The Great Bandit in Kangxi Year

Chapter 188

Half a month later, with the autumn wind blowing, the Ming Navy assembled more than 400 ships with more than a thousand materials, carrying the 1st Division of the Marine Corps and the 1st Division of the Cannon, and a large amount of food, grass and ammunition, and set off under the cover of night.

At the same time, the Second Army used Linyi as its rear base to attack Rizhao Mansion and Weifang, and the entire Laizhou Peninsula was immediately isolated.

How could the powerful armed forces and green battalion soldiers from all over the place be able to stop the sharp bullets and bullets, and they were defeated. Since all the Manchu Eight Banners cavalry were withdrawn, all the active ones surrendered, and the rest were just stubborn resistance.

In order to fight this battle well, Jiang Tao mobilized another [-] militiamen to escort food, grass and ammunition.

When Manchu's attention was focused on the prefectures in Shandong, Jiang Tao's trump card appeared eight days later.

At eight o'clock in the morning on September 28, the Black Dragon Fleet sailed into the Bohai Sea under the command of Chen Dajiang.

Shi Lang, the admiral of the Bohai Navy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was training the navy, and his face turned pale when he heard the news, and he hurriedly brought two hundred warships under his command to meet the battle.

Waiting to see that the opponent only has 29 warships, but they are all thousands of warships, and most of them are bird boats and rushing boats. The length of these ships is about seven to ten feet. But it was about the same age as the opponent, and the opponent was all gunboats. Shi Lang put down the binoculars, and it took him a long time to calm down.

Hundreds of large and small warships swarmed in, and the troops were divided into three groups, but they were also aggressive. Chen Dajiang took the captured binoculars and observed for a while, sneering, but a little helpless. The prince's strategy is brilliant, but he did not count The Qing Dynasty also had a large navy.

Now that the naval brigade is stranded ten miles away, he cannot be defeated, so he can only try the opponent's methods.

With a distance of 800 meters, Chen Dajiang ordered without hesitation: "Fire in the direction of the flagship of the Qing army!"

He had no choice but to fire from a distance, and the formation of the Qing army's navy was too compact, which was beneficial to his own side. As for the Qing army's navy that was outflanking from left and right, he could only put it down for the time being.

Nearly six hundred rounds of [-]-jin iron bullets roared and smashed at the Chinese army of the Qing army navy.

dong dong dong...

In an instant, the sea water boiled, and jets of water rose into the sky.Many artillery shells penetrated the planks of the Qing warships, and the hot ten-kilogram iron bullets raged inside the hull like plowing the ground.Sea water poured into the ship along the holes opened by the shells.The hull immediately tilted, and the Qing soldiers screamed in fright. They had never faced the baptism of today's dense iron ball storm, and they wanted to escape immediately.

Shi Lang was also stunned. He also had 22 gunboats, each with [-] cannons, but most of them were Francine cannons with a fast rate of fire, but they didn't have such a long range or such a powerful force. In this round of volley, the army has lost more than a dozen warships, and its flagship has been hit three times, exposing three big holes. How should this battle be fought?

"dash forward!"

"The red cannon fires!"

His 30 gunboats had a red-clothed cannon at the front and back, Shi Lang reacted instantly, pretended to be calm, and roared sharply.

All the Qing soldiers felt their scalps tingling. Most of them had never experienced naval battles. Although they knew that military law was ruthless, their movements unconsciously slowed down.

dong dong dong...

Thirty 30-pound artillery pieces hit the Black Dragon Fleet, but only splashed waves.

Thick smoke and gunfire quickly drowned the sea between the two sides, and only the flags of the two sides could be seen, while the Qing navy sailors on the left and right pressed forward.

Chen Dajiang didn't dare to be careless, he didn't want to waste ammunition by fighting blindly. He saw that only the central army of the Qing army was firing, while the two wings of the navy division of the Qing army were only one mile away from his fleet, but they still didn't fire. A warship fired at a distance of 300 meters.

At such a short distance, the hit rate immediately increased to 30.00%, which means that at least two hundred shells hit the opponent.

Solid shells mainly cause severe damage to the hull and have limited damage to personnel.But if you click the back and it is near the trajectory of the shell, then congratulations for winning the first prize, you will either die or be disabled.

After only one round of bombardment, the fifty warships suffered heavy losses, some retreated directly, and the right wing fleet suddenly became chaotic.

At this moment, the 580 cannons on the left side of the Black Dragon Fleet also opened fire, and the commander of the Qing Army Navy on the left wing was a brave general, and he rushed forward against the rain of bullets.

The two sides fought for a quarter of an hour, and the sound of artillery continued.

Many ships of the navy of the Qing army approached Chen Dajiang's fleet several times, but the Black Dragon Fleet with tiger squat guns and muskets was not afraid of these.

Seeing that the Black Dragon Fleet could not win the opponent in a hurry, Chen Dajiang sighed. He knew that even if the Black Dragon Fleet won, it would be a tragic victory. The Black Dragon Fleet did not have the strength to spend so much.

The Seawolf-class cruiser uses soft sails, which are easy to operate and faster. In addition, the right-wing sailors are in chaos, so there is no danger. However, eight of the warships suffered varying degrees of trauma. Quickly repair the holes in the hull.Block the rushing sea water.The repairman smashed the long steel nails in with a dang, and the other sailors below hurriedly cleaned up the seawater that entered the ship.

The efforts of the repairmen were not in vain, and finally no cruiser sank.

During this period, artillery fire was raging all over the sky, and thick smoke rose everywhere. It was not until half an hour later that the entire Bohai Sea returned to calm.

"Don't chase after the poor, return to the voyage for repairs, in preparation for another battle!" Shi Lang ordered in a depressed mood, looking at the fleet that had lost one-third of its strength.

This was all his painstaking effort. In order to avenge his family, he took refuge in Manqing, but now Wu Sangui and Heihu rebelled, disrupting all his plans.

His fleet is related to the safety of the important areas of the capital, and the bandit fleet has fierce firepower, which is no small matter. He did not dare to pursue it wantonly, besides, the opponent was not defeated.

.......
Outside the Bohai Bay, all the generals frowned, Jiang Wuji heard the battle situation, and said decisively: "Set sail immediately and capture Qinhuangdao!"

All the generals were stunned, and Chen Dajiang said with a bitter face: "General, the prince's order is for us to occupy Tianjin."

"The orders of the generals are not accepted. Moreover, now that the Qing army has heard the news, they must stick to Tianjin and other places. Our army has lost the opportunity, but Qinhuangdao is different. It is not far from the capital. Not only is the defense lax , and we can attack the Qing army's lair, which is the same as the prince's combat goal."

"Anyone who disagrees will be dealt with by military law. Any responsibility, this general will fully bear."

"Obey!" Speaking of this, Chen Dajiang, Jiang Yan and others will not say more.

When they arrived at Qinhuangdao, it was already sunset.

A round of blood-red sunset emerged from the gray clouds on the vast sea horizon, coating the majestic sea surface with a layer of purple-red color.The empty and standing waves are foaming and covered with seaweed, noisy and rushing, hitting the reef more powerfully each time, and pushing towards the beach.

29 Seawolf-class cruise ships lined up, pouring hot iron balls towards Qinhuangdao.

The more than ten cannons on Qinhuangdao had just fired two rounds before they failed to fire one after another.

Chen Dajiang saw that the opponent was really not strong, so he hurriedly ordered the fleet to approach and bombard. For ten rounds, the area along the coast of Qinhuangdao was bombarded.

When they went ashore to see, there was not a single Qing soldier standing guard except for the dead bodies that could not die any more.

When I came to the town, I saw a mess, the common people ran away and took everything except some food.

Jiang Wuji smiled wryly. While making trenches dug, he repaired the forts along the coast. He deployed two hundred 150mm infantry guns along the coast of Qinhuangdao to prevent sneak attacks by the Qing navy.

The material and ammunition were unloaded again, but fortunately, the preparations were sufficient this time, enough supplies and ammunition for a month.

It was not until three days later that all this was done, and the Black Dragon Fleet returned. During this period, the Qing army besieged many times, but the number was not small, and they were all defeated.

"Where did the 30 cavalry of the Qing Dynasty go?"

While Jiang Wuji was puzzled, there was no change. After all, the main force of the First Legion hadn't come yet. As long as he stood firm, where could the Manchu Tartars go?
Just in case, he buried the 15 landmines he brought with him in front of the position. The infantry trench was 100 meters behind the minefield, with [-] infantry inside, [-] infantry in the second trench, and [-] pistolmen. In the third position, [-] mielu gun sharpshooters and [-] Lianzhu guns were deployed.

In the fourth position, three hundred tiger squatting guns and more than a thousand spearmen were deployed.

After that is the camp, where 6000 people are deployed in a row of guns and artillery positions.

The 1st Division of the Marine Corps has a total of 5000 people, while the 1st Cannon Division has a total of 1 people. The personnel of the Cannon Division did not arrive, but [-] artillery pieces and corresponding artillery came.

In this way, apart from the 100 infantry artillery defending the coast, the artillery position has a total of [-] artillery pieces with a diameter of [-]mm or more.

In order to avoid the interference of the rain, Jiang Wuji ordered people to build a straw shed for each cannon, so he was relieved. Although he was confident, the firearms of this era were still afraid of rain.

Although the propellant used for artillery is wrapped in oiled paper, the fuse or torch is afraid of rain.

Jiang Wuji knew the weaknesses of sharpshooters and sharpshooters best. As long as the weather was fine, he would definitely be able to defend them. He was afraid that something unexpected would happen, and the [-] soldiers would be miserable.

(End of this chapter)