On the Fuxi, Li Binglong no longer stayed on the conning tower, and now the Russians' shore fire power could no longer pose any threat to his fleet, and now his fleet had to do a very simple thing, that is, to continue to provide fire support to the landing force.

And this kind of thing naturally doesn't need him to keep an eye on, and naturally there are many naval officers below who are responsible.

Back in the captain's room, Lee Byung-ryong began to write some of today's battle records.

As a naval commander, it has become a habit to record sailing and combat records every day, although this kind of record seems to be just an officer's diary, but in fact it is not, the battle record of the captain and fleet commander is an important reference information for the navy to study naval battle tactics and even study the development direction of future warships.

In today's record, Li Binglong first recorded today's battle in a regular and truthful manner, including the previous shelling of batteries, the destruction of port facilities, and the cover of the landing force.

And at the end of the record, he wrote down some of his suggestions, as is customary!

"Even though our army's artillery fire occupies an absolute advantage in the process of shelling, this advantage is based on the premise that the enemy's shore defense capability is low, and if the enemy army has a large number of large-caliber coastal defense guns, then in terms of the range and accuracy of our warship guns, I am afraid it will be difficult to occupy too big an advantage, and if we can use artillery with a longer range and higher accuracy, then it will bring our army a major tactical advantage."

"In the frequent continuous firing, the bolts of our army's existing 150-millimeter guns are too heavy, and the physical consumption of soldiers is very large, so that it is difficult to maintain a state of high-speed firing!"

This time the battle. Since there was no fleet fighting, Li Binglong naturally could not mention some of the fleet battles. When his fleet arrived at Port Bred, its main task was to bombard the land. So his focus is also on gunnery.

The fact that the 150 mm he had raised was too heavy and difficult to handle, and that it was difficult for the soldiers to maintain a high level of reloading was also a big problem for the Imperial Navy.

As mentioned above, the rear-loading artillery technology of the Imperial Navy came from the Armstrong gun of the British, and this kind of artillery had many shortcomings, including the defect of heavy artillery and difficult operation.

It's just that this defect has not attracted much attention within the Imperial Navy, because the accuracy and range advantages of the rear-loading guns are barely acceptable, and the other shortcomings of the artillery are barely acceptable.

But now it's 1857. It had been a full decade since the first rear-loading gun in service with the Empire, and the country's industrial technology had also developed greatly, and he had heard that a key new large-caliber naval gun was being developed, and the design and structure adopted were different from the old 1857 naval gun.

If possible, Lee hopes that the navy's own artillery of the lower six inches will be able to adopt new technology.

Although everyone's eyes have been on those large-caliber naval guns these years, the navy is now ******** to get out the ten-inch naval guns, and even the seven-inch or even eight-inch naval guns have been temporarily shelved, and all the energy is concentrated on the ten-inch naval guns, it is said that the naval gun research and development department of the Royal Arms Company. Eighty percent of the personnel are working for this artillery, and the development of other naval guns has basically come to a standstill.

Li Binglong also understands the thoughts of other naval colleagues, affected by the Battle of the Pearl River Estuary and the Battle of Lisa, and now the world's navies have been blown into a piece of ironclad invincibility.

It has become a consensus that naval guns below the rank of seven inches cannot inflict actual damage on the heavy armor of existing ironclad ships. This has forced the navies of various countries to develop and serve larger caliber naval guns, such as the nine-inch front-loading rifled gun in service with the British and the ten-inch rear-loading gun developed by China.

But in such a context. Li Binglong thought of another problem, and it was impossible for the navy to rely on large-caliber main guns to fight a war. This large-caliber cannon is difficult to equip too much, and the rate of fire is generally slow. At the same time, it is not possible for all warships to be equipped with these large-caliber naval guns.

It is very reluctant to equip some naval guns of less than 5,000 tons with 10-inch naval guns, and even if they can equip some of them, they are very few, and the main force may have to rely on a large number of six-inch or even five-inch guns.

For example, the Kuafu-class ironclad ship, with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons, can only be equipped with four ten-inch main guns, and even so, it has seriously affected the ship's seaworthiness, range and other performance, which is also fortunate in the Imperial Navy, at present, it is mainly to defend the British Navy as the core strategic goal, and do not pay attention to range, seaworthiness or anything, as long as the firepower is strong enough, the protection is strong enough, and the others can be sacrificed.

In actual combat, a large number of guns below the six-inch level still play a great role, but although the empire continued to improve the 1857 series of naval guns, in fact, it has never developed a new six-inch naval gun, and technically speaking, the 1857 series of naval guns, which were born from the technical level of the fifties, can no longer keep up with this era.

As the commander of the fleet fighting on the front line, it is necessary for Li Binglong to let those naval bigwigs in Nanjing know that it is impossible for the navy to let only one 10-inch naval gun dominate the world, and although the large-caliber main gun is important, the six-inch secondary gun is equally important.

After writing today's combat record and briefly writing down some of his suggestions, Li Binglong put down his pen, how to promote the reform of the navy's naval artillery technology, this is a matter for the future, and it is not too late to talk about it later, and it is more important to how to conquer Bide Port now.

However, whether or not he can conquer Bide Port, now Li Binglong does not have much right to speak, because by now, the fleet led by Li Binglong has almost completed what he should do, knocked out the fort, provided fire support to cover the landing of the army, and the rest of the matter has to be solved by the landing force itself, and his Li Binglong's fleet can't go ashore on two feet to fight.

"I hope Brother Chen's fight will go well!"

When Lee Byung-ryong was so expectant.

Chen Yuechuan also just took a dinghy and then set foot on the land of Kamchatka, and he was still in a good mood at this time. Judging from the battle reports learned before, the two infantry battalions that have landed have completely controlled the surrounding area. And expelled hundreds of Russian troops who came to connect.

Now his troops are continuing to land, albeit due to the circumstances of the landing. In those years, there were no landing ships that could send artillery and other heavy weapons directly to the shore, and the landing troops were all infantry.

However, Chen Yuechuan did not have much worry, although the field guns of the artillery unit could not be sent, but the four-pounder infantry guns attached to the infantry unit could be brought ashore, although these four-pounder infantry guns were not very powerful, but the killing and wounding of the enemy infantry at close range was relatively objective.

What's more critical is that now Chen Yuechuan's troops can also get the naval artillery support of the fleet, and compared with the naval artillery support, the field guns of the artillery companies of the first mixed brigade are nothing.

Throughout the landing operation. Chen Yuechuan did not let the troops launch an attack as soon as they landed, but continued to land while covering, you must know that his troops had more than 3,000 people, and they all had to rely on small boats to and fro, which was also quite troublesome to land.

Moreover, there are quite a few Russian troops in the port of Bide, estimated to be 2,000 people, and they will attack rashly before they are ready, for fear that they will suffer losses.

Anyway, I'm not in a hurry for a day or two, and I'm an attacker. The initiative is in his own hands, so Chen Yuechuan naturally hopes that after all the troops have landed, he will make all preparations before starting a full-scale attack on Bide Port.

Under the cover of the fleet, Chen Yuechuan's troops took two days to complete the landing. It even took a lot of time and effort to unload more than a dozen army field guns from the ship, and for this it also paid the price of a steam carrier of more than 500 tons stranded on the beach.

After the landing is completed. Chen Yuechuan commanded the troops to launch a formal attack on Bide Port.

Before that, the port had been the shelling of Li Binglong's fleet for two days. Most of the buildings near the pier have been destroyed, and the entire town is shrouded in rubble and smoke. Although it is not yet possible to judge the specific casualties of the Russian army and the civilians in the city, no one who sees this scene will think that the Russians will be better.

In fact, the casualties of the Russians in the port of Bide were much worse than Li Binglong and Chen Yuechuan expected, which is not to say that the Russian army suffered heavy casualties, while the Russian civilians living in the port suffered heavy casualties.

There were 2,000 Russian troops in Port Bide, and hundreds of them had been deployed at the outlet's battery, but they were later killed and wounded by shelling, and more than 70 corpses were thrown down, and many others were wounded.

Later, it was intensively shelled by the Imperial Navy, and one or two hundred people were killed and wounded one after another.

However, even so, the Russian army still retains about 1,800 troops with some of its previous fortifications.

However, some ordinary Russians in the city were defenseless in the face of the shelling of the Imperial Navy, the city was originally a small city, and the artillery fire of the fleet could cover almost half of the city, so that the Russians living in the city suffered heavy casualties, and the rest of the people ran out of the city in a group to avoid the war.

So now in Port Bed, in addition to the armies of both sides, there are only two or three hundred civilian corpses.

When Chen Yuechuan's troops attacked, the two sides fought over the small city repeatedly.

The Russian army and the Chinese army have been fighting for many years, and they are quite familiar with each other's tactics, so there is no situation where there is any line of shooting, and then a few minutes of engagement will decide the victory or defeat.

The tactic of both sides to hide and then shoot in bunkers in the ruins is markedly different from other contemporary tactics.

And this mode of engagement between the two sides was, in later terms, street fighting.

It's just that this kind of street fighting is still very primitive, there are no machine guns, grenades are rarely used, and basically they are fired with rifles, and occasionally hand-to-hand combat between bayonets.

Its level of bloodiness cannot be compared with the street battles of World War I and World War II in later generations.

However, for modern wars, it is bloody enough.

On the first day of the offensive, Chen Yuechuan's troops suffered more than 100 casualties, and in five days, the attacking troops suffered nearly 500 casualties, although Chen Yuechuan's troops also inflicted heavy casualties on the Russians and controlled most of the city.

But the huge casualties still made Chen Yuechuan frown, such a large casualty was not a good thing.

Subsequently, Chen Yuechuan was forced to adopt more cautious tactics to continue the offensive, and at the same time, he also began to ask Li Binglong for help, so that Li Binglong began to mobilize sailors, and then went ashore to fight.

Li Binglong was a little reluctant to Chen Yuechuan's request, and the sailors under his command were not ordinary army soldiers, but they were not used as cannon fodder.

Naval sailors, especially those in some key positions, are all technical personnel, and this has a lot of casualties, which will have a very great impact on the navy.

However, since Chen Yuechuan had put forward a request for reinforcements, Li Binglong could not turn a blind eye and sent sailors from technical posts to the shore to be cannon fodder, but he naturally would not do so, and immediately mobilized some sailors who were not technical backbones, such as some sailors on transport ships and some sailors from auxiliary departments.

In the end, about 200 people were cobbled together to go ashore to support the 1st Mixed Brigade in the battle.

However, more than 200 sailors are naturally not proficient in land warfare, and many of them can't even shoot guns, so Chen Yuechuan did not embarrass them and directly sent them to the battlefield as cannon fodder, but let them undertake some tasks on the secondary front, such as guarding some positions that have been conquered, protecting supply points, etc., so that he can send more troops to the front line to fight.

The gunfire in the city of Port Bide was intermittent and continued to ring for more than ten days.

And when the gunfire stopped, Chen Yuechuan, who was still brightly dressed, but had a tired look, saw the bearded Russian army in front of him.

I only listened to him babble a lot, and then handed Chen Yuechuan his command knife. (To be continued.) )