424.Zheng Nguyen Civil War (5)
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Wu Shiming is rumored to be a side line of the Beihe Xuanguang Haoqiang Wu clan, of course, this is just a rumor, the Xuanguang Wu clan is a local tyrant who was strong for a while, not only has the same title as Lord Zheng, but also said nothing in Xuanguang, even the main mansion can only be resigned, naturally it is not a pirate who can't get along in the Beibu Gulf.
However, Wu Shiming can be called a good general, he just defected to Lord Ruan on the front foot, and then, the rising Ming Zheng sailor swept across the entire South China Sea, and countless pirates who were stronger than him were either completely swept away by Ming Zheng or forced to surrender to Ming Zheng, only he survived this round of purging as a general of the Ruan Lord Sailor.
Of course, he is not the only smart person, there are also people who have defected to Lord Ruan in this trend, and many pirates have defected to Lord Ruan very early before. But Master Ruan's water master is not so easy to mix, except for the non-stop bribes to the dissatisfied officials, there is no penny of salary. Those pirates who couldn't help it were later driven out by the Zheng Junshui who didn't give face to Lord Ruan, and only a few people such as Wu Shiming, who had been struggling for a long time, finally cultivated to the golden body.
However, the military attache of the navy who became the eighth official of the Nguyen Dynasty had to fulfill the corresponding responsibilities, such as swearing sovereignty in the Rili Sea, Shun Cheng Bay, Hoi An Sea, and even the Bintong Long Sea area further south during peacetime, guarding the imported merchant ships, and fighting with the sailors of Zheng Zhu or Chenla in wartime, etc.
Now that Lord Zheng has made a comeback and once again attacked the Hengshan defense line, Wu Shiming and others naturally want to come forward and go north to harass the waters behind Lord Zheng, and then meet with Lord Zheng's naval division.
However, as soon as they left Tuoying Port, Wu Shiming and his entourage received bad news that four of them, one small and five gunboats flying the blue, red, and blue Ming Zheng Shui Shi flags were fiercely blocking the north. Everyone knows that this time Lord Zheng went south at the instigation of Ming Zheng, and now the Lord is blocking the way to go, and everyone knows that he has bad intentions.
Detours? How do you go around and into the ocean? You must know that whether it is pirates, officials and soldiers, let alone Wu Shiming, even the sailors of the Great Qing Kingdom, which was the first in East Asia in the past, can only go around the coast, how can they go deep into the ocean. What's more, if you go deep into the ocean, won't Ming Zheng be able to? If you look at other people's boats and sails, you can see that they are more suitable for ocean sailing.
Beat? Are you dizzy? Don't look at the Ruan Zhu's naval army, there are hundreds of boats, large and small, but they may not add up to more than one person's cannon, and the only artillery in their own house is only a small cannon that can hit a shotgun, and it is like tickling when it hits the Ming Zheng ship, and it is a full heavy artillery, which can break your keel and sink you directly. With such a comparison of strengths, how to fight?
couldn't fight, and they couldn't get around, so as a last resort, Wu Shiming and the others had to be forced back into Tuoying Harbor.
I can always hide if I can't beat it, but Ming Zheng's ships are cruising day and night outside the harbor, making everyone feel that something is wrong. Fortunately, in order to defend Tuoying Port, Lord Ruan built several forts with great expense, and with the protection of the forts, Wu Shiming and the others did not worry about Ming Zheng Shui Shi rushing directly into the port.
Wait, wait, suddenly heard that Zheng Shuishi went south, Wu Shiming, who breathed a sigh of relief, had the intention to move, although Hoi An Port is not far from Tuoying Port, but can't you use this opportunity to sneak out of the port? Thinking that it was the Portuguese fleet that contained the Ming Zheng naval division, the Ruan Zhushui army was full of discussions, and finally the commander, who felt that it should not be too risky, decided to send only a small number of ships north to undertake the task of raiding and harassing, so Wu Shiming, who was not a descendant, and several other former pirates were singled out to carry out this "great" mission.
"Boat, Ming's gunboat." Wu Shiming was still silently praying to the gods and Buddhas such as the Sea Dragon King, Guanyin, and Mazu, but the sailor in charge of the lookout had already shouted out in horror. "To the south, they came after them from the south."
The southwest monsoon prevailed in the waters of Annam in September, and although Wu Shiming and other hard sailing ships could withstand the wind from all directions, they were much inferior to the Ming Zheng soft sailing ships that could eat enough wind, so Wu Shiming ordered at the first time: "Hurry, dock quickly." ”
"The shore is a reef beach!" The rudder wailed. "It's going to run aground if you turn around"
"you." Wu Shiming kicked the rudder. "If you don't turn, you will be caught up by the Daming gunboat, which is also a dead end."
Under Wu Shiming's control, the boat immediately sailed to the shore, but not everyone was as smart as Wu Shiming, a few desperately escaped north, and were soon caught up by the Ming Zheng gunboat, and then after a burst of artillery fire, it turned into a broken plank and floated on the sea. But Wu Shiming didn't have time to rejoice, and after a tooth-aching grinding sound, his ship ran aground.
When the ship is over, Lord Ruan, who does not raise useless people, will naturally not give Wu Shiming another chance.
However, Wu Shiming, who wanted to cry without tears, didn't have time to think about his future, looking at the Ming Zheng gunboat that turned back, he only had time to order: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and jump into the sea, swim to the shore and escape separately." ”
It's just that Wu Shiming's decision was too late, and although the Ming Zheng gunboat had not yet arrived, the cannon had already fired. Although the shelling is off-topic, there are also benefits to the missed shells - who knows where the next one will fall, and it is not wrong if the crooked hit is right - Wu Shiming bit his heart and put up a white flag.
"I don't know the situation in Tuoying Port, so I came to the door by myself." Shi Jiubo, the commander of the ship who took the lead, laughed when he saw this scene. "Stop the shelling, send two eight-oared boats over to escort the first one to me, but I didn't expect that the first work of priing open Tuoying Port is still the official's."
"The Guangnan thieves really sent people to sneak out of the port." Receiving the report of the Qiongjia team of the Northern Tour, Chang Tianyuan showed an expression on his face. "The opportunity is good, but unfortunately, the ship is too bad."
Du Hu was concerned about the tongue he caught: "Have you figured out the situation in Tuoying Port, what about the ship, hurry up and bring it over." ”
There were not only Wei but also other ship commanders who came over the ship, of course, the protagonist was Wu Shiming, looking at the frightened other party, Chang Tianyuan asked: "Will you speak Da Ming?" ”
The answer is yes, after all, Chinese is the lingua franca of the Oriental world in this era: "Don't be afraid, as long as you explain the situation in Tuoying Port clearly, the official will ensure that you have nothing to do with the boatload, if you feel that Guangnan is not good, the official can send you to Jinran, and even think of Xiboni." ”
Where is Xibo Ni, Wu Shiming doesn't know, but Jin Lan is in the south of Guangnan He still knows, he heard Chang Tianyuan's promise, and knew that he was right again Wu Shiming finally put his mind at ease, but he was a little curious about the problem of the Ming military attache in front of him, what's going on, could it be that these Ming people want to rush directly into Tuoyang Port?
Curiosity is curiosity, but Wu Shiming knew that his current life was still in the hands of others, so he replied without words: "If Lord Shangguo wants to know something, the villain must answer carefully." ”
Then Wu Shiming told everything he knew, Tuoying Port is south of Fuchun and north of Hoi An, which was originally a port that integrated a commercial port and a military port, but Hoi An in the south is relatively famous, so there are not many merchant ships coming and going to Tuao Ying Port, and now it is an important stronghold by Lord Ruan's navy. Because the distance from Fuchun is only more than 100 miles, Lord Ruan has always attached importance to the defense of Tuoying Port. Forts were built on Han Island in the north and the Son Tra Peninsula in the south, but the Han Island Fort mainly guarded the road leading to Songqu River and Hebei to Fuchun, and only the Son Tra Peninsula Fort in the south served as a cover for the port area.
"The sea area of Tuoying Port is horseshoe-shaped, and the mouth faces northeast. It is nearly 30 miles long from north to south, about 20 miles wide from east to west, the water depth is more than 30 feet, and there are Marble Mountains and Fuxiang Mountains as cover along the coast. "Such a good port is a temptation for the officers of the naval division, but this place is considered the key point of Quang Nam, and it is impossible for Lord Ruan to cede anything lightly." The Camellia Fort has twelve cannons, four of which are said to be able to shoot eight-pound cannons. ”
"In addition to the Camellia Fort, there is also a sandbag fort on the east side of the military port, equipped with eight cannons, four of which can shoot eight catties of cannons." Although Wu Shiming is just a miscellaneous card, he has been in the Ruan Zhushui army for a long time, so he knows a lot of things very well. "There are still ninety-four large and small ships in the port, the largest of which is no more than 5,000 materials, and the smallest is only 4,500 materials." Although the map drawn by Wu Shiming was very rough and the location was quite wrong, this was already the first-hand information of Zheng Jun's sailors, so the ship commanders present listened attentively. "In addition to the more than 4,000 sailors in the port, the Ming Lord still retains 1,000 soldiers, half of which are in the Handao Fort, and half are in the camp west of the Tuoyang River."
The ship's commander, Situ Da, immediately asked, "How deep is the Tuoying River?" How much wide"
Wu Shiming thought for a while and replied: "The Tuoying River has not been dredged, so only the mouth of the sea has a depth of nearly twenty feet, and the upward line is only eleven or two feet. As for the width, it is about a mile at the mouth of the sea, and after five or six miles of ascent it narrows to one hundred and fifty paces, but then it divides into two tributaries. ”
There is no problem with Situda, the depth of two zhang and the distance of one hundred and eighty zhang are enough to make it impossible for the west bank to rescue the military port on the east coast. Of course, even if the Ruan army on the west bank can arrive in time, the Zheng army may not be afraid of the other party's strength.
Chang Tianyuan asked Wu Shiming, who had finished talking about the situation, to rest, and then faced the ship commanders: "I was forced to retreat by the Franco man, I think all the commanders are a little unwilling, since this is the case, then let's get the field back from the Guangnan people, and tell the Franco machine man with facts, it's not that we are afraid of them, but we don't want to cause trouble." ”
"That's right, defeat the people of Guangnan and give the people of Franc a look."
Several ship commanders also roared, and one of the ship commanders, Qiu Zhihe, blinked: "Chang Zanhua, Du Guandai, Wei Guandai, and several other adults, I don't know if the adults have noticed the shape of Tuoying Port, here, that is, the Tuoying Inland Sea, the Guangnan people have laid heavy protection, but here, that is, on the side of the open sea, there is no defense."
"Lord Qiu, your idea is very good, avoid the truth and make it false, but that is the 6th division, and our sailors use their own tactics." Chang Tian is far from being arrogant, but first, he has a limited number of sailors, and it is impossible to divide a team to carry out a sneak attack, in addition, since the people of Quang Nam are so confident and unprepared, it is obvious that there must be a problem, even if they really ignore it, in the case of muddy roads and unclear conditions, it is actually a kind of reckless detour. "Therefore, the official decided to knock out the two forts first, and then go straight to Tuoying Port to show the majesty of the sailors."
Ming Lord: The seventh generation of Nguyen Lord Nguyen Phuc Thu called himself the Duke of Zong Gun, and the subordinates of Lord Nguyen called him Ming Lord or Lord of the State.
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