"Shoot!"

The soldiers of the Guards Battalion naturally did not rush up to hunt their heads like those Gaoshan soldiers in the Eastern Fan Army, and the officers in the middle of the queue waved the desperate knives in their hands diagonally, pointing towards the hundreds of artillery teams of the Zheng Army that were already showing signs of collapse in front of them.

The commander of the new army, who was on the defensive line of the walled gate there, roared loudly, and pointed at the war knife in his hand.

On the top of the earthen wall and on the slope, hundreds of soldiers of the Guards Battalion lined up in unison, and the musketeers arranged themselves into four layers according to the usual firing tactics of the Southern Cantonese army, and each layer was composed of nearly 100 fine firearms, bursting out into fierce flames. In the midst of a bang. Numerous guns. Not far away, the gunners and escorts of the Zheng army, who were already in a panic, sprayed a large stream of gunsmoke.

At that time, in the Zheng army's artillery team, which was already frantically shouting and panicking, with the sound of firearms, more than a dozen of them were hit by bullets and rolled to the ground, not to mention the guards who were struggling to drag the gun wagons upward on the anticline of the earthen wall, and the gunners who were hiding behind the artillery also shot out strands of blood mist on their bodies, and staggered down the hill and fell.

The four guns in their ranks suddenly lost their upward support, and instead slid and rolled down the slope of the earthen wall. The eight-pounder gun, which they relied on to protect themselves and was full of confidence, suddenly became the king of Hades who helped the abuse, and several gunners screamed that their bones were broken and their tendons were broken by the rapidly sliding gun truck, and blood was spitting from their mouths.

After only a few breaths, another terrifying sound of platoon exploded in his ears, and more people in the Zheng army, which was already in a panic, were shot and fell to the ground.

The copper green, a by-product of the process of mining copper ore, smelting refined copper, and "casting" Tongbao, is heated. This chemical name copper hydroxide mineral will decompose into water and copper oxide, copper oxide as an additive added to the already carefully manufactured gunpowder to make a sub-drug, within dozens of steps can break the Qing army wearing heavy armor, holding iron shields, at this distance to deal with these Zheng army gunners who are mostly only wearing cotton armor, coupled with the condescending momentum, the power is suddenly doubled.

The sound of the platoon guns came one after another, and as the pace of the attack of the Nanyue army slowly advanced, dozens of people in the Zheng army column had been shot and overturned in just half a minute, and the sound of guns and screams after being shot continued to sound in the ranks of the Zheng army.

In order to ensure the rate of fire, the musketeers of these guards battalions. There was no queue for round-robin shooting. Instead, he used the very skillful fire bolt transfer tactics that the Great Ming God Machine Battalion had used for a long time. Shoot at close range with musketeers standing in the first column. The three rows of musketeers behind him took turns to pass the muskets containing the sub-medicine in their hands to the shooters in the front row, and then took the empty bird's guns and urgently reloaded the ammunition.

And the musketeers in the first row. There is no need to worry about the future. Without thinking, he stared and held his breath at the Zheng soldiers not far away and pulled the trigger.

The faucet falls. In the blink of an eye, there was a bang, and a puff of fire light rose from the fire door, and then a large smoke of gunpowder spewed out from the mouth. Just a moment of lightning. It was a Zheng soldier whose cotton armor was broken by several large holes in the firecracker, and several blood mist suddenly rose on his head and body, but there were several firecrackers who aimed the firecrackers at this unlucky soldier.

In this short half minute, the three rounds of the Nanyue Army have completely destroyed the will to resist of the small army of the Zheng Army. Those Zheng Jun guards with swords and guns in their hands were almost all taken care of by the firecrackers.

The entire position suddenly fell silent, and no matter the attacker or defender, only the heavy gasps of each other remained.

"Get on the bayonet! Kill! ”

Liang Kuan's loud shout interrupted the calm of the moment.

The Guards Battalion was in the center, and two battalions of the three battalions of the Eastern Fan Army were on the left and right flanks, sweeping towards the remnants of the Zheng army, which was small in number.

"Run!"

I don't know who was the first to shout this in despair, and more than 100 Zheng soldiers threw down the dead and wounded robes everywhere, turned around and fled towards the fort!

On the beach, several artillery brigades were struggling to carry eight- and twelve-pounder guns and wade waist-deep waters toward the beachhead. In the team, from time to time, there are officers who are inspiring the soldiers: "Even the eldest and young marshal has personally wielded a knife into battle, we are all taking the marshal's salary to support our families, don't sell our lives at this time, and have a conscience?!" Fast! ”

"Go!"

On both flanks of the Zheng family's artillery team, more soldiers of the Nanyue Army swarmed up, surging on the beach like wildfire.

"Damn! The eldest young marshal annoyed the lord and the eldest lady this time! The eldest lady let out the words, which one sees the eldest young marshal, first smoke his twenty-eight ear scrapers for the lord! ”

Lu Yunsheng, the commander of the third town, waved the command flag in his hand to urge the troops to follow up and expand the landing field opened by Li Huayu even more.

"The young marshal has set a good example for the whole army this time, and has established such a great achievement for the whole army, why do you want to slap him?"

A Yi soldier standing beside Lu Yunsheng was puzzled.

"Go! I don't know what it means that the son of a daughter can't sit down? I don't know what it means that the Buddha is not in the tiger prison? I told you to read more books a long time ago, and you would be fine! Once you know 500 words and can write letters to your family, you don't know where to throw your books! ”

Telling the soldier a lesson, Lu Yunsheng never slowed down half a step at all, and trekked all the way to the beach. Behind him, three battalions of soldiers dragged cannons and all kinds of supplies from the sea like ants.

A battalion of soldiers towed boats, bamboo rafts and other things, each with knives, axes, hammers and saws, and kept building improvised docks between the beach and those fast crab boats, so that heavy materials such as personnel and artillery could be quickly brought ashore to fight.

On the east battery, the 24-pounder cannon, which was originally used to deal with the enemy on the sea, was used by the gunners to use the gun carriage that could move left and right, and the angle of the gun carriage was moved to the maximum, so that the muzzle of the gun could barely point to the west and center batteries.

"Fire!"

Lai Nanyue's military production was standardized, and these cannons immediately became the Nanyue Army's sharp weapons to defeat the enemy in the hands of experienced and skilled gunners, and several 24-pound batteries were quickly discharged and went straight to the middle battery.

At this moment, a large number of Nanyue troops were under the command of Li Huayu. He had already pounced on the earthen wall, attacked from the left and right, and pressed down condescendingly, forcing the remnants of more than 100 people to the trench outside the fort.

"Fire!"

Zheng Zhiguan swung his knife and slashed to death an officer who turned around and wanted to flee in two strands, not bothering to wipe the blood off his body and face, his face was hideous and terrifying, brandishing the long knife that was still dripping blood on the blade, threatening the gunners on the battery.

"Shoot at the earthen wall and the trench! Suppress the Southern Army to Lao Tzu! ”

"My lord! There are our own brothers outside the ditch, and if we open fire, we will hurt them! ”

"I can't take care of it! It's a big deal, go back, and Lao Tzu will make them a water and land dojo. Fight for ten days Luo Tian Dajiao! ”

on the casemate. Six or seven remaining large franc machines and six-pounder guns fired indiscriminately at the earthen walls and the outer trenches of the forts.

This time, Li Huayu's assault troops fell into bad luck.

I was going to chase all the way and chase those defeated soldiers straight into the battery, but. But he didn't want the dense raindrops of cannon on the fort to fall down in a dense formation.

Wink. Smoke from heavy shells enveloped the stormtroopers. A dozen soldiers who had been hit by the shells fell to the ground without a snort.

A soldier was rushing forward with a firecracker, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a cannonball coming towards him, and subconsciously raised the firearm in his hand to block. Under the slamming impact, I suddenly felt a shock to my arm. After that, he looked down, but was shocked to find that one of his arms had gone nowhere, and the remaining hand was also shaken to blood. Frightened, he couldn't help but let out a howl like a wild beast being injured.

The sudden artillery fire caught the fleeing Zheng army and the pursuing Nanyue army off guard, and suddenly the limbs and flesh of the team flew, shouting and wailing.

The Guards Battalion was no more, and these soldiers, led by their respective officers, shouted incessantly, "Quick, rush over, don't stop!" ”

"Rush forward! Rush to the place where his cannon can't hit! ”

Although the guards battalion in front was taken care of by the Zheng family's artillery fire, it was only a slight setback in the offensive formation, and it returned to normal in an instant, so it continued to pounce on the outer trench, and several soldiers with fast steps had already surpassed the defeated soldiers of the Zheng family, rushed to the edge of the outer trench, and used the bayonet in their hands to push down the rejecting horses placed on the edge of the outer trench into the trench.

However, the eastern soldiers on both flanks were somewhat unsatisfactory.

As soon as the first shell landed in their ranks, some soldiers screamed and screamed.

Then from time to time, shells fell into the crowd, blowing up clouds of smoke and dust mixed with flesh and blood, and the arrogant arrogance of the Eastern soldiers suddenly plummeted.

When a cannonball fell, hitting a bareback and barefoot Dongfan soldier, splitting his body in two, and throwing his upper body into the air by the air wave, drenching several people nearby with a small rain of blood, the flesh of this Dongfan soldier's limbs fell on everyone's heads and faces. When you look at the past, everyone looks like a ghost.

The upper half of his body, which had been blown into the air by the cannonball, landed in the middle of the group, but the eastern soldier had not yet lost his breath, and he was still whimpering and moaning in his mouth, and he could not hear what he was saying for a while.

"Ahh In this scene, as the shells continued to fall into the ranks of the Dongfan soldiers, the fear contained in the hearts of these Gaoshan soldiers was infinitely magnified, making their endurance reach the limit, and some people immediately collapsed.

"Run!"

I don't know which soldier was the first to shout out this lingering word, and dozens of people immediately responded, turned around and ran wildly towards the way they came.

"Flee from the battle, die!"

After a few steps, the sword flashed in front of him, and the two Dongfan soldiers who fled in front were raised and cut off their heads. A few firecrackers rang out, and three or five Dongfan soldiers were knocked to the ground.

The fleeing Dongfan soldiers looked fixedly, Li Huayu's fair face was dyed blood red by the two deserters who were spewing blood outwards in the neck cavity, the whole person's body, armor, and battle robe were full of blood, the helmet was thrown aside at some point, the hair bun and golden hairpin on the top of the head were wiped off by a passing shotgun, and the meticulous black hair that had been groomed in the past was draped on the head and shoulders, this shape was like the Shura Demon King.

"Go back! Rush up! ”

The officer of the guards battalion beside Li Huayu waved the spear in his hand and picked up the head of the decapitated deserter, "This is the example!" If you don't want to burden your clansmen after you die, rush forward! ”

"Dongfan soldiers listen! Whoever ascends first will be rewarded with ten silver dollars! Two pieces of good flower cloth. Twenty pounds of refined salt! Decapitate the enemy and reward five catties of refined salt! ”

On the one hand, he is killed after escaping, and on the other hand, he is fighting to the death forward, and there are attractive rewards waiting for him. Even the mountain people who have not yet been fully civilized will weigh the pros and cons.

"Follow my banner! Kill! ”

Li Huayu also fought boldly, snatched his own flag from the hands of the flag soldier beside him, waved a knife in one hand and raised the flag in the other, shouting and rushing.

As he paced, hundreds of Dongfan soldiers gradually gathered behind him, surpassing him in the blink of an eye.

Over there. The soldiers of the Guards Battalion had already rushed through the outer trenches. rushed to the bottom of the fort wall and fired at the Zheng army at the head of the city. On the fort, Zheng Jun was constantly knocked down by the firecrackers and fell from the city with a miserable scream. Under the city. There were also soldiers of the Nanyue Army who were burned and killed by gunpowder bags dropped by the city.

"Don't stop! Rush up! ”

There are constantly officers at all levels in the team to supervise and restrain their subordinates. On the one hand, it bombarded the battery with a platoon. On the one hand, the troops were organized to rush towards the fortress wall. In the procession, a dozen soldiers struggled to drag a mutilated horse, the sharp spikes on which had been destroyed by artillery fire and knives and guns. It was used as a ladder to climb the gap in the fort.

Forts are not like cities, and the tools and weapons prepared for them are far less complete than those of cities. It was just that the gunpowder stored in it was either mixed with firewood and grass, or packed in large and small ceramic utensils, and kept being discarded, hoping to use these to stop the offensive of the delayed Nanyue army. For a time, a fire barrier was formed under the city wall, mixed with the sound of explosions that kept ringing, and many soldiers of the Nanyue Army were burned to death and burned in this fire barrier. Looking down from the air, the entire Gulangyu Island seems to be shrouded in fire and smoke, like a burning city. Streams of smoke were blown by the strong sea breeze from Gulangyu Island to Xiamen Island, and the sea breeze with a bit of fishy and salty smell in the humidity in the past is now mixed with the pungent smell of saltpeter and sulfur, and there seems to be a smell of blood.

Zheng Zhilong on the Sunshine Rock raised his eyes, and the sea to the west seemed to be covered with the entire sea of Nanyue military ships, those fast boats with sails and oars were constantly transporting soldiers, horses and artillery to Gulangyu Island, and around these fast crab boats, there were two-masted galleons that kept pouring cannonballs on the two forts on the island.

To the west of Xiamen Island, Zhang Xiaohu's iconic golden three-headed tiger was struggling to break through the west waterway amid the smoke of artillery fire, constantly taking advantage of his artillery superiority to fire dozens of heavy artillery shells on both sides of the ship at the Zheng army's artillery positions along the way.

Outside the West Waterway, there is a plum blossom flag that stands proudly in the wind and snow, and in the smoke and firelight, it is blown by the air flow of cannonballs and the sea breeze of hunting. Near the left of the Aomei, within about two or three miles, there were fast crab troop carriers lined up on the sea, and dozens of boats were afraid that they were not carrying nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses. These soldiers and horses followed the action of the Three-Headed Tiger and the Aomei, the purpose and function of which was the West Waterway, that is, the batteries along the inner harbor of Xiamen, and the gunboats beat the batteries dumb, and these soldiers and horses pounced on the batteries to occupy the batteries and resurrect the guns on the batteries. It's just that the muzzle of the gun is reversed. Zheng Zhilong's soldiers and horses were firmly blocked in Xiamen Port, so that they could not send reinforcements to Gulangyu and other places, and completely blockaded them on Xiamen Island!

And for this purpose, the first place to focus on is Gulangyu!

At this time, up and down the middle fort, there were already casualties.

The offensive and defensive duo fired projectiles at the opponent at a distance of less than a few dozen paces, which happened to be within the best range of the firearms in their respective hands, inflicting heavy damage on the opponent.

"Bang bang bang!" A burst of firecrackers sounded, and after a flash of firelight, dozens of Dongfan soldiers who rushed in front with swords and axes in their hands were pushed backwards by the huge impact force, and they fell diagonally to the blood-soaked ground, and blood arrows burst out on their bodies.

A spring thunder-like explosion seemed to roll through the sky, and a large area of smoke rose up on the edge of the outer trench, Hua Yu was ruthless this time, and concentrated hundreds of firearms to suppress the Zheng army defending at the gap without interruption, and the overwhelming projectiles rained down from the edge of the ditch to the gap in the fort.

"Quick! Drag those cannons over to Lao Tzu! ”

Hua Yu urged his subordinates hoarsely to drag the four cannons that had just been captured on the side of the earthen wall into place, and he planned to use these four eight-pounder cannons to give the defenders at the head of the city a cruel taste.

"Change the shotgun!"

"Aim at the crowded area at the head of the city and fire!"

"Change the shotgun! Aim at the place with the most people in the city and hit me hard! ”

The commanders above and below the city gave almost the same order.

Zheng Zhiguan on the middle fort was also struggling to support at this time. From the time Li Huayu led his subordinates to the earthen wall, he had already beheaded seven heads with a continuous swing of his sword, threaded these seven heads with ropes, and hung them in the center of the fort, so that his soldiers could see them, this is an example of retreating from battle!

"Fight well! If you resist it, you can do it! The marshal will definitely send someone from Xiamen Island to reinforce us! ”

"Boom"

In the deafening sound of cannonball, a six-pounder gun on the turret spewed thick white smoke, and solid shells weighing five pounds roared out of the chamber. Its target was to go straight to the Nanyue soldiers who were firing fiercely at the city.

At a distance of dozens of paces, the guns are the best range, and the power of the guns can be imagined.

"Mazu Niangniang bless, if you can kill the Li family child with one shot, the disciple will definitely rebuild the temple and reshape the golden body, and from then on, eat fasting and chant Buddha to repair the bridge and repair the road!"

Looking at the whereabouts of the cannonball, as well as Li Huayu's recognition of the flag not far away, Zheng Zhiguan couldn't help but pray secretly in his heart. (To be continued......)