The location of Dongshan Fort is more important than Xishan Fort because it is the gateway to Haiyang Water Village. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info hold the Dongshan Fort, no matter how fierce the Ming army on the sea is, it will eventually be untenable, but if the Dongshan Fort is lost, then the Haiyang Water Village will be dangerous.

After the Battle of Dongshan began, the guard general Zheng Hua always stuck to his post, and the command post and volunteers repelled the two attacks organized by the 11th Town of the Taiping Army, and never let the Ming army cross the Dongshan Fort and take Haiyang Water Village. Zhao Ziqiang, who was so angry that he watched the battle at sea, scolded Lu Guangzu and Eleven Town for being incompetent, but Wu Yuan said a fair word, saying that the brothers in Lu Zhen were all going to sea by boat for the first time, and the bumps on the sea these days were really not light. Let's wait, anyway, the Annan Navy Division is finished, and no matter how fiercely this Dongshan Fort is defended, it is difficult to really be able to block the footsteps of the army.

As soon as Wu Yuan said this, Zhao Ziqiang reluctantly suppressed his anger. He also knew that it was useless to rush this matter, and it depended on the Eleventh Town itself, if this group of troops was really unusable, he could only transfer the Twelfth Town to the top. At the same time, it is also a reflection that it is necessary to strengthen the operation of transporting troops at sea in the future, so that the soldiers of these two towns can truly become the all-round towns on land and water as the commander said, instead of performing as they are today.

When the battle reached Shen, Hu Mingyi, the deputy general of the 11th Town of the Taiping Army and the former Brigade School of the B Brigade of the 5th Town, personally supervised the C Brigade to launch an attack, and once attacked the Dongshan Fort. After a desperate struggle, the Annan army fought tenaciously and once again drove down the Ming army that attacked the fort, and hundreds of corpses were left in front of the fort. However, although the Annan army repelled the three attacks of the Taiping army, it also suffered heavy casualties, nearly 1,000 soldiers and volunteers died on the spot, and the corpses on the batteries were piled up layer by layer, and the tragic situation was no less than that of the Ming army.

Half of the more than 30 cannons on the fort have not fired, not because the cannons were fired too densely, resulting in the barrels being heated and unable to charge, but because these cannons have been placed on the Dongshan Fort for more than 10 years now, and there has been nothing to do in coastal defense for a long time, and the Annan soldiers stationed there on weekdays naturally do not pay attention to the maintenance of these guns, and the cannons themselves are no longer usable. Before knowing that the Ming army was attacking, the cannons on some of the batteries were even hung with the clothes of the defenders, and they were even more rusty.

Since the beginning of the war, Zheng Hua has been supporting the war with more than 2,000 soldiers brought by Zheng Hua from Nanding Mansion, among these Nanding soldiers there is a battalion of firearms soldiers, the number is about 400, the rest are broadswords, spears and bows and arrows, and the volunteers organized in those places have very few weapons, many people are two or three people share a spear, and many even hold harpoons in their hands. If it weren't for the more than 30 cannons on the fort that played a role, the attacking Ming army had just come off the ship, and they were all floating when they walked, and many people vomited their guts on the boat, and they were even more dizzy when they got off the boat, resulting in only one-third of the troops of a battalion of soldiers being able to barely go into battle during the attack, I am afraid that this Dongshan fort would have been taken by the eleventh town long ago.

Failed to take down a small fort after attacking three times, but let the Annan people lose hundreds of brothers, Lu Guangzu's face was very ugly, and ordered the three brigades to transfer 200 people each to form a death squad, and did not take a gun, and each person did not rush up with a big knife, and see how many heads he Annan people could not bear to cut off. Cao Rong, who was born in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, had an elder brother who worked as a guard for the Tartar Emperor in Beijing, was also chosen. When he was chosen, Cao Rong was as straight as a dead father, and his face was as ugly as it was. Along the way, he didn't know how many nightmares he had, and even dreamed twice that his father, elder brother, and little nephew were beheaded by the emperor's order because of himself.

Lu Guangzu didn't talk to these people either, and pointed to the fort on the mountain and said to them: "Take the fort, Lao Tzu will give you a vacation, and the people and things within a radius of dozens of miles are all yours!" ”

As soon as these words were said, the death squads screamed and called, half of them were from the Han military banner, and the rest were from the green battalion, including the Guangxi green battalion, and the former grandson Kewang led the front army, and some Yunnan soldiers. When they were in the Qing army, Shangguan often provoked them with such things as slaughtering the city and washing them in blood, and it was very effective. During the Liuzhou War, in order to motivate the army, the line Guoan also sent troops to arrest the nearby people, and the young women were uniformly issued as prostitutes for these soldiers to have fun, so that they could sell their lives when they went to the battlefield. Everyone around him was excited, and Cao Rong was also infected, but I don't know if it was because of the fear suppressed in my heart for several days, or because I needed to vent it.

Lu Guangzu came from the Qing army, and he is well versed in the way of agitating soldiers, and he is also familiar with this kind of thing. There are a lot of villages and towns of the Annam people within a radius of thirty miles, women and goods are naturally indispensable, on the Haiyang Water Village behind the Dongshan Fort, there are many family members of the Annam people, although those Annam women are relatively dark, but this gang of troops has been holding back since they were transported over Guangxi, and these days at sea have suffocated them, and a sow can arch first. Originally, there was a harsh military law, and no one dared to think about it, this would open the mouth, and I was not afraid that they would not sell their lives.

No matter how dark and monkey-like an Annan woman is, she is still a woman. Moreover, there is no shortage of wives and concubines of Annan officials in Haiyang Water Village, these women must be more beautiful than the poor people's families, pampered, and maybe there are water spirits.

Hu Mingyi smiled and shouted: "Don't you damn hear clearly, Lord Deputy Governor rewarded you for your fun, if you don't fuck the guy and cut down those monkeys, you can't stop the thing under your crotch!" ”

", cut down those monkeys!"

"Kill all the men, strip the women!"

"I haven't tasted meat for almost two months, and I have to find a girl from Annan no matter what!"

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The morale of the death squad was aroused, and even those who were not selected were called, and the smell of blood in the nose had long since awakened these soldiers who had disembarked from the ship. No matter how swollen the head is, you have to be excited when you see the corpse in front of you.

Lu Guangzu nodded, Hu Mingyi waved his hand, and the six hundred death squads immediately rushed to the fort above.

Finding that the Ming army had once again pounced on him, and the morale was obviously more intense than before, Zheng Hua's subordinates persuaded him to abandon the fort and quickly lead the army to retreat before the Ming army came up. Zheng Hua sneered and asked them where they would retreat, some said that they would retreat to Shuizhai, and some said that they would retreat directly to Nanding Mansion.

Zheng Hua did not draw a sword to kill people and set up any military prestige and deter people's hearts, but climbed the cannon body of a squatting cannon, stood on it and raised his arms to the subordinates below and shouted to the subordinates and righteous bravery: "If you are afraid and don't want to die, you can go by yourself, this official will not leave, and today this Dongshan Fort is the grave of this official!" ”

"If the general doesn't leave, I'll wait!"

"Northern Wu has bullied me Annan for more than 200 years, and when I fight today, I will let Northern Wu know that I am a good man in Annan!"

The Lord will be like this, how will the soldiers and volunteers below abandon themselves? The Ming army quickly pounced, the cannon sound sounded intermittently for a while and then stopped, and the Ming army, which was provoked by the woman and the slaughter of the city, rushed up desperately, and the Annam people could not resist, and the fort was lost one after another. In the end, the fort was occupied by the Ming army, and Zheng Hua was seriously wounded and carried by his subordinates, still shouting to kill the enemy. The Ming army, which came up with subsequent reinforcements, quickly blocked the only passage from the Dongshan Fort to the outside world, and under the siege of the much larger Ming army, the Annan army and civilians were compressed to a corner in the northeast of the fort.

Seeing that there was no way to live, Zheng Hua was unwilling to be captured and asked his subordinates to push him to the bottom of the cliff. The subordinates cried and refused, but Zheng Hua pushed them away violently and fell down the cliff with all his might.

"The leader is martyred, how can I survive!" Some subordinates shouted, looked at the approaching Ming army with hatred, turned around and jumped off the cliff.

"I'd rather die than be humiliated by the Ming people!"

More and more Annan soldiers followed their generals, and those volunteers looked at the Ming army with a smirk in horror, and after struggling and hesitating, they also jumped off the cliff one after another and died.

The sailors of the Ming army on the sea in the distance witnessed the scene of Dongshan Fort jumping off the cliff and were amazed. Zhao Ziqiang twitched his nose and said disdainfully: "The cliff is not high, and you may not be able to fall to your death if you jump down, let the eleventh town go to the bottom of the cliff to see, and those who are not dead will be mended one by one, and thrown into the sea to feed the fish." ”

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Author's note: Northern Ngu, a Vietnamese contemptuous name for the Ming Dynasty. (To be continued.) )