The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 232 Not Afraid of Trouble

The operation started, and the situation developed as planned. After several rounds of artillery fire, there were no living people on the Xundao fort. The 'Liaoyang' and 'Haizhou' approached [-] steps and continued to monitor the fort to prevent its resurgence.

'Liaodong' approached the entrance of the waterway slowly, so that it would not hit the rocks and run aground at such a speed. When the twenty-pound rifled gun could hit the pirate warship, Wang Lianfa, who had been preparing for a long time, immediately fired the ship's bow gun.

The target is very big, because the two enemy ships are lying sideways, and there are seven or eight warships the size of the Daming Haicang ship also lined up on the sidelines, and the small copper cannons equipped on them are similar to those of the Ming Dynasty. At the entrance of the waterway.

This was completely unexpected. The pirates who were waiting in battle all gritted their teeth and wanted to give the Ming army a gunfire to calm their anger. Who knew that what was waiting was not to beat people but to be beaten.

It's hard to be bombarded unilaterally, and the 'Liaodong' approached slowly, bombarding it unhurriedly.The reloading speed of rifled guns in this era is far inferior to that of smoothbore guns. First, because the chamber is cleaned slowly, they are repeatedly brushed several times with an iron brush like a feather duster to brush off the lead in the rifling.

The shells used to launch must also be pushed in with a stick wrapped in cowhide. It must be tight to fit the rifling, otherwise it will not only be inaccurate but also not far away.

A well-loaded smoothbore gun shoots three times, and a rifled gun can only shoot once. Therefore, it is impossible for Huang's warship to be fully equipped with rifled guns, but mixed with smoothbore guns, because they have their own strengths.

Rifled guns can hit far and accurately, and the advantage of smoothbore guns is that they can hit fast and hard, and they are cheap to manufacture.

The flagship attacking the pirates is not afraid of the enemy's counter-charge, because there are seven warships behind them. Now they can't hit the enemy ship, but if the enemy ship rushes forward, it will have to be ravaged by seven explosive shells before it can The bombardment of the horizontal ship, the question is, after such a blow, are there still people alive to steer the sails?

No army still has morale and determination to fight when it can't be defeated by beating alone, let alone thieves!
After only three shots, the enemy ships that were hit and those that were not hit did not line up, and all moved, instead of counter-charging but docking.

The Japanese pirates scrambled to abandon the ship and run to the pier, not knowing if they have a commander now.

Huang Mingli found out that the enemy's warships were smashed, and the pirates threw down their warships and ran to the shore. We were able to capture more than a dozen large and small warships intact.

He didn't kill them all and let the pirates escape for their lives, nor did he command the 'Liaodong' to rush into the port, but to withdraw from the waterway, because Huang Sheng reminded him not to let the flagship enter dangerous places under any circumstances.

Now it is impossible to know whether there are artillery facing the pier in those houses on the pier in the port. If a big guy like the flagship enters a narrow area and is calculated by others, it will have a great impact on morale, so we must guard against it.

It is still better to let the flexible straw boats attack and advance, and destroy the houses that may have hidden artillery and can shoot at our warships before letting the soldiers land and log in.

Fortunately, Huang Sheng used his troops cautiously, because he seized more than a dozen copper-cored iron cannons in the old lair of the pirate Zuoqian Island. Huang Sheng thought that the enemy would not think of fighting in a house near the pier when they were mentally prepared to defend the island. How many four-pound guns to ambush?

Huang Mingdao took the fleet around for a few days near the pirate's Xiaoyu Island lair, and the pirate leader Jiro Sakashima should have enough time to lift out the artillery arrangement in the warehouse.

Therefore, Huang Sheng ordered all warships to be on high alert. Unknown areas must be clear at a glance. If it is impossible, destroy everything. We are not afraid of trouble, and the safety of the soldiers comes first.

The warships of Huang's family entering the port were all shooting, and there was no complete building left within the range of the artillery fire. The captain was watching carefully with binoculars, and then continued to move forward and continue to fire until there was no place where even the six-pound smoothbore gun was hidden. up to the pier.

Huang Sheng thought that the people who deployed the defense would not be smart enough to plant a foreshadowing outside the range. If he could meet such a god-like enemy commander, he would have no chance to break in!

Jiro Sakashima was more scheming than his elder brother. When he ran his second home port five years ago, he found that the natural conditions here were far inferior to his brother’s home port because there were no long and narrow waterways.

When he was building the house, he reserved nine artillery positions near the pier. The base was built entirely of stones mixed with glutinous rice paste. It was ordinary housing at ordinary times, and it immediately became a temporary small fort when the artillery was brought in during war.

This happened five years ago. I have never encountered such a battle to guard the island, and it was gradually forgotten. Besides, knowing that such an arrangement was made by a few confidants, the Huang family did not catch anyone alive, so they interrogated the prisoners. Did not get this information.

Jiro Sakashima knew that his fort was built on a cliff by the sea, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, so he only sent a dozen matchlock gunners to help defend it just in case.

Arranging the only warships in the port to line up and prepare to fight the Ming army's warships entering the port. If his tactics hadn't met the Huang family's high-tech, the invading enemy would definitely suffer a lot.

Because the entrance of the waterway was artificially created by the method of sinking large stones in bamboo baskets, the warships that entered could only come one by one. The ship should have been knocked out of resistance by their gunfire when it returned fire.

Jiro Sakashima was commanding on the island. When he discovered that the Ming army had arrived with more than a dozen warships stranded for several days and nights and refused to retreat, he was mentally prepared to fight a fierce battle, and immediately armed the artillery emplacements hidden on the pier. stand up.

Four six-pounders and five six-pound copper-cored iron guns are all installed. The black muzzles are facing the port a hundred paces away, and the muzzles are disguised with firewood doors. It looks like a small door of an ordinary resident's house. .

One of the nine pirate captives who came back to persuade them to surrender was chopped off by him on the spot, and the other eight shut up immediately. They all took up their weapons and declared that they did not come back sincerely to persuade the second leader to surrender, but deceived the Ming army to escape and join the defense together. The Battle of Xiaolong Island.

Jiro Sakashima murdered and stood up to tell everyone on the island his determination to defend the island. Seeing that everyone had no intention of surrendering, he let the eight people go on board and continue to serve as gunners, because he arranged for his most confidant gunners to On the emplacement of a six-pounder copper-cored iron gun.

He even fancied that if the Ming army came in, their commanders were not mentally prepared and prepared to go ashore rashly, maybe they would kill the Ming army leader and many officers with one round of artillery fire, and it was possible to turn defeat into victory.

Sure enough, the Ming army attacked an hour later. The artillery fire was so powerful that a fort facing Xun Island was killed and wounded. Four wounded gunners fled back and reported the tragedy on the fort in detail.

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