Lu Ming

Chapter 237 Peeling Onions ([-])

Zhai Dazhong was sitting on a rough wooden chair, with his hands on his knees, leaning forward slightly, and was listening attentively to Sha Zhengming's assignment.

Zhai Dazhong is a native of Fujian, and he is currently a guerrilla in the Shuibiao Camp in Fuzhou.This position is theoretically the same as that of a certain fake time traveler who has just been publicly appointed as a guerrilla general.

However, the official title is the same, but the real power is quite different: for military officers, the number of soldiers and horses is proportional to their status to some extent.Compared with "Cao Chuan", the soldiers and horses under Qu Dazhong's guerrilla battalion are far from enough.

Not to mention that the tens of thousands of soldiers and horses that the pirate leader showed up in the city of Fuzhou a few days ago were those strange ships and the red-haired barbarians who came to help them. Qu Dazhong, who is proficient in water warfare, also knew that he was not an opponent.

You know, some time ago, the officers and soldiers fought against Zheng Zhilong, but in the end the officers and soldiers were defeated.This defeat not only sent Yu Zigao, the commander-in-chief of Fujian Province, to the sky prison, but also from Yu Zigao onwards, many generals of the imperial court were killed in battle, a large number of warships were damaged, and soldiers suffered heavy losses.

The defeat not only caused the overall hard power of the Fujian Navy to be greatly damaged, but also its soft power is not optimistic: at present, there is only one deputy commander, Zhao Tingyuan, who was originally stationed in the center and left, and now he has lost his old nest. Since then, the officers and soldiers below this person have been panicked and have no fighting spirit.

Therefore, when General Xinke Guerrilla called all the people from all walks of life to come to Mawei Water Village for a battle meeting, Qu Dazhong came honestly - he had no airs to put on in front of these powerful pirate chiefs.

Like all the people who have dealt with time-traversing people for the first time, when Qu Guerrilla came to Maweishui camp, the first thing he saw was all kinds of shocks: the clean and tidy barracks, the boilers that were emitting black smoke, and the recently opened fire in Fuzhou city. Glass windows became popular.

Qu Guerzilla knew that these people made the glass in Dayuan.But he couldn't understand how to install such an expensive thing on the windows of the barracks.

But once it's time for the official meeting, people feel the benefits of the glass window: the bright room is full of light, and any mark on the map can be clearly seen.

There are quite a few people attending the meeting today.

There is the new guerrilla general Cao Chuan in official robes, the actual host of the meeting Sha Zhengming, Sha Qianzong, the guerrilla Qu Dazhong, five or six foreign commissioners including Du Dewei and Cao Hu, and three striking Dutch And translators are also present.

All kinds of participants quickly focused their attention on the detailed topographic map of Xiamen on the wall.The natives who had never seen the satellite map style of later generations all opened their eyes wide at this moment.

Not to mention the strange ideas such as "his aspirations are not small" and "premeditated" that popped up in the minds of Ming people like Qu Dazhong and Du Dewei. When the curtain on the wall was drawn, the majestic Sha Zhengming picked up the With a pointer, he began to explain to the map on his own.

Attendees are captivated by the innovative approach to strategy sessions.

Sha Zhengming first introduced the historical background of the entire battle to the map.This includes the current strategic situation of the two sides, as well as the resumes and numbers of the enemy's major leaders from Li Kuiqi down.

After introducing these backgrounds, Sha Zhengming began to explain the campaign draft in detail.

The campaign plan drawn up by the cross-crowd is called "Peeling the Onion", and it is an extremely simple plan for suppressing bandits - these miscellaneous reinforcements here are unable to complete complex tasks.

The core of this plan is: the fast fleet will attack the enemy first, and when the enemy's strength is weakened to a critical point, the large force will dispatch to wipe out the opponent.

So at the end of the meeting, Sha Zhengming concluded: "After our main fleet destroys the bandits, everyone can rush forward."

Although the current situation of Shuibiaoying is not good, Qu Dazhong is an elite military officer of the imperial court who just passed the front of the pirates, so he can't understand this truth: how can 8 ships destroy the pirate gang with a total of thousands of ships? . Although the 8 strange ships are very fast, although many of the pirates are broken fishing boats.

So Qu Dazhong smiled, a mocking smile with the corners of his mouth slightly upturned.

Then his smile was seen by "Cao Chuan" who was sitting on the side: "General Qu, does the other party have a slightly higher opinion? You might as well speak up."

"Don't dare, General Sha's strategy is magnificent, and Qu admires it!"

Naturally, Qu Dazhong would not pretend to be a master tactician at this juncture. Right now, this gang of pirates is in the middle of their fire, and the ponytail is their territory. Who knows who these gang of pirates are trying to harm by throwing their big heads out, he Qu The general will naturally not accept this stubble.

Hearing someone's seemingly admirable words, Sha Zhengming, who had already put down his pointer and came back, sneered, "General Qu probably hates evil, and doesn't want others to brag about it. Well, let's go out to sea tomorrow and have a drill, and the general will be satisfied."

The so-called parade, of course, is not to pull out and beat the officers and men's boats through the fleet of the crowd, but the real live ammunition shooting.

Early the next morning, off the coast of Fuzhou.

A large number of ships are gathering here.The largest number of them are the pirates from the Mawei Barracks.These new recruits who know what military discipline is under the stick education are now densely packed on 10 brand new blessing boats, waiting to observe the exercise.

And Qu Dazhong's fleet is not far away.The general only brought 5 ships out from the water mark this time, and on them were all the officers and some officers and soldiers under his command—he did not bring those who were really in bad spirits.

In the end there were three solitary Dutch ships.

Mr. Putmans has finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish since his visit to Fuzhou City.But today he actually came to say goodbye: the Dutch have a terrible understanding of the force of the traversers, and they usually see the power of these destroyers in the Taijiang River, so they are not interested in the so-called exercise. They are about to return to the army to prepare for war, and they have no time to waste here.

All the viewing fleet faintly formed a large circle on the sea, and in the middle of the circle were five or six dilapidated Chinese sailboats.

The next moment, the exercise began.

I saw a white dragon rushing over from a distance.After showing the audience the high speed of more than 12 knots, the white dragon began to approach the target ship, followed by standard shelling at a distance of 1000 meters.

The combination of 2 destroyers + 6 frigates, a total of 44 Napoleon guns fired at high speed in sequence, immediately made the onlookers open their mouths.

After the entire fleet fired two rounds of artillery at a distance of 1000 meters, two target ships were already slowly sinking.Next came the grand finale: the next moment, the entire fleet lowered their sails, and then after two rounds of 360-degree rotation around the target ship at high speed, they fired three salvos with extremely short intervals at a distance of 500 meters.

"There is such a god in the world?!" Comrade Qu Dazhong saw everything clearly with the binoculars presented by the traveler, his hands were trembling at this moment and he couldn't stop.Now he fully understands the meaning of the "peeling onion" plan, and agrees with it from the bottom of his heart.

The pirate recruits were equally as shocked as Qu Dazhong.In addition, the shock of these recruits also contained fear.As long as they are not stupid, they will have already figured out a certain logical relationship: if they did not follow the shopkeepers to surrender, then they would soon be sent to the Zhongzuo Institute by these strange ships without sails and paddles. The bottom of the sea is in a box
The exercise went quickly.

Counting from the moment when the distant fleet appeared, it took less than 20 minutes for the artillery to send all the target ships into the bottom of the sea.

In fact, the shorter the time, the more shocking it is.Looking at the distant figures of those melon-eaters who were full of worries, Zhang Dongdong and the others standing on the flagship could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

This exercise was actually planned a long time ago.Because if the crossing crowd doesn't show their strength, then these new recruits and veterans of the water standard will shrink back in future battles and will be tied up.

And when they found out that they were actually holding a golden thigh, presumably these unscrupulous guys would think more about it before doing certain things.Especially this group of officers and soldiers who want to turn in at any time: If General Cao returns from victory, can those who fled before the battle still have a good life?
With the end of the exercise, the southward attack operation with the crossing fleet as the main force, officers and soldiers, and the Dutch assistance also began to enter the countdown state.

In fact, the time-travelers couldn't drag it any longer, because Li Kuiqi wanted to do it.

You know, it has been more than a month since the pirates of the Zhongzuo Institute broke up for the first time.

And this kind of situation is actually a kind of competition: through the crowd and the pirate gang headed by Li Kuiqi and Zhong Bin, they are desperately fighting for the time to integrate.Whoever successfully integrates first can make the first move.

And because of the existence of Yuegang Xu Xinsu, the time travelers have always had an intelligence advantage, which is why they can spare more than a month to train pirate recruits: Li Kuiqi is also integrating.

However, just the day before everyone held the military meeting, a telegram from Yuegang said: Li Kuiqi is already in the "meeting ministers" and is going to make a big vote in the next few days.

So Zhang Dongdong and the others hastily held a military meeting, and then hastily held an exercise—Li Kuiqi cannot be allowed to go ashore to plunder on a large scale, otherwise Xiong Wencan and "Cao Chuan" will have no good fruit to eat.

Fortunately, after more than a month of integration, both the soldiers and the logistics, including the Dutch who came to help and the officers and soldiers, have been coordinated. Therefore, the second day after the maritime exercise, Zhang Dongdong secretly Farewell to Xiong Wencan: There are too many eyeliners in Fuzhou City, so there is no need to hold a grand expedition ceremony with great fanfare.

The first to set off was naturally the main fleet composed of 8 gunboats with sails. The commander of this fleet was Sha Zhengming, and the deputy commander was Mu Longcheng.

In fact, because all the family property of the navy is here, except for Comrade Liu Zhe who is still staying in the Dayuan town house, most of the navy crossing people have come to Fuzhou with the last large force and are stationed in the Horsetail Barracks.

(End of this chapter)