Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 729 Capture Wu Chung
Thinking of how his master often blows his nose and wipes it on the oil sheet with his hands before continuing to cut and cook vegetables, Fu Ji feels that this is simply a matter of two worlds.

The poultry is divided into different parts according to the standards of the meat factory, refrigerated, and then processed into food supply units.Taking such an approach is first of all hygienic, and secondly it can effectively control the quantity and nutritional content of meals supplied to each soldier.Simply chopping and cooking ten chickens and ducks with bones is difficult to measure when distributing them, and it is impossible for every soldier to get food of consistent quality. It is difficult to monitor the quality and will aggravate the phenomenon of fraud.Soldiers who distribute food can give someone two chicken legs and only give others two chicken feet according to their personal relationships and likes and dislikes.

After taking the split supply, everything is exactly the same except for a slight difference in size.One chicken leg per person is a chicken leg - the number of chicken legs is supplied according to the head, and if there is less, the quartermaster sergeant and the cooking soldier will be compensated - unambiguously, this is the "quantitative management" that Wen Desi has always advocated.

Splitting the supply maximizes utilization, and nothing goes to waste after a bird enters the processing center.In addition to the meat, offal, and blood that are suitable for consumption, the parts that are not suitable for consumption are dried and ground into feed and fertilizer.Even the feathers are not wasted, they are all packaged and shipped back to Lingao, where after being sterilized, the down is stored for making down jackets in the future, and the poor quality is processed into feather meal as feed——Xun Suji and several chemical experts Let's study together to see if it can be used to make soy sauce.

Fu Ji soon became a journeyman.When he sent the decomposed parts one by one to the freezer trolley, he couldn't help but slam his mouth—when will it be his turn to eat these good things?
Eating at a food processing center is much better than at a camp.Three meals are brown rice, a large pot of chicken soup and duck soup boiled with cabbage - it is boiled with chicken and duck shells that have been cleaned of meat, and the taste is not bad.After dinner, the chicken shells that have no edible value will be recycled and ground into bone meal, which is said to be used to fertilize the fields.

"Australian gentlemen probably come from poor families." Fu Ji thought so.I couldn't help but feel a little intimacy with these people.

The sailors who had withdrawn to Humen rested and trained for a few days, and the big whale sailed tremblingly on the river a few times. When the river began to feel a bit chilly, Chen Haiyang finally received an order from Lingao:

"Negotiations failed, and the boat was moored at Baietan immediately."

"Now we are going to shell Guangzhou—it seems that we have reached this point." Chen Haiyang handed the telegram to the confidential female secretary beside him, "Immediately call a meeting of the detachment leader and all the elders!"

November 11 was chosen as the day for the fleet to set sail.It was a sunny day, but autumn on the Pearl River during the Little Ice Age was already evident. The soldiers changed out of their tropical military uniforms and put on long-sleeved sailor uniforms of thicker spring and autumn styles.The five spy boat squadrons and artillery boat squadrons that attacked Wuchong were escorted by a large group of small boats such as sampans and long dragons, and sailed upstream.

The big whale staggered at the end of the fleet, and the dazzling array of objects on it and the black smoke that kept spewing out were very eye-catching in the fleet.People on both sides of the strait are saying that this is the "monster" of the Australians.

They have initially established a "prestige" in the Pearl River Delta region. The common people know that the Australians have strict discipline and never harass the common people. As long as they obey the orders of the Australians, their lives and properties will not be threatened.Maybe it can change the fate and have a better life.The fleet will go upstream mightily, and there will be a group of captains who are good at management, driving ships of various sizes to follow behind the fleet, and the ships are filled with all kinds of food, melons and fruits that Australians may be interested in. , ready to sell to the fleet at any time.Many children from rich families who have nothing to do on weekdays know that Australians are not heroes who kill the rich and help the poor, so they boldly hire boats to follow behind and look at the rare diorama-the scene of Australians bombarding Humen is added to this area. The news spread, and many people wanted to see the rare scene of cannon shooting with their own eyes.Everyone can also guess that the Australians are going to Wuchong - the place has been crowded with officers and soldiers recently, built a fort, and brought in many red barbarian cannons.

"This will require a big battle." The idlers hired boats to eat and drink, and followed the fleet with women in their arms.Very enthusiastically looking forward to seeing a vigorous and spectacular cannon battle.

Xu Tingfa, who was stationed in Wuyong, heard the soldiers report that a lot of black smoke appeared on the river.He quickly put on his armor and led his soldiers to the watchtower.On the river in the distance, dozens of black smoke billowed straight into the sky, and there were more than 20 large ships and countless small boats on the river, densely packed along the Pearl River.This appearance reminded him of the scene in Humen.

The defense of Wuyong has been greatly strengthened in more than a month after the Battle of Humen.The officers and soldiers densely arranged ten hastily built earth-rock structures or sandbag fortresses here, and installed 84 Hongyi cannons and 160 Dafolang cannons—almost all the Hongyi cannons in Guangdong were collected. Even the cannons originally planned to be transferred to Fujian, Shandong and the capital were embezzled.

Li Fengjie sent 24 troops here, of which [-] were Shui Yong. , There were so many people that they couldn't even stand on the battlefield.There are also [-] naval warships-half of which are salt boats and rice boats collected temporarily.

However, Xu Tingfa, who was in charge of the defense, didn't think it was possible for him to defend Wuyong at all—unless the wooden stakes and iron chains hit at the mouth of the river could stop the boats of the bandits.

In order to cheer up the generals who were said to be frightened, or to supervise them not to escape, Li Fengjie originally planned to send Guangzhou soldiers to Wuyong to supervise the battle.However, Nantou City, Dongguan, where he was stationed, had been blocked by thieves, and the messenger could not arrive.Li Fengjie had to resend Chen Yingyuan, the Zuo Buzheng envoy, to Wuyong.

After Chen Yingyuan arrived in Wuyong, he summoned Xu Tingfa. During the conversation, he felt that this person was passively avoiding the battle, and he was simply the face of a "surrenderer", so he kicked him away and personally arranged Wuyong's preparations for the battle.

Wuchong is the outer mouth of Huangpu Port, and it is named after the Wuchong River in Huangpu.At the confluence of the Wuyong River and the Pearl River, there is a small island called Ma Chung Wai.The main defensive position of Wuyong Fort is located on this small island.

Because the fort on Ma Yongwei Island is the main position and bears the brunt of the attack, the fortifications are relatively strong. Chen Yingyuan personally supervised the two counties of Nanhai and Panyu, recruited a large number of civilians, and built a civil structure artillery fort on the south side of Ma Yongwei.There are 44 blastholes on the thick and high wall, and 44 Hongyi cannons are erected.

In addition to laying three rows of wooden piles to block the river surface, there is also an iron chain across the river, which is moored with wooden rafts, and there is also a sand ship specially nailed and sealed on the iron chain, with 10 large Francophones on it. gun.The purpose of this ship is not only to stabilize the iron chain and prevent it from being washed away by the river, but also to prevent the enemy from directly sending fire boats to burn the iron chain—all the battles that Chen Yingyuan has seen in the book to crack the Hengjiang iron chain The method is to burn with fire.So he made a special countermeasure.

He heard that the gunfire of the Kun bandits was very powerful and had a long range, so he ordered all the newly built artillery positions to be pushed forward, and some of them were simply built on the tidal flats. He also learned from the generals and soldiers that the Kun bandits often used The small boat landed, and troops were sent to attack the fort from the side and rear, rendering the cannon useless.Therefore, bamboo sticks, caltrops, and repelling horses are widely arranged on the periphery of each fort, and one hundred soldiers are added to each fort, ready to fight with the thieves who landed at any time.In order to prevent the soldiers from being killed by the superior artillery fire of the Kun bandits, they ordered trenches to be dug on the river bank for the soldiers to use to avoid the artillery fire.

For some reason, Chen Yingyuan was full of inexplicable confidence in the hand-to-hand and close-to-hand combat capabilities of the officers and soldiers-since the gun thieves have powerful firearms, close-to-hand combat must be very common.Maybe they will be defeated as soon as they see the officers and soldiers coming out to fight hand-to-hand.Therefore, his idea of ​​using troops is to ensure that the soldiers will survive under the superior artillery fire of the thieves—at least until the thieves rush to the edge of the trench.

Xu Tingfa was very respectful to Chen Yingyuan, almost obeying his advice.Chen Yingyuan can do whatever he wants.When asking for his opinions, he was always dealt with with words such as "only adults follow the lead", "adults are wise", "the late generals don't read much, and their strategy is even shallower".

Originally, he was a small coastal defense general, and his status could not be compared with Guangdong Zuo Buzheng.Standing up for one's own opinion is nothing but self-defeating.However, he was extremely disapproving of Master Chen's various arrangements.In his opinion, unless a thick fortress is built with "solid stones", such a fortress, which is just a wall facing the river, will have no effect at all.Needless to say, the shells fired by the Kun Thief's ship guns are indestructible, even if the large-scale ten thousand enemies thrown by the Kun Thief's "Lightning Strike Boat" fall behind the wall, they can blow up the gunners. Not bad, what cannons are fired.

As for the approach of pushing forward the fortress, it is even more absurd.Could it be that if you push forward, the other party can't retreat?Furthermore, the fort was pushed forward, and the tide flooded in to erode the fort. After a long time, I am afraid that the fort itself would be washed away before the bandits came to fire the cannon.

He was watching the enemy's situation, when he suddenly saw that Chen Yingyuan had personally led his own soldiers and generals, and passed the pontoon bridge erected on the Wuyong River to the Mayong Wai.It seemed that he was going to go to the front line to supervise the battle in person.Xu Tingfa didn't dare to neglect, he hurriedly got off the watchtower and went to the island with his own soldiers.

Chen Yingyuan was wearing a third-rank official uniform, black gauze on his head, a cloak, and a sword hanging from his waist. Surrounded by a group of personal soldiers, Chen Yingyuan climbed to the highest point of the Mayongwei Fort, looking majestic and majestic.

"This is the gateway to Guangzhou and the key to the city of Yangzhou. The soldiers must work together to destroy this ugly creature!" Chen Yingyuan shouted in a high-pitched voice.

Xu Tingfa hurried forward to ask him to supervise the battle on the north bank.

"What are you talking about, general?" Chen Yingyuan seemed impassioned, "I am here to supervise the battle under the order of the Lord Fujun. It is related to the safety of the provincial capital. How dare the students have thoughts of coveting life and fearing death?"

Xu Tingfa groaned secretly - if this Zuo Buzheng really died here in a moment of confusion, his responsibility would be great.Now take care of one of my cronies, go to contact with Chen Yingyuan's relatives, and if there is any danger, he will rush to hug him and run across the bridge.For this reason, he let his own soldiers control the pontoon bridge on the Wuyong River.

1630年11月1日，由李广发的13中队护送测量船“海天”号为前锋，特遣队抵达距离广州城30公里的乌涌炮台。

Under the escort of the spy boat, Haitian first approached Wuchong to measure the water depth.When the ship came within the range of the cannons of Wuchong Fort, Chen Yingyuan immediately ordered the cannons to be fired.All of a sudden, gunpowder smoke rose from the entire Ma Chung Wai Island, and all the artillery positions on the fort, regardless of direction or range, fired.All kinds of shells pulled smoke trails of different heights and distances and shot towards Haitian, most of them fell far away from the ship, and only a few shells approached the side of the ship.

Haitian immediately turned its rudder and left the range.It has obtained enough water depth information, and at the same time roughly ascertained the range and power of the artillery on the island.

A few minutes later, the information was notified to each squadron by semaphore.Chen Haiyang ordered that the No. 13 Squadron would take the lead and approach Ma Chung Wai Island to start shelling.

The four cannon squadrons approached the fort in a column formation according to the old method, approached to 500 meters under the heavy artillery fire fired by the fort, and then turned the rudder.

Although the Hongyi cannons of the officers and soldiers have a maximum range of 1000 steps, because the fort is not arranged on an open-air pier, but behind a thick civil wall, the opening on the wall is very small. Moreover, there is no room for adjustment of the left, right, up, and down shooting angles, and the shells can only be fired according to a fixed shooting angle.Although it is spectacular when firing continuously, the shells rarely fly near the spy boat.

The 13th Squadron completed the rudder steering under artillery fire and fired spherical bombs and incendiary bombs 500 meters away.The various squadrons behind also turned the rudder one after another to follow up the bombardment.

A round of shelling by 4 squadrons destroyed the entire fort on Ma Chung Wai Island.In some places the barriers have collapsed.Most artillery has been completely silenced.No matter how the officers yelled, the intercepting soldiers had already begun to flee.As for Shui Yong, who was transferred to the island to defend the fort, he fled faster——compared with the officers and soldiers, these temporary workers had weaker fighting will, and they began to run away as soon as the cannon fired.

The Fubo army still adopts the old tactics. After the battleship equipped with cannon eliminates the threat of the enemy's artillery counterattack, the bombardment boat squadron approaches and projects large-caliber grenades: the bombardment boat approaches to a distance of 400 meters from the shore and bombards Ma Yong with a 280mm mortar Wai Island.The violent explosion engulfed the fort like a tide. After several rounds of artillery, most of the Wuyong Fort was destroyed, and there was no one on the shore.The sampans and small launch boats, carrying the sailors, began to land on the beach in the south of the island.

The officers and soldiers and Shui Yong who had been ambushing in the trenches in advance did not suffer many casualties in the shelling. At this time, they suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the soldiers with a shout. The latter always belonged to the army with strict discipline and better organization and training. In just 5 minutes of hand-to-hand combat, about 50 people fell under the bayonets of the sea soldiers, and only 2 sea soldiers were killed by bows and arrows and spears because they were caught off guard.

Now that the south bank of the Ma Chung Wai Fort has been lost, the remaining cannons on the fort have completely failed.Only a few soldiers continued to resist relying on trenches.

At the same time as the frontal attack, another company took sampans and Xiaofa to advance to the north bank of the Pearl River. Since this can cover the side of the Wuyong Fort, Chen Yingyuan deployed three sandbag fortresses and hundreds of water warriors in a surprise attack a few days ago.

The spy boat followed the landing troops, ready to use artillery fire to "wash the ground" on the officers' and soldiers' forts at any time, and the typewriter on the small boat was also ready to fire at any time.At this time, a southeast wind suddenly blew on the river, the waves were rough, and the water level soared. Because the three artillery fortresses were too close to the shore, they were flooded in an instant.The gunpowder accumulated on the battery was completely soaked.Shui Yong and the gunner lost their last bit of courage, and collapsed without firing a single shot.

Xu Tingfa saw that the fort on the north bank had missed, and knew that if he didn't escape, he would be flanked by front and back, and he would be stuck on the island waiting to die.Immediately shouted: "Send the adults away quickly!"

Chen Yingyuan's soldiers rushed forward and helped him onto the horse without any explanation. Xu Tingfa immediately led the soldiers to lead the way.He ran away from the chaotic army, and was the first to run across the pontoon bridge and escaped from danger.

Now that the cover behind the side of the defensive fort has been broken, only bamboo sticks, barbed wire and horses can rely on the open side of the Wuyong Fort.The marine team pulled two 2-pound mountain grenades from the sampan and bombarded them from the back of the Wuchong Fort, and the small number of troops still on the island were completely disintegrated.

The sailors who landed rushed onto the island like a tide, and hundreds of officers and soldiers on the island had already been dispersed, and there were many casualties in the front and rear pincers of artillery fire, rifles and bayonets.Some soldiers fought bravely with Shui and retreated to the Wuyong River.The Wuchong River is about ten meters wide. There was originally a pontoon bridge connecting the island with the north bank of the Pearl River.After Xu Tingfa led Chen Yingyuan across the bridge, hundreds of soldiers who had been guarding the bridge dispersed in a hurry.The sailors who landed on the north bank quickly seized the bridgehead and fired dense bullets at the officers, soldiers and sailors who were trying to get past.Suddenly people turned on their backs on the bridge, and dead bodies borrowed each other.

Facing the enemy who was blocking the front and chasing after them, the officers and soldiers had no way to retreat, and finally they were completely destroyed in the two-way attack.216 people were killed and 200 were captured.

After the fall of Mayongwei Island, the defense system of the entire Wuyong Fort collapsed completely.The officers and soldiers on the forts and warships guarding the various roads collapsed and fled without waiting for the attack.The sailors occupied the forts and barracks one by one as if accepting them peacefully.A small detachment boarded the deserted sand boat tied to the chain and dismantled the chain across the Pearl River.This huge iron chain is obviously a valuable trophy-enough to recover several tons of iron.

(End of this chapter)