The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 228 Artillery Coverage
The attack plan was ten artillery salvos for three rounds, and fifteen straw boats headed straight for the port.

Being hit like this, unprepared pirates should not be able to fire their artillery, and at this time they should be aiming at the giant flagship 'Liaodong' that appeared right under their noses.

All the gunners were waiting for the order to fire salvos. The gunners on the pirate fort were waiting for the Ming warships to come into range. Sakashima Jinhuo looked at the Ming warships that were no longer advancing and suddenly felt something was wrong because he saw the black warships facing the fort. All the muzzle.

Those cannons don't look as big as the Hongyi cannons on the fort?So far, do they want to test fire?

The answer will be there in the next second, but it's a pity that it's not his turn to use his brain.

Huang Mingli ordered the flag to fall, and the flags of the captains of the eight warships fell immediately. Amid the command to fire immediately from the gun positions, ten flowering bullets fell across the beautiful arc and accurately fell into the fort on the hill.

The loaders of the Ming army quickly cleared the chamber, loaded it, and prepared for the second round of salvo. In fact, this was already redundant. The shrapnel from the explosion of ten flower bombs completely covered the fort, which was only twenty steps away. Pergola with stone flake structure.

The pirates there were not dead but also injured. No one could get up quickly. The three cannons were buried by the collapsed pergolas. According to God.

The second round of artillery fire came again, and it was still explosive bombs. At this time, fourteen straw boats had already lined up and rushed into the waterway. The enemy artillery had not fired. The Patriarch, who had been watching the battle situation and worried about casualties under his command, sat down.

In fact, such worries are superfluous. In order to deal with the invasion of the West, the Manchu Qing built many forts and deployed many artillery purchased from Westerners.

During the Second Opium War, when the British and French allied forces really used the advanced rifled gun Armstrong cannon to attack, how many enemy ships could they sink?
The Dagukou Fortress of Tianjin Wei, which was built with a lot of money by the Qing Dynasty, had hundreds of smoothbore cannons that were not too backward at that time, including two [-]-jin large steel cannons, nine [-]-jin large steel cannons, and [-]-jin steel cannons. There are more than [-] cannons, and more than [-] Western steel cannons.

Hundreds of thousand-jin iron cannons and copper cannons made in the Qing Dynasty were also deployed. The final result was that in less than two hours, the British and French allied forces who had traveled thousands of miles away completely occupied Dagukou without any effort, and captured a total of Manchuria. There are 510 and eight cannons of the Qing army, including more than 100 bronze cannons.

Historical experience tells us that no matter how strong the fort is, and no matter how dangerous the location is, in the face of the enemy's advanced artillery, it is absolutely useless to be beaten by the invaders without being able to hit the invaders.

It is easy to destroy this group of pirates, but it is more difficult without sacrificing a soldier. When the straw boat passed through the waterway, the enemy bombarded it with twelve-pound red cannons at close range, and each shot would cause heavy casualties to our army.

Because there are a hundred or so soldiers on each straw boat, which is too dense, most of them are musketeers and heavy infantry who are preparing to seize the dock for landing operations.

Obviously, the artillery of the fort was killed by the Ming army, and now only the matchlock guns are left that may pose a threat.

At this time, Huang Sheng didn't know that most of the arquebus shooters in the Japanese pirates' lair had also been killed. At this time, the port was almost undefended.

The 'Gaizhou' was the first to enter the port, and the layout here was exactly the same as the sand table in the command cabin. Those prisoners really didn't play tricks, and there were more than [-] ships of different specifications docked in the port.

For example, there are seven or eight ships the size of the Daming horse boats. Most of these ships are not equipped with artillery, only fixed guns that are a few sizes larger than the Daming guns. They all hid in the cabin atmosphere and dared not come out.

These boats may not all be pirates, they may be fishermen or slaves, obviously there are no less than ten fishing boats here, the ronin should not be willing to go fishing, right?
Although no enemy attack was seen, the soldiers of the Huang family still took every step of the way. The warship turned to dock on the starboard side. The springboard with palladium hooks had long been standing on the starboard side like a drawbridge.

The 'Gaizhou' took the lead to land on the starboard side, and in the blink of an eye, the gangway was lowered and firmly hooked to the pier. Two small flag heavy infantry immediately came out in single file with the 'armor-piercing gun' in one hand and the steel shield in the other. , then unfold and advance twenty steps to stand still.

A general flag musketeer and Yiwu's infantry archers followed closely behind and aimed at the front. No one fired because no target was found.

The pier was full of people fleeing to the north of the pier, and the Huang family musketeers didn't hit them in the back.

One nine-pounder rifled bow gun and four four-pounder smoothbore guns on the "Gaizhou" aimed at suspicious buildings on the pier. The sailors used all the telescopes and telescopes, and they were nervously searching Pirate muzzle.

The 'Fuzhou' also landed, and they are also replicating this attack process, and then the soldiers were safely sent to the pier by straw boats, and finally the 'Guangning' entered the port and docked in a hurry .

The soldiers of the Huang family had pulled out the cordon for three hundred steps. Every musketeer kept his eyes on the front, ready to shoot any enemies that might appear. Everyone knew that the Patriarch was about to land when he arrived, so he couldn't be attacked by the enemy.

The 'Liaodong' is too large to prevent unnecessary troubles and not to enter the narrow waters without completely occupying the pirate's lair. To ensure nothing goes wrong, seven No. [-] Fuchuan-class warships are also cruising outside the port.

Twenty horse boats also filed in at this time. They leaned on the small boats in the port to search and capture prisoners. There were not many soldiers on one horse boat. Everyone shouted slogans and moved forward.

The soldiers of the Huang family all practiced a sentence in Japanese: "The officials and troops of the Ming Dynasty suppressed the bandits, and raised their hands to surrender to avoid death." They kept repeating this content in Chinese and Japanese.

They didn't encounter any resistance. There were not many people on these ships and most of them were not ronin. Seeing the Ming army boarding the ship, they all ran to the deck with their hands up and knelt down.

Huang Dongshan was the commander who attacked the pirates in the port. Seeing that the soldiers had already gained a firm foothold at the pier, he brought out 27 pirate captives whom he personally participated in the selection and shouted to them:

"You have seen that your fort was destroyed by our army before firing a single shot. Now I will give you a chance to save your little comrades."
The pirates' captives were heartbroken, and when they came to their lair, the Ming army actually let all the captives go to the deck to watch the battle.

This is the mind-attacking tactic that Huang Sheng arranged for Huang Dongshan to deliberately deploy. The highest state of a soldier is to subdue the enemy without fighting. Huang Dongshan is also familiar with military books, and his mentor understands everything.

The prisoners stood on the deck, despising the behavior of the Ming army. They thought that the Ming army was going to take them as hostages to deter the fort of the home port, so that the fort would not dare to fire if it was afraid of killing its own people.

Huang Dongshan told them proudly: "Today is to let you see how the officials and soldiers of the Celestial Dynasty treat the frog in the well who dares to disrespect our army and try to resist."

Only a few of these prisoners could understand Chinese. Shang Muming translated in Japanese with his head held high, and all the prisoners understood.

A few captives didn't believe it at all, with contempt on their faces. They also thought that the home port fortress should have the power to fight, but when the battle started, the fortress didn't even fire a single shot, and the warships of the Ming army rushed into the port.

Seeing this young Ming army officer lecturing again, these captives are all downcast, and they don't have the spirit of being on the deck last time.

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