The Dagu fortress was built in the Jiajing period, when the Japanese often landed on the shore to plunder, so they built a barrier here and placed several artillery.

However, due to the performance of the Japanese warships, the Dagu fortress was not built very strongly. It would not be until 200 years later, in order to counter the threat of Western warships, that it would become the first coastal defense battery in East Asia.

"Hey! Lao Yu! The two flag soldiers shouted to Yu Ping from afar, "I knew you were eating tobacco here." ”

Yu Ping hurriedly stood up, nodded and said, "What do you have to say?" ”

"Master wants to drink two cups with Brother Qi Rong at night, you can cook a few dishes and send them."

"Eh, yes, yes."

The two captives then laughed and left. The old man looked up and saw that it was dark, sighed lightly, and said in his heart that I am afraid that there will be no drama today.

He was about to get up to prepare his meal, when he suddenly saw a few small black dots on the horizon, and his wooden eyes suddenly showed a capable look.

It was night, Yu Ping seemed to have something on his mind, he was still smoking on the earthen fortress under the fortress in the evening, but his eyes were fixed on the beach in the distance.

Eventually, there was an imperceptible light on the beach, and others would have thought it was just their own eyes.

But Yu Ping immediately jumped up, inhaled the tobacco vigorously, covered the smoke pot with his hand, then let go, and covered it again, and so on many times, until the faint bright spot appeared on the beach again.

……

"General, I have been summoned to the interrogation." A sailor pretending to be a fisherman saluted Zheng Chenggong and said, "Zishi, half a mile north of the fortress. ”

"Good!" Zheng Chenggong smiled and nodded when he heard this, and then instructed Shi Lang: "Order, according to the plan of the first word, do it when you are young." ”

"Yes!"

By the end of the day, dozens of small boats left the naval warships and slowly rowed towards the Dagu fortress close to the coastline. When they were still three or four miles away from the fortress, more than 300 people on board abandoned the ship and went ashore.

Liu Guoxuan lowered his voice and waved his hand: "All squatting and silent." Then he focused on the direction of the barrier.

The dinghy quietly returned to the ship to pick up the next group of soldiers.

……

"Stop, what are you doing?"

Yu Ping turned around and said with a smile: "Master Jun, Lord Hedai wants to have supper, so let the little one send some dishes." ”

The patrol remembered that he had just come from Hedai, and that he was indeed drinking with someone.

This old man surnamed Yu came here for more than half a month, and it is said that he was originally the chef of Tianfu Pavilion in Guangzhou Prefecture, but he was exiled to Tianjin because he offended the local magnates. He is diligent and cooks good food, in addition to working and sleeping every day, he squats on the base and eats cigarettes, but he is quite trusted by Dagu.

So the sentry waved his hand and said, "Don't wander around here, go back to sleep!" ”

"Yes, yes."

Yu Ping and the others walked away, but as soon as they changed their legs and feet, they dodged and ran towards the cannon at the battlement.

Due to the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of closing the country to the outside world, the Japanese have basically disappeared, and no one has attacked Dagu for many years, so that the fortress is in ruins, and the defenders drink and gamble at will, and at night even the defenders do not know where to go.

Yu Ping took out an iron nail from his bun, reached out to the fire door of the cannon, neatly stuffed the nail into the small hole of the ignition, and used the smoke pot as a hammer to hit the nail hard, and after a few strokes, the nail tail was level with the fire door.

Seeing that no one was paying attention, he took out the fire and waved it a few times above his head, until someone in the distance shouted, "Where did the fire come from?!" ”

The old man coughed, "Yes, it's the little one who is lighting a cigarette......"

"Old immortal, how can you eat tobacco here? Don't want to die?! ”

"Yes, yes."

Liu Guoxuan saw a few circles of fire in the distance, and immediately turned around and said, "Each team counts the number of people and prepares to start." ”

"Yes!"

A moment later, the 800 soldiers of the Sailor Infantry took off their leather boots and walked quickly towards the fortress with Liu Guoxuan.

Several Qing soldiers on the fortress were leaning on the earthen ramparts chatting, and one of them suddenly saw a large figure rushing to the edge of the fortress in the moonlight. He rubbed his eyes and patted the captive next to him, "Eh, what do you think is that?" ”

"What...... the man looked out, and immediately lost his voice, "Straight mother, enemy attack?!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a dense flash of fire under the fortress, and a buckshot hit him in the eye socket. The rest of the bullets hit the chest wall with a popping sound.

The few people who were not shot were startled, and hurriedly squatted under the battlement and slammed the warning gong.

Hearing the news, the Dagu guard hurriedly got up, climbed the barrier wearing only a small coat, and grabbed a soldier who ran by in panic, "But the Japanese invaders?" How many people came?! ”

"Hui, Hui, my lord, the person who came is extremely fierce, and it should not be a wolf. There should be more than a thousand. ”

There were only 400 soldiers in the Dagu fortress, and the officer was shocked into a cold sweat, and while sending people to the Tianjin camp for help, he shouted loudly: "Defend your position, bow and attack the enemy!" And the cannon! Shoot me! ”

With the commander's order, the captives immediately had a backbone, and the defenders quickly leaned against the battlements and fired downward, while the gunners gathered around their cannons to reload their ammunition.

After a while, there was a loud noise all over the fortress, but the Qing army did not know where the enemy was attacking from in a hurry, and just fired indiscriminately everywhere.

And the section where the Ming army was most concentrated was suppressed by the powerful firepower of the fortress, and no one dared to show their heads to fight back for half a day.

Liu Guoxuan knew that he couldn't delay it for too long, otherwise when Jianyu reacted, they would all gather on the barrier in front of him, and he would pay a great casualties.

He ordered 600 soldiers to continue to fire their guns on the fortress, and he personally led 200 men to run under the fortress, and first ordered the earth-shattering thunder to be ignited and thrown on the fortress. Suddenly there was a ghost crying wolf on the barrier, although the Qing army in this section was not killed much, but the shocking movement frightened them to flee to both sides.

Only then did Liu Guoxuan ask people to hook the battlements with flying claws, ordered to stop shooting, and took the lead in climbing up the rope.

The Jianyu guards of Dagu saw the flickering fire in the northern section, shouting to kill the heavens, but they didn't see the cannons on the fortress over there firing. He hurriedly took his guards to the north side of the cannon to check, but saw more than a dozen gunners in a daze around the cannon.

He raised his foot and kicked over a person, and said angrily: "Are you stupid?!" ”

A gunner had no choice but to put the torch next to the cannon fire door, only to see that an iron nail had been nailed there, blocking the ignition and making it impossible to ignite it.

The fortress had three cannons, each responsible for a one-mile radius. However, the enemy chose to attack directly under this blocked cannon......

A moment later, Liu Guoxuan had already led people across the battlements, and immediately lined up in a tight formation on the spot and continued to shoot around. And other Ming soldiers under the fortress also climbed up one after another. Soon, three more improved Tiger Squat Cannons were also dragged onto the fortress ramparts.

At the same time, a roaring bonfire was lit underneath the fortress. On the Shao Wu in the distance, Zheng Chenggong saw the flames rising, and immediately turned his head and said, "Order, the whole army is close to the coast!" ”