Chapter Eighty-Seven--The Despair of the British in the Kaohsiung Landing
Compared with Ye Zongyuan, who still has a threat from his subordinates, at this time, the British who are deploying in the port of Kaohsiung will obviously not be so easy, after all, they can be regarded as directly exposed to artillery fire at this time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
And the benefits of the artillery of the Patriotic Army! The British were also very surprised!
You must know that the breech-loading artillery, the British at this time were not absent, but the rear-loading artillery of this era, that heavy volume, made the British not want to put them on the battleship!
However, in this eastern country, which they regarded as a country of ignorance, the technology of being able to carry breech-loading guns onto warships appeared.
At this moment, the British no longer dared to laugh, and now they were adrift on the sea...... A wooden battleship that doesn't make sense!
After all, no matter how unreasonable these wooden battleships are, no matter how they are built, their combat effectiveness is unquestionable!
As a weapon of war, practicality obviously outweighs appearance, and at this moment, the 100 Patriotic wooden-hulled warships moored on the sea are so terrifying in the eyes of the British......
Although shocked, why did this ignorant eastern country suddenly appear with such a problem?
But this did not affect the British, who immediately mobilized the batteries that had been built a month earlier to return fire on the battleships on the sea......
It's a pity that after only two rounds of artillery, the British were dumbfounded!
Because I don't know how to ...... in Kaohsiung Port All of them were front-loading guns, even if they were front-loading guns, and black gunpowder was used, which led to the extremely limited range of this type of artillery.
However, the battleships on the sea were just a little out of the range of their own artillery...... It's embarrassing!
Of course, Lu Yongwang, who was floating on the sea, did not consider the feelings of the British, but ordered his subordinates to keep firing......
Lu Yongwang's idea was: Don't carry out a landing battle first, didn't the British, together with the Taiwanese governor Ye Zongyuan, build many permanent fortifications in Kaohsiung Port? Then open fire, destroy them all first, and hold a landing battle!
As a result, there were bursts of loud noises over the entire Kaohsiung port, and even in Kaohsiung City, not far from the port, ordinary people were speculating and uneasy, not understanding what was going on? A war can't make such a big move!
In this era, Zhang Yun is the only one on the earth who has reinforced concrete technology.
This also leads to the fact that the buildings and forts on the entire Kaohsiung Port are just bricks, wood, earth and stone structures, but under the attack of modern artillery, the results can be imagined!
After all, the 155 plus howitzer shells weigh almost 50 kilograms, and the TNT high-explosive military explosives installed with them are also about seven or eight kilograms.
Anyway, this ...... on the port of Kaohsiung The simple fortifications of bricks, wood, earth and stone structures are obviously irresistible, and there are destroyed fortifications everywhere.
Even the artillery brought up by the British was blown up all over the sky......
Once a 155-plus howitzer shell explodes, the people hiding in this group of improvised fortifications made by the British, as long as they are still within thirty or forty meters of the center of the shell explosion, will inevitably die, no matter how they dodge!
So occasionally, Lu Yongwang can see a leg or other parts of a human body flying through the air through the telescope......
It was precisely because he saw that there were still people in the improvised fortification group that Lu Yongwang simply found a chair and sat down, waited until there was no one on the shore, and did not allow the artillery to stop.
Although when setting off, the marshal once said that the shells of the artillery must be used sparingly, and the barrel of the artillery also has a certain service life, and there is a danger of exploding the bore if it is exceeded!
However, Lu Yongwang did not intend to strictly abide by Zhang Yun's words, Zhang Yun personally followed him in every major war in the past, and all the military commanders were actually not very happy to fight.
And this time, it was finally his turn to lead the army out to fight alone, so of course, you need to make yourself completely cool!
What's more, listening to the roar of these 150 artillery pieces, Lu Yongwang actually had a good mood? It's kind of incredible!
But if Zhang Yun is here, he will definitely be able to guess, what is the reason for this? That's because people in this era have relatively little knowledge, and it's not surprising that Lu Yongwang has such an idea......
Of course, Zhang Yun is not here now, so the entire battlefield is controlled by Lu Yongwang alone, this taste should not be too sour!
"Roar ......"
Bursts of artillery roars resounded in the sky over Kaohsiung Port, just as Lu Yongwang listened leisurely...... However, the captain of the ship below reported: "The shells have reached the red line of the reserve......"
Lu Yongwang's mood cooled down in an instant, how long has it been going on? In less than an hour, the shells have already reached the red line of reserves!
After a few glances at Kaohsiung Harbor, Lu Yongwang reluctantly ordered to stop the shelling, and asked all the warships to put down their boats, and let 3,000 people go up for a tentative attack first......
At the same time, let the artillery continue to prepare, but don't open the cannon, first calibrate the shooting Zhuyuan, and when the time comes, find that there is still any resistance on the shore, then fine-tune the shooting Zhuyuan, and you can fire the cannon immediately, and the accuracy can also be greatly improved.
As soon as the landing order was issued, nearly 100 battleships became lively, and the noisy voices of people almost lifted the dark clouds above the entire sea and sky!
And more than 100,000 patriotic soldiers, after witnessing the powerful artillery fire of their own warships, at this time was the morale, and at the highest time, they naturally all roared, jumped on the landing boats, and rowed to the shore in unison.
After the shelling on this side stopped, the British finally reacted, and the officers began to beat and kick in succession, calling out all the soldiers who had not been killed just now.
And at the same time drove them to the sea and began to march to welcome the landing fleet of the Patriotic Army......
And Lu Yongwang, who did not land on the ship, looked at it, isn't this Nima a living target?
Of course, in order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, Lu Yongwang did not immediately order his subordinates to open fire, but gave the British time to form a team.
It wasn't until more than ten minutes later, when most of the British soldiers who were still alive had been called up and driven to the beach like ducks by the officers, that the sound of Lu Yongwang's cannon fire was heard on the battleship of the Patriotic Army, and then the cannon sound rumbled over Kaohsiung Port in an instant, which was earth-shattering......
And at this time, the British, who followed strict dogmatism, finally paid, and the consequences beyond their imagination were almost wiped out by Liao Liao's one or two thousand people!
At this time, the more than 3,000 soldiers of the Patriotic Army, who were still rowing hard in small boats, were finally not far from the shore, and they could complete the landing and search the entire Kaohsiung port within half an hour.
Seeing this, Lu Yongwang also put down half of his thoughts, and only waited for the 3,000 people of the advance force to search the entire Kaohsiung port to determine safety.
Next, a large-scale landing can be held, and as long as there are tens of thousands of extra people on board, they will successfully land in the port of Kaohsiung.
Then naturally, the war to unify the whole of Taiwan can be started, and there is no one who can stop it!
Not even the British!