Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

But the accuracy of the rocket launcher is pathetic, and it is impossible to hit a mobile battleship at a distance of thousands of steps.

So these bazookas installed on the Great Eastern class are all equipped with smoke bombs today, in case they fail to hit them, they will be used when they are running.

Qiu Rong was still standing on the back deck at this time, he didn't care about the firepower of the enemy warship, it was not so easy to hit at such a distance now.So he devoted all his attention to the "shock boats" that were rapidly approaching the enemy ships.

All his hopes are on these dozens of "shock boats"... The accuracy of the rocket launchers is not very good, so he relies on this tactic of swarming up to fight "disorderly artillery".

Although in previous exercises, this small boat was always able to quickly approach the big ship, and hit the target with the exercise bomb.

But that was a drill, today is actual combat!

Seeing those small boats floating through the waves through the telescope, getting closer and closer to the enemy's big ship, Qiu Rong was so nervous that he almost squeezed the telescope in his hand.

At this moment, he saw that the captain of the gunner on a small boat had already tore off the tarpaulin covering the rocket launcher.

After the tarpaulin was ripped off, the rocket launcher inside was naturally exposed.

As for the rocket launcher, Figo has never seen the real thing, but he has seen the graphics—it was drawn by Kangxi and sent to the following, so everyone must be careful after seeing it.

But Kangxi didn't say how to prevent it?I didn't send a rocket-proof talisman to the following people...

So Figo was dumbfounded when he saw the rocket launchers on those small boats showing hideous faces. Those small boats were already very close to him, at most six or seven hundred yards, and the boat turned around slowly... Now it is in the upper hand, blown by the wind Just get it together, and it's impossible to even go backwards!

This bazooka is about to hit, but how to defend against it?

When he was in a hurry, he saw smoke coming out of dozens of small boats in front of him. One or two hundred rockets, trailing white smoke, made a strange cry of "Qiuqiu", and flew away at an extremely fast speed. Pounce on the "Dingyuan Batulu"!

"bingo!"

"Long live!"

"Hit..."

"Boom boom boom..."

Cheers, violent explosions, and the irrelevant roar of artillery all rang in Qiu Rong's ears.The eldest uncle of Zhu Hechi is now so excited that tears welled up in his eyes.

Because his "Sea Cavalry" just used "riding and shooting" to blow up the most powerful warship owned by the East India Company east of Malacca - such a huge warship, it was completely vulnerable, and it was smashed by a round of rocket salvos up!Hit into a floating fireball!

The vast ocean, from now on, has a share of Daming again!

Chapter 397 Don't shoot, we surrender!We want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!

Finished!

The era in which Europeans could dominate with just a few cannons on the eastern coastline is over!

Everyone who is on the "Dinghai Batulu" and sees one or two hundred rockets flying towards the battleship they are on, dragging white smoke and making the strange sound of "Qiuqiu", will pop up in their minds. Had such an idea!

This was not a failure of the Nanyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty, or even a failure of the Dutch East India Company, but a disastrous failure of the entire European civilization.

Since the voyages of Columbus and Magellan opened the age of great voyages, the European navigators and colonists who have traversed the oceans of the world for nearly 200 years and brought the flag of God to almost every known coastline in the world are here for the first time. Hai Hai met an opponent they couldn't beat at all!

And this is not a failure caused by occasional negligence, let alone encountering an enemy who "teaches Europe to control Europe".Instead, they encountered an attack from a "magic weapon" that the Europeans didn't know how to defend against, nor how they made it... Their strong ships and guns were simply irresistible!

They were "struck by dimensionality reduction"!

The so-called strong boats in this era are nothing but wooden hulled boats.A solid oak plank might hold off solid bullets at longer distances, and it might hold off powder-propelled rockets, but sugar-powder rockets travel faster, have more kinetic energy, and have a bullet in the warhead The spikes made of crucible steel are strong enough to pierce the oak baffle... Even if they can't penetrate, they can nail the rocket to the oak board and then explode!

Oak planks are strong, and that is wood!Not to mention the explosive power of sugar bombs, even the explosive bombs with black powder charges cannot be tolerated by oak boards.

In the Sinop naval battle in the Crimean War in history, the first large-scale bombardment and explosive shells used in naval battles once helped the Russian Navy easily destroy the Ottoman Navy fleet, thus ending the wooden sail battleship The era of dominating the ocean!

Now, the Ming Navy, which uses the "speedboat riding and shooting" tactics and sugar rockets, has ended the era of sailing battleships 200 years ahead of schedule.

On one side of a sailing battleship, there are dozens of cannons, and there is no firepower at the bow and stern of the ship.Facing the assault of dozens of small fast "riding and shooting boats", there is almost no power to fight back... Even if you can sink a few of the speedboats with solid bullets from smoothbore guns, it is meaningless.Because the remaining speedboats can still fire hundreds of rockets.

As long as [-]% of the rockets are hit, a battleship with dozens of cannons can be completely wiped out...

Although the rocket's accuracy is poor, as long as the distance is close enough and the target is large enough, it can still be easily hit.

The "Dinghai Batulu" is not small in size, and if the empty displacement is calculated, it is estimated to exceed 12 tons.And its firepower is "very weak". It is just an armed merchant ship with only one gun deck, with a total of twenty [-]-pound guns, and each side has no more than twelve guns, and they are placed in the gun bay. The firing angle of the artillery fired from the gun window is very small, and it is difficult to aim at small fast-moving targets-this kind of target was originally hit by the Eagle Cannon (Franco cannon) placed on the upper deck.But there are only four eagle cannons on board the "Dinghai Batulu", two on each side, what the hell?

Therefore, none of the "riding and archery boats" rushing towards the "Dinghai Batulu" was hit by the firepower of the "Dinghai Batulu", and the sailors of the Ming army who were rowing did not even notice the attack from the enemy.Therefore, they were very courageous, rowed the "riding and archery boat" to a distance of less than 100 steps from the "Dinghai Batulu", and only fired more than [-] and nearly [-] rockets.

The hit rate of the rockets fired at this distance is not low. At least thirty or forty rockets penetrated the baffles on the port side and bow of the "Dinghai Batulu", and half of them were on the "Dinghai Batulu" The inside of the hull exploded, and the "belly" of "Dinghai Batulu" was blown to pieces in an instant.The Dutch sailors standing on the upper deck seemed to have encountered an earthquake or a volcanic eruption. The deck under their feet shook violently, and a fireball was ejected from time to time.Almost no one was able to stand still, and all of them fell back and forth.

Figo was still relatively clever, and he lay down on the deck immediately, so he didn't fall, but he was hit hard by something. Fortunately, this thing was not very hard, so Figo was not hit. smashed.But his spine was in severe pain from the smash, and the thing was still heavy, and it was still pressing on him after the smash.

After the deck under his body shook violently, Figo also slowed down, pushed the thing away hard, and just about to get up, he suddenly heard Barter's shout: "Figo, it's me..."

It turned out to be Barter. He was knocked over by the vibration under his feet just now, and he couldn't stabilize himself, so he sat down on Figo.

"Admiral, we..." Figo, who got up, supported a board, looked up and saw a warship that was burning, disintegrating, and sinking. This scene is really hard to describe. Is it like hell?

"Rumble..."

At this time, Figo felt the battleship under his feet tremble again, and there was a roar at the same time. Obviously, another explosion occurred somewhere on the lower deck!

"We must abandon the ship!" Figo turned his head and said to Barthe, who had struggled to get up and was leaning against a baffle in a daze, "The fire is out of control, and there is still a lot of gunpowder in the gun compartment. Once it explodes, we will die." Dead!"

"But, there are Chinese speedboats nearby..." Barter's face was full of horror, "They will kill us!"

"I have a solution... Admiral, you follow me, we will be saved!" Figo flipped out of the deck on the side of the ship and jumped into the sea.

Balter knew that his battleship was hopeless, and staying on it would only lead to death, so he couldn't care less, and felt like jumping with Figo.

Both of them can swim well, and they are also wearing light silk military military uniforms of the Qing Dynasty, so they don't get in the way when they swim.

The two of them, one behind the other, quickly swam to the side of a "riding archery boat" - this "riding archery boat" had just completed reloading and was now preparing to bombard the "Dinghai Batulu" "Zhenhai Batulu" and met two big fish.

Although Balter had received Figo's guarantee just now, he couldn't imagine any way for the Portuguese to save his life at this moment. Could he still jump on that boat and subdue the people on it?

Just when Barter couldn't figure it out, Figo suddenly shouted in Chinese: "Don't shoot...we surrender! We are also Chinese, and we also want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty!"

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Ningbo, Zhaobaoshan.

Fan Chengmo, Governor of Zhejiang Province in the Qing Dynasty and Minister of the Nanyang Navy, stood on the Zhaobaoshan Fort for a whole day today, like a watchman, stretching his neck and looking at the Yongjiang Estuary not far away.

But he waited and waited, hoped and hoped, but he couldn't wait for his Nanyang Navy fleet!

This is not the first day he has been a watchman on Zhaobao Mountain, but the seventh day where he stands here stupidly.

And now it has been fifteen days since the Nanyang navy sailed out to sea... But this huge fleet just disappeared out of thin air, and not a single warship returned.

How is this going?Shouldn't the whole army be wiped out?There are dozens of Western warships here, even if they are bombarded by the rebels with lightning arrows, how many of them can escape?How could none of them come back?

What made Fan Chengmo even more worried happened at noon yesterday, when the beacon tower over Dinghai suddenly burst into thick smoke!This shows that Dinghai has already been attacked by rebels...

But what puzzled Fan Chengmo was that the smoke from the Dinghai Beacon Tower had been extinguished yesterday afternoon, and there wasn't a single express ship coming from Dinghai to Ningbo. What happened?Is there a fire in the beacon tower, or has Dinghai been occupied by rebels?

Why didn't Dinghai even send a fast boat to report the news?Could it be that they cannot be dispatched?

Fan Chengmo is really getting more and more afraid now the more he thinks about it!

Chapter 398 Inverted!All reversed!

"Smoke! Smoke! Master, smoke is coming out of the beacon tower!"

Fan Chengmo, incarnated as the "Watching husband stone", was just when the "Watching husband" saw a pain in his neck, when Geshha's exclamation suddenly came from his ear.

He quickly raised the binoculars and looked east—there are peak fire towers on Jintang Mountain, Cezi Mountain, and Daxie Mountain on the islands outside the Yongjiang Estuary, and there are seven or eight peak fire towers on Zhoushan Island in Dinghai, which is farther away.

If the Ming army came from the sea and wanted to land near Dinghai and Ningbo, these beacon towers would light the beacon and alert Ningbo.

But Fan Chengmo's eyes widened and he looked hard, but he didn't see a wisp of smoke rising from those beacon towers.

"No, there's no smoke..." Fan Chengmo couldn't find any smoke, so he was still asking.

"North," that Goshha replied loudly, "the fire tower in the north is smoking!"

north?

When Fan Chengmo heard this, he was so nervous that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

It turns out that the Qing army set up a large number of beacon towers in the coastal and river areas of Zhejiang, Jiangnan, and Jiangbei. No matter where the Ming army invaded from, theoretically there would be a peak fire warning!

In addition, from the beginning of the 13th year of Kangxi, the Qing army spent a lot of effort to transform and strengthen the forts in Zhejiang, Jiangnan, Jiangbei coastal areas and along the river, and built simple fortifications behind these forts. These turrets are equipped with general Weiyuan guns that can fire flowering bullets and small-caliber mortars (that can shoot super-caliber bullets).

Although there is no sugar ammunition to distribute to the artillerymen below, the black powder distributed to them is much higher than the original standard - Xueba Kang Mazi is now personally catching gunpowder and firearms, and he can't make enough white sugar now , but black powder is whatever he wants to play with.There are many natural nitrate fields in northern China. Every year during the slack season, the local farmers would dig some nitrate soil and cook the nitrate for a small penny.

Kang Mazi also learned how to purify fire nitrate and make granular gunpowder from the Portuguese slaves who fled to Beijing. When he was free, he experimented with a group of Taoist Hanlin who could make alchemy.After producing the more powerful granular gunpowder, Emperor Kangxi personally took care of the production... The servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of course kicked their noses when they met the confused master Daoguang, but they dared not take it seriously when they met Emperor Kangxi. slave.

After all, the current Kangxi is not even afraid of beheading, how many dog ​​slaves can't be cured?Therefore, the products of the gun factories and gunpowder factories controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs are quite good.

It is no exaggeration to say that the coastal defense in the southeast of the Qing Dynasty is even stronger than the coastal defense level during the Opium War in history!

But what the Qing is now encountering is the Ming Navy that is "especially heavy on riding and shooting", and is supported by the people of Zhejiang and Jiangnan coastal areas!

Fan Chengmo, the governor of Zhejiang and the governor of the Nanyang Navy in the Qing Dynasty, knew very well that his enemies not only came from the sea, but also from the countryside of Zhejiang, and even from the cities of Ningbo and Hangzhou.

Moreover, since Emperor Kangxi wanted to concentrate his forces to defend the Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps, he also transferred the banner army stationed in Zhejiang.Apart from the "foreign eight-banner navy", what was left to Fan Chengmo was only a few green battalion soldiers and regiments...

He didn't dare to think about it anymore, but he still had to grit his teeth and turn his head to look north.

Sure enough, all the beacon towers built along Hangzhou Bay in the north have been lit!

"Quick, hurry back to the mansion!" Fan Chengmo said tremblingly, "Hurry up and call someone...call someone to come to the governor's mansion for a military meeting!"

"Whoo!"

The Geshkhs responded loudly, and half of them went separately to call someone, and the other half, surrounded by the distraught Fan Chengmo, headed for the governor's office at the foot of Zhaobao Mountain.

When Fan Chengmo arrived at the Governor's Yamen, Yu Chenglong was already waiting there, sweating profusely, with an anxious expression on his face, and he knew something was wrong at a glance.

"Yu Shan, what's the matter?" Fan Chengmo ignored the small talk and asked directly.

Yu Chenglong shook his head repeatedly and said, "It's reversed! It's reversed!"

Fan Chengmo hurriedly asked: "Who is rebellious?"

"It's all reversed!" Yu Chenglong stomped his feet, "Didn't I go back to Hangzhou City the day before yesterday to handle Ling Chi Yao Qisheng's errand?"

"That's right! Why are you back?" Fan Chengmo also remembered that the imperial edict dealt with by Emperor Kangxi came down a few days ago.

Kangxi commented that "since Yao Ni's son is dead, there is no need to surrender. According to the crime of treason, it will be too late"-Kangxi was still in love with his talents, and wanted to use high-ranking officials and generous salary to recruit Yao Qisheng, but there have been too many things recently, so he just let this one go. Forgot, he didn't remember until the next person came to ask if he wanted to cut Yao Qisheng.However, Yu Chenglong's memorial said that Yao Qisheng's beloved son committed suicide in prison... Now Kangxi decided not to surrender, and approved the execution of Yao Qisheng in Lingchi, Hangzhou to frighten Xiaoxiao.

Ling Chi was a big event, and Yu Chenglong, the procurator of Zhejiang Province, was always going to preside over it.

So Yu Chenglong bid farewell to Fan Chengmo and went to Hangzhou on an official boat, but he didn't expect to come back after only two or three days.

"Zhijun, I can't go to Hangzhou anymore!" Yu Chenglong said, "I just arrived in Cao'e City, so I can't go any further!"

"What's wrong? Could it be that the third grandson of Zhu has landed..."

"It's not Zhu San's grandson, but a local traitor in Shaoxing!" Yu Chenglong wiped the sweat from his forehead, "Actually, it's a group of Shaoxing countrymen who want to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty under the instigation of a group of regimental leaders with ulterior motives."

"What?" Fan Chengmo's eyes darkened, and he almost fell to the ground. Fortunately, Geshha, who was beside him, was clever and helped him up.

Yu Chenglong stomped his feet and said: "The emperor let that old thief Huang Zongxi deceive you. These regiment training leaders who spend money to buy officials have nothing good! They heard from somewhere that the Nanyang navy was wiped out and the Guangdong rebels landed in Songjiang. All the news about Jiaxing turned upside down...the Emperor still counts on them to help suppress the thieves!"

In fact, Emperor Kangxi never expected these regiment leaders to help fight the war—it is only the 13th year of Kangxi, and just over ten years ago, Zheng Chenggong's army marched straight along the Yangtze River, killing all the way to the city of Nanjing!

At that time, people all over the south of the Yangtze River supported Zheng Chenggong overwhelmingly!

It was only because Zheng Chenggong was defeated under the city of Nanjing that the Manchu Qing rule in the south of the Yangtze River was consolidated.

But that generation of people who look forward to Wang Shisi's great enlightenment is still there!

They did not agree with the Qing Dynasty from the bottom of their hearts. Kangxi handed over the local grassroots in the south of the Yangtze River to them, which was tantamount to giving up.

But if it is not handed over to them, Kangxi does not have enough troops to garrison, does not have an army, and cannot get the support of local scholar-bureaucrats.

Yu Chenglong said again at this time: "Although they are all mobs, they are numerous and powerful. They are all natives and are familiar with waterways. Moreover, the people in Yuyao, Shangyu, Kuaiji, Shanyin and other counties have also followed them. They were almost captured by them... Zhijun, you must quickly mobilize troops to suppress the rebellion!"

Fan Chengmo still has a few soldiers on hand. He is the governor and has thousands of supervisors in his hand. Although they are green battalion soldiers, these green battalion soldiers are fed by Fan Chengmo with silver, and they can still be used at critical times.

"Okay!" Fan Chengmo gritted his teeth, "I can't beat Zhu Heqi or a group of Shaoxing countrymen?"

As soon as he said this, one of his masters rushed in from the outside, holding a letter in his hand, "Master, master, it's not good... the people of Wenzhou have turned their backs!"

"Wen, Wenzhou?" Fan Chengmo was surprised again, "Did Tian Futai send an envoy to ask for help?"

Wenzhou was on the front line of fighting against the Ming Dynasty, so Tian Fengji, governor of Zhejiang Province, personally took Fubiao to defend the city.

"No," the master shook his head, "Tian Futai has already been martyred! It's a letter from the Taizhou prefect (another name for the magistrate), and the letter said that five days ago, the traitor Zhu San Taisun personally led [-] troops into Wenzhou. After besieging the prefectural city of Yongjia, the thirteen regiments who entered the city to help defend the city that night practiced rebellion, opened the city gates, and welcomed the rebels into the city. Tian Futai had to hang himself and die for the country..."

Fan Chengmo plopped down and sat on the ground, muttering to himself: "It's wrong, it's wrong, it's all wrong!"

Chapter 399 Welcome to Daming, Daming will not be a slave when he comes!