Ten thousand Green Camp Qing troops, two thousand Eight Banners soldiers, ten thousand attached regiment training, fifteen thousand civil warriors and twenty thousand Korean sailors, a total of more than fifty thousand Qing troops rushed towards Dagukou, trying to retake Dagukou in one fell swoop.

Dagukou Fortress, in Zhao Peng's central army tent.

One Ye Bugu came in to report: "Report! Nearly 60,000 Jiannu set out from Tianjin and was invading towards my Dagukou!"

Zhao Peng stood up, looked around, and said to his officers: "The direction of the main attack of Jiannu must be in the west. We are on the seaside to the east. With the artillery fire cover of the naval fleet on the sea, we can rest assured to the east. I will send my order to arrange defense immediately!"

At this time, the defense of the castle was not fully completed, but the periphery had already faced sandbags, and the fortifications above the castle were only roughly in the prototype. For the attacker, the defense method of piled up sandbags outside the city wall could directly climb the sandbags and climb the platform where the fortress was located without ladders and trench bridges.

However, Zhao Peng's new army did not rely on rolling wood, turbulent oil tanks, gray bottles, etc., but on firearms to kill the enemy.

Some quickly built wooden fortresses were piled with sandbags outside, which seemed to be very unstable, but these fortresses made of wood and sandbags were actually very durable to withstand the bombardment of Qing army artillery. Even the heavy artillery in later generations bombarded the fortifications made of sandbags with high-explosive shells, they were not so easy to destroy, let alone solid shells of this era.

The lethality of solid shells mainly relies on the kinetic energy given to the shells by gunpowder, and sandbags can absorb the kinetic energy of the shells and disperse the absorbed kinetic energy to the bottom. Therefore, the fortifications made of sandbags are particularly effective in anti-aircraft artillery.

Fifty-seven thousand Qing troops set out from Tianjin, advanced along the sea and river, heading towards Dagukou.

He approached the Dagukou Fortress Group and set up camp about one mile away from the fortress. Luo Yangxing picked up a monocular telescope and looked at the Dagukou Fortress in front of him. He saw that the fortress was modified by the Ming army. The original direction of defense was facing the seaside, but now the inner wall of the merceration was added to the inland direction. It was obvious that the Ming army was ready to change the direction of defense to facing Tianjin.

But Luo Yangxing then saw the sandbags piled up under the city wall. He put down his telescope and laughed. He turned to the Eight Banners General Junta beside him and said, "Hahaha! The commander of the pseudo-Ming Dynasty heard that it was Zhao Peng. That boy was originally a Jinyiwei lieutenant under the general. When he was in the capital, he was a scattered person waiting to die. It would be strange if he could lead troops to fight! This boy lost so many macaques under the city. Is this convenient for our Qing warriors to climb to the city?"

Qunta picked up the telescope, looked at it, and laughed: "Governor Luo, it is indeed as you said, the prince does not know the soldiers! Mingdog is trying to die in such a way!"

Hearing the word Minggou, Luo Yangxing looked a little bad. The Qunta indicated that Jun was Minggou, but Luo Yangxing was originally the Minggou in the mouths of these Eight Banners of Manchuria. However, although he felt uncomfortable, he could only echo on his mouth: "What the General said is that Zhao Peng, the dog thief, was completely unaware of the soldiers."

The Qunta snorted: "Governor Luo, don't hide it! Before, in Shanhaiguan, it was this dog thief who blocked our Qing Dynasty soldiers for several days and rescued the fake prince, which led to today's situation! If the fake prince could be defeated, the Qing Dynasty would have been unified in the world long ago!"

Luo Yangxing also heard that Zhao Peng blocked the Qing army on a hill by the sea in Shanhaiguan for five days. If he said he would not fight, how could this be done? At that time, Luo Yangxing summarized the reason why Zhao Peng was successful and was commanded by the prince. When the prince fought against the river, he could only fight to the death. As a result, the Ming army showed its greatest combat power and occupied the favorable terrain of the hill highlands.

At that time, because the hillside was relatively steep, the Qing army's red cannons could not play a role, and the prince was in charge of command, which increased morale, so Zhao Peng took advantage.

But now it is different. The original structure of Dagukou Fortress was facing the sea defense, and the side close to the inland was relatively high. Although the fortress was a raised earth platform, the height was not very high, and it can be said that there was almost no danger to defend. Zhao Peng, a guy who didn't know the soldiers, was not easy to defend, and he had to throw sandbags under the city. Isn't this convenient for our Qing Dynasty?

"Attack!" The quartet gave the order.

The Qing army artillery battalion set up a small general's cannon, tiger squat cannon and Fran aircraft, and launched a fierce shelling attack at the Dagukou Fortress.

The Qing Dynasty's Green Camp Army was not equipped with Red Barbarian cannons, and the highest level was equipped with General cannons. Generally, small cannons such as Franchise and Tiger Squat Cannons were used. Because the Red Barbarian cannons were regarded as a weapon of the country by the Qing Dynasty, they could only be used by the Eight Banners Army, and the Green Camp was not allowed to be equipped.

The sound of cannons rumbling, and pieces of shells fell on the fortress. Only sandbags were trembling, but the fortress was unscathed.

The defense standard of Dagukou Fortress, which was rebuilt by Zhao Peng, was to withstand the bombardment of red and barbarian cannons. The Qing army in the Green Camp used these small cannons to launch an attack, and the effect was imagined.

These small cannons were originally used to kill soldiers, but now they are used to bombard the castle. Even if they are not transformed by Zhao Peng, these small cannons will still be tickling when they hit them, let alone the fortresses transformed by Zhao Peng. With these small cannons, they will probably not be able to chew them for several years.

The Qing army's artillery not only did not play any role, but instead attracted the Ming army's artillery counterattack. Rows of shells fell into the Qing army's artillery camp positions, killing many Qing army gunners and destroying several small cannons.

Luo Yangxing saw that the artillery attack was ineffective, but the Qing army's artillery battalion was bombarded by the Ming army, and the losses were quite large. So Luo Yangxing pointed at the tower and said, "General, our artillery is too small to be able to open up the fortress occupied by Ming dogs. Let's send someone up!"

Junta thought in his mind that to blast the fortress, he had to wait for the red cannons of the Eight Banners Han Army in the capital to transport it, but the capital was close to 400 miles away. The red cannons were very heavy and needed to be transported by ox carts. The transportation speed was less than ten miles per hour, and it would be great to be able to travel forty miles a day. It would take at least one month to transport it from the capital, so he ordered the Green Camp soldiers to launch an attack.

But the Quasi-Tao forgot one thing. In fact, it doesn’t take a month to transport the Red Cannon from the capital to Dagukou. It only takes two or three days to arrive, because the Red Cannon cannons can be loaded on canal ships in the capital, and then sent to Tianjin and enter the Haihe River. It only takes three days to reach Dagukou.

The Qing army launched an attack on the Dagukou Fortress, because the city wall on the fortress leaned against the inland side was not high, and there were so many sandbags piled up outside that they could climb up directly. Therefore, the Qing army did not even need to build the simplest siege weapons such as the simple cloud ladder and the simple trench bridge. They rushed towards the Dagukou Fortress with swords and guns.

Above the Dagukou Fortress, behind the sandbag fortress piled up layer by layer, a twelve-pound field cannon, six-pound field cannon and twelve-pound howitzer black muzzles aimed at the Qing army formation ahead. The gunners had loaded their ammunition and could only wait for a command to bombard the gun.

The Qing army in the black green camp arranged a relatively neat square formation and walked towards the Dagukou Fortress step by step. However, the Qing army's formation did not last long. After walking about thirty steps, the formation became chaotic.

Zhao Peng scoffed at the performance of these Qing troops in the Green Camp. His own new army was not in chaos when walking for a mile, and the Qing army could only walk thirty steps. In fact, even the most elite Qi family army in the Ming Dynasty had to stop and re-arrange. Only the army trained by Zhao Peng according to the requirements of the People's Liberation Army in the future could not be re-arranged.
Chapter completed!