Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 466
The third day of April.

"Uncle, Wei River has thawed."

"Our navy can finally set sail."

Geng Jimao excitedly walked into the Xingyuan of Weishui Village in Tianjin.

Kong Youde, who was drinking a little wine, glanced at Geng Jimao: "Nephew, haven't you always been afraid of Minggou? Why are you so uncharacteristic this time, so eager to go to Dagukou?"

"Uncle, this is different." Geng Jimao waved his hand and said.

"My nephew is not afraid of Minggou, but Chongzhen, an old dog."

"But now Chongzhen is not in Dagukou, and the Ming army in Dagukou is just a lone army without backup. This is a great opportunity for you and Kong Geng to make contributions."

"It's just a small Dagu port, how much credit can it have?"

Kong Youde shook his head and said: "Furthermore, it is Yan Yingyuan who guards Dagukou. This person once defeated ten kings in Shanyang, so he may not be easier to deal with than Chongzhen, so going to Dagukou is really unpredictable."

"If I can choose, I really don't want to go, old man."

"Isn't it good to drink a little wine at home? Isn't it beautiful to make a baby with a wife and concubine?"

"Uncle, why have you become like Uncle Kexi? You have nothing else to do except sleep with your wives and concubines. You have already given birth to more than [-] children and daughters. You don't think it is enough, so you keep making it."

"Boy, it's because you haven't met a good woman, and you haven't tasted it."

Speaking of this, Kong Youde smacked his lips again, and said with a little envy: "As for the good women in this world, I have seen quite a few of your uncle. There are many who can be regarded as top-grade, but there are not many top-grade girls." .”

"Uncle, are you drinking too much, women can still distinguish the top grade and the best?"

"Boy, you don't understand this, women are not the same as women."

"Just say our Empress Dowager Zhuang of the Qing Dynasty is undoubtedly a top-notch woman."

Speaking of this, Kong Youde lowered his voice and said: "Eldest nephew, let me say this behind closed doors today, don't talk about it everywhere, or your old uncle will be miserable."

"Uncle, who do you think I am?"

Geng Jimao said stunned, "Can I be that kind of person?"

"I know you have a strict mouth, that's why the old uncle told you these things."

Kong Youde smiled and said: "But, there are women who are more excellent than Queen Mother Zhuang, and there are two of them. One is Fan Wencheng's house filling. I was lucky enough to meet your old uncle once. This is the one I met. I almost missed it." Hook your old uncle's soul away, then he will truly be a peerless beauty."

"Could it be the one who made the ten kings angry?" Geng Jimao's heart was ablaze with gossip.

"That's right, that's the one." Kong Youde said with a low smile, "Look, nephew, this one has already entered the eyes of the ten kings, and sooner or later he must be under the ten king's control."

Geng Jimao asked again: "Who is the other one?"

"The other one is Wu Sangui's concubine, but I haven't seen this one, I just heard about it."

Kong Youde said with a low smile, "However, if this woman can be fought over by Wu Sangui, Liu Zongmin and even Li Zicheng, it can be seen that she is also a first-class beauty."

"You mean Chen Yuanyuan? That's a kiln sister."

Geng Jimao lost interest in an instant, and said again: "Old man, let's get down to business. Yan Yingyuan is actually not as powerful as you imagined. The reason why the ten kings suffered defeat in Shanyang is mainly because they underestimated the enemy."

"But this time at Dagukou, neither the Nine Kings nor we can underestimate the enemy any longer."

"So, why should Yan Yingyuan be afraid? Let's hurry up and take the navy to go there. If we go too late, maybe the green camp will have been taken, and we will have no chance to make meritorious deeds."

"Okay, let's go." Kong Youde got up helplessly.

Of course, this was not because of Geng Jimao's repeated urging.

It's because Dorgon has issued an imperial decree, and the navy needs to rush to Dagukou as soon as the Weihe River is thawed, without any delay, Kong Youde dare not disobey Dorgon's decree.

The two walked out of the gate of Xingyuan, only to see that the navy's nearly two hundred warships were already ready to go.

Jiannu's navy was amalgamated from part of the Dengzhou navy brought by Geng Zhongming, and part of the Dongjiang navy brought by Shang Kexi and Kong Youde. The main force was the navy brought by Kong Youde.

So Kong Youde is the admiral of the navy, and Geng Zhongming can only be the chief soldier.

However, Geng Zhongming and Geng Kexi seldom intervened with the navy, but let Geng Jimao and Geng Keyi take care of it.

The Jiannu Navy had less than [-] warships in total, half of which were bird ships of [-] materials, and the remaining half of the warships were Haicang ships and Cangshan ships of only [-] or even [-] materials.

Another one, the equipment of the Jiannu navy is also relatively backward.

The bird boats of the Daming Navy are already equipped with red cannons as standard, but the main equipment of the Jiannu Navy is still only the Fran cannon and the bowl-mouth gun, and it has not been replaced with red cannons until now.

The bird boats of four hundred materials are each equipped with eight Franco cannons.

Lincang ships or Cangshan ships have only three or five Franco cannons.

This time when troops were dispatched to Dagukou, the Jiannu Navy could be said to have come out in full force.

Although it was against the wind from Tianjinwei to Dagukou, it was smooth, and with the use of sculls, it took less than three hours to reach the Jiannu camp five miles away from Dagukou.

Hearing that the navy had arrived, Duo ErGun personally brought people to greet him.

Dorgon has seldom done such acts of winning people's hearts since he became the emperor's father and regent, but today Dorgon still deigned to come out of the camp to greet him by the river.

"Slave Kong Youde/Geng Jimao/Shang Keyi kowtowed to the emperor's father and the regent."

Kong Youde led his lieutenants Geng Jimao and Shang Keyi to the shore early.

Seeing Dorgon approaching, he quickly tossed his sleeves and knelt down to pay his respects.

"Stay flat." Dorgon helped Kong Youde with his own hands, and motioned for Geng Jimao and Shang Keyi to stand up.

Dorgon didn't talk nonsense to Kong Youde, and said directly: "King Shun, you are supposed to be tired from a long distance, I should at least give you half a day to rest, and wait for you to regain your strength before participating in the fight."

"However, today coincides with the high tide of Lunar New Year's Day, and the high tide level of this month is particularly high."

"But now is precisely the time when the water level is at its highest. If the navy participates in the battle, they can directly bully the gun platforms on the west and south sides of Dagukou, and launch close-range shots at the Ming army inside the gun platforms."

"So, it can only be the soldiers of the hard-working navy."

"Master, what are you talking about?" Kong Youde said with emotion.

"It's an honor to be able to serve you, Master, and the Qing Dynasty."

Geng Jimao monk Zhiyi said confidently: "Master, just look at it, our navy will definitely assist King Qingqing to regain Dagukou as soon as possible."

"Very well, then there is work."

Dorgon nodded happily upon hearing this.

……

On the other side, Azig is already deploying an attack.

Dorgon also asked people to set up a sand table about Dagukou and the surrounding terrain.

The sand table has existed since ancient times, but the detailed sand table made by Shanchuan Heluo was brought over by Chongzhen, and was soon followed by Jiannu and Dashun.

After all, this is not a secret.

"Gadahun." Azig's eyes first fell on Zhenghongqi Gushan Ezhen Gadahun, and said in a deep voice, "You take ten Niulu to be in charge of the Ming army gun platform on the left, Wu Sangui and other five battalions and green battalions Soldiers are under your control."

"Hey." Ga Dahun's eyes stayed on the sand table, and after hesitating for a moment he asked, "Prince Su, today's tide is a big tide, and the influx of sea water has already filled the trenches outside the Ming army's blunderbuss platform. At least one zhang, this is equivalent to a deep and wide moat, how do we get there?"

"You don't have to worry about this." Azig said with a smile, "The navy has already arrived at Dagukou, and the navy will use warships to assist you at that time. You can take the navy's warships to get close to the Ming army. Taiwan launched an attack directly."

"That's good." Hearing this, Ga Dahun was relieved, as long as the navy arrived, there would be no problem.

Azige turned his attention to another Zhenghongqi general: "Ji Xiha, you lead the other ten Niulu of Zhenghongqi to be in charge of the Ming army gun platform on the right, and the five battalions of green battalions including Jiang Yu are under your control. In addition, At that time, the Navy will allocate half of the warships to assist you in the battle, and you also don't have to worry about being blocked by the trenches of Minggou Guntai."

Ji Xiha nodded silently. In his heart, he didn't think highly of Azig as an idiot, but who made him the emperor's father, the regent, and the [-]th brother of the ten kings?Can only obey orders.

Azig finally turned his attention to Wu Sangui, Xia Longshan, Jiang Yu, Wang Fuchen and other green camp generals. Wang Fuchen and Jiang Yu were still wrapped in white cloth, with faint blood oozing out.

Azige frowned when he saw this: "Wang Fuchen, Jiang Yu, you just hand over your troops to your lieutenants or generals, so you don't need to go to the battlefield, and you should stay in the camp and do your best." Let's recuperate, but it's just a small Dagukou, not to the point where you need to go into battle with your injuries."

"Hey." Wang Fuchen and Jiang Guan respectfully agreed.

Wu Sangui and Xia Longshan secretly said that they made a mistake.

If I had known earlier, I would have cheated like Wang Fuchen and the others.

……

Yan Yingyuan and others have already seen the Jiannu navy division from the watchtower.

"Jianu Heng, the Jiannu Navy has finally arrived at Dagukou." Chen Mingyu said solemnly, "If there is no accident, Jiannu will launch an attack soon, and this time it will probably launch a general attack on the left and right gun platforms at the same time. , This is undoubtedly a severe test for our gun platform."

While speaking, Chen Mingyu turned his eyes to the gun platform in front of him.

Looking down from the watchtower, you can clearly see the whole picture of Dagukou.

By this time, the parapets of the Dagu entrance and the parapets of the left and right gun platforms have all been reinforced.

The reinforced parapet is about five feet above the horizon, with a thickness of one foot at the bottom and five feet at the top. Battlements are built on the top of the wall, and the outer side of the parapet is inclined at a 45-degree angle. .

Inside the retaining wall of the triad is reinforced with wood.

This is equivalent to the parapet of "reinforced concrete structure".

However, this is just the original version of reinforced concrete.

(End of this chapter)