Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 229 Mortars Destroy Leizhou (Please subscribe!)
Qin Zhiguo walked over excitedly.

I saw a huge steel ship slowly approaching the pier, and a lot of Ming's large sailing warships.

This is the first steam iron-clad ship built by Anping Armory.

Originally, this ship was allocated to the Guangdong Sea Fleet to transport various iron ore and coal mines, but now it is fully loaded with a large amount of military equipment.

Liu Guoxuan ran down from the boat excitedly.

"Xiao Qin, it looks like you look good!" Liu Guoxuan said with a smile, and patted Qin Zhiguo on the shoulder.

Qin Zhiguo smiled happily and said: "Marquis Wu Ping, the guards are going to fight, of course they look good. The good days of the Tartars are coming to an end, but I have held my breath here. Even my soldiers are all eager to fight. Cut the Tartars into eight pieces."

He continued to smile and said, "There's no need to worry about this. Take these weapons first, and then go and destroy the Qing army."

He asked his soldiers to send down weapons one by one. In addition to the standard 12-pound field guns, 24-pound and 48-pound siege guns, there are also a large number of mortars improved from tiger squat guns.

This is the latest achievement of the Ming Dynasty Royal Manufacturing Bureau.

Daming’s tiger squatting gun is the prototype of the original mortar. The tiger squatting gun has a short barrel, and there are two split brackets in front, which stand on the ground, resembling a squatting tiger, and the bracket in front of the mortar. Isn't it the same?

Moreover, the mortar can also be regarded as a front-mounted smoothbore gun. The difference is that the shells are integrated and the shooting angle can be adjusted.

Of course, the quality of the barrels of the two guns and the power of the shells are naturally incomparable.

The improved version of the tiger squat gun produced by the General Administration of Manufacturing is about one meter long. The barrel is much thinner than the tiger squat gun, but it is completely made of high-quality steel from the steel factory, which ensures sufficient mobility and can be fired at a high elevation angle.

The Tiger Crouch Cannon, which has been improved by the General Administration of Manufacturing, has a total weight of 120 catties and a range of 500 meters. All parts can be disassembled to ensure the marching speed, and it can fire explosive bombs very well!

Although there is still a gap compared with the mortars capable of hitting 8000 meters in the future, mortars with a range of 1500 meters are enough in this era, and the portability of mortars can completely replace the status of Hongyi guns.

This time, Liu Guoxuan escorted over one hundred new tiger squat guns, and five hundred black whirlwind rockets.

The firepower is very fierce. From the perspective of God, I really sweat for the Qing army.

Of course, from God's point of view, there is no need for the green camp of the Qing army to kill too many people. They can be recruited to Luzon and the Nanyang Islands to replenish the population!
Therefore, Zhu Kezang's order to the third guard town, do not indiscriminately kill the soldiers of the green battalion, and the Eight Banners will deal with them at will.

Looking at the new-style tiger squat cannon, Qin Zhiguo's face was full of curiosity.

"Xiao Qin, don't you look like a tiger squatting cannon?" Liu Guoxuan said with a smile, stroking his beard.

Qin Zhiguo has a very good relationship with him, and the two of them work closely together.

Qin Zhiguo was regarded as the younger generation he was more optimistic about. Liu Guoxuan specially introduced him to the unmarried young niece in the family.

When Liu Guoxuan's little niece saw Qin Zhiguo, who had handsome features and a resolute temperament with a hint of tenderness, she immediately fell for her.

From time to time, he would come over to pester Qin Zhiguo, as the saying goes, a strong woman is afraid of pestering her husband. Bah, women chasing men, interlayer gauze.

Liu Guoxuan's little niece is not bad either, she looks pretty good, and is well educated, so Qin Zhiguo obeys.

Qin Zhiguo has since become Liu Guoxuan's nephew and son-in-law, and Liu Guoxuan has become Qin Zhiguo's uncle.

It's a pity that Liu Guoxuan doesn't have a girl to marry, otherwise he will definitely not be cheap to others.

The Guards are in charge of the town, and all of them have a bright future.

Especially the officers from the first town have a much higher status than other towns.

"Uncle, it looks like it was modified by the General Administration based on a tiger crouching cannon." Qin Zhiguo affirmed after carefully examining the new cannon in front of him.

Liu Guoxuan nodded, "That's right, the emperor calls this a tiger squatting mortar!"

"Mortar, the name is loud!"

In fact, this kind of light mortar was very suitable for the special operations in Macau, but because the new type of gun was just developed, the guards were not proficient in using it.

For the surprise attack on Macau, what the guards needed was the black whirlwind rocket, an old weapon that already had muscle memory, so it was handy to use.

Of course, Liu Guoxuan brought not only their weapons, but also a large amount of military rations, such as a large amount of dried fruit, jam, and many conveniently portable military rations.

Almost all standard equipment.

Qin Zhiguo looked at these things, his excitement was beyond words, and he directly sent people to transport these things to the barracks, and then distributed them.

By the way, with these supplies came [-] Johor garrison troops, that is, [-] cannon fodder.

The battle across the sea was carried out in a hurry, and a large number of people gathered and set off for Qiongzhou Military Port.

It just so happens that the southeast wind blows in summer, blowing from the sea to the land, and the Guangdong Sea Fleet sails with the wind. If it goes there, it only takes half a day at most.

When the huge Guangdong Fleet crossed the Qiongzhou Strait and appeared in the waters near Hai'an, the resistance of the Qing army along the coast completely collapsed.

The guards came ashore one after another.

The guards hadn't done anything yet, and the Qing army patrolling along the coast didn't resist at all, as if being chased by a vicious dog, they had long since disappeared.

Only the messy camp and the soft things that cannot be taken away are left behind.

Looking at the camp left by the Qing soldiers, Qin Zhiguo could only lament that the green camp was really cowardly!
The guards didn't make much effort, and the Qing soldiers either fled or surrendered along the way.

The small number of green battalion troops seemed to find themselves powerless, and they might as well surrender instead of resisting being killed.

Moreover, many of the Qing soldiers here were locals from Leizhou, some were old and some were young, and they would not dedicate their lives for that little military salary.

There is another factor, that is, the existence of the offensive concept Army Glory buff will weaken the Qing army's will to resist and is more inclined to surrender.

On the far side of Leizhou Mansion, the Qing soldiers stayed on the city wall bored.

The yellow land outside the city wall is now full of flowers and leaves, and it looks like fertile land.

There are a large number of Qing troops stationed in Leizhou City to prevent thieves from suddenly attacking the city. This place has become an important defensive target.

Because there is a strait in Leizhou Prefecture and the terrain is steep, the Qing Dynasty believed that as long as it was blocked here, Ming thieves would not be able to enter Guangdong.

However, it has been more than a year since the signing of the peace treaty, and Daming has actually done nothing in Qiongzhou Island, and the newly appointed governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Wu Xingzuo, is doing more than doing less, and dare not make big moves in Leizhou Mansion, lest it will be stimulated The Ming army on the other side.

He had experienced despair in Fujian and almost lost his future.

Therefore, the troops on the Leizhou Peninsula are mainly concentrated in Leizhou Fucheng, and there are very few troops along the coast!

Qin Zhiguo's army did not encounter much resistance along the way, and arrived at the capital of Leizhou, which was heavily guarded by the Qing Dynasty.

So the two sides confronted each other here.


(End of this chapter)