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On a hill more than two miles from the coast, there stood a fort on the north and south, each equipped with three cannons. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe two forts were two miles apart, and Cen Gang was tightly held in his arms.

The fort was simple, it was to build a flat field on the hill. Two of the six cannons were purchased by Anthony from Macau, and the other four were made by Dutch craftsmen in the Daishan workshop.

The two guns purchased from Macao were front-loading smoothbore guns with a caliber of 120 millimeters, a barrel length of 3 meters, and a weight of 3,000 catties.

Daishan's newly built cannon is a rear-loading cannon, with a very long barrel, four meters, but the caliber is smaller than that of a smoothbore gun, but the firing range is as high as eight miles.

These cannons were collectively known as the Red Cannons in the Ming Dynasty.

When Sima Nan's fleet set off, Jin Yufei ordered his gunners to hold the fort tightly, and he himself led 500 infantry, divided into two parts, and lined up on the hill of the fort.

As soon as the Dinghai Navy entered the Cen Gang waterway, it was discovered. However, Jin Yufei did not order the artillery to fire, he wanted to give the navy a surprise attack.

When the naval fleet poured into the harbor and approached the coast to prepare for landing, forty or fifty sailing ships were crowded together, very densely. Jin Yufei knew that the best time to attack had arrived, so he decisively ordered the artillery to open fire.

The six guns were already aimed at the enemy ships in the harbor, and the distance between the naval fleet and the battery was less than three miles at this time, which was not too close for the red-coated cannons with a range of eight or nine miles.

"Boom, boom, boom", the artillery opened fire one after another, and one shell after another drew a graceful parabola and fell towards the sailing ship of the Dinghai Navy.

A cannonball was falling on the deck of a three-masted galleon, and the plank had been smashed into a large hole, and the cannonball fell through the deck into the bilge. On the deck, a soldier of the Ding Navy was grazed by the cannonball, and immediately howled and rolled on the deck, one of his arms was slashed off by the cannonball, and his whole body was blurred with flesh and blood.

Another shell struck the side of a brig, creating a large hole through which seawater poured into the hold.

The two-masted schooner was even more resistant to hits, and a sloop that had been hit by a cannonball immediately fell apart and became a pile of broken wood floating on the sea.

The ship was too close to the battery, and the ships of the Ding Navy were densely packed, so the hit rate of the artillery attack was surprisingly high. With just one round of artillery, three sailing ships were hit, one of which was sunk.

The sudden attack of artillery shells caused a great confusion in the naval fleet, and the soldiers who had been preparing to go ashore did not dare to get off the ship again, and hurriedly returned to the ship.

At this time, many sailing ships have lowered their sails in order to go ashore, and some have even dropped anchor near the shore.

Do you continue to go ashore, or do you get on the boat and escape? Most of the soldiers were at a loss and fell into confusion.

At this time, the vanguard of the Dinghai Navy, Qianhu Zhang Kui, was also in a mess. Obviously, there was not a single sailboat in the port, and there was no human figure on the shore, and he thought that the Daishan defenders of Cen Harbor had escaped by boat, but who knew that they were suddenly shelled.

Hurriedly raised the binoculars and looked around, trying to figure out where the shells were coming from.

When the second round of shelling began, Zhang Kui finally saw where the artillery was. There is a fort on the hill on the left and right, and through the clairvoyant mirror, you can see the red-clothed cannon of the Black Hole Cave, as well as the Daishan gunners who are busy behind the artillery.

"Lord Qianhe, what are we going to do?" One of his subordinates stood beside Zhang Kui and asked loudly.

What to do? If you leave quickly, you will soon be able to escape from Cen Harbor. Although the range of the redcoat cannon is long, as long as the ships are scattered, it is not so easy to hit. However, if he escapes like this, how should he explain to the chief soldier?

In the previous naval battle, he abandoned the fleeing Daishan Army fleet, presumably at this time the chief soldier Wang Zhiren was in annoyance. The Daishan fleet is well-trained and sails with the wind, and will definitely not let go of the opportunity to attack Wang Zhiren, and according to the tactics of the Daishan army, the main fleet must have suffered a lot of damage at this time, Zhang Kui can already think of Wang Zhiren's roaring face.

He has already made a mistake, if he can enter Cen Gang and defeat the defenders of Cen Gang, it is fine, if he escapes again, Wang Zhiren will definitely not let himself go!

Between the fire and light, Zhang Kui has already analyzed the pros and cons. Gritting his teeth, he gave his own commands.

"The whole army goes ashore and enters Cen Harbor!" The flag gave Zhang Kui's order, and the boats that saw the flag were very surprised.

Attacked by such a strong artillery fire, the strength of the Daishan army in the port is definitely not weak, and the Lord Qianhu did not say that he should evacuate quickly, but let everyone go ashore, didn't this push everyone into the fire pit?

As a result, some ships tried to disobey the order, but instead scooped the anchor out of the sea and prepared to raise their sails and flee. However, Zhang Kui issued a more severe order.

"Those who dare to escape from the battle will be killed!"

Yes, now everyone is gone, so they can only follow Zhang Kui's order and start to disembark from the boat.

Zhang Kui led by example and took the lead in getting off the warship. It was dangerous to stay on board, and after a while, there was a burst of enemy artillery fire, and several sailing ships were hit by artillery fire.

Under the attack of artillery fire, the Dinghai soldiers showed their great potential, and disembarked the sailboat at a much higher speed than during the training, and went ashore.

Zhang Kui hurriedly ordered his subordinates to line up the array, but before the twisted queue was in order, the artillery on the battery had already discovered them and changed the target from the fleet to them.

"Boom" two shells hit the array, and the shells bounced on the shore, ploughed through two bloody blood paths, and rolled into the sea.

Attacked by artillery shells, the Dinghai Army, who had just formed a formation, suddenly panicked, and many people turned around and ran, trying to get back on board.

"Don't turn back, rush, rush in the direction of the battery!" Zhang Kui pulled out his waist knife and slashed several fleeing subordinates in a row, which stopped everyone's escape.

Dozens of his own soldiers also stood behind him with bright weapons in their hands.

There was no way to retreat, and the soldiers could only turn back in fear and go to the fort under Zhang Kui's order.

There were two forts, and there were more than 1,000 Dinghai soldiers ashore, and the remaining hundreds of people were on board to guard the warship.

Zhang Kui divided his men into two groups, personally led 500 people, and the other 500 people were led by his confidant Zhang Ning, who was responsible for attacking another fort.

According to Zhang Kui's understanding, there were not many defenders of Cen Gang, only 500 people, although he divided his men into two parts, but any part was more than the entire Cen Gang defenders, and he did not believe that the other party would put one of the batteries undefended, and concentrated his forces to deal with some of his soldiers. In that case, you can quickly capture one battery, then turn the muzzle and bombard the enemy in the other battery. (To be continued.) )