Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 467 The fierce battle begins

Due to the astronomical tide at the beginning of the month, the high tide of sea water filled the trenches around the gun platform, so visually, the left and right gun platform and Dagukou were separated into three isolated islands.

And in fact it is.

The left and right gun platforms have indeed become isolated islands.

Fortunately, enough materials were stored in both gun platforms.

For at least half a day and a half a month, there will be no worries about lack of food and ammunition.

While the two were looking at the left and right blunderbuss platforms, there was another scream of cannonballs tearing through the air in front of them. That sharp whistle could really pierce a person's eardrums, and even burst a person's head.

"Mother thief." Chen Mingyu immediately scolded with a dark face.

"Jiannu's Hongyi cannons are bombarding the left and right blunderbuss again, and it really doesn't stop."

Yan Yingyuan raised his binoculars and said with a smile: "Gongchen, it's been so many days, you still haven't gotten used to it?"

From the first day when the Ming army began to strengthen the left and right blunderbuss walls, Jiannu's Hongyi cannons never ceased. However, at the beginning, the number of Jiannu's Hongyi cannons was small, so the firepower was sparse.

But since yesterday, Jiannu's artillery firepower has suddenly become much denser.

Needless to say, more Hongyi cannons must have been dispatched urgently from Beijing.

However, since the slope protection had not been hollowed out by Jiannu at that time, no matter how many Hongyi cannons Jiannu had, it could not prevent the Ming army from strengthening the protective walls of the left and right gun platforms.

The reinforcement of the retaining wall preventing Dagukou is even more irresistible.

Because Jiannu's Hongyi cannons did not break through the left and right gun platforms first, they could not hit Dagukou at all.

But since yesterday, as the outer wall of the gun platform was hollowed out by Jiannu, Jiannu's Hongyi cannon can finally pour projectiles on the wall of the gun platform.

Yan Yingyuan looked forward through the distance,
I saw clouds of dust splashing from time to time on the front parapets of the left and right gun platforms.

It was the dust splashed by Jiannu's shells hitting the parapet, and from time to time, pieces of soil would fly up from the parapet.

Although the strength of Sanhe soil is far better than that of ordinary rammed earth, it is still only Sanhe soil after all, and it will still be damaged after being bombarded by Jiannu's Hongyi cannon day and night.

Fortunately, the damage is not serious.

It is impossible to collapse at least in a short period of time.

But the battlements on top of the parapet were badly damaged.

According to Yan Yingyuan's estimation, there is no problem in persisting for about half a month.

As for what to do after half a month, there is no need to worry too much.

Firstly, the navy had already returned by that time, and secondly, the tide cannot always maintain the highest level, and there will be ebb tide when there is high tide, and it is enough to find a way to strengthen the slope protection after the ebb tide.

Chen Mingyu was upset, and asked with a dark face: "Jianheng, I checked with my eyes, Jiannu's artillery position is only about 4 steps away from the left and right blunderbuss platforms, and it is only [-] steps away from our artillery position. Step, this distance is already within the range of our artillery battalion's [-]-inch field guns, why did you delay letting the artillery battalion launch countermeasures?"

The 4-inch field guns of the Ming army are all placed at Dagukou, and there are only ten tiger squatting guns on the left and right sides.

After a short pause, Chen Mingyu said again: "Even if we can't destroy Jiannu's Hongyi cannons, we can at least force their artillery positions to move farther away, so that the threat to the left and right gun platforms will be less."

Yan Yingyuan waved his hand and said, "No, it's not time to use the artillery barracks yet."

"Not yet?" Chen Mingyu asked anxiously, "When will it be?"

"When it's time to use the artillery battalion." Yan Yingyuan said nothing.

"I don't understand, what are you waiting for?" Chen Mingyu said angrily.

"Not only are the 4-inch guns not allowed to fire back, but we also deliberately only loaded half of the gunpowder in the previous battles, deliberately making Jiannu think that our 4-inch guns can only fire seven or eight hundred steps. What is the purpose of doing this? ?”

"I can't tell." Yan Yingyuan said quietly, "Maybe it will come in handy."

"Maybe it will come in handy?" Chen Mingyu smiled wryly, and said nothing more.

In any case, Yan Yingyuan was the chief general of Dagukou, and also his immediate boss, Chen Mingyu.

Yan Yingyuan turned his head and looked at the vast Beihai behind him and asked, "Gongchen, the navy of the Duke of Min should go to the sea outside Dagukou, right?"

"Most of them have already reached the open sea, because the North Sea has long since thawed."

Chen Mingyu said: "I hope that the Duke of Min will not rush to launch an attack. It is best to wait until the warships of the Jiannu navy have penetrated into the trenches around the left and right blunderbuss platforms, or after nightfall, and then attack suddenly. Only in this way can we attack." Annihilate the Jiannu navy in one fell swoop, otherwise there will inevitably be fish that slip through the net."

"You and I don't need to worry about it here." Yan Yingyuan said with a smile, "Duke Min has traveled all over the world for many years, what kind of battle has he never seen? So he knows better than us what should be done to wipe out the Jiannu Navy."

"That's true." Chen Mingyu was relieved upon hearing this.

……

Just as Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu expected.

The navy led by Zheng Zhilong had already reached the sea off Dagukou.

Even the Weihe River has been thawed and opened to navigation, let alone the North Sea.

Finding that the North Sea had thawed, Zheng Zhilong led the navy to rush over immediately.

And it wasn't just Zheng Zhilong's navy that came, but also another navy led by Zheng Hongkui.

Zheng Hongkui's naval division was originally fighting with Xu Yingwei, but there was no enemy at Gaizhouwei. Xu Yingwei was free, and even led the army to start building gun platforms in the direction of Haizhouwei. He planned to go east of Liaodong A row of blunderbuss platforms was built on the banks of the Liaohe River to block the traffic on the east and west banks of the Liaohe River.

Xu Yingwei was busy repairing the blunderbuss platform, so Zheng Hongkui brought the navy to help Zheng Zhilong.

Although the two brothers did not pay attention to the Jiannu Navy adapted from the Dongjiang Navy at all, but there is a good saying that the lion fights the rabbit and does its best, so in order to ensure the complete annihilation of the Jiannu Navy, the mobilized Naturally, the more troops the better, the two brothers didn't even intend to give the Jiannu navy a chance.

However, Zheng Zhilong ordered to stop when he arrived about 30 miles away from Dagukou.

Zheng Zhilong has traveled all over the world for many years, so he naturally knows that the sea level has a curvature. As long as a 30-material bird boat hides [-] miles away, even the mast will be covered by the sea level.

But once within 30 miles, the mast will be observed from the shore.

If it enters within 20 miles, half of the hull of the bird boat will be exposed to the sight of Jiannu on the shore.

Of course, this refers to the [-]-feed bird boat, and the [-]-feed bird boat needs to be anchored at a farther distance, otherwise it will be easily seen by the lookout post of Jiannu or the Jiannu navy.

The navy's more than 400 warships can only berthed 30 miles away.

But Zheng Zhilong still sent Shi Lang to bring a few small boats to scout.

After noon, Shi Lang came back and reported to Zheng Zhilong: "My lord, the Jiannu Navy has arrived at Dagukou, and it is estimated that they will launch an attack on Dagukou soon."

"Okay." Zheng Zhilong nodded happily, and then said to Zheng Hongkui, "Fourth, pass down the order to let all the warships weigh anchor, and all the Hongyi cannons should be loaded with ammunition first, and when it gets dark, they will rush to guard with me." Hekou, after arriving at the mouth of the Wei River, you, the fourth child, will lead a navy to block the Wei River, and first cut off the retreat of the Jiannu navy."

"Yes." Zheng Hongkui solemnly agreed.

……

At this time, the atmosphere in the Jiannu Zhongjun tent was rather stagnant.

Fulin looked around and found that whether it was Dorgon, Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng, Ning Wanwo, Hou Fangyu and other Han officials, as well as Manchurian generals such as Luck Dehun and Luo Luohun, all seemed a little nervous.

Obviously, everyone, including Dorgon, has no idea.

Thus, Fulin deeply remembered the name Yan Yingyuan.

This Yan Yingyuan is not simple, but with only five or six thousand partial teachers, and still guarding a corner of Dagukou, it can actually make the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty in the Qing Dynasty so fearful.

Footsteps sounded, and Cao Eryu hurried in.

"Master, the bannermen and green battalion soldiers of the red flag have already joined the navy."

"Let's go, let's go to Jinglan too." Dorgon turned around and walked out, Hong Chengchou and other Han officials, and Manchurian generals such as Luo Luohun and Luck Dehun also hurriedly followed.

There is already more than one Jinglan car that will be set up.

When Dorgon took Fulin and others up the wooden ladder to the war shed on the roof of Jinglan, the [-] Niulu banner men who were in the red flag and ten battalions of small [-] green battalion soldiers had already boarded the navy. warship.

The navy has nearly 200 warships, the bird boats with 80 materials carry an average of nearly 30 people, the Haicang ships with [-] materials carry an average of [-] people, and the Cangshan ships carry [-] people on average.

Azig's military talent is actually not bad.

In view of the fact that there are 20 red cannons in the town of Dagukou, Azig did not rush to attack Dagukou, but first aimed his spearhead at the left and right gun platforms.

Obviously, Azig planned to seize the left and right blunderbuss first, breaking the Ming army's momentum.

At this time, the outer ditches on the left and right blunderbuss platforms had been filled with seawater, and they were connected to the Weihe River and the Beihai Sea, so the warships of the Qing navy could easily enter the outer trenches of the blunderbuss platforms.

The 50-step-wide external trench is equivalent to a river channel nearly 3 meters wide and [-] meters deep.

Nearly 200 warships full of Qing army bannermen and green battalion soldiers soon surrounded the two blunderbuss platforms of the Ming army.

However, the strange thing is that the Ming army on the gun platform has not moved, but let the warships of the Qing army navy surround it. I don't know if it is because of helplessness, or some other conspiracy?
Then, with the sound of a trumpet gun, nearly two hundred warships of the Qing army leaned their bows against the parapet of the gun platform at the same time.

The bow of the warship had just approached the protective wall, and the green battalion soldiers who had been on standby for a long time jumped to the 45-degree slope first, and then stepped on the slope to launch an upward attack.

The Green Battalion adopts a standard array.

It is always the knife player who rushes ahead.

More than [-] Green Battalion soldiers carried heavy wooden signs and rushed up the parapet screaming.

At this time, the Ming army on the blunderbuss platform finally reacted. Thousands of Ming army musketeers got up from behind the protective wall almost at the same time, held the self-igniting blunderbuss and pulled the trigger, and the gunpowder smoke filled the air in an instant.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of a huge volley of guns came from afar.

(End of this chapter)