Anti-Qing: Starting from the Reincarnation of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 348 Bombardment of Dagukou

"Your Highness, this is the current specific situation in Zhili!"

"The Qing government concentrated almost the entire Zhili army on the Baoding front line for the civil war."

"Except for the capital, which still retains a considerable number of garrison troops, the rest of the place is completely empty!"

"As for Tianjin, an important coastal defense town, the Qing army only had 3,000 green battalions stationed there."

Zhang Jin strode into the war room and came to Zhu Jing'an to report.

Just now, the Ming army's spies deployed in the Zhili area just received this news.

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, his face showed a look of surprise. The baton in his hand clicked on the map, marking the current deployment of the Qing army's forces.

And secretly thinking about how the Ming army should use its troops in this landing operation!

Zhang He on the side saw this and suggested.

"Your Highness, the Qing government currently has less than 3,000 troops stationed in the direction of Dagukou in Tianjin. It will not be a problem for our army to attack Dagukou by force."

Immediately, Zhu Jing'an began to lay out a combat plan and assigned combat tasks to various parts of the Ming army.

Subsequently, Yonglin and Yongrong also reinforced Dagukou.

……

"That makes sense!"

The baton in Zhu Jing'an's hand moved on the map, indicating the specific march route of the Ming army.

It's a pity that what the Qing army has to face this time is not the British and French coalition forces that don't have much strength in the east.

How should I put it, Zhu Jing'an is also planning to turn the Old Summer Palace into a royal garden, so he can go there to escape the summer heat when he has nothing to do.

If such a big Yuanmingyuan was destroyed by war, the cost of rebuilding it would be too high.

Each fort is built with rammed earth, reinforced with green bricks, and has sandbag bunker fortifications on the outside.

"Keep the war out of the capital!"

"No mistakes!"

He, Old Zhu, doesn’t want to do such a wasteful thing!

After hearing the words, the generals agreed one after another.

Dagukou!

As the gateway to the capital and an important coastal defense town, when Qianlong was still alive, he ordered the reinforcement of the coastal defense fortress at Dagukou several times.

But the main force of the Ming Army!

Moreover, the Qing army's troops in Dagukou were still relatively empty, and their elite troops had been transferred to Baoding and the capital.

The entire defense fortifications in Dagukou are quite complete!

If the Qing army had such a fortress at Dagukou according to the original historical line, it would have been impossible for the British and French forces to land in Tianjin and invade the capital.

"Try to successfully recapture the capital before the Qing army in Baoding reacts."

Several trenches were dug before and after!

Each trench can be connected to each other, and at the key nodes where the trenches are connected, there are semi-buried bunkers...

But he couldn't bear to let the war spread to the capital!

"Gu's idea is that after our army captures Dagukou, we will quickly seize Tianjin Fucheng, and then march towards the capital along the Tonghui River."

When Zhu Jing'an heard this, he thought for a while and then nodded.

A lot of artillery positions were added to Dagukou!

Now the coastal defense fortress at Dagu Port can be said to be impregnable!

The entire Dagu Port Defense Fortress is divided into three parts, namely the East Fort, the West Fort, and the Central Fort.

The city defense in Dagukou, Tianjin is too empty now!

At dawn, the sun rises in the east, and the vast sea is illuminated red by the rising sun. From a distance, it looks like a sea of ​​blood.

Yu Laoqi yawned, rubbed his sleepy eyes and stood up from the bed next to the gun emplacement, then staggered out.

He stayed up all night playing mahjong with his brothers on the fort last night, and didn't go to bed until almost dawn.

After squinting for a while, he couldn't hold back his urine anymore. Now it was time to feel sleepy.

Arriving at the corner behind the fort, Yu Laoqi untied his belt and splashed water happily.

This feeling of opening a gate to release floods made him squint his eyes comfortably.

Another Qing soldier who was also peeing on the side saw this and asked.

"Brother Seven, do you want to touch two more tonight?" Guarding the coastal defense forts has always been a hard job.

Obviously, many Qing soldiers could not stand the hardship and began to find ways to cheat.

There are those who are lazy and sleep at night, and there are those who gather together to drink, gamble, money and whore women, but there are no people who are on duty properly.

This is especially true for veterans like Yu Qi, who have long since stopped taking French military discipline seriously.

After draining the water, Yu Laoqi curled his lips and said after hearing what Guo Liuzi said.

"Let's talk about it tonight, I'm almost exhausted now."

"Go back to bed first!"

Seeing this, Guo Liu looked hesitant to speak, but finally nodded and said.

"Okay, listen to Brother Qi!"

Yu Laoqi fastened his belt, returned to his gun position on the fort, and prepared to lie down and continue sleeping.

However, just as Yu Laoqi lay down, he heard a sound like thunder on the ground.

Yu Laoqi, who was about to fall asleep, was shaken by the sound of the cannon. His eyes widened instantly and he got up from the ground with a crash.

Xuanji yelled at the top of his lungs.

"Who fired the cannon?"

"Which turtle grandson fired the cannon? He fucked his grandma, I was scared to death!"

However, Yu Laoqi had just finished cursing halfway when the expression on his face froze.

Because, bursts of shelling sounded again one after another.

Boom! Boom!

The continuous roar of the artillery made Yu Laoqi's ears almost bleed.

Hearing this series of shelling sounds, Yu Laoqi should have realized that something was wrong, no matter how confused he was.

If the artillery is fired by mistake, one shot will be a big deal.

But now the artillery fire was not just one or two blasts.

Yu Laoqi lay on the fort and looked towards the sea. Immediately, he saw a picture that he would never forget.

A large-scale fleet appeared on the sea, and the tall ship seemed to have a hill floating on the sea.

Hundreds of boats, large and small, were connected on the sea in front and behind, and it was so thick that one could not see the edge at a glance.

The gun windows on the sides of the ships in the fleet opened one after another, revealing a dense muzzle.

The black muzzle was pointed directly in the direction of the mouth of Dago, spitting out gunpowder smoke and pouring out firepower unbridled.

boom! boom! Boom boom!

One shell after another landed on the fort at Dagukou, and soon there was a deafening explosion.

The first round of shelling by the Ming fleet used those new types of explosive bombs.

Yu Laoqi looked at the clear flag hanging by the fleet and felt his heart trembling.

He fell down and shouted at the top of his lungs.

"Ming...ming thieves are here to kill!"

"The thieves are here to kill me!"

"All hands meet the enemy..."

Faced with the sudden surprise attack by the Ming army, the Qing army was unable to react at all, and several forts were pulled out one after another under the shelling of the Ming army.

Many artillery pieces were destroyed by the shock wave generated by the explosion!

Seeing this, the Qing troops in the Dagukou Fortress also urgently gathered their forces and prepared to fight back.

(End of this chapter)