Chapter 115: Entering Zhejiang

On 18 February, Changtingbiao garrison Su Dingyuan led 3,000 men from Tingzhou to Fuzhou.

Su Dingyuan, if you follow the identity given by the system, it is Su Yan's distant cousin, he is twenty-six this year, tall and strong, with a thick black beard on his chin, and is good at commanding infantry battles, whether he uses cold weapons or hot weapons.

After returning to Fuzhou, Su Yan did not catch up with him, and directly recounted the battle plan made that day.

Su Yan was ready to hide from the world.

He wanted Su Dingyuan to lead the army to play the banner of the main force behind the Dividing Water Pass, and deceived Li Shutai, so that the latter thought that the main force of the Ming army was gathering in Funing Prefecture and focused on the Dividing Water Pass.

And he himself first led the Shenji Battalion to land in Wenzhou by sea through Zheng's sailors and took Wenzhou, and then the Chinese military battalion and the Xiaocai battalion landed in Wenzhou Mansion by boat, and blocked the retreat of the Qing army under the command of Su Yan.

Most of the southern part of Zhejiang is hilly terrain, only the coastal part of the terrain is relatively flat, so as long as Su Yan occupies Wenzhou, the Qing army has only two choices, either to climb over the hilly area with complex terrain, or to storm Wenzhou and force a road.

No matter which one, after the main force of the Qing army began to move, Su Dingyuan led the army to break out of the water pass, fought a fierce battle with the Qing army, and cooperated with Su Yan to surround Li Shutai in the hills of southern Zhejiang.

Su Dingyuan had no objection to Su Yan's plan.

Therefore, on the 19th, Su Yan led the well-supplied Shenji Battalion to board the ship at the port of Fuzhou, and sailed all the way out of the Minjiang River, as far away from the coastline as possible, and sailed north.

In order to prevent the leakage of the plan, he also ordered the road control inside and outside Fuzhou, and no one was allowed to enter and exit at will, so most of the people in Fuzhou did not know the movement of the Ming army, and the Qing army spies who had infiltrated the city did not know when they wanted to report to the north after learning that the Ming army had set off, but before they could take action, the door was slammed open, and the brocade guards who had already been eyeing them broke into the door and swept them away.

The voyage from Fuzhou to Wenzhou was not long, and three days later, on the evening of the 21st, Zheng's sailors appeared off the coast of Wenzhou Bay.

On this day, I don't know if Tiangong deliberately took care of Su Yan, the sea surface of Wenzhou Bay was filled with layers of mist, and the sight was not good, and the Panshi Cooperative Camp located on the north shore of the mouth of the Oujiang River and Wenzhou Bay could not see the situation on the sea at all.

At that time, although the Wenzhou Mansion already had a deputy general of the naval division, its naval warships had already been transferred to the Zhoushan sea area to guard against the Southern Ming and Lu prisons.

Huang An, the commander of the Zheng Navy, proposed that the Sailor ignore the Panshi Camp, drive straight from the Oujiang River, and directly attack the city of Wenzhou, Su Yan thought about it for a while and agreed to Huang An's proposal.

Subsequently, the sailors sailed into the mouth of the Oujiang River under the cover of the fog on Wenzhou Bay, and waited until the gun muzzle erected on the side of the warship was less than a kilometer away from the Panshi Acropolis, and the Qing army sentry standing guard on the Acropolis finally discovered the movement on the water.

"Who is it?"

On the acropolis, the Qing army sentry shouted at the water, and then sounded the warning gong, just the next second when the gong was sounded, the artillery on the side of the Ming warship roared angrily, and dozens of shells roared and smashed into the rock siege, and the warning gong was silent in an instant.

But within a few seconds, the gong sounded again, and Su Yan did not fight, and ordered the ships to speed through the Panshi Acropolis and gallop towards Wenzhou City.

Although the sound of the gong of the rock acropolis did not alarm the Wenzhou capital, but after a few breaths, the acropolis lit a bonfire, to the Wenzhou capital city to transmit the enemy's situation, for a time, the gong inside and outside the city was continuous, the Qing soldiers in the city who were still asleep were woken up, while cursing, while picking up weapons, even the armor did not have time to put on rushed out of the camp, to the city wall.

Wenzhou garrison Wu Wenjin was also woken up from his sleep, he hurriedly got up, put on his own armor under the service of the servants, rode a war horse and galloped all the way to the city wall, and when he climbed the city wall and looked out, he was shocked to find that the Oujiang River in the north of the city was full of Ming warships, and the dense boats were moored on the river, and the muzzle of the black hole hole of the gate was aimed at the Wenzhou city wall at a distance of hundreds of meters.

Rumble –

After a series of dazzling fires, dozens of warships and cannons on the river fired in unison, and the hard projectiles smashed into the Wenzhou city wall.

After gaining a firm foothold, Wu Wenjin only felt that he had lost face, pulled out his saber, and scolded angrily: "Give Lao Tzu to enter the gun position, load gunpowder, and fight back!" Fight back! ”

Wu Wenjin's angry scolding seemed to have turned on a certain switch, and the Qing soldiers around him finally came to their senses and ran towards the city fire cannons erected on the city wall, and at this time, Wu Wenjin found that countless more small boats had left from the Ming warships, and dozens of soldiers were sitting on each small boat.

After he saw this scene clearly, his back was instantly soaked in cold sweat, and he hurriedly ordered his subordinates to operate the city defense artillery to shell the boats on the Ou River.

But this also put them in the Ming army's ship-borne artillery shooting field of view, the fire generated when the city defense artillery was fired exposed their position, after they opened the artillery, the Ming army's ship-borne artillery quickly locked the general direction, and then concentrated artillery fire in the direction of the city defense artillery, and let a city defense gun be dumb on the spot.

Under the cover of their own sailors, a large number of soldiers of the Shenji Battalion boarded the shore in small boats, and after they docked, they jumped off the boats with rifles, stepped on the beach, and assembled at the beachhead.

In less than an hour, most of the Shenji battalion landed on land, and eight 12-pounder infantry guns also ventured to the shore to aim at the Wenzhou city gate.

The Qing army in the city did not want to take advantage of the Ming army before all the Ming troops landed out of the city to annihilate the Ming army that had landed, they fought out of the city gate under the leadership of the garrison, and rushed to the Ming army, but they were attacked head-on by the line infantry, and it took only three rounds of volleys to leave nearly 100 corpses and flee in a hurry.

After the 12-pounder infantry guns were brought ashore, the siege began.

Without the threat of artillery fire, the Ming army swaggered and pulled the infantry cannon to the city gate not far from the city gate, and the fire collapsed the outer urn city gate, and then shouted and slaughtered into the urn city, and the condescending defenders exchanged fire, they risked pulling a cannon into the urn city, aimed at the inner city gate and fired a few shots before finally smashing the gate.

After the gate was smashed, the line infantry put their bayonets in the muzzle of their guns, launched a charge, rushed into the city along the inner city gate and fought with the Qing army defending the city, the battle lasted less than two hours, and when the next day dawned, the flag of the Ming army had been planted on the head of Wenzhou City.