Chapter 1372: Fleet and Cavalry
Directly diverted the conversation, Chen Jisheng laughed, the defenders of Jinzhou said that it was adapted, in fact, it was not much different from surrender, and how to call Xuzhou has also become a problem, because Xuzhou is not blatantly pulling the flag to rebel now, but just calling itself Zhao Jiajun.
These remnant officers and soldiers from Dongjiang Town and Jinzhou, since they have abandoned the Ming Dynasty, they naturally hope that their place will be better, but they claim to be from Xuzhou and Zhao Jiajun, and they always feel that they are a little bit worse, and Chen Jisheng's statement today has solved the problem for everyone.
"After all, I've read books, and I can talk better than us rough people." Zhang Pan sighed with emotion, even if he hadn't read much, he knew that he was a Han person, and he also knew that he was a Han and Tang Dynasty, especially these people in Liaozhen, who were enemies of Mongolia and fought to the death with the Jurchens, and their understanding of this was stronger and clearer than other places.
Chen Jisheng waved his hand helplessly, raised his eyes to look in the direction of the land, but his brows furrowed, and said in a muffled voice: "This General Chen is still a little cautious, but he didn't lean over directly, the ships are all sailing, no, those ghost splint ships are still full of sails, I can't understand, I can't understand." ”
As the fleet continued to approach, the Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry had also judged the location of the landing and began to gather there, this Jianzhou cavalry had a good grasp of proportion, they knew that they were not here to fight, but to deter, so they always maintained a state of confrontation.
The Jianzhou Jurchens looked at the fleet on the sea and were also worried in their hearts, but they believed in one thing, as long as they maintained this state of deterrence and confrontation, the other party would not have a chance to go ashore, unless they were willing to pay heavy casualties, and if they really wanted to do so, the landing camp with heavy losses was not the opponent of the city brigade at all. "What kind of strange ship is this? Where did this come from? The leader who led the cavalry couldn't help but sigh.
As long as you have experience in the battlefield, you can judge the situation at this time, but the other party still leans over so carelessly, do you really think that the iron horse of the Eight Banners man is an ornament?
In addition, what the Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry cared about was those strange big ships, and the size of the rest of the ships was also rare, but it was not very new, it was nothing more than a variant of the Ming ships, but the appearance of these ships was the first time I saw it, and there were too many things that this group of Xuzhou people had never heard of.
"Since we're coming, let's teach them a lesson, otherwise we will make a profit from the future in other places, but we will have to eat and fall, and the Great Khan and Lord Belle will not spare us!" The commander who led the team gave the order, and the cavalry enthusiastically agreed.
There are already cavalry horses back to the city, so that Fuzhou City is ready, now is not a crisis, but an opportunity, a good opportunity to take advantage of the other party's rash advance.
Each has its own response, each has its own preparations, but the action is not fast, Jianzhou Jurchen can't see the doorway, Chen Jisheng and those people can see that although the various ships of the Ming style are hard sails, when the sail is raised, more than a dozen people and dozens of people need to work hard at the same time, and the variable direction adjustment is very flexible, and the ghost's plywood boat, looking at the cloth sail light, but it is not easy to change direction with the wind, you must know that the Fu boat and the Guangzhou ship can even move forward in the headwind, this ghost ship may not be.
Because of this, the four plywood boats looked very clumsy, as if they were going to turn themselves sideways, and the sailors on the ship where Chen Jisheng and Zhang Pan were supposed to have been ordered in advance, but they knew everything, and they were full of envy.
"At the beginning, these ghosts didn't have long eyes to rob Haizhou Port, but they were kept by Jinye's fort, and they caught more than 200 people and a working ship, these ghosts really don't have long eyes."
"Take down a few foreign ships of the ghosts, we are not unable to do it, but after catching the foreign ships of the ghosts, they can be made as they are, and they can be repaired as they are, this ability is the first one on the sea and the ocean, tsk, then again, our family, counting the few in the south and the east, this plywood ship is not impossible to build, it may be possible to build this ship, and there is no this cannon, who has such a good gun, light weight, and large firepower...... You will be blessed in the future if you follow a leader like Zhao Jin......"
The man was talking endlessly, no matter what Chen Jisheng and Zhang Pan thought in their hearts, but at this time, they heard a loud bang.
The experienced people immediately heard that this was the roar of artillery, and soon found that it was the splint ships that were firing, and at first they felt unimpressed, at most a few shells were fired, and if the cavalry on the shore reacted quickly, it would not cause any damage at all, but they were afraid that the first shell would land, and the cavalry on the shore would disperse in a hurry.
But there was more than one cannon shot, not just a few, but more than two dozen in a row, and then more than one ship sounded the cannon sound, and at first there were people counting them, and then they became speechless.
Chen Jisheng and the ship they were on were relatively far ahead, and on the one hand, they could feel the roar up close, smell the smell of gunsmoke, and on the other hand, they could clearly see the results of the shelling.
Almost half of the shells missed, just stirring up dust, and the cavalry of the Jianzhou Jurchens was far enough away from here, and they also knew that the artillery of this strange reinforcement was sharp, so they tried to hide as far away as possible.
Seeing the movement of the guns on the ship, the cavalry of the Jianzhou Jurchen all had a shameful smile on their faces, thinking to themselves what is the difference between this and the Ming Kingdom's use of firearms, fighting with their eyes closed outside the range, feeling that the power is huge, the momentum is terrifying, but there is no damage at all, this is a bird?
It's just that their smiles didn't stay on their faces for too long, field artillery because of the limited load-bearing capacity of the gun carriage, sixteen-pounder guns and eighteen-pounder guns are the largest calibers, no matter how heavy the artillery is, it is often used on the battery as a fortress gun, and the naval gun is different, because of the buoyancy of water, it can carry heavier guns, sixteen and eighteen pounders of this kind of cannons that are not easy to carry on land, it becomes very simple on the ship, and even looser in caliber, charge and barrel length, of course, the range and power are far better than the field guns on land.
The twenty-pound shot put flew with a huge impulse, the boat was bumpy, drifting downstream, naturally there was no way to maintain any accuracy, but more than a thousand riders were already a big enough target, it was not difficult to shoot, and it was not difficult to reach it.
A sixteen-pounder cannon shell fell directly into the ranks, and several cavalrymen and horses were beaten up and flew up, and the earth, rock, gravel and gravel that were stirred up scattered and killed, but what was even more unfortunate was not these, the two horsemen on the front side, and even the men and horses were directly beaten into two pieces, and blood and flesh were splashed everywhere.
Some cannonballs grazed the edge of the Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry, where the cannonballs flew, the flesh and blood were broken, and some parts of the bodies of the cavalry and horses disappeared, and even more cannonballs fell in front of the queue, and then bounced, and countless cavalry were so short, because the lower half of the horses were gone.
On the battlefield of this era, the people who died immediately were much luckier than the wounded, they were hit by shells, pierced by flying earth and stones, their bodies were wounded, they were constantly bleeding, they knew that they were going to die, but they still did not die for a while, they only wailed and screamed there, hoping that their companions would give them a good time.
It was not a shell fired from one ship in one direction, but a crossfire fired by several ships in an arc against the cavalry of the brigade on the shore.
Although there are only about 20 heavy artillery pieces that can hit that side, the Jianzhou Jurchen underestimated the range of the shells, thinking that they were safe, which was equivalent to waiting for someone to fight over there, but the damage this time was much greater than that of the field battle, the flesh and blood were flying, the dust was flying, and the rest dared to stay, and they were scattered in a hurry.
Heavy losses, frightened, has not yet reacted from the roar of the fangcai, bloody wind and rain, look at the companions around you, there are already many people missing, what is more troublesome is that the mounts have been manic, there is no way to control it, everyone dare not stay on this battlefield, because everyone does not know the range of artillery, do not know how far the shells from the sea can hit.
If you want to be safe, you can only retreat, retreat again, and keep retreating, just retreating until you are five miles away, and still maintain a state of escape at any time.
At such a distance, even if the cavalry accelerated over, it could not affect the landing, and the other ships of the fleet began to approach the shore, either unloading directly at the pier, or landing with sampans.
Because there was a large margin of supplies and ships, there were even large ships in the fleet that were dedicated to transporting sampans, and the small boats were thrown into the sea, and then there were special people to send them to the big ships, and the soldiers climbed down the rope nets and then slid to the shore.
"It's very inconvenient for the two big ships over there to get off the boat at the dock, why are they still parked there and not moving, and how good it is to give way to the ones behind." The man from Liaodi said suspiciously.
The official wharf on this side of Fuzhou Bay has long been abandoned, but compared to these big ships put together by Zhao Jiajun, even if these wharves are still there, they can't match the ships, and it is difficult to unload the people directly, but the two wide and smooth fortune boats are piled up in front of the wharf, looking very obstructive.
After the strange plywood ships left from the opposite direction, the remaining Jianzhou Jurchen cavalry thought that there was another opportunity, and began to gather the team to rush forward, and the enemy must not be allowed to go ashore, looking at the size of this fleet, if the enemy is allowed to land, it will really be unstoppable.
There was still some certainty that the landing infantry was still unstable and scattered, and that they had seen the movement of the ships, which was too slow, and that as long as they kept an eye on it, they had enough chance to evacuate before shelling again.
The soldiers of the Zhao family army are still landing on the shore, but it also takes time, only more than 20 sampans have approached until now, and less than 400 people have gathered on the shore, and then look at the cavalry rushing in the distance, Chen Jisheng and their group are really worried about it.
But when there were still a few hundred steps away, the cannon sounded again, after the hell scene just now, as soon as the cannon sounded, the cavalry horse team of the Jianzhou Jurchen was like a frightened bird, and immediately stopped the momentum of moving forward, turned around and fled, the frightened horses reacted faster, and several cavalry could not control it, and were directly lifted off the horse, and the stirrups did not have time to leave their feet, so they were directly dragged away, screaming non-stop.