The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 257

He has sent Li Dingguo a lot of weapons and armor for free!

What he got in exchange was only a nominal surrender!
Even if Li Dingguo is a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and a national hero, what Zhu Hongyu has done is enough.

If you do too many things that don't see the benefits, the people below will have opinions, and he, Zhu Hongyu, will still be taken for a ride.

At the meeting, the Ming army thoroughly finalized the battle plan for attacking the Leizhou Peninsula, and how to deploy defenses after taking the Leizhou Peninsula.

Zhu Hongyu ordered that a batch of cement for construction should be dispatched urgently from Luzon.

From the perspective of the general situation, the Leizhou Peninsula cannot be defended!

If you can't keep it, then don't keep it!
After conquering the Leizhou Peninsula, all the local people were relocated.

Then build several bastions and fortresses in several key places on the Leizhou Peninsula to attract the Qing army to attack.

Attract a large number of Qing troops on the Leizhou Peninsula to prepare for the next counterattack strategy of the Ming army!
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At the beginning of September in the 16th year of the Yongli calendar, the transport fleet of the Ming army pulled anchor at Qiongzhou Haikou and headed for the Leizhou Peninsula separated by a sea.

Most of the troops mobilized by the Ming army in this battle were recruits who had not yet fought.

Half an hour later, the fleet of the Ming army passed through the Qiongzhou Strait and began to land on the Leizhou Peninsula.

The Qing army sent troops to block the Ming army's landing, but under the attack of the Ming army fleet's naval guns, the Qing army suffered heavy losses and had to retreat.

Under the cover of naval guns, the Ming army successfully completed the landing!
The army is marching towards Leizhou City in mighty force!
Cai Pei, the magistrate of Leizhou in the Qing court, and the commander-in-chief of Leizhou were all terrified, and gathered troops from the surrounding prefectures and counties to defend Leizhou city to the death.

On the one hand, urgently report to Guangzhou for help!

Cai Pei of Leizhou ordered all the young and strong men in the city to be recruited to form a brave army to help the army defend the city.

And in the vicinity of Leizhou, fortify the walls and clear the fields, and gather a large number of people into Leizhou City!

Then he ordered the city to prepare rolling logs and stones, arrows and gunpowder, and boil golden juice to prepare for the enemy.

There are 5000 people in the recovery army that invaded the Leizhou Peninsula this time!

The numbers don't sound like much, but none of the troops dared to fight the enemy in the field.

Because the news of the Battle of Tanzhou Town had already spread, the recovery army's record of encircling and annihilating seven thousand and eight banner soldiers with its inferior forces shocked the world.

Facing the [-] Liberation Army whose combat strength is even greater than that of the Eight Banners, who would dare to fight?

In addition, the strength of the Qing army in Leizhou was not much at all.

The Eight Banners soldiers are only stationed in important cities, and there is not a single Eight Banners soldier on the Leizhou Peninsula.

And the total strength of the Green Battalion in the whole Qing Dynasty was about 60 to [-]!

Although the distribution of troops in the 63 provinces in the south and the north cannot be exactly the same, on average, there are only 5 to [-] green battalion soldiers in a province.

There are at most a few thousand green battalion soldiers in each state capital!

Facing the menacing recovery army, thousands of green battalion soldiers barely even defended the city, and were simply unable to go out of the city to fight.

The recovery army quickly rushed to the foot of Leizhou City without encountering any obstacles on the way.

Standing on a slope outside Leizhou City, Zhu Hongyu looked in the direction of Leizhou City, and ordered.

"Order the army to stay in place and prepare to attack the city!"

The Liberation Army received the order and began to build camps while setting up artillery positions.

The location of Leizhou City is not far from the sea, supported by a large number of transport ships. The Restoration Army has prepared a large number of heavy siege artillery, large-caliber mortars, and corresponding shells and gunpowder for their attack on Qiongzhou.

……

The next day, just as the sky was getting brighter, the artillery bombardment of the Liberation Army began.

boom!
There was a violent bang, and a shell used by the heavy siege artillery shot towards the city wall of Leizhou.

The shells hit the battlements of Leizhou, and the battlements were smashed to pieces, but the shells grazed the main part of the city wall and shot into Leizhou City.

Carrying terrifying kinetic energy, wherever the shells passed, everything was destroyed, and buildings turned into complete ruins.

The artillery of the Restoration Army began to adjust the bombardment in an orderly manner!

It's just a test shot, it's normal to miss it!
With a bang, the second round of test firing began. This time there was no accident. A shell the size of a human head fell hard on the city wall of Leizhou!

In just an instant, the brick cladding outside the Leizhou city wall was cracked, and the broken bricks and stones fell rustlingly, exposing the rammed earth layer inside.

As soon as the flag of the Guangfu Army was changed, the test firing ended and the official shelling began.

Just a moment, boom!Boom!Boom boom boom!
Everything in the whole world seemed to disappear, only the roaring heavy artillery remained.

Flames spewed out from the muzzle, and shells flew out of the dense smoke towards Leizhou City.

boom!Click!Click!
The brick cladding layer outside Leizhou city wall was smashed like egg shells.

A shell hit the city gate tower!
The shell broke the supporting pillars of the gate tower, and the gate tower collapsed like a collapsed building block in an instant.

At the last moment when the gate tower collapsed, Cai Pei, the magistrate of Leizhou, fled from the gate tower in disgrace.

Looking at the city gate tower in ruins behind him, and Leizhou City, which was constantly becoming dilapidated under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Restoration Army.

He felt hopeless!
The Liberation Army fired not only solid bullets, but also a large number of blooming bullets.

Amidst the rumbling explosions, the Qing army at the head of Leizhou city was turned upside down by the bombers.

Fragments harvest life like a harvester!
Blood almost smeared the entire city of Leizhou!
The young and strong peasants who were arrested by the Qing army and forced to participate in the defense of the city fled in all directions, and the city of Leizhou was in chaos.

The heavy artillery is still roaring!

Boom!Boom!
The sound of hundreds of [-]-jin, [-]-jin, and even [-]-jin heavy guns firing was quite frightening.

The infantry of the Liberation Army began to attack!
The artillery suppressed the local city, and the infantry pushed the siege equipment forward.

The rolling logs and stones prepared by the Qing army in advance did not work at all!
Facing the bombardment of the Restoration Army, the artillery at the top of the city wanted to fight back, but after only one round of fire, it was knocked out by the heavy artillery of the Restoration Army.

The Restoration Army took the ladder truck to the city wall!
In order not to accidentally injure their own ascending troops, the roar of the heavy artillery stopped abruptly!

"kill!"

"..."

The soldiers of the Restoration Army, holding shields and wearing heavy armor, rushed towards the head of the city through ladder carts.

The Qing army suffered heavy losses in the shelling just now, and the soldiers who survived by chance also found that the city could not stay any longer.

They all shrank to the base of the city wall to avoid the shelling!
After the shelling stopped, the Qing army realized that the Ming army was about to ascend the city.

However, it was too late for them to go up to the city to resist.

Several heavy armored infantry from the Restoration Army had already boarded the city and formed a formation at the top of the city.

The Qing army ascending the city and the Ming army ascending the city collided head-on and were strangled together!
The defense of the heavy armor of the Restoration Army is astonishing, and the swords of the Green Battalion soldiers of the Qing Army basically cannot break through the armor.

Only when the spear comes, the Liberation Army needs to dodge!
The war knives in the hands of the soldiers of the Restoration Army are all good knives with steel-clad blades. Against the cotton armor of the Qing Army, they can basically make a big cut with one knife.

The two sides strangled fiercely, and corpses continued to fall!

Knives and spears were stabbed, and a very cruel cold weapon confrontation was carried out.

It is very obvious that the number of Qing troops who died in battle was much more than that of the Restoration Army!

(End of this chapter)