On April 12 of the fourth year of Yongli, after two days of rest and recuperation, the siege equipment was prepared, and Huang Yingjie, the general soldier of Huizhou, and Zhang Daoying, the general soldier of Dongguan, relied on the army led by Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, as the backing, and slowly marched to the two fortresses of the Ming army on the west bank of the Luo River.

The two fortresses of the Ming army are exactly the same, as if they are twins, one south and one north, standing on the west bank of the Luo River with horns on each other. Judging from the shape of the fortress, the semi-circular fortress has an arc facing the Qing army to the west, and the semicircle extends outward in the shape of one acute angle after another, which is not dense, but it is not too far away, like a blooming flower.

The two flowers are in full bloom, and further outer, there are some small half-moon fortresses that are not connected to the fortress, like butterflies flying around the flowers, suddenly paused in time, hovering gracefully beyond the interval of petals, as if smelling incense. The ravines and low walls have clear lines, and the pontoon bridge behind the fortress is like a flower branch, extending to the east bank of the Luo River, where there is a large area of camp built by the Ming army as soil.

And this whole area, looking down at the sky, a pair of flowers waving in the breeze, the fragrance of which attracts butterflies, and also attracts the dense swarms of Qing troops like bees in the distance.

The burned camp, these days Huang and Zhang Ershuai have asked the Qing army under their command to clean it up. The road is a smooth road, the Ming cavalry for the intelligence shielding of these two fortresses is far less attentive to the original camp, the Qing army's scouts have also seen some of the shape of the periphery in the past few days, but many things are not understandable.

However, whether he understands it or not, it is the same for Geng Jimao - anyway, from the beginning, he planned to use the green battalion soldiers to test the water, and if he fights, many things will be understood.

Geng Jimao and his father Geng Zhongming's cronies left behind Xu Degong and Lian Decheng were the second marshals, Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying felt the "ardent expectations" of this little prince, and they had to shake their spirits. As in the past, the Ming army responded silently, and Huang Yingjie and Zhang Daoying borrowed the feudal soldiers as the backing, which boosted their morale. Subsequently, one north and one south, each attacked a fort, at least as far as their experience was concerned, the two forts were arranged in such a way that they were to act as horns for each other. And their forces, combined to attack a fortress, also seem too wasteful.

Knowing that there was artillery in the fortress of the Ming army, the Qing army was arrayed in more than one mile, and the handsome flag was pressed forward, and the siege equipment such as lookouts, rushing cars, and ladders that had been erected in the past few days rolled forward, and the infantry of the Qing army followed closely behind, advancing behind these more conspicuous things, and at the same time seeking cover.

The distance of five or six hundred meters is mostly unreachable in terms of the firearms used on the battlefield in China today, and even if it enters this distance, it can reach the firing range, and there are many problems in the accuracy of smoothbore guns.

The Qing army had no fear, marched in a big way, after entering a distance of one mile, the fortress of the Ming army was still a death-like silence, if it were not for the fact that some of the artillery sticking out of the distance could be seen in the distance, the swarthy muzzles and the battlements of the Ming army, maybe there would be some Ming troops who heard the name of the feudal soldiers and were frightened, so as to flee without a fight.

The Qing army of the brigade continued to advance, 500 meters, 400 meters, 300 meters, and never fired, except for the rolling forward of the Qing army on the battlefield, there was still no movement in the fortress of the Ming army. At this distance, Huang Yingjie on the northern front and Zhang Daoying on the southern line seemed to have a good idea, and while organizing the artillery team to start preparations, they sent auxiliary soldiers and people carrying dirt bags and sandbags.

It was not without danger for the artillery to prepare at this distance, but in terms of the range of their artillery, such a distance was enough to attack the Half Moon Fort on the outskirts of the fortress. And the task of those auxiliaries and civilians is nothing more than to fill in the moat on the perimeter of Half Moon Fort. They were all generals, and they knew very well that with the distance between the Half Moon Fort and the main fort, the Qing army besieged the Half Moon Fort without attacking it, and the result was that they were exposed to the front and rear of the Ming army's firepower.

The auxiliaries and the people ran wildly, out of the cover of the siege equipment, they were directly exposed to the Ming army's killing range, only by running wildly, there was a possibility of reaching the moat, throwing down the soil bags and sandbags, and then turning around and fleeing back to the Qing army.

Three hundred meters, two hundred and fifty meters, two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters!

At this distance, the Ming army still did not react. Some are just plum blossom piles, which are so sparse that they can hardly effectively block the siege equipment of the Qing army, are deeply inserted into the soil, as if they are ornaments.

The atmosphere on the battlefield is extremely weird, but for these people, they can only continue to run this way. However, as they got closer to the moat, the auxiliaries began to find that each step they took would require more effort and their speed would inevitably begin to slow down - the slope of the road began to climb gradually, and just as the auxiliaries and the men were gradually approaching their destination, about fifty meters away, the gunfire on the Half Moon Fort suddenly erupted under a command, accompanied by a dense burst of gunfire like a torrential rain!

The guns, which had been silent for a long time, rang out almost instantly, sweeping away the people who were running in the front. The real auxiliaries, who have been in battle, have never eaten pork and have seen pigs run, always know that the firearms used by the defending side need to be loaded, and even the bow and crossbow have long or short loading gaps, and the most unnecessary thing is to run at the front and die.

Their experience, in the first moment of the sound of gunfire, saved their lives. Seeing those people being knocked to the ground, many of those who were not dead for a while could no longer take care of the dirt bags and sandbags, covering the wounds on their bodies and wailing in pain. And in such an atmosphere, they should have taken out more strength than their talents and ran wildly.

Their purpose was nothing more than to run between the loading of the Ming army to complete their mission, so as to embark on the way back to escape. It was a life-and-death gap that had already saved their lives more than once. However, when it came to this time, they were starting to run wildly, and on the Half Moon Fort, the Ming shooters who had finished shooting retreated, and the new shooters stepped forward, and the lead bullet swept over again as if they didn't need money.

Such a scene occurred in every half-moon fort that was about to be attacked. The Ming army consciously concentrated its firepower, which was really not a good thing for the Qing army. However, the Qing army didn't care about this, the auxiliaries and the people themselves were cannon fodder, and it was enough to consume the gunpowder and lead bullets of the Ming army, and if they could throw dirt bags and sandbags into the moat, they would earn it.

The Ming army launched intensive fire in a rapid rotation mode, and few of the auxiliary soldiers and people of the Qing army in the first wave were able to rush to the front of the moat and throw the captured dirt bags and sandbags into it. After all, such lucky people are a minority, if they can escape back alive, they can rest for a while, as for those who are opportunistic, or frightened by the firepower of the Ming army, when they casually drop their dirt bags and sandbags and flee backwards, they have been sentenced to immediate execution!

The Warlord stepped forward to slash and slash the rout, and with the siege equipment rolling forward, the second wave of auxiliaries and civilians also rushed out of the cover of the equipment under such terror.

The second wave of auxiliaries and civilians was no different from the treatment of the first wave, and the Ming army still concentrated the musketeers to shoot intensively. But with the fate of the first wave of routs, this time there is basically no way to flee backwards, and more dirt bags and sandbags are thrown into the moat, even if it is still minimal.

After the input, it is to escape back, which is a fixed pattern. And when this attack ended, as the siege equipment of the Qing army slowly drove into a distance of half a meter, the long-dormant artillery of the Ming army also began to shoot at those lookouts.

The sound of the cannon sounded rapidly, and in the roar, it had been aiming for a long time, with the help of the plum blossom piles that marked the position of the artillery, and under the numerical operation of the Ming artillery team, even if there was a grand occasion of the lookout collapsing in the shelling. The Qing army behind took the road and fled, but where did the shooters on the platform come from, at most, they closed their eyes and jumped in the process of dumping, leaving their fate to the unknown.

Such precision is based on all-round preparation, even if the Qing army is caught off guard. Several lookouts collapsed, and the Qing army was in chaos when they landed, but in the midst of the chaos, the rich combat experience of this green battalion was also reflected, and it was quickly restored under the control of the grassroots officers, and there were few obstacles to the follow-up advance.

The Qing army was still advancing step by step, and as more and more siege equipment entered the firing range, the Ming army's artillery and firearms also poured more attention into them. The pressure on the auxiliaries and the people dropped sharply, and more of them were able to get close to the moat until the moat was filled, and the rushing car could smoothly approach the front of the Half Moon Fort and achieve a breakthrough through the fort wall.

Everything began to return to its normal pattern, and at this moment, near the pedestal of Half Moon Castle, several earth and stones were pushed into the moat. With the movement of "I don't understand", the muzzle of a door tiger squatting cannon stretched out, aiming at the Qing troops who were rushing over is a roar.

"Lao Tzu has emptied the city guard artillery in the prefectures and counties of Chaozhou Prefecture, as well as the inventory of Nanao Island, this time I won't let you dogs and Tartars feel the baptism of hot weapon war, I will write my name upside down!"