There is a place called Tonggou, about two hundred miles away from Maoer Mountain, on the north bank of the lower reaches of Yalu River, which is unknown, but it is famous in history.

Hengzhou or Hengdu are his former names, Goguryeo, Bohai, Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties once built cities here.

It is said that this place once became the capital of the Goguryeo Dynasty, and was once the Yalu River Prefecture, Xijing, Bohai Kingdom. Later it was moved to Maoer Mountain, but Hengzhou City has been preserved.

Today, there are only broken walls and walls left in the famous Yalu River city. However, after the Qing Dynasty conquered this place, it still built a wooden village on the basis of broken walls and had two Niulu military forces.

Here is another road leading to Longcheng. Asxs., which controls this place, Maoer Mountain upstream is a turtle in a jar.

Also, this place is an important support point for Zhenjiang Fort, which is more than 100 miles downstream. The area of ​​Zhenjiang Fort controlled by the Qing Dynasty is 600 miles from Maoershan. At present, their navy is unobstructed in this section of the river, and Tonggou Fort is in the middle. If a surprise attack occupies this place, the Yalu River, which is 600 miles long, will be broken into two pieces!

One evening in early June, the temperature near the Yalu River rarely rose to about 30 degrees, and the Qing soldiers in Tonggou Fort were a little anxious.

The heat of the weather is one reason, while the Maoer Mountain upstream is surrounded by another reason.

Huerha's tribe was originally on the other side of the Yalu River. During the reign of Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty, the Jurchens and the Koreans were the enemy of life and death on both sides of the Yalu River. However, at that time, they were still a mess and were no match for the Koreans who had hundreds of years of inheritance.

But everything changed after Nurhaci's rise. Although the Jurchens still guarded the "border line" of the Yalu River, they often crossed the river to "draw grass valley", which made North Korea's Hamkyung Road and Peace Road complain.

Feng Shui turns, why? The support behind a powerful group is exposed here.

However, in the past one or two years, under the strong constraints of Huang Taiji, the Qing army on the Yalu River had almost no robbed across the river.

Based on this, North Korea was originally forced to set up a barracks on the south bank of the Yalu River due to the power of Nurhaci and Huang Taiji. Dingkou also retreated 30 miles, and gradually recovered in the past or two years.

Opposite Tonggou Fort, it was originally an outpost of the Kasan Protectorate of Hamkyung Road, North Korea. In the past year, a military camp was suddenly built, a pier was built on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and some small slab boats were arranged.

Hurha didn't care about these things. With the weak combat power of the Koreans, it would definitely not pose a threat to the Communication Fort. Moreover, if the emperor relieved the threat from the Sorens, wouldn't the material ships stored by the Koreans on the other side be from our Qing Dynasty?

Even so, the military discipline of the Qing Dynasty was still extremely strict at this time. No matter day and night, the garrison of the castle did not relax at all.

After crossing the Yalu River, Huerha's tribe joined the Tongjia tribe (there is a big river a hundred miles downstream of Tonggou Fort, which was called Tongjiajiang at this time and later called Hunjiang). Therefore, his surname was also changed to Tongjia.

Tong Jia Huerha, currently one of the few warriors in Tong Jia's army, as Batulu, Melee really has the title of governing the 600 Yalu River Warriors in Tonggou Fort.

In the afternoon, it was the hottest time of the day. Even Huerha, who had always been steady, couldn't stay in the house. He walked to the side of the castle against the Yalu River, preparing to enjoy the cool breeze blowing from the Yalu River.

Any place where a stronghold is built on the bank of the Yalu River must be a place where a river flows down from Changbai Mountain on the west bank. One of the reasons is naturally the meaning of transportation. In addition, the use of trees on Changbai Mountain to flow downstream is also a reason for building castles.

Tonggou Fort is built between two rivers, just like Maoer Mountain, surrounded by water on three sides and backing on the other side.

Huerha came to the wooden wall and saw that his subordinates were not slacking off because of the hot weather and sweating profusely. His expression, which had been tense for the past few days, couldn't help but relax slightly. He held the wooden railings on the village wall and looked at the opposite side.

Unfortunately, the Yalu River was covered with white under the scorching sun, and there was no cool breeze. Hu Erha couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. He simply patrolled the city wall. At this time, it was the hottest time and it made people sleepy, and it was impossible to be careless.

"master!"

Huerha was also a little sleepy. He circled around the Muzhai, which was about one mile long. He was about to go back to the house to sleep when a soldier ran over to the east of the village wall.

Huerha followed the man quickly to the village wall near the Yalu River. When he saw it, he couldn't help but be furious!

I saw six slab boats on the opposite side suddenly started, and they were directly in the direction of Tongcom Fort!

According to the past rules, the two sides sometimes exchanged their existence or not, but they used small boats. When they never dispatched large boats, there were five or six ships in Huerha. The Boluo Navy, who belonged to Maoershan, was just patrolling and covering the river. He always thought of relying on it to conquer the city and siege.

“Woo…”

Without Huerha's reminder, the soldiers on the village wall have already sounded the horn of the horn.

The river surface of this section is about fifty feet wide. With the blessing of oars, the banwu boat soon arrived at the middle of the river. At this time, the Qing army ships in Tonggou Fort were still leaning against the dock.

Looking at the busy appearance of his ship, Hurha couldn't help but get angry. Although these naval ships were all under Dorobel Boro's subordinates, how could they be so unbearable?!

When the Qing army ships started to move, the six plating boats had approached them!

At this point, Hu Erha, who was standing on the wall, saw clearly that the bows of the six plating houses were all equipped with two cannons. The cannons were not big, and they looked like two or three hundred pounds, but they were cannons after all!

Zhenjiang Fort, Tonggou Fort, and Maoer Mountain are the three major fortresses of the Qing army on the west bank of the Yalu River. However, because Tonggou Fort is sandwiched in the middle, the Qing court did not pay special attention to it. Not to mention cannons, there was not even a single gun.

"Storm up! Take the cannon!"

Huerha was anxious and couldn't help but shout down desperately.

Unfortunately, it was too late, and the cannons on the six plating boats began to fire!

The Qing army ships are still the flat bottom and flat sand boats that are common on the Yalu River and the Liaodong sea surface today, and a large number of sailors are piled on the deck surface.

After a roar, Huerha saw almost half of the sailors on his own ships collapsed on the deck.

"Shot bullet?!"

Huerha was shocked. At this time, it was still a technical job to launch a shotgun smoothly. He was not like a solid shot, which could control the distance between the shell and the barrel well. Because the shotgun was crowded with a large number of small shots, if the loading was not done well, the power would be greatly reduced due to the serious air leakage. Therefore, few people used it in this era.

China adopted it on a large scale, and it would take until the Qing Dynasty suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that Zeng Guofan came up with a large number of shotguns because of the large number of "Changhai Army".

Less gossip, when Huerha was stunned on the city wall, another cannon on the bow of the ship was fired again. After another heart-wrenching roar, the left-behind boat of the Qing Dynasty almost lost its combat effectiveness.

"Bang!"

It was the sound of the slab boat loading on its own sand boat. At this time, the sand boats had just left the dock not long after they were pushed by the slab boat paddling and leaned towards the dock again.

Huerha suddenly realized something, "Soren Barbarian!"

With one encounter, they destroyed all their "navy troops". Now there is only one army in the world that can do it, that is, the Hanhai Army equipped with a large number of shotguns!

Now there is no time to think about whether the Sorens had unknowingly seized the Korean camps and ships, or whether the Koreans had colluded with the barbarian thieves again.

What we need to be wary of is that the barbarian thieves will come ashore to seize the village!

However, when Huerha gathered 300 cavalry and rushed out of the village to the open ground near the dock, the enemy had already arrived ashore, with only a few hundred infantry troops!

However, what made Huerha's heart palpitations was that a large number of small cannons that were smaller than those on the bow of the ship had been scattered in front of the Sauron barbarians!

"Folangji!"

The Qing army also had such a small cannon, but Huerha's Tonggou Fort was also owed.

At this point, we can only go forward with all our might. The cavalry speed and the death and wounding of some soldiers were trying to drive the barbarians of Soren down the Yalu River!

On the dock, someone was commanding with a serious expression. It was Ye Duo!

It turned out that he was actually coming to Tongcom Castle along the way.

There are more than 400 musketeers who have landed ashore. When they landed, each four people carried a 200-pound Bolang machine cannon that can quickly replace the sub-gun, with a total of 40!

Eighteen doors were opened in the front, eleven doors on each side, and all the shotguns were loaded.

Behind the artillery, the brigade of infantry was divided into three rows. A row of soldiers knelt on one knee, holding an eight-pound tunnel musket, and a row bent over the back also holding an eight-pound musket, and the last row was holding a ten-pound musket in their hands!

This is also the standard combat mode of the Hanhai Infantry in a hurry to encounter an enemy. Half of artillery fire, and the third row of muskets fire together, forming a new "three-stage strike" with the remaining half of the artillery. If you encounter large-scale cavalry, you will naturally be unable to protect yourself.

However, Ye Duo was very clear about the troops here.

"Bang!!"

The third row of muskets were fired, such as the two hundred pounds of the Flang machine cannon, when firing shotguns, the effective range was only thirty or forty meters. In addition to gunpowder, the air leakage caused by the use of sub-gun reloading technology is another reason. Therefore, in a hurry to encounter the enemy, generally speaking, muskets with a longer range were fired first.

Huerha escaped by chance in this wave of attacks, but he also saw that it was this fire of muskets that almost lost 30% of his cavalry's combat power - some were directly hit by muskets, but most were caused by larger war horses being shot and fell to the ground.

"Shit!"

Now it's time! Hu Erha couldn't help but poke the war horse with the barbs behind the horse boots, and his legs were tightly clamped. The war horse couldn't help but neighed loudly in pain.

"boom!!!"

It took a few dozen steps and a few breaths to reach it, but at this time it reached the range of the Folang machine cannon. After a terrifying roar, the Folang machine cannon finally roared!

Unfortunately, Huerha, who has always claimed to be "brave", did not escape the disaster at this time. The tiny shotguns, up, down, left and right, not only hit his war horse, but also hit him directly. At such a close distance, it was still ejected from the cannon. This kinetic energy is not comparable to that of a musket, and it is useless to have two layers of armor on you!

There are still war horses galloping on the open ground, but they are already sparse.

"boom!!!"

The bombardment of the first round of artillery was almost a few breaths away, and the remaining artillery fired.

After this round, except for a few horses scattered and fleeing in the field, there were no one riding on the horse.

However, a few cavalrymen who fell from the war horses actually pulled out their sabers and rushed over!

"The mantis arm is in a chariot!"

Ye Duo snorted coldly, waved his right hand down, and the three rows of musketeers were ready to go.

"Bang!!!"

The whole world was quiet, and even the Qing soldiers watching the fun in the fortress were shocked.

At the same time, all the slab boats on the opposite side also started, and each ship was loaded with ten war horses!

...

An hour later, there were no more Qing soldiers in the castle who were willing to come down to fight, and they all hurried on the city to guard them.

At this time, Ye Duo had already had three hundred war horses! Five hundred infantry troops!

War horses, artillery, muskets, infantry.

It is only a matter of time before the fall of Tongcom Castle is.

Tonggo Fort is the focus of Enso and Ye Duo's discussion. Once this fort falls, the Hanhai Army can rush straight to Longcheng, or go downstream to Zhenjiang Fort, or go straight to Fushun from the mountain path as Mao Wenlong did before!

During the day, fighting in Tongcom Fort is naturally so that the enemy troops in Tongcom Fort have sufficient time to call the police.
Chapter completed!