Chapter 522: Bombardment of Dagukou!
Thinking that several famous generals of the Great Qing Kingdom had died in just two years, and the White Lotus Sect that swept half of the Qing Dynasty was undecided, Liang Pengfei led the people to rebel and occupied several provinces in a row. What makes Prince Najia Yongyan most angry is that if you want to rebel, you will rebel, why do you want to go to Manchuria to make trouble, you are too much, right?
You know, Manchu is the land of our Manchurian Dragon, you not only went to make trouble, but also slaughtered so many Eight Banner soldiers, in addition to this, you actually fought Jinzhou and Shanhaiguan to play people, isn't this trying to force people to collapse?
Although Prince Jia Yongyan is not in a hurry, he is also well educated, and from the words of Qianlong, he has already noticed that his emperor Ama, who has reigned for 60 years, has gone through many ups and downs but still can't stand, and he has actually been shaken.
"Could it be that the Great Qing Dynasty has really reached the point of storm, and after more than 150 years of national history, it will be an ancient thing?" Panic and anger were entangled, as well as the concern for Qianlong's body, which made Prince Najia's heart sink more and more.
Originally, Yongyan wished that Qianlong would abdicate as soon as possible and pass on the throne, so that he could rule the empire according to his own ideas, and he would also take down that Heshen and rule the world with a clear world.
But now, he suddenly found that if he had to bear these pressures alone, he would have collapsed long ago. At this moment, he only hoped that his emperor Ama would be able to live for a few more years, at least, so that he would not have to bear the weight of the danger of destroying the country and the clan all at once.
Originally, among the famous generals of the Great Qing Kingdom, the most admired by Prince Jia Yongyan was naturally that Ah Gui A Zhongtang, but unfortunately, Ah Gui had already died of a stroke, and the greedy and corrupt Fukangan, who was no less pleasing to his eyes than He Shen, also died in the process of suppressing the White Lotus Sect, and Hailancha also died, and now, the last remaining general of the Great Qing Dynasty, He Lin, also fell in the process of suppressing the White Lotus Sect.
The rest are just three or two kittens, and the White Lotus Sect rebellion, which was originally expected to be put down as much as possible within two to three years, because of the rise of Liang Pengfei, it seems that it is getting farther and farther away from this goal.
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Thinking of Liang Pengfei, he had to think of his teacher again, Zhu Jue, the governor of Liangguang, now he hates that He Shen even more, if it weren't for He Shen's bad work, how could Zhu Qi go to the bloody land of Liangguang to serve as the governor, if it wasn't for this reason, how could he have a conflict with Liang Pengfei, leading to the current situation?
And how was it not recommended by He Shen at the beginning, if it wasn't for He Shen's younger brother He Lin also valued this person. How could he, Liang Pengfei, a pirate-born Qiu Ba, be so prosperous in Liangguang that he didn't take the Liangguang officials in his eyes at all, so that there would be a change today.
"Heshen!" Prince Jia Yongyan clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he muttered the name that made his stomach hurt terribly. No matter what, anyway, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already put the blame for Liang Pengfei's rebellion directly on Na Heshen's head.
Tianjin, Dagukou Fort, here is the throat of Beijing, the barrier of Tianjin. Since ancient times, it has been an important town of coastal defense, known as "Humen in the south, Dagu in the north".
During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, in order to resist the Japanese invaders, strengthen the coastal defense of Dagukou, began to build a fortress, and officially garrisoned the fort. At the beginning of the attack on the Yangtze River by the British, the Qing court paid more attention to the Tianjin Gate barrier, and began to build a fort here, and built a large round fort on the north and south banks of the Dagu Pass, which was made of wood inside and blue masonry outside, and was filled with white ash. It is about one zhang and five feet high, two zhang and five feet wide, and six feet deep. There are three general cannons on top of the fort. There are also several small forts, with 10 small guns on each side.
The garrison is the front left and the center left, the rear left, the front right, the center right, the center right, and the rear right of the Dagu Association in Tianjin Town, a total of six battalions of soldiers and horses, which are stationed in Dagukou, Tanggu, Beitang, and Gegu.
However, the two battalions of the center right and rear right were stationed on both sides of the fort. Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, this Dagu is not to say that it is a pirate, even a pirate hair has not been seen, it has been safe for more than a hundred years, if it is not for the English people who played a prestige in the Yangtze River, here is at most a battalion of soldiers and horses, and now there are two battalions, and a fort has been built, and no one dares to come, even if it is the fisherman, no one dares to dangle in front of the two forts.
This made the green battalion of these two battalions guarding the Dagu Fort very leisurely, but the defenders on the forts on both sides of the strait were only a few dozen people, and the remaining green battalion soldiers were either gambling in the camp station, or simply staying in the barracks and bragging.
And the deputy general of the Dagu Association, Fu Zhulong'a, was in a house next to the big camp at the moment, leaning on the red and green, leading a subordinate, listening to the drama on the stage in this courtyard, drinking flower wine below, and teasing the little beauties found by Tianjin Qinglou.
"Adult, adult, adult......" On that stage, a play happened to arrive, and the applause from the audience was endless, but there was a panicked shout outside the door of the house.
"Call your mother's name, call the soul?! General Ben couldn't even watch the play clearly. Fu Zhu Longa couldn't help but be furious, glaring and scolding. The leader of Fu Zhu Long'a's personal soldiers immediately rolled up his sleeves and rushed to the gate, ready to beat up the guy who didn't know how to lift outside the door, and vent his anger to his own general.
Just as the little peach with a pink face beside Nafu Zhu Longa had a flattering smile, his little hand was on Nafu Zhu Longa's chest, and he comforted the tired general not to lose the interest of watching the play for trivial things. The leader of Fuzhu Long'a's own soldiers rushed back with a dejected face.
"What the fuck are you fucking or what's wrong?!" As soon as he saw that this guy's face had become so ugly, Fu Zhulonga couldn't help but be shocked, and his scolding voice was much lower.
"General, outside, boats, lots of ships." The head of the pro-soldier was not very sharp-tongued, and raised his hand to point to the door, and at the door, a pale guard was pointing to the sea.
Buzz Buzz Buzz ...... Buzz Buzz ...... At this moment, a loud bell rang, and the tune hummed by the actors on the stage was cut off.
Hearing this bell, Fu Zhu Longa's face finally changed, it was an alarm bell, a thing that would only ring when the Dagu Fort found the enemy's situation, Fu Zhu Longa had been here for two years, but it had never been ringed, and today, this buzzing sound shook Fu Zhu Longa's heart and liver a little confused.
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The camp of Dagu Association is about a mile away from the shore of the Haihe River, and the area in this area is extremely flat, except for the forts erected on both banks, standing in that camp, you can directly see the blue sea line as far as the eye can see.
And now, what is reflected in the black eyes of the rich Zhulong is no longer a simple blue coastline. Because above that coastline, patches of white sails, nay, should be said to be thousands of white sails, and under the white sails were huge warships, and since they were so far away, Fuju Longa still felt that those battleships were so tall that they even surpassed those forts that were one foot and five feet tall.
What scared him was that at the top of the mast of a tall and majestic battleship like a flying peak, there was a banner waving in the wind, and in the center of the blood-colored four-cornered flag was a big Chinese character: Liang.
"Enemy attack, enemy attack...... Enemy attack! From the beginning of the hesitant tone, to the affirmative sentence, to the final scream, the voice was so sharp that it even surpassed the flowery tone of the actor on the stage.
At this time, the patrol soldiers who had been stunned for a long time ran on the fort in a panic, shouting and rushing to the gun position. When they rushed to the gun position on the turret, they remembered that the ammunition of the artillery was still locked in the gun chamber behind the fort, and they quickly rushed down to open the gun chamber, took out the gunpowder and shells, and then rushed to the fort, and then began to clean the gun chamber and prepare to load and ignite.
"Just a broken cannon?! Tsk tsk. It seems that there should be three heavy guns of about 8,000 catties and ten artillery pieces of about 3,000 catties. At this time, Liang Pengfei, who was standing on the bridge of the flagship ship, observed the every move of the hurried Qing soldiers on the fort through the telescope, while estimating the number of guns on the fort.
"Order the battleships of the First Fleet to form an artillery strike formation and prepare for battle." Shi Dakai, the fleet commander who was standing not far behind Liang Pengfei, gave the order loudly. The commander of Liang Pengfei's Guards Fleet was originally Shi Xianggu, but now Shi Xianggu is about to give birth because she is pregnant with Liujia, so Shi Dakai went out for her sister and became the commander of the Northern Expedition Fleet this time.
Soon, the six three-masted battleships broke out of formation and began to line up horizontally, and the guns on the side of the battleship were opened, and a door of guns sticking out of the side gun windows.
"Target, a large battery on the left bank, a distance of 1,300 meters......" On one of the battleships, Zhang Baozai, who had the rank of second lieutenant on his shoulder, carefully observed the battery in front of him, and loudly reported various parameters, according to which the artillerymen on the artillery deck quickly adjusted the firing attitude of the gun.
In a very short time, all the guns were loaded and aimed, and everything was just waiting for the order of the commander of the fleet.
At this time, the Qing soldiers on the Dagukou Fort were still busy, and in the shouts and scolding of those sentry officers, they were hurriedly loading the shells, and even the gunners of the two guns stuffed the projectiles into the muzzles before remembering that they had not yet loaded the gunpowder.
Seeing that the commander of the detachment who had received the order to attack, he shook his head vigorously. "Inform the ships that three rounds of artillery are ready, I don't want any shells from the other side to fly out of the muzzle, understand?!"
"Yes, Commander!" The naval soldiers on the bridge replied in unison, and the next moment, the delicate fire roses finally bloomed at the sound of the order......
(To be continued)