The Qing army's forts on both sides of the Xiangjiang River were actually broken by the Ming army within three days! This shocked Shi Lang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Looking at Yang Fu and Lin Xingzhu kneeling in front of him, Shi Lang jumped like thunder: "You two useless things!" Let you defend the two impregnable forts, but you can't hold them! It's useless! ”

Lin Xingzhu kowtowed and said: "Junmen, it's not that the last general is incompetent, but that the thieves' firearms are really powerful!" They have a very powerful small cannon that hits very far and accurately! Our cannons were destroyed a lot by the thieves' small cannons! Later, the thieves pushed the heavy artillery up, and we were helpless. ”

Yang Fu also kowtowed again and again: "Junmen, the last general picked up a cannonball from the thief here." ”

"Hurry up!" Shi Lang snorted coldly.

Yang Fu turned his head and asked his soldiers to hand over the shells of the three-pounder hexagonal rifled gun they had obtained.

Shi Lang took the seriously deformed cannonball, put it in his hand and looked at it for a long time: "This kind of cannonball is really strange, it is the first time Shi has seen such a cannonball." The shell is elongated, but it's strange why is there a groove in the back? What is the purpose of the thieves making cannonballs into such strange shapes? ”

Shi Lang had also seen a flowering cannonball with a wooden butt before, which looked a little longer, but the head was still round and spherical, and there was a cork butt in the back. The Qing army also copied flowering shells, but it was only a problem with the fuse, and the flowering shells were not only unreliable to use, but also very unsafe.

And this kind of long cannonball, this is the first time I have seen it, this kind of strange-looking cannonball, but it is a solid cannonball, Shi Lang can't figure out what the purpose of such a cannonball is for a while.

Yang Fu explained: "Shi Junmen, the thief's shell is very powerful, and when it is fired from three miles away, it can hit our artillery position very accurately!" It's just amazing! ”

The accuracy of the rifled gun is not comparable to the smoothbore gun at all, and the accuracy of this simple rifled gun is actually not very high, and the shells fired by the cannons of later generations have only a few meters of error after flying more than ten kilometers. And this rifled gun only hits 1.5 kilometers, with an error of between one and five meters, and in fact it is not very reliable.

In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Japanese army's 37-mm flat-firing guns had a very high accuracy, and the error was absolutely within one meter when attacking machine gun fire points two kilometers away.

However, the accuracy of Wang Xinyu's hexagonal rifled gun was very terrifying in this era, launching an attack on the Qing army battery three miles away, and destroying a Qing army artillery with an average of three shells, such a battle, the Qing army was almost unable to fight.

The most important thing for the Qiongzhou army is the strong artillery firepower, Wang Xinyu attaches much more importance to the artillery than the musket, with the strong financial resources of the Nanyang Company, there are enough copper, iron, sulfur, saltpeter and other materials, can form a powerful artillery. Most of the infantry of the Qiongzhou Army are still cold weapons, but they already have super artillery.

Just imagine, the bombardment of hundreds of cannons, no matter what kind of infantry formation, can not resist, what musketeers, sword and shield bearers and pikemen, under such fierce artillery fire, are tyrannical.

As for how to deal with the cavalry of the Qing army, the Ming army explored a method of combining various weapons such as heavy cavalry, dragoons, cavalry artillery, rocket fire vans, thunderbolt fire vans, barbed wire, muskets, and bayonets, and they could already hang and beat the cavalry of the Eight Banners.

The only way for the Qing army to deal with such powerful firearms of the Qiongzhou army is to cast a large number of artillery, use artillery to deal with the artillery of the Ming army, use artillery to bombard the fire box of the Ming army, use artillery to destroy the barbed wire of the Ming army, bombard the infantry phalanx of the Ming army, and then use the infantry to attack, and the cavalry harassment method can be dealt with.

Only the artillery side did not fall behind, and the Qing army still had the strength to fight. If even the artillery is completely suppressed, then the Qing army will no longer have the ability to fight in the field, whether it is in the south or in the northern plains, it will not be able to fight in the field.

In fact, the current firepower configuration of the Qiongzhou Army, even if it meets the British lobster soldiers a hundred years later, it is easy to destroy.

Even if the lobster soldiers are the most powerful in line to be shot, but when they encounter the opponent who has a lot of perverted artillery, plus a swarm of rocket fire vans, the lobster soldiers will suffer a big loss.

"The fort is lost, and the river is difficult to hold!" Shi Lang sighed.

Originally, Shi Lang arranged a water battle formation that used forts, pontoon bridges, underwater hidden piles, barrage cables, and fire attack ships to cooperate with each other to stop the Ming army outside the pontoon bridge and destroy it with battery fire. When he met a big ship of the Ming army, he used fire to attack the ship to deal with it. Because the Ming army was going downstream, once the channel was blocked by pontoon bridges and barrages, it would be difficult for the sailors to retreat, and they would be blocked and unable to move.

But now that the fort is lost, as long as the Ming army uses the captured artillery to bombard the river, any pontoon bridges and fire attack ships will soon be bombarded into pieces.

The Qing army lost more than half of the artillery on the battery was actually intact, the Ming army was only twelve rifled guns, the Qing army did not destroy many Qing artillery, the Qing artillery was suppressed, mainly because the casualties were too large, the Qing soldiers had lost the courage to manipulate the artillery to bombard the opponent, so it was suppressed.

Wang Xinyu stood on the newly captured fort and looked at the intact artillery discarded by the Qing army.

"Looks like the Tartar has grown! These cannons are all well forged! It's still relatively sophisticated! It's not much worse than our guns! Thank you Tartars for sending us so many cannons! Wang Xinyu laughed.

After statistics, the Ming army captured the two forts on the left and right, and captured a total of 12 24-pounder Hongyi cannons, 19 18-pounder cannons, 37 12-pounder cannons, more than 100 8-pounder cannons and more than 100 6-pounder cannons. These cannons were all cast under the supervision of Xue Fengzuo when he was on the side of the Qing army, and they were of high quality, no worse than the guns of the Ming army.

As for the destroyed artillery, it will be possible to forge new cannons after pulling them back to the furnace.

After dawn the next day, Wang Xinyu found that only empty pontoon bridges were left on the river, and the fire attack ships and small warships under Shi Langbu had already been evacuated, and there was no longer a shadow of a Qing army sailor on the river.

Li Rui scolded: "Shi Lang, this dog thief, is quite fast!" As soon as the fort was lost, he ran away! Not even the courage to fight us! ”

Liu Guoxuan sneered and said: "The fort is in our hands, and Shi Lang's dog thieves still dare to fight in the water?" We bombarded from a high position, and the pontoon bridge was destroyed by us at once. Their fire attack ships are live targets in front of the forts! ”

The Qing army ran away, and the sailors of the Ming army drove up and began to dismantle the pontoon bridge.

The Ming army auxiliaries and officers and soldiers of the naval division boarded the pontoon bridge and untied the ropes. In fact, the pontoon bridge was made of rafts, and after untying the ropes, the soldiers rowed the rafts to the shore. In less than half an hour, the first pontoon bridge was dismantled. After that, the second pontoon bridge and the third pontoon bridge were all dismantled.

Between the pontoon bridge and the pontoon bridge, Shi Lang also arranged a lot of underwater piles, but now it seems that Shi Lang spent so much effort to arrange the underwater piles are useless, and the small boats of the Ming army entered the waters and blasted them with mines to destroy the underwater piles.

"Boom" The water column on the river continued to rise, and the Qing army spent a lot of effort to lay the underwater hidden pile, which was blown up by the Ming army with a mine.

The Ming Army's naval division continued to advance downstream, passing along the way, first using small boats to explore the way, and found that there were underwater hidden piles, and then blasted them with mines; In the case of artificial reefs, those that can be destroyed will be destroyed, and those that cannot be destroyed will be set up on them.

Dongting Lake in Yuezhou, on the surface of the lake, a large number of large and small boats are densely packed on the shore, and the number is not less than six or seven hundred. In the camp of the Qing Army's naval division, a big banner with the word "Shi" written on it waved in the wind, and hunting sounded.

A fleet of ships flying the flag of Prince An sailed from the lake to the north and arrived at the shore of Yuezhou Lake.

"The slave knocks on the prince!" Shi Lang led his generals and personal soldiers to meet him and saluted on one knee.

Yue Le made a gesture to get up: "Get up!" ”

The group walked towards the Yueyang Tower by the lake.

Yueyang Tower, which was destroyed in the third year of Shunzhi, was rebuilt in the seventh year of Shunzhi; In the eighth year of Shunzhi, it caught fire and was burned down, and it was rebuilt three years ago.

Walking into the Yueyang Tower, Yue Le climbed to the third floor, looked at the smoky Dongting Lake, and sighed: "Eight hundred miles of Dongting, vast and ethereal, with distant mountains, swallowing the Yangtze River, vast soup soup, endless!" It's spectacular! ”

As he spoke, Yue Le turned his head to Shi Lang: "Shi Junmen, the fertile land on the shore of Dongting Lake is the granary of the world, if Dongting Lake is lost, Yuezhou will not be able to protect it!" If the thieves occupy Dongting Lake, the pseudo-Ming sailor can enter the Yangtze River and reach Wuchang! I don't know if Shi Junmen can stop the thief sailor in Dongting Lake? ”

Shi Lang arched his hand and said: "Back to the prince, the slave will definitely fight to the death!" If the thieves want to occupy Dongting Lake, unless I, Shi Lang, die on the battlefield! Otherwise, the thief will not want to go over! ”

"This king doesn't want to hear these useless words! I heard that the thieves have sharp firearms and strong ships and guns, but this king wants to hear what countermeasures Shi Junmen has? Yue Le asked.

Shi Lang pointed to the misty Dongting Lake and replied: "Lord Wang, although the minions are not effective in fighting and can't stop the thieves in the Xiangjiang River, but that is the thief Lu Shi is really powerful!" The batteries on both sides of our army were breached, and the Xiangjiang defense line was lost. But if the thief enters Dongting Lake, the minions will have a way to deal with it! Dongting Lake is wide, and although our ships are small, they come and go freely. This battle on the lake is almost the same as the battle at sea, and our army can break the enemy with a fire attack ship formation! ”

"How can I break the enemy in formation?" Yue Le asked.

Shi Lang replied: "Back then, the old lord Zheng Junmen (Zheng Zhilong) broke the red-haired ghost fleet in Luowan, that is, he used a diamond-shaped formation to meet the enemy, with the small boat outside, the fire attack ship followed the small boat, and the big ship in the middle. Now the thief sailor is not as good as the red-haired ghost fleet, as long as the formation is used properly, it will definitely be able to break the enemy! ”

Yue Le nodded and said, "Zheng Zhilong's water battle formation, only the pseudo-Yanping King Zheng Sen and Shi Junmen can get the true inheritance!" The current pseudo-Yanping King Zheng Cong is just a puppet, and Wang Yu only knows how to win by chance, and he doesn't know how to win by chance! With Shi Junmen here, this battle will be won! ”

Shi Lang said: "The slave doesn't dare to guarantee victory, but the slave will do his best!" (To be continued.) )