Chapter 617: Iron Blood Sailor (Page 1/1)

Zheng Zhilong knew that this fleet was the foundation of his life in the Qing court, and without these warships, the Manchurian masters would abandon him.

He pointed to the waters under the two forts on the shore and said to Hong Xu: "Jiufeng, lead people to try to move the fire and damaged warships on the periphery!" ”

"Yes, Master Jun!"

When Zhilong boarded the ship from the wharf on the west side, Zheng Zhibao arrived with his subordinates, "Big brother, there is a fierce battle in the port, and it is very dangerous. You sit on the shore, and I'll go and get the ship. ”

Zheng Zhilong was willing to listen, jumped on the springboard in a few steps, turned around and instructed him, "Fifth brother, don't worry about me." You go to the north side and gather the three 'Wei' warships over there, and when I have a waterway here, come and join me at once!" ”

"Big brother, the artillery fire has no eyes......"

Zheng Zhilong saw that he insisted on protecting him, and hurriedly said: "The Ming army was temporarily suppressed by our fort, if we can sail the warships out and block the exit of Laizhou Port, we may be able to kill them all here!" ”

He looked at the southernmost side of the port, which was no longer covered by the fire of the battery, where the Ming warships were wantonly bombarding, "Don't delay any longer!" When the Ming army destroys those ships, they will sail away, and we will really be finished! ”

"This," Zheng Zhibao also knew that the situation was critical, so he had to arch his hand, "Big brother, be careful." Then he turned and led his troops to the north of the harbor.

On the other side, Hong Xu commanded sailors to cut the cables, scuttle the damaged and immobile ships, or drag the burning warship to the middle of the channel, gradually opening a narrow passage on the outside of the crowded docked ships.

On the Guangzhou, Shi Lang held a telescope and saw the Qing army's movements clearly, but because the threat of the eighteen-pounder guns on the fort was too great, he couldn't step forward to stop it.

"General Shi, you can't fight anymore." On the side, Zhang Guoxuan also saw the enemy ship that was raising its sails, and couldn't help frowning, "If the thief escapes from the mooring, we will be blocked in the harbor." ”

Shi Lang knew that it would take at least an hour or more for his side to roughly destroy the enemy ships on the south side of the port, but Zheng Zhilong would definitely not leave him such a long time.

When he was anxious, he heard the adjutant say loudly: "General, Lord Zuo Wuwei has led his troops to land!" ”

Zuo Wuwei is Liu Guoxuan's position in the naval division, which is roughly equivalent to the deputy commander of the fleet.

Shi Lang hurriedly turned the binoculars, only to see Liu Guoxuan use the Ji'an to forcibly break away from the Jianyu's auxiliary boat, put down more than a dozen small boats, and rowed towards the dock with three or four hundred sailors and sailors.

"It's so reckless! There are a large number of captives on the shore, how is this different from sending them to death?! Shi Lang immediately yelled at the adjutant, "Raise the order flag and let Liu Guoxuan return!" ”

Zhang Guoxuan stopped him and said: "General, if General Liu can capture the fort on the shore, no, even if it only delays the fort for an hour, we will not return in vain this time." ”

"But ......" Shi Lang gritted his teeth, he understood the importance of this surprise attack on Laizhou Port, and after a while, he finally nodded vigorously, "That's all." The herald ordered the Fuzhou to take four small boats to fire on the shore to cover the infantry! ”

"Yes!"

The place where Liu Guoxuan landed was still more than three miles away from the fort on the west side - it was difficult to ensure that the warship would not be injured by the enemy's heavy artillery in closer places. He took a flintlock and personally rushed to the front, first led seventy or eighty infantry soldiers to sweep out an open space on the dock, and the hundreds of men and horses that followed formed three infantry lines on the shore before they could make a cup of tea.

Then he gave the order, and the more than 320 soldiers under his command marched neatly in the direction of the fort to the beat of the drum.

Under the cover of the artillery fire of the Fuzhou and other ships, the landing force did not encounter much resistance, until it was only about a mile away from the fort, and the Qing troops on the fort finally noticed them, and hurriedly turned the gun to shoot at the Ming troops on the shore.

An iron ball with a bowl mouth slammed into Liu Guoxuan's side not far away, and the two Ming soldiers were instantly swept into the sea, leaving a large area of red. Liu Guoxuan still had a cold face, and commanded the naval infantry to continue to take more than 100 steps, and saw that three more cannons on the fort turned to his side, so he turned his head and shouted to the herald: "The whole team has turned into a straggler formation, and rushed to the left of the fort to fire!" ”

More than 300 infantry soldiers immediately dispersed on the spot, shouting and desperately rushing towards the battery, which was constantly spitting artillery fire. The whistling shells stirred up a cloud of dirt near them, and rolled into the sea with the blood of their comrades, but they did not hesitate in the slightest, and even the roar of "kill" was a little louder than before.

The Qing troops on the fort were shocked - these Ming troops rushed towards them like unconscious death, and the leading officer hurriedly ordered all the cannons to be fired at the Ming troops on the shore, and sent several groups of people to Zheng Zhilong to ask for reinforcements.

Finally, after paying the price of nearly 100 casualties, Liu Guoxuan's troops rushed to a place three or four steps down a fort on the west side. This was already a dead end for heavy artillery, and the Qing troops on the fort began to use bows, guns and small cannons to shoot at them.

The soldiers of the Ming army raised their guns one after another to fight back, because the rifled guns of the Dragon Guard and the Broken Battalion had not yet been replenished, so the sailors were still using flintlock guns for the time being, and the effect of suppressing the fire of the fort was not ideal.

Seeing that the enemy battery was still firing at the water, Liu Guoxuan immediately stood up from behind a hidden pile of wood, put his bayonet on the mouth of the gun and waved his arm vigorously and shouted: "Brothers, follow me to the fort!" ”

Then he took the lead and hurried to the fort. Behind him, hundreds of sailors saw that the main general was so desperate, and their morale was immediately boosted, and they followed the roar.

After rushing to the bottom of the fort, Liu Guoxuan looked up at the earthen ramparts five or six zhang high, raised his hand and threw a flying claw up, and then began to climb with his hands and feet.

In order to accommodate more cannons, the bottom of this fort was built extremely wide to form a large slope, so it was not difficult to climb up, but the height of nearly six zhang still gave the Qing army a lot of room to counterattack.

For a time, dozens of ropes hung around the fort, and hundreds of Ming soldiers began to climb the ropes, while the rest were covered by guns below. And the Qing troops on the fort were also red-eyed, and even the soldiers who operated the guns picked up the guns and shot them downward.

Liu Guoxuan climbed halfway, looked around, and saw that the soldiers of his unit were shot and fell from the air at any time, and only forty or fifty people were left who were climbing. Although there were still soldiers who took over the rope without fear of life and death, no one had been able to climb to the top of the fort until this time.

In this case, even if the fort can be attacked, the remaining manpower cannot guarantee that the captives above will be defeated. Liu Guoxuan's eyes were almost dripping blood, and he secretly said in his heart, could it be that the attack on Laizhou Port would fall short......

At this moment, he suddenly heard a large roar of fire from the northwest direction, and more than a dozen captives on the fort immediately fell from the battlements with screams, and the defensive fire on the fort was slowed down.

(End of chapter)

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