Chapter 17: The Great War is Imminent
Taking Zhoushan City does not mean that the entire Zhoushan Island will be controlled, there are still a small number of Qing troops stationed on several different strongholds on the island, and after handing over the clean-up task to his subordinates, Yang Feng went to the small island where he buried the arms as quickly as possible, and transported back all the more than 20 tons of arms there that night, which is all he relied on in the short term.
The vast majority of these arms are grenades, and in this day and age there is nothing better to use, whether on land or at sea.
Although artillery and muskets were already common at this time, the real solution to the battle was hand-to-hand combat with swords and spears at close range, and even in naval battles, broadside combat was still the final means of deciding the victory, at least in the East. And the grenade is precisely the most suitable for such a battlefield, at this time the army did not have the habit of dispersing the charge, it was as intensive as possible, a grenade blew down a large area, in the previous naval battle, the highest record was once a grenade scrapped a whole ship of more than 30 Qing troops.
In the future, this is the magic weapon that Yang Feng gave to his rabble to create miracles.
And then there's the bazooka.
This kind of thing can play the role of a cannon at sea, and a real cannon is useless to him, because no one can use it except him, and the fact that those pirates can use breech guns does not mean that they will use breech guns, let alone mortars.
But bazooka they will use.
In Zhang Lao Er, he is called Zhang Lao Er, after he learned to use it proficiently, and destroyed a number of Qing warships, there have been many rebel soldiers who have put down their fear of the immortal magic weapon, and began to learn how to use it, they all know that as long as they look at the scope, they can pull the trigger on the target they want to hit, this kind of fool-like operation of the weapon is too easy to use, although the rocket assembly is still a little difficult for them, but the smart ones have begun to learn the same.
Therefore, Yang Feng is still mainly these two weapons this time, as for automatic rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers and so on, it is also a waste to give them, it is estimated that they will not be much stronger than Uncle Hei who holds AK47 in later generations.
After transporting the munitions back, he immediately reorganized his men, of course, it could not be said that it was really reorganized, but only to carry out the necessary firepower configuration, and selected a group of full-time bombardiers from his rebel army, and sent ten grenades in groups of two, which were stationed on the Tanjia pirate ship. Zhoushan is surrounded by the sea on all sides, as long as the Qing army and naval division are defeated at sea, they will be invincible, and once there is a naval battle, these ships will go straight to the Qing warship, rush closer to more than ten or twenty meters and throw grenades directly, first blow up the Qing army on the ship, and then rush up to see that the situation is almost the same, and the Tanjia pirates will clean up the rest, and by the way, the ship will be robbed.
And the core of his fleet is still the Valkyrie, this ship is equipped with a bazooka, once the battle it is responsible for disrupting the Qing army, although at present his subordinates do not know how to drive this ship, but this does not matter, let Wallace and those people continue to work for him, anyway, at this time they have nowhere to go, if they don't do it, they are careful to throw it into the sea to feed the sharks.
Wallace was helpless about this, they were now on the thief ship, and they couldn't run if they wanted to.
Fortunately, Yang Feng promised that if there were European merchant ships coming, no matter which country they were, they would be let go back on the ship, and he also asked him to take away snowflake balls and music boxes, and give a set of aluminum alloy tableware, which was like a street promotion, but it did make Wallace feel at ease.
In addition to these, Yang Feng in Zhoushan also obtained a large number of arms supplements, cannons, bird guns, bows and arrows, knives and guns are available, here is also the general army of Dinghai Town, one of the most important fortresses in coastal defense, not to mention that the arms are abundant first, not only arms, but also other food, enough for Yang Feng to eat for thousands of people for two years, and this is only in the government warehouse, not counting the hands of those businessmen in the people.
In short, in addition to the lack of people, Yang Feng is now lacking in nothing, and there are still tens of thousands of taels of silver in the warehouses of the Dinghai County Yahe Customs!
This place is one of the four major customs at present, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, Zhejiang Customs is Ningbo Customs, but Ningbo Customs is divided into two places, Ningbo is just a headquarters nature, the real customs is here, Dinghai not only has a customs yamen but also a special reception of foreign businessmen of the Red Hair Pavilion, every year to Kang Mazi to collect a large amount of tax silver, some time ago this year has not been released, the result is all cheap Yang Feng.
In short, Zhoushan has now fallen into his hands, and the next thing is to see if he can hold it.
And his enemies ......
How to say it, it is also strong to say that it is strong, and it is not strong to say that it is not strong.
Kang Mazi has an army of one million and a powerful iron horse, it can be said that a cavalry can destroy his rabble, but this is useless, they can't fly across the sea, even if Zhoushan to Zhenhai is only a dozen miles above the sea, so they can only fight with him for the water army, but this is not a big deal, Kang Mazi's little water division is still nothing to fear.
First of all, the most recent.
He doesn't need to think too far now, because even if the 800 miles are expedited, it will take five days for the information on his occupation of Zhoushan to be sent to Beijing, and then Beijing will respond and send the order to the south, which will take another five days.
Zhoushan belongs to Zhejiang, Zhejiang belongs to the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the governor at this time is Guo Shilong, the son of Guo Hongchen, the Han army with red flags, and Zuo Mengeng's general.
His subordinates have three green battalion commanders with water divisions in Zhejiang, from north to south are Dinghai, Huangyan, and then south is Wenzhou, there are water divisions under these three general soldiers, and now the Dinghai Sea Division is completely annihilated, and the nearest is only the Huangyan Water Division, and it is estimated that he has just received a letter at this time.
In this era, Yang Feng found that the most beneficial thing for himself was the slow speed of information transmission, that is, it was 800 miles to expedit, and it took more than half a day to send the news from Ningbo to Huangyan.
However, because of his existence, the opponent is definitely not only the people of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, it is very likely that the governor of Liangjiang will be added, although this does not belong to the Liangjiang defense area, but who called him the person that Kang Mazi dreamed of day and night?
Ahsan, the governor of Liangjiang, must be eager to show his loyalty.
In this way, Yang Feng's opponents increased suddenly, because the Governor of Liangjiang was close to him, and the General Soldiers of Su Song, the General Soldiers of Chongming, and the General Soldiers of Guazhou stationed in the north of the Zhenjiang River could also quickly go down the Yangtze River, and the voyage would not exceed three days, so that after three days, Zhoushan would usher in the attack of the naval division under the command of the General Soldiers of the Four Towns, at least between 10,000 and 20,000.
It's a big fight!
"Fight, fuck it, a battle will make the Tartars break their guts!"
After understanding the situation they were facing, a group of rebel generals who were enthusiastic and had full confidence in the immortals waved their fists and shouted.
"That's right, it's a battle to make the Tartars break their guts!"
Yang Feng said with satisfaction.
"Also, are all the bottles and flasks I asked you to find?"
Then he said.
Not long ago, Yang Dashuai issued a strange order, asking all the troops in Zhoushan City to find wine jugs for him door to door, not large wine jars, but small wine jugs, of course, not limited to wine jugs, as long as they are small, they can be thrown far away, all pots, small wine jars are fine, as long as the weight can be thrown out after being filled, even if the flower bottle or even a smaller urinal is not disliked, if there is a wine bottle of the red-haired ghost, it would be better, of course, it must be porcelain or glass.
A group of generals hurriedly nodded.
"Then bring them all over!"
Yang Feng said, first of all, he waved his hand, and the two guards behind him carried a bunch of wine bottles over and placed them in the lobby, which was on the Valkyrie, and was pulled over by him, and at the same time, those generals also carried in similar things that their subordinates had collected, and boxes and baskets were like grocery markets.
Yang Feng watched with satisfaction, and suddenly stretched out his right hand into the void, and then dragged out a chest-high, thick green iron bucket out of thin air, and then stretched it in, and took out something that looked like a large pump. He knocked open a small lid on the barrel with the axe and chisel handed by his subordinates, and after sticking the drawer into it, he grabbed a small wine jug the size of a palm, put the spout under the mouth of the pump, and quickly pulled out the clear liquid inside and filled the flask.
At this time, a strong and strange aroma spread.
Yang Feng, on the other hand, took a rag in a blank gaze, stuffed it directly into the mouth of the wine jug, and carefully wiped off the liquid stained outside, signaling the people watching the excitement to retreat.
Just as everyone was retreating, he took out his magical running fire, shot out the flame and lit the hanging strip of cloth, and then smashed the flask into the opposite wall, and the flask with the flame instantly smashed into pieces on it, and before people could react, the terrifying flames suddenly rose and burned on the stone wall without any combustibles.
"What would happen if every one of our sailors had one of these on them?"
In a frightened gaze, Yang Feng said proudly.
Well, it's a barrel of thinner for printing.
Originally, it was best to use gasoline, but in these years, barreled gasoline is very rare, and the gas station is easy to find, but that has to be inserted, but he was very surprised to find that his marshal's mansion can actually be directly connected to a printing factory, and the banana water that dilutes the ink is placed in rows and can be moved there casually.
This thing can also be **************, and this one is actually more ferocious than gasoline, because it is far more volatile than gasoline, so it is easier to form a detonation effect, and more importantly, it can supplement the lack of grenades in his hand. It is impossible to equip all soldiers with a grenade, but the banana water ****** can be used by each person, and the effect of smashing it on a Qing warship is far greater than that of a grenade, which cannot sink a battleship, but even if this is thrown on the Valkyrie, it may become a disaster.