On August 29, the Battle of Xinhui officially broke out, although both sides had no way to retreat, and both expected the cruelty of this battle, but its real tragedy did not really manifest itself, and it can even be said that it was beyond everyone's expectations.

From Guangzhou to Xinhui is only a distance of dozens of miles, the Eight Banners Army led by Guan Yuanzhong and several governors of the Governor Fubiao, plus 10,000 green battalion troops, a total of 40,000 troops, arrived at Xinhui City early, just one day's effort, the two sides changed the host and guest in Xinhui City, and staged a bloody battle again.

Although Xinhui is still relatively strong, but after all, it has not experienced a war for many years, and the city wall has not been well repaired, coupled with the siege of the Han army yesterday, so that many places on the city wall have been cracked one after another, and these cracks have only been repaired simply at night, and there is no time to carry out complete repairs.

Because of this, when the 40,000 Qing troops arrived at Xinhui City, Guan Yuanzhong was very keenly aware of the problems on the city wall, and he gave the order to attack very decisively.

Then let's fight!

Guan Yuanzhong's order was quickly issued to the Qing army, the Qing soldiers were lined up in a neat formation, carrying bird guns on their shoulders, and some people were holding long contradictory cards, which had been prepared to attack the city, and nearly a hundred sub-mother guns were also pushed to the front of the battle, and many soldiers were doing the final adjustment.

There are many blacksmith shops in Guangzhou, and there are also many shops that can make guns and cannons, like Foshan, where there are guns everywhere. Guan Yuanzhong is also a person who attaches great importance to firearms, so the firearms equipment rate of the troops under his command is high, which is much higher than that of the Eight Banners and Green Battalions in other provinces, and the bird guns and sub-mother cannons are also very well-made, and the workmanship is different.

Facing the Qing soldiers under the city, Guo Dingan did not panic at all, he knew that this battle was not easy to fight, after all, the second brigade of the Praetorian Guard this time in order to quickly maneuver to Liangguang, many large-caliber artillery did not brought, there were only sixteen six-pound guns and four twelve-pound guns around him, no matter how superior the quality was to the Qing army, but the quantity was indeed at an obvious disadvantage.

But isn't the Praetorian Guard just rushing to fight a tough battle? At least compared to yesterday's situation, Guo Ding'an prefers this kind of face-to-face combat with real knives and guns, and the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard Brigade are the same.

"Boom—"

The first to fire the cannon was the artillery of the Fu Han Army on the city wall, with the help of the range and condescending advantage, it was much farther away than the Qing army, plus it was all flowering shells, so when this round of flowering shells fell into the array of the Qing army, it instantly caused a very serious blow, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere, and it was vaguely seen that several Qing artillery pieces were blown into the sky.

Guan Yuanzhong's face fell silent immediately, the gap between the firearms could be seen almost clearly, and he didn't know what happened to the new firearms that the emperor had tinkered with...... But at the moment there was no choice but to put it to use, so he ordered the gunners to continue to advance until they could hit the city wall.

The entire Qing army formation began to move forward slowly, but in this process, the artillery of the Fu Han army brought a deep shadow to everyone present, since the Fu Han army further improved the process of flowering shells, although the new flowering shells became lighter and smaller, but the fragments excited when they exploded became more, and the lethality became stronger.

Almost often, when a flowering bullet burrowed into the ranks of the Qing army, dozens of people around it would be knocked down in the next second, each roar was like a horn of death, and each explosion was like an invisible iron broom, sweeping down the people standing around.

Seeing this, a Qing army garrison hurriedly pulled out his knife and shouted for the Qing soldiers to rush forward, and the rest of the thousands of generals saw this situation, and also hurriedly kicked and beat the Qing soldiers and soldiers to rush forward, and many Qing soldiers and soldiers set up ladders and launched a charge towards the wall of Xinhui, although the people around them kept falling.

As the Qing soldiers got closer and closer to the Xinhui city wall, they saw a non-commissioned officer of the Fu Han army squinting his eyes, began to measure the distance with his palm, and then shouted loudly: "Two hundred steps......"

Everyone knows what this distance means, maybe just a moment of effort, the soldiers of the Qing army will rush into a distance of a hundred paces, and this distance is also the effective shooting distance of the Hanyang musket, the accuracy and lethality are very good, so it is also the first round of shooting distance of the Han army, which is called the death distance by the Qing army.

"One Hundred and Fifty Steps......

"One Hundred and Twenty Steps......

Everyone held their breath, standing on the city wall with their shotguns flat, they did not deliberately aim at the Qing army charging below, because it was pointless to aim at this distance, but by way of salvo, it was enough to make up for the gap in accuracy.

"One Hundred Steps ........"

When the non-commissioned officer who reported the number shouted a hundred steps, the soldiers of the Fu Han Army in the first row on the city wall pulled the trigger in unison, and after the ear-damping gunshots, rows of bullets were fired, like a downpour, sprayed out from the city wall, and fell on the Qing troops who were charging directly below.

The Qing soldiers who rushed to the front fell almost a full third, some of them were shot in the stomach, some were shot in the arm, and some were shot in the head - but there was no difference between these people, because in this era, as long as they were hit by a musket, they were almost certain to die, even if the lead bullet could not kill him, heavy bleeding and subsequent infection would take away the person's life.

The Fu Han soldiers in the first row on the city wall took a step back in unison, replaced by the soldiers in the second row, they stepped forward and stood in front of the battlements of the city wall, holding flintlock pistols flat, and then pulled the trigger in unison, and the violent gunfire accompanied by thick smoke turned the entire Xinhui into a city in the clouds.

It's miserable, it's miserable!

Not only the Qing army under the city felt so, but even the soldiers of the Fu Han Dynasty on the city wall felt that this scene was not like a war, but like a massacre, but the ruthlessness of the war was that even if there was a dead end ahead, they had no choice to escape.

Guan Yuanzhong looked at the scene in front of him with a pale face, and not far from him, there was a team of overseers, executing the Qing soldiers who had fled back from the front, and their faces were all so blue, as if they had not expected the cruelty of this battle at all.

"Boom—"

The sound of the artillery of the Qing army finally echoed in the heaven and earth, the distance between them and the Xinhui city wall was very, very close, and the artillery that successfully arrived was less than seventy percent left, and the remaining more than 30 artillery pieces had been destroyed by the artillery of the Fu Han army on the road, but there were still nearly seventy artillery pieces left, which was also thankful.

The two sides finally launched a confrontation on a horizontal line, but at this point, the Qing army lost not only the accuracy of the artillery, but also the speed of the artillery, they were too slow compared to the speed of the Fu Han army, so when more than 70 artillery pieces bombarded at the same time, the middle of the second round was enough for the Fu Han army to fight one more round.

There was an extremely tragic artillery battle on both sides, from time to time the artillery of the Qing army and the Fu Han army was destroyed by the other party, and the artillery flying high would even beat the soldiers next to it into a ball, the Fu Han army and the Qing army around the first day of the battle of Xinhui, had already rolled out a bloody prelude, and the two sides intertwined a very tragic battle with flesh and blood.

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When Xinhui fell into a tragic strangulation, the returning Fu Han army sailors and the Qing army sailors who had been waiting for a long time officially met in the South China Sea, this battle was unavoidable for Qiu Ze at all, because hundreds of civilian ships could not escape the pursuit of the Qing army sailors, if they abandoned the civilian ships and left, the follow-up plans of the Fu Han army would be in vain.

However, judging from the current situation, the Qing army's naval fleet had more than 200 ships, including many giant warships with a length of 56 meters and 24 guns, although there were only five, but their combat power was also completely superior to the sand ships, and in the heyday of the Qing court, the number of such warships was at least 50 or more. In comparison, the Fuhan Army Naval Division only has more than 100 small and medium-sized sand boats, which can be said to be a little weak.

Qiu Ze is a capable person, otherwise with his temper and character, he would have been squeezed out of the Qing army long ago, and the reason why he could still lead a fleet to defect to Ning Chu fully illustrates the ability of the other party, and people with ability and character often act unexpectedly.

To win the Qing army, only by winning them fiercely can we wash away the shame and live up to the emperor's trust.

Of course, for Qiu Ze, he didn't have any hole cards, at least before the battle, Ning Yu urgently delivered him a batch of rockets, and the power of these rockets was something Qiu Ze had seen a long time ago, with these weapons, even if it was a warship of the Qing army, Qiu Ze was not afraid at all.

There was no prelude or signal to the battle between the two sides, and after the distance between the two sides gradually approached the range of the artillery, the Qing army and the Fu Han army both launched artillery bombardments.

Qiu Ze stood on the largest Fu boat in the fleet, the ship was very tall, with three floors, and there were guards made of thatched bamboo next to it, and there was a terrace on the top of the ship, on which the artillery was standing, and was firing projectiles at the Qing army fleet opposite, he looked at the fleet in front of him, but he was unconsciously a little nervous.

"Closer, closer......"