The forts on the Tiger Tail and the Golden Mountain are garrisoned, but they are not Qing soldiers, but the people of the Eight Banners Han Army, because the "skilled archers and horses" of the Eight Banners disdain and will not operate the artillery, and the Huang Taiji, who is known for his eloquence, does not pay much attention to coastal defense, and the defenders of the forts in the two places are few, which is better than nothing, and even in Fort Arthur, there are only 600 armor soldiers stationed. When Huang Taiji took Lushun, he didn't think about managing it well, but more just to pull out the nail behind his back, so as not to suffer the enemy on his back when he went south.

In fact, not only Lushun, from Fuzhou, Gaizhou to Jinzhou, the entire southern Liaoning was not valued by Huang Taiji, the Han people were almost killed, and the rest were moved to Liaodong, sparsely populated, and the fields were uncultivated. In the original history, it was not until the Qing army entered the customs that it slowly operated southern Liaoning during the Kangxi period, and the people began to prosper.

The defenders on the Golden Mountain Fort were basking in the sun boringly, and the early spring sun was warm and drowsy. When the Qiong naval fleet arrived at the Port of Arthur, no one immediately discovered and warned them, and it was not until the fleet formed a line of battle in a row without hurry that anyone discovered the enemy's situation.

"Enemy attack! It's the Ming fleet! ”

The soldiers in charge of the duty shouted hoarsely, waking up all the people in their sleep, and everyone jumped up and rushed to the gun position.

However, the other party thought that it was unintentional and unintentional, and the fire of the naval guns was far above the fort, so they did not give them any chance, and the stormy shells quickly smashed their heads and faces.

"Boom, boom, boom—" With a huge roar, orange-red flames erupted from the flanks of the fleet one after another, pouring cannonballs over, and huge iron balls smashed into the bottom of the turret under the action of huge kinetic energy. The turret made of blue-striped stone was crumbling, and the rubble was scattered, and the soldiers felt that their feet were shaking violently, like an earthquake, and the entire fort could collapse at any time. In this case, let alone quickly firing back, it is difficult to even reload the shells normally, because everyone is unstable on their feet.

Just as the defenders of the battery hesitated whether to hold on or flee, their opponents made a decision for them.

A cannonball whizzed past the top of the fort's wall, splattering a pile of rubble, and then smashed headlong into a cannon, striking the powder keg impartially, causing a martyrdom. With a loud bang, a huge wave of air lifted the surrounding people into the air, and the heavy barrel was also raised high, turning a somersault in the air, and then slamming heavily into the ground, smashing the cannon next to it.

The surviving defenders shouted and retreated to the rear, such a heavy shelling was something they had never seen before, and non-human beings could resist it, and if they held on, they would all be buried with the battery.

The Golden Mountain Fort on the mountainside occupied the advantage of height, but failed to fire a single shot back, disarmed and surrendered, and the low-lying Tiger Tail Fort was even more vulnerable.

Tiger Tail is a peninsula, the end is a low flat dry beach, slightly above sea level, in the face of the majestic Qiong Navy battleship is already at a loss, the gun port is not raised a little bit to pose a threat to the battleship, but they have no chance to strike. The battle line formed by the battleships ruthlessly rained down the shells, and with a single cup of tea, the battery turned into a pile of ruins, and most of the defenders were killed in the shelling, and soon lost their ability to resist.

After the batteries were removed, several small sampans were lowered on each battleship, and a boat of ten people quickly passed through the Lion's Mouth channel and sailed towards Fort Arthur in the harbor.

Although the peninsula forms a natural breakwater, and the wind and waves in the harbor are much smaller than outside, it is not a real inner lake after all, and when a wave hits, the boat is thrown high, and someone still falls into the sea. Fortunately, when selecting marines, proficiency in water is a basic condition, and there is no danger of falling into the water, and they are quickly pulled up by their comrades on the ship.

On the "Shandong", Murong Longcheng watched this scene with a telescope, and thought to himself: The distance of this beach landing is still too far, and to launch the same offensive in the future, first of all, we must get as close to the shore as possible, cover with fire, reduce the time for the marines to advance in the water, and reduce the danger of them being attacked by fire from the shore as much as possible.

The charge launched by the marines, who had not experienced the actual combat test of beach-grabbing landing, was a little ill-considered, and the distance was too long, from the starting point to the location of Fort Arthur, it was a full two miles, and if they faced an opponent close to the strength of the Joan navy, this distance was enough to beat them into a sieve. Fortunately, there was basically no opponent in this time and space that could match the Qiong Navy in terms of long-range firepower, and although the defenders of Fort Arthur were alarmed by the sound of cannons outside the lion's mouth, they were powerless in the face of the hundreds of small ships that charged two miles away, and could only watch.

The leader of the Qing troops stationed in Lushun was a yellow flag named Degree. He originally thought that being stationed in Lushunkou was a clear messenger and had no oil or water to fish, but it was also relatively safe, and he didn't need to go to the front line battlefield, and he was happy. Unexpectedly, disaster fell from the sky, and suddenly a fleet of ships was killed out of nowhere, and the batteries on both sides of the lion's mouth were pulled out with lightning speed, and a large number of small boats were also dispatched, as if to launch a land attack on Fort Arthur.

Delgree was furious, he drew his knife and slashed it on the table, and shouted, "Can anyone tell me where these people and the ship came from?" Wasn't Dongjiang Town uprooted by the emperor and the king of Wuyingjun, and the Ming Dynasty was too busy to take care of itself on the mainland, so where did he get the energy to attack Lushun? ”

No one was able to give him an answer, everyone was confused, what is the origin of these people?

Seeing that the boat approached the harbor unhindered and landed in an orderly manner, Degree shouted: "Can't let them attack so easily, bombard me with cannons!" ”

The soldiers of the Han Army Banner who were in charge of operating the cannon hurriedly turned the muzzle of the gun and aimed it at the dock, and after being busy, they fired the first shot of the counterattack with a "boom".

However, in a hurry, the cannon was not aimed too accurately, and the shell was far away, smashed on the beach next to the pier, and then jumped weakly, and plunged into the sand and no longer moved.

Bor suddenly hurriedly ordered: "The team pulls away, counterattacks during the advance, and pulls out the gun emplacement." ”

The marines immediately dispersed to avoid too much damage from the enemy's shelling in too dense formations. Then, after moving forward for some distance, it began to look for obstacles on the spot as cover, to fire at gun emplacements on the walls of the fortress.

The distance between the two sides is more than 300 meters, which is not an ideal attack position, if it is a smoothbore gun like the Qionghai three-year type, even the other party's hair can not touch a single one, but the Qionghai nine-year type is a rifled gun, the range and accuracy are several times that of the smoothbore gun, even if this distance cannot be guaranteed, it can also pose a threat.

The gunshots rang out one after another, and the bullets flew over the gunner's head and side, which frightened the gunner.