"Let's go and take Gaizhou!"

Gaizhou is 220 miles away from Fuzhou, which is about the same distance from Fuzhou to Qingni Port. However, Gaizhou, like Fuzhou, is also built along the coast of the Bohai Bay. If you take the water route, it will only take half a day to take a boat.≤,

However, Gaizhou is very close to the mouth of Liaohe River, and it is only more than 200 miles away from Jinzhou, just across the sea. Now the Qing army is mobilizing troops everywhere to surround Jinzhou. Liu Jun felt that going to attack Gaizhou was to touch the tiger's butt.

Fu Shan thought it was completely possible to give it a try.

"I guess the news that the fall of Fuzhou in Jinzhou has just been sent back to Jianlu. Gaizhou is not far from the places where the heavy Taurus troops were stationed in Liaoyang, so there are probably not many soldiers here. They definitely didn't expect that we would dare to attack Gaizhou after we fought Fuzhou, and we could still be so fast. We took a warship and landed, and then we bombarded Gaizhou City with cannons, and then we left. Even if the Taurus wanted to chase him, he would not be able to catch him from the sea."

Liu Jun admitted that he was a little moved.

"Get the map." Liu Jun waved to the staff officer.

The map is spread out. This is not an ordinary map, but a map collected and confirmed by the Jiutou intelligence team members. The information on the mountains, rivers, cities, and fortresses is very accurate.

After looking at the map for a while, Liu Jun found that Gaizhou was only twenty miles away from the suitable naval landing ground, and it was originally a dock that could dock with ordinary merchant ships. There was a road with a very good road from the dock to Gaizhou City.

"I think it's OK, it's worth a try."

"Do you know the truth and reality of Gaizhou?" Liu Jun asked again cautiously.

A staff officer immediately replied, "There were only a few hundred Tartars in Gaizhou City, and there were hundreds of coated slaves, and the troops were only a thousand. The city was also a traditional city wall like the Jinzhou of Fuzhou. Our cannons could easily blast the city wall."

In the face of the powerful firepower of the Nine-Headed Bird, it is still difficult for the traditional city walls to withstand this kind of firepower strike. Only after the power of the artillery is displayed will the castle's defense be changed, and earth wall trenches and bastions will increase the defense of the artillery. For example, in the Netherlands and other places in the Netherlands, countless new fortresses have greatly reduced the threat of artillery, and the siege war returns to the war of attrition of a long-term siege.

As for the sea power of the Qing army, Liu Jun and others took it seriously. At most, they only had some ordinary lucky boats, such as boats, and did not even have Red Barbarian cannons. They also relied on traditional rocket jumping gang tactics such as the rocket jumping gang.

Since we were going to fight, it was not too late. The staff immediately started their homework, chose the landing location, formulated a battle plan, etc. Liu Jun made a request to everyone, "We have so many soldiers to fight a small Gaizhou. It is a bit surplus. I think so, I personally led 10,000 people to attack Gaizhou, and the rest were divided into multiple groups and took boats along the more than 200 miles of coast from Fuzhou to Gaizhou, and took down more than ten small forts, including Fifty Village Posts, and took down the village markets in one pot. All the people, livestock, food, and other people could be moved away."

"The Tartars are so angry now."

"Haha, it's better to be so angry. When they come back to their senses, even if they send a large army, we will return to Jinzhou. When they dare to come, they will ask them to compensate for the power of the fort, haha."

The Qing army invaded the pass several times, and went deeper thousands of miles and broke countless cities. This time, Jiutou and the others wanted to ask the Tartars to pay for their strength. When the Tartars mobilized their troops to surround Jinzhou and were not in time for defense, they smashed him hard and helped them carry out demolition.

"The Tartars entered the pass last year and robbed more than 400,000 of our people. This time we will rob them for him."

Half a day later, the first brigade of 10,000 people led by Liu Jun had arrived at the west of Gaizhou and the seaside pier. Along the way, he was moving smoothly and only encountered a few fishing boats. These fishermen were shocked by the huge ships they saw. When they were on the ship, the fleet's clutches had already rushed up and brought them back with them, the people and boats.

"Please spare my life, the younger one is also a citizen of Daming."

On the deck, the fishermen who were taken on the boat saw Liu Jun and others coming, and hurriedly kowtowed.

"I'm asking for it." Liu Jun stepped forward to help the fisherman up. "Liaodong has been lost for many years, and the elders have been ravaged by the Tartars for a long time. I was late for some time. I'm late and I'm late. Guoqiang takes the elders to have dinner."

The old man stood up tremblingly and asked the guards beside him, "Which is this the general? Are you going to regain Liaodong?"

"Old man, this is the adopted son of the emperor, the Marquis of Zhennan, who was given the name Zhu Ciye. He was appointed as the Admiral of Huguang and the General of Hubei. He was given the seal of the General of the Enemy, and the Young Tutor and the Young Guardian of the Crown Prince. This time, he was ordered to cross the sea to conquer Liao. Now he has recovered Lushun, Jinzhou, and Fuzhou. He is about to send troops to recover Gaizhou." The personal guard said loudly to the old fisherman.

When the old man heard that the person was the emperor's adopted son and had recovered Lushun Jinzhou Fuzhou and other places, he was shocked and knelt down again.

"The court has not forgotten Liaodong yet and has not abandoned us. The good day is coming. When the Tartars drive away, we can live a good life again. The Great Commander, can the fields stolen by the Tartars be returned to us?" The old man said excitedly, "I had more than a hundred acres of land in my family back then, but after the Tartars occupied Liaodong, they took away all the fields. We became tenants of the Tartars, but they worked hard but couldn't get enough to eat."

Liu Jun sighed, "Old man, we are here to attack Gaizhou this time, but we won't stay for a long time. After breaking the city, we will return it to Jinzhou immediately. At that time, please take our family to move to Jinzhou with us."

"Moving to Jinzhou? Why do you need to move? The old man has lived here for generations, and his ancestral tombs and residences are here, and his roots are here."

"As sooner or later, we will get back, but now we cannot stay here. But please rest assured. When you go to Jinzhou, we will share the land and provide you with food. When you arrive there, you will only have better days. At least you can eat enough every day." Liu Jun said.

The old man sighed and stopped talking, but he felt reluctant to leave.

In the city of Gaizhou, I didn’t know that Fuzhou was broken at this time, but I only knew that a large number of Ming troops came from the sea to break through the Jinzhou of Lushun. The city of Gaizhou was also panicked, and the garrison generals hurriedly sent people to report to Liaoyang for help.

When Liu Jun's fleet set off from the seaside of Fuzhou, there were no less than 20,000 people. Along the way, a small fleet left most of them and landed along the coast, with about 1,000 people in each team. When they arrived at the West Pier of Gaizhou, there were nearly 10,000 people.

The pier was shallow and could not stop the construction of large warships, but it was still fine to rely on flat-bottomed sand ships and ordinary rush boats. One cannon was transported ashore. In addition to ordinary field cannons, Liu Jun also transferred several siege cannons from the heavy artillery regiment to the ashore.

There are 8 pounds, 12 pounds long-tube cannons, 24 pounds and 32 pounds cannons, as well as eight-inch howitzers and ten-inch mortars. Although some of these artillery belonging to the heavy artillery regiments reach three or four thousand kilograms, there is still no big problem with enough horses.

After twenty miles, the team marched for two hours and finally arrived at the city of Gaizhou.

When he learned that the large Ming army had landed on the beach, the city of Gaizhou suddenly became in chaos.

The garrison guard did not dare to go out of the city to intercept him. He ordered the city gate to close, the defenders to defend the city, and transferred all the young and strong people in the city to the city.

But when the Nine-headed Bird arrived at the city, the guard was still desperate.

At least tens of thousands of Ming troops were not enough to despair if they were just a large number. What was hopeless was that this army was obviously well-trained and well-equipped, and the muskets were equipped with half of the troops, especially these people came with many cannons.

Facing the Qing army defenders on the city, the nine-headed bird ignored it.

The artillery regiment did not even pull the cannons down, but just watched the heavy artillery regiment pull the big guys to a distance of three hundred steps from the city.

The guns of the heavy artillery regiment have at least one mile range, but they know that there are no cannons in the city. They arrogantly pushed the guns to a distance of 300 steps. At this distance, the artillery's accuracy is better.

"Try our ten-inch mortar first and try how effective it is!"

Compared with the six-inch dutch and eight-inch mortar configured by ordinary artillery regiments, the heavy artillery regiment is an authentic siege heavy artillery force, and their artillery is one of the number one bigger than the ordinary artillery regiments.

The mortar is one of the four major artillery species among the Nine-Headed Birds. The four major artillery species are cannons, howitzers, cannons and mortars. They are a new system established by the Nine-Headed Birds for all their artillery. Different artillery has their own advantages. Although the mortars have short range, they have a larger firing angle. They are used for siege, and the cannon body is lighter, and the caliber of the mortars at the same weight is larger.

Just like this ten-inch mortar cannon weighs only 2,200 kilograms. But it can fire 108 pounds of shells, with a range of 2,700 meters. It is a real weapon for siege.

The Cannon Field Cannon with a capacity of more than 2,000 kilograms is less than twelve pounds.

The huge shell of forty-nine kilograms was pushed up. When the people in the city saw the huge ball, their faces turned pale. It took a long time to get the shells loaded.

"Fire!" After a loud bang, the ten-inch mortar cannon, which was a big copper bell-shaped mortar, was fired, as if a big toad had spitted, and the giant shells roared towards Gaizhou City.

A storm was shaken, and the shells fell into the city behind the city wall. Even the people on the top of the city felt the huge shock under their feet.

Liu Jun stood aside and shook his head, "This cannon looks scary, but its accuracy is a bit short. If you just want to smash into the city, it will be fine. But it is still not enough to smash the city wall."

"It's already good." Dutch consultant Paul said to Liu Jun, "Get a few more such giant cannons and smash dozens of giant cannons into the city. Who can withstand it? You can directly defeat them, even smash them all!"

"This Gaizhou City is about to belong to me, and I feel sorry for it if I smash it." Liu Jun said, "Tell the heavy artillery regiment not to use ten-inch mortars anymore. Use thirty-two-pound and twenty-four-pound Cannon to bombard the city wall and directly blow the city wall."

The 24-pound short cannon with a 3,000 kilogram and the 32-pound short cannon with a 4,000 kilogram were pushed up. These two models are only equipped with heavy artillery regiments. Compared with the same model of long cannon on the navy warship, the weight was reduced by nearly half. The 24-bottom long cannon reached more than 5,000 kilograms, and the 32-pound long cannon was more than 6,000 kilograms.

However, although these two are weakened versions of naval guns and can be used to siege cities, especially bombarding traditional city walls like Gaizhou City, there is no problem.

One cannon is thirty-two pounds, three cannons twenty-four pounds, and a total of four heavy cannons are pushed to the designated position. Each of these four cannons is equipped with thirty-five gunners and has a special ammunition truck.

The four cannons lined up in a row, and the gunners began to observe the distance, adjust the firing angle, and load solid iron bullets.

"put!"

Four cannons roared in turn, and smoke filled the cannon formation. When the smoke dissipated, everyone clearly saw that there were several gaps on the Gaizhou city wall. Although the city wall had not yet been collapsed, large pieces of rammed stones were smashed down.

"continue!"

The gunners began to push the cannon to reset with effort, then began to carry the bucket and hold the shabu and start cleaning the cannon chamber.

"This retreat is too serious. If the cannon car can be retreated a little less, reset faster, and shoot more accurately." Liu Jun pointed out an important disadvantage of these artillery. In other words, this is also a common disadvantage of retracted artillery.

"I can't find any good way to improve it for the time being. Maybe I can think of some solutions from the cannon cart in the future." Several Spanish consultants replied.

While the conversation between the few people, the artillery continued, a twelve-pound long cannon, two eight-pound long cannons and a four-pound long cannon also began to join the shooting at this time.

The city of Gaizhou was like an earthquake, and the pitiful city wall was bombarded by one shot after another.

The defenders on the city were powerless and could do nothing.

After the fifth round of bombardment, the city wall collapsed, and a large gap of at least seven or eight feet was revealed in the rumbling sound.

The defenders had already left the city, and they stood helplessly and confusedly behind the city wall. When the city wall collapsed, no one stepped forward to block the gap.

With their few people, they will be killed as much as they go up.

Although the Tartars were brave, no one was willing to die for nothing.

Many people began to turn around and escape, but they couldn't get out of the city, so they began to hide around, hoping to escape.

After the nine-headed bird outside the city broke the wall open, the cannon stopped. Everyone waited for a while but did not see the expected Qing army coming out.

Wait for a while.

"No need to wait, enter the city."

Teams of nine-headed infantry entered the city, and the cavalry remained outside to guard the cannons outside the city.

The nine-headed infantry entering the city acted quickly and sharply, and no one resisted, and even a single Qing army could not see it.

"As planned!" An officer looked at the empty streets and could feel the pair of fearful eyes from behind the windows of the two houses.

This did not hinder the Nine-Headed Nine. According to the city occupation operation carefully formulated by the staff of the General Staff, these infantry had already divided their tasks and occupied several city gates as soon as possible, and at the same time occupied important places such as yamen, grain warehouse, armed warehouse, silver warehouse and other important places.

Then control the streets, wait until the entire city is controlled, and start clearing out the people from door to door, taking them to an open place, and then finding out the people who are among the officials in the city.

The first time I got the household book and warehouse account book to check the personnel. Then, I directed the people who had checked their identities to start moving things like sweeping the floor. I moved the public first, and then the officials.

For officials who cooperate with the Nine-Headed Bird, they can first retain their property, and the people's property will also be retained first. However, after the inventory and move the official property, the officials and the people will also start packing their luggage and moving.

"I really didn't expect that robbery can be robbed so well and not at all." The Western consultants were amazed when they saw the nine-headed bird's movements. They did not catch fire everywhere, did not cry and scold everywhere, nor did they scream and howl. Although the common officials were all trembling, they were all under control.
Chapter completed!