Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom

The battery at the col seemed to have been pre-loaded with shells, and as soon as the muzzle of the gun was extended, it could not wait to open fire.

The Jingyuan at the front bore the brunt, with at least three shells hitting the left fore cabin, the middle cabin and the deck of the Jingyuan.

"Steady, don't panic! The gunner calibrates his bearings and prepares to return fire! Qi Yuangong issued the flag with the flag bearer while rushing to the soldiers in the cabin to give orders.

The lookout of the pirates in the col squinted and watched the battle.

"How's that, how many ships have been sunk?" Zhang Gui, the pirate leader in charge of the fort, walked out of the fort and asked urgently.

"Boss, is our cannon broken?" The lookout seemed unable to believe his eyes.

The Jingyuan, which rushed ahead on the sea and suffered the most artillery, was also a little confused, as if there was nothing wrong?

I obviously felt the hull of the ship shake two or three times just now, and if it weren't for the shells hitting the deck that bounced up and smashed a hole in the hatch after hitting the ground, the soldiers on the Jingyuan would have thought that the shore batteries were bluffing.

"Captain, it's okay! The cannonballs of the pirates cannonballs can't penetrate the armor of our ships at all! "The first mate Wu Liuyi rushed to report that just now three shells hit their ship at the same time, which frightened Wu Liuyi.

As soon as someone went to investigate, they found that the ship was all right, but there was a shallow pit left on the surface of the ship, and that was it.

It seems that the armor that the Admiral put on the ship is really good, Wu Liuyi said.

Although he knew that the armor installed on the outside of the ship was to strengthen the defense, Wu Liuyi did not expect that this defense could even withstand the artillery, which was simply an invincible existence.

"Hurry up and command the gunners to fire back! Fight back! Cui Geng said angrily.

His morale is high, and the morale of the entire Beiyang Naval Division is also high, they use the best ships and the best artillery of the imperial court, eat the most sumptuous meals, and take the highest military salaries.

If this first battle can't be fought, where will I have the face to see the Admiral when I go back, I will simply buy a piece of tofu and die.

Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom

The old bronze cannon of the mountain col fort had not yet been loaded with shells, and dozens of guns of the three main battleships, Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Jingyuan, opened fire one after another, and the rumbling sound of the guns filled the smoke of the batteries on the mountain pass.

The pirates on Kinmen Island did not understand the construction technology of the imperial fort, but they barely had a protection by opening a hole in the mountain pass, and most of the guns of the fort were old-fashioned Furlong bronze cannons.

Although this Li Kuiqi does not have many troops, and there are only about 3,000 people in the full battle, he is really good at arranging this Kinmen Island.

Before the Beiyang Naval Division marched into the army, Liu Hongjian specially sent Jinyi Wei to explore the situation on the island.

Due north and south of Kinmen Island seemed to be easy to land, but it was the place where Li Kuiqi had deployed the most troops, and there were too many rocks on the seabed in the west, which was not conducive to the navigation of ships.

Only the small port in the eastern col is the most suitable for landing on the beach, and there is a fort here, which is a place where other warships can avoid it, but Liu Honggradually thinks that it is safer to land on the east.

The artillery on Kinmen Island is all old cannons eliminated by the Zheng family, or small cannons intercepted by Li Kuiqi during the robbery of nearby armed merchant ships.

Tianjin Bao Shipyard developed the ship's steel armor on the shell carrying capacity of the special experiment, the steel armor is too thick will cause the hull to be too heavy, too light will be poor protection.

Finally, the thickness of the steel armor is determined by the power specifications of the cannon, which means that unless the power is equal or stronger than the Ming cannon, it is possible to penetrate the steel armor of the ship.

And this broken cannon on Kinmen Island is obviously not an exception.

Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom

After the bombardment of the three main warships of Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Jingyuan ended, the five No. 2 Fu ships also fired one after another, followed by smaller sentinel ships and winter ships.

There are only dozens of old-fashioned guns, and the batteries are also shoddy, where can they withstand the indiscriminate bombardment of hundreds of guns, and the pirate minions stationed in the batteries should even blow up their nests.

Zhang Gui stopped and cut down two frightened subordinates at first, but later he simply stomped his feet and ran away.

After the fort was a small port, responsible for the ships coming and going from Kinmen Island, after learning that the imperial sailors were really heading towards the east of the Embedding Pass, Li Kuiqi suddenly made up his mind, and sent out a thousand men from the north and south defense lines to help.

I thought that there was a fort that would not need them at all, but who knew that the fort only released one round of cannons, and was scattered and fled by the intensive artillery bombardment of the imperial court sailors.

Li Kuiqi was angry, so he had to go and pull the garrisons on the north and south banks over, and beckon his thousands of men to prepare to shoot.

"Shieldman! Raise your shield! ”

The No. 1 and No. 2 main warships were still parked in the sea to be on guard, and more than 20 sentinel ships and winter ships with a relatively shallow draft sailed in front and disembarked.

The captain and first mate are automatically promoted to Marine Corps Commander, and the front row of heavy shieldmen with blue tendons on their foreheads protrudes to lift heavy shields to defend against fire guns on the mudflats, followed by three rows of grenadiers and five rows of musketeers.

When the beach landed at Dagukou and Weihaiwei, the Beiyang Naval Division did not know how many times they had been trained, although it was the first time it was used in actual combat, but most of the soldiers did not show timidity, which made Liu Hong, who had been secretly observing, very satisfied.

Bang bang - the pirates on the mudflats shot one after another.

However, the projectile hit the heavy shield covered with a damp cotton cloth and did not even splash a spark, and the pirates were not stupid, so they immediately panicked.

"Steady, we can win! Steady, reinforcements are coming! Li Kuiqi swallowed and said with a tremor.

Fifty steps, thirty steps......

The reloaded pirates had another sporadic round of shooting, only they never had a chance to play the third round.

"Grenadier! Prepare – Throw! As soon as the commanders gave the order, the grenadiers behind the heavy shields unhurriedly drew the fuse of the grenade and threw it towards the mudflat.

Boom - Boom - Boom Boom -

"Musketeers, forward!"

"Whoa, whoa—"

……

There was no suspense in the landing battle on Kinmen Island, as soon as Li Kuiqi's reinforcements arrived, they were scattered by the dense firepower, and Li Kuiqi himself wanted to pretend to be ordinary people to get by, and finally was found out by the people who had been oppressed for several years.

Under the watchful eyes of the remaining 1,142 civilians on Kinmen Island, the pirate Li Kuiqi was shot dead by the Beiyang Navy Division with more than 800 minions who survived.

For the people who were exiled to Kinmen Island, Liu Hong gradually gave them two choices, they could return to the mainland with the Beiyang Naval Division warships, or stay and build Kinmen Island, and all taxes would be exempted for three years.

Unfortunately, Huang Dacang did not find his nephew and nephew among the surviving people.

Liu Hongjian didn't know how to comfort the old tearful Huang Cannon, only said that he would send Jinyi guards to help search near Quanzhou, and it was unknown that they might escape secretly.

Three days later, the repaired Beiyang Navy Division returned to Quanzhou City.

But who knew that that night, two uninvited guests came to Quanzhou Mansion......