The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 349 Pressing Landmines (seeking a reward)
Wu Ming looked at the dense scars on his own ship, and his heart was full of regret.

If Daming's main fleet is here, how can the Qing captives be so arrogant? !
It's a pity that the main fleet of the Ming army is not in Zhoushan. With these three warships alone, they are not the opponents of the main fleet of the Qing army.

Facing the menacing Qing army, if Wu Ming didn't want to be blocked and wiped out in the port, he could only choose to break through, retreat temporarily, and wait for an opportunity to fight again.

Shi Lang stood at the bow of the ship, looking at the messy Qing fleet, and then at the Ming fleet swaggering away.

A trace of unwillingness flashed across his eyes!

He was not willing to let the navy of Ming thief go like this!
However, the main goal of this battle is to capture Zhoushan, so he doesn't need to deal with the Ming thief navy.

If he took the fleet to chase the Ming thief's navy, he would be in the Ming thief's arms!

"Order the whole army to speed up the march and target Zhoushan Island!"

Zhoushan Island is the main island of the Zhoushan Archipelago, the largest island in the Zhoushan Archipelago, and the fifth largest island in China.

It is the fourth largest island in later generations, but that is because Sakhalin Island was ceded to Tsarist Russia by my Qing Dynasty.

But now my Qing Dynasty has not cut off Sakhalin Island, so Zhoushan Island can only be regarded as the fifth largest island!

As the navy fleet of the Qing army got closer and closer to Zhoushan Island, the flames of war went straight into the sky.

Shi Lang could vaguely see the outline of Zhoushan's arrival!

He called Doron, Brown, Van der Laan and others to discuss the attack on the island.

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On the other side, as the Qing fleet got closer and closer to Zhoushan.

The pre-war preparations of the Ming army were also constantly intensified. The gunners began to load artillery shells in advance and prepare for test firing.

Zhao Erhu stood at the top of the Zhoushan Fortress, looking at the relatively complete fortifications outside the city, he had already made plans to stick to Zhoushan for a year or two.

After receiving Zhao Erhu's request for help, although Zhu Hongyu did not send more troops to Zhao Erhu, he told him to withdraw if he could not defend.

But it was also very generous, supporting Zhao Erhu with a large amount of food, grass, military equipment and other supplies!

Thinking of the food, grass and military equipment in the fortress, Zhao Erhu felt that it would not be a problem for him to stick to it for a year or two.

The big deal is to break through again at that time!
Anyway, Daming has the advantage at sea and can come to meet them at any time, and he is not afraid of being besieged to death on Zhoushan Island by the Manchus.

"Master Garrison, the personnel and supplies have been counted!"

"Including food, salt, cured meat, medicinal materials, cloth, gunpowder, shells, guns and artillery, etc."

"If it is worn out according to normal conditions, it will be enough for us to last for more than a year without any problem!"

"If you save some money, it won't be a problem to persist for two years!"

Zhao Erhu waved his hands and said.

"No need to save, what are you saving!"

"At most one year, the imperial court can end the war in Guangdong, and then go north to reinforce us, or rescue our Zhoushan fortress, or support us to break through, just relax!"

When Zhao Erhu said this, he was quite confident.

Now it is indeed very difficult for Da Ming to counterattack the mainland, but the Da Ming navy has an absolute advantage at sea.

Even the red hair from the West is no match for Ming Dynasty at sea, how much can the navy of the Qing court support? !
boom!Boom!

This is the Ming army at the Zhoushan Fort trying to fire. The shells fell into the sea one after another, shooting up large swaths of water mist.

The gunners skillfully recorded the impact points!

The gunners of the Ming army are all good at gunnery. Although they don't know how to calculate geometry, they are all skilled hands fed with a lot of gunpowder and shells.

On a real battlefield, experience is more useful than mathematics!

For skilled gunners, how far to hit and which target to hit can be roughly guessed.

At most, it is to compare it with a shooting table. As for using geometry to calculate the impact point of a shell on the battlefield, that is a matter of bad talent.

As soon as the Ming army's test firing ended, the Qing army's fleet appeared in the sight of the watchmen on the watchtower.

In the next moment, the sound of a deep and powerful horn resounded throughout the Zhoushan Fortress!
The fleet of the Qing army rushed towards the port area, apparently preparing to land on the beach.

boom!Boom!

Zhoushan's fort also opened fire without hesitation!

Cannonballs were fired at the Qing fleet on the sea.

While the artillery shells were flying, the Qing army ships rushing to the front were quickly destroyed by concentrated fire.

The sampans turned into pieces of wood floating on the sea!

The soldiers of the Qing army who were about to fight for the beach were floating in the sea, struggling constantly, and the broken corpses were floating all over the sea surface.
The sound of shelling continued one after another, and shells fell towards the Qing fleet.

The bombardment accuracy of the forts of the Ming army is terrifyingly high!
Shi Lang looked at the beach landing ships destroyed by continuous fire in the port area, and his face was a little ugly.

Order your own fleet to provide artillery support for the landing force!

A large cloud of gunpowder smoke rose from the sea, and a round of solid shells fell towards the fort.

Either it landed on the beach head and was relieved by the soft sand on the beach head, or it fell into the sea water and smashed into large waves.

There are also shells falling on the fort, but the fort with masonry and concrete structure cannot be hit by solid bullets.

The shells made pits on the fort, but none of them were very conspicuous.

The artillery power of the Qing army is limited, and it cannot destroy the main structure of the fort at all!
Some shells drew an arc in the air and fell towards the top of the fort.

But it was blocked by the top cover above the fort!
The artillery shells were ejected and failed to hit the artillery positions, let alone causing casualties to the Ming army.

boom!Boom!

The sound of shelling became one piece, which was extremely lively.

But in the current port area, rather than saying that the two sides are fighting with each other, it is more appropriate to say that the Qing army was actually being beaten unilaterally.

Although the shells of the Qing army hit the fort, it had no effect at all.

However, the coastal defense heavy artillery on the fort of the Ming army was used to hit the warships of the Qing army on the sea, but they were accurate one by one.

The coastal defense guns of the Ming army are all typical long-barreled cannons. In order to pursue the ultimate power and performance, the weight factor was completely abandoned.

Anyway, things like coastal defense guns generally don't move their positions!
When adjusting the shooting elements, there are special winches and pulleys in the fort, which can effectively and labor-savingly adjust the up, down, left, and right movements of the muzzle.

A shell from a coastal defense gun hit Brown's ship fiercely. In front of the coastal defense gun, the solid side deck of the sailing battleship was also vulnerable.

The cannonball smashed into the cabin fiercely, opening a big hole in the side!

Finally, a landing ship of the Qing army passed through the fire blockade of the Ming army's fort, and landed on the land on the beach.

A soldier of the Green Battalion of the Qing Army, or an officer and soldier of the Navy Battalion, rushed towards the fort the moment his feet were on the beach.

A Qing soldier rushed to the front, and suddenly he seemed to have stepped on something, and only heard a click.

In the next moment, there was a loud bang, and a burst of flames erupted where the Qing soldier stepped on.

Obviously, this is a pressure mine.

The flames and fragments instantly engulfed several Qing troops around them.

Press-fired landmines sound tall, but they are actually not as difficult to manufacture as imagined.

During the Wanli period at the end of Ming Dynasty, the Ming army had already started to use pressure-fired landmines.

The trigger method is to use springs and flints to repeatedly squeeze and rub to ignite!
To be honest, the ignition rate of this thing is actually very low.

If the quality of the springs and flints used to make landmines is not up to standard, there is a high probability that they will not explode even if they step on them.

Even if the quality of the spring and flint is acceptable, it will take several steps before it will explode.

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Cough cough, the author's school has announced that school is about to start. During this time, I need to save some manuscripts. The first few days of school will be very busy, and there is no way to type. In order to keep updating, I can only save manuscripts now.

In the next few days, there is a high probability that it will not be ten thousand every day, but the author will try to ensure that there are four or eight thousand words updated.

(End of this chapter)