1824: Let the shells fly a little longer
The Manning Port burned for a whole night but its remnant still remained unchanged. After all, it is the largest city in Pattaya except for the founding capital and a population-crowded area. The reason why Ning Zeyuan sighed was that he understood how courage it took for Erdogan to issue this order.
The fire soars into the sky, and thick smoke covers the sky. Even if Manning Port is near, Ning Zeyuan can only park on the sea and watch with his eyes wide open. Such a fire is no longer something that manpower can put out.
"Shilarious Minister Ning." Murong Fu walked over with great strides.
"General Murong, what did you find out?" Ning Zeyuan looked at Mu Rongfu, "Thank you for this trip to the general."
"There is no hard work or not." Murong Fu grinned, "But the situation was just as the minister expected. Behind the fire, Erdogan was building a new line of defense and preparing to form a whole with Port Manning. On both sides, the terrain was too steep to be suitable for large army combat. Moreover, Erdogan did not take these places lightly and still arranged an army to be on duty."
Ning Zeyuan nodded: "Erdogan has sufficient manpower. Manning is a big city with many young and strong people. This battle is a national war. He can easily arouse the desire to unite against the enemy and organize more manpower to fight us."
"What the Minister said is right." Murong Fu nodded.
"In this way, there is only one way to attack the front." Ning Zeyuan asked with a smile: "I am a navy general and I am not familiar with the land war. General Murong, attack the front, how confident do you think we are?"
Murong Fu smiled loudly: "Mr., if we had not seen the power of our artillery, Murong Fu would think that with our current strength, we would not be able to conquer Manning Port. Even if those island countries gathered large armies, they might not be able to do anything to their opponents."
"No!" Ning Zeyuan smiled and said, "Those people are like wild dogs. They will seek them if they are beneficial and avoid them if they are harmful. It is unlikely to want them to fight to the death."
"But with artillery, it's different." Murong Fu continued: "Just as long as the cannon on the warship of Shilang Ning is fired, the last general is confident of taking down Manning Port with the two thousand soldiers here in the Ming Dynasty."
Ning Zeyuan stood up and walked a few steps, looked at the island ships that had gathered more and more around the Ming ship. He suddenly chuckled, "Since you are here, you still need to use them. In the past two days, I will clean up the port first so that our warships can enter the port. Although we cannot reach Manning City, the defense lines outside him are enough. Then, let these island troops go to touch Manning City first and prevent them from getting disappointed. How can we show the great power of our Ming generals!"
"Shilarious Minister Ning," Murong Fu laughed out loud.
After three days, the fire at Manning Port finally went out, and the deep smoke gradually dissipated. The once prosperous Manning Port had become a ruined ruin. The remaining fire heads and the rising blue smoke made the place look extremely desolate.
However, after the fire, Manning City had completely changed. A giant beast with fangs and claws that had completed all the preparations to defend the city crawled on the ground. In front of him, a vertical mold came and went, and the frontier positions with fortresses had been built, forming a three-dimensional and complete offensive and defensive system with Manning City.
Advance, the Pattaya army outside the city can attack the landing enemies and retreat, and rely on the dense crossbows on Manning City to catapult the enemy's attack.
"The war was completed in three days and three nights. Erdogan is really worthy of the name of a famous general!" Ning Zeyuan looked at the gathering of island kings around him with a smile.
I thought there were people who could pick up the cheapest people, and in the shortest time, they gathered the most people they could gather, and rushed to Port Manning to follow the Ming Dynasty to pick up the cheaper ones. But when I arrived at the place, I saw that it was not the same. Can such a strong city be easily taken down?
Ning Zeyuan's eyes swept away, all the island kings drooped their heads, fearing that Ning Zeyuan would stay away. Everyone knew very well that Ming people would not use their own people to break the gap, and they were ready-made minions. If they really got there, would you dare not go? But when they went there, Erdogan opposite was also a tiger. To be honest, if it weren't for following Ming people's butt, who would have dared to touch Erdogan's beard?
Looking at the expressions of everyone, Ning Zeyuan smiled and said, "Everyone should keep your energy well. Let's clean the port first. Everyone should rest assured that the Ming Dynasty is not a country of unjust, and it will never let everyone do meaningless things."
Everyone was so proud of it and retreated overjoyed. Ning Zeyuan was a minister of the Supreme People's Republic of China, so what he said naturally had to count. In this situation, if they were asked to attack on him on their own initiative, they would have no other way except to use their lives to fill it out.
In the next two days, these island kings and their subjects finally realized the power of the Ming Dynasty. The ships sunk in the port and the huge rocks were simply ineffective, but in the eyes of the Ming people, it seemed that they were not a big deal.
A warship with the Shayang on the side of a ship was slowly sailing forward carefully. After approaching the port, it stopped. Small boats entered the port with circles of hemp ropes wrapped in steel wires. The sailors on the ship jumped into the sea with these hemp ropes.
Everyone suddenly realized that this was to pull out the obstacles under the sea water of the port. But can this really happen? The boat can easily walk on the water, but when it comes to the water, it is not an easy task to move them out of the sludge.
Everyone watched silently as the sailors floated to the water to breathe, and then rushed into the sea. About half an hour later, the sailors climbed onto the boat from the sea and left quickly. After a long whistle on the Shayang, the propeller behind the boat began to stir up a large wave of waves.
The hull slowly retreated, and the soft ropes that had originally hung on the sea surface slowly collapsed.
The roar became louder and louder, and the speed of the Shayang regressed began to accelerate. After two bursts of collapse, the hemp rope was broken by force, but more hemp ropes were still tenaciously connecting the underwater obstacles.
As time went by, a ship sunk under the water slowly exposed a small part of its hull, and was dragged toward the deep sea by the Shayang.
As soon as the Shayang ship left, the sailors who were sailing nearby in a small boat drove into the port again and began to repeat the previous operation.
On the outer sea, everyone shouted loudly when they saw this trick really worked.
In the distance, Erdogan looked at all this, and he never expected that the other party would clear the obstacles under the water surface of the port in this way. He originally thought that this move would delay the other party at least ten days and half a month. With this time, his Manning City would be built more firmly. But now it seems that he is afraid that within one or two days, the other party will complete the cleaning of the port. Once the other party's ships can dock on a large scale, the battle will begin.
Looking back, the elderly, weak, women and children were crying and carrying loads, carrying bags, pushing carts, and driving mules and horses towards the capital. In the city, the young and strong were desperately demolishing a series of buildings such as houses. At this time, any stone or piece of wood may become a reliance when defending the city.
Pattaya still did not consider all the issues clearly. For example, what should I do after the Ming people attacked the land if I was defeated at sea? Erdogan sighed. I wonder if Pattaya could survive this disaster. You must know that there is still an army of Ming people on the other side of the country, and I am afraid that it is not idle at this moment.
Erdogan's estimate was correct. Two days later, all the obstacles under the water surface of the port had been cleaned up. With the sound of the whistle, Taiping slowly drove into the port.
"Take a shot!" Ning Zeyuan held his hands on the side of the ship and casually ordered: "Use the main gun."
Looking from his direction, Erdogan's nearest defense line was about three to four miles away from his current position. The firing distance of the guns was not reachable in any case, and only the main guns on a few warships could play a role.
However, that's enough.
As the preparations before the launch were ready, accompanied by the officer's order to fire the gun, the entire Taiping hull slightly frustrated backwards, and a large amount of sea water was squeezed out from under the trough of the boat and flowed layer by layer toward both sides, and a loud sound like thunder falling from the sky began to sound.
This time, the kings of the island countries on the Taiping had learned their lessons, grasping what they could hold with both hands. Some grabbed the side of the ship with one hand and covered their ears with the other. They looked excitedly and fearfully at a huge spark emerging in front of the main gun barrel of the ship's head.
This huge thunder also made Erdogan lose his mind. When he came to his senses, he saw that a soil fortress he had built and installed with powerful crossbows on the frontier position under Manning City was gone by the explosion.
The powerful crossbow broke into several pieces, and they were flying in the air with the soldiers on the earth.
The entire Manning City became quiet at this moment, and everyone stared blankly at the place where a tall fortress was just standing. Now, only a small piece of earth wall is left there.
Ning Zeyuan turned around and walked into the cabin lazily, and said, "Let the shells fly for a while! Murong Fu, you organize a coalition army to land and establish a position in the port. In the first battle, our people are the military supervisor."
"Abide by the order!" Murong Fu looked at the island kings and grinned and laughed.
Chapter completed!