At this time, the artillerymen on the fort heard the sound of gongs on the lighthouse in the distance, and ran up to the fort, ready to fight, it was a very moment, everyone maintained a high degree of vigilance, but, they had just rushed to the fort, and suddenly killed a group of men and horses from the oblique stab not far away.

Fifty elite infantrymen, armed with flintlock muskets, fired at the gunners!

Bang bang bang......

I thought about it with a burst of gunfire, on the fort, the Zheng army artillery was knocked down, the distance between the two sides was only a hundred paces, and the closest was even only fifty or sixty steps, such a close distance, not to mention that these people were all strictly trained musketeers, even ordinary soldiers, armed with flintlock muskets, shot up together, and the Zheng soldiers who ran around couldn't stand it.

The latest flintlock muskets, because they are now used in paper shells, can complete an average of three to five rounds per minute in the hands of these people, and on average, four bullets per minute, such a rate of fire can almost be compared to the speed of an excellent archer.

Before the artillery reacted, fifty elite soldiers had already completed four shots, the artillery on the temporary battery, at least more than 30 people were killed, and 50 or 60 people were wounded, and the artillery of more than 200 people completely exploded.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack, return fire, return fire!"

In Zheng Jun's view, even if the sailors of the imperial court come, the first thing is a battle between the fleets, even if their own fleet fails, then the imperial army's army still has to complete the landing operation, where is it so easy? Here in Keelung Harbor, but there are a small 2,000 troops, and it is not their turn to be attacked by these artillery, even if they are attacked, it is an artillery attack from the sea, and these people have built temporary fortifications with bluestone on the fort to defend against artillery bombardment, but they did not expect that the opponent would touch it unconsciously!

More than 200 artillery here, no muskets, no bows and arrows, only no one with a waist knife, in the face of the blow of fifty elite soldiers flintlock muskets, they didn't even have the strength to fight back, they were blown up in an instant, one by one the artillery fled one after another, either hiding behind the rocks, or using the artillery to avoid the attack of bullets!

"Rush!"

Song Chengwu led dozens of people, while firing, he rushed to the battery, constantly shooting, the unlucky artillery had nowhere to hide, scattered in a hurry, and fired back? How to fight back? Stay on top of the battery, and you can only wait to be shot!

Boom Boom!

At this time, the artillery of the Imperial Navy Division also began to bombard indiscriminately, which can be said to be the first time that the Imperial Navy Division fought on the sea, the officers and men of the Navy Division were extremely excited, roaring one by one, almost all the artillery opened fire at the same time, and in an instant, hundreds of shells went straight to the battleship of Tagawa Nanazaemon.

For today's battle, it can be said that the warships of the entire imperial naval division have poured out, and even the old warships that are about to be retired have even been pulled into the East China Sea, with nearly 100 large and small warships! There are more than 30 main warships converted from Daqingtou and merchant ships alone, and as for the artillery and rockets on it, both in terms of power and quantity, they are far superior to the original main warship of the Fujian Naval Division, Daqingtou, which can be said to be better than the blue.

Zheng Haotian didn't dare to be careless, this was for dozens of heavy red-clothed artillery, all of which were 3,000 jin or 5,000 jin heavy artillery, as well as thousands of arquebuses, for these things, the imperial court spent six or seven hundred thousand taels of silver, these firearms can completely change the situation on the battlefield between the Ming Dynasty and the Tartars! There must be no mistakes!

The unlucky Tagawa Nanazaemon was cautious enough, and he didn't even let the sailors on the battleship get off the ship, and even eating, drinking, and Lazar were solved on the battleship, but, even so, the soldiers had to rest, and the battleship stayed on the harbor, and it always had to be fixed on the anchor, and now the twenty battleships of all sizes are docked in the small puddle of Keelung Harbor, which is completely a live target, and it is because Tagawa Nanaemon came back a little earlier, which brought a catastrophe to the fleet!

Hearing the sound of the gong on the lighthouse, Tagawa Nanazaemon knew that it was not good, and immediately ordered all the warships to immediately lift anchor and board the ship to prepare for battle, but even if all the soldiers were on the warship, it would take at least two quarters of an hour to take their places, lift anchor and go to sea, and open fire, right?

In two quarters of an hour, these battleships can only be beaten passively, and they can't even move their nests at all, they are live targets, even if they can fire back, it will be a quarter of an hour later, and a quarter of an hour is enough for Song Chengwu's imperial sailors to fire nearly a thousand shells!

Of course, the Imperial Navy Division launched not only artillery shells, but also rockets, rockets made according to Congreve rocket shooting, the same power is amazing, when in the distance, it is impossible to hit the battleship of the Fujian Navy Division, but when it is close, within four miles, the power of the rocket is fully exerted, even greater than the power of the red-coated artillery!

"Quick, quick, lift the anchor, hold up the sails, hold up the sails!"

Tagawa Nanazaemon jumped to his feet in a hurry, and kept yelling, "Artillery, fight back, fight back, hurry, hurry!" Fuck, don't grind Lao Tzu, in the ink, we'll all be cannon fodder! ”

One by one, the sailors ran wildly, carrying shells, loading artillery, aiming, and firing!

It's just that at this time, hundreds of shells fell down, completely enveloping the port area, advancing from a distance of five miles to a distance of three miles, in just a few minutes, along with rockets, they landed on the warship!

The small warship sank directly under the bombardment of the cannonballs, and the large warship was hit by rockets and flowering shells, and the flames were blazing in an instant!

"Nope! No! Order, give the order to the battery, attack with all your might, and shoot the shells to Lao Tzu! ”

Tagawa Nanazaemon is really panicked, if it continues like this, Keelung Port is definitely going to fall, needless to say, this is the imperial sailor just formed by the Ming Empire's imperial court, specially, the Zheng family has just sold more than a dozen big Qingtou warships and more than a dozen large merchant ships to the imperial court, this is a direct enemy, I knew today, why bother, not even a mast was sold to the imperial court, for the sake of that mere two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, but set up a strong enemy for themselves!

Dead, dead! It's really dead!

Tagawa Nanazaemon has experienced a lot of battles on the sea, and he has a lot of experience, but now he can't turn the tide of the war, and the fleet is all docked at the military port dock, and he can't cope with the battle at all, and he will definitely lose!

(End of chapter)