Fuzhou Wei, Yangguan Fort.

Yangguan Fort is a coastal defense castle under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou Wei, located on the shore of Fuzhou Bay, across the sea from Changsheng Island, which was later known as Changxing Island in Liaoning.

In Yangguan Fort, there was originally a hundred households stationed, but with the deterioration of the situation in Liaodong, Liaodong was eventually occupied by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and Yangguan Fort was completely abandoned.

Early in the morning, a huge fleet appeared on the sea outside Yangguan Fort, occupying almost the entire sea surface.

At this time, from the Yangguan Fort, there were several scouts of the Manchurian Yellow Flag, who had just plundered a few villages, and rested and drank here with a large number of seizures, and suddenly a Qing scout who was in charge of the vigilance shouted, and the rest of the Qing scouts were suddenly shocked, and they got up and rushed to the broken fortress wall, only to see a huge fleet on the sea that could not be seen, a huge fleet was approaching the sea, and there were already countless small ships rushing to the sea, and there were dense figures on it!

"Yes, it's the Ming Army!"

Several Qing scouts looked frightened, and they all stood on the fortress wall at a loss.

Originally, a few people went to Fuzhou Wei to investigate and inspect, and thought that they had drawn a good errand, but they didn't expect that they would encounter the huge fleet of the Ming army on the side of Yangguanbao, and they didn't know how many elite Ming soldiers were on the ship.

"Withdraw immediately and report to Prince Yu!"

At this time, on the battleship Huangming, Zheng Zhilong, the secretary of the Admiralty and the Inspector of the Sea Route Army, held a clairglass and was looking at the Yangguan Fort a few miles away. ”

"Order!"

Soon, through the transmission of flags and horns, Shi Lang, the general of the first detachment of the Beiyang Fleet in front, received the order and immediately shouted angrily: "Adjust the muzzle and fire!" ”

Rumble!

More than 100 battleships of the first detachment of the Beiyang Fleet opened fire one after another, and the fierce artillery fire instantly enveloped Yangguan Fort, and each battleship had to carry more than 20 guns, and more than 100 battleships carried at least 2,000 guns of all sizes.

The artillery equipped with the Beiyang Fleet is the inventory accumulated day and night by the artillery workshop under the Lingshanwei Shipyard over the years, plus a large number of artillery transferred by the Artillery Supervision Department of the Equipment Department, it can be said that the firepower of the Beiyang Fleet is comparable to the artillery firepower of the 14 armies of the National Defense Army!

At this time, Yangguan Fort was completely covered by "cannonball rain", and those Qing scouts didn't have time to escape, so they turned into a cloud of blood mist, and together with the war horses and equipment, they could no longer find a complete existence.

Even the ruined fortress city of Yangguan Fort was completely dissipated between heaven and earth under the fierce artillery bombardment!!

"Pass on the order of the Inspector, the whole army will land quickly, and assemble and rectify in the north of the old site of Yangguan Fort!"

"Order!"

Countless small loach ships carrying officers and men of the sea route army, as well as a large number of supplies and equipment, rushed to the coastline, while a large number of warships of the Beiyang Fleet stopped in the deep sea area and transferred a large number of soldiers, materials, and equipment to a large number of small ships one after another, and transferred them to the land.

This is a beach-grabbing landing operation, perhaps Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong, Shi Daxuan and others did not expect that they inadvertently completed the first amphibious operation of the Ming Empire, and excellently completed the first cross-sea force projection of the Ming Empire, and completed the first beach-grabbing landing operation.

Later, after recovering Liaodong, Liu Yan ordered that the beach-grabbing landing operation of the Sea Route Army be written into the textbooks of the Huangming Military Academy and the Huangming Yanwutang, as a classic example, the later trainees were analyzed and taught, and a large number of outstanding naval generals were trained. Of course, these are all later words, so I won't mention them for the time being.

Back to the point.

When Zheng Zhilong, the secretary of the Admiralty and the superintendent of the Sea Route Army, led the generals to set foot on the land of Liaodong and stood on the ruins of Yangguan Fort, which was still smoking gunpowder, most of the officers and men of the 10th, 15th, and 16th armies of the Wehrmacht had already landed, while the more than 30,000 officers and men of the Beiyang Fleet did not go ashore, but continued to stay in the deep water area with more than 1,000 warships, preparing to advance to the north with the officers and men of the three Wehrmacht armies by land and water.

At this time, Zheng Zhilong looked at the beach, as well as a large number of soldiers in the hinterland, the soldiers of each department were busy according to the system, although there were many personnel and materials, but they were in order, Zheng Zhilong couldn't help but nod when he saw this, and said to Zheng Chenggong, Zheng Yi, Chen Hui and other generals around him: "After an hour, the soldiers of all departments must be ready and march to the Fuzhou Acropolis in the north!" ”

"Yes!"

At this time, Shi Daxuan, the chief officer of the Beiyang Fleet, and the generals of the various detachments of the navy were still in the fleet, and only the generals of the army departments were in the Yangguan Fort.

The Fuzhou Acropolis is a big city in Liaodong, and there are various fortresses such as Yongning Prison City, Fifty Zhai Station, Pangu Fort, etc., which were originally the castles under the jurisdiction of Fuzhou Wei, but they have been abandoned at this time.

Zheng Zhilong prepared to establish a supply transfer route along the various fortresses below the Fuzhou Acropolis.

Although the supply and equipment of the sea route army are now on the warships of the supply detachment of the Beiyang Fleet, they also need to be transferred from bases on land, and Zheng Zhilong needs to deploy strategic bases along the way to transfer materials and equipment.

Zheng Chenggong on the side said: "Supervisor, the role of our sea route army is to raid, and it is necessary to cut off the retreat of the Qing army's resistance as soon as possible, or sweep all parts of Liaodong as soon as possible, completely destroy the war potential of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and shake the military heart of the hundreds of thousands of Manchu troops." If we advance steadily, occupy, advance, and abandon various strongholds one by one, then the speed of our army's northward advance will be greatly reduced. ”

Zheng Zhilong thought for a long time and said: "What General Zheng said is very reasonable, in this way, our army does not need to seize every stronghold, only need to occupy one stronghold every hundred miles." ”

In this way, it can not only ensure the transfer of materials and supplies for the army, but also not let the army advance northward too slowly, so Zheng Chenggong no longer said anything.

Later, Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Chenggong and others inspected the officers and men of the various units of the Sea Route Army, and an hour later, more than 100,000 soldiers of the Sea Route Army were assembled and began to advance north along the coastline.

Zheng Zhilong looked at the army that was neatly advancing northward, and said to Zheng Zhihu, the deputy commander-in-chief, with admiration: "More than 100,000 soldiers, a large number of materials and equipment, it only took more than an hour to complete the rectification, such a speed can be called a god speed. ”

Zheng Zhihu also said with admiration: "Yes, if it were not for the rectification of the officers and men of various ministries in accordance with the policy of military reform, and if it were not for the rectification of various rules and regulations issued by the Ministry of National Defense, such a situation would not have been possible!" ”

Zheng Chenggong nodded and said: "Yes, in addition, as the vanguard of the Sea Route Army, we must clear the way for the army." After the attack of the army, I led the Iron Man Army and the Black Slave Musket Team, as well as the soldiers directly under the military headquarters, to take the first step, and the deputy general led the main force to follow. ”

Zheng Zhihu immediately retorted: "No! It is too dangerous to clear the way for the army, so it is better for me to lead my troops to open the way ahead. ”

Zheng Chenggong said with a smile: "The eldest husband is making great achievements, how can my uncle compete with the juniors?" ”

In the evening of the next day, south of the Acropolis of Fuzhou, Zheng Chenggong led 5,000 Iron Man Army, 3,000 black slave musket teams, and officers and men of the 15th Army of the National Defense Army to a small hill.

It is only a few miles away from the Fuzhou Acropolis, and Zheng Chenggong can even see the Fuzhou Acropolis city wall in the distance even when he stands on this small hill.

"The Qing army still has a garrison in the Fuzhou Acropolis?"

Originally, Zheng Chenggong thought that the main force of the Qing army had been deployed to the Qiantun Acropolis of Ningyuan, and the remaining soldiers and horses were also stationed near Shenyang City.

"Order the cavalry department of the military headquarters to rush to the city to demonstrate, and order the general inspection in the north, east, and west at night to prevent the arrival of Qing reinforcements."

"Order the artillery battalion, the grenadier general, and the black slave musket team to form up and prepare for the siege!"

Zheng Chenggong issued orders one after another, and the officers and men of the 15th Army of the National Defense Army began to move, and soon arrived at the south of the Fuzhou Acropolis and began to deploy troops to prepare for the siege.

Zheng Chenggong led 5,000 iron men to press the formation in the back, and 5,000 iron armor soldiers were on standby, and the neat phalanx was extraordinary, and the momentum alone was even stronger than before the reorganization.

At this time, in the Acropolis of Fuzhou, although there were Qing soldiers to defend, there was no garrison of the regular troops of the Eight Banners, and only more than 300 township soldiers were stationed.

Moreover, among these township soldiers, dozens of people are the sons of Manchu rich families near the Fuzhou Acropolis, and the rest are people from the Manchu traitors and powerful organizations near the Fuzhou Acropolis.

Although these people claim to be Xiangyong, they are well equipped, not only with bird guns, tiger guns, but even some imitation of big rockets such as Hundred Tigers.

It stands to reason that if such equipment were to fight to the death, it would definitely bring a lot of trouble to the officers and men of the 15th Army of the National Defense Army, but the more than 300 villagers did not have the courage to fight to the death.

Outside the city, Zheng Chenggong looked at the yellow triangular dragon flag on the head of the city, his brows were tightly locked, and his heart was full of anger, and he immediately ordered: "Order the artillery battalion directly under the military headquarters to bombard the city!" ”

"Order!!"

"Ready, put!"

Five or six hundred artillery pieces of various types were lined up outside the city by the artillery battalion directly under the military headquarters of the 15 th Army of the National Defense Army, and under round after round of bombardment, the dilapidated city wall of the Fuzhou Acropolis could not withstand it at all, and soon began to collapse under the fierce artillery fire.

And the more than 300 villagers in the city were also killed and injured at this time. Even if there were only a few dozen casualties, it also caused a huge shock to the remaining villagers, and the remaining more than 200 villagers began to flee one after another, even those Manchurian children and traitors began to flee together.

Zheng Chenggong looked at the scattered crowd at the head of the city with some dumbness, and said to his subordinates on the left and right: "Those dog Tartars, traitors and thieves look like they are menacing, I didn't expect them to collapse so soon!" ”

Later, the gate of the Acropolis of Fuzhou was smashed by artillery, and the cavalry department, the black slave fire team, and the Iron Man Army rushed into the city, and soon occupied the city, and the Manchu and Qing village warriors in the city were killed.

But after Zheng Chenggong entered the city, he didn't see any people, only saw countless broken walls, the Acropolis of Fuzhou was already an empty city, and the original people in the city had long disappeared, either killed by the Tartars, or persecuted and fled with their families, and the originally rich city is now a ruined place.

"Report to the Inspector immediately: The Acropolis of Fuzhou has been taken, please source the main army as soon as possible!"

"Order the officers and men of the 15th Army of the Military Headquarters to rest for an hour, and then reorganize and leave the city and march to the Yongning Prison City in the north!"

"Yes!"