Updated: 202-04-0

At half past two o'clock in the morning of 22 October, the "Xuanwu" landing craft laid down three rows of teaching on the Yangluotou tidal flat, and went directly to the Panzhi waterway inside the Xiezhi Gate to meet up with the Prince, the coast guard ship, the big steamer, and the motor boat that had already arrived there. All ships were deployed in the second class, with lights on, silently waiting for the order to attack in the dark.

At 4:30 a.m., the captain of the Prince, Hai Yingyang, stood on the bridge and ordered the anchor to be lifted and the first level of combat deployment was sounded. Hearing the bell signal in the cabin, the crew of the Prince immediately rushed to their respective battle positions and waited for battle.

A small compartment was partitioned from the aft deck storage room, which served as a command post for the guns department. As soon as the combat deployment was raised, the telephone here rang non-stop.

Position 1 report: "Report to the gun commander, the front main gun is ready!" ”

Position 2 report: "Report to the gun commander, and then the main gun is ready!" ”

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(The term "preparedness" in naval vessels is a naval term that means ready to be used at any time.) ）

After receiving the report of the gun, sail and other battle positions, You Nanzhe immediately connected the phone call from the ship's command post, "Report to the ship, the gun department is ready!" ”

Here, the mechanical and electrical department has already begun to work, the windlasse pulls the iron anchor from the sea, and the "Prince" slowly marches towards Dinghai Port, followed by other ships.

By the time gunfire rang out on Xiaofeng Ridge, the Prince had already sailed through Xiaozhu Mountain under Xiaofeng Ridge, only one nautical mile away from the Wukui Mountain Fort. At this time, the sky was no longer a deep blue, but a little gray. Standing on the slipway, you can vaguely see the surrounding terrain.

Hearing the "bang bang" gunshot, You Nanzhe's heart was itching, he had already ordered the front main gun to aim at the Wukuishan battery a nautical mile away, just waiting for the captain's order.

"Jingle bell!" The phone rang, and after receiving an order from Haiying Yang from the ship's command, You Nanzhe immediately ordered the front main gun to open fire.

At this time, Wukuishan Island was still silent, and the Baoding Fort, which was built at the highest point of 70 meters on the top of the mountain, was still sleeping. With a loud "boom", the main gun in front of the Prince hit for the first time, and the high-explosive shells fired by the M7 howitzer accurately hit the Baoding Fort in Wukui Mountain, rising orange-red flames. Suddenly the fort was filled with smoke and flames.

The Baoding Fort was in chaos now, and the more than 50 Qing soldiers in the barracks under the fort were still asleep, and the violent sound of artillery woke them up completely. From the windows to the smoke and fire on the fort, the Qing soldiers were all panicked.

"The bandits and thieves are all rabble, and they can only engage in sneak attacks. We have thousands of green battalions in the city, and there are brave Fujian sailors in the port, and the thieves can't win. The thousand general manager of the Baoding Fort jumped out, "Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Let's get up to the battery and get the cannon moving. ”

At this time, the Prince had already adjusted the angle of the ship, facing Wukui Mountain, and the two main guns in front and rear fired unhurriedly and continuously. "Boom", "boom", cannonballs like a rain of bullets, constantly falling on Wukui Mountain, Baoding Fort thick smoke, flames everywhere. Not long after, with a loud "boom", the gunpowder room on the fort ignited and exploded.

The shock wave shook the dozen or so barracks below. The general wanted to encourage a few brave soldiers to rush to the fort with him, and with this loud bang, a piece of rubble hit his head, and he fell to the ground with a thud. Now the soldiers all dispersed, and the uninjured soldiers jumped down the mountain like rabbits. Several soldiers who were injured by shrapnel and bricks and rubble could only hide in the grass far away.

When the Prince began shelling, the "Xuanwu" landing craft was slowing down and heading for the Shutou Wharf outside the south gate of Dinghai, followed by motorized fishing boats and coast guard boats. Dongyue Miyayama is less than 500 meters away from them, and Sutou is about 000 meters away from them. The Xuanwu Tan Ke commanded the machine gun team and set up four Kasan rockets on the foredeck of the landing craft and aimed at the Zhenyuan Fort on Dongyue Palace Mountain.

Dongyue Gongshan is located on the west side of the Sutou waterfront outside the south of Dinghai City, next to the Futou Wharf. Zhenyuan Fort is built on the top of Dongyue Palace Mountain, although Dongyue Palace Mountain is only more than 60 meters high, but the terrain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Baoding Fort was shelled by the Prince, and the huge explosion soon alarmed the Zhenyuan Fort. Just when the Qing soldiers of Zhenyuan Fort were rushing to their positions, Tan Ke on the Xuanwu began to exert his might, and one incendiary bomb after another shot accurately towards Dongyue Gongshan. Within three minutes, twenty rocket-fired bombs continuously fell on the Zhenyuan Fort and exploded, and the fort ignited a raging fire, and the fire soon spread to the entire mountaintop, and the flames reflected half of the sky.

Wang Tiehammer was very satisfied with the performance of the troops, and at this time the sky was already a little bright, and he and Wang Xie Tang carried binoculars together and came to the landing deck to inspect the battlefield situation.

The motor boat on which Li Da, the commander of the new battalion was on the side of the "Xuanwu," was assigned the task assigned to them by the combat meeting as a follow-up support for the combat troops, responsible for guarding the docks, city gates, and bridges at intersections. Li Da was very dissatisfied with this, and when he arrived at Wang Tiehammer, he took the initiative to ask for help, asking to land first, lead the recruits to occupy the dock, and capture these dozens of ships, large and small.

"You're all right?" Wang Tiezhu was a little uneasy, "Let's let the coast guard go first." ”

Li Da was born in artillery, and he was originally a company commander in a field unit, but because of his lack of actual combat experience, he was assigned to be in charge of the recruit training camp. In the new barracks, he held back his enthusiasm, from tactical movements, to squad and platoon cooperation, from physical fitness, to battlefield awareness, and desperately trained recruits. I thought I would have the opportunity to go to the battlefield and show my skills.

Li Da used his voice to shout at the recruits on the ship: "Brothers, the commander is right in front of us, do you think we can do it?" ”

The reservists were silent for a moment, and then shouted together, "Use me in the first battle, use me to win." Use me in hard battles, and use me to win. ”

They roared twice in a row, and the shouts were so shattering that they almost drowned out the sound of gunfire.

"Just let them go first." Wang Xie Tang helped Li Da intercede, "The reserve soldiers will see the blood first, and they will maintain the vigilance in the city for a while, so that they will not panic." ”

Wang Tiehammer was responsible for commanding the troops to attack the city, and it was Wang Xietang's task to maintain law and order.

Wang Tiehammer looked very happy and handed over the task of landing first to Li Da. But he didn't think so, and the new battalion used me for the first time to make a fool of himself.

During the Qing Dynasty, the small stone pier on the side of Ningbo Zhoushan was called Shutou. Outside the south gate of Dinghai, there are three wharves of Da Shutou, Zhong Shutou and Xijiatou. Da Sutou is a civil wharf; The large and small ships of the Qing army all stopped at Zhonggutou and Xiqitou, and the red single boat that came yesterday docked at Zhongqitou.

Dai Liang drove the "Xuanwu" and rushed towards Zhonggutou, and Chen Yu and Jiang Li commanded four coast guard ships to rush towards Xigutou.

After the Fujian Navy Division docked at the dock last night, Dinghai Tongzhi picked up the wind and washed the dust for them at night, and Wu Quanmei, the chief officer of the Fujian Navy Division, did not drink much. Wu Quanmei was very cautious, the red single boat was recruited by him from Guangdong, and he insisted on staying on the ship and escorting the ship with the remaining more than 500 sailors. These soldiers had just participated in the extermination of the Xiamen Knife Society, and they could be regarded as victorious soldiers, and it was the time when they were arrogant and arrogant, although Wu Quanmei tried his best to restrain them last night, they still drank a lot of wine.

Wu Quanmei was sleeping comfortably in the cabin, and the gunfire of Xiaofengling woke him up. He listened attentively, and the sound of gunfire came from the west, as if it was far away.

"Mara is a bastard, and at any hour, he will be harassed." He was outside the porthole, just a little bright, so he lay on the bed and scolded, "These little thieves, don't bother." When the sky dawns, I will let you know how powerful our Fujian sailors are. ”

At this time, the rumbling sound of cannon was suddenly remembered outside. It's not good, maybe the brigade of anti-thieves has killed it! Wu Quanmei was startled, and one of them sat up. The boat he was riding in was on the outermost part of the pier, and he stuck his head out, and there were many ships on the sea in the distance. Although the visibility on the sea was not high in the early morning, the coast guard ships were a kilometer away and painted in milky white, and he immediately recognized them as pirate ships.

A foreign commissioner on duty sounded the alarm bell, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! ”

The cannon roared on the sea, and the proud soldiers on the red boat had already been awakened, and they reacted quite quickly. Many people ran out of the bilge bare-chested, ran onto the deck, and ran to the ship docked at the outermost part of the dock, their footsteps clanging on the deck.

Wu Quanmei ran onto the deck, and when the water warriors rushed to this side like wolves and tigers, he was suddenly full of pride, and shouted loudly: "Hurry, quickly open the door of the armament warehouse, take out the special attachments for artillery, and load the cannon." ”

A foreign commissioner, Qian Zong, took the key from Wu Quanmei's hand, trotted all the way with more than a dozen water warriors, and took out crowbars for moving artillery for aiming, special tools for cleaning and wiping the chambers, and equipment for loading propellants and projectiles.

The ship was starting to load ammunition nervously, and the Xuanwu had already rushed over. The Xuanwu landing craft was powered by a diesel engine and was much faster than the coast guard ship, and it rushed to a place about 600 meters away from the head of the Zhongshu at once, and the six M240G machine guns of the boat's machine gun team immediately opened fire on the red single boat. "Tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk," six machine guns strafed past, and the water warriors who were manipulating the artillery on the side of the ship fell one after another. The brave sailors tried to continue to rush to the side of the artillery, and the machine-gun bullets rained down, and they were killed, wounded, and beaten to the point of crying wolf.

Wu Quanmei was also shot in the thigh and collapsed, lying on the deck in shock and anger. Wu Zongbing turned sideways and looked at the side of the ship, the enemy ship was still a few hundred meters away, he went to the side of a cannon had been loaded with ammunition, but the surrounding Shui Yong was all knocked to the ground, a foreign commissioner lay the general hand on the deck, and finally lit the torch in his hand, he was shot and fell, and the torch in his hand was also thrown out.

"Tuk, tuk, tuk, tuk", the bullets kept flying over Wu Quanmei's head, and he gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain and crawled over. Wu Quanmei picked up the torch from the side of the ship, the torch continued to burn, he just wanted to ignite the cannon, but found that the angle of the cannon was not in the right direction, and it could not hit the target in the sea. Just as Wu Quanmei was trying to adjust the angle of the artillery, a bullet flew and hit him right in the head. Wu Quanmei's head tilted and fell in a pool of blood.

The Xuanwu stopped about 00 meters away from the Red Dan boat, but the machine guns did not stop, and they continued to strafe the stubborn enemy on the head and the ship.

There were about two or three hundred Qing soldiers in Dinghai Town, who were guarding the ships in Xiqiutou, and they were all rookies who had never experienced the fire and smoke of war. When they arrived at Dinghai Port, they were attacked by a surprise attack, and the smoke of gunfire filled everywhere, and everyone was terrified. Four coast guard ships flying the red flag of the sun and moon sailed towards them, and the Qing soldiers were even more panicked, and when they were far away, muskets and bows and crossbows were sent out. Some people turned around and ran in the direction of the city gate, and there were not a few who "plopped" and "plopped" and fell into the sea.

On the west side, the four M240G machine guns of the coast guard ship also began to sing happily. Soon, there was not a single person standing on the head of the West and the large and small ships docked.

The machine guns on the landing craft also stopped, and the loudspeaker on the landing craft made an impassioned voice, "Listen to the Qing soldiers on the shore, we are the division of the Ming Dynasty." Lying on the ground with his head in his hands, those who abandon their weapons and surrender are spared death; If you disobey to the end, you will be dead. ”

Ding Dan shouted twice in a row in Ningbo and Mandarin respectively, and the soldiers who were still alive on the boats on both sides were all lying on the ground with their hands stretched out, and no one was holding a weapon. Ding Dan is 29 years old this year, and he was originally the teaching director of a primary school in Zhoushan, and he has strong brainwashing skills. He likes military affairs, and often engages in battle situation deduction and strategic planning.

The motor boat that Li Da was on first docked the red single boat, and he immediately jumped on it with two classes of recruits. "Quick, you guys scatter in groups of three, one squad guards the two boats, and stay in the outermost four boats first. Be careful with the guy who plays dead, and shoots immediately when he sees the situation. ”

The second and third motor boats and landing craft also approached, and the four squads of recruits followed them aboard the Red Boat.

There were six squads in total, and more than 70 people were scattered to twelve boats at once, carefully searching and guarding. There were many corpses of Qing soldiers lying on the red single boat, and they all fell in pools of blood one by one. The recruits had already been trained, and they were not afraid to use their steel guns, stab each corpse with a bayonet, and then move all the corpses to the side of the dock. The Qing soldiers who were alive were all driven to the corner of the head and crouched there, their hands firmly fastened behind them with plastic cable ties.

Four milky white coast guard schooners have landed on the head of the West Guard. Chen Yu and Jiang Li led the coast guard team to the south gate to intercept the Qing army that might go out of the city to counterattack. Tan Ke with a team of cannons followed.

After the big steamer followed up to the head of the west, Longshan Leopard and Tan Huan brought more than 400 recruits ashore, and immediately organized four squads of recruits to occupy all intersections in the port to guard the port area; The rest of the recruits were responsible for cleaning the battlefield in squads, and taking stock of all the bows and ships in the harbor.

The combat operation organized by Wang Tiehammer was quite smooth, and Yun Lan had just reported to the command that they knocked out the Xiaofengling outpost, eliminated a group of Qing soldiers and horses outside the West Gate, and blocked the West Gate; The first and second platoons also reported that everything was normal, and they had built fortifications and blocked the east and north gates.

"It's coming, there are a lot of people coming upstairs in Nancheng." Listening to Ding Dan's report, Wang Tiehammer hurriedly raised the telescope. Yes, a few Manchu officials were pointing at the towers. Wang Tie hammered his watch, it was only five o'clock, and he was thinking that the Qing soldiers who counterattacked should have already left the city gate and were about to engage the coast guard.

As soon as Wang Tiehammer thought of this, there was a "bang-bang" gunfire in the direction of the south gate, followed by a "da-da-da" machine gun.

Ding Dan happily said to Wang Tiezhu, "Okay, the south gate has already started, and the firepower is so fierce, there is absolutely no problem, and the Qing army in Dinghai City can be regarded as the turtle in the urn." ”

At this time, a large steamer sailed into Dinghai Port with thick black smoke.

"Lao Wang, we are here, Lao Qian and the county lord of Anping are here! How's your war? Bai Baoxiang's voice came from the walkie-talkie.

"Lao Bai, the battle is going quite well, and the port area is completely controlled. The headquarters is now moving closer to the south gate, and you ask the logistics support team in the book belt to follow quickly.

Wang Tiezhu and Wang Xie Tang went down to the head with the radio station and staff officers, and met a group of people in the recruit camp. Wang Tiehammer asked Tan Huan to take a hundred people to guard the dock, Longshan Leopard to take a hundred people to clear the Qing army on Wukui Mountain opposite, and Li Da led the rest of the people as a follow-up force for the siege, and immediately moved closer to the south gate.