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Section 185: Capture Wuyong

 Chapter 185: Capture of Wuyong

Thinking that his master would often blow his nose and just wipe it with his hand on the oil sheet before continuing to chop and cook, Fu Ji felt that this was a matter of two worlds.

The poultry is divided into different parts according to the standards of the meat factory, refrigerated, and then processed into food for supply to the troops. This approach is first of all hygienic, and secondly, it can effectively control the quantity and nutritional content of the food supplied to each soldier. Simple

Ten chickens and ducks are minced and boiled with their bones. It is difficult to measure when distributing food, and it is impossible for every soldier to get food of the same quality. The difficulty in monitoring the quality will aggravate fraud. The soldiers distributing food are completely

You can give someone two chicken legs and only two chicken feet to others based on your interpersonal relationships and likes and dislikes.

After the split supply is adopted, except for slight differences in size, everything is exactly the same. One chicken drumstick per person is a chicken drumstick - the number of drumsticks is supplied according to the head, and if there is less, the military quarter sergeant and the cook will be compensated -

Unambiguously, this is the "quantitative management" that Wen Desi has always advocated.

The segmented supply maximizes utilization. After a poultry is sent to this processing center, nothing will be wasted. Except for the meat and edible offal and blood, the parts that are not suitable for consumption are dried and ground into

Feed and fertilizer. Even the feathers are not wasted. They are all packed and transported back to Lingao. After being sterilized there, the down is stored for future production of down jackets. The poor quality ones are processed into feather powder for use as feed - Xun Suji Huanhe

Several experts in chemistry are studying together to see if it can be used to make soy sauce.

Fu Ji soon became a skilled worker. When he put the decomposed parts in boxes one by one to be sent to the freezer cart, he couldn't help but chew on it - when will these good things be delivered?

Only then can it be my turn to eat?

The food in the cooking processing center is much better than in the camp. Three meals are brown rice, and a large pot of chicken soup and duck soup with cabbage - it is made from chicken shells and duck shells with the meat removed, and the taste is not bad. Eat.

After dinner, the chicken shells, which have no edible value, are recycled and ground into bone meal, which is said to be used to fertilize the fields.

"Australian gentlemen probably come from poor families," Fu Ji thought. She couldn't help feeling a little closer to these people.

The navy team that withdrew to Humen rested and trained for a few days, and the whale also sailed tremblingly on the river several times. When the river began to feel a chill, Chen Haiyang finally received the order from Lingao:

"Negotiation and contact have failed, so the boat will be anchored in Baietan immediately."

"Now we are going to bombard Guangzhou - it seems we have reached this point." Chen Haiyang handed the message to the confidential female secretary beside him, "Convene a meeting with the detachment leader and all the elders immediately!"

The day the fleet set sail was chosen as November 1st. It was a sunny and windy day, but the autumn mood was already very obvious on the Pearl River during the Little Ice Age. The soldiers changed out of their tropical military uniforms and put on thicker ones.

They wore spring and autumn long-sleeved sailor uniforms. The five squadrons of special agents and artillery boats that attacked Wuyong sailed up the river, escorted by a large group of small boats such as sampans and long dragons.

The big whale followed hobblingly at the end of the fleet. The dazzling array of objects on it and the black smoke it continued to spit out were very eye-catching in the fleet. People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were rumored to be the "monster" of the Australians.

They have initially established a "prestige" in the Pearl River Delta region. People know that the Australians have strict discipline and never disturb the people. As long as they obey the orders of the Australians, their lives and property will not be threatened. Maybe they can change their destiny.

, try to live a better life. At this time, the fleet moved upriver in a mighty manner. There was a group of shipowners who were good at management, driving ships of various sizes to follow behind the fleet. The ships were filled with all kinds of things that Australians might want.

Interested food, fruits, etc. are ready to be sold to the fleet at any time. Many wealthy children who usually have nothing to do know that the Australians are not good guys who kill the rich and give to the poor, so they boldly hire ships to follow and watch the rare Western Ocean.

Mirror - The scene of the Australians bombarding Humen spread in this area with embarrassment. Many people wanted to see the rare *** scene with their own eyes. Everyone could guess that the Australians were going to Uzbekistan.

The place has been crowded with officers and soldiers recently, forts have been built, and many Hongyi cannons have been transported.

"This will have to be a big battle." The idle people who hired the boat to eat and drink and followed the fleet with women in their arms were talking about it. They were very eager to see a vigorous and spectacular artillery battle.

Xu Tingfa, who was stationed in Wuyong, heard the soldiers reporting that there was a lot of black smoke on the river. He quickly put on his armor and led his soldiers to the observation deck. He saw dozens of black smoke on the river in the distance.

Rolling, soaring into the sky, there were more than 20 large ships and countless small boats on the river, densely packed along the Pearl River towards Wuwu. This appearance reminded him of the scene in Humen.

The defense here at Wuyong has been greatly strengthened in more than a month after the Battle of Humen. The officers and soldiers densely arranged ten hastily built earth-rock structures or sandbag forts here, and installed 84

Hongyi cannons and 160 Dafolang machine guns - almost all the Hongyi cannons in Guangdong were collected, and even the cannons originally planned to be transferred to Fujian, Shandong and the capital were appropriated.

Li Fengjie sent 3,000 troops here, 2,000 of them were Shui Yong. There were so many people that they couldn't even stand on the position. There were also 24 naval warships - half of which were temporarily recruited to obtain salt.

Boats and boats.

However, Xu Tingfa, who was responsible for the defense, did not think that he had any possibility of defending Wuyong - unless the wooden stakes and iron chains at the river mouth could stop the Kun bandits' ships.

In order to cheer up the frightened generals, or to supervise them from escaping, Li Fengjie originally planned to send Guangzhou soldiers to Wuyong to supervise the battle. However, Nantou City in Dongguan, where he was stationed, had been attacked by Kun thieves.

, the messenger could not arrive. Li Fengjie had no choice but to send Chen Yingyuan, the political envoy from the left, to Wuyong.

After Chen Yingyuan arrived in Wuyong, he summoned Xu Tingfa. After talking to him, he felt that this man was passively avoiding the war and was simply a "capitulationist". He simply kicked him away and personally arranged Wuyong's preparations for the war.

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

superior.

Because the fort on Ma Chung Wai Island was the main position and the first to bear the brunt, the fortifications were relatively strong. Chen Yingyuan personally supervised Nanhai and Panyu counties, recruited a large number of civilians, and built a civil structure fort on the south side of Ma Chung Wai.

The thick and high fortification wall is equipped with 44 gun holes and 44 red barbarian cannons.

In addition to laying down three rows of wooden piles to block the river surface, there is also an iron chain across the river. The iron chain is anchored with wooden rafts. There is also a specially nailed sand boat attached to the iron chain, equipped with 10 large Folang engines.

Cannon. The purpose of this ship is not only to stabilize the iron chain and prevent it from being washed away by the river, but also to prevent the enemy from directly sending fire ships to burn the iron chain. Chen Yingyuan has seen all the attempts to crack the Hengjiang iron chain in the book.

All his tactics used fire. So he made a special response.

Because he heard that the Kun bandits' artillery fire was very powerful and had a long range, he ordered all the newly built artillery positions to be moved forward, and some were even built on the tidal flats. He also learned from the generals and soldiers that the Kun bandits often used

The small boats landed, and troops were sent to attack the fort from the side and rear, rendering the cannons ineffective. Therefore, bamboo sticks, iron caltrops and horses were widely arranged around the forts, and a hundred soldiers were added to each fort to prepare for the landing at any time.

The Kun thieves fought against each other. In order to prevent the soldiers from being killed by the Kun thieves' superior artillery fire, they ordered trenches to be dug on the river bank for the soldiers to avoid the artillery fire. They waited until the Kun thieves landed and then jumped up to meet them hand-to-hand.

For some reason, Chen Yingyuan was full of inexplicable confidence in the hand-to-hand and close-hand combat capabilities of the officers and soldiers - since the Kun thief had powerful firearms, close-quarter combat must be very common. Maybe he would be completely defeated as soon as he saw the officers and soldiers come out to fight with hand-to-hand combat.

.So his idea of ​​​​using troops is to ensure that the soldiers survive under the superior artillery fire of the Kun thief - at least until the Kun thief rushes to the trench.

Xu Tingfa was very respectful to Chen Yingyuan and simply obeyed his words. He would do whatever Chen Yingyuan asked him to do. When asking for his opinions, he would always respond with the words "Only adults should follow the lead", "I am wise", and "The general will not read much and his strategies are even shallower".

Use similar words to deal with it.

Originally, he was a small coastal defense officer, and his status could not be compared with that of Guangdong's Zuo Buzheng. Adhering to one's own opinions was just asking for trouble. However, he was extremely dissatisfied with Mr. Chen's various arrangements. In his mind,

It seems that unless a thick fortress is built with "solid stone", the fort, which is just a wall facing the river, will have no effect at all. Needless to say, the shells fired by the Kun thief's ship cannon are indestructible, and the Kun thief is

The large "thunder strike boat" ejected by the enemy can knock the gunners off their feet as soon as they fall behind the wall. If they can survive, it is good, so why should they fire the cannons?

As for the method of pushing the fort forward, it is even more ridiculous. If you push forward, can't the opponent retreat? Moreover, if the fort is pushed forward, the tide will come and corrode the fort. As time goes by, I am afraid that the thieves will not come to fire the cannon, and the fort itself will

Was washed away first.

While he was watching the enemy's situation, he suddenly saw that Chen Yingyuan had personally led his soldiers and generals to Ma Chung Wai via the pontoon bridge erected on the Wuchong River. It seemed that he was preparing to go to the front line to supervise the battle in person. Xu Tingfa did not dare to neglect and quickly got off the lookout.

Tower and his own soldiers also went to the island.

Chen Yingyuan was wearing a third-grade official uniform, a black gauze on his head, a cloak, and a sword hanging from his waist. Surrounded by a group of soldiers, he climbed to the highest point of the Ma Chongwei fort. He was really majestic.

"This is the gateway to Guangzhou and the key to Guangzhou. Today, the soldiers must work together to destroy these ugly people!" Chen Yingyuan shouted in a high-pitched voice.

Xu Tingfa hurried over and asked him to go to the north bank to supervise the battle.

"What are you talking about, general?" Chen Yingyuan looked impassioned, "I am here to supervise the battle on the orders of Master Fujun. It is related to the safety of the provincial capital. How dare students be greedy for life and afraid of death?"

Xu Tingfa secretly complained - if Zuo Buzheng was confused and died here, he would have a huge responsibility. At the moment, he asked one of his cronies to contact Chen Yingyuan's generals, and if there was even the slightest danger, he would quickly embrace him.

The bridge ran away. To this end, he let his soldiers control the pontoon bridge on the Wuyong River.

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

Escorted by a spy boat, the Haitian first approached Wuyong to measure the water depth. When the ship arrived within the cannon range of the Wuyong Fort, Chen Yingyuan immediately ordered the gunfire. Suddenly, smoke rose from the entire Mayungwei Island, and everyone on the fort

All artillery positions, regardless of direction or range, fired. All kinds of artillery shells, with smoke trails of different heights, distances, and distances, were shot towards the Haitian. Most of them landed far away from the ship.

, only a few shells approached the side of the ship.

The Haitian immediately turned its rudder and left the firing range. It had obtained sufficient water depth information and also roughly determined the range and power of the island's artillery.

A few minutes later, this information was notified to each squadron through semaphores. Chen Haiyang ordered that the 13th Squadron, taking the lead, approached Mayhongwei Island and started shelling.

The four cannon squadrons approached the fort in a column formation according to the old method. Under the heavy fire from the fort, they approached 500 meters and then turned.

Although the Hongyi cannon of the officers and soldiers has a maximum range of 1,000 steps, because this time the fort was not placed on an open-air pier, but behind a thick earthen wall with a very small shooting opening,

Moreover, there is no room to adjust the left, right, up and down shooting angles, and the shells can only be fired at a fixed shooting angle. Although it is spectacular when firing continuously, the shells rarely fly near the spy boat.

The 13th Squadron completed the turn of the wheel during the artillery fire and fired spherical bombs and incendiary bombs five hundred meters away. The other squadrons behind also turned the wheel of the ship one after another to follow up the bombardment.

A round of shelling by four squadrons left the entire fort on Mayungwei Island riddled with holes. The barriers in some places had collapsed. Most of the artillery had been completely silent. No matter how the officers shouted, the intercepting soldiers had already begun.

Fleeing. As for the Shui Yong who was transferred to the island to defend the fort, they escaped faster - compared to the officers and soldiers, these temporary workers had weaker fighting will, and they began to run away as soon as the cannon was fired.

The Fubo Army still used the old tactics. After the warships equipped with cannons eliminated the threat of enemy artillery counterattack, the artillery boat squadron approached and launched large-caliber grenades: the artillery boat approached 400 meters away from the shore and bombarded Ma Yong with 280mm mortar cannons.

Encirclement of the island. Violent explosions swallowed up the fort like a tide. After several rounds of artillery fire, most of the Wuchong fort had been destroyed, and there was no one on the shore. Sampans and small boats, carrying marines, started at the beach on the south side of the island.

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The officers and soldiers who had been ambushed in the trenches and Shui Yong did not suffer many casualties in the bombardment. At this time, they suddenly jumped up and shouted to the marines to rush towards them. However, Chen Yingyuan believed that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were superior to the Kun thieves in hand-to-hand combat. There was no basis for this - a victory in hand-to-hand combat.

The soldiers always belong to the army with strict discipline and better organization and training. In just five minutes of hand-to-hand combat, about 50 people fell under the bayonets of the sailors, and only 2 sailors were killed by bows, arrows and spears because they were caught off guard.

The south bank of Ma Chung Wai Fort had been lost, and the remaining cannons on the fort were completely ineffective. Only a few soldiers relied on the trenches to continue to resist.

While launching a frontal attack, another company took sampans and small boats to advance towards the north bank of the Pearl River. Since this area can cover the flanks and rear of Wuyong Fort, Chen Yingyuan deployed three sandbag artillery forts and hundreds of water warriors in a surprise attack a few days ago.

The secret service boat followed closely behind the landing troops, ready to use artillery fire to "wash the ground" for the officers and soldiers' forts at any time, and the typewriters on the small boats were also ready to fire at any time. At this time, a southeasterly wind suddenly blew on the river, the waves were rough, and the water level rose sharply. Three

Because the fort was too close to the shore, it was flooded in an instant. The gunpowder accumulated on the fort was soaked through. Shui Yong and the gunner lost their last bit of courage and collapsed without firing a single shot.

Xu Tingfa saw that the fort on the north bank had missed. He knew that if he didn't escape, he would be attacked from both sides and blocked on the island waiting for death. He immediately shouted: "Send your Excellency away quickly!"

Chen Yingyuan's soldiers rushed forward and helped him onto the horse without any explanation. Xu Tingfa immediately led the soldiers and servants to clear the way. He escaped from the chaos and was the first to cross the pontoon bridge and escape from danger.

The cover on the side and rear of the defensive fort has been broken, and there are only bamboo sticks on the open side of the Wuyong Fort. The caltrops and Juma can rely on them. The navy pulled two 12-pound mountain grenades from the sampan and pulled them from the Wuchong Fort.

Bombarded from behind, the small number of people still holding on to the island were completely routed.

The landing marines surged onto the island like a tide. The hundreds of officers and soldiers on the island had been scattered, suffering heavy casualties from the front and rear attacks of artillery fire, rifles and bayonets. Some soldiers and sailors bravely fought and retreated, retreating to the Wuyong River.

The Yonghe River is about ten meters wide. There was originally a pontoon bridge connecting the island to the north bank of the Pearl River. After Xu Tingfa and Chen Yingyuan rushed across the bridge, the hundreds of soldiers who were originally guarding the bridge dispersed. The sailors who had landed on the north bank quickly seized the bridgehead.

, fired a barrage of bullets at the officers and soldiers and Shui Yong who were trying to seize the road. Suddenly, people and horses fell on their backs on the bridge, and dead bodies were scattered among them.

Faced with the enemy blocking the front and pursuing behind them, the officers and soldiers were unable to retreat, and were eventually destroyed in a two-pronged attack. 216 people were killed and 200 were captured.

After the fall of Mayung Wai Island, the entire defense system of Wuyong Fort collapsed completely. The officers and soldiers on the fort and the warships were divided into different areas, and they collapsed and fled without waiting for the attack. The navy occupied each fort in turn as if accepting peace.

Military camp. A small team boarded the deserted sand boat tied to the iron chain and dismantled the iron chain across the Pearl River. This huge iron chain was obviously a valuable trophy - enough to be recovered.

Several tons of iron came.


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