ps: The two chapters are 3,000 words, and there are three more in the past

After receiving the news that the clippers had reported the naval attack on Cen Harbor, Ren Siqi ordered all the warships to set off. The pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info sent Mao 18 to lead the fleet directly under him to reinforce Cen Gang, and Ren Siqi himself personally led more than 30 large and small warships of the Olier detachment to attack Dinghai, in addition to leaving 500 infantry to defend Daishan, other infantry also boarded the ship and set off with him.

Since Wang Zhiren dared to attack himself with a desire for profit, Ren Siqi didn't mind making a big fuss.

Break Dinghai City, take Wang Zhiren's lair, and give the gentry of Ningbo a little color.

As for the safety of Cen Gang, there are 500 infantry led by Jin Yufei inside, and Sima Nan and Mao 18 outside, I believe that there is no problem in holding the small Cen Gang.

Daishan is more than 100 miles to Dinghai, and the wind direction is not too smooth, and it took the fleet three hours to arrive.

Dinghai is located at the mouth of the Yongjiang River to Hangzhou Bay.

Dinghai's full name is Dinghaiguan, because it is stuck in the estuary of the Yongjiang River, it is an important place in Ningbo coastal defense, and the largest naval division along the coast of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is stationed.

On the top of Zhaobao Mountain next to Dinghaiguan, there is Weiyuan City, a pass and a city are firmly stuck at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, defending the hinterland of eastern Zhejiang.

The naval camp of Wang Zhiren, the commander of Dinghai, was here, but Wang Zhiren led all the ships to attack Cen Port, and the water village of Dinghai Customs was empty.

When Wang Zhiren left, he took all the warships with him, and only the old, weak, sick and disabled were left behind in Dinghaiguan.

When they saw a fleet appear on the distant sea, the soldiers who stayed behind didn't care at first, they thought it was Wang Zhiren's fleet back.

Because they are all the armies of the Ming Dynasty, the flags on the ships are all sun and moon flags, and there is no difference between them.

However, when the fleet approached the mouth of the Yongjiang River and approached the Dinghai Customs, the soldiers in charge of the defense were surprised to see that these ships were not Dinghai warships. When I looked at the flag carefully, I found that it was the ship of the Daishan Inspection Division.

The soldiers knew that the chief soldier Wang Zhiren led the team to attack Cen Gang in the morning, but in the afternoon there was a fleet of Daishan at Dinghaiguan, could it be said that Wang Zhiren had been defeated by the Daishan army and the whole army was annihilated? The soldiers on the gate panicked at once.

There were 1,000 soldiers defending the entire gate, but most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled, and had no combat effectiveness.

The general in charge of staying behind was the guerrilla general Li Yi, who was not Wang Zhiren's cronies, and had always been ostracized by Wang Zhiren, and his subordinates were all old and weak.

Wang Zhiren led his men to loot Cen Gang, but he didn't let himself participate at all, Li Yi was naturally dissatisfied, and at noon he drank with a few of his subordinates and got drunk.

When the soldiers saw the enemy attacking, they hurried to his room and called him, but they couldn't wake up. I had to get a basin of cold water and splash it on his head to wake him up.

Before Li Yi could get angry, when he heard that the Daishan fleet was coming, he suddenly became frightened.

"Hurry up and shoot, fire!" Li Yi hurriedly ran to Guancheng and gave orders to the gunners in the fort.

There is a fort built in the Dinghai Customs, with dozens of large and small artillery, including as many as ten red-coated cannons. Because the location of the Dinghai Customs is too important, it crosses the Dinghaiguan and goes up the river to the hinterland of eastern Zhejiang.

However, since the end of the Japanese Rebellion, the waters around eastern Zhejiang have been peaceful for a long time, although there are still countless pirates on the island, but there is no one who dares to attack Dinghai.

The days of peace have passed, and the army has naturally slackened. Coupled with the widespread corruption of the army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was especially serious in Jiangnan.

Although there are dozens of cannons on the Dingguan Fort, the cannons have not been fired for a long time. The gunners were also largely untrained, and many of them could not fire a few shots a year.

Cannonballs and gunpowder all need money, and once a cannon goes down, a few taels of silver will be gone, and Wang Zhiren is usually reluctant to train at all.

So when Li Yi hurriedly ran to Guancheng and ordered the gunners to open fire, he saw that the gunners were panicked and clumsy.

One of the gunners, who was the fastest, finally loaded the gunpowder projectile and lit the arquebus. With a "boom", the shell flew out, did not fly to the location of the Daishan military sailboat, and fell into the sea in the middle of the way.

"Stupid, you have too little gunpowder!" His boss, a general flag, kicked him in the ass and kicked him to the ground.

The gunner of the other gun next to him had just filled the gunpowder and was about to reload the shells when he saw this, and he hurriedly filled the barrel with another package of gunpowder. Tamp it with a stick, fill it with a cannonball, light the arquebus, and fire the cannon.

There was a loud bang, and the shell did not fly out of the chamber as expected, but the gunpowder exploded in the chamber, and the cannon was blown out of the gun position and rolled in the air. The gunner was blown up without saying a word, and the general flag, who was very close, was also swept over by the blast wave.

Seeing the explosion and boring of the artillery, the other gunners were frightened one by one and stopped their movements.

The guerrilla general Li Yi looked at the boring artillery and the bloody gunners in horror, and was speechless for a long time.

Ren Siqi stood on the top deck of the "Princess", looking at the Dinghai City on the coast.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, you can see the busy and panicked soldiers of Wang Zhiren's troops in Guancheng.

All the warships of the Dinghai Navy followed Wang Zhiren to attack Cen Gang, so how could they prevent their own side from going up the Yongjiang River without a ship?

As long as you go up the Yongjiang River and land behind Guancheng, you can easily capture Guancheng, and then attack Dinghai City and take Wang Zhiren's lair.

Ren Siqi was about to order the fleet to enter the Yongjiang River when suddenly several cannon shots rang out from Guancheng.

A few shells came from the gate, and before they could reach the fleet, they fell far into the sea.

With such a cannon skill, Ren Siqi couldn't help but laugh dumbly. The Princess was immediately ordered to return fire, and the other ships sailed up the Yongjiang River.

The "Princess" turned sideways and aimed its side at Sekijo, and eight guns on each deck opened fire in turn, and the shells flew over a distance of more than three miles towards Sekijo.

The gunners of the Daishan Army have been trained for a long time and have also experienced great battles, and their gunnery is far from being comparable to that of the Dinghai Navy.

Eight guns fired one after another, and the shells basically fell near Sekijo.

A cannonball smashed on the pile of plates in Guancheng, and the piles of dishes were immediately smashed into pieces, and the soldiers of the Ding Navy who were hiding behind screamed miserably, and their faces were covered with blood from the flying rubble.

The guns on one deck fired one after another, and the "Princess" immediately turned the hull of the ship so that the other deck was aimed at the coast. Eight guns on the other side began firing.

A shell landed just on the casemate, smashed a hole in the stone-made battery, and then ricocheted, knocking over a nearby gun and grabbing it over the thigh of a gunner. The gunner's thigh was smashed in an instant, and his flesh and blood were blurred.

Sixteen cannons opened fire in turn, and the entire fortress was immediately plunged into a panic, for these old and weak soldiers, they had never experienced such a scene.

In fact, the shells of this era were all solid shells, unless they were directly hit by the shells, they could not do much damage at all, but watching the cannonballs rain and splash dust, watching the miserable situation of their companions when they were hit, and listening to their cries of pain, this brought extreme panic to the soldiers on the city.

The gunners on the turret didn't care about firing their guns, and one by one they hid behind the stacks of dishes with frightened faces.

One "Princess" actually suppressed dozens of artillery pieces in the entire Guancheng!

The other sailing ships took advantage of the situation to sail into the Yongjiang River, and there was originally an iron cable blocking the river at the bottom of the Yongjiang River, called "Rolling River Dragon", but the Daishan army came suddenly, where did they have time to pull up the heavy iron cable?

Sailboats entered the waterway of the Yongjiang River from between the two sides of the Guancheng, and 1,000 infantry soon boarded the bank of the Yongjiang River and killed the Guancheng.

Dinghaiguan City is designed to deal with the enemy from the sea, and all the artillery muzzles are also facing the sea, so there is not much defense against attacks from behind.

Seeing the Daishan military sailing ship sailing into the Yongjiang River, the Dinghai Navy on the Guancheng knew that the general trend was gone. They were already dizzy by the artillery bombardment of the "Princess" at sea, but now they saw that the enemy had killed them from behind, and the Dinghai soldiers on the city suddenly panicked.

Most of the soldiers did not have the courage to resist, and they left the city and fled to Dinghai City.

The infantry of the Daishan Army easily captured the city, and then followed the defeated troops of the Dinghai Army in pursuit.

Dinghai City is located on the top of Zhaobao Mountain by the Yongjiang River, also known as Weiyuan City, built in Jiajing years ago when the Japanese Rebellion, the Ming Dynasty general Lu Bo began to build Weiyuan City, together with Dinghaiguan, a pass and a city stand majestically at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, becoming the first line of defense against the sea attack, and the only line of defense.

If you break through the Dinghai Customs and capture Dinghai City, you can go up the Yongjiang River and go straight to the hinterland of Zhejiang.

Originally, there was a naval fleet, and there were thousands of soldiers in the Dinghai Navy, and the Dinghai defense line was almost impregnable. However, Wang Zhiren was so greedy that he left Dinghai with all the ships and attacked Cen Harbor, which made the Daishan military ships easily break through the defense line of Dinghai.

After occupying the Dinghai Customs, leaving the Princess to defend at the mouth of the river, Ren Siqi took Xiong Er's escort to the Dinghai Customs.

Standing on the Dinghai Customs, you can see the Dinghai City on Zhaobao Mountain.

A thousand infantry were following the defeat of the Dinghai Navy and attacking Dinghai City.

Muskets rang out one after another, the sound of gunfire continued like popping beans, through the clairvoyant mirror, Ren Siqi saw that the infantry of the Daishan Army arrived at Dinghai City under the leadership of Ren Xingfan, the battalion, and was attacking Dinghai City on his back.

More than 300 musketeers lined up under the city wall and fired muskets at the head of the city, and the Dinghai army at the head of the city did not dare to show their heads when they were beaten, let alone launch a counterattack under the city.

The circumference of Dinghai City is 200 zhang, two zhang two feet high, one zhang thick, 160 pheasant moats, it is a small city. However, it is located on the top of Zhaobao Mountain, with the natural cliff of Zhaobao Mountain as the city base, built around the top of the mountain, the terrain is dangerous, and it is very solid.

However, no matter how strong the city is, it must be defended by elite soldiers, and when a Franc machine cannon is transported from the bottom of the mountain and the city gate is blasted open, the Dinghai soldiers inside surrender immediately. The infantry of the Daishan Army easily occupied Dinghai City and captured Wang Zhiren's lair. (To be continued.) )