Chapter 578: Ge Yunfei's counterattack
Next stop.
The next stop is Dinghai.
"Isn't the Guangdong front a great victory? How did the bandits get here? ”
Ge Yunfei, the chief soldier of Dinghai, roared like crazy.
At his feet was the Shenjiamen Fort, and on the channel of the Shenjiamen in front of him, the three ships of Dingzhenwei lined up and slowly sailed slowly, six large chimneys continued to gush out billowing smoke as if driving a demon wind, all the gun doors on the side were opened, and the muzzles of the black holes stretched out, and even through the clairvoyant mirror, you could see Yang ...... standing in a golden armor and a red cloak on the deck of the Weiyuan in the front
Yang Demon Man.
"It seems that the great victory is fake!"
Luo Jiangong, a guerrilla beside him, sighed.
"Report, Lord Zhentai, I wish the military an order, this month, the bandits will fall into Fuzhou, and the coastal towns will be strictly vigilant to prevent them from disturbing!"
An officer behind him saluted.
Ge Yunfei took the official document in his hand, looked at it expressionlessly, and then raised his head to look at the three battleships that were spewing flames on the sea, and he couldn't help but sigh in the sharp whistling sound of the cannonballs cutting through the air.
"Traitors have misled the country!"
In his sigh, the first cannonball exploded less than ten meters above the Shenjiamen Fort, and the bright fireworks of the copycat version of the thermite bomb made all the Qing soldiers open their mouths wide, and then the sparks poured down like a torrential rain with shell fragments, and on a gun emplacement under the fireworks, more than a dozen Qing soldiers were immediately enveloped by this rain of fire. At the same time as they screamed and scattered, a powder keg burst out of flames, Ge Yunfei almost instinctively threw himself to the ground, and at the same time as he fell, there was a loud sound of the sky cracking behind him, in the impact of the air wave, the officer who reported the news next to him immediately flew out upside down, and then a crashing cannon fell from the sky and hit this unlucky thing, like a smashed watermelon, flesh and blood splashed in the spreading smoke.
Ge Yunfei's world was silent.
I don't know how long it took for him to wake up from the shock of the explosion, and then shook his head vigorously and got up with some difficulty.
"Retreat, retreat to Dinghai!"
Seeing the mess in front of him, he shouted without hesitation.
"It's pretty crisp."
On the deck of the Weiyuan, Zeng Tao looked at the Qing army fleeing in a hurry and smiled.
"Who is this Dinghai Guardian?"
Yang Feng asked.
"Back to Your Majesty, Ge Yunfei, the chief soldier of Dinghai Town."
Zeng Tao hurriedly replied.
"He? He shouldn't be the one to run away, go ahead and prepare to fight him in Dinghai! ”
Yang Feng said indifferently.
Indeed, Ge Yunfei did not run away, it was meaningless for him to guard Shenjiamen, there were only eight gun positions on this fort, and it was impossible to bombard with dozens of cannons on the three battleships of the Ming army, and the result of guarding Shenjiamen could only be real death, but Dinghai was different, Qingleitou, Wukui Mountain, Dongyue Mountain, Xiaofengling forts and Dinghai City were added to form a complete defense system, relying on each other to support each other, much stronger than the lonely Shenjiamen Fort.
Soon Yang Feng's fleet would have to face this fortress-level defense system.
"Your Majesty, have you moved?"
Zeng Tao said cautiously.
As he spoke, a cannonball was hitting the deck, although it was already the limit of the range, this cannonball had no power, but dozens of pounds of heavy iron balls falling from the sky still hit the deck with broken wood and splashed, and an unlucky soldier was immediately hit by the broken wood on the shoulder and bled out.
"No, you don't!"
Yang Feng waved to him as he spoke.
The soldier hurriedly walked over and bowed his head to salute, Yang Feng reached out and pulled out the broken wood, and then pressed his hand on his bleeding wound, and in a blink of an eye, the wound disappeared completely, and then Yang Feng raised his hand, and the blood on his hand turned into a cloud of mist and disappeared.
"Go ahead!"
He said with a wave of his hand.
At this moment, the sea breeze blew his cloak, and the sun shone on his golden armor, and the whole person seemed to be in a layer of golden light.
The soldier excitedly lay on the deck, kowtowed, and then got up and returned to his post.
Zeng Tao also immediately retreated.
On both sides of the seven-and-a-half-pound rifled guns on the deck, the soldiers who operated the cannons to fire constantly were extremely calm in the whistling of the cannonballs, and under the light of this divine light, they kept completing the mechanical program and firing the cannonballs at the Qingleitou Fort in the distance. Because of the problem of channel constraints and firing boundaries, coupled with the attack of the Wukuishan Fort on the other side, the three ships of Dingzhenwei had to bombard the Qing army within the range of the Qingleitou Battery, so that it was inevitable to be hit by shells, of course, it was useless for the Qing army's shells to hit these battleships, because it was impossible for the shells with the range limit to penetrate the thick teak, and at most it would cause sporadic losses to the soldiers on the deck.
Unless they can hit a cannon like the sky.
But it is obvious that this is unlikely, and it is said that those Qing troops can still insist on firing at the Ming army in the explosion of the copycat version of the thermite bomb, and it is already Ge Yunfei who has managed the army well.
In fact, the resistance of the Qing army was still futile.
This artillery battle only lasted less than ten minutes, accompanied by a series of spectacular mushroom clouds of powder keg explosions on the Qingleitou Fort, the gate of Dinghai was officially opened, but the Ming army then needed to face the three forts including Wukui Mountain, Dongyue Mountain and Nandaotou, especially the Guanshan Fort on Dongyue Mountain, the symbol of Dinghai, which is the main fort of Dinghai, and behind it is Dinghai City. And at this moment, Ge Yunfei looked at the raging fire on the Qingleitou Fort with a face full of perseverance, as well as the cannon on the Wukuishan Fort that suddenly stopped firing, and then kept urging his subordinate soldiers to open fire, although the vast majority of the shells they fired could not reach the Ming warships at all, they still had to persist in fighting, because the Ming army's shells were constantly exploding above and around them.
"Fire, behind us is Dinghai!"
Ge Yunfei brandished his waist knife and roared.
In the sound of explosions and the rain of fire, those Qing soldiers were busy in confusion, and some people kept screaming and falling, but in the end they still did not flee.
That's respectable.
After all, this is the first time that the Qing army has resisted so stubbornly, but it is only the Guanshan Fort, because the Wukuishan Fort on the other side has actually stopped shooting, and those Qing troops are chaotically boarding the boat and fleeing to the small island next to it, in order to show that they dare not fight with the Ming army, as for the other batteries, there is also little artillery, it is obvious that the vast majority of soldiers have also fled, only a few are still resisting, and only the Guanshan Fort where Ge Yunfei is really still fighting, he led his own soldiers to act as a supervising team, Hold back soldiers who try to escape, and use his usual power to urge them to fight.
This is also the hope of all the gentry in Dinghai City, and at the same time as the Guanshan Fort and the Ming army were engaged in a fierce battle, the gentry led by the county commander also ran with domestic slaves and servants regardless of the danger.
In short, they are all in unison.
Unlike other places, the mood of the people in Dinghai City is stable, obviously......
"Apparently the fruit is not ripe yet!"
On the deck of the Weiyuan, Yang Feng, who was standing with his hands in his hands, looked at the Guanshan Fort that was desperately resisting and said.
A distance of three thousand miles.
Obviously, this is beyond his sphere of influence, which is not surprising, even a hundred years later, with relatively developed means of information dissemination such as newspapers and even radio stations, it is difficult for those base areas to let them know about their changes in a year, not to mention this era, even the official speed of information transmission may not be able to do it, and those gentry who have the right to speak will definitely block or even discredit his policies, so it is not surprising that the people of Dinghai are numb to his arrival.
He still needs time.
As he spoke, the right hand behind his back suddenly rose upward, and a cannonball hit the alloy steel shield on his arm, with a metal impact, the big iron ball that had been exhausted directly bounced off and fell to the sea, and then he turned straight to Zeng Tao in the command tower and said: "Retreat, leave Dinghai and go to the next station." ”
"Well, Your Majesty, it'll be about half an hour in another hour."
Zeng Tao hurriedly came out and said.
"Forget it, we didn't come to land in the first place, so let's just fulfill this Ge Yunfei!"
Yang Feng said.
He hadn't come to land.
He didn't even bring the army, only one hundred and fifty marines on three battleships, if the people of Dinghai raised troops to greet him, of course he wouldn't mind lighting another fire in eastern Zhejiang, but now that this situation has not occurred, then he will not have so much time to land and seize Dinghai and then engage in propaganda.
It will take at least a few months to build a base from scratch.
He didn't have that much time.
Zeng Tao looked at the Guanshan Fort, which was already in disarray, with regret, and then issued an order to retreat to the two ships behind, and the three battleships did not turn, but went directly forward, sailing past Wukui Mountain under the incredulous gaze of Ge Yunfei and the defenders on the Guanshan Fort, and then quickly left Dinghai and sailed towards Zhenhai with their cheers.
However, Yang Feng did not attack Zhenhai.
He only sank four Qing warships at the mouth of the Yongjiang River, and then continued along the coast to the north in a crowd of chickens and dogs jumping on the Ningbo gentry, and just when the news of the victory in Dinghai was sent to Beijing, he once again destroyed the Tianfei Palace fort in Zhapu, and turned to Haiyan to sink more than a dozen Qing warships under the countless frightened eyes on the shore. His trip caused a lot of noise in eastern Zhejiang, and even the Eight Banners of the Hangzhou garrison, which was originally going to go south for reinforcements, hurried back to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy in Fuzhou, and the gentry in eastern Zhejiang were desperate to pool money to repair forts, cast cannons, form regiments, and train coastal defense, so that the forts on both sides of Hangzhou Bay were densely packed with pillboxes, although these batteries did not play a role in resisting Yang Feng, but they created countless obstacles for the British army.
Of course, that's for later.
Just when Daoguang in Beijing was furious by the news that the bandits had captured Fuzhou, and ordered Yishan to be angrily reprimanded, forcing him to immediately launch a full-front attack on Guangzhou, otherwise he would be sent to the prison to be with Qishan, and in the cursing of Jiangsu officials and gentry, Yang Feng's fleet traveled all the way to Chongming, and then turned into the mouth of the Yangtze River and began to disturb the two rivers.
And his goal is to ......
Jiangyin.