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Chapter 142 Monkey Stone Mountain

The Ming Navy on the sea was standing there, just like looking at the door for the Qing Navy. Sun Sanpao felt that this was a frustrating thing at first. When he found that the Ming Navy was helpless with his turtle's tactics, he felt proud and even hummed a Shandong slang in his mouth. Imagining that a turtle retracted his head into the shell, no one could do anything to it. Hum! I hid in the port, and there was a cannon from the cannon outside to protect him. I was afraid of a ball!

I don't believe it. Your Ming army's fleet dares to spend money with me. Please don't waste it! When it's almost done, you can only get out of here. [bsp;   Sun Sanpao was proud. At noon, Sun Sanpao was having a meal with several Qing army leaders. He came down to report that the Ming army was doing new tricks again.

Sun Sanpao was standing tall and could see the movements of the Ming army on the sea without a telescope. A boat rushed out of the Ming army's ship formation. The boat looked a little bigger than the eight wheels, and the style was a bit weird. The color was like the eight wheels, and it was painted black. The boat directly crossed the twenty-four small boats in front and rushed straight to the port. Sun Sanpao couldn't figure out what he was going to do. Could it be that the Ming army sent lobbyists to surrender? It was impossible for the avatar to come! The gunners of the fort saw such a lonely small boat rushing over, and they didn't know what to do for a moment, and they forgot to fire the cannon.

The reason why Sun Sanpao was nicknamed Sanpao was because his name was Sun Shanbao. He was originally a naval gunner in the Ming army. His best attitude was to fire on the ship. He claimed that he could hit enemy ships with just a test-firing of three guns. So over time, his real name was no longer more famous than the nickname "Sun Sanpao". Many people even don't know what his real name was, but only knew the reputation of Sun Sanpao. With this reputation, Sun Sanpao's psychology was like a star in later generations who loved scandals. He did not disobey, but was proud. From then on, there was only Sun Sanpao, without Sun Shanbao. Sun Sanpao was worthy of starting his career by firing cannons. When he saw that the gunners on these cannons were foolish, he shouted:

"Fire the gun! Fire the gun! If this ship comes and it fires at my fleet, it will be over!"

The Tartar commander of the fort immediately woke up and immediately sent an order to fire the artillery. As the gunners began to prepare for fire, the fortress in Xijiguanshan began to fire the artillery at the incoming boat. The shells fell around the boat, and huge water columns rose up. The boat was not big, and it seemed to be more and more overwhelming. But the boat ignored it and continued to rush forward. Strangely, the boat had already lowered its sails at this time, but the speed of rushing forward not only did not decrease, but seemed to have risen a little faster.

The efforts of the Qing army gunners were not in vain. After missing eight shells, the ninth shell finally hit the black ship, but after the explosion, the black ship seemed to be unscathed and continued to rush forward. The black ship advanced in the water column stimulated by the shells, and did not take the shell seriously, and still rushed towards the port. The shells fired from the turrets of Huangjinshan and Xijiguanshan were pouring out, and Sun Sanpao clearly observed that another shell hit the black ship's side through the telescope. However, the black ship just tilted to the side and did not see any damage. He still kept rushing forward.

The Qing army was a little scared at this time. This black ship was like the legendary Japanese iron ship. It could be activated without the help of sails. The shells were not responding to the shells hitting it. The Qing army gunners were anxious. Seeing that they had fired so many shells, they finally hit two shots, but they could not do anything about the black ship. The black ship was from hell. The gunners became scared, but the more they were afraid, the more they shot the cannons. Finally, two shells hit the black ship at the same time. The explosion of the bow and stern of the ship made the black ship rush into the sea water and then rise into the air again. Even so, the black ship still didn't seem to be damaged much. What's even more amazing is that after this round of shooting, the black ship actually shot two rockets at the fleet in the port, and one of them hit a Haicang ship.

Sun Sanpao felt as if the sky was about to collapse. Damn, Ming Jun actually built such a thick and hard-skinned ship. It would be a big fucking battle! Sun Sanpao's heart was so cold that he wanted to die.

Sun Sanpao actually didn't have to overreact like this. This black ship was indeed an iron ship. This was the first iron ship trial-made by Wang Chengen. The hull with a riveted iron plate, the crankshaft connecting rod man-driven propeller, and the wire mesh cement and asphalt were painted on the outside. The shells hit the boat, and the explosion effect was to remove a layer of asphalt, and the more powerful explosion was to remove another layer of cement. However, the violent explosion still made the people in the cabin unable to bear it. The effect of the explosion was like experiencing a sea storm. The crew shaking violently with the ship, hitting walls everywhere, and one by one was bruised. Especially when two bombs were hit, the boat almost overturned. Two people broke bones and several were seriously injured.

Zheng Zhibao saw that the purpose of the iron ship's attack had been achieved. He did not want the only iron ship to be buried at the bottom of the sea, so he quickly raised the banner and let the iron ship retreat quickly. The scarred iron ship retreated amid the sound of cannons. Zheng Zhibao felt very sad that the only iron ship was damaged so severely, but it was worth it to pay this price. He had to constantly put pressure on the Qing army, so that the sneak attack on Tong Meishan would be smoother.

The fleet continued to block the Lushunkou. At this time, the special forces team led by Tong Meishan, 200 new army officers and soldiers, as well as Wu Sangui's fifty personal troops, were all on seven ships far away from the west coast, waiting for darkness to carry out the landing and sneak attack plan.

At the fifth day of last night, when the main fleet entered the port of Lushunkou, seven other ships quietly took over Laotie Mountain, the southernmost part of Lushun, entered the Bohai Sea, and cruised in the distance on the west coast of Lushun. They just waited for night to fall and landed quietly.

At the third day of the day, seven ships approached the west coast and connected with the Jinyiwei who had been waiting there. Three hundred people then quietly landed under the cover of the darkness and then headed straight to Monkey Stone Mountain.

This Monkey Stone Mountain is the commanding height of the western front of the Port of Lushun. The Japanese regarded this Monkey Stone Mountain as their stronghold, and eighty warriors were stationed on this mountain. Xiao Xiyan Chang claimed that he wanted to ensure the transportation of arms and train the Qing army personnel to rest. He needed to establish a Japanese base in Lushun. Dorgon of course obeyed this requirement. Dorgon limited the number of Japanese people to 80 people. After all, Japanese pirates are not a good thing, so they have to be guarded against thieves. What Dorgon couldn't understand was that Xiao Xiyan Chang actually took a fancy to Monkey Stone Mountain, which made him very puzzled. Of course, this is nothing. The Japanese were willing to stay on that mountain, so let them go.

The Japanese built houses on the mountain. It is not difficult to understand. What is difficult to understand is that the Japanese also built cement fortresses on the mountain. This is strange. What do they want to do?

Chongzhen was very concerned about Lushunkou. In later generations, Gong Daming visited this Monkey Stone Mountain, which was the most cruel 203 Highlands in the Russo-Japanese War. Tsarist Russia built a solid fortress here. The Japanese attacked three times in total. Under the command of the so-called Japanese war god Nogi Xidian, they relied on the cost of the sea of ​​people at the cost of 17,000 deaths. They finally seized the commanding heights of just 203 meters above sea level. The Russo-Japanese War was in China, and the Chinese were just spectators at the time, which was really a big deal. When visiting, every Chinese felt palpitations in their hearts.

After Xiao Xiyan went to Monkey Stone Mountain, he seemed to possess the militarist spirit. He decided to occupy this mountain first. Taking it is of course the first step. Xiao Xiyan planned very much, but no matter what, taking this mountain first.

Chongzhen was not surprised that the Japanese built strongholds on Monkey Stone Mountain. Before Wu Sangui went to war, Chongzhen reminded Wu Sangui to pay attention to these Japanese people based on the news sent back by the Jinyiwei, and also talked about the importance of Monkey Stone Mountain.

Wu Sangui hated the Japanese too much, and he still felt a little pain from the north, thanks to the Japanese. Therefore, when the Lushun attack plan was formulated, the sneak attack plan was originally a sneak attack on the port of Lushun from the west coast, and then burned the Qing army naval forces in one fell swoop. However, Wu Sangui insisted on killing the Japanese on Monkey Stone Mountain, so the sneak attack plan was modified, first conquering Monkey Stone Mountain, destroying the Japanese, and then directly fired rocket launchers and incendiary bombs on the mountain to burn all the Qing army naval warships. Wu Sangui heard that the other party was born as a Japanese samurai, so he picked fifty personal troops, which was very meaningful to fight against Japanese samurai. Tong Meishan thought that the King of Liao was really revenge, but he had to obey. He sighed in his heart that this person was not divided by the ruler and the man was only acting on his will, but he did not know whether it was a disaster or a blessing.
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