Chapter 928: The Battle of Keelung (3)

The somewhat desperate Tagawa Nanazaem had pinned his hopes entirely on the temporary battery, hoping that the artillery position of the temporary battery would be able to withstand for a moment, stop the shelling of the Imperial Naval Division, and buy time for his fleet to leave the port.

But when the Tagawa Nanazaemon looked at the temporary battery, he was even more desperate, at this time the battery had already sounded a gunshot, the muzzle of the fire, the panicked artillery on the battery reflected clearly, on the battery, not even a single cannon sounded, the artillery has been completely defeated by fifty musketeers.

Without the help of the fort, you can only rely on yourself.

More than a dozen warships, although it was still difficult to move at this time, and even the big ships were already on fire, but at this time, the artillery was activated, and Tagawa Nanazaemon commanded his soldiers to fight back with all their might, and the shells were fired towards the sea! At the same time, the sails were opened, and the ships began to start.

Zheng Haotian saw it clearly from a distance, this Zheng family's fleet is still thinking about counterattacking, hehe, now you have become a turtle in the urn, more than a dozen warships are all crowded in a small space, under the fierce artillery fire, if you are still allowed to turn the tables, then Lao Tzu will not have the face to go back to see the emperor.

However, although the fleet of the Fujian Navy Division is now oppressed in a small space, the experience of this sea battle has to be said to be better than the Imperial Navy Division, after all, they are a long-standing enemy, and they have been crisscrossing the sea for twenty or thirty years, although the Imperial Navy Division has undergone reorganization and rectification, but the time is still short, but one year, the water battle, especially the naval battle, is much worse, and the soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division have come to their senses and started to shoot frantically!

Although the fleet of the Fujian Navy Division is only a dozen warships, but this combat power is really not covered, the artillery hits the thief accurately, in the blink of an eye, several warships of the Imperial Navy Division were hit by artillery, these are some old ships in the front, above the sea, originally withstood huge wind and waves, it was already a little difficult to support, and now it has suffered from artillery bombardment, and the shelves are scattered in an instant, although they are all rags that are about to be retired, but it is enough for Zheng Haotian to feel distressed, after all, Zheng Haotian's twenty-year career as a sailor, It's only been a year just now, and the loss of a ship is distressing, not to mention that four or five warships were hit, and there is no way to hold a meeting Yanziji, and the sea off Keelung is where they are buried.

"Dog, I actually rushed back to Lao Tzu's warship! Herald! ”

Zheng Haotian's eyes were wide open and he had already spewed out sparks, and he roared sharply, "Order the vanguard battalion to advance with all its might, force the landing, and the Chinese army battalion will shoot out all the shells for me!" Be sure to sink all the Zheng family's warships in the shortest possible time! Grandma, Lao Tzu will definitely kill this group of turtle grandchildren! ”

However, this makes Zheng Haotian stingy, where is there no loss in the war? Even if Zhu Jie personally leads the army to the expedition, he will suffer a certain loss, but the size of the loss is just a few broken ships, Yuan should not let Zheng Haotian lose his temper so much, Zheng Haotian, who is used to living a hard life, has not fully opened his mind.

The vanguard battalion of the Imperial Naval Division couldn't wait any longer, driving the warships to start a forced landing, and the warships behind the artillery were full of firepower, covering the entire military port, and the sound of artillery shook the sky!

Nearly 100 warships maintained such a high-intensity artillery bombardment at the same time, and shells poured down, even if the soldiers of the Fujian Navy Division were good at fighting, it was useless, the difference in strength between the two was too great, the number of warships was eight to one, and the number of artillery was also eight to one, if it was on land, such a comparison of combat power was enough to wipe out the weak side in one fell swoop.

Even if the counterattack of the Fujian Navy Division is very sharp now, but under such a huge gap, it will not last long at all, the fleets of the two sides are only two miles apart, almost the smallest artillery can cover the warship, and now even the rockets have been completely covered, just one wave of attack, the warship of the Fujian Navy Division will withstand the bombardment of two or three hundred shells and dozens of rockets, even if the vision is poor at night, the hit rate of one percent is enough for these warships to drink a pot, One after another, the warships slowly sank to the bottom of the water amid the screams of the sailors.

It was only less than half an hour after the battle, and the Fujian Navy Division, which had nearly twenty warships, now only had three large warships left on the water, continuing to persist in the battle, and it was not easy, now without the hindrance of other ships, Tagawa Shichizaemon could finally exert his full strength, but the three large warships faced the siege of the Imperial Sailors, not to mention repelling the opponent, even if they wanted to escape from Keelung Port, it was not an easy task.

Tagawa Nanazaemon shouted: "Order all the soldiers to disembark and retreat towards our camp, the three warships must be killed for me, and we will prepare to meet our retreat at the Laolong ferry fifty miles to the southeast!" Immediately send someone to my father for urgent help, Keelung is attacked, we must send the main force of the sailor to rush to help in the shortest possible time! ”

All the soldiers retreated urgently to the shore, and even the soldiers who fell into the sea desperately fled to the shore, after all, they were all veterans who were crawling and rolling on the sea, and they would not be drowned in the water at the dock of the military port, unless they were unlucky enough to be hit by shells or broken wood, otherwise, there was no big problem in escaping to the shore with their familiar water nature.

However, as soon as they gave up, the attack of the Imperial Naval Division was even more unstoppable, and all twenty warships on the vanguard battalion docked at the port dock and began to throw down their sampans, and groups of sailor soldiers, armed with flintlock muskets, rushed down from the warships.

The entire Sailor Battalion alone was equipped with four, and the Pioneer Sailor Battalion had 500 musketeers, and 500 brothers rushed to the shore and continued to attack Tagawa Nanazaemon's men!

Tagawa Nanazaemon is already going crazy, just one forward battalion can send so many musketeers, what a fart? Now these hundreds of sailors don't even have a knife in their hands, as for the muskets, there are still people with them occasionally, but they all escaped from the sea, the arquebus was soaked in water, and they thought they could fire for three days, but this time they were dead!

At this time, the forward battalion guerrilla Du Kuoyi pulled the arm of General Meng Zhong and shouted: "Lord Meng, don't be in a hurry to clean up this group of scum, look at the fort, Song Chengwu and they can't stand it anymore, hurry, hold the fort first!" ”

Sure enough, Song Chengwu only took fifty brothers, although they were all elite, but now the soldiers of the Fujian Town Water Division in the castle have rushed out and launched a counterattack towards the fort, trying to reoccupy the fort, no matter how powerful the fifty elites are, it is too difficult to hold the fort for a long time, and the people of the Fujian Navy Division have rushed up again, suppressing Song Chengwu and others to keep retreating!

Tagawa Nanazaemon is not stupid,

(End of chapter)