After leaving some soldiers and horses in Lushun, Liu Jun waved his army and continued to go north after dawn.

Lushun is less than a hundred miles from Dalian, and the fleet has already appeared in Qingniwa Port before noon.

At noon on the sixth day of the fifth month of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Liu Jun led more than 20,000 soldiers and horses and more than 100 boats to the city of Qingniwa. At this time, the small Qingniwa City had not received the news that Lushun was captured by the Ming army, and there were only 500 Manchu and Mongolian banner soldiers stationed in the city. When a white sail appeared in the sky and the sea, looking at the sun and moon flags on the fleet, the Tartars in the city were dumbfounded.

You looked at me and I looked at you for a long time before I frantically rang the alarm bell and hurriedly closed the city gate.

Then these hundreds of soldiers stood at the head of the city, watching the Ming army's fleet enter the port without hurrying under the guidance of the pilot ship.

Liu Jun stood on the bow of the ship and looked at the fortress, if there were no cannons and a sufficient number of soldiers and horses, there were hundreds of defenders guarding this fortress, maybe they could hold on for a while, waiting for reinforcements to arrive. But for today's Hydra, the harbor's fleet has more than 1,000 cannons, and this castle, which has only a few general cannons, can't withstand the attack of Hydra.

"Go to the Golden State to report the news!" The Tartars in the castle did not lose their courage, but did not flee, but were only afraid that a few cavalry would go out of the city to report the news to Jinzhou.

Many veterans who had participated in the Battle of Taiwan on the battleship were still smiling and cheering up the recruits who were participating in the war for the first time, so that they should not be too nervous.

"There's nothing to worry about, that's all there is to the Tartars, no matter how powerful they are, can they still give the red hairs a lot of power? But no matter how powerful the red hair is, we beat them like the same and raise their hands to surrender. You wait and see, such a small fortress, without even a cannon, this is like a sheep under the mouth of a tiger. ”

In this expedition to Liao, Liu Jun specially dispatched new troops from Wuchang and Changsha towns to come to train troops in actual combat. Second, it is also to strengthen the control of the two new armies. Some of the recruits were sent out, and many veterans were assigned to the left-behind soldiers in the three towns.

"Such a small fortress, just a few hundred Tartars, it's still very fierce, and it still doesn't surrender." Seeing that the city gate was closed and he didn't surrender, Fu Shan smiled. "Don't waste saliva with them, just come to a bombardment and knock down the city wall."

Liu Jun nodded in agreement to this plan, "Send a few landing craft." Landing immediately after shelling. ”

A small city like the Green Mudhole has been breached several times over the years, and the walls are of several different colors, old and new, and the entire city wall is like a patch.

At this time, Qingniwa City was like a patched flower child, and in front of him was a noble knight with gorgeous armor and armed to the teeth.

The Yunyang was one of the six 74-gun double-deck battleships of the Nine Birds, and after receiving the command flag, the battleship did not need to turn the angle to the side of the city, and directly faced the castle with the bow facing the castle.

The sixty-four-pound gun on the bow. Changed to the unit of measurement of the Ming army, it is a full forty-eight catties of shells.

"Use the blossom bomb first!"

The gunner on the Yunyang looked at the small city a few times and said.

"Don't hit the city, just shoot outside the city gate."

The captain of the Yunyang came over at this time to say a word, and then explained again. "There are many innocent people in the city."

The sixty-four-pound heavy gun on the battleship was originally used to deal with the side of the melee and to shoot shotguns, but the research of the Nine-headed Bird's flowering bomb is very advanced. Therefore, it is also used to load explosive bombs, especially now that their ships are in the port, the small city of Liu is too close. But this forty-eight-pound flowering bomb. If it falls in the city and explodes, a hundred lead bullets weighing less than half a pound each will burst open, and the lethality will still be extremely strong.

Since the Hou Ye has an order not to evacuate the people of Jinzhou Lushun for the time being, it is better to avoid killing and injuring the people first.

The Dutchman commander of the heavy cannon carefully observed the distance of the city gate, took the gun and measured and calculated it for a while, and finally said a few words to the gunner Walala, who was also a Dutchman, and the gunner immediately took out a disc-shaped fuse, which was a new delayed fuse that was an improvement on the original wooden fuse.

Although the wooden fuse has a great effect on the explosive bomb, it is difficult to achieve consistency with the wooden fuse, some burn fast, some burn slowly, which is very time-controlled for the explosive bomb, which makes the power of the explosive bomb greatly reduced, either the explosion is early or the explosion is slow.

In the end, the firearms workshop developed a new fuse made of paper rolling, which was evenly coated with gunpowder during the rolling process. The consistency of this paper fuze is excellent, but there are a series of new problems such as reliability problems caused by poor moisture resistance and insufficient strength and easy breakage.

Although improvements such as applying shellac to the surface to prevent moisture and increasing the thickness of the paper tube were later adopted, the problem could not be completely solved.

Eventually, a craftsman came up with a new solution, a metal disc fuse.

The new primer represented the original conical wooden shield and paper fuse, with a ring-shaped time-delay channel and a threaded hollow metal tube underneath, which could be installed directly into the fuse hole in the shell.

When setting the detonation time, the disc fuse also no longer needs to cut the length of the fuse, but only needs to make a small hole in the thin metal of the disc covering the circular channel.

There are three different types of fuzes for long-range artillery with a delay of one to fifteen seconds on the disc, and there are also three different types of fuzes for short range and medium range for one to five seconds. The scale corresponding to the hole punched is the precise detonation time of the fuse.

At the same time, due to the existence of a circular channel, even if the fuse is facing the opposite direction of the muzzle, there will be no accident in which the gunpowder gas blows the delay charge into the inside of the bomb body and prematurely explodes. Therefore, the reliability and ease of use of disc fuzes have greatly increased compared with previous time-delay fuzes.

The gunner, at the request of the gunner, made a hole in the metal fuse of the disc, set the time of the explosion, and then fixed this huge shell with a wooden base together with the propellant pack, clamped it with iron tongs, and carried it into the barrel by several people.

Nowadays, after the Hydra uses fixed ammunition for the firearm, the artillery also uses fixed ammunition. The cartridge was tied to the shell and a wooden base was added to make the cannon much more efficient, especially for firing explosive shells. Prior to this, when loading blasting shells, gunners should be careful not to point the fuse hole of the projectile towards the inside of the barrel when reloading; After the advent of the fixed shell, because the fuse hole was already facing away from the firing bag at the time of packing, it was only necessary to simply load the cartridge inward. This greatly simplifies the loading step and increases the safety of the launch.

In terms of the use of firearms, the nine-headed bird has actually reached the level of a Western military power.

And their enemy, the Qing army has just learned to build Hongyi artillery for only a few years, only when the army is dispatched, will carry Hongyi cannons, such as Qingniwa such a small city, neither artillery to defend the city, nor to deal with artillery siege experience.

They still used the traditional way of warfare, attacking by cavalry and artillery cover, and defending the city. It is even far inferior to the level of the Ming army more than ten years ago.

"This cannon will make the Tartars really understand what a new way of warfare is."

After some preparations, the heavy artillery roared, and the forty-eight-pound explosive bomb whistled out of the barrel and smashed into the green mud puddle city like a meteor.

At the head of the city, a group of Qing soldiers dragging pigs' tails listened to the sharp whistling sound and looked at the huge cannonballs that came straight forward, and they all knelt down in unison, and they kissed the city bricks under their feet.

"O gods. Please forgive us! ”

They had never seen such a huge ship, nor had they seen such a fierce cannon, and they were in awe, believing that this was the wrath of the gods.

Huge shells exploded less than a kilometer from the city gates. Countless lead bullets were blasted on all sides, many bricks were blown off the city walls, and even one battlement was blown down entirely, and the gate was blown out of several fist-sized holes.

As the shells exploded. Dozens of landing craft each carrying dozens of soldiers quickly rushed to the pier.

Not a single person intercepted, they quickly landed, and a group of soldiers rushed to the pier. Rush towards the city gates. At this time, the battleships in the harbor opened fire again, but this time they fired solid shells, and hundreds of 32-pounder guns fired a salvo.

After shaking the mountain for a while, only a rumbling sound was heard from the smoke in the sky, and one of the walls of the small city in the green mud valley almost completely collapsed.

By this time, the landed soldiers had begun to accelerate, and they were only a few hundred paces away from the gap that was exposed.

On the battleship, soldiers rushed to witness this spectacular sight. Those soldiers who have experienced the battle of the southeast sea are accustomed to it, and those who have not seen it, especially many recruits who have not even fought a battle, especially the new soldiers transferred from Wuchang Town and Changsha Town, watched a round of cannon fire, and the city wall that was more than two feet high collapsed, and the huge mouth forgot to close it.

"It's just a small test!"

On the flagship of the Poseidon, all the officers watched all this easily.

"It turns out that when there are cannons for giant ships, the traditional methods of warfare are outdated. Our nine-headed bird will be invincible and invincible! Many of the officers who had become fans of the cannon shouted.

Some officers were quite sensible, "We will indeed have a huge advantage with the cannons of the giant ships, but it is not yet the time when we can do nothing." With the cannons, the city has lost its effect on us. But the giant ship can only be at sea, and the larger the cannon, the more inconvenient it is to move, and at the same time, the requirements for supply will be very high. Let's not forget, the Qing army has a large number of cavalry, and they are extremely capable of riding and archery, and they have the mobility that we lack. ”

Liu Jun said appreciatively, "That's right, the Qing people have cavalry shooting, we have artillery, each has its own strengths, and in general we have an advantage." It is precisely because of the advantage of attacking the city that we must give full play to our strengths, avoid our weaknesses, and not have a hard time with the Qing army, so we will give full play to the advantages of our warships and huge guns, move quickly from the sea, avoid the real and attack the weak, use the battleship to transport soldiers and horses, and go ashore to beat him when we see a gap, and leave after the fight, so as not to entangle their cavalry. ”

"We have a cannon, so why be afraid of him?"

"Of course it's not fear, it's just a tactic." Liu Jun can still see the shortcomings of his army, the firearms are sharp, but when it comes to close combat, it is definitely not as brave as the Qing army, and those soldiers who are not specially trained in the field cannot be underestimated in their bravery.

In fact, with gunpowder, the defensive weapon of the city wall has become more and more limited. Not to mention bombardment with artillery, you can break the city without artillery. You don't even need to make any large cannonballs, just dig a coffin, fill it with gunpowder, and then dig a hole under the city wall, stuff it and ignite it to detonate it, and you can still break the city.

It's just that if you blow up the city like this, you will need more gunpowder, and second, you will have to dig a hole to get close to the city wall, which will be a little troublesome. And the cannon can bombard the city wall from a distance of several miles.

Although bombing a city is more dangerous than bombing a city, and the casualties are large, the technical content is low. Artillery is troublesome to build, and it is also troublesome to transport, but no one can make this gunpowder.

However, it seems that no one has used this method of blowing up the city wall now, and perhaps this application method has not been thought of yet, but it will appear at the latest.

In the future, if you want the city wall to continue to function, you will have to defend it with artillery. Cannon to break the city wall, and finally have to defend the city wall with cannons. Forts had to be built on the city, and there had to be a certain number of them, so that it would be difficult for the attacking side to attack. When the city is defended with artillery, it is an impregnable fortress.

However, there are still very few people who defend the city with artillery, and there are very few of them. For example, when Liu Jun attacked Relansha and Chichicheng, there were only 30 gates on the fortress.

You have to suffer a loss before you think of improvement.

But now, these cities that lack artillery are a good opportunity for Liu Jun's artillery to attack.

Half of the city wall was blown down, and by the way, more than a dozen Tartars in the city were killed, and even many fish in the city were killed by pond fish. The remaining Tartars in the city had not yet come to their senses, and the landing soldiers of the Nine-headed Bird had already rushed to the front of the city.

A group of Tartars rushed out on horseback, brandishing broadswords.

But they were greeted by a flurry of guns, and the sound of crackling guns continued, and after firing with flint and flint, the firing speed of the fire guns increased again.

After the first platoon of gunners finished firing, they automatically retreated to the back, and the second row stepped forward. The ranks came forward in a loop, firing continuously. One by one, the fierce Manchu cavalry fell, and when the cavalry of a hundred or so men rushed closer, they were all dead, and only a few unshot horses were left running with their master's corpse.

"Put away your guns and move on!" An officer shouted, and the soldiers gathered their guns and began to continue their march towards the small city with a wide gap.

Until they crossed over the mouth and entered the city, no one intercepted them.

Four hundred Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banner soldiers, most of them were killed and wounded, and the rest of the people were not really afraid of death, they faced the invincible Ming army, dropped their weapons, knelt on the ground, and begged for mercy. (To be continued......)

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