The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 598 Seizing the Fort

Chapter 598 Seizing the Fort

Liu Guoxuan only thought that Shi Lang sent people to reinforce him, he couldn't help feeling anxious, if the Guangzhou and other ships had insufficient sailors, the speed of destroying the enemy ships in the port would be even slower.Just now he landed with the crew of the Ji'an, Han Shizhong and other ships. Due to the lack of manpower, these ships have stopped firing at this time.

And when he turned his head to look under the fort, he was taken aback for a moment - he saw hundreds of people dressed as Jianlu green battalion attacking from the west, with a huge "Li" character on the banner.

plum?Could it be Li Dechun?Liu Guoxuan was very surprised, didn't he hear that Li Dechun was going anyway?
The dense sound of gunfire above his head left him with no time to think about it. Anyway, it would be great to have someone to help him fight.Then he shouted, "The reinforcements are here, hurry up!"

Immediately, shouts echoed from all around him, "Kill!"

The Qing army on the fort had been shocked by the Ming army's fearless aura of death. At this time, they heard that the enemy had reinforcements, and immediately lost their courage to resist. They threw away their weapons and rushed towards the climbing ladder.

The pressure on Liu Guoxuan's side was instantly relieved. He hurriedly took the opportunity to muster his strength, alternated his arms up and down dozens of times, and jumped from a cannon firing port into the fort.

As more than a dozen Ming soldiers climbed onto the fort, Liu Guoxuan gathered the crowd at a corner of the fort, raised guns and fired a volley at the chaotic Qing army.

Although there were nearly [-] captive soldiers on the fort, their morale became extremely low under the strong attack of the Ming army. No one dared to fight Liu Guoxuan and the others, but some who were too far away from the climbing ladder directly knelt down and begged for surrender.

When the Ming army completely controlled the fort, Liu Guoxuan roughly counted the number of people, and couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in his heart. At this time, only 320 of the more than 130 soldiers he brought were left. Even his adjutant was hit in the abdomen by the firecracker. Qi is like a gossamer.

He was about to burst into tears, turned around angrily, pointed at the Jian prisoners and yelled, "Throw them all away from the fort!" Then he waved at the heavy cannons around, "Fuck the cannons, aim at the pirate ships in the harbor and bombard them fiercely! "

"Yes!"

After a while, another group of "Qing soldiers" rushed up from the climbing ladder.Liu Guoxuan's troops were busy holding flintlocks, preparing to form an formation to meet the enemy, but saw the "Tartar officer" headed by him waving a piece of white cloth and shouting loudly: "My own people, don't shoot guns! Xie Qian."

Rebels?Liu Guoxuan was overjoyed, making people put away the firecrackers, and stepped forward to give Xie Qian a strong hand, "I am the commander of Zuo Wuwei Liu Guoxuan. I just thank you general for helping me, otherwise my brothers might be broken on this fort..."

"I have seen General Liu at the end." Xie Qian saluted, "You don't need to thank the general, if it wasn't for the navy to save me, I would have died in Lijin."

Liu Guoxuan hurriedly helped him up, "General Xie has made a great contribution this time! If you hadn't arrived in time, the fort might have caused the navy to return without success."

Xie Qian heard that there were enemy forts roaring three miles away, so he pointed there again and said, "General Liu, there are Tartar cannons over there that are crazy, we might as well take them down as well!"

Liu Guoxuan nodded subconsciously. The two forts on the west bank are enough to protect nearly half of the water in the harbor. If the other can be captured, the navy can completely avoid the northernmost fort and destroy more than [-]% of the enemy in Laizhou Port. Ship wrecked.But then he frowned again and said, "My subordinates suffered heavy casualties, I'm afraid..."

Xie Qian seemed dissatisfied and said: "General, do you look down on our rebels? My five hundred Zichuan men treat captives as worthless!"

Liu Guoxuan shook his head slightly. He had a good idea of ​​the combat effectiveness of the rebel army. Although Xie Qian and his men had good guns, and many of them even wore cotton armor, their command, training, and morale could never be counted on.The navy soldiers can continue to storm the enemy's fort with nearly [-]% of their deaths, and these rebels will surely retreat after a maximum of [-] casualties.

"Hi!" Seeing that he was still hesitating, Xie Qian turned around to greet the troops, "I thank someone for taking this fort and presenting it to the general today!"

Seeing that he insisted on going, Liu Guoxuan was about to stop him, but suddenly saw the braids on the back of his head, and couldn't help his eyes lit up, "General Xie, wait a minute." He looked at the rebels who were all dressed in Qing army, and couldn't help laughing, "I There is a trick, maybe we can take that fort."

After he explained Xie Qian carefully, he raised his arms to the navy soldiers, "Who still has the strength to attack the bandit fort with me?!"

"I!"

"I go!"

"I haven't killed enough, I'll go!"

Immediately, all more than 130 people gathered together, including the wounded soldiers.

"Good! You are indeed the son of my Great Ming Navy!"

Liu Guoxuan nodded excitedly, and asked the officer to pick out the wounded and exhausted soldiers to stay, and led the rest of the 80 people to follow Xie Qianyi's army far away, and ran towards another fort on the west bank.

When everyone arrived at the fort one mile away, Xie Qian first sent two men who would come to the fort to "connect" with the Qing army, and he led the rebels to line up and hold high the pennant, swaggering towards the fort.

The Jianlu officer on the fort saw that the sound of the fort on the south side suddenly weakened, and then started to fire at his own warship in the harbor, so he knew something was wrong.

Not long after, two messenger soldiers rushed to the fort and reported eagerly that the fort deep in the port had been captured by the Ming army, and that they were under Li Dechun's command, and were ordered by He Garrison to come for reinforcements.

The Jianlu officer was worried that the Ming army would come to storm his fort, and he was overjoyed when he heard that reinforcements were coming.When Xie Qian led his troops to arrive, he went down from the fort to greet him personally, but saw that "Master Li" did not talk to him, but went straight to the climbing ladder with his guards.

His heart skipped a beat, and he was about to ask aloud, but was stopped by "Master Li" with a knife.

Only then did the captive soldiers on the fort react and hurriedly lowered the gate. Immediately, the rebel army fired guns and dispersed the Qing army near the climbing ladder.Then everyone shouted "Thirty thousand Ming troops have landed!"

……

Shi Lang looked sternly at the battle situation on the shore, but suddenly saw the flag of the Ming army raised from the nearest fort, and the heavy artillery on it began to bombard the Jianlu warship in the port.

He was overjoyed immediately, and said loudly to his adjutant: "Order, Zhangzhou is in front, and all the warships move one nautical mile to the north and west, and concentrate on firing at the enemy ships on the west side!"

"Yes!"

Immediately, in addition to the Ji'an, more than 20 Ming warships lined up on the west bank of Laizhou Port, and naval guns of large and small calibers poured their anger on the Jianlu warships trying to escape at the fastest speed.

Hong Xu just managed to make a passage through the moored ships, but was suddenly flanked by front and back.The soldiers of the Qing army who were clearing the waterway were screamed and screamed by the artillery fire. At four o'clock in the morning, they all jumped into the sea to escape.Hong Xu was also put on a centipede boat by several guards, and fled to the north side desperately.

(End of this chapter)

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