The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 438 Dagu Fortress
The Dagu Fortress was first built during the Jiajing period. At that time, Japanese pirates often landed and plundered, so a fortress was built here and several artillery pieces were installed.

However, due to the general performance of the Japanese warships, the Dagu Fortress was not so strong.It will not become the number one coastal defense fort in East Asia until 200 years later, in order to deal with the threat of Western warships.

"Hey! Old Yu!" Two flag soldiers shouted at Yu Ping from afar, "I knew you were smoking here."

Yu Ping hurriedly stood up, bowed his head and said, "What orders does Jun Ye have?"

"I want to drink two cups with Brother Qi Rong tonight, so you can cook some dishes and bring them here."

"Eh, yes."

The two captive soldiers immediately laughed and left.The old man looked up and saw that the sky was getting dark, he sighed softly, and said in his heart that it might be the end of the day again.

He was about to get up to prepare meals, but suddenly he saw a few small black dots swaying on the horizon, and his dull eyes suddenly showed a capable look.

It was night, Yu Ping seemed to have something on his mind, he was still smoking on the mound under the fort late at night, but his eyes were fixed on the beach in the distance.

Finally, an imperceptible light flashed on the beach, and others would think it was just my eyesight.

But Yu Ping immediately jumped up, smoked the shredded tobacco vigorously, covered the pot with his hand, then let go, covered it again, and repeated this many times until the faint bright spot appeared on the beach again.

……

"General, I have received an internal response." A sailor posing as a fisherman saluted Zheng Chenggong, "Zishi, half a mile to the north of the fortress."

"Okay!" Zheng Chenggong smiled and nodded when he heard the words, and then ordered Shi Lang: "Send the order, according to the plan in the letter A, and do it at the time."

"Yes!"

By the time of Haishi, dozens of small boats left the naval warships and slowly rowed close to the coastline towards the Dagu Fortress.When they were three or four miles away from the fortress, the more than three hundred people on board abandoned the boat and landed.

Liu Guoxuan lowered his voice, waved his hands and said: "All crouch down, keep silent." Then he focused on the direction of the barrier.

Those small boats quietly returned to the warship to pick up the next batch of soldiers.

……

"Stop, what are you doing?"

Yu Ping turned around and said with an apologetic smile: "Jun Ye, Master He Dai wants to have supper, so let me send some food."

The patrolling soldier remembered that he had just come from He Dai, and he was indeed drinking with someone.

This old man surnamed Yu came here more than half a month ago. It is said that he was originally the chef of Tianfu Pavilion in Suzhou Prefecture. He was exiled in Tianjin because he offended the local dignitaries.He is diligent and good at cooking. Apart from working and sleeping every day, he just squats on the base and eats cigarettes. He is quite trusted by Dagu.

So the sentry waved his hand and said, "Don't wander around here, go back to sleep!"

"Yes Yes."

Yu Ping and the others walked far away, but changed the look of being crippled, and ran towards the cannon at the crenel.

Due to the Tokugawa shogunate’s policy of closing the country, the Japanese pirates have basically disappeared, and no one has attacked Dagu for many years. As a result, the fort’s armaments have been slackened, and the defenders drink and gamble at will.

Yu Ping took out an iron nail from his bun, touched the fire door of the cannon with his hand, inserted the nail neatly into the small fire hole, and hit the nail hard with a smoke pot as a hammer, nailing the tail after a few clicks. It was level with the fire door.

Seeing that no one was paying attention, he took out the fire and waved it around his head for a few times, until someone shouted in the distance, "Where is the fire coming from?!"

The old man coughed, "Yes, the little one is lighting a cigarette..."

"Immortal, why are you eating cigarettes here? Don't die?!"

"Yes Yes."

Liu Guoxuan saw the flames in the distance and circled a few times, then immediately turned around and said: "All teams count the number of people and prepare to fight."

"Yes!"

After a while, the [-] naval infantry soldiers all took off their leather boots, and quickly followed Liu Guoxuan towards the fortress.

Several soldiers of the Qing army on the fort were leaning on the earth and chatting, when one of them suddenly saw a large group of people rushing to the edge of the fort under the moonlight.He rubbed his eyes, and then patted the prisoner next to him, "Hey, what do you think is that?"

"What..." The man looked out, and immediately lost his voice, "Damn, enemy attack?!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw dense flames flashing under the fort, and a lead bullet hit his eye socket.The rest of the bullets hit the parapet, making a popping sound.

The few people who were not shot were scared out of their wits, squatting under the crenel and banging on the warning gong.

When the Dagu guard heard the news, he climbed up from his concubine, put on only a piece of underwear, and climbed up the barrier, holding back a soldier who ran past in panic, "But the Japanese pirates are harassing? How many people are here?!"

"Hui, Master Hui, the people who came here fired extremely fiercely, so they must not be Japanese pirates. There must be more than a thousand people."

There were only four hundred soldiers in the Dagu Fortress, and the officer broke out in a cold sweat. He sent someone to the Tianjin Camp for help, and shouted: "Stay in your positions, shoot the enemy with bows and blunderbuss! There are still cannons! Fire me quickly!" "

With the commander's order, the captive soldiers immediately had a backbone, and quickly leaned against the crenel to shoot down, while the gunners gathered beside their cannons to load ammunition.

Not long after, there was loud gunshots everywhere in the fortress, but the Qing army didn't know where the enemy was attacking in their haste, they just shot randomly everywhere.

But in the section where the Ming army was most concentrated, the defenders were suppressed by the powerful firepower under the fortress, and no one dared to show their heads to fight back for a long time.

Liu Guoxuan knew that he couldn't delay for too long, otherwise, when Jianlu reacted, they would all gather on the barrier in front of him, and he would suffer great casualties.

He ordered 200 soldiers to continue to fire guns at the fortress, and he personally led [-] people to rush to the bottom of the barrier, and first let everyone light the shocking thunder and throw it at the fortress.Immediately, ghosts and wolves were howling on the barrier. Although not many Qing troops in this section were killed, the shocking explosion scared them to flee to both sides.

Only then did Liu Guoxuan let someone hook the fort crenel with flying claws, ordered the shooting to stop, and took the lead in climbing up the rope.

The Jianlu guards in Dagu saw the flashes of fire in the northern section, shouting to kill the sky, but they didn't see the cannons on the fortress firing.He hurriedly brought his personal guards to the cannon on the north side to check, but saw more than a dozen gunners staring around the cannon in a daze.

He raised his foot and kicked one person over, angrily said: "Are you all stupid?!"

A gunner had no choice but to put the torch next to the fire door of the cannon, only to see that there was an iron nail nailed there, blocking the fire port tightly, making it impossible to ignite.

There are three cannons in this fortress, each responsible for a radius of one mile.But the enemy army chose to attack right under the blocked cannon...

A moment later, Liu Guoxuan had led his men across the battlements, and immediately formed a tight formation on the spot and continued to shoot around.Other Ming soldiers under the fort also climbed up one after another.Soon, three more improved tiger squat guns were dragged to the fortress.

At the same time, a raging bonfire was lit below the barrier.On the Shaowu in the distance, Zheng Chenggong saw the flames rising, and immediately turned his head and said: "Order, the whole army is approaching the coast!"

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