The situation is urgent, you must know that now the fleet of the Imperial Naval Division is all within three miles of the military port wharf, and the twenty red-clothed guns on the fort have the closest range of three or four miles, and the distance is as high as seven or eight miles, if the Zheng army is allowed to regain control of the fort and launch an artillery attack on the fleet of the Imperial Naval Division, then the losses of the Imperial Naval Division will be great, and it may even drive the people of the Imperial Naval Division back to the sea in one fell swoop, thus falling short!

Meng Zhong was naturally not stupid, and shouted loudly: "Du Kuo, lead the three hundred brothers, rush up, you must hold the fort, and the rest of the people will besiege me here to cover the landing of the brothers behind!" ”

The two soldiers were divided into two ways, Du Kuo led three hundred brothers to rush up towards the fort, at this time on the fort, there were already two or three hundred Zheng troops rushing up, and there were two or three hundred people behind, launching an impact on the fort, more than half an hour, Song Chengwu led fifty elites, each of whom fired at least hundreds of bullets, and the ammunition on his body had been exhausted, and if there were no reinforcements coming up, he could only pull out his knife for hand-to-hand combat, and it seemed that hand-to-hand combat could not beat others, five or six hundred Zheng soldiers besieged his own fifty people, The difference in strength between the two sides is too great.

Fortunately, Du Kuo rushed up in time, three hundred musketeers, while advancing rapidly, while shooting, five hundred musketeers, intensive firepower swept down the Zheng army that had rushed up, and the huge casualties made the Zheng army panic and retreat into the distance.

"Hoo ......"

Song Chengwu often let out a sigh, wiped his sweat and said: "Good guy, Lao Du, if you come a little late, we brothers will be amused to meet the king of Hades......"

Du Kuo shouted: "Okay, don't talk so much nonsense, you take a breath, I'll leave the rest, I want to see how these bastards rush up, brothers, fire with all my might!" ”

Three hundred musketeers stood dead on the fort and began to launch a sharp attack, these Keelung garrisons are not as strong as the soldiers on the Fujian Navy fleet, these are local garrison troops, compared with the main force, a big difference, in the face of dense rifle fire, the Zheng army officers and men have retreated, and it is impossible to climb the fort again.

On the coast, it is not only the forward battalion that is now docked at the pier one after another, the middle army camp and the left and right wing battalions have already come up one after another, Zheng Haotian can see clearly, now the Zheng family's fleet has been completely defeated by himself, and the battery has also been controlled by the vanguard sent by himself, it is the time for the army to attack!

In a short period of time, the musket battalions of the large battalions on the left and right flanks also landed on the coast and began to launch a siege against the Zheng army.

Today's Tagawa Nanazaemon looks at the eyes of the fire, he has been crisscrossing the East for several years, and he has never been so passive today, he can't raise his head after being suppressed by the imperial sailors, the fleet has been completely scrapped, and the garrison of Keelung can't get back the fort, once the fort is also lost, then only the castle can hold on!

"Order, everyone retreats towards the castle, defends Keelung City, and moves all the arquebuses and cannons out, fuck, Lao Tzu fought with them!"

Tagawa Nanazaemon shouted sharply, and all the troops withdrew towards Keelung City behind.

Today's Keelung City is a small town, within a radius of thirty miles from Keelung, there are only twenty or thirty thousand people living in Keelung City, in addition to hundreds of troops, there are only four or five thousand residents, the Zheng family built a castle here with bricks and stones, but it is not a strategic place, but it is used as a transit station from the East to Nanyang or Fujian, a stronghold of the Zheng family, the wall of the castle, less than one zhang wide, one zhang five feet high, such a city wall, It's fine to defend against pirates who lack heavy artillery, but it's far worse against Imperial sailors with heavy cannons and rockets.

It's just that now there is only one way to choose Tagawa Nanazaemon, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, you must not give up Keelung, and the arms here are the lifeblood of the Zheng family in the future, such a huge amount of arms cannot be bought with money.

The remaining thousands of Zheng troops retreated into the castle in a hurry, only less than two hours of battle, now the Zheng army's casualties are close to half, there is no way, the attack of the imperial naval division is sudden, the artillery and muskets are extremely fast, did not give the Zheng army any chance, and when the Zheng army wants to fight with all its might, it has no ability to counterattack.

Tagawa Nanazaemon, who retreated into the castle, urgently ordered the people below to bring out all the cannons and muskets hidden in the castle, but there were thousands of arquebuses here, fifty cannons, plus several original cannons on the castle, even if the twenty red-coated guns on the fort have been lost, the number of cannons here is still amazing.

Tagawa Nanazaemon just retreated into the castle, Du Kuo and Song Chengwu, who occupied the fort, launched an attack directly on the castle, the fort was only four or five miles away from the castle, the range of the artillery on the fort could be completely covered by the castle, a cannonball whistled and went straight to Keelung City, and fell on the city wall, the city wall here is far from being comparable with the solid city wall of Zhending Mansion and Xuzhou Mansion, a cannonball hit, that is a big pit, and cracks like spider webs are exposed on the city wall.

Of course, it was not only the fort that launched the attack, but also the infantry of the Imperial Naval Division who had caught up, and at the same time as the musket battalion rushed up, even the rocket launchers were pulled up, and then the two firearms battalions launched a direct attack towards the castle, without giving Tagawa Nanazaemon any time to prepare!

Now it's early in the morning, three watches in the middle of the night, Tagawa Nanazaemon even if he wants to take a breath, he doesn't have any chance, he doesn't even have a chance to pull the red-clothed artillery up to the city, there is no artillery to help, just with the soldiers who just got the arquebus, they come to fight against the musket battalion outside the city, outside the city, twenty artillery pieces plus more than a dozen rocket launchers, attack with all their might, not to mention the main battleship that has been parked at the dock, but it has 5,000 pounds of heavy artillery, and the range is more than eight miles, It is enough to cover the entire northern city of the castle, and it is definitely not comparable to ordinary small-caliber artillery!

Rumble......

More than a dozen 5,000-pound heavy artillery shells continued to bombard, and shells weighing twenty or thirty pounds smashed down heavily, and it was a crater, as for the flowering bombs, it was even worse, and a hole was blown up directly, where could the short city wall of Keelung City withstand such bombardment?

In less than an hour, Keelung City was directly bombarded with a large section, and the fall was imminent!

(End of chapter)