Chapter 185: Capture Wuyong

Thinking that his master often blew his nose and threw it on the oil sheet and continued to cut vegetables and cook, Fu Ji felt that this was simply a matter of two worlds.

Poultry is divided into different parts according to the standards of the meat-in-one factory for refrigeration, and then processed into a food supply force. This approach is first of all, hygiene, and secondly, it is able to effectively control the amount and nutritional content of the food supplied to each soldier. Simply chop ten chickens and ducks and bones and cook them, it is difficult to measure when distributed, and it is impossible to get food of the same quality. The difficulty in supervising quality will aggravate the fraud. Soldiers who distribute food can give someone two chicken legs based on their interpersonal relationships and likes and dislikes, and only two chicken claws for others.

After the split supply is adopted, except for the slight difference in size, the things are exactly the same. One chicken leg for each person is the chicken leg. The number of chicken leg is supplied according to the head of the people. If there are fewer one, compensation will be required for military sergeants and cooks. This is the "quantitative management" that Wen Desi has always advocated.

The split supply maximizes the utilization rate. Nothing will be wasted after a poultry is sent to this processing center. In addition to meat, internal organs and blood, the unsuitable parts are dried and ground into feed and fertilizer. Even the feathers are not wasted. They are packed and transported back to Linggao. After disinfection there, the down is stored for future production of down jackets. The poor quality is processed into feather powder as feed. Xunsuji also studied with several experts in chemistry to see if it can be used to make soy sauce.

Fu Ji soon became a skilled worker. When he put the broken parts into boxes and prepared to be sent to the frozen cart in the cold storage, he couldn't help but smash them - when will it be his turn to eat these good things?

The food in the cooking processing center is much better than in the camp. The three meals are brown rice, and the large pot of chicken soup and duck soup are boiled with chicken shells and duck shells. They taste good. After dinner, the chicken shells that have no edible value will be recycled and ground into bone powder, which is said to be used for fat fields.

"The Australian men probably came from poor families." Fu Ji thought so, and he couldn't help but feel a little intimate about these people.

The navy team retreating to Humen rested for a few days, and the big whale also sailed on the river several times. When the river began to feel a hint of chill, Chen Haiyang finally received an order from Lingao:

"The negotiations and contacts were fruitless, so I immediately moored the boat in Baietan."

"Now we are going to shell Guangzhou - it seems that this is still here." Chen Haiyang handed the telegram to the confidential female secretary beside him, "Immediately convene a meeting of the captain of the detachment and all veterans!"

The day when the fleet set sail was November 1. It was a sunny day, but the autumn scenery on the Pearl River during the Little Ice Age was already very obvious. The soldiers changed into tropical military uniforms and put on long-sleeved sailor uniforms with thicker textures. The five spy boat squadrons and artillery boat squadrons that attacked Wuyong sailed upwards under the escort of a large group of sampans and long dragons.

The big whale staggered at the end of the fleet. The dazzling array of objects and the black smoke that kept spitting out seemed very eye-catching in the fleet. The people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait all said that this was an Australian "monster".

They have now established a "famous reputation" in the Pearl River Delta region. The people know that Australians are disciplined and never invade the people. As long as they obey the orders of Australians, their lives and property will not be threatened. Maybe they can change their destiny and have a better life. At this time, the fleet will be swarming upstream, and there will be a group of good-management ship owners who follow the fleet in various ships of all sizes and sizes. The ship is filled with all kinds of food, fruits, and other foods, which Australians may be interested in.

It is sold to the fleet at any time. Many rich children who do nothing on weekdays know that Australians are not heroes who kill the rich and help the poor, so they boldly hired ships to follow behind and watch the rare diorama - the scene of Australians hitting the Humen is fueled by fire. Many people want to see the rare and rare scenes with their own eyes. Everyone can guess that Australians are rushing to Wu - there have been crowded with officers and soldiers, built artillery batteries, and transported many red cannons.

"It's going to be a big battle." The idle people hiring a boat to eat and drink, hugging the woman and following the fleet were talking like this. They were very enthusiastic about seeing a grand and spectacular artillery battle.

Xu Tingfa, who was stationed in Wuyong, heard the soldiers coming to report that a lot of black smoke appeared on the river. He quickly changed into his armor and took his personal soldiers to the observation deck. He saw dozens of black smoke rolling on the river in the distance, and there were more than 20 large ships and countless small boats on the river, rushing towards Wu along the Pearl River. This look reminded him of the scene when he was in Humen.

The defense in Wuyong has been greatly strengthened in more than a month after the Battle of Humen. The officers and soldiers arranged ten hastily built earth and stone structures or sandbags here, and installed 84 red cannons and 160 big Buddha cannons - almost all the red cannons in Guangdong were collected, and even the cannons that were originally planned to be transferred to Fujian, Shandong and the capital were misappropriated.

Li Fengjie sent three thousand troops here, two thousand of which were water braves. There were so many people that he could not even stand on the position. There were 24 naval warships - half of which were temporary recruitment of salt ships and rice boats.

However, Xu Tingfa, who was in charge of defense, did not think he could defend Wuyong at all - unless the wooden stakes and iron chains hit the river estuary could stop the ships that were thieves.

In order to cheer up the generals who were said to have been scared, or supervise them not to escape, Li Fengjie originally planned to send Guangzhou troops to Wuyong to supervise the battle. However, the city of Nantou, where he was stationed in Dongguan, had been attacked by thieves and the messenger could not arrive. Li Fengjie had to change the left governor Chen Yingyuan to Wuyong.

After Chen Yingyuan arrived at Wuyong, he summoned Xu Tingfa. After talking, he felt that this person was passive and avoided the war, which was simply the face of a "surrender faction". He simply kicked him away and personally arranged Wuyong's preparations for the war.

Wuyong is the outer entrance of Huangpu Port, named after the Wuyong River in Huangpu. At the intersection of Wuyong River and the Pearl River, there is an island called Mayongwei. The main defensive position of Wuyong Fort is located on this island.

Because the fortress on Mayongwei Island was the main position and the first to bear the brunt, the fortifications were relatively strong. Chen Yingyuan personally supervised the South China Sea and Fanyu counties to recruit a large number of civil servants and built civil-structured artillery towers on the south side of Mayongwei. 44 gun holes were installed on the thick and high walls and 44 red barbarian cannons were installed.

In addition to laying three rows of wooden stakes to block the river surface, there is another Hengjiang iron chain. The chain is anchored with wooden rafts. There is also a sand ship specially sealed with nails on the iron chain, and there are 10 large-sized Folang machine cannons. In addition to stabilizing the iron chain and preventing it from being washed away by the river, the purpose of this ship is also to prevent the enemy from sending fire ships to burn the iron chains. All the tactics Chen Yingyuan saw in the book to crack the Hengjiang iron chains were burned with fire. So he made a special response.

Because he heard that the artillery fire of the thieves was very powerful and the range was long, he ordered all the new artillery positions to be pushed forward, and some were simply built on the tidal flats. He learned from the generals and soldiers that the thieves often landed on small boats and sent troops to attack the thieves from the side and back, causing the cannon to lose its function. Therefore, there were extensive arrangements of bamboo sticks, caltrops and horse-resisting horses on the periphery of each of the thieves, and one hundred warriors were added to each, ready to fight with the landing thieves at any time. In order to prevent the artillery fire from killing the soldiers by the thieves, he ordered the digging of trenches on the river bank, so that the soldiers could use them to avoid artillery fire, and wait until the thieves landed, and then jumped up to intersect with their hand and blades.

For some reason, Chen Yingyuan was full of inexplicable confidence in the hands and swords of officers and soldiers and close combat power. Since the firearms are powerful, close combat must be very common. Maybe he will be defeated when he sees the officers and soldiers fighting in hand and swords. Therefore, his military use idea is to ensure that the soldiers are alive under the superior artillery fire of the thief - at least he must live until the thief rushed to the edge of the trench before talking about it.

Xu Tingfa was very respectful to Chen Yingyuan, and he was simply obedient. Chen Yingyuan would do whatever he wanted. When asked for his opinions, he would always deal with words such as "only the leader of the adults", "the adults are wise", and "the last time I read not much, and my strategy is even shallow."

Originally, he was a small bass defense general, and his status was incomparable to Guangdong Zuo Buzheng. He insisted on his own opinion but was just a boring person. However, he was extremely dissatisfied with Lord Chen's various arrangements. In his opinion, unless he built a thick fortress with "solid stones", this would be nothing but a cannon fortress facing a wall on the river. Needless to say, the shells fired by the cannons of the thief's ships were invincible, and the large 10,000 enemies fired from the "lightning boat" of the thief cannons can blow the gunners upside down after they landed on the wall. It would be good if they could survive, so what can they still fire?

As for the method of pushing forward the cannon base, it is even more ridiculous. Can't the other party retreat if you push forward? Furthermore, pushing forward the cannon base will cause the tide to erode the cannon. After a long time, I'm afraid the thief will not come to fire the cannon, and the cannon will be washed away first.

He was watching the enemy situation, and suddenly he saw that Chen Yingyuan had personally led his personal soldiers and generals to surround Ma Yongxiang through the floating bridge built on the Wuyong River. It seemed that he was preparing to go to the front line to supervise the battle. Xu Tingfa did not dare to be negligent, so he quickly got off the watchtower and took his personal soldiers to the island.

Chen Yingyuan was wearing a third-rank official uniform, wearing a black veil, a cloak, and a sword hanging around his waist. He climbed to the highest point of the Ma Yongwei turret, surrounded by a group of personal soldiers, which was extremely majestic.

"This is the gateway to Guangzhou and the key to Yangcheng. Today, the soldiers must work together to destroy this ugly person!" Chen Yingyuan shouted loudly in a loud voice.

Xu Tingfa hurried forward and asked him to supervise the battle on the North Bank.

"What are the generals saying?" Chen Yingyuan seemed passionate, "That is, he came here to supervise the battle under the order of the Fu Army. It is related to the safety of the provincial capital. How dare students think of greed for life and fear of death?"

Xu Tingfa secretly complained - if Zuo Buzheng died of silence, his responsibility would be great. He took care of one of his confidants and went to contact Chen Yingyuan's relatives. As long as there was a slight danger, he hurriedly hugged him across the bridge and ran away. For this reason, he let his personal soldiers control the floating bridge on the Wuyong River.

On November 1, 1630, Li Guangfa's 13th Squadron escorted the surveying ship "Haitian" as the vanguard, and the contingent arrived at the Wuyong Fortress, 30 kilometers away from Guangzhou City.

Under the escort of the spy boat, the Haitian first approached Wuyong and measured the water depth. When the ship reached the range of the cannons of the Wuyong Fort, Chen Yingyuan immediately ordered the cannons to be fired. Suddenly, a piece of gunfire rose from the entire Ma Yongwei island. All the cannon positions on the fort, regardless of direction or range, were fired. Various shells pulled the smoke traces of different heights and distances and were shot towards the Haitian, most of which landed far away from the ship, and only a few shells approached the ship's side.

The Haitian immediately turned the rudder and left the range. It had obtained enough water depth information, and at the same time roughly determined the range and power of the island's artillery.

A few minutes later, the information was notified to each squadron through the flag language. Chen Haiyang ordered that the 13th Squadron should be led by the head of Ma Yongwei Island and start shelling.

According to the old method, the four cannon squadrons approached the turret in a column, approached five hundred meters from the large amount of artillery fired by the turret, and then turned to the rudder.

Although the maximum range of the officers and soldiers' red cannons can reach 1,000 steps, the cannon was not arranged on the open-air pier this time, but behind a thick earth-building wall, the firing port on the wall was very small, and there was no room for adjustment of left and right upper and lower firing angles, so they could only fire shells at a fixed firing angle. Although it was spectacular when firing continuously, the shells rarely flew to the vicinity of the spy boat.

The 13th Squadron completed the rudder rotation in the artillery fire and fired spherical bombs and incendiary bombs five hundred meters away. The squadrons behind also turned the rudders to follow up the bombardment.

The four squadrons' artillery bombardment broke the entire Ma Yongwei island. Barriers in some places had collapsed. Most artillery was completely silent. No matter how the officers shouted, the intercepted soldiers had begun to flee. As for the Shui Yong who was transferred to the island to defend the artillery, they escaped faster. Compared with the officers, the temporary workers had a weaker fighting will, and the cannons began to run away one after another.

The Fubo army still adopted the old tactics. After the warships equipped with cannons eliminated the threat of enemy artillery counterattacks, the artillery boat squadron approached and projected large-caliber grenades: the artillery boat approached to 400 meters from the shore and bombarded Ma Yongli Island with a 280mm mortar cannon. The violent explosion devoured the turret like a tide. After several rounds of artillery, most of the Wu Yongyi's turret was destroyed, and there was no one on the shore. The sampan and small-haired boat, carrying naval soldiers, began to land on the beach on the south side of the island.

The officers and soldiers who were ambushed in the trenches and Shui Yong did not suffer much casualties in the artillery attack. At this time, they suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the naval soldiers with a shout. However, Chen Yingyuan believed that the Ming officers and soldiers were well-versed in hand-to-hand combat. The winners of the hand-to-hand combat were always strictly disciplined and better-trained. In just five minutes, about 50 people fell under the bayonets of the naval soldiers, and only 2 naval soldiers were killed by bows and arrows and spears because they were caught off guard.

Since the south bank of Ma Yongwei's turret was lost, the remaining few cannons on the turret were completely ineffective. Only a few war soldiers continued to resist by relying on the trenches.

While launching an attack on the front, another company embarked on a sampan and a small hair to advance towards the north bank of the Pearl River. Since it could cover the side of the Wuyong Fort, Chen Yingyuan suddenly arranged three sandbag cannon bases and hundreds of water Yongs a few days ago.

The spy boat followed the landing troops and was ready to "wash the floor" of the officers and soldiers' artillery fire at any time. The typewriter on the small boat was ready to fire at any time. At this time, the southeast wind suddenly blew on the river surface, the waves were surging, and the water level soared. The three artillery barricades were flooded because they were too close to the shore. The gunpowder accumulated on the artillery barricades were all soaked. Shui Yong and the gunner lost their last bit of courage and dispersed without firing one shot.

When Xu Tingfa saw the fort on the North Bank fail, he knew that if he didn't escape, he would be attacked from front and back, and blocked the island and waited for death. He immediately shouted: "Send him away quickly!"

Chen Yingyuan's personal soldiers rushed forward and helped him on the horse without saying a word. Xu Tingfa immediately led his personal soldiers to open the way. He fled in the chaos and was the first to run across the floating bridge and escaped from danger.

The cover behind the defensive turret has been broken, and the open side of the Wuyong turret is only bamboo sticks, caltrops and horse-resisted horses can rely on. The navy pulled two 12-pound mountain dutch from the sampan and bombarded the Wuyong turrets from the back. The small number of people who were still insisting on the island completely collapsed.

The landing naval soldiers rushed to the island like a tide. Hundreds of officers and soldiers on the island had collapsed, and were killed and injured in the front and back of artillery fire, rifles and bayonets. Some soldiers and Shui Yong fought and retreated, retreating to the Wuyong River. The Wuyong River was about ten meters wide, and there was a floating bridge connecting the island to the north bank of the Pearl River. After Xu Tingfa and Chen Yingyuan rushed across the bridge, hundreds of soldiers who were originally guarding the bridge dispersed. The naval soldiers who had landed on the north bank before quickly seized the bridge and fired dense bullets at the officers and Shui Yong who were trying to seize the way. The bridge deck suddenly turned over and over with dead bodies.

Faced with the enemy who was blocking the front and chasing the back, the officers and soldiers had no choice but to retreat, and were eventually destroyed in the attacks between the two groups. 216 people were killed and 200 were captured.

After the fall of Ma Yong's island, the defense system of the entire Wu Yong Fortress collapsed completely. The officers and soldiers on the fortress and warships were separated and brave enough to attack and fled. The naval soldiers occupied the forts and barracks in turn, as if they were peacefully accepted. A small team boarded the sand ship tied to the iron chains that were already empty, and removed the iron chains that ran across the Pearl River. This huge iron chain was obviously a very valuable spoil - enough to recover several tons of iron.
Chapter completed!