Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 268

The troops of the Ming Fuguo Army who landed from Beitang rushed towards Dagukou immediately after a short rest.

At this time, in the offshore area of ​​Dagukou, the naval warships of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army showed their heroic appearance, and the pressure on the Qing army was huge, so they had to wait for it.

The person in charge of the defense of Dagukou was Luo Tuo, the clan clan of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Luo Tuo was the general who fought with Huang Taiji back then. He fought Liaodong and North Korea from outside the pass, all the way to the inside of the pass.At this time, Luo Tuo was actually very old, and like most of the generals who built slaves, he was seriously injured, and he probably died soon.

But at this juncture, without a veteran like Luo Tuo, the Manchu Qing would not have any generals to use.

In the past two years, during the war between the south and the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu Qing lost a large number of young and middle-aged generals such as Zhao Butai and Murima who were able to fight. The young generals have not yet grown up, and the old generals are almost dead. , the available people are very limited.

What's more important is that for the defense of various parts of the capital, as long as it is an army, the chief officer and commander must be a Manchu. It is absolutely impossible to hand it over to the Han people, and even the Han military flag has no chance at all.The Qing court no longer dared to trust any Han officials and generals.When they came over from the Ming Dynasty, these people surrendered very quickly, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. Jiannu was also happy to accept such officials. They were afraid of rape and knew how to govern the country. For the Manchus, this kind of slaves were The best minion ever.

But now, such a person without integrity and loyalty will also be afraid of the mighty Nanming, let alone their fellow clan.Even though Nanming's treatment of traitors was very strict, it was still better than dying with the Tartars.

Even after the Battle of Huguang, the Qing court carried out a wave of purges in the imperial court and the military barracks system. Anyone who was considered to have contacts with Nanming was immediately executed.Obai and Xiaozhuang both understood a truth at this time, even if they showed magnanimity and kindness, it was useless. Without strength, it was impossible to win over these Han people, so it was more practical to deal with them immediately to avoid future troubles.

"General, the navy of the Ming army is approaching!"

Luo Tuo said: "It's finally here. After waiting at sea for so long, it looks like I can't wait any longer."

"All the fortresses have given me the best tricks. Whoever can hit the enemy ship, I will ask the emperor and the empress dowager for credit for him, and I will be promoted to the rank!" Luo Tuo is not a general who knows how to motivate morale. Jiannu's generals are really not very capable, but the army they lead is fierce enough to carry out some basic orders assigned by the officers in order to rob and kill.That is to say, such an army has become like a killing god in the eyes of the Ming army, which basically has no will to fight, and thus invincible.

Luo Tuo looked at his soldiers and sighed secretly: "This army is no longer the one that entered the customs from Liaodong. Their faces are full of panic and no desire for war. The self-confidence and pride of being a Manchurian elite, and even the skin is much more tender - the Huahua River and Mountains in the Central Plains are too harmful!"

On the steam ironclad ship Donghai, Bai Mingxiu sat in the captain's room very obediently. He was not too busy with sea battles, so he just didn't want to make trouble. With Miss Lion's command, and the disparity in strength, he just waited for the result.

"Full fleet, fire!" Sister Lion gave an order, and the signal soldiers on the ship used the most effective semaphore of this era, and began to pass from the flagship to other ships.After receiving the order, the ships immediately invested in the attack on Dagukou.

Compared with Beitang, the defense of Dagukou is stronger, but it is limited to more fortifications and more forts, but in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army, throwing it is nothing more than a simple target.

The naval guns of various calibers roared, and the shells kept smashing past. There were some very powerful 155mm shells, and even the 240mm shells of the current main gun of the East China Sea.

The defenders at Dagukou had never experienced this level of bombardment, and they were stunned by this kind of bombardment almost instantly.

"What are you doing standing there, fight back!" Luo Tuo shouted, but his voice was still inaudible due to the sound of the artillery. His servants confirmed it several times before conveying it.

Scattered Dagukou fortresses also shelled, but their speed was not more than one point or two slower than the artillery of the Ming army.Many forts themselves were beaten to the ground, and there were casualties, and there was no way to operate these artillery.

Even though these were the red-clothed cannons that the Manchu Qing was most proud of, when some lucky Qing army artillery fired and Luo Tuo saw those shells hit the sea with his own eyes, Luo Tuo became even more angry.

"What's the matter, why did you only shoot so close? You gunners, are you negligent of your duty, you don't know how to use guns at all!"

The officer in charge of the artillery hurriedly knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty: "General, it's not that we are incompetent, but that the Ming army's ships are too far away from our army's fort, and we can't reach them at all."

Luo Tuo became furious, grabbed the officer by the neck, and asked, "If we can't hit the Ming army, how did the Ming army's artillery hit us?"

This is difficult for Luo Tuo, a completely classical general, to understand. He doesn't understand the principles of artillery, and he doesn't think he needs to, let alone how far these artillery can hit.Anyway, there is such a corrupt saying outside, Luo Tuo has seen a lot of cannons on the battlefield, and he doesn't think there is any problem.

The gunners of the Qing army also didn’t have anything like a cannon watch. They fired guns entirely by feeling. They found that they fired a few shots based on experience, and they didn’t even touch the hair of the Ming army. Then it must be an explanation—— —The artillery of the Ming army was much farther than the artillery of the Qing army.

Just as Luo Tuo was thinking of a solution, he suddenly heard a Qing army officer shouting in a hurry: "General, something is wrong, Beitang has been breached by the Ming army, and now the Ming army who broke through Beitang is rushing to Dagu. , our army is under attack!"

"What? Why is Beitang gone?!"

"It's a deliberate strategy by the enemy to make us think that they are mainly attacking Dagu and lower our guard against Beitang."

Luo Tuo now knew that he was in serious trouble, not only because of the enemy shelling at sea, but he could only stand next to him and not pay back.The Ming army attacking from the shore may directly cut off their retreat, and create an unfavorable situation for Dagu to attack from both sides.

"No, you can't let the Ming army approach the city of Dagu, and destroy this Ming army for me!" Luo Tuo quickly made his own choice, dispatching reinforcements from Dagu, first destroying this Ming army that has already landed, and even If possible, take Beitang back and completely drive Nanming into the sea.

(End of this chapter)