hu Gou.

After about two hours, under the unsparing bombardment of Chen Jiasheng and his troops, the amount of artillery shells for this exercise was finally exhausted. Chen Jiasheng hadn't come back to his senses yet, and habitually made a posture of loading shells, but found that his hand was empty, and it had already been finished. (To be continued.) )