Great Qing Dynasty talker

Chapter 440: The people of Southern Fujian are going crazy, and even the Cantonese can’t keep the lid on their pots!
After seeing that the main artillery position of the Qing army was severely damaged,

Saxon gunners no longer used iron bullets, but stone bullets instead.

The stone bullet fell to the ground.

Under the huge impact force, it broke into countless small stones. It is not a shotgun, but it is better than a shotgun.

After several rounds of artillery fire, the Qing army suffered heavy casualties and its morale completely collapsed.

To the Qing army, any weapon that was beyond their understanding was sorcery.

The crowd shouted:

"The barbarians have some magic~"

Then they ran away in panic, avoiding the horrific rain of bullets.

……

but,
The tenacious resistance of the artillery batteries on both sides eventually bought preparation time for the more than 40 warships of the Fujian Navy anchored in the port.

Some warships raised their sails and weighed anchor, trying to rush out of the port~
The Saxon fleet certainly wouldn't let them break out.

They continued to fire at the several large silk-carrying ships that were in the front.

sea ​​surface,

The air was filled with smoke and the sound of cannons rumbled.

Liu Wu was very excited.
This was the first time I witnessed such a large-scale naval battle.

He even ran to the deck just to get a full view of the battlefield.

Left front,
The sail of a Qing warship was hit by a hot bomb and caught fire.
Right front,
The main mast of a Qing warship was cut in half by a chain bullet, which fell and smashed the rudder, causing the entire ship to completely lose power.

suddenly,

A brave Qing army paddle boat rushed out from the side~
The angle was very tricky. He approached from the bow and tried to board the ship with his flying claws and swing a large blade.

……

Among the marines on board, four lobster soldiers rushed to the bow and took over the deck rotating cannon - a small Franco-German machine that could rotate more than 4 degrees.

Shotgun blasts out.

The paddle boats were a river of blood.

After firing two consecutive shots, the lobster soldiers half-crouched and fired with their flintlock rifles.

sea ​​surface,

It is very difficult to shoot accurately with a single bullet. The lobster soldier's gun chamber contains three combined bullets: one large and two small.

A sailor crouched behind the side of the ship and lit the fuse of the black sphere.
Then throw ~
Boom, boom, boom~
The continuous explosions were mixed with the screams of the wounded.

This is one of the standard weapons of the Royal Navy. Its original purpose was to throw a few into the enemy's ship's cabin after boarding, causing the inside to howl with ghosts and wolves.

then,

Everyone shouted "for freedom" again, rushed into the cabin with knives and axes raised, killing people and setting fire.

Anyway,

The Royal Navy is very professional.

Liu Wu watched with great interest.

……

An unexpected thing happened.

Because six Qing warships were sunk in succession, the port channel was blocked!

Adelaide frowned.

Looking at the more than 30 large ships huddled in the harbor,

Liu Wu was also very unhappy!
You must know that every move your Majesty makes is not made casually.

When the memorandum was signed, both parties had a tacit understanding and did not put the "bombardment of the Fujian Navy" on paper.

something,
You can do it, but you can't say it.

It would be a big stain on paper.

When I return to London,

Some people will attack Adelaide, saying that she is "willing to be a thug for another country, getting involved in wars for no reason, and accepting black money from the Wu State."

A hundred years later,

It is estimated that some people would attack Emperor Wu Yu, who should have been no longer alive at that time, for "colluding with the West, killing his own people, and lacking the virtue of an emperor."

……

Anyway,

Humans are very fickle animals, with ever-changing ideas.

As long as you think you are wrong, you will definitely be able to find wrong evidence, and as long as you want to find, you will definitely find stains.

No,

You can also slander you for stealing ashes~
the above,

Li Yu understands, and Adelaide understands too.

Although we don't speak the same language, we all share the same human nature.

……

Bombard the Fujian Navy.

For the Wu State, it could reduce the risk of merchant ships passing through the Tainan Strait and at the same time weaken the Qing army in Fujian.

For the East India Company, it was a token of allegiance.

Since then,

Everyone can do business happily without any grudges.

As the person in charge of the company, there is no problem for Adelaide to do this.

All shareholders will actively support him.

That's enough.

Even London did not dare to punish the united East India Company.

after all,

The East India Company's power to wage war was granted by the King.

Wu Ting didn't believe it before, but now he can believe it.

……

"Lower the sampans and the marines go ashore."

"Yes."

Adelaide decided to go all the way.

He knew that everything he did today would be reported to Li Yu.

Every shot fired by the Marines is not in vain.

future,

The State of Wu would return the money tenfold and give it back to itself in the form of trade.

Adelaide's ultimate goal is to completely monopolize the export trade of Wu's tea, silk and porcelain.

Money is not a problem.
The company sent people to London and Paris to give a few speeches, and bankers would come knocking on the door.

Particularly promising companies never worry about money. Investors will line up outside the door and give them as much money as they want.

The world is not short of capital; what it lacks is companies that can multiply the capital tenfold or a hundredfold.

……

20 small sampans loaded with fully armed lobster soldiers began to land.

Build a position,

At the same time, look for suitable locations for shelling.

Adelaide prepared to unload the cannons and transport them ashore to sink the large ships at their berths.

Admiral Huang Shijian was so angry that he almost had a cerebral hemorrhage.

He angrily threw the hat to the ground and roared:

"The barbarians are too bullying."

"Recruit a death squad to kill! the! barbarians!"

Old rules,
The "silver content" of the Suicide Squad is very high.

Each person received 10 taels, 40 taels if they came back alive, and 80 taels if they died.

This reward.

It was enough for the Qing army to go all in.

……

The Saxon warships cruised on the sea, using long-range artillery fire to cover 150 lobster soldiers who relied on the terrain to block these crazy enemies.

A long cannon, as the name suggests, is a long-barreled cannon.

The advantages are long range and great power.

The disadvantage is that it is heavy and takes a lot of time to load.

Therefore,
The Royal Navy and the Wu Navy both reduced the proportion of long guns and increased the proportion of short guns.

One shell after another,

The Qing army's suicide squad suffered heavy casualties during the charging

Combined with the lobster soldiers' accurate shooting skills, the suicide squad fell one after another.

A garrison officer choked with sobs and advised:

"General, we can't charge any further. We are all old brothers who have raised the bar. If one dies, one less."

Huang Shijian was so angry that he hit his head with his fist.

He had fought pirates in the Strait and suppressed Han uprisings and indigenous rebellions on Dayuan Island, but he had never felt as cowardly as he did today.

……

The Saxon sailors took great pains to unload the three ship-borne guns and then transported them to the beach with difficulty.

2 mortars, 1 cannon~
Logically,
They cannot compete with the dozens of warships in the port.

No matter how bad the Qing army is,

The quantity is here.

but,

The artillery position that the lobster soldiers were looking for was too tricky to locate, behind a hill.

The hills are not too high, but the angles are tricky~
The mortar fires a parabolic trajectory.

The Fujian Navy fought back with cannon fire and bullets raining down.

However, it was impossible to hit the artillery position.

……

The mortar was extremely powerful, and the shells drew a graceful arc and landed on the Qing warships.

The hull split in the middle instantly.
Huang Shijian was extremely anxious.
Those warships that were on fire were the result of his hard work and the foundation of his Haicheng family.

Under his strict orders,

The Qing army once again gathered 2000 people to launch an attack. Due to the distance, the accuracy of the supporting artillery fire from the sea was greatly reduced.

The lobster soldiers finally felt the pressure of death and quickly turned their guns around, bombarding the Qing infantry with shrapnel.

After fighting for half an hour,

The lobster soldiers suffered more than 40 casualties, and the Qing army suffered over 500 casualties.

4 charges, 4 defeats.

The fleeing soldiers cried out:

"General, the barbarian artillery is weird. When the brothers charged, there was a loud bang, and then the shells fell from the sky like hail, and the brothers fell to the ground in a rush."

……

One side has fewer people but more fierce artillery fire.

One side has more people, so the fighting goes on and off.

Time passed slowly, and Adelaide sent another 100 mercenaries carrying ammunition and food to land as reinforcements.

The sun sets, and the setting sun is blood-red.

The Saxons were busy building simple fortifications and lighting dozens of bonfires on the outskirts.

The night is full of dangers.

But for Huang Shijian, it is a chance of life.

He gathered a large number of fishermen from Tongan and promised them huge profits.

Under the torches, boxes of silver ingots shone with a strange luster.

"The barbarian soldiers are brutal, burning, killing and looting. I am recruiting warriors to launch a night attack."

"Anyone who participates can come here to receive 10 taels of silver and a knife."

"I am Huang Shijian, the hereditary Duke of Haicheng and the admiral of the Fujian Navy. I swear to Mazu that I will receive the reward of fifty taels of silver for each head of the foreign soldiers at sunrise tomorrow."

……

The people of Tongan nodded one after another.

I believe you.

It’s not because of your title of admiral, but because you just swore an oath to Mazu.

In southern Fujian,
Anyone can be deceived except Mazu.

The scene was a mess.
Queue up to receive silver and weapons.

Some fishermen think that waist knives are difficult to use and still use the steel forks they are familiar with.

With tears in his eyes, Huang Shijian clasped his fists and bowed to everyone one by one, without any airs of a first-rank official or hereditary duke.

……

In the circular fortification,
The Saxons deployed 30 sentries, who took turns every hour and did not dare to be negligent.

suddenly,

The sound of a gong was heard in the night, and this harsh instrument successfully woke everyone up.

Gunshots rang out one after another.

but,

A false alarm.

The lobster soldiers cursed and continued to sleep.

no one noticed

The furthest bonfires were covered with sand.

After 2 quarters of an hour,

The gongs and drums were beating loudly again.

Everyone quickly got up and started firing their guns, with muzzle flames piercing the night sky.

……

So repeatedly,

When the gong sounded for the 13th time, the lobster soldiers no longer wanted to respond. They still held their guns, closed their eyes, and dozed off.

Don't cry wolf too often.

After shouting so much, everyone becomes numb.

2 mile away,

Thousands of barefoot people crawled silently on the beach.

In this wave of attacking forces, except for 500 Qing army rattan shield soldiers, the rest were mostly Tongan civilians.

The sparse sound of gongs covered up the rustling noise made by the crawling.

Until we were 80 feet from the circular fortification,
The Qing army was exposed.

boom,
The sentry decisively fired at the shadow and shouted, "The enemy is coming."

……

in the dark,
A Qing army officer stood up and shouted:
"Fellow villagers, one head costs 50 taels. Mazu witnessed it, and no one dares to deny it."

moment,

More than 2000 civilians charged forward barefoot, howling and holding steel pitchforks.

opposite,

There was continuous gunfire and people were shot and fell down one after another.

but,

Once the Minnan people get mad, even the Cantonese people can’t hold down the pot lid, let alone the barbarians.

The lobster soldiers fired 1 round.
The people of Tongan rushed into the fortifications.

Bayonet vs harpoon
Fist to Teeth
The sound of gunfire was almost gone, leaving only the sound of metal colliding and people screaming in agony.

……

A Gurkha mercenary threw away his rifle and drew the knife from his waist.

brush,
Cut off the arm of the fisherman on the opposite side.

Seconds later, he was stabbed by another harpoon.

Three blood holes
Falling to the ground and twitching,

The fisherman picked up a knife from the ground and cut off the head.

Mazu witnessed,

This was not a bloody head, but an ingot of official silver weighing 50 taels.

……

halfway,
A cannon fired.

The hot shotgun shells wiped out more than 30 people fighting in front of the muzzle.

then,

The Saxon gunner was hacked into pieces by the angry fishermen who rushed over from all directions.

The Qing army's rattan shield players also displayed their prowess.

He blocked with a rattan shield, chopped up and stabbed down, and in a one-on-one situation he actually crushed the opponent's bayonet.

……

Night attack plus close combat.

The brave people of Tongan wiped out the lobster soldiers who landed at the cost of more than 100 casualties.

More than 200 bodies, all headless.

When cleaning the battlefield,
A clever ghost discovered the place where the bodies of the lobster soldiers who had died in the previous battle were stored.

They mercilessly stripped off the shroud and red uniform, chopped off the not-so-fresh head and took it back for the reward.

In the distance, the dark sea surface,
On the Boyne, Adelaide's face was dark.

He realized that the landing marines would be in great danger, but he could do nothing about it.
For a time,

The assessment of the Qing army's combat effectiveness rose slightly by 1 point.

"God bless."

"Let's fire."

……

The aimless bombardment prompted the Tongan fishermen to quickly finish cleaning up the battlefield and return with the heads to collect their rewards.

Huang Shijian redeemed the reward on the spot.
An ingot of official silver worth 50 taels shows great sincerity.

The people of southern Fujian would rather not shortchange themselves on the promises they make to Mazu.

otherwise,

As soon as you go out to sea, Mazu will punish you.

Anyway,

He successfully turned the situation around, killed all the foreign soldiers who had landed, and seized dozens of relatively intact flintlock rifles and two intact cannons.

……

the next morning,

Adelaide saw the body thrown into the sea and her face turned blue with anger.

Found Liu Wu:
"General Liu. If we have enough Marines to cooperate, we will definitely be able to annihilate the Fujian Navy. But now, I think we should not waste precious time here. We have more important things to do!"

Liu Wu nodded:

"I understand that your army has done its best."

"Long live understanding, everything is for the overall interests of trade."

……

The chaplain on board put on a clean robe and stood at the bow.
Hands on the Bible,

Pray for the soldiers who died in battle.
The pure beauty of the voice,

Even the rough sailors on the deck couldn't help but slow down their pace and devoutly bathe in the light of God.

after that,

The fleet circled the island, bombarded every house within sight for a quarter of an hour, and then sailed away.

The remnants of the Fujian navy escaped the disaster, and so did Haicheng Gong Huang Shijian.

……

Away from the coastline,

Adelaide wrote in her logbook:
"The fleet sailed to Xiamen Bay and encountered provocation from the Tartar navy near the coast. Our fleet immediately retaliated, destroying 15 large Tartar ships and killing and injuring more than 3000 sailors."

"However, the despicable Tatars killed 250 of our landing soldiers with a shameless night attack tactic."

"In this battle, I was surprised to find that the Tatar navy was poorly armed. Their ships were full of huge flaws from materials to design, and there was nothing to recommend them. They didn't seem to have any specialized warships~"

"The Tatar infantrymen do not suffer from night blindness, which may be related to their diet structure, which is that they consume a lot of fish."

"As a noble, I usually don't remember people who have done me a favor. But I will never forget people who have made me a grudge."

"I will be back!"

(End of this chapter)