open sea

Chapter 155 Guanghai
The disappearance of Zeng Yiben casts a haze on Xiangshan Mountain, and Chen Mu, who is wary of rats, faces two difficult roads.

The army rescued Guanghaiwei, or part of the troops reinforced Guanghai.

"Guanghai must be rescued. The governor has ordered soldiers from all over the country to go to Guanghai. I will bring five hundred banner troops, and Sun Qianhu will stay."

Sun Ao left behind the reorganized banner troops who were killed and wounded. After the reorganization was done properly, Xiangshan and Haojing could retain [-] banner troops. "Even if Zeng Yiben comes, he can resist for a few days."

Guanghai is very close to Xiangshan Mountain, even if they are on the coast, they can come back in a few days if the enemy's beacon fires.

After being tossed about by Xu Jinmei, Chen Mu's fleet was reduced by hundreds, two centipede ships and one lucky ship, carrying [-] flag troops from the offshore to Guanghaiwei.

This time, Chen Mu has experience in naval battles. He prepared enough gunpowder in the bilge of the Fuzhou ship. Each Francophone is equipped with six sub-guns. When the battle starts, it can guarantee hundreds of continuous artillery fire coverage, which is effective in attacking the enemy's ships. excellent.

Fran cannons are called swivel guns or murder guns in Europe. They are designed to bombard sailors and attack sails at long distances. Because the airtightness of the rear mounts is slightly poor, the threat to the hull of the same weight and caliber is far less than that of the front mounts.

With a rich variety of warships and more artillery, Chen Mu also has a little understanding of naval warfare in this era.

Compared with Western warships, the Fuchuan of the Ming Dynasty was more focused on merchants. For example, the two Fuchuan captured by the pirates belonged to the commercial form of the Fuchuan of the Ming Dynasty. Mainly artillery battles.

Yu Dayou dispatched two military Fuchuan to further increase the number of troops carried, similar to the idea of ​​ancient building ships to heighten the bow and stern, and have a condescending advantage when ships collide. Bird guns, fire guns, bows and even fire bricks, one Lose one.

They all use close-range threats and gang-jumping as their guiding ideology.

There are only two centipede ships in Chen Mu's hands. They are excellent in manning and slightly less in cargo, but they are extremely flexible in combat. They are equipped with many Franco cannons, but this kind of Arabian warship has not yet shown a tendency to lean towards heavy artillery. The gap was widened in shape, but it was not obvious.

In the next hundred years, western adventurers who sailed all over the world advanced the progress of western warships very quickly, leaving other civilized sea ships behind at the speed of running, and developed terrifying sea monsters with huge cannon ships.

If you want the open ship to occupy a place in the sea, you must improve it.

Chen Mu was lucky. There was no storm on the sea during the voyage. Counting the delay at Haojing, he arrived in the Guanghaiwei sea area within four days, bypassed Dajin Island, and passed through the strait between Shangchuan Island and Xinning. Guanghai Weicheng is far away.

Guanghaiwei built the acropolis as early as the 27th year of Hongwu, 17 years earlier than Tianjin Wei. The acropolis wall was built on the side of the mountain and was 530 feet long. And go, is for the South China Sea Xiongcheng.

It's just that time has passed for nearly 200 years, and the lax Guanghai guards are no longer what they used to be.

"The reinforcements from all over the city are stationed outside the city... Fuck! Shelling!"

boom!
The ship was a few hundred steps away from the shore, and three bright lights erupted from the enemy tower above the city wall of Guanghai Weicheng. cracked wooden parapet.

"The son of a bitch is quite accurate. The three cannons sound like they're going crazy. Guanghaiwei has fallen!" Chen Mu originally thought that Guanghaiwei could hold out for a few days. Apparently the Acropolis fell, "Send the order to go forward and obey the order to fight back, get out of my way!"

Chen Mu was irritated by the flying shells. The shell that hit the female wall was only a few steps away from him. If it was a little bit off, it would knock him out of his wits. Bombarding the upper tower of the Acropolis at a distance of hundreds of steps, then only Chen Mu was left.

In the past six months, Chen Mu has fired more cannons than anyone else in order to improve the angle device of the cannon carriage. The data is precocious and rotten, and he angrily pushes the artillery away. Give me, go ahead, do it!"

The gun mount made by Chen Mu uses arc-shaped thick wood to pierce holes with uniform angles at the gun tail, and is supported by iron rods. The muzzle is lowered and the muzzle is lowered.

The higher the downward adjustment, the farther the projectile parabola falls, until 45 degrees, and the higher the upward angle, the higher the close-range bombardment.

Following Chen Mu's firing on the side of the cannon, as soon as he covered his ears and turned his back, there was a loud noise behind him, and the cannon equipped with a wheel frame retreated violently and was installed on the wooden frame three feet behind, the muzzle glowed. The air was filled with gunpowder smoke, and the shells bombarded the southern tower of Guanghaiwei.

"I won! Master Qianhu played well!"

The artillerymen at the bow jumped for joy, and Chen Mu, who patted his left ear, looked at the city tower, where the eaves and tiles of the city tower were falling down the city, "Turn the rudder! Left paddle! Right string, prepare to light the fire!"

Chen Mu, who was humming slightly in his left ear, shouted orders, and many flag soldiers waved the command flags on the bow, deck, and stern rudder, and the small flags everywhere shouted orders hoarsely, and the left-string flag soldiers struggled to steer the oars, and the hull slammed across the ship in a very short time , the artillerymen hurriedly adjusted the seventeen Francophones on the right to the appropriate angles, all aiming at the Guanghai Weicheng Tower.

In fact, the Fran cannon is not a broadside gun, but a revolving gun fixed on the ship's side. This kind of supplementary firepower that will be used to make up for the lack of angle of the broadside gun is now the main firepower of Chen Mu's fleet.

"Light it up, let it go!"

Dozens of string cannons spewed out fire and smoke, and the scattered shells bombarded the city walls and towers, and flew into the towers. The naked eyes could see Japanese pirates running away in the towers.

The Japanese pirates on the tower were very smart, because the next moment Deng Zilong's centipede ship also fired string cannons along the flagship route, and the continuous artillery fire hit the tower many times and even broke a wooden pillar of the enemy's tower, causing the eaves on the south side of the tower to collapse. It collapsed suddenly, and the smoke and dust rose violently.

Afterwards, the swaying lucky boat followed the two centipede boats unhurriedly, and Wei Balang on the boat waved the command flag very seriously: "Bombard!"

Bang, bang.

The Francophones placed on the deck by the two younger ones spewed out flames and hit the wall of Guanghai Weicheng. Eighth Master did not give any more orders, and turned his head to stare at the side of the centipede ship not far away, revealing more than a dozen cannons. Don't say a word for a long time.

The state of mind is about the same as when Chen Mu occasionally stood on the reef and looked far west of the sea level.

Chen Mu was still dissatisfied with the bombardment of the city tower, and led a fleet to blast the Japanese pirates guarding the city wall. Seeing that the effect was minimal, he stopped at the coast far away from the Acropolis, and when he disembarked, he would have the flag of Qingcheng The army came to lead the way.

Stepping into the siege position, the first time he saw Bai Yuanjie he asked, "How did these Japanese take down the Acropolis? Did they abandon the city and run away?"

The generals who had been encouraged by the bombardment of the city tower by the reinforcement ships were excited when they saw Chen Mu leading the troops, but they fell silent when they heard his words, and their expressions became complicated.

"No, they are brave."

Bai Yuanjie shook his head slightly solemnly. In an extremely depressing atmosphere, he said: "Commanding Wang Zhen, governor Zhou Bingtang, and hundreds of households He Lan, all defending the city will fight to the death. There are not enough troops. There are more than two thousand troops and more than a thousand people in the city The Four Hundred Banner Army—haven’t found any traces of anyone escaping outside the city.”
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Historically, the battle of Guanghaiwei took place in the winter of the third year of Longqing to the first month of the fourth year. Wang Zhen, Zhou Bingtang, and He Lan all had their own people.

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