A few Zheng prisoners who had been searched by the Nanyue army and determined that they had no weapons on them looked to the west through the battlements of the fort with relief.

To the west, the originally chaotic footsteps gradually became neat and consistent, coming from afar, and the low footsteps seemed to hit the hearts of these prisoners who had not had time to escape to the west fort. At this time, the sky was high and the clouds were clear, the vision was good, and through the battlements on the fort, I saw countless people, and gradually formed more than ten square formations, forming a sparse formation, and running slowly to the west.

In front of the queue, a huge sun and moon flag came into people's field of vision, representing the black and red colors of iron and blood, like two flames burning people's eyes. A short, stout man held the flag high and galloped to the front of the queue, the huge flag being blown by the sea breeze and constantly undulating and tumbling.

Behind this military flag, there is the same Ming Sun and Moon Flag and the iron-blooded eighteen-star military flag, the most dazzling is the flag of the Guards Battalion, under the banner, there are layers of elite armor soldiers, they march in a neat line, with a division of a hundred battles, the proud temperament of the rest of the bloody battle, this is the core force of the Southern Guangdong Army.

Although this formation seems sparse, under the command of the leading officer, it can instantly turn into a dense array, and inflict huge damage on the opponent with the fire guns and bayonets in his hand. What's more, two fortified batteries awaited them in front of them.

To keep the queue tight, terrain is a big key. The beach is undulating and potholes washed by the tides. Ravines are vertical and horizontal. In the case of Zheng Jun, under such terrain and feature conditions, it is difficult to maintain a tight military formation no matter what.

However, in the eyes of the ranks of the Southern Yue army, this terrain seemed to be no problem, and they did not pay attention to the sand dunes, gravel, ditches, hills, dwarf shrubs, and deep ditches washed out by the tide. Amid the sound of neat footsteps, they just ran forward slowly, and the queue looked loose. However, it is faint and tight.

It was the three battalions of Dongfan soldiers who followed the queue of the Guards Battalion. Although the queue action is far inferior to that of the Nanyue Army, compared to the marching army of the Zheng Army, it is also quite neat, and the queue of this generation is filled with a layer of wild and brutal murderous aura.

"Maniac!"

On the west fort of Gulangyu Island, Zheng Zhiguan hastily wiped his face with the handkerchief handed over by his own soldiers. Use your binoculars to stare at this army from far and near.

If it was someone else who saw this kind of engagement action of the Nanyue Army. It is rare to think that Li Shouhan or someone in the army used puppetry and other evil methods to control people's minds. In order to allow thousands of people to move forward in unison under the enemy's guns. However, Zheng Jun has also been in contact with the Nanyue Army for many years, and he is quite familiar with the training methods and combat methods of the Nanyue Army.

But even so. Regarding such a bold move of the Nanyue Army, Zheng Zhiguan also had to think that it was crazy. Especially in the middle of the ranks, he vaguely saw the flag recognition of the Taiwan Guard Commander. In the military intelligence report of the detailed work, he remembered that this was the official position of Li Shouhan's eldest son, Li Huayu.

While Zheng Zhiguan was scolding, he had to admire this army in his heart, but in this way, the enemy attacked from the side, and many heavy artillery could not be used!

He glanced sharply at the eight-pounder guns in front of him, which were originally only used as auxiliary firepower for the battery, and did not want to be of great use today. In order to maintain the firepower, they will be divided into three waves, taking turns with constant shelling, most of the artillery, focusing on shelling the central troops of the Southern Yue Army.

The gunners and soldiers on the batteries were urgently moved around the six- and eight-pounder guns, and helped the gunners to adjust the muzzles of the guns, which were originally facing the sea, to the east. Point to the group that is slowly moving.

Most of these artillery pieces had already been loaded with ammunition, and a large group of gunners, armed with moments and gauge equipment, nervously carried out the final accounting adjustments, and the momentum of the Nanyue Army made their palms unremittingly full of sweat, and their foreheads and sideburns were covered with fine beads of sweat.

Finally, seeing that the huge banner in front of the Nanyue army crossed several inconspicuous sand dunes, marking that they had entered the range of the eight-pounder cannon, Zheng Zhiguan couldn't help but take a deep breath, rushed forward, grabbed the arquebus in the hand of an artilleryman, and let out a beastly roar with a tearing voice, "Target distance, five hundred and thirty paces, the first round of artillery, fire!" ”

He lit the fuse of the cannon in front of him, and immediately hissing sparks erupted.

"Fire!"

In the sound of repeated passwords, the Zheng Jun gunners of the brigade fell into a state of madness, they all saw Li Huayu's recognition flag, and they were just as crazy as Zheng Zhiguan. As long as we can kill or injure the eldest young master of the Li family with one shot, we will win this battle! The life of the net worth was saved!

The thunderbolt-like sound of cannons sounded, the unique sharp whistling sound of the cannon being discharged, a large puff of white smoke rose from the fort, and dozens of large and small caliber guns of the Zheng Jiajun's six-pounder guns, eight-pounder guns, and big Buddha Lang machines spewed fierce flames to the east in turn.

Li Huayu's battle of fame, the battle of Gulangyu Fort, which made countless people, whether they praised or ruined, was extremely impressed by him, and warned his subordinates to stay away from this Li family's eldest young master.

The chilling whistling sound came from far and near, and there was a loud bang, and an eight-pound cannon shell hit the beach dozens of paces away in front of the right side of the military flag, and the sand, gravel, and shells on the beach were all over the sky, and the people scattered were all over the sky, but because of the beach, the shell did not form a jumping secondary injury.

Li Huayu, who was guarded by his own soldiers, breathed a sigh of relief, on the beach, the cannonballs could not bounce and kill, this kind of terrain was still beneficial to his side, and then listening to the faint sound of relief from the brothers beside him.

The artillery whistled constantly, and more and more Zheng army shells attacked, but fortunately, for the Nanyue army that was marching, their accuracy was insufficient, either in front or behind. And because it is located on the beach, the shells fall into the soft sand after landing, and it is difficult to form a bounce and jump. Or because the roll distance is not large, it can't cause massive damage.

A cannonball smashed a few steps in front of Li Huayu, and the earth seemed to tremble a few times, smashing several of Huayu's personal soldiers around him into a blur of flesh and blood, and the mud and sand stained red by the blood and flesh stained Huayu's beautiful and delicate clothes and armor into blood red, and looking sideways, a deep hole appeared next to the queue of the Nanyue army.

"Don't stay! Injured brother, get aside! Let's open the way. Team up for a quick pass!

Zheng Zhiguan put down the telescope in his hand a little excitedly. The order was passed down: "All artillery, stop shelling head-on, try to flank the ranks of the Nanyue Army!" ”

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

Amid the frantic roars of the gunners, the six-pounder and eight-pounder guns on the turret, and the Big Franc machine were fired round after round. The west and middle batteries were shrouded in thick smoke.

Zheng Jun gunners in the first round of shooting. then desperately pushed the cannon back into place. The distance was again calculated by using the degree plate, and the gunners were desperately clearing their chambers and filling them with ammunition.

Because it is divided into three rounds of launches. Their gun barrels, which have more time to dissipate heat. Because of the defensive operation at home, they had already been familiar with the nearby terrain by heart, and even used some terrain to make unnoticeable marks, and the gunners of the Zheng army relied on these to carry out fierce artillery attacks on the incoming Li Huayu troops more calmly!

The cannon roared, and the heavy solid iron ball drew a long arc in the air, smashing the infantry of the Nanyue Army that was getting closer and closer with dense side-fire fire.

In the queue of the guards battalion, in the queue of the eastern soldiers, the flesh and blood were thrown into the air by the huge impact force together with the sand, and from time to time the wounded soldiers were dragged out of the queue by the comrades in the left and near, lying down on the side of the road, waiting for the rescue of the follow-up troops. Even in the queue of the eastern soldiers, the flag of a battalion officer was chopped to the ground by a cannonball, although it was set up again in an instant, but the queue of the battalion of eastern soldiers was already a little scattered, thinking that the battalion officer had been killed.

Zheng Zhiguan showed a cruel smile on his face: "Forced by a step formation? It's comfortable now! ”

The artillery bombardment on the west and middle forts of Gulangyu Island was incessant, and wave after wave of shells whistled over.

"Aim for these two batteries! The whole ship fires! ”

The Aomei, which hurried to the sea of Gulangyu Island, did not care that there were still a large number of fast crab boats on the sea that were transporting supplies and wounded soldiers back and forth quickly, and under Li Huamei's reprimand, with a firing density that did not hesitate to scrap the artillery, it poured shells on the west and middle batteries.

"If something happens to my eldest brother, even if he kills your head, it will not be able to dispel the anger in my father's heart!"

"Anyone can die, the young marshal must not have anything to do!"

The remaining two Zheng army forts on Gulangyu Island attracted as many as 200 artillery pieces of more than 24-pounder guns in an instant, and they kept bombarding these two forts. After firing a salvo from the gun deck on one side of the ship, he quickly turned the hull and bombarded the gun on the other side at the battery. When the barrel of the cannon is hot, a bucket of water is poured on it to cool down, as long as the cannonballs can be fired, even if it brings more losses to the artillery!

While the fleet and the battery were engaged in fierce fire to provide fire support for Li Huayu's shock troops, two health battalions of the Nanyue Army were transported by fast crab boats to a temporary trestle made of broken ships that had been hit by artillery.

Countless people carried bamboo stretchers and rushed to the beachhead under the guidance of doctors and nurses.

Most of these people are native and Japanese laborers recruited from Nanzhong, and in addition to the normal wages, there is also a preferential policy.

"Those who participate in this fire line rescue can offset the one-year labor period and get a household post one year in advance. If you rescue the wounded soldiers on the line of fire, you can also pay for a year! ”

Such a temptation is incomparably lucrative in the eyes of the Japanese and native laborers who are struggling in the mountains and forests. What if it's dangerous? Is it good to dig coal and mine underground tens of miles deep? Isn't it four stones sandwiched between one piece of meat?

However, after landing on the beachhead, the battle situation was so tragic that there were stumps and broken flesh everywhere as far as the eye could see, and it was really terrifying to see that those people were all terrified, and from time to time the wounded were carried down in front, all of them were either missing arms or broken legs, or they were beaten to pieces, which was really terrifying. Some people did not care about caring for the wounded, but instead held on to bamboo stretchers and began to vomit loudly.

A few Lang Zhong who carried bamboo ambulance boxes embroidered with Bodhisattva portraits came over to take a few feet on the bodies of these people, "What are you doing staying there?" Hurry up! ”

A few people who were kicked and beaten nodded their heads and said "hi yi", carrying bamboo stretchers and rushing forward with this group of langzhong. These Langzhong. All of them enjoy the salaries and benefits of officers, and they are divided into different levels according to their respective seniority levels, although they will not go directly to the battlefield, but the entire Nanyue Army has no complaints about this. Because no matter who you are, there will be times when you are sick and injured, and these Langzhong are the saviors of the soldiers.

Their ambulance kits are filled with all kinds of medicines and instruments, knives, scissors, and hemostatic powder. Knife wound medicine. Gold sore medicine, shochu, cotton gauze bandages and other materials are readily available.

At this time, the Nanyue Army, battlefield ambulance, field hospitals, and trauma treatment methods. It can be said that it is the first in the entire civilized world. To know. Europe is even in the Napoleonic era. One of the most important parts of surgery, stopping bleeding, still needs to be helped with a red-hot soldering iron. Under a soldering iron and a knife. Surgical mortality is also more than 80 percent. To treat a wound in particular, at this time using boiling oil and pouring it into the wound, is this murder or saving people? And can you imagine that the two professions of doctor and barber can be done by one person?

In the open space of the East Fort, where there was smoke, a large number of sanitary tents were erected, boiling water for surgical preparation began to tumble in the iron pot, and the people ran back and forth between the Middle Fort and the East Fort, carrying the wounded one by one to the health camp for diagnosis and treatment.

On the top of the battery, hundreds of people struggled to move the artillery discarded by the Zheng army's artillery team, and aimed the muzzle of the gun at the middle battery, "Damn! Take the cannons made by Lao Tzu to hit Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will use your cannons to teach you! ”

Under the cover of the artillery fire of the friendly army in both land and sea directions, the troops of the four battalions of Li Huayu's command, which swooped down on the fort and the west fort, suddenly lost their pressure! Li Huayu saw that there were many fewer shells flying on the fort, so he urged the troops to quickly speed up the pace, as long as they rushed under the fort, Zheng Jun's artillery would be the ears of the deaf!

With a shout, the troops swooped down on the two batteries that were constantly spewing smoke and fire and firing shells, and in the blink of an eye they rushed to an open field only a hundred paces away from the batteries.

At this distance, the Zheng soldiers on the fort were dumbfounded!

Because the Nanyue army rushed too hard, it was too close to the fort! The three-pounder guns they had erected on the chest wall of the fort to assist the defense were still far away from the heads of the Ming troops in the forward wave, and fell to the rear of the Nanyue army, no matter how low the firing intensity was lowered.

Taking advantage of this precious time, Li Huayu ordered the troops to take a short rest, sort out their equipment, and merge the formed units with relatively large personnel losses with friendly and neighboring units.

He himself summoned the battalion officers of four battalions and carefully examined the two batteries not far away.

About forty or fifty paces away from the fort, an earthen wall was built with earth, which was regarded as a fortification built on the periphery of the fort, and behind the earthen wall, there were faint bursts of people shouting oxen roars, which was Zheng Jun trying to move the eight-pounder cannon to the earthen wall, as a condescending firepower to bombard this uninvited guest who had already entered the house.

At this time, although the trench walls on the two forts were claimed to be strong, they had collapsed in many places under the fierce bombardment of artillery fire from both land and sea directions.

Although Zheng Zhiguan kept urging the auxiliary soldiers in the army to use sacks and bamboo baskets filled with dirt, sand and gravel to repair desperately, under the artillery fire of the Nanyue army, it also had little effect. However, the trench in front of the earthen wall, the trap behind the trench, the two trenches in front of the fort, the low wall behind the trench to resist horses, and the wooden stake ropes are all intact.

"My lord! We must rush up first and occupy this section of the earthen wall, otherwise the Zheng family's artillery will drag up, and our casualties along the way will be in vain! ”

Hearing the hoarse roar of the people behind the earthen wall, and seeing the soldiers and horses of the Zheng army hidden from time to time behind the earthen wall, Liang Kuan anxiously proposed to Li Huayu.

"Good! Go back and prepare, and when the guns of the platoon in our camp sound, the whole army will pounce! ”

Hua Yu also saw very clearly, not far from his formation, it was the entrance and exit of Zheng Jun's battery. In front of the gate, there is a deep trench dug and a heavy suspension bridge is pulled. However, the drawbridge was hit by heavy artillery fire, and half of the deck was suspended in the air, and half of the bridge deck fell on the trench. Not far to the right, there was a half-collapsed breastwall that had been bombarded by artillery fire, and it looked as if it had just been visited by a mortar shell.

"In a moment, we'll rush into the battery from here!"

Li Huayu pointed to the gap with several battalion officers beside him.

A short and rapid two-way platoon sounded, and the team of more than 1,000 people shouted in unison, "Kill!" "It was like a volcanic magma eruption, and it hit the earthen wall in front of me.

Behind the earthen wall, the four eight-pounder cannons that were struggling to climb were hit head-on by these red-eyed soldiers, and those Dongfan soldiers who were covered in tattoos showed their white teeth, waved the desperate knives in their hands and fought fiercely, and roared loudly in the tribal language, "Mguya! If I could understand it, the roar would be, "Headhunter!" ”

Li Huayu, who was firmly guarded in place by dozens of guards soldiers, could clearly see that although these Dongfan soldiers were not as tough and disciplined as the soldiers of the guards battalion, as a new unit facing such a tragic battle for the first time, it was enough to make Li Huayu feel relieved to have such an appearance. After all, after this army was trained, it was only used to sweep away those mountain people who did not listen to the greetings, and this was the first time in the face of such a cruel and fierce battle.

In this battlefield where shells rain down, flesh and blood fly, and turn around is life and death, it is enough to be able to do it without being shocked or dispersed. (To be continued......)

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