Chapter 379: Dagu Port Landing Battle
When crossing the sea in a small boat, in order to prevent the armored grenades from accidentally falling into the water, each armored grenade was wearing a life jacket made of cork when riding a small sampan, and took it off after getting ashore.
This life jacket made of cork is made of water pine wood. Water pine wood is very soft and light, large in size but very light in weight. But the disadvantage is that it is easy to absorb and become heavier, so wrapping a layer of waterproof oil cloth on the outside can make a life jacket. If there is no life jacket, the armored grenadier's whole body armor is so heavy. Once it falls into the water, even if the water is good, the heavy armor will be brought to the bottom of the water. Therefore, Zhao Peng equipped each of them with a life jacket.
"Check weapons and equipment!" On the small sampan, all grassroots officers ordered.
As a red fireworks rose from the Yuefei battleship, the new Nanjing army began to land.
The Zheng family navy and the Laiden Navy sailors were paddling small sampans and rushed towards the Dagukou Beach. The warships behind continued to launch fierce bombardment on the other side.
The small sampan leaned on the beach, and the armored grenadiers wearing cork life jackets were the first to jump off the boat, boarded the beach, took off the cork life jackets on their bodies and threw them on the boat. Then a thousand armored grenadiers gathered on the beach, waiting for the musketeers behind to come up, and after the assembly, they could attack the Qing army fortress at Dagukou.
Seven thousand musketeers also went ashore one after another, and 6400 infantry and 600 scattered soldiers all went ashore. After they got ashore, the musketeers formed formations on the beach, and the infantry on the battlefield formed neat square formations, and accompanied by the sound of drum beats, they advanced step by step. Scattered soldiers scattered on both sides of the infantry on the battle line, and iron-armored grenades scattered in front of the infantry on the battle line, and three types of infantry were killed towards the Qing army fortress.
On the sea, the sound of artillery from the Ming Navy gradually stopped. The Qing soldiers at Dagukou discovered the landing Ming army, so the Qing army garrison officers at Dagukou immediately organized three thousand green camp soldiers to prepare to block the Ming army's attack.
Hearing the sound of the Ming army's cannons stopped, the Green Camp soldiers climbed up the fortress full of holes and set up bird guns at the female wall. The archers stood behind the female wall and prepared to shoot arrows.
Every move of the Qing army was seen by the hot air balloons released by the battleship Yue Fei. Seeing the Qing army climbing to the fortress again, the Ming navy on the sea launched a shelling bombardment at the Qing army fortress again.
Rows of artillery shells fell into the Qing army's fortress like mountains and seas. Dozens of 64-pound flowering artillery shells fell down, and dazzling fireballs exploded in the Qing army's fortress, blowing up a large area of Qing soldiers who had just climbed to the fortress to stop the Ming army.
However, this time, the Qing army of the Green Camp, which suffered heavy losses, did not retreat. The Eight Banners Supervisors' team behind aimed at them. As long as these Green Camp soldiers dared to escape without fighting, the Eight Banners soldiers would cut off their heads mercilessly. Behind the Eight Banners soldiers, the Qing army of the Green Camp had to bite the bullet and carry it on.
Fortunately for them, the Ming army's shelling did not last long. After the Ming army's infantry approached the fortress, the Ming army warships on the sea stopped shelling.
Chapter completed!