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The red flag of the Ming army floated on the top of the city, and this important castle fell into the hands of the Ming army again. Just last month, the Jiutiao had just bombarded Zhenjiang Fort with cannons, captured hundreds of Qing army prisoners in the city, and then moved all the people in the city. Before leaving, he organized the people to strip a wall.

After the Ming army withdrew, the Qing army's defenders of Phoenix City sent troops to recover Zhenjiang Fort. However, since the people around Zhenjiang Fort forty or fifty miles were moved by the Ming army, the villages, towns, crops were also destroyed, and the city walls were stripped off. The Qing army only sent dozens of vests and a group of coated slaves to guard the city.

As a result, the Ming army came back not long after, and the Qing army stationed in Zhenjiang Fort, which had few walls, was blocked in their sleep. Several resisting people were killed, and the rest became prisoners.

The five thousand officers and soldiers of the Fourth Association of the 9th Town, the 3rd Division of the Chu Army, came on a Beiyang warship and went straight up from the river mouth, catching the Qing army off guard.

After recapturing Zhenjiang Fort, the Fourth Association began to repair Zhenjiang Fort, arrange city defenses, and establish forts.

Zhenjiang Fort is the largest fort among dozens of forts in the eastern end of Liaodong, and it is also the end of the original Liaodong Post Road. There were originally castles built since the Jin Dynasty, and there were nine stone forts standing along the river in the Ming Dynasty, so it was called Lianlian City. Later, the imperial court built several forts in Kuandian area and expanded its defense to the northeast, and Jiulian City gradually abandoned it.

However, when the Japanese pirates were rampant, Liaodong also reorganized its coastal defenses, and it was not far from Jiulian City, and another city was built, which was Zhenjiang Fort.

Zhenjiang Fort is only five miles away from the Yalu River, and North Korea is across the river.

Later, the imperial court opened a border market with the Jurchens and the Koreans in Zhenjiang Fort, which became lively. There were often thousands of people in the fort, and outside the fort were large farmlands. Countless villages nearby were scattered.

This area is open and flat plain, with a flat terrain and abundant water sources, and the harvest is excellent every year. Every year, oxen, salt, wood, medicinal materials, etc. from North Korea gather at Zhenjiangbao Wharf, and Liaodong also transports iron tools, agricultural tools, cloth, etc. into Zhenjiang, making the place prosperous.

However, later the Later Jin Dynasty rose and captured Liaodong, and many people from Zhenjiang Fort fled to Korea. At this time, Mao Wenlongpi Island established Dongjiang Town and counterattacked many times. Zhenjiang Fort was very close to Pi Island. It has repeatedly become the key point of competition. The years of offensive and defensive battles have made the prosperity here no longer and the population has been greatly reduced.

When it was the most lively, the imperial court stationed troops in Zhenjiang to set up a city, so lively.

At this time, only the lonely Zhenjiang Fort was left within a radius of dozens of miles.

After the Fourth Association Jiutou entered, many craftsmen and civilians were transported by large ships to be responsible for the renovation of Zhenjiang Fort. They also restored nine castles of Jiuliancheng and added forts to make them a screen guard for Zhenjiang City.

The craftsmen and civil servants were transported from Jinzhou. In the past few months, they have successfully built the Lushun Fortress, Zhenhai Fortress and Jinzhou Fortress. In addition, they have also built fortresses on the islands such as Changsheng Island, Shicheng Island, and Guanglu Island, and participated in the excavation of the Jinzhou Canal.

After the city was built, most of the people who built the city went to the newly built Tunzhuang on Jinzhou and the islands to garrison their own land. Some of them also chose to go to Taiwan to reclaim wasteland and farmland there.

But there are still some people, mainly some of whom have learned a lot of experience in building cities. These people who have initially mastered a lot of civil construction experience were also assigned to the fields, but in the end they were also hired by the East India Company and have now become employees of a specialized construction company under the East India Company of the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Jun directly contracted some major projects that needed construction to the construction company, and they led their experienced subordinates to be fully responsible for material budgeting and construction. They used professional people to build cities. The speed was undoubtedly faster, the quality was better, and the effort was more worry-free.

And these construction workers in construction firms can also get a considerable salary.

Zhenjiang Fort, Yizhou Fort and Tieshan Fort are both undertaken and built by a builder company. Zhenjiang Fort was the first to start construction, and the construction of Yizhou and Tieshan Fort will be continued. The new Zhenjiang Fort was built completely in the style of Jinzhou and Lushun. It is a new type of castle in the artillery era, with stronger cross-fire power and a new castle designed with special artillery protection.

Liu Jun has decided to nail this iron nail firmly at the mouth of the Yalu River. Zhenjiang Fort will also become a fortress fortress that cannot be moved.

The city is still under construction, and Ying'erd arrived.

In the dangerous mountain fort dozens of miles away from Zhenjiang, he saw the second team of horses sent out. Niu Lu Zhangjing, who led the team, reported to Ying'erdai that Zhenjiang fort was once again occupied by the Ming army, and the Ming army's red flag was floating on the top of the city.

"There are about four or five thousand Ming troops in Zhenjiang Fort. They not only occupied Zhenjiang Fort, but also entered Jiulian City. The Ming army also brought many craftsmen and civilians, and are stepping up the reinforcement and maintenance of the city."

"Are you sure there are only four or five thousand people?" Ying'erdai asked.

"There are indeed only four or five thousand people wearing blue military uniforms, and there are thousands of others who are just craftsmen in the city building."

The Ministry of Revenue Assistant to the Political Department Fortal, Fortal shouted, "A mere four or five thousand people dare to garrison troops in Zhenjiang to build a fortress. They still want to stay here. I am so brave. Sir, please send troops to attack Zhenjiang Fortress immediately. My subordinates are willing to be the vanguard." Although Fortal is the Ministry of Revenue Assistant to the Political Department, he is still Niulu Zhangjing. He is still very brave when fighting. He heard that there were only a few thousand troops in the army, and he immediately became a little angry.

Ying'erdai is still thinking.

Zhenjiang Fort is a key border with North Korea. If it is controlled by the Ming army, North Korea's attitude will be shaken. Even if it can change its route to North Korea, North Korea will agree to continue to move towards the Qing Dynasty. However, it is also a troublesome to have Zhenjiang block the Yalu River.

"I guess the Ming army in Zhenjiang is not alone. Now the sea is controlled by the Ming army. I guess there must be Ming army stationed in Pi Island, with each other."

"What's the matter? He dares to come, we'll just come to besiege the city and fight for help." Ma Futa said. "Sir, we'll just attack while the Nanman Castle has not been repaired yet."

"good."

More than 4,000 Qing troops immediately continued to move south and headed straight for Zhenjiang Fort.

In the afternoon of that day, he had arrived in front of Jiulianbao, north of Zhenjiang.

Jiulian Fort is of different sizes and is connected by nine cities. It is twenty miles away from Zhenjiang Fort and twenty-five miles away from Yalu River. There is Caohe to the northeast, the Yalu River is Yalu River in the southeast, and Zhendongshan is behind, which is dangerous.

After the Fourth Association of the Third Division entered the territorial division, they immediately sent troops to the Nine Forts. They also sent craftsmen and civilians to repair the forts first and add additional forts. When the British-Ordei led his troops to the fort, they immediately discovered the difference. He went to North Korea almost every year and passed by here every time. It turned out that the Nine City had long declined, and only a small number of garrisons were left.

But now, the castle has changed a lot, full of sharp corners, with trenches and slopes.

"Catch it!"

Ying'erd did not hesitate at all. Since he was here, he would call him.

There were officers and soldiers from a company stationed in the attacked bastion, and the fort was also named Sanliancheng. Seeing the Qing army arrive, the Ming army on the fort was not afraid at all.

"Ring the alarm bell and ignite the war."

The alarm bell was ringing, and wolf smoke rose from the top of the castle.

The Qing army listened to the crisp alarm bell and looked at the rising wolf smoke, with only pride and mockery in their eyes. In their eyes, this small fortress could not bear their attack at all.

"Pull the cannon up!" Mafuta shouted.

This time, I entered North Korea to strengthen North Korea's position of supporting the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, British and Ordai specially carried several cannons, all of which were thousands of kilograms of Franchise, with a whopping six, as well as dozens of light tiger squat cannons and small trumpets of Franchise. These cannons were originally intended to shock the North Koreans, but now they are just used to take down this fortress first.

On the castle, the soldiers of the Nine-Headed Bird Fort guards in blue military uniforms and red robes watched the Qing army drag several Folang machines from behind, and immediately someone laughed and shouted, "Company Commander, the Tartars are pushing the cannons."

"Call the soul and shout, do the Tartars also have cannons? You can see clearly, are they cannons?" Zhao Minghai, the company commander of the fort, said with a laugh.

Franc. equipment that has been eliminated in the army of Nine-headed Birds.

The Qing army pushed the cannon to the front of the formation and stopped about two hundred steps away from the city.

Zhao Minghai's expression was quite relaxed, "Brothers, look at the Tartars and push the cannon directly under our noses. Isn't this a gunner bullying us? Brother Gunner, can you bear it by being looked down upon by the Tartars like this?"

The captain of the artillery team in the fort sneered, "Report to the company commander, we have aimed the cannon at the Tartars, please issue a shooting order!"

"Are ready so soon? Are you sure you've aimed?"

"Yes, sir."

Zhao Minghai photographed the battlements, "Then let's beat him up, what are you waiting for?"

Under the city, a group of Han gunners were pushing the cannon car into the designated position, and then began to aim and adjust the angle. At this time, a gunner suddenly discovered that several large flags on the top of the city suddenly disappeared, revealing the black hole behind the gun.

"Boat, cannon!"

Someone exclaimed.

There were flags hanging in front of the previous guns, and no one knew that the Ming army in the fort also had artillery.

"There are artillery below!" Another exclaimed.

The three-company castle has guns, and there are many guns. The entire castle has six bastions. Each protruding basin has a double-layer turret, which can accommodate five lower and four upper nine cannons. In addition, in the center, there are three layers of twelve cannons, with a total of sixty-six cannons.

Outside the fortress, there is a trench two meters deep and four meters wide. There is a sheep and horse wall built between the trench and the city wall, and six howitzers can fire both solid bullets, shrapnel bullets and splash bullets. There are also two wooden fences built around the trench, which are five feet high.

For a small castle like Sanlian Fort, which has only about 200 troops garrisoned, the configuration of this cannon is already a luxury. However, the Nine-Headed Bird has many cannons, so of course it will not be stingy.

Looking at the panic of the Qing army under the castle, the gunners on the city were quite comfortable, "Silly Tartars, the ones you dragged here are also called cannons? Today, let grandpas let you know what cannons are!"

"On the shrapnel!"

Because of the sharp shrapnel and howitzer, the main equipment for the defending city in the fort is Canon howitzer. Only the three of the twelve cannons equipped on the center main fort are the top three of the 24-pound long-tube Canon.

Although howitzers are not as far away as cannons, what is needed for defending the city is not the range, but the range of killing.

Because the cannon is straight, it cannot attack the enemy in front of the city wall. It is equipped with three gates in an appropriate amount, just to deal with the enemy's long-range siege equipment, and can also prevent the enemy from gathering far outside the city.

However, the real weapon to defend the city is the canon grenade and shrunk.

Like other castles, Sanlian Fortresses are made of four models of cannoned, six-inch, eight-inch, ten-inch and twelve-inch cannoned, and the solid bullets used are twenty-four pounds, six-four pounds and one hundred and eight-pounds and one hundred and fifty-eight pounds. When using shrapnel, the shells are lighter. The howitzers are much lighter than cannons of the same caliber, but the shells are much larger.

Especially through transforming drugs, the range of shells can be well controlled.

"Since the Tartars were so stupid, standing in line two hundred steps under our city, how could we refuse the fat that came to our door!"

Zhao Minghai pressed his waist knife and said excitedly, "What are you waiting for? Fire!"

"Fire the artillery!" the artillery captain waved the flag and shouted.

After seeing the flag dancing, the gunners quickly knocked on the barrel, informed everyone to cover their ears and avoid them, and then ignited the fuse.

Sanlian Fort is a hexagram-shaped castle. The Qing army standing on the north side of the castle is within the attack range of the three prisms in the north, and the main turret can also attack the Qing army.

In addition, it is arranged in front of the three castle walls in the north, and there are four sheep and horse walls, each with six six-inch howitzers behind each sheep and horse wall. The Qing army is within the range of more than 60 artillery guns.

But they were unaware of anything and still fought with their past combat experience. They did not think that such fortresses would have so many artillery, and they would not have thought that two hundred steps away, they were still completely within the firing range of artillery on the Ming army fortress.

The first cannon rang out like a thunderbolt in the clear sky.

The first shrapnel roared out of the chamber, then the second cannon, the third, the fourth

One cannon was making deafening sounds, and one cannon after another was ejected.

For the gunners in the castle, this is not like fighting in the field. Each time they have to temporarily push the gun to a designated position, carefully measure the distance and adjust the angle. They don’t need it, their turrets are all fixed, and they have inserted many pickets outside the city, painted in different colors. Each painted wooden stake represents a mark, a parameter such as the setting of the shelling angle and the variable dose that has been adjusted.

They can quickly adjust the dose and emission angle according to the parameter table that was set earlier without measuring and calculating again.

The world is changing color for it.

A single shrunk shot flew into the sky, and then fell with fireworks, like meteors falling from fire and rain.

"Bang!"

A twelve-inch cannon grenade shot out and exploded first.

About one meter away from the ground, the 108-pound shrapnel bomb exploded in the air. A ball of orange-red flame rose up, and the cast iron shell shell was split into pieces, and hundreds of lead bullets inside were whistling. Each shot put weighing more than half a pound had fatal kinetic energy, covering the Qing soldiers within several meters below him under his death threat.

A large number of Qing soldiers were shot to the ground by a projectile, screaming and wailing!

"Yeah! The Tartars raised by the bitch are called cannons. How good is it? It's good!" The white smoke dissipated from the fort, and a gunner looked at the hellish scream below excitedly, roaring excitedly!

His gunner kicked him in the butt, "What a ghost, continue to load it quickly. Take advantage of his illness and kill him. Hurry up and bomb my mother's more fucking shots! If we don't have many other shells in a while, you will be able to sweep the cottage this month!" (To be continued.)

ps: There will be three updates today, and there will be another update tonight!
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