Chapter 564: Yashan

Cliff Mountain.

"Heaven and earth have righteousness, and miscellaneous are endowed with popularity. The lower part is the river mountain, and the upper part is the sun and stars......"

Yang Feng stood on the bow of the Weiyuan, chanting a righteous song, looking at the blue waves of Yinzhou Lake and the green mountains on both sides of the river in the distance, imagining how those lonely ministers of the Great Song Dynasty who he was once familiar with fought unyieldingly for the dignity of the Han people here until they died generously.

In fact, these people are not very important under him, Wen Tianxiang is a literati, and even belongs to the group that is dissatisfied with him, although he has never really resisted him, but after all, he is not a person all the way, and he has been unwilling under the suppression of Jia Yidao, until Li Tingzhi came to power, he was promoted, but the highest is only to be the Fujian Road Xuanfu envoy. Lu Xiufu is Li Tingzhi's staff, but he has been a scholar in Li Tingzhi's cabinet, Zhang Shijie is indeed Yang Feng's cronies group, but because he was made by Yang Feng to be a Zhinan Nanning army, he has been in Guangxi since then, that is, when the Song army forced Annan to surrender, he led the army to fight, but Annan surrendered soon and he didn't fight much, the highest is just that Annan commanded the Song army, which can be called armed to the teeth, and he had nothing to suppress the resistance of the Annan people.

Under him, these were the most ordinary officials and generals, and there were not many bright spots, and if he didn't know the history, he wouldn't have paid attention to these names at all.

However, these people wrote the most tragic page in the history of China.

"The time is poor, and the country is difficult to show loyalty!"

The former Great Song National Master sighed.

"God Emperor, Tartar Sailor!"

Zeng Tao behind him said.

"Let Dingyuan and Zhenyuan go and destroy them!"

Yang Feng didn't even look at it, so he waved his hand very casually and said.

Cliff entrance.

Guan Tianpei, the admiral of the Guangdong Navy Division, stood on the deck of the warship like Yang Feng, looking at the front with expressionless faces, on the waterway of Yinzhou Lake, two gray giant warships were spewing billowing black smoke, cleaving the waves like two evil dragons, and a red flag hunting on the mast in the middle. Behind these two battleships were hundreds of large and small sailing ships, not only Chinese-style hard sailing ships, but even many Western-style soft sailing ships, these sailing ships also flying red flags were quietly moored, forming a huge arrow stretching on the sea, and the arrow was in front of an equally gray giant ship, facing the Yashan Fort, the core of the Yamen defense.

"Prepare for battle!"

He said with a deep breath.

"The army, the military gate, the thief ship is as majestic as a mountain, and the mark is all small boats, and it is difficult to match it, and the cliff gate is as solid as a rock, and the thieves can't attack it for a long time, and they will naturally retreat without water and food.

An officer beside him said cautiously.

Then a large group of officers nodded their heads repeatedly.

Although the vast majority of these guys are corpses vegetarian meals, but as officers of the Sailor Division, they all understand the simple truth of whose ship is bigger and who is stronger, these two battleships are even much larger than the most Atlantic battleship they have ever seen, and they go to deliver food completely on these warships, even if the group fight can be won, but the large and small warships behind the people are not lively.

It's a dangerous job, and if you don't get it right, you're going to have to feed the fish.

They are very sober on this issue.

"Fool, no matter how big the thief ship is, how can there be no reason for the sailor warship to be invincible, the thief is rampant and sends the cliff gate to death, there is a fort in front and a sailor behind it, trapped in the waterway of Yinzhou Lake can not advance or retreat, give up the place to catch turtles in this urn and wait for it to retreat, can the sailor warship on the vast sea still catch them?"

Guan Tianpei scolded angrily.

The officers hurriedly shut up.

At this moment, the flames of the two enemy ships less than two miles away suddenly shone brightly, and then the smoke rose like clouds.

"These stupid thieves!"

The officer said with a bright smile just now.

The other officers laughed as well, and it was clear that it was ridiculous to fire at such a distance.

However, in the midst of their laughter, a piercing whistling suddenly swept by.

They subconsciously turned their heads, and saw debris flying on a small warship more than a dozen feet away, and the bow of the ship, which was depicted in the shape of a shark, instantly added a huge hole, like an open mouth, showing a strange smile towards them.

Their smiles froze.

At the same time the sailors of the small warship screamed and jumped into the sea, and then it began to sink, and it sank so fast that it was evident that even the bottom of the ship had been leaked, and almost in the blink of an eye only the mast was exposed, and one of the sailors who had escaped was still clinging to the mast and shouting at them, and the faces of the officers turned white. And at this moment, two battleships in the distance crossed the hull of the ship a mile away, revealing a row of black holes on the side of the gun door, and then the fire continued to shine in the gun door, and the piercing whistling sound cut through the air intensively, and the terrifying cannonballs kept hitting one after another naval division battleships, and almost every hit shell would sink a naval division battleship, and after such a round of salvo, the four battleships followed in the footsteps of that one.

The officers looked at each other with a shudder.

Suddenly, almost all of the sailors' warships began to turn around at maximum speed.

"Stop, stop, kill those who escape!"

Guan Tianpei pulled out his saber, pounced on the starboard side to look at the nearest warship, and roared at the ship.

But at the same time, he suddenly found that his vision was changing, he looked down at the sea in amazement, only to find that the warship under his feet was also turning around, he turned around and raised his knife angrily, and before he could speak, he was hugged by two cronies at the same time.

"Military gate, the thief ship is strong and sharp, it can be broken overnight, so let's wait until it is tired and then destroy it!"

Then all the officers knelt down at the same time and said.

"Wait, wait, retreat!"

Guan Tianpei looked at these cronies helplessly, and then looked at the subordinates behind who had all begun to flee, the hand holding the knife hung down weakly, and then said infinitely sad in the whistling of the cannonball piercing the air.

"This, this, this is gone?"

On the Dingyuan battleship opposite them, the captain of the Dingyuan battleship of the Ming Navy, Yang Yandi VI Sun Yang Zhao, who withdrew to Saigon with Chen Shangchuan, looked at this scene blankly, obviously this is a bit too exaggerated, although he is indeed strong and artillery, but after all, the Qing army has hundreds of warships, even if most of them are small boats, desperately stepping forward will cause him a great threat, after all, the latter also has a lot of cannons, and the environment here is not suitable for him, in this narrow waterway, The maneuverability of the steam battleship was greatly limited, and he was ready for a bloody battle.

But the Qing army actually ran away"

Hundreds of warships were beaten and fled by a total of two salves from his two warships, which, this ......

What an army is this! Finding any group of pirates is better than this waste.

"Captain, what should I do?"

The first mate beside him also asked with a confused expression.

"What to do? The God Emperor said, let us destroy them, then we must destroy them, pursue them with full horsepower, and be sure to destroy the enemy army! ”

Yang Zhao said without hesitation.

At the same time, the Zhenyuan also raised a flag to inquire, and after receiving the order to pursue, the two battleships turned at the same time and began to accelerate, like two crocodiles rushing towards the ducks, and the latter was also like a frightened duck, chaotically fleeing towards the nearby complex shoals, trying to take advantage of the shallow draft to lure the two giant ships into the shallow shoals and run aground......

Of course, this is what Guan Tianpei said in the recital to Daoguang later, in fact, they were driven ducks.

And if you really want to say that you are familiar with this sea area, Yang Feng's subordinates are no worse than the Qing army, after all, most of them are merchant sailors and even pirates who rely on this route to eat, such as Yang Zhao's family, there are merchant ships that run to Guangzhou all year round.

"What a bunch of rubbish!"

Yang Feng looked at the Guangdong Navy Division of the Qing Dynasty with disdain, and then turned his gaze to the Yashan Fort in front, this not too big fort and the small city behind it, just stuck in the throat of the Yamen Waterway, all made of stones, two layers up and down, but the inner side is open, the position of the upper soldiers is to carry the stone slabs on the partitions below, these partitions separate more than 20 gun emplacements, under the protection of the thick stone wall and the top stone slabs, stretch out the cannon port to block the entire channel, and beyond this fort dozens of miles away is Xinhui County, At this time, a large number of soldiers could be seen running on the city wall, and it was clear that they were ready for battle.

"Let's get started!"

He said with a wave of his hand forward.

With Zeng Tao's shout behind him, the cannon under his feet suddenly roared.

Yashan Fort.

"Calm, the thieves came across the sea, the momentum cannot last long, the cliff mountain is indestructible, it is the place where we kill the enemy to repay the emperor's grace, and the wife and shadow are today!"

Liu Dazhong, deputy general of the Xiangshan Association, roared.

The famous fort at his feet wasn't really too important.

The core of Guangzhou's defense is the mouth of the Pearl River, and there is an association in Xiangshan and Dapeng, plus the commander of the commander of Humen, which just forms a triangular defense system, and the top of the cliff mountain is mostly the back of the Xiangshan Association, but the real attack on Xiangshan will not be from here, and it is simpler to take the Xijiang waterway, so there were only a small number of garrisons here before. After Deng Tingzhen, the governor of Liangguang, got the British through Wu Bingjian's informant, because he didn't believe it or was too unbelievable, he didn't really take it too seriously, saying that the Qing officials were like this, and they couldn't expect them to be very efficient, until the report of the Yazhou Association arrived, they didn't understand that the disaster was coming, but unfortunately at this time Yang Feng's fleet also arrived, and the latter was downwind and rode the warm current of the South China Sea, which was not much slower than the horses at the post station.

At this time, Deng Tingzhen didn't have time to mobilize troops from all over the world, not to mention that he didn't know that Yang Feng was attacking Xinhui and going straight to Humen to knock on Guangzhou.

Fortunately, Liu Dazhong is smarter than him.

This deputy general of the Xiangshan Association, who was originally killed in the anti-British war in history, immediately understood that this group of pirates was from Benxinhui after knowing through those fishermen that Yang Feng turned to Huangmaohai, and he led reinforcements to reinforcements without ignoring the order of his superior Deng Tingzhen. Yang Feng's fleet went against the current and he was faster from the Xijiang River, and finally entered the Yashan Fort two hours first, just as Guan Tianpei, who originally led the sailors to the sea to meet the battle, also followed Yang Feng's fleet to the north after knowing the news, and finally blocked these pirates at Yamen, if under normal circumstances, they would go down in history, because they happened to force Yang Feng into a desperate situation, however......

Spider webs can't hold golden eagles.

In the roar of Liu Dazhong, on the gun emplacement under his feet, those Qing soldiers looked at the Weiyuan on the sea with trepidation, and the one-meter-thick stone wall gave them a firm ......

It's not a firm conviction either.

After all, at this time, the Qing soldiers were already rotten.

Under their frightened gaze, the fire of the first salvo shone on the Weiyuan, which was single-handedly killed, accompanied by the sound of cannonballs breaking through the air, and two cannonballs hit the stone wall, and the Qing soldiers immediately screamed in horror, but found that they were unscathed, so the cheers immediately rang out.

"Prepare to fight back, the thieves' artillery can't hit our battery!"

Liu Dazhong roared excitedly.

At this moment, two points of fire shone on the Weiyuan, and before he could hear the whistling of the cannonballs, the stone wall under his feet trembled violently, and at the same time, countless pieces of rubble were sandwiched between the dust and the flesh and blood of the soldiers on the gun emplacement, spraying backwards from under his feet like the flames of the muzzle.

Liu Dazhong, who was standing on the second-floor stone slab, looked at the scene under his feet stupidly, and the officers and soldiers on the other gun emplacements rushed out one after another, looking at the destroyed gun emplacement with the same dumbfounded, the radial squirting of rubble and the bloody corpses between the rubble, made the hearts of all the soldiers jump suddenly, and then looked at the huge gap in the one-meter-thick stone wall, and I don't know who suddenly screamed, and then like a flood that opened the floodgate, all the soldiers and officers on the gun emplacements fled like crazy.

"Come back, you cowards, the emperor is watching us, and the ancestors are watching us!"

Liu Dazhong roared indignantly.

At the same time a second round of shells whistled in, and then a blaze exploded over the small fortress, and the fragments swept through the fleeing soldiers below like a raging storm, a twenty-four pound grenade with a timed fuse of the charge plate, and a forty-two pound solid bullet piercing the wall of the fort. The Yashan Fort is indeed strong, but it is not strong enough to resist the supersonic impact of the twenty-kilogram large iron cone, if this kind of single-story stone wall fortress works, the Europeans do not need to build fortresses all over the world, even if the fortress has to rely on the outside layer of soil when facing forty-two-pound shells, not to mention the stone wall that does not even have a soil layer buffer.

Just after the explosion of the grenade, two 42-pound solid bullets roared, one hit the upper parapet wall, and this thinner stone wall was immediately pierced, and the huge cannonball even continued to move forward in the flying of rubble, knocking out a piece of flesh and blood in the fleeing Qing army.

Then the Qing army completely collapsed.

Liu Dazhong carried a knife, looked at the fleeing subordinates with grief and indignation, and then looked at the battleship in the distance in the smoke, and couldn't help but sigh.

"Bring pen and paper!"

He gritted his teeth and said to the soldiers next to him.

"My lord, what more pen and paper do you need at this time, let's go!"

The soldier said.

"Bastard, I eat the king's lu, when I am loyal to the king, when the saint summoned me to encourage me with loyalty, how can I live up to the emperor's grace, bring a pen!"

Vice General Liu said righteously.

(Father was hospitalized with a herniated disc in his lumbar disc, one chapter a day, and two chapters of recovery are uncertain, at least one week later)