Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 319 Naval battle ([-]) The first update of the giant cannon!
Thousands of pirates under Li Wei's command shouted at the shallows in the direction of Jinshanwei at this time, and jumped up waving their knives and guns.

These pirates were all very excited, thinking that they were going to make a fortune, and their morale was extremely high.

"This Songjiang Mansion is indeed more lively than ever, with so many boats, so many warehouses, so many shops, brothers, we are getting rich!"

Li Wei himself also shouted.

"Get rich!"

The rest of the pirates also echoed, with fierce expressions on their faces, and even some Japanese ronin shouted inside wearing big underpants.

The pirates on Huaguer's side were equally excited, paddling desperately to reach the shore of Songjiang Mansion as soon as possible.

The pirates sent by Hua Guer to rob were already standing on the deck gearing up, ready to jump directly into the sea later, and then go ashore to plunder.

"Grandma, it's been a long time since I played with a woman, so I have to give him a good time today!"

"I heard that many famous prostitutes from the Qinhuai River have come to the Songjiang Mansion. All of them are stunning. Even the son of a wealthy family has lost his fortune and can only kiss her. Grandpa will give her a hard bow today!"

The pirates were spitting out some nasty foul language.

And Hua Gu'er also laughed: "It's okay to steal money and kill women, but brothers, don't forget that we are businessmen. Since Futai asked us to mess up Songjiang Mansion, we have to use money to do things. Later Liu Dazuo will go to the fire oil store first, and set fire to these warehouses and shops for me!"

……

At this time, on the shore of Jinshanwei, the artillery battalion led by Yan Yingyuan had set up [-] forts on the shore of Jinshanwei, with one hundred giant cannons weighing [-] jin at the front.

It is the top heavy artillery among the Chongzhen [-]-type infantry artillery newly developed by Daming, and it is mainly used for sea defense.

And between the [-]-pound cannons are the [-]-pound and [-]-pound Chongzhen Type [-] infantry heavy field artillery.

There are even six-pound and three-pound Chongzhen [-]-type infantry medium and light field guns responsible for mobile artillery strikes.

These artillery are all the latest artillery pieces of the Ming Dynasty, which are similar to the Napoleon artillery pieces in later history, but the Han-made artillery pieces of the Ming Dynasty not only imitate nature, but also need to be improved.

When the Daming Ordnance Institute was established, the iron and steel smelting bureau was placed in the most important position, so that the iron and steel smelting technology of Daming has maintained rapid development.

Even today's artillery barrels are not just the bronze barrels of Napoleon's artillery, but pure alloy steel barrels, which not only meet the hardness requirements of the barrels but also meet the requirements of low density and weight.

But the cost of this kind of alloy steel gun barrel is naturally high. Fortunately, Ming Dynasty has strong national strength, and Songjiang Mansion is the strategic location of Daming today, so naturally there is no need to be stingy with national strength.

A cannon was served by a dozen people, and at this time, on Jinshanwei's fort position, all the artillery soldiers for each cannon were in place.

When the pirate warship appeared in the field of vision, the soldiers in charge of ranging immediately reported the position and azimuth of the enemy ship, and the soldiers in charge of adjusting the gun body began to pull the bearing and twist the gear to make the elevation angle of the gun and the position of the muzzle able to change.

Immediately afterwards, a soldier began to hold the poking rod horizontally, and poked the wrapped end into the gun barrel.

All this is carried out under the command of the artillery captain.

After the gunpowder was compacted, the two soldiers in charge of firing approached the barrel, and at the same time, the soldiers in charge of communication raised the flag in one fell swoop.

As soon as he received a response from the artillery battalion command and envoy headquarters, the artillery captain immediately ordered the artillery to be fired.

In an instant, hundreds of shells roared away.

Li Wei's pirate warships were directly blown apart in a short while, and some were directly overturned.

Even the pirate leader Li Wei himself was so shocked that his ears were buzzing.

"Damn, didn't you say that Jinshanwei has no officers and soldiers, how could there be such a fierce artillery fire!"

Li Wei had no choice but to order the warship to retreat, and at the same time ordered the [-] pirates who had changed to small boats to go ashore to deal with the artillery on the shore first.

In Li Wei's view, based on his experience with Daming's army, he believed that although the artillery of Daming's army was fierce, most of them were greedy for life and afraid of death.

Not only Li Wei thought so, but also the [-] pirates who had landed at this time, they had all thrown away their boats and jumped off, rushing over screaming.

But at this time, the [-]-jin cannon had already begun to show its power, and the shells overturned directly, stirring up waves one foot high on the sea surface, and the three hundred pirates were also rolled over by the blast.

After a burst of gunpowder smoke cleared away with the sea breeze, hundreds of corpses had already floated on the sea.

The rest of the surviving pirates ran back in a hurry.

"Kill!"

At that time, after the artillery attack, the infantry of the Guards had already rushed over, running across the sea with Chongzhen [-]-style or Chongzhen [-]-style muskets, or directly chasing them in centipede boats.

Crackling gunshots sounded on the blue sea.

Thick white smoke bloomed on the surface of the sea. Under the white smoke, pirates fell to their deaths in the sea one by one, and the fish and shrimp that were unfortunately also hit by shells were buried with them.

The more than [-] pirates who attempted to land on the beach were the bravest pirates under Li Wei's command. Many of them were Japanese pirates from the East, and the leader was even his own nephew.

But at this time all the pirates were wiped out, and Li Wei didn't dare to stay any longer. After seeing no less than 6000 officers and soldiers appearing on the beach, he could only turn the warship to prepare to escape here.

The same scene was also staged in Qingcunzhong.

Watching his pirate brothers being hunted and killed on the sea like chasing prey, and several large western soft-sailing ships that he had bought so hard were now floating on the sea as broken planks.

Hua Gu'er was dumbfounded and very angry at this time, he didn't expect that there would be a large number of officers and soldiers here, and the density of artillery fire could completely crush him.

But what he didn't expect was that the facts of the information provided to him by those big families in Jiangnan were actually like this.

"Bastard! What kind of news are they providing! In the past, the officers and soldiers saw the pirates landing and only knew how to flee for their lives. These officers and soldiers looked like elite soldiers who had fought several times on the battlefield. Withdraw, let me withdraw! "

He clenched his teeth tightly, but now he can only order to evacuate from the waters of Songjiang Prefecture.

……

a few days ago.

The guards and navy of Baoshan Institute have all assembled and set off.

The entire Ming Navy was organized into three parts: the boat division, the amphibious force, and the guard of honor, and was divided into three detachments: the forward battalion, the middle battalion, and the rear battalion.

Among them, the boat division is the battleship formation, and as the main force, it is personally commanded by the Deputy Minister of the Navy, Gu Sanmazi.

At this time, Gu Sanmazi was standing on a blessing boat, leading the main large warship and hundreds of small cang boats, centipede boats and other small warships to form a middle battalion, and came towards Jinshanwei like chopping waves.

The amphibious force is a landing force, good at land warfare and close combat at sea. At this time, all of them have been concentrated on more than forty large grain transport ships to form a rear battalion, and Liu Kongzhao, Chief of the Navy Department of Chengyi Bo, personally sits in charge.

More than [-] soft sailing boats are faster and have the advantage of artillery strikes, so except for ten ships led by General Cai Zheng under the Zheng Group to guard the amphibious force, that is, the rear battalion, the rest are all undertaking the vanguard mission. Zheng Chenggong personally led and walked in the forefront of the entire Ming Navy, forming a forward battalion.

(End of this chapter)