Chapter 294: The Battle of Lushun (1)
The Jingbei Army went out to Liaodong, and the army set off from Jiaoao Wharf and went straight to Shuangdao at the southern end of Lushun through Huangcheng Island.
Of course, not only did the Jingbei Army have a naval division, but the Qing army also had a naval division of about 3,000 people, and it was stationed in Port Arthur, but the Qing Army's naval division only had more than 100 flat sand boats patrolling along the coast, and more than 30 sea boats, and the rest were mostly small boats such as chain ships and fire boats.
After Phi Dao was breached, there was no pressure from the Ming army in southern Liaoning, and the importance of the puppet Qing regime to the naval division was also declining, and of course no new ships were built into the naval fleet.
After the Jingbei Army took control of Leiden, it reorganized the town of Shuishi and massively increased the number of warships and transports, which caused Huang Taiji to refocus on the defense of the southern coast of Liaoning.
In the attack on Phi Dao, the Zhenghongqi Dutong Duobi, who presided over the operation of the water division, was sent to southern Liaoning to take charge of the affairs of the Lushun water division, but the resources of the puppet Qing Dynasty were limited and there were not enough resources to expand the water division.
Duobi is actually chasing ducks to the shelves, and he is not very familiar with the water war, and the time of Phi Dao was because Dongjiang Town had already fallen apart, and there was no effective resistance to the Dongyu Water Division.
It's just that Huangtai Jilu is Huanghuang, and Duobi has to go to southern Liaoning, but he is not stupid, knowing that he can rely on the sailors of the Fang Fang to be the opponents of the sailors of the Ming Kingdom, so he specially transferred several generals such as Quanjie and Xu Erxian who are proficient in water warfare from Gongshun Wang Kong Youde and Zhishun Wang Shang Kexi to follow him into southern Liaoning.
The whole section is a native of Guangning, subordinate to Kong Youde's generals, after the surrender of the Qing Dynasty, Kong Youde awarded the title of Gongshun King, the whole section is also a rising tide, carried into the Han Army is the red flag, awarded the deputy general of the Tianzhu Army.
Xu Erxian is Shang Kexi's henchman, and after the surrender, he was also compiled into the Zhenglan Banner, and he also pollinated Huang Taiji with the rank of deputy general.
The two of them have been on Phi Island for a long time, and they are naturally proficient in water warfare, but it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and with these three melons and two dates in their hands, it is obviously impossible to go to sea to meet the Jingbei Army Naval Division who may sail Liao.
Xu Erxian and Quan Jiejiu are in southern Liaoning, and they know the terrain around Port Arthur, and think that although Lushun is a natural deep-water port, there is a golden mountain in the east to set up heavy artillery, and the Tiger Tail Peninsula in the west can also be stationed with heavy troops.
Xu Erxian's suggestion was approved by the sailors Dutong Duobi and Lushun Shou General, the Blue Banner Jia, Lazhangjing, Yierden and others.
So Quan Jie and Xu Erxian built a fort at the foot of the mountain on the right side of the Golden Mountain, deployed eight Hongyi cannons and 50 major general cannons, and dozens of other 600 jin and 800 jin small cannons, and removed 1,000 officers and soldiers of the naval division to garrison.
Of course, it was only to defend the Golden Mountain, and naturally it was not possible to screen the Port of Arthur, and the whole section asked Duobi for his life, and built six wooden cities in the area of Tiger Tail.
The wooden city is the floating dam that is tied to the giant wood, the dam surface is filled with soil, it can accommodate 300 soldiers, 30 cannons, the four corners are all spires, and the ships meet the standing and shattering, so it is called "wooden city".
After the construction of the wooden city and the fort, Quan Jie and other Han generals were still a little worried, and suggested that Duobi and Yierden follow the strategy of the Dongjiang army to defend Phi Island and connect the wooden city and the golden mountain with iron cables, and then add a noose, which can be retracted and released, put their own sentry boats, and go to sea to inquire about the news.
In addition, Xu Erxian built more than ten beacon towers and forts in Laotieshan, Shuangdao, not far from Port Arthur, and left his command to garrison the 500 Han troops of Wu Jinzhongtong, thinking that Lushun Ping Domain.
Duobi and Ilden are both fierce generals on horseback, and they don't know anything about water warfare at all, and they don't know anything about the arrangement of Quanjie and Xu Erxian.
After the clinker defense line was built, Yierden and Duobi did not wait for the Jingbei army and naval division to attack, but received the news that their emperor and Li Xingzhi had made an appointment to attack the Ming, and Li Xingzhi's envoy also signed a treaty with the Qing Dynasty, and the two sides were bounded by the Huai River and Sanguan.
Since both sides have made an appointment, it is naturally impossible for the Jingbei Army to cross the sea to attack, Duobi and Yierden are naturally happy and leisurely, the main general is slack, and the soldiers under their command are naturally horses and Nanshan, and swords and guns are put into storage, but they have become the bait for Huang Taiji to lure Li Xingzhi into the palace.
In Huang Taiji's view, the Manchurian Eight Banners under Yierden's department were all cavalry, and if Lushun was attacked, it would not be difficult to retreat, and as for the 3,000 Han Army Banner Sailors in Duobi's hands, they were originally Manchurian dogs, and it was natural for them to work for their masters.
Xu Yixian sent an envoy to Liaodong, that is, on the shore of Lushun Port, although he could not observe the whole picture of the Qing army's defense line, but the artillery fort on the Golden Mountain and the wooden city at the tiger's tail were still clear at a glance.
For this reason, Li Xingzhi also made corresponding arrangements, and after the naval division arrived on Huangcheng Island, he immediately divided his troops into two routes according to the original plan.
Li Xingzhi commanded the main force of the four towns to take Shuangdao directly, and Li Dingguo led the old base camp to be escorted by 30 bird boats led by Pan Xuezhong, the deputy general of Shuishi Town, to take Guanglu Island near Jinzhou Bay, waiting for reinforcements from the east.
On the tenth day of August in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the naval division of the Jingbei Army finally arrived near the Shuangdao of Lushun Gateway.
"Quick, let go of the wolf smoke, the thief is coming!"
"Damn it, where did you put the dry firewood on the beacon?"
"Where's the cannon? Go to the warehouse and get the guns out, ...... quickly! ”
The unsuspecting defenders of the two islands, when they saw the huge fleet of the Jingbei Army, suddenly became a mess, and the defenders of Lao Tieshan would be like headless flies scurrying around.
"Open the artillery, open the artillery, cover the landing of the land division on the island!"
The commander of the water division town gave the military order to attack Su Guodong brazenly.
Under his command, more than ten bird boats lined up in a column and started the first round of salvo fire at Lao Tieshan Qing Army Dazhai.
With a terrible whistling sound, the dense artillery smashed into the already chaotic defenders of the twin islands.
"Click, click!"
Before they could even light the wolf smoke, several beacon towers with wooden and stone structures were smashed by the intensive firepower of the Jingbei Army's naval division.
Not only the beacon tower, but also the artillery fortress of the Qing army, as well as the wooden wall, were also baptized by artillery fire.
There are constantly wooden walls penetrated by cannons, artillery bases constantly collapsing in artillery fire, Qing soldiers constantly being hit by cannons, and constantly soldiers with heads and rats are being smashed and swept away.
"What about the gunners? And what about the gunners? Hurry up and fire Lao Tzu, hurry up and fire Lao Tzu! ”
The guerrilla general Wu Jinzhong looked at the chaotic artillery forts with a dead face, and then looked at the troop transport sand ships that had broken away from the Ming naval division on the sea, and he knew that he had been defeated.
"My lord, we are just in charge of vigilance, how can we be the opponent of the official army brigade, let's withdraw!"
Wu Jinzhong's account under the thousand general You Yunlong has no hope of holding the twin islands.
Beat? What to fight, with more than 20 small cannons on Lao Tie Mountain, and more than 500 defenders who were frightened by the Ming army's artillery fire, how can they be the opponents of the Ming naval division with strong ships and artillery.
"Withdraw, let the brothers withdraw, once the Ming Kingdom lands, we won't be able to leave."
Wu Jinzhong stomped heavily and gave the order to withdraw his troops in a dejected manner.