At this time, Dorgon was like a gambler who lost his bet.
It was difficult for him to leave the gambling table without getting his money back.
He said with a gloomy face: "No, we can't withdraw.
Of course, we can't die in vain anymore.
Send the king's military order to assemble all the green camp troops and flags, as well as the strong men captured from nearby, to dig trenches here.
Build fortifications and build fortifications.
In addition, we need to recruit ships along the coast, and our Liaohai navy from the Eight Banners Han Army will also be mobilized.
I want to besiege this city.
We can't attack it, but we can starve them to death."
On the sea in Gaiping County, Bohai Bay, on a five-long fishing boat, an old man with a bald head and a golden tail was shouting and cursing.
From time to time, he would pick up a wooden stick to hit the other three "sailors" who were operating the boat and collecting the nets. .
This old man was the head of a banner household, and his two sons went to war with Beile Erzhen.
Two of the three "sailors" were thin and thin, and they were Han children captured by Hou Jin when they captured Liaodong, and the other was captured by the bandits when they plundered Shandong during the Tiancong period.
The three of them were all submissive at this time and did not dare to resist at all.
These coats were all assigned to his family based on military merit.
Several of his family's boats were also stolen from the Han people in Liaodong, and he learned how to fish in the sea from Baoyi, a Han man who was a fisherman.
This old guy was fifty-seven years old and was supposed to go out with the army, but because his two sons had already gone off to fight, Ezhen, who belonged to Niulu, kept him.
The old guy was feeling unhappy these days, because he thought that this expedition was to rob things and rob women again, so he also paid tribute to the Korean women in his family to Niulu Ezhen for a few nights, so as to get two soldiers to accompany him. quota.
Only in the past two days did he know that this time he was not going out to rob, and there was no quota limit.
He had to go even if he didn't sign up and was drawn.
This made him feel that he had been deceived by Niu Lu'er.
The muscles on the face of the cursing old guy suddenly stiffened.
On the distant horizon, two sail battleships appeared in front of his eyes, surrounded by a dozen large and small hard sail battleships.
"Hurry, give the boat back to your master quickly, don't collect the net yet, hey, why can't you react, you stupid slave?"
the old guy shouted loudly, and then picked up the stick and beat the one who was slow to react.
That coated one stick.
Half an hour later, a dozen warships guarding Gaipingqing's military city came out and sailed towards the unknown fleet that was getting closer and closer.
"Zuo Ling, the opponent is getting closer and closer, what should we do?"
A soldier looked at the opponent's giant ship and said tremblingly.
"What else can I do?
After getting closer, jump up and chop."
The ships of the Eight Banners Navy were basically brought by the "Sanshun King" who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty due to Mao Wenlong's death.
However, the Qing army did not pay attention to water warfare and only used ships as means of transportation across the sea.
Therefore, the large and small guns on the ships were unloaded for use by infantry and cavalry.
The navy still had to rely on side-to-side warfare to fight.
Of course, they have not had a single naval combat experience in several years.
A burst of white smoke suddenly rose from the fleet on the opposite side, and the Qing soldiers thought for a time that the other side's ship was on fire.
Then they heard the thunderous roar of cannon.
When Zuoling, who had just spoken, was at a loss, he saw a black dot flying towards his ship.
He squatted down reflexively and saw a projectile as big as a bowl pass overhead.
Before he had time to rejoice that his luck was not so bad, a violent explosion sounded in his ears, and the air wave lifted him into the sea.
This artillery shell is an explosive shell, more technically known as a grenade.
Although Xia Hua's sail battleship is still equipped with forward-mounted smoothbore naval guns.
However, due to advances in materials and gunpowder, grenades have been able to withstand huge chamber pressures while ensuring that the shells can be blown to pieces.
This kind of naval gun is a special type of cannon bombardment gun, that is, a cannon that can directly fire grenades to bombard targets.
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In later generations, all modern cannons were bombardment guns.
In addition, because the barrel and shells are much more precise than the Hongyi cannon, the gunners have also evolved into artillery, and ballistics can be applied to artillery strikes.
Almost instantly, the Qing navy was reduced to a pile of broken wood amidst the rumbling sound of cannons, floating in a mess on the water.
The Ming army's fleet ignored the fallen Tartars and sailed directly over their sinking and floating heads.
A stick of incense later, a dozen Ming army sampans landed on the beach in Gaiping.
From time to time, mutilated corpses or body parts of flag soldiers can be seen on the beach.
These flag soldiers gathered on the beach in an attempt to intercept the landing Ming army.
Who would have thought that when a volley of artillery fire came, they would look like this.
One hundred Guards infantrymen jumped from the sampan and rushed to the nearby port pier.
Amidst the banging gunfire, those bannermen who tried to intercept were shot to the ground.
They finally learned the power of each other's firearms.
An infantryman of the Guards quickly raised his hand and fired a shot, killing the bannerman archer who was bending his bow and arrowing at him twenty steps away.
Unexpectedly, an old man in his fifties appeared from behind the tree and struck him with a knife.
The infantryman dodged his body slightly and thrust out the rifle in his hand with lightning speed.
The bayonet instantly penetrated the old bannerman's abdominal cavity.
The old guy wailed, vomiting blood and sat on the ground.
The infantry shot another shot through his low-hanging bare sky cap.
Three flag soldiers suddenly jumped out of the abandoned ship parked at the dock, and each rushed towards a guard with their swords.
The opponent suddenly put the rifle on his shoulder, pulled out the Colt revolver with his right hand and fired three shots, turning them into three corpses immediately.
In a short time, the guards took control of the entire dock.
The Ming fleet sailed into the harbor one after another, unloading a large number of soldiers, horses, chariots, baggage vehicles, and artillery.
For this plan to invade the hinterland of Liao Province, Xia Hua deployed 1,500 infantry, 30 18-pound field guns, and 180 artillerymen.
Obviously, it is impossible to occupy the entire territory of Liaodong with such a small amount of troops.
However, Xia Hua only had one goal, to go straight to Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty.
Gaiping is not a big city.
After blasting open the city gate with 18-pound field artillery, more than a thousand Guardsmen swarmed in.
Gunshots like exploding beans were heard in the city.
Xia Yan, who commanded this operation, had only one military order to shoot at any moving target that did not hold its head with both hands, even a dog.
The Guards were divided into a combat area of 100 people and a combat group of five people.
They covered each other and searched and advanced in different areas, street by street and lane by lane.
Before they sweep a block, they always shout for a while, asking everyone to hold their heads and get out of the house, and then take action.
Those who don’t understand Chinese and have no one to tell them will be in trouble.
After knowing that the opponent's firearms were powerful, some bannermen tried to use their good shooting skills to resist.
But the best archers have been transferred to the pass.
Moreover, in this city with row upon row of houses, bows and arrows, which require a lot of shooting space, are far more difficult to use than revolvers and rifles.
A bannerman suddenly appeared from the alley and took aim with his bow.
The infantrymen five battles away quickly squatted down and also took aim with their guns.
Both sides fired their arrows and bullets almost at the same time, but the arrows passed over the infantry's heads, and the bullets accurately hit the bannerman's head.
There was also a bannerman hiding in the house, trying to use a bow and arrow to sneak attack the Ming army passing by the window, but the opponent ducked under the window and threw a white-smoking object.
With a roar, Tatar's broken body was ejected to the wall and collapsed softly to the ground.
The person who dropped the bomb did not know that there was anyone in the house and was just operating according to the standards of combat training
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