On the beachhead, the soldiers of the Han Army looked at the Ming warship in horror, and the sound of the cannon was shocking.

Xin said: "Is the Ming army going to collapse the city wall?" ”

They try to hide behind boats or other bunkers to avoid being hit by lead bullets.

Rumble!

Rumble!

The loud noise continued.

A huge lead bullet whizzed away and smashed the beach, lifting a meter-high wall of sand.

When the Han army flag soldiers saw this, their hearts were shocked, and they leaned back on the bunker.

Suddenly, a lead bullet came at a gallop, and the sound of breaking the air was very harsh, and before the Han military flag could react, it hit a small boat on the beach, and immediately bombarded it to pieces.

The soldiers hiding behind the ship were overturned by the impact, or cut by wood chips, or directly injured by the aftermath of the shells, and one person was hit, setting off a rain of blood, and the scene was terrible.

At the top of the city, the sound of bombardment intensified, and the whistling lead bullets continued to fall, splashing countless rubble.

The rubble of various sizes flew everywhere, and a small number of them headed for the nearby captives.

These captives were all wearing leather armor, how could they resist the speeding rubble, and they fell to the ground injured one after another, blood flowing.

When the captives in the distance saw it, they were all shocked, and they even had the idea of retreating.

Rumble......

Another loud bang.

A cannonball slammed into the city wall, and the entire city shook three times, and a timid soldier fell directly to the ground.

Seeing this, Ganduhai was furious, rushed over and whipped it.

The soldier screamed, covered his face and knelt down, blood flowing from under his palm.

"A little cannonball scares you like this, are you still a warrior of the Qing Dynasty?" Ganduhai yelled angrily.

The soldier did not dare to squeak, but knelt with his head bowed, and did not dare to move.

Gan Duhai wanted to fight again, but saw Meng Qiaofang running quickly.

"Master, think of a way." Meng Qiaofang said loudly: "The range of the Ming artillery is obviously 50 steps farther than ours, and now with the strength of the tailwind, we are a live target." ”

Ganduhai couldn't see it.

But there are not many warships in Lushun, and now they are all lying on the shore, there is not even a sailor, and there is no possibility of counterattack at all.

The artillery at the head of the city could not hit the Ming warships.

What else can be done!

Zheng Sen and Zheng Zhibao found that Jianyu was powerless to fight back, and ordered the three giant ships to turn their bows.

The Lushun wall immediately calmed down.

Meng Qiaofang, who was hiding behind the battlements, heard the sound of the artillery stopping, thinking that the Ming army was about to land or that the gunpowder was insufficient, so he hurriedly got up and looked out.

It's good not to look at it, but it freaks him out.

"Master, withdraw quickly, the Ming Navy Division has turned the bow of the ship, and it must be bombarded intensively with the artillery on the side of the ship." Meng Qiaofang shouted loudly.

"You dog minion, you haven't killed an enemy, you dare to claim to retreat, believe it or not, I'll kill you!" Ganduhai was furious and pulled out his waist knife.

Bang bang bang......

With Ganduhai's angry scolding, the medium-sized battleships of the Ming Dynasty opened fire one after another, filling the gap in artillery fire.

The captives in the distance couldn't hear what the two commanders were arguing about.

They didn't care what the boss was doing, and they all stared nervously at the killing god on the sea.

I saw the three largest warships of the Ming Kingdom slowly turning, calmly facing the side of the ship to the land.

At the same time, the side guards were removed, and 24 black gun muzzles were exposed on the two-story hull.

At one time, three battleships, a total of 72 guns, aimed at Arthur City!

"Fire!"

Zheng's uncle and nephew respectively passed down military orders.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Almost at the same time, the artillery roared, and it was impossible to count how many.

You can only see white smoke rolling on the surface of the sea, and even obscuring the Ming warship.

Although the wave was not big today, the sea was still turbulent, and the gunners on the battleship could not shoot accurately.

In particular, these guns also need to ignite the fuse, and even if they are aimed, by the time the cannon is fired, the muzzle of the gun has already moved, and it can only ensure that the fire is within a general range.

Therefore, the current artillery bombardment is won by quantity, and whether or not it can hit the enemy depends on luck.

Fortunately, the station is still quite dense, and the attack effect should be good.

Nearly 100 lead bullets fell like meteorites on the city's head and tidal flats, and in an instant, dozens of people were blown up and their flesh and blood flew sideways, and the scene was full of stumps and broken arms.

Several of them landed on a fort at the head of the city, knocking the captured artillery and Han artillery to the ground.

"Master, you can't hold it here, let's withdraw to the city, go to the city wall on the north side of the city to defend it, fight hard, and you should be able to wait for reinforcements." Meng Qiaofang was in a hurry.

He knew that according to this bombardment method, within three quarters of an hour, the garrison of Arthur City would be destroyed.

Gan Duhai's face was gloomy, of course he could see that the situation was in crisis, but he couldn't change his mind for a while.

Retreat when you see the Han people, this is insulting to the word warrior! It is not at all the usual practice of the warriors of the Qing Dynasty.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Countless lead bullets continued to fall, the number of casualties continued to rise, and Ganduhai looked at the scarlet city walls and tidal flats, and looked at the soldiers who died in vain. He said with a hideous face: "Leave 200 people to defend it, and the rest will retreat to the north wall." ”

The order was handed down, and more than 300 soldiers withdrew to the north side with the people of the city, and 200 soldiers and some people found a safe place to hide.

They were armed with arquebuses and bows and arrows, steel knives pinned to their waists, and spears were placed at their sides, preparing for a bloody battle against the Ming army that landed.

There were still 6 batteries at the head of the city that were not damaged, so the artillery did not evacuate, they hid on the side of the batteries, and when the Ming army landed, they would counterattack.

On the battleship, Zhang Huangyan held a precious monocular to observe.

He said happily: "The effect of this surprise attack has far exceeded expectations, and it seems that the Jianyu here is really too comfortable." I hope that the war on the Liaodong Peninsula will go as smoothly as it is today. ”

Zheng Sen has also been nervously observing the movements of Arthur City at the bow of the ship.

When he saw that the defenders of the city had begun to retreat in an orderly manner, he gave the order to the troop carriers.

"Start landing."

Although I knew that there must be an ambush in Jianyu, I had to land.

If the prisoners were given time to breathe, the fortifications in the city would have caused more serious losses than the landing on the beach.

Moreover, now is the time of high tide, which is extremely conducive to beach-grabbing operations, and once the tide recedes, it will inevitably increase the difficulty of landing.

With the military order handed down, more than 100 small boats were put down on the Ming warships, each boat carried more than a dozen soldiers, and all the soldiers rowed desperately together and rushed towards the shore at high speed.

In 6 miles east of the battlefield, five medium-sized warships had already arrived at the sea on the eastern side of the Golden Mountain, also lowered their boats, and began to land in batches.

This was a plan that had been formulated a long time ago, while the main battleships of the Canglong Army attacked Huwei Mountain and Jiguan Mountain, the partial division of the Canglong Army bombarded and landed on the eastern side of the Golden Mountain.

Seize the top of the Golden Mountain in one go, set up artillery, and bombard Lushun City on the west side of the mountain to prepare for the main warship to attack the city.

Unexpectedly, Jianyu did not deploy defenses on those two mountains, and even as the main military point of Lushun, the Golden Mountain Fort, was unattended.

The main force of the Canglong Army sailed directly into Arthur Bay to begin the attack, and the partial division also began to land with zero losses.

After a while, more than a dozen Ming troops climbed the golden mountain and glanced around, extremely excited.

"Haha, this saves us the time to transport the artillery, brothers, quickly turn the artillery of Jianyu and aim it at Arthur City!"

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