The artillery battle between the Tiance Navy Fleet and the Zheng Army's Fortress has been underway.

As time went by, the battle situation began to gradually tilt towards the Tiance Army, and the counterattack firepower of several Zheng Army's fortresses began to become weaker and weaker.

Although the Zheng army's fortress was built very strongly, with strong defense capabilities, and was in a condescending situation, the Tiance Army far surpassed the Zheng army's level of gunners, artillery quality, tactical training, command level, etc.

Especially after the general use of projectile, as long as one shell hits, the attack on the Zheng Army's fortress will be quite heavy.

Seeing the gunners struggling to set up some of the artillery and increase the elevation angle, Zhang Hua also came up with an idea. After the battle is over, can he ask the arsenal to specially develop a special projectile artillery to deal with such targets with poor direct shooting effect?

For such a turret built on the mountain, the direct shooting effect was not very good. In the previous artillery attack, he saw a shell flying towards the enemy artillery position with his own eyes, but it hit the outside of the guard wall in front of the enemy artillery position. It failed to penetrate the guard wall and fell down, and then the cannon was blown under the turret, without any effect.

Although the projectile can directly project the shells to the guardrail, the naval guns are all direct-fired cannons after all, and they are not so convenient to operate. They still need artillery specifically used for projectiles. However, these should be a concern for the arsenal, so Zhang Hua just gave a comment.

Under the uninterrupted attacks of the Gaomi and the other nine warships, the counterattack of the Yanwei Mountain Fort gradually weakened.

Although Zheng Zhilong arranged for follow-up substitutes, it was impossible for them to be unaffected when they saw their comrades smashed by the flowering bullets, or they were incomplete and did not die. They were not affected. They always made mistakes in panic, which reduced the speed of the fire.

"Send the order and start logging in"

Seeing that the shelling had been bombarded for more than an hour, the enemy's counterattack was only one-third of the initial force, Zhang Hua issued an order to land and fight.

With the waving of the flag, the ten main warships made way for a passage, and nearly twenty small landing ships behind quickly drove out of the passage and ran towards the south bank of Gulangyu.

These landing ships were specially built by Kong Youde for landing operations. They were taken on when they set out from Shandong and fixed them with ropes behind the large warships, which was not in the way.

The shape of these landing ships is similar to that of later dragon boats. They are narrow and long. There are a large number of oars on both sides, which can be used to ride in two rows of soldiers. The soldiers move quickly by rowing the oars. In addition, these landing ships also have a small sail. In order to save physical strength, the soldiers use wind to make these landing ships advance, but their speed is not as fast as that of the main warships.

The most important thing in landing wars is speed. The soldiers no longer rely on the wind to advance. They paddled and the landing ships quickly charged towards Gulangyu.

Each of these twenty landing ships was loaded with thirty-two commando soldiers and a full squadron of troops, led by the brigade leader Jia Hu himself.

Their enemies not only included four or five hundred gunners on the Yanwei Mountain Fort, but also the Inner Camp responsible for protecting the safety of Gulangyu Island, attacking more than 1,300 people, with a total force of nearly 1,800 people.

On the Gaomi, Zhang Hua also ordered a warship to step up the offensive to suppress the Zheng army artillery fire on Yanwei Mountain and cover the landing commando.

The artillery fire of the Tiance army warships on the sea once again became dense. After a round of fighting, the artillery quickly cleared the cannon chamber, then reloaded and continued to ignite.

The soldiers on the board were also rowing their oars hard, striving to land as soon as possible.

The enemy is not a fool. When they see them moving towards the coast, they will definitely aim their artillery at them. There is no barrier on the sea surface and there is no place to hide. Only by leaving the sea as soon as possible can they get safe.

Their idea was right. Shortly after leaving the main battleship, General Qian of Zheng's Fortress on the Yanwei Mountain Fort hurriedly ordered the target of attack and aimed at these approaching boats.

The shells kept falling in the landing ships, smashing water droplets one by one. Of course, the sound of the landing ship being hit was also heard, but no one cared about it and was moving forward desperately.

Finally, after paying the price of two landing ships being hit by Zhengjun artillery shells, the remaining eighteen landing ships quickly landed on the beach and rushed to the beach. The soldiers quickly jumped off the beach and approached the enemy's artillery.

"Go forward, don't stop, just stop and wait for the shells."

The captain Jia Hu shouted loudly, urging the soldiers to continue moving forward and leave the unblocked beach.

I have to say that the landing battle was quite smooth. Whether it was Zhang Hua or Jia Hu, I was actually unsure before, but now I finally feel relieved.

The difficulty of landing operations is actually very high. Not to mention landing operations, but just crossing rivers and rivers is extremely difficult. The defense party uses terrain conditions to establish defensive fortifications on the shore, waiting for the attacking party to arrive with a leisurely affair, and can quickly mobilize troops, complete blocking, and command properly, and even wipe out the attacking party's army.

In fact, the Yanwei Mountain Fort has encountered landing operations. When Li Kuiqi attempted to attack Zhongzuo, he was discovered by the Yanwei Mountain Fort. The fort fired a cannon and fought back. Li Kuiqi had to lead his army to attack the Yanwei Mountain Fort.

As a result, their speeds were different, and the fastest sampans were quickly sunk. The subsequent pirates were also scared and retreated one after another, and Li Kuiqi had to return without success.

This time, the Tiance Army was in a unified operation. All landing ships advanced in unison and completed the landing operation as quickly as possible. Although they also paid the price of the two landing ships being sunk, they were not considered a major casualty for landing operations.

After they all got ashore, they saw an infantryman of nearly a thousand people pounced on the beach where they landed.

"Feng Bao, Li Le, you two bring people to fight against the enemy infantry, and the rest follow me and attack the enemy's fort from the west."

Jia Hu quickly decided on the combat plan. In his opinion, the enemy's infantry was not worth mentioning and there was no need to deal with all the troops. Two squadrons were enough, and he led another squadron to attack the fort directly.

After receiving the order, Feng Bao and Li Le quickly took their troops and rushed towards the approaching Zheng army infantry.

Although they had less than 400 people in their hands, the nearly 1,000 troops they faced against were not weak at all. Now the Zheng army artillery on Yanwei Mountain was also worried about accidental injuries and did not dare to fire rashly. It was the time when their commando showed their power.

On Jia Hu's side, the situation was completely different, attracting almost all the Zheng army artillery fire. There were no Zheng army infantry here, so there was no need to worry about accidental injury.

"Kill, we will be safe when we rush to the foot of the mountain."

Jia Hu shouted loudly.

The soldiers stared at the enemy's artillery fire and quickly arrived at the foot of Yanwei Mountain. Although nearly thirty casualties were paid during this period, these were worth it.

Now, they are in the blind spot of Zhengjun artillery. Although they can shoot with cotton wool in front of the shells, they can't turn the corner.

In this way, without the threat of Zheng Army artillery, Jia Hu and the remaining soldiers quickly came to the passage to the west to go up the mountain.

"Explosive Pack Projector, On"

The ten-door projector carried by Sui Jun was disguised at once, and then the ten-pound explosive pack was filled in.

"ignition"

The soldiers were in groups of two, igniting the leads of the explosive pack and the leads of the projector at the same time. After a while, ten explosive packs were thrown into the sky and flew towards Yanwei Mountain.

In order to prevent the explosive pack from rolling down and blowing to his own people, Jia Hu specially cut the leads short, even if they explode in the air, and you must not roll down the mountain and then explode.

The effect of this round of strikes was quite good. One of the explosive packs fell directly into the westernmost gun group. The ten-pound explosive pack was quite powerful. The Zheng army soldiers of sixty or seventy were overturned halfway.

"assault"

Hearing the wailing sounds from the mountain, Jia Hu knew that he had a great fortune and hit the hit rate for the first shot.

Immediately, more than 150 soldiers quickly charged towards the mountain before the enemy could react.

When they arrived at the west gun team, the Zheng army's gunners had not yet reacted. They hurriedly picked up the weapons they could use around them and prepared to drive down the enemies who had climbed up.

But all this was futile. The Tiance Army not only had the advantage of military strength, but also had a far stronger individual combat power than the Zheng army and other gunners.

After capturing the gun group on the west side, under Jia Hu's command, the gunners in the commando quickly turned the gun over, loaded the shotgun, aimed at the adjacent gun group, and ignited the lead.

Then, a shotgun like raindrops smashed into the gun group. The two gun groups were only twenty feet apart. In terms of the assault team's artillery, there was no guard who could not hit.

In this way, the effect of this round of shotgun attack is extremely impressive.

When the commando fired, the Zheng army soldiers from the adjacent gun group had not yet reacted. When they turned the artillery over at the command of the gun group commander and aimed at the west side, the commando's shotgun had already arrived.

For a moment, a large area of ​​the remaining Zheng Army artillery was swept down, including the commander of this artillery group.

The rest of those who were not dead also fled wildly, the boss was dead, and so many of their comrades around them died, so they had no courage to fight back.

After this round of artillery attack, the adjacent gun group was already destroyed. Apart from some wounded soldiers who were still moaning, there was no more living creature.

"Another volley, attack the enemy's third gun group"

The adjacent gun group had no meaning to attack. Jia Hu ordered to attack the next one. When the enemy could not fight back, he would attack and deal with the last gun group. This gun was theirs.

"Boom boom boom"

"Boom boom boom"

The two artillery groups belonging to the two armies made roars almost at the same time, and all shots were shot.

Can't see the other party's artillery coming out of white smoke, Jia Hu hurriedly ordered "all of them to fall down"

The long-term discipline and obedience were well developed at this time. Even though some soldiers had not understood what was going on, they quickly lay on the ground after the order from their superiors.

Although four soldiers were still hit by shotguns, the result was already very good. If you don’t fall down, at least a dozen or even more people would fall down.

Zheng Jun did not have such a fast reaction speed. As a shotgun was hit, nearly twenty people fell down.

"Everyone stands up and continues to load"

Before she could think too much, Jia Hu urged the soldiers to load up quickly and must rush in front of the enemy and shoot out the next round of shells.

At this time, the gap between the gunners on both sides was reflected. It took almost twenty breaths from the time the Zheng army gunners finished shooting to loading and then fired, but the Tiance Army side could also reduce the time to fifteen breaths.

"Boom boom boom"

While the remaining gunners of the Zheng army were still loading shells, the six artillery guns on the Tiance Army roared again.

At this time, the Zheng Army gunners were still controlling the cannons, and there was no way to avoid them. As a shot shot fell, more than twenty people were fucked down. Those who were alive did not dare to go up and control the cannons anymore. The enemy's artillery was so powerful that if they went up, they would die.

"All Assault"

At this time, there was no need to open fire anymore. Jia Hu directly ordered an assault. The effect of close combat was better than that of artillery. More than 100 commando soldiers rushed towards the remaining artillery team of the Zheng army.

The battle results were quite smooth. The military expenditure of a commando was equivalent to twice that of an army soldier. Although the combat power could not be as good as two army soldiers, it was still okay to be as good as one and a half. Moreover, they not only had sharp marksmanship, but also had good hand-to-hand combat.

During the assault, the remaining Zheng army soldiers who were trying to continue to resist were shot down, and then rushed forward with a sword and chopped over the remaining enemy soldiers.

The two middle gun groups were taken down without much effort, and the gunners also moved to the second gun group, preparing to launch an artillery battle with the enemy of the last gun group.

Seeing that four artillery groups had been occupied by three, Mr. Qian of Yanwei Mountain Fortress was still unable to turn his mind.

He lost, but he was defeated so thoroughly and so quickly. He couldn't think of how to deal with the situation in front of him.

Seeing him in a daze, a dog-legged said anxiously, "Sir, our people alone will definitely not be able to defend it. Let's go and ask for help from the boss. Only when reinforcements come can these enemy soldiers be blocked. For the sake of the overall situation, please ask for help from the boss."

"It's right, we have too few troops, so we can only ask for help."

The Fortman Qian woke up from his dream. He didn't want to stay here and follow the Fort to be buried with him. He hurriedly continued his confidant's words.

Then, he took more than a dozen confidants to Yanwei Mountain from the north slope and fled to Xiamen Island by boat.

Seeing that President Qian ran away, the Fourth Arsenal Team did not have the courage to resist. In addition to cursing and exclaiming, some Zheng army began to plan a way out.
Chapter completed!