Chapter 231: Straight into Jinjiang
The defenders of Chongwusuo City were so frightened that they ran away, hiding in the city with their heads in their hands, and were forced to be led by Liu Yidao to the fleet, and shelled again, as a result, dozens of people were killed and injured on the spot, and the roof of the main hall of the thousands of households in the city was lifted and a wall collapsed.
Seeing that the defenders of Chongwusu made a posture of holding their heads and being beaten to death, they resolutely refused to fire back with artillery, and did not dare to go out of the city to fight, so Liu Yidao sent sailors, rowed a sampan to the area around the wharf, boarded these official warships abandoned at the wharf, and began to knock and beat to check.
The Sea Wolf tribe now has a very high appetite, but they don't want to tow back any ship they catch like before, but now even if they take the ship, they have to pick and choose, don't want it to be too old, don't want it to be of bad quality, don't want it to be damaged, as long as the hull is strong, the age of the ship is short, and the materials are strong.
So more than a dozen sailor warships of the officers and soldiers were turned over by the sea wolf, and after some selection, they finally chose seven of the warships that were in good condition, and directly pulled out the anchor and sailed away from the dock, as for the remaining ships, they didn't even have any interest, they directly overturned the gunpowder and some fire oil stored on the ship, cleaned up the things available on the ship, loaded them with other ships, and then set fire to the remaining ships.
There were originally some merchant ships berthed here at the wharf of Chongwusuo, and they were all driven away at this time, but the sea wolves did not go too far with them, and each ship collected two hundred taels of silver and let them go, as for the official ships, none of them were left, and those who were taken away were taken away, and those that were burned were burned.
After the sea wolf fleet left for a long time, Chongwusu opened the city gate again and sent people to the dock to try to extinguish the fire, but when they arrived at the dock, they found that it was no longer necessary, because the ships on the dock had already been burned to the ground, and even if they were extinguished, they were completely scrapped.
Even the wooden pier had been set on fire by the sea wolf at this time, and it was estimated that it would take a lot of time and money to restore the function of the wharf.
After Liu Yidao first solved the official ships of the Chongwu Institute, he led the fleet to the mouth of the Jinjiang River, leaving four or five boats to block the inland sea of the Luoyang River, and went in to start the search and suppression.
At this time, those people who were building a partridge mouth platform at the mouth of the Jinjiang River, when they saw the fleet of sea wolves appearing on the sea, they immediately came to a big uproar and ran away.
Although the Partridge Mouth Fortress has just begun to be built, it has not yet been built here, but in order to block the Jinjiang Estuary, Cai Shanji still managed to mobilize six or seven cannons of various types from Quanzhou, including two Hongyi cannons removed from the city wall, and built a temporary artillery fortress at the Partridge Mouth, and temporarily placed these cannons here, and the muzzles were aimed at the sea outside the Jiangkou.
When he saw that the sea wolf's fleet was not coming well and seemed to be trying to sail directly into the Jinjiang estuary, a guerrilla who was responsible for leading the troops to guard here hurriedly called the officers and soldiers to the artillery base to prepare for battle, operated these cannons, aimed at the slowly approaching sea wolf fleet, and made a gesture to prevent them from sailing into the Jinjiang estuary.
And the movements of the partridge mouth fort on the shore all fell into the eyes of Liu Yidao, who was observing the shore with a telescope, and he couldn't help but sneer.
The current sea wolf fleet can not be stopped by a small fort, they are not the little pirates when there were only a few ships, looking at the entire coast of China, the power that can confront the sea wolf head-on is almost gone, and the sea peers mention the sea wolf, and now they are all avoiding it, and they dare not provoke the sea wolf lightly.
Even after the Battle of Nanri Island, the news spread, and the merchant ships of the sea wolf even dared to hang the sea wolf flag on their own and sail directly to Guangdong, and the pirates of Guangdong along the way did not dare to provoke them lightly, they all looked at them from a distance, shook their heads and sailed away from them.
And the firepower that the Seawolf's fleet now has can also be said to be second to none off the coast of China, and the firepower output capacity of any ship on the main warship completely exceeds the firepower output capacity of the Partridge Fortress here.
When he saw that the officers and soldiers in the artillery fort on the shore were busy trying to use artillery to block the mouth of the Jinjiang River, it was difficult for Liu Yidao not to laugh, so he waved his hand and ordered a few warships to follow and sail directly to the Partridge Mouth fort.
Before the sea wolf's ship approached the Partridge Fortress, several cannons of the officers and soldiers in the Partridge Fortress began to sound one after another, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rose up, and the flames erupted from the fortress, which looked quite deterrent and the scene was quite spectacular.
It's a pity that the accuracy of their shells is really too poor, and there are only two heavy guns in the fort, and the rest of the cannons are just to listen to the sound and strengthen their courage.
The shells landed on the water at a great distance from the Seawolf's ship, causing waves to splash and pose no threat to the Seawolf's ship at all.
As soon as several of the Seawolf's ships approached the shore, the battle flag was raised on board, and the gunners quickly began to reload the ship's guns, and pushed the cannons to the gun doors, and began to aim at the gun barricades on the shore as the hull moved.
In order to improve the accuracy of the shelling, after the ships approached the shore, they all closed their sails, or even simply dropped anchor and stopped, and the side of the hull was aligned with the position of the gun barrier, making it easier for the gunners on the ship to aim.
Seeing that the seawolf ships were sideways to the fort, and the guns on the ship exposed a black hole in the muzzle, the officers and soldiers of the shore fort were even more panicked, desperately loading and pushing the guns, and they quickly fired another round of shells, but the accuracy was really pitiful, this round of shells still fell in the water, and even the side of the seawolf ship was not touched.
However, the Seawolf fleet was unforgiving at this time, and several ships responsible for the shelling fired their cannons at this time, and the shells smashed to the shore with a whistling roar, and the lookout on the ship roared to report the landing points of each gun, and ordered the gunners to adjust the guns.
The first round of shells fell on the shore, and the accuracy was not high, but it was not outrageous, most of them fell around the perimeter of the fort, and individually accurately hit the fort.
And this fort is only a temporary fort, the building is not solid, mostly made of some sandbags and dirt bags, the thickness is also very limited, and there is no roof, it belongs to the open temporary fort.
Therefore, as long as the shell hits, it will cause a lot of damage to the fort, even the most ordinary solid bullet can collapse a section of the parapet wall.
After some adjustments, the Seawolf's fleet began to fire sharply from the shore, and the guns had already calibrated their targets and began to fire rapidly.
The training range of the seawolf's gunners is far more than that of the gunners of the official army several times, even more than ten times, or even dozens of times, whether it is the speed of loading and aiming, and the aiming accuracy is also much higher.
Although the accuracy of the shelling on the shore on the ship was not as good as that of the fixed batteries on the shore, the gunners of the Sea Wolves still fought quite beautifully, and after only a quarter of an hour, looking at the Partridge Mouth fort, it was already in ruins.
The makeshift artillery fort sandbags had already collapsed, and even the artillery in the fort had been buried, and the officers and men in the fort had also suffered heavy casualties.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the guerrilla who was sitting here immediately smeared oil on the soles of his feet, and fled from the artillery base with his own soldiers.
Therefore, after several rounds of shelling, the officers and soldiers in the fort were like blowing up the nest, and they rushed out of the fort one by one, screaming and screaming and began to flee to Quanzhou City.
The ships lowered a few sampans, loaded 50 sailors, armed with the navy's special South Japanese smoothbore flintlock pistol, began to land on the shore, and rushed towards the fort, when they captured the fort, they did not even fire a single shot, and easily occupied the fort, except for the corpses of dozens of officers and men left, only some untreated wounded were alive, and the officers and men who could run had already run away, and the Partridge Mouth fort was also declared lost.
Liu Yidao didn't even have the interest to observe the battle situation, so Shi Shiran with the main fleet directly broke into the mouth of the Jinjiang River and sailed towards Quanzhou City.
Of course, the officials and defenders in Quanzhou City had already heard the rumbling cannon sound from the partridge's mouth, and their hearts were full of horror at this time.
Cai Shanji was in the yamen of the Quanzhou prefect, and the new Quanzhou prefect hurriedly discussed countermeasures, but at this time, there were only more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in Quanzhou Prefecture, and it was definitely impossible to go out of the city to meet the battle, and they couldn't let the officers and soldiers swim to block the sea wolf's fleet, so they could only give a death order and order the defenders to defend the city to ensure that Quanzhou City was not lost.
Now Cai Shanji understands that the sea wolf actually said that he was going to attack Tong'an County in ten days, but it was just a false shot, and the real target they wanted to hit was actually Quanzhou City, and only by hitting Quanzhou City could they completely knock on the Fujian official, because if a city was attacked, the impact would be far more shocking than if a county town was attacked.
Therefore, after not waiting for Cai Shanji's reply, that Yu Xiaotian will send a fleet to directly attack Quanzhou Mansion, making it clear that he wants to force Cai Shanji to agree to his conditions.
But although he can see what Xiaotian's idea is, Cai Shanji has no way at all, now the most important thing for him is to keep Quanzhou City first, once Quanzhou City is also attacked by sea wolves, then it is useless to say anything.
So he hurriedly sent someone to the Deji Gate to inquire about the news, first to see how many men and horses and ships came from the sea wolf, and then how to retreat from the enemy next, first look at the situation before thinking of a way.
(The second update is that I didn't break my promise today!) Not bad, yes, it's just drowsy to death! I have to give water in the middle of the night, I can't sleep after tossing, and the hospital is simply a mosquito nest! Bite me to death! Commuter pass, summon commuter pass! )