Now Dagukou has built a fort defense facility. The earliest fortifications here were built in the second year of Yongle in the dynasty (1404). After Chengzu Zhu Di built his capital in Beijing, he built a city in Tianjin and a pier in Dagu Haikou.
Cannon, however, was a temporary mound fortification at that time. During the Jiajing period, in order to resist Japanese pirates, the imperial court strengthened its combat preparations south of the Haihekou in Dagukou, began to build a permanent fortress and formally garrisoned fortification. However, this lonely place is located in the mouth of Haihekou.
The fortress on the south bank is nothing more than a blue brick and civil structure, and is equipped with only five old-fashioned general guns.
The Flying Leopard battleship equipped with 46 cannons approached 1,000 steps away from the Dagukou Fort, and opened fire within the maximum range of its artillery fire. Feilong and Feihu followed him with hundreds of cast iron cannons to bombard the Dagukou Fortress.
The commander of the Ming army's Tianjin Left Guard of the fort was Wan Jing, who was commanding the cannon on the fort, but was twisted into two pieces by a rotating chain and killed on the spot.
The General's gun was placed in Dagukou during the Jiajing period. He was over fifty years old and was disrepaired. The inner chamber was rusted. One door exploded as soon as it opened, killing three gunners;
Although the several doors were fired, their range and accuracy were not as good as those of the Chinese army's ship-borne bore cannon with sights. Moreover, since the gun position is fixed, it is very difficult to move the muzzle left and right, and it is impossible to adjust the pitch angle, so it is obvious that
The defenders of the Dagukou Fort were completely unable to hit the enemy, and they could only be beaten and could not fight back.
Half an hour later, the Dagukou Fort was broken into a city wall in the northeast corner, and all the general artillery were dumbfounded by the Chinese army.
The Chinese Army gradually dropped more than a hundred centipede boats from the main battleships, gunboats and clutches. More than 2,000 sailors and musket players climbed the rope net on the side of the ship and went down to the boat, and quickly rowed towards the estuary of the Haihe River. At this time, the Ming Dynasty
The officials in the North Korea have lost the ability to fight back, and there are no more people in the activity on the Dagukou Fort.
The landing sailors did not encounter any resistance and landed successfully. The sailor musket team of the second post first climbed through the gap in the northeast corner through the broken wall and tiles and climbed onto the Dagukou Fort. They used a roulette of guns to dismantle dozens of the fort guards.
The cold weapon counterattacked and inserted the blue-bottomed mid-flag into the Dagukou Fort.
"Brothers, the officers and soldiers have run away. Now our target is the capital," Yang Liu, the leader of the Ryukyu Corps of the Sailor Musket Team, shouted, raised a blue-bottomed Chinese flag and jumped off the fort, leading the team to rush towards the inland Tianjin Guards.
In front of them were lush farmland, with occasionally a few big trees standing in the fields, as well as the endless North China Plain and slowly flowing rivers.
The Ming army's defense in this area was extremely empty. After the Dagukou Fort was lost, the only defenders of Tianjin Guards were blocked between the Chinese army and the capital.
Yang Liu and Yang Qi are two brothers, both of whom were pirates. They were originally from the same group as Li Dan, but they had already worked alone with Yuan Jin and Li Zhong. After the China United Company defeated the official army in the Battle of Penghu, Yang Liu
The two brothers joined the China Company Guard, and now Yang Qi is in Java, Nanyang.
Yang Liu had the enthusiasm of a pirate, and was not afraid of the world. Before the First Division landed, he rushed over Tanggu with more than 1,000 people from the headquarters, chasing the butt of the Ming army's defeated soldiers and chasing the Tianjin Wei.
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The Ming Dynasty soldiers are 5,600, and the Tianjin Three Guards are 16,800. However, today, there are only more than 6,000 soldiers in Tianjin. The main force is the guerrilla battalion, the commander is the guerrilla Cao Huan, and Tianjin Acropolis is a city of earth. The city is more than 9 miles in length, with a height of 3 zhang and 5 feet wide. The shape of the city is long from east to west and short from north to south, which looks like a baccarat, so it is called "abaccarat". About ninety years later, this is the first one. In the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Hongzhi in Chao (1494), a brick city was built, and the four gates of the east, west, south and north were built, and the drum towers at the center of the city were built. It is called Drum Tower, but it is actually a Bell Tower.
The Bell and Drum Tower is three stories high, and the first floor at the bottom is a square platform made of bricks. It is wide at the bottom and narrow at the top. It has four arched door holes, which pass through four streets, east, west, south and north. Two floors are built on this platform. On the first floor of the building, the first floor is dedicated to Guanyin Master, the Queen of Heaven, Guan Yu and Yue Fei, etc., and on the second floor of the building, there is a 300-pound iron bell hanging.
Liu Yi, the commander of the Tianjin Guard, looked around on the top floor of the bell and drum tower. It had been a whole day since the Dagukou Fortress was lost. It was as dark as it was today, but the psychology of the Tianjin Guards was even more dim.
The Tianjin Guards were not prepared for combat at all. The Tianjin Guards fought a decent battle for hundreds of years since the establishment of the garrison.
In the evening, a firearm explosion sounded in the direction of Tanggu, and it stopped after a moment. When the sun set, a battalion of musketeers sent to reinforce Dagukou and the remnants of Dagukou defenders mixed together and fled in chaos from Tanggu. When I came back, I was crowded at the south gate of Tianjin and asked to enter the city.
The new commander Liu Yi, who was short-lived, was still vigilant and felt that it was too late and a group of riots should not be placed in the city. Therefore, he ordered all the defeated soldiers to retreat outside the west gate of the Acropolis.
Dozens of black shadows silently walked out of the crowd of defeated soldiers and disappeared from the moat outside the city wall.
About one hundred official cavalrymen came out of the west gate and came to escort the defeated soldiers, and identified the soldiers from each unit one by one, and reorganized the troops.
The three guards in Tianjin are military institutions, administratively affiliated to Wuqing County, Tongzhou, Shuntian Prefecture, Zhili, and the direct subordinates of the three guards are the deputy envoy of the military and prefecture (also known as the deputy envoy of the Tianjin Censorate). The position of deputy envoy is now vacant. The reason is related to Emperor Wanli's slack work. The main force of the three guards in Tianjin, the "guerrilla battalion", is now digging rivers and building embankments in Wuqing County, working hard labor. There are only more than 1,000 soldiers who can fight in the city.
Liu Yi knew very well about the empty troops in the garrison, but he did not dare to show any; the personal soldiers and guards around him all looked terrified, and the defenders in the city were also frightened, and the enemy suddenly appeared. He moved quickly and broke through Dagukou in one day to occupy Tanggu Town. Moreover, it was said that this army's firearm was extremely sharp. When the battle started, the fire was soaring into the sky and the bullets were like rain...
From the third-rank commander Chu Dongshan was tall, he rushed to the bell and drum tower, wiping his sweat and shouted: "Mr. Liu, the defeated soldiers outside the city were shouting to enter the city, saying that it was a life-threatening death today, no more Let them go into the city for a rest, and they will leave."
"These gangs of soldiers," Liu Yi cursed: "A bunch of ignorant things cannot be allowed to enter the city. Once they enter the city, the morale in the city will inevitably collapse."
"But if you don't let them enter the city, the soldiers in the city are dissatisfied. This is not a good thing for the major event of defending the city," Chu Dongshan hurriedly persuaded: "Why don't you go to the West Gate, To calm the hearts of the defeated soldiers, and to survive until tomorrow, the guerrilla camp that rushed back from Wuqing County will arrive, and these defeated soldiers will not make any tricks."
Liu Yi calmed down for a moment and nodded helplessly: "Okay, I'll go, how long has the messenger sent to Wuqing been leaving?"
"Sent out in the afternoon, Cao Guerrilla should be leading his troops back at this time,"
Liu Yi nodded and said, "I'm going to Xicheng, take my warrant and inform the Yanyundu Department, the Yanyun Department, the Military Field Department, the Tianjin Tongzhe and the General of the Caoyun General, and ask them to concentrate all their hands and send them all. Go to the city wall to defend the city. No matter what, you have to survive tonight..."
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Yang Liu and his men rushed through Tanggu, but did not enter the Tanggu residential area, and followed the Ming army's defeated troops toward Tianjin Wei.
At the first update of the evening, Yang Liu gathered more than 1,000 sailors and musketeers in the farmland three miles south of Tianjin Acropolis. They all lay in the rice fields waiting for the brothers who were mingling into the city to send a signal. They waited until the second update, and several people who were supposed to sneak into Tianjin Wei. The sailor came back panting.
"What are you doing? Didn't you let you get into the city?" Yang Liu shouted at the sailors in anger.
"Commander Yang, this guard of Tianjin Guard is cautious and careful. If we don't open the door and let people in, we really can't find a chance to enter the city."
"Is that so? This is a problem," Yang Liu grabbed his scalp and walked around the rice fields.
A messenger suddenly appeared: "Reported that a sentry from the student army and artillery battalion had arrived in Tanggu. They sent someone to contact him, saying that General Manager Chen asked us to dig trenches immediately and wait for all the troops of the First Division to land before Attack Tianjin Wei,"
Yang Liu looked at the dark sky in the distance and said in annoyance: "I'm not willing to give up, right in front of me, I'm at a loss. Don't worry, try it first..." His military inspector Mai Haisheng was startled: "General Yang, the general manager has ordered..."
Yang Liu laughed and said, "It's okay, I'll set out to conduct some investigation now. Brother Mai, just lead people to dig trenches and garrisons." As he said, Yang Liu tied his direct flag camp and the few who voluntarily attacked. The sentry led the slander, with a total of more than 700 people, and the slander moved forward. His military supervisor had to stay with the remaining people to build temporary fortifications.
Xu Guangqi, a senior secretary of the Hanlin Academy, has been suffering from illness since the autumn of the 41st year of Wanli (1613). During the past three years, he devoted his main energy to the implementation of southern rice planting in Tianjin. The Tuntian Manor in the south of Tianjin Acropolis is very large and there are streams flowing by it.
That night, Xu Guangqi sorted out the information in his study and agricultural technician Sun Biao and wrote an article on promoting southern rice. He turned a blind eye to the outside world these days and had no idea that Tianjin Wei was suffering from major events in history.
The servant suddenly rushed into the study in panic. Before he could speak, Xu Guangqi scolded angrily: "Xu Tian, I'm not saying that I'm not allowed to disturb me in the past few days. What are you doing?"
"Master, Master, something big happened. The pirates captured Dagukou. The pirates had arrived outside our village and were about to come in."
Xu Guangqi looked up and down at Xu Tian, and saw that he was not talking nonsense, so he was shocked and said, "Pirates, what place is the pirate? Is it the pirate from Taiwan?"
"Yes, lord, they are knocking on the door outside the village, saying they are going to come in and requisition our village,"
"What, take me to see," Xu Guangqi stood up straight, and saw that Sun Biao, a farmer who was simple by nature, picked up the door bolt from behind the door, intending to use this thing to protect him. He smiled and said, "Brother Sun, don't take it anymore, we Don't be afraid of those thieves, God will bless us,"
The supervisor of the Ryukyu Corps of the Sailor Musket Team at the entrance of Zhuangzi, Mai Haisheng, and the intelligence consultant of the Military Intelligence Department, were lit torches and looked at the map.
The map of this area was first drawn by Yu Wenhui when Yin Feng visited the capital a few years ago. At that time, the time was tight and there were few places to survey, so the map was very sketchy. Therefore, in the past two years, the Military Intelligence Department of the Chinese Army was based on the description of travel merchants. , On-site inspections by the intelligence personnel of the Military Intelligence Department have drawn relatively complete local maps.
When Xu Guangqi opened the village gate, he saw this large map spread out on the ground at the door. He immediately thought of treating these pirates as mobs.
Xu Guangqi, who has studied "Geometry Original", Western geography knowledge, and has personally drawn a European-style map. He immediately realized that this map was drawn using European-style latitude and longitude as the standard, and its detailed and accurate level is the foundation of the map hidden by the Minshi Zhifangsi. Incomparable.
People who have not systematically learned new geographical mapping knowledge and are proficient in Western learning will not be able to draw such a map. In other words, "pirates" with such maps can be able to learn Chinese and Western knowledge and boldly use new scientific knowledge. One force has the strength that cannot be underestimated.
Xu Guangqi put aside his contempt for the thieves and bowed his hand to a group of people wearing strange blue uniforms gathered at the door and asked loudly: "I, Xu Guangqi, the Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy, who is here and what is the price to do?"
Xu Guangqi saw at a glance that the uniforms worn by these pirates were very similar to those of European military uniforms. Xu Guangqi himself had seen related illustrations on European books brought by Matteo Ricci.
Mai Tiansheng, who was hurriedly putting away the map, and the intelligence consultant of the Military Intelligence Department, heard this and they all rushed together.
The intelligence consultant hid in Mai Haisheng's ear and said a few words. Mai Haisheng nodded and bowed: "You are Lord Xu Guangqi and Xu, and you are Lord Xu who translated "The Origin of Geometry","
"I am, what, geometry..."
It was Xu Guangqi's turn. In any case, he did not expect to say the words "Geometric Original" from a "pirate". You should know that his Chinese translation of "Geometric Original" was at that time. He did not gain the favor of the vast majority of scholars and had always been a marginal position of high and low, and even few literati and gentlemen in this dynasty knew about it.
Mai Haisheng bowed again and said, "Sorry, Lord Xu, our President Yin Feng and Yin repeatedly told us before we set off. We must not disturb Lord Xu. Sorry, it was because we were waiting for abruptcy. We originally planned to Request your farm to build fortifications, haha, I'm disturbing you, let's go now."
Before Xu Guangqi could come back to his senses, the Chinese military sailors and musket members had lined up, turned back, stood attentively, and disappeared into the darkness after a moment. Mai Haisheng apologized to Xu Guangqi again at the end, and then turned around and strode. .
After they disappeared into the darkness, Sun Biao rushed out of the village, walked around and came back, frowned and said, "Master, these people have not even moved the rice in our fields, They are not guilty of the families in the front door... Are they really pirates?"
"Is that true?" Xu Guangqi smiled self-deprecatingly: "Anyway, we know that the government army cannot do this. What kind of person is Yin Feng? It's terrible."
Sun Biao said strangely: "I think these people are not scary,"
Xu Guangqi nodded: "It's because of this that I said: These pirates are terrible."