Chapter 1862: Humen Artillery Battle (Part 1)
Do n’t look at Niu Dali ’s name is quite majestic, but he is actually a short and thin person with a height less than 165. Of course, in the Ming Dynasty of this era, it was the general height of southerners.
No way, the south said that it is the land of fish and rice, but in fact the ancient people were jealous of the lack of oil and water, let alone eat meat. The hereditary guards like Niu Dali were drunk by the generals above for food and drink. It would be good to have enough food. How dare they ask for nutrition? Therefore, this length is normal.
Is not a tall cow, vigorously, riding on the back of the same short southern horse, but it is quite a match. The entire Tuen Mun Inspection Station is just such a horse. When it's okay, the inspector Tang Quan rode out to inspect the outfit. In case of emergency, Niu Dali, a herald soldier, rode out and asked for help.
Tuen Mun is not far from Humen, and the straight-line distance is forty or fifty miles, but because Niu Dali first has to head northeast to Shenzhen in later generations, and then turn to the Weiyuan Fort in the northwest, he needs to run more than 60 miles . But because of the rush, Niu Dali changed the horse once at the post along the way, and it took only two hours, and ran outside the gate of the Fortress of Weiyuan Fort, and shouted:
"Urgent report! Urgent report! Thirty huge barbarians appeared on Lingding Yang, with copper cannons on it!"
Seeing Niu Dali's dress and the flag on his back, the defending soldiers of the Weiyuan Battery realized that the herald was correct, and quickly opened the barracks, ushered in the cattle vigorously, and the horse was brought to the stable by a special person .
After seeing the urgent report written by Tang Quan in a hurry, and the inspector's seal on it, confirming that it was correct, the Humen Battery Guard Lin Ping An immediately ordered:
"Zhang Qianhu (Zhang Ke, Qianyuan, Qianyuan, Weiyuan Battery, specific commander of the battery), quickly release the pigeons, notify Liu Feng (Commander of Dingyuan Battery, Qianhu) on the other side, and let him raise the Sun and Moon Banner for preparations! "
Although the two forts are only 4.6 kilometers apart, which is more than 9 miles. However, if you send a small boat to inform, it may be too late. After all, the boat is very slow. Therefore, the chief garrisons Lin Ping'an of Weiyuan and Dingyuan's two forts directly adopted the fastest ordering method-releasing pigeons ...
At the same time, Lin Ping'an also ordered the release of the carrier pigeons to Guangzhou. Because, this fleet is obviously going to Guangzhou City.
"Boom-Boom-Boom-" The dull battle drum sounded, all the soldiers on the east and west forts of Humen Fort stopped all movements in their hands, ran back to the barracks, dressed in combat uniforms, and gathered weapons such as waist knives and spears To enter the battle position.
At the same time, both gun emplacements raised the sun and moon battle flags. The so-called sun-moon battle flag is actually a large flag with the word "ming" written on it. Ming is the national name of Daming, indicating the identity of the army. Because the word "Ming" is left and right, it is also called the Sun and Moon Banner.
Subsequently, the Weiyuan Fort raised two flags at the same time-Daming Humen Fort Defense Forest, and Daming Humen Fort Qianhu Zhang. On the other side of the Dingyuan Fort, a thousand households of Dingyuan Fort were raised. Of course, the official titles in the front are all in small letters, while the surnames in the back are in big letters.
After the flag was raised, in the dull drum sound, all the dressed soldiers of the Ming army entered the designated location and carried the cloth bag with gunpowder to the designated location.
Originally, the Ming army soldiers' gunpowder container was a gunpowder tank made of horns, and the volume was very small. But after Marin visited Daming, he taught the technology of rice soup granulated gunpowder and oil paper bag to order gunpowder. This technology was first popularized on the Humen Fort using advanced 12-pound guns.
Therefore, the cotton bags carried by the soldiers were packed with bags of packed gunpowder. Because the oil paper bag is not afraid of water, it is not worried that the cotton bag is damp. Of course, cotton bags cannot be soaked in water.
Why use a cotton bag instead of a sack, because considering the rough linen, it is easy to generate static electricity by friction. The cotton cloth is relatively soft and is not easy to generate static electricity.
Then, the soldiers of the turret opened some big boxes, which were filled with iron ball shells cast one by one ...
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Until the Ming army of Humen Fort was all ready, the Portuguese fleet was not late ...
There is no way, the wind is not strong on the small ocean of the Pearl River estuary, the speed of the Dagama fleet is only 4 knots, which is about 7.4 kilometers per hour. For a tens of kilometers, the Portuguese fleet sailed for several hours. It was not until the Ming army had lunch that the Portuguese fleet was late.
"Sir, a fleet of foreigners is here!" The observation sentry on the lookout of the Weiyuan Battery chanted.
Humen Fort Guard Lin Ping immediately climbed up to the observation deck, put a pergola in his hand, overlooking the river ...
"This type of ship ... much like the ship in the Northwest Sea of Thailand ... Is it the North Sea?" Lin Ping frowned.
But he quickly overturned his judgment, because the court now clearly stipulates that the Beihai State generally goes to Quanzhou, Fuzhou and Ningbo three ports, it is unlikely to come to Guangzhou.
Moreover, the engineer of the North Sea State, Hadover, who helped build the fort, also said to him that the warships of the North Sea State would never easily enter or exit the Pearl River without the approval of the court.
And Lin Ping did not receive any notice from the court about the entry and exit of tributary ships, so these ships are obviously bad. Moreover, even tribute, there is no need to come to 30 ships. In addition, while looking out, Lin Ping'an also saw the golden light reflected from the copper gun on the enemy ship ...
"The warship is right, two artillery shots of A and B warned!" Lin Ping'an ordered loudly. The 10 artillery pieces of the Weiyuan Fort were all coded with "A, B, B, P, P, G, X, X, X, N, N" ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ for easy command.
At this time, the "standard process" provided by the engineer of the North Sea State Hadover-when encountering ships of unknown origin, first fire a gun warning. If the other party is not malicious, it will definitely stop, and then send a small boat to negotiate with the fort. If you do not have good intentions, you will often break through.
The Portuguese froze for a moment, and Dagama looked at Weiyuan Fort suspiciously:
"What's the situation? How can there be artillery here?" Dagama was puzzled. It seems that the Ming Dynasty merchants in Malacca did not provide this news ...
Where did he know that Daming smugglers based in Malacca Port had not returned to Daming for several months, and did not know that the Pearl River Mouth actually built two forts.
The Portuguese fleet paused for a while, but after hesitating, Dagama ordered:
"Go on, the other party will have two guns, don't care. Big deal, let's shoot back at this artillery fortress!"
It's just that Dagama didn't know that the two forts of Weiyuan and Dingyuan, the artillery was hidden inside the stone building. If you don't use the telescope, you can't see several guns inside from a distance.
Apparently, Dagama did not see the specific conditions in the two fortresses, but judged the two guns based on the sound of the gun. So he arrogantly ordered the fleet to move on. Moreover, I intend to use artillery on board and the "two guns" on the turret to bombard ...
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