Xianxialing Road starts from Jiangshan, Zhejiang in the north and ends in Pucheng, Fujian in the south. It is winding and narrow, with high mountains and deep valleys on both sides, connecting peaks and peaks. There are Yaoling, Xianxialing, Chaling, Xiaoganling, Fengling (Daganling), Liling (Wuxianling), etc., collectively known as Xianxia Liuling. Xianxialing is the most steep among the six ridges. Xianxia Pass is the most dangerous. Xianxia Pass is its important pass. Xianxia Pass has four gates, two gates in the northeast and southwest, all of which are made of stone, 3.4 meters high and 2.7 meters wide. They are all built in the pass of dangerous rock steep walls that stand together between the two mountains. The altitude of the pass is 591 meters. The total length is 5 kilometers. There is a platform-level built with gravel.

The American Infantry Brigade still encountered some problems during its advancement. Some roads were too narrow and heavy artillery could not pass at all. The engineer battalion hurried around to hire people to open the road.

The American Infantry Brigade had no offenses with the people all the way, and at the same time, it was given money. The people in northern Fujian around them couldn't help but come to participate in the road construction. With the participation of the people, the American Infantry Brigade's advancement speed increased greatly.

On the fifth day, I arrived in Pucheng.

Below is the difficult journey to break through the pass. Zheng Zhilong set up passes from Jiangshan to Pucheng, and the American Infantry Brigade traveled and bombarded him.

During the tenth day, the American infantry brigade was as powerful as a bamboo shoot, breaking four ridges in a row, and heading straight to Xianxia Pass.

When the officers and soldiers at Xianxia Pass saw the American infantry brigade attacking, they relied on the dangerous situation of the pass and ignored the persuasion of surrender. They were sent to defend such important places as Xianxia Pass, and all of them were loyal to Zheng Zhilong's direct troops.

Xianxia Pass was divided into two levels, and the American Infantry Brigade attacked from behind and began to attack the southwest level.

This time, the first and second infantry regiments of the American Infantry Brigade heading north also followed half of the artillery regiment, with 150 heavy howitzers and 50 heavy cannons.

After the American Infantry Brigade's surrender was rejected, the heavy howitzers that had been deployed immediately began to rush the southwest level of Xianxia Pass.

This level is indeed a great pass for the era of cold weapons, and it is still a great pass in the era of hot weapons. The Japanese army once died thousands of people under the pass, and then they lost the idea of ​​entering Fujian from then on.

However, the defenders in Xianxia Guanzhong were not equipped with mature firearms, and the American Infantry Brigade with heavy artillery was almost razed to the ground by the artillery in just half a day.

Under the cover of musketeers, the spearmen rushed into the pass, fought fiercely for half an hour, and conquered the southwest level.

After the capture, the American Infantry Brigade continued to advance, but encountered problems during the advance. The ancient road ahead was too narrow, and the stones on the ancient road were already very smooth, but this width could not be reached at all.

In desperation, Xue Qing had to ask someone to expand the ancient road first, and then bombard the first level with howitzers.

The first path of Xianxia Pass is truly a place where one man can pass through ten thousand men. It is known as the "locking key to two Zhejiangs and the throat of entering Fujian". It has always been a place that military strategists must fight for.

The shells kept landing on the northeastern checkpoint of Xianxia Pass. When the Second Division in Jiangshan heard the rumbling cannons, they immediately launched an attack on Xianxia Pass.

Without saying that, it formed a force of attacking on both sides!

After two attacks, the defenders in the pass were desperate and opened and closed the door to surrender. At this time, most of the defenders in the pass were killed under the bombardment, and the checkpoints were also shattered.

It is suspected of destroying the monuments. If you want to restore it, you will have to take some effort to repair it.

As soon as Xianxia Pass was broken, the First Division formed a long queue, and 60,000 troops entered Fujian in a mighty way, while the engineers exploded in front of them.

The ancient road was only three days away, and it was wide enough to allow heavy artillery to pass through.

The First Division went south along the road, and the entire Minjiang River ships had gathered at Jianning Prefecture. When they arrived at Jianning Prefecture, they took a boat south to Fuzhou.

There were only three infantry brigades heading south, and the other two infantry brigades began to take over various towns in Fujian and clear out the official troops scattered in Fujian.

Zheng Zhilong is the general of Fujian, and the officers and soldiers of Fujian all obeyed his orders.

When the army was approaching, these soldiers might not obey Zheng Zhilong's orders, but they should be incorporated first.

Three infantry brigades went down the river and arrived in Fujian. They rushed from the coastal plain in the west to southern Fujian, and took Zheng Zhilong's old nest "Shijing".

...In Fuzhou, Zheng Zhilong's maritime power was coming in a mighty manner, covering more than a thousand warships. The vast momentum was simply shocking.

At that time, the Spanish Invincible Fleet was only hundreds of warships.

If the Spanish Invincible Armada, which likes melee likes to fight like the Dutch, encounters Zheng Zhilong, it is not certain who wins and who loses.

However, when the Spanish Invincible Armada faced the weak British Navy, it could not get any benefits. The failure lies in the naval warfare idea.

Now, Zheng Zhilong uses a combat method similar to the Spanish, but is more flexible. The route taken by the Shandong Navy is the same as that of the British Navy, and pursues ship speed and artillery range, rather than melee combat, but his weapons are much stronger than the British.

The two sides encountered a fierce naval battle at the mouth of the Minjiang River.

The First Fleet was scattered in combat, with one thousand rockets on each warship and frigate. In order to deal with Zheng Zhilong's terrifying fleet, all the rockets in stock in Shandong were transported to the Taiwan Armed Fleet and the American Infantry Brigade.

During the tour, the First Fleet was always on the periphery of the Fujian Navy, with artillery bombardment and the Fujian Navy's warships were constantly sunk.

But the problem is that the Zheng Group learned from the lessons last time and began to actively send some cannon fodder to block the First Fleet from the periphery.

The First Fleet could not launch rockets at the dense warships because the distance was too far. If it broke into it, it would be easily entangled by the Fujian Navy.

Once you are entangled, there is basically no possibility of survival.

The Fujian Navy likes to use hook locks to hook enemy ships and then flock to the first fleet, which dares not take risks, giving the Fujian Navy the opportunity to rush into the Minjiang River estuary.

The First Fleet could only watch the Fujian Navy enter the Minjiang Estuary.

Hundreds of warships carrying soldiers rushed into the mouth of the Minjiang River and drove straight towards the ponytail. It was most convenient to land on the ponytail. There was a 100,000 sailors and 30,000 land troops. The Zheng group believed that there was no problem in "recovering" Fuzhou.

But the Fujian Navy was hit by the destruction of his surname in Mawei.

The American Infantry Brigade, equipped with a large number of rockets, was in Mawei Port, and the Fujian Navy warships wanted to launch a large number of rockets. As the dense rockets dragged the orange-tail flames into the sky, the Fujian Navy's defeat was doomed.

A large number of warships were crowded at the mouth of the Minjiang River and were hit by the rockets launched by the American Infantry Brigade, and fired. The soldiers on the ship jumped into the river like dumplings. The scene was spectacular.

At the same time, the artillery of the American Infantry Brigade was also mounted on the bank of the river, and huge shells were fired one by one, causing continuous sank of warships entering the mouth of the Minjiang River.

The hull, corpses, wood chips and various debris floated on the river in large quantities.

This is an unfortunate war.

Because it was a civil war.

The American Infantry Brigade began to stop shelling and only used rockets to attack the Fujian navy on the river. In the fire, the people on the ship could at least jump into the river to escape.

At the same time, he was also catching people on the shore. Most of the officers and soldiers of the Fujian Navy were good. Some of them swam to the shore, while others were washed by the river and flowed to the sea.

But soon, the American Infantry Brigade resumed shelling.

There are more and more warships pouring in from outside, and it is no longer the time when rockets can solve problems simply.

There were too many warships sailing into the Minjiang River, and the soldiers of the American Infantry Brigade on the shore had to retreat, and these warships also had long-range attack capabilities.

But artillery shells and rockets are still constantly, and artillery is mostly arranged on high grounds apart from kilometers, and the range of rockets is also kilometers away.

For the Fujian Navy, this was a tragic landing battle.

When they rushed through the blockade of the rushing artillery fire and rockets and landed on the shore, the musketeers waiting five hundred meters away attacked the landing officers and soldiers.

Soon the landing officers and soldiers were rushed into the water like ducks.

The original Fujian officers and soldiers were not good at land battles, while Zheng Zhilong's troops were only slightly better than those of Fujian officers and soldiers, but in terms of background, they were not as good as those of Fujian officers and soldiers.

According to Qi Jiguang's military book, it is still a question of how many people in the army dare to fight. 20% of the people dare to fight to the death, that is a qualified army. If most of them dare to fight, that is invincible.

The reason why Fujian officers and soldiers were defeated by Zheng Zhilong was because they were corrupt, but Zheng Zhilong's men were pirates at the beginning, and they didn't understand the formation at all, and their background was completely inferior to that of the official army.

They were attacked so far by the musketeers of the Shandong Army, and they had no courage to rush up. After all, the distance was too far. They had already been killed by others. It would be better to jump into the water and swim to the south bank.

For those soldiers, it is not important who loses and who wins, or their lives are much more important.

Except for a few who can land on the dock, most of them are burned on the river surface or sunk by artillery shells.

The Battle of Ponytail lasted for nearly three hours. From noon to dusk, the American Infantry Brigade had run out of rockets and 80% of the shells were used up.

The Zheng Group's warships were burned and no less than 300 were destroyed.

The naval battle near the sea was also in full swing. The First Fleet fought fiercely for two hours under continuous attacks and sank more than 200 warships. The Zheng group could not hold on anymore, and the huge navy fled in a panic. The landing troops entering the Minjiang River were thrown into it and ignored it.

The first fleet only chased and sank more than a hundred warships.

Zheng Zhilong's Fujian Navy lost more than 600 warships in this battle, losing 40% of the tonnage. Most of these lost warships were small, and their main force was also a loss.

But the main force and those small-tonnage warships are not much different from the First Fleet, they just need to shoot a few more guns before sinking.

The pursuit was dim and the first fleet stopped the pursuit and then returned to the mouth of the Minjiang River.

After the Fujian Navy retreated, the American Infantry Brigade began maritime rescue work, driving some unsinkable warships to rescue the sailors who fell into the sea.

The rescue lasted for three days.

The number of people rescued was counted and it was shocking. More than 30,000 people were rescued, while only more than 10,000 corpses were salvaged.

Most of these sailors have good surnames, and the rescue is timely, so many of them are not dead.

(To be continued)
Chapter completed!