"Hurry, Dutama hurry up!"

Shanlu, the chief soldier of Tianjin Town, almost roared behind him with a hint of crying.

The more than 3,000 cavalry behind him each urged their horses to gallop along the official road near the river, and at the end of the horizon in front of them, a faintly visible earthy yellow, black smoke swirled, which was particularly eye-catching on the background of the azure sky, and there was a faint fire shining in the black smoke from time to time, and a loud sound like muffled thunder continued to come from afar.

That's Dagukou.

The bandits were killed at the mouth of Dagu.

Mr. Shan's soldiers learned the bad news on the belly of a certain brand in Yihong Courtyard.

Pity him for being stupid at the time.

This is completely confusing, in other words, at this time, even Daoguang has just known about the northern attack of the bandits, and of course it is impossible for a general soldier like him to know.

This sudden bad news made him dazed, but fortunately, he was still a general, and after he woke up, he didn't care about being seen, and rushed out of Yihong Courtyard and rode back to the General Military Mansion, and it happened that Tianjin Bingbeidao, who also got the news, also arrived, and the latter was also woken up from a pin's belly. While cursing the bandits who had been killed that day, the two of them mobilized all the soldiers they could collect in Tianjin City at the same time, and then rode the horses that were also requisitioned from those Changlu salt merchants, and even added some salt from the Changlu Salt Envoy to urgently reinforce Dagukou. At the same time, Shanlu ordered all the garrisons in Tianjin Town to reinforce Dagukou as quickly as possible, saying that it was indeed rare for him to be able to do so much in less than half a day, mainly because this matter was too big, and the Changlu salt merchants fully cooperated, and the latter was actually more anxious than them.

However......

"Buddha bless, you must hold on!"

The good general soldier ran wildly in search of spiritual comfort.

Of course, he knew about the situation in Dagukou.

It took three years to upgrade from the Dagu battalion to the Dagu Association, and the five battalions under the deputy general of the Dagu Association had a total of five main batteries with the old and new, two in the north and three in the south, and more than a dozen small ones, mainly to provide protection for the main batteries, which were actually rammed earth forts. There are less than 100 cannons of all kinds in the entire battery group, and there are only more than 30 huge cannons of more than 5,000 catties specially used for coastal defense, and the total number of defenders is only more than 2,000 people, and this is still the number of people on the establishment, in fact, because of the empty salary, the ghost knows how many people there are, even if he is the chief soldier of Tianjin Town, this empty salary has his share, but he only accepts the share handed over by the people below on weekdays, how can he have the leisure to ask about the details!

Even with his consciousness, he knew that more than a thousand people were very nervous to stay there.

Suddenly, there was a scream all around him.

He hurriedly raised his head and looked ahead, and on the blue sky, a series of meteors fell rapidly with the long tails of the fireworks, and disappeared on the horizon in an instant, and then a black mushroom slowly grew on the horizon.

His heart suddenly tightened.

Countless terrifying legends flooded into his brain at once.

"It's the demon, the demon is coming!"

He subconsciously screamed.

"Lord Zhentai, I am waiting for thousands of iron horses, why are you afraid of that demon, even if there is a demon, I ask the second master of Guan to behead him as a saint!"

Beside him, a person who was said to have superpowers as a gift from a Changlu salt merchant, waved the exaggerated Daguan knife in his hand, and proudly boasted in the cheers of a large number of admirers behind him. Looking at his confident expression, even the Qing soldiers who were running out of breath behind couldn't help but feel a sudden uplift, and then they all raised their weapons one by one, shouting that they would fight the demons for our Daqing.

"Okay, they're all good slaves, it's time for us to seal our wives and sons!"

General Shan roared with emotion.

Then he whipped the war horse under his crotch, and the war horse immediately stood up with a neigh, and the good general soldier who was caught off guard fell off the horse with a scream, and fell directly to the sky, and the pro-soldiers on both sides hurriedly dismounted, and when they hurriedly helped the good general soldier to get back on the horse, a warship suddenly appeared in their field of vision.

The sails of this warship fell, but it was still in the Haihe River upstream, a yellow chimney in the middle of the black and yellow hull, constantly spewing out billowing smoke, even if it was against the current, the speed was still amazingly fast, in the stunned gaze of the general soldiers and the Qing cavalry, the distance was quickly narrowed, and behind this ship, the same warships appeared one after another, breaking the waves on the hundreds of zhang wide Haihe River......

Dagu Fort is finished!

A terrible thought immediately crossed the mind of the good soldier.

This fortress, which can be called the gateway to coastal defense, didn't last a day?

Although I knew that there were definitely no two thousand defenders there, there should be about one thousand fifteen hundred, hundreds of cannons, five large batteries, and they were actually breached like this?

He stared blankly at the ships that were getting closer and closer, and they appeared one after another as if they were endless, and the red flags fluttering on them, and the soldiers in red clothes on the deck, were faintly visible, like a strange dragon winding across the Haihe River. And the Qing soldiers beside him were also watching these approaching warships with curiosity, and none of them were afraid to flee, but they all gathered to talk about these strange enemies. They were not worried about being attacked, there were no gun doors to be seen next to these ships, but there were some small houses on the deck, and more importantly, they were a hundred zhang away from the Haihe River, and if you count the middle of the river, it would be more than a hundred zhang......

Well, in fact, these northern soldiers have never faced a battleship at all.

They grew up by the canal.

Obviously, their understanding of the warships was still on those sentry boats and heavy guns, completely unaware that the dozens of Ming frigates and transport ships that were approaching in front of them had been aimed at them.

"Why don't they run?"

On the Ming frigate Haining, the captain Wu Lan also looked at the Qing army curiously and said.

The process of the Northern Expeditionary Fleet breaking through the Dagu Pass is the same as playing, in fact, it was originally ready for a big war, after all, this is the Emperor's personal expedition, all the departments are eager to perform, according to the previous experience of the British, even the two battalions of the Marine Corps, respectively, landed on the flanks of the two battery groups in the north and south, with twenty pounds of mortar guns ready to attack from the land, only to find out after the battle started, this fortress with the same name as the Humen Fort, not to mention the Humen comparison with Guan Tianpei, is the combat effectiveness of the Jiangyin Qing Army, and it can only be what they look up to.

Batteries are quite a few.

There are also no less cannons.

But that soldier is a piece of.

The north bank battery collapsed immediately after not holding up the hits of the two shells under the wild bombardment of ten six-inch giant cannons, and the south bank battery supported two rounds of artillery bombardment, but the god emperor also collapsed immediately after summoning ten meteors.

This most critical battle ended almost as soon as it began.

Those collapsed Qing troops were being beaten by the two battalions of marines who landed at this time!

And there are only seven or eight hundred people in total, which is still the sum of the north and the south, because the battle is short, even if there are casualties, it will definitely not exceed one-third, so that the defenders of this fortress, which can be called the gate of the Qing Dynasty, are actually in their early thousands. This number makes the Ming army stupid, so you can get a few thousand people, and you are worthy of half of the capital ships of the Ming Navy to participate in the war, the captains of four battleships and four battle cruisers, all the generals of the Marine Corps, make a careful plan for a day of planning on the sand table, and then in the end it is actually a battalion of defenders, which is a shame to say!

Of course, they don't know that the establishment here is indeed two thousand.

It's just that there are still 800 accounts, only when the drill and the above review, they hired people from nearby fishing villages to make cameos, this time they came a little suddenly, those Qing army officers didn't have time to find extras, this is mainly responsible for them, in fact, this is nothing, not to mention the green battalion, even the Eight Banners are also like this, and the infantry battalion of the Admiral of Jiumen in Beijing eats half of the empty salary! Otherwise, how can the generals get rich, they are not those civil officials, and the way to make money is limited, Dagukou is good, after all, there is smuggling here to make extra money, and some places in the interior that basically have no other income, the most exaggerated are to draw a few soldiers on the collapsed barracks, which is also considered a establishment, and the deputy general of the Dagu Association only eats less than half of the empty salary, which is really very conscientious.

Otherwise, what will he serve......

Serving the admiral, the governor, the governor, a bunch of uncles in the military department, and even the good general soldiers.

Poor General Soldier didn't know that the money he received every month from the deputy general of the Dagu Association bought a coffin for himself.

"Fire!"

Wu Lan, who had already reached their four hundred meters away, said casually.

On this frigate, two four-inch main guns pointing to the port side, four three-inch secondary guns on the port side, a total of six cannons suddenly erupted flames, this scene continued from front to back, and all the Ming artillery guns that entered the firing range on the entire Haihe River roared at the fastest speed.

Almost in the blink of an eye, a four-inch shell hit the middle of the Qing army, the fire of the explosion of the flowering shell shone brightly, in the Qing army that was blown up, the deadly shrapnel scattered and splashed, the next moment the Qing army exploded the nest, countless chaotic screams sounded, in this scream, the shells kept exploding, the unlucky Qing soldiers in the blood and flesh splashed like crazy crowded trampling and fled, the superpowered person with the Daguan knife was instantly squeezed off the horse, and then countless big feet stepped on the body, and then accompanied by the fall of a three-inch cannonball, Together with the Qing soldiers above his head, he was blown up and splattered with flesh and blood.

The three thousand Qing army collapsed in an instant.

Sitting upright on his horse, he watched this scene with a sad and angry face, looking at the flames that were constantly spewing on the other side.

"Taizu Taizong ......"

His voice stopped abruptly.

A four-inch cannonball blasted through the blood mist that had turned into his body and exploded among the soldiers behind him.

Three hours later, the Ming army occupied the city of military grain.

In the early morning of the next day, with the same rising sun as yesterday, the Ming army approached Tianjin.