Zeng Guofan quickly completed the defense deployment of Tianjin and waited for the foreign fleet to come. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, this time it was really beyond Zeng Guofan's expectations, all his previous worries became true, Bao Chao's analysis was all in vain, the Western army that came to attack Tianjin this time was dispatched more than 100,000 people, if you add the Japanese, it will be 110,000 people!

Those who came to Tianjin were the main forces of France and Spain, with more than 20 large and small warships, and 60,000 troops!

When Pan Dingxin, who was above the mouth of Dagu, saw the combined fleet of France and Spain, he gasped! So many warships! On top of the warship, a huge cannon with its mouth wide open is majestic, looking at the world!

Before the start of the fight, Pan Dingxin already had some drums in his heart!

The first to come was the battleship "Coulon", which was just delivered to the Navy by France two years ago, with a displacement of more than 6,000 tons, which was one of the largest battleships in this era, and the battleship was equipped with thirty 164mm rifled guns, and its combat power was so strong that it was not under the battleship Elroyal of the British Army!

The other two battleships were also equipped with more than 20 advanced guns, and the three battleships alone had nearly 80 guns!

In addition to the three battleships, the French fleet also sent more than a dozen gunboats, although the number of guns equipped with gunboats and the defensive strength are far inferior to the battleships, but they still have strong combat power, and the number of guns carried by the French fleet has reached more than 160!

In addition to the French fleet, the Spanish fleet also has a powerful fleet, two large battleships, both with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, and also carries ten gunboats, and the number of guns is also more than 100.

More than 20 warships from the two countries together rushed to Dagukou with great momentum, trying to complete the landing from Dagukou!

It was just noon, Mozak and Morenster ordered almost at the same time, and almost all the battleships began to attack Dagu Pass at the same time!

Boom Boom Boom ......

All of a sudden, the cannonballs in the sky were fired, almost covering all the forts north and south of Dagukou, and the initial exploratory attack was carried out!

One shell after another landed on the fort, blowing up the Dagukou fort into smoke!

Xiao Rulong, the chief soldier of the Dagukou Fort, immediately ordered the artillery on the fort to open full fire to resist, and the two battery groups in the north and south, together, dozens of batteries of all sizes and seventy or eighty pieces of artillery were put into the battle!

The shells returned, and the battle entered a tragic mode at the beginning!

The number of artillery equipped with Dagukou Fort is second only to Weihaiwei, and the performance of the artillery is also very advanced.

All of a sudden, the Faw-Spanish fleet was in a hurry!

Mozak and Morenster were secretly shocked and couldn't help but marvel, in the past few years, China's military power has been much stronger than before!

However, it is just a lot stronger, much stronger than the Fuzhou Fort, but compared with those military fortresses in the West, there is still a certain gap, as a famous admiral, the two of them will naturally not be timid.

The two men commanded the fleet, constantly launching onslaught, and the two sides fought from noon until near dusk, no less than 300 guns, and in half a day, fired tens of thousands of shells at each other!

The long-term battle has made the gap between the two sides infinitely magnified, yes, the combat power of the Dagukou Fort is strong, but compared with the Western fleet, it is still a big difference.

The most obvious is the military technology of artillery, this artillery technology and the experienced Fashua Navy, too much worse, due to the shortage of funds of the imperial court, after the reconstruction of the entire Dagukou, the three artillery battalions on the Dagukou are only trained once or twice a year, each artillery fires shells, no more than ten rounds, such a small training, how can we ensure that the military technology of the artillery is excellent?

It's okay to scare people, once it enters the actual battle, the crosshairs of this artillery are too bad, and the firing speed and cooperation between each other are also much worse!

The trouble is that the defense of Dagukou Fort is also a half-hung state, and the seven large forts are still very strong, all of them are bluestone piles, even if the cannonballs hit for a while and a half, they cannot break through the defense; But those small forts are all made of bricks and stones, and the base is very strong, and the green bricks on it can't stand the bombardment of artillery for a long time! And the violent explosion blew up the debris of the green bricks everywhere and injured the artillerymen who lacked defense!

At the same time, the artillery also lacks decent protection, almost all artillery lacks strong protection, and the large battery has also built a breast wall, which is only surrounded by green bricks, ten years ago, such protection can still play a role, at least it can withstand some solid bullets, but in the face of the current power upgrade shells, the blue bricks surround the chest wall, it is almost a layer of window paper, a stab will break, and it will not be able to stop the destruction of the shells at all! As for those small batteries, they didn't even have the nearest breastwork protection, and the artillery was all exposed!

In the fierce battle of half a day, the Dagukou Fort was not without any achievements, dozens of guns worked together, and the battleships of the Franco-Spanish fleet were able to survive safely, but two of the gunboats were sunk by artillery, and two gunboats were damaged, but these losses, the French and Spanish countries can still afford these losses!

Comparatively speaking, the loss of Dagukou is too great!

More than 20 small batteries were destroyed by the Franco-Spanish fleet more than 10, the artillery on the battery, almost all of them were killed, or wounded, all of them withdrew from the battle, together with the artillery were all destroyed, and the large battery, there were also more than a dozen heavy guns suffered from the repeated bombardment of the Franco-Spanish fleet, heavy damage and damage!

In half a day, the combat power of Dagukou Fort has been weakened by more than half!

Xiao Rulong has been stunned, he has never seen the strength of the foreigners' ships, he has just been transferred to Tianjin for more than a year, and he has never experienced such a big war at all!

Fortunately, Xiao Rulong is also a tiger general, but he can calm down and still fight to the death, especially the artillery combat power on the large battery still exists, and he can still nail the Faw-Spanish fleet to the Bohai Sea, and it is impossible to carry out the landing!

The sky gradually darkened, Mozak and Morenster gradually sweated on their faces, the battle was far from as smooth as imagined, in the original expectation of the two people, half a day, they could completely destroy the Dagukou Fort, but they didn't expect that after a fierce battle for half a day, it was only half destroyed!

(To be continued.) )