Dragon Sea Empire

On the 17th day when the Ming army besieged Xining Fort, the general attack led by Mao Wenlong failed miserably.The Ming army on the North Road collapsed first, and was caught off guard by the sudden arrival of Chinese cavalry from behind.They were almost destroyed by others, but luckily the Chinese cavalry had only about 1500 cavalry, and they were not willing to fight. They took the opportunity to attack the Ming army's camp on the North Road but failed, so they immediately turned around and returned to Xining Fort.

Not more than half an hour after the collapse of the Ming Army on the North Road, the Ming Army on the South Road led by Zhenwuying retreated from the city of Xiningbao. They used the excuse that the pirate army landed on the beach south of the camp and were attacking their camp. The camp is out.

Zhang Pan was able to concentrate all the artillery fire on the Ming army attacking from the front.In the end, [-]% of the cart barriers filled with reed silt were destroyed by the artillery fire of the Chinese Army, and soldiers were killed and injured everywhere.The Ming army that rushed under the city wall had not had time to launch the ant-attached siege, and most of them had been killed by dense grenades and manual machine guns. After the impact twice, the Ming army's elite selection collapsed, and thousands of Ming troops were routed regardless of the supervisory team He tried his best to stop him and fled back to the camp.

Relying on Wang Huazhen's protection, Mao Wenlong rushed to the camps of the Ming army again that night, recruiting elites as the forwards, and using Wang Huazhen's name to forcibly recruit the cavalry of each unit.During the day, all ministries of the Ming army hid behind the mobile anti-battery fence and coped passively. Only those elite ministries caught by Mao Wenlong were driven by the supervising team to attack the city.

Among the Guangning Army's Central Army and other departments, Mao Wenlong is the general who is scolded the most by the soldiers: Everyone says that he is only flattering the peak, regardless of the lives of the soldiers, and sooner or later he will be killed by the cannons of the pirates...

The generals of the various ministries, including Sun Degong, were perfunctory this time, and sent some old and weak miscellaneous soldiers to Mao Wenlong, asking him to take these "elites" to fight in the vanguard.

As for the artillery of the Beijing camp, at the last moment of fierce fighting that day, they were attacked by the cavalry of the Chinese army from the north. Thanks to Liu Qu, the commander-in-chief guarding the camp of the Chinese army, he sent reinforcements in time to drive away the cavalry of the Chinese army.During the cavalry attack of the Chinese Army, many gunpowder barrels on the artillery positions were ignited and detonated, and more than a dozen large-scale and large-scale machine guns were destroyed.Fortunately, nothing happened to the treasure of Paoying - the counterfeit version of Western Red Cannon.Together with the heavy firearms destroyed by the naval cannons in the daytime artillery battle, more than half of the Ming Army artillery team had been lost in just one day of combat.

Therefore, the commander of the Beijing Artillery Brigade told Mao Wenlong bluntly: only half of the cannons will be able to fire when the city is attacked tomorrow.

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At this time, Li Jicheng's cavalry troops triumphantly entered Xining Fort and joined the infantry brothers of the first and fourth divisions in the fortress.Now, a total of nearly 6000 Chinese army regular troops and militia have been assembled in the fortress.The newcomers Li Jicheng, Zhao Yi and others all asked to go out of the city to fight back, but this suggestion was suppressed by Zhang Panhao.According to the order of the general manager of the Liaodong March, all troops must accept Zhang Pan's command after arriving at Xining Fort.

At this time, they didn't know that there was another Chinese army landing on the beach to the south of them and attacked the camp of the Ming army on the south road.

After unsuccessfully attacking the camp of the Ming army, this army immediately returned to the sea, boarded a dozen large sea ships that had been waiting there, and headed south.

In the evening, Zhang Pan set up a few tables of food and wine in his old camp to entertain the friendly generals who came to reinforce them.At this time, the messenger came to report that a messenger from the Second Infantry Division had arrived.

"Where did it come from?"

"Come in from the south gate."

"Fool! I ask, where did the messenger come from?"

The messenger scratched his scalp: "This person has a certificate and a token, is wearing plain clothes, and is soaked all over. He probably came from the reed marshes of the Sancha River."

Supervising officer Guo Yun stood up and said, "I'm going to meet this person and check his identity."

Zhang Pan nodded, and then went on to drink with the friendly generals.

Soon, Guo Yun returned to the house with a strange expression on his face.

"What's going on? Is there something wrong with this person?"

"No, this messenger is indeed the old battalion messenger of the third regiment of the second division. Their regiment leader asked him to deliver a letter, asking us to sneak attack the camp of the Mingjun Town Wuying on the South Road tomorrow night."

Zhang Pan secretly sighed, knowing in his heart that his steady and conservative fighting strategy would definitely not work.These generals of the Chinese army in front of them are all eager to fight, and their desire to make meritorious deeds is extremely strong.This battle is the one that determines the ownership of Liaodong, and it is also the last battle before the Chinese Army signs a contract with the Ming Dynasty. After this battle is over, the Chinese Army may have to wait five years for a large-scale war.In the short term, apart from suppressing rebellion in colonies and vassal states, the Chinese army will not fight any major battles for the time being.

Yes, for many Chinese soldiers, the Battle of Xining Fort was the only chance to make meritorious deeds for a long time.

For ordinary soldiers, meritorious service means that after retiring from the army, they can obtain large tracts of land in Liaodong, Hainan Island, and Luzon. They only need to cultivate for the King of China for five years before they can be passed on to future generations.Merit means that the hundreds of acres of land in the Nanyang colony are tax-free for three years, and after ten years it will be completely their own land, and they can control the aborigines there at will.

Merit has more meanings for military officers: apart from power and status, you can also become a general guarding one side, or become a hereditary island owner of an overseas island, or become a big landlord in a small overseas country. It can also be a large stake in Zhonghua Corporation, owning an ocean-going merchant fleet, and becoming a millionaire after retirement.

People like Zhang Pan who have almost no desire for power and money are very rare in the Chinese army.As a former soldier of the Ming Army, he joined the Chinese Army to avenge the Eight Banners soldiers.He had absolutely no interest in striving for meritorious service for the troops of the Ming army. Everything he did in Xining Fort was just out of respect and loyalty to his duty.

Zhang Pan finally agreed to the plan to attack the Ming army camp on the South Road at night, and the war was completely out of his control from then on—of course, Zhang Pan never actually had full control of the war.

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The night attack on the Ming army camp on the South Road was so chaotic that even many parties involved could not figure out the process.During the day, Mao Wenlong failed to organize an attack because the artillery team refused to fire support, because a lot of their gunpowder was destroyed by the Chinese army yesterday.Mao Wenlong almost vomited blood when he heard it: You are short of gunpowder, why didn't you say it yesterday?Where are you temporarily going to transport gunpowder for you now!

In order to maintain pressure on Fort Xining, Wang Huazhen directly ordered the Ming army on the North Road to attack.However, most of the cavalry of the left army of the Guangning Army has been transferred by Mao Wenlong. The remaining cavalry of the standard battalion directly under the general Bao Chengfu and the guerrilla Hu Jiadong can fight. a month.

Therefore, General Bao Chengfu just led the team out of the camp, waved the flag and shouted three miles away from the city of Xiningbao, and there was only thunder but no rain.

In this way, when the Chinese cavalry in the fortress attacked, they still drove the Ming army to the ground. Five or six thousand cavalry were chased by 1500 Chinese cavalry and fled straight back to their camp.

It rained heavily that night. In Liaodong in autumn, the night after the rain can already feel a little chilly.The defenders of Xiningbao of the Chinese Army obeyed the plan and went out of the city to attack at night.The result was very surprising. They encountered a large Ming army outside the city.On a rainy night, the two sides met suddenly, and they didn't know the details of each other: how many people there were, the destination of the other party, etc... But everyone knew one thing: the other party was an enemy.As a result, the two sides fought hand-to-hand in the night and under the heavy rain.Although most of the flintlock muskets of the Chinese Army have fire door covers that can be waterproof, they are not designed for such continuous heavy rain.At the same time, when shooting in the dark, the shining muzzle flame is a good thing to expose one's position.

As a result, both sides fought hand-to-hand combat in a tacit understanding.The troops of the Chinese Army of Xining Fort and the troops of the Ming Army that suddenly appeared fell into a brutal hand-to-hand fight in the dark.Li Jicheng's cavalry unit, who came like a whirlwind, also fell into a hard fight, and the Ming army continued to emerge from the darkness, beating more and more people.

This Ming army is the striker led by Mao Wenlong-the Death Squad, and the thousands of elites from Zu Dashou's forward battalion, plus the two battalion leaders of Sun Degong, the total number is more than [-].Because the Chinese army's firepower was too fierce during the day, Mao Wenlong planned to play night raids at night.As a result, they met halfway with the Chinese army that was out of the city and attacked at night, and it became a stalemate.

Half an hour after the encounter began, the heavy rain stopped, and the Chinese army began to use firearms one after another.Suddenly, there was flames and figures in the south, and a large group of people rushed here.