Rumble......

The moment a cannon sounded, another cannon sounded, in the rumbling cannon, the side of the battleship was completely shrouded in smoke, the back seat of the gun carriage was limited by ropes, only more than two feet back, when the gun car retreated, the gunners on both sides immediately got busy, stuffed the whole shell with the gunpowder bag and the shell into the chamber, and then pushed the shell into the bottom of the chamber with a hard rope made of thick arms.

The gunner then pierced the cotton cloth wrapped in the gunpowder, and then quickly stuffed it into the feather tube that led the fire, and as soon as the feather tube was inserted, the gunner on the other side poured the gunpowder from the horn into the flintlock tank.

Loading ammunition and pushing the cannon out of the window again, everything is like flowing water, which seems to be unfavorable, but even so, Yu Qingming's brows on the ship are still slightly locked, and he still seems to be a little dissatisfied, as a third-class cruiser captain, he clearly knows that a third-class cruiser with only 24 10-pound guns, if it wants to win in a naval battle, there is only one way, that is, with its rate of fire, only through the increase in the rate of fire can the opponent be able to disintegrate the opponent.

After all, in naval battles, in addition to the decisive battle of the fleet, the cruiser is often sailed with a single or double ship, and who knows what kind of opponent will be encountered?

"Pass the order, speed up the rate of artillery fire, let them seize the opportunity, after all, there are not many opportunities for such live fire......"

When the order was given, Yu Qingming couldn't help muttering in his heart.

"And I still haven't fought back."

It's not that there is no counterattack, but the Qing army's counterattack is not worth mentioning at all, not only is there not a coastal defense battery along the way from the Pearl River to Guangzhou, but even the number of artillery on the city wall of Guangzhou is very limited, but there are only more than 100 Hongyi cannons ranging from five to ten catties, and their shells can't even penetrate the warship board.

As if to reflect Yu Qingming's thoughts, as soon as the idea on his side emerged, there was a muffled sound on the side of the side, and he could clearly see a black shadow bounced off the board on the side of the ship, it was a shell of the Qing army, not to mention at this distance, it was impossible to penetrate the thick board of the cruiser, even if it was close to 100 zhang, it was still the result.

"Captain, if it goes down like this, you say it will take a few days to smash the city wall of Guangzhou?"

Looking at the devastated city wall of Guangzhou from the telescope, the first mate Nie Yonggui said helplessly.

Although the fleet's artillery fire seems to be fierce, compared to the strong city wall, the power of the small cannonballs that are only ten catties and the large ones that are only fifty catties is too limited.

"If you keep fighting, it will be regarded as training, and there will always be a time when this wall can't hold up!"

The corners of Yu Qingming's lips were slightly raised, with a smile on his face, although he didn't know how long the Guangzhou city wall could last, but it was certain that under the attack of artillery fire, there would definitely be times when it couldn't hold on, after all, this city wall was built of earth, even if it was thick, there would be a day when it was blown down.

Of course, this was not an aimless bombardment, the shelling was divided into three sections, and then multiple ships shelled one of them, and the position of the shelling of each section of the city wall was different, the purpose of which was just to verify what position the shelling was, so that the city wall could be destroyed more easily.

In the next few days, I don't know how many shells fell on the city wall, and thousands of shells, like shells, kept peeling off the bricks one by one, and then slowly gnawed at the rammed earth.

Despair......

Compared with the officers and soldiers on the fleet of the Loyal and Righteous Army, the artillery bombardment is regarded as training, and the city wall is regarded as a walnut, where a cannon "gnaws" this hard bone, the Qing army on the city wall is not having a good time, although except for a few days ago when they shelled the Ming army, thousands of flowering shells fell on the head of the city, killing and injuring thousands of people, most of the time, the Ming army's shelling is concentrated on the city wall, and the bullets used are all solid iron bullets cast in iron, but the psychological pressure brought to them by the bombardment of the city wall day and night, But it is self-evident.

"Knock, knock......"

It's like a giant man holding a giant hammer to ram the city wall, every time the cannon hits the city wall, the sound makes the Qing army defending the city all shocked, from time to time looking at the city wall under their feet, full of uneasiness, lest when, the city wall under their feet will collapse, no wonder they are so afraid, after all, the appearance of this 10,000 cannons is really frightening, and what is even more frightening is probably the devastated city wall, which is really not reassuring.

What if the city falls......

If the city falls, they will be all finished. Once the city is broken, when the time comes, how will the Ming army let them go, the prince has already passed the word, if the city falls, the Ming army will never let them go, even if the Ming army lets them go, the people of Guangdong will not let them go, after all, they don't know how much blood of the people of Guangdong has been stained in their hands.

You have to defend the city no matter what!

"Total, look at this wall, I guess sooner or later it will have to collapse,"

As soon as Wang Laosi's voice fell, he heard Huang Ansi shouting there.

"What do you kid do so much, even if it collapses, we have to defend it, we have 40,000 horses, when the time comes, his surname Li dares to attack the city, let's let them come and go without returning, and, your kid's eyes are tighter, whether you can hold the city of Guangzhou, not only depends on us, but also depends on the tens of thousands of people on the head of the city, otherwise, why don't you think the surname Li has been shooting at the city in the past few days!"

When Huang Ansi was talking here, his eyes were staring at the people on the city wall who were helping the army to defend the city, these people were forcibly pulled up, and when they were fighting, they had to be in the front with knives and guns to tear apart the Ming army, as for now, they are shields, shields to prevent the Ming army from shelling the city.

In order to defend the city of Guangzhou, Shang Kexi on the day of the "pirates" going upstream, in addition to stationing the troops outside the city in the city of Guangzhou, when Li Dingguo's soldiers were approaching the city, he formulated a plan to keep the city at all costs, and also aimed at Li Dingguo's "weakness" that could not bear to hurt the people, and adopted various unscrupulous defense methods, such as after the Ming army bombarded the city, he drove Ding Zhuang in the city to the city wall, and 100,000 Ding Zhuang stood on the city wall several miles long, even the blind could see it, so that, the Ming army was afraid of hurting the people, so naturally they stopped shelling the city.

In terms of internal propaganda, Shang Kexi also trumpeted the terrible consequences of the loss - once lost, the Qing court would definitely send troops to counterattack, and when they recaptured the city, there would be an extinction massacre, even if ten years have passed, but the "Guangzhou Massacre" is still in people's memory, and because of this, Shang Kexi believes that the people who do not care about who is the emperor will naturally stand by him, fully support them to defend the city, and thus be willing to be driven away.

Just like in Xinhui back then, the people of Xinhui were not only under the threat of slaughtering the city, but were willing to be driven by the Qing army to defend the city, and went all out to counterattack the Ming army, and even when the food in the city was cut off, when the Qing army in Xinhui decided to let the people in the city, each household contribute one person as a "human ration", there was no resistance at all. In the process of implementation, many loyal women emerged to voluntarily climb into the oil pot for their husbands and families. After the siege was lifted in December, the remaining people felt "safe", so not many people hated the "cannibalism" of the Qing army. In the end, Li Dingguo, who had mercy on the people, did not capture the city, and the cannibalistic Qing army held the city.

Shang Kexi's plan was very practical, he just wanted to take advantage of Li Dingguo's compassion for the people to defend the city of Guangzhou, just like when he defeated Xinhui.

But Shang Kexi didn't see that this time is not the past, when in Xinhui, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was powerful, and now the news of the defeat of the Qing captives in the north and the Northern Expedition of the Ming army has already reached Guangzhou, so how can the people in Guangzhou be like the people of Xinhui, believing that the Qing army will regain the army, and then slaughter the city to retaliate? In this way, even if the men in the city were forced to go to the city to help them defend the city, most of them also had various thoughts, and they did not have the slightest intention of helping them defend the city.

"God willing, but it can't be that the wall under my feet has collapsed......"

Zhao Guozhen, who followed the team to the head of the city again, secretly prayed in his heart, and when he was praying like this, there was a sudden "uproar" over there, and a section of the city wall collapsed violently, and the position was full of feet wide, and the people on it naturally fell down and were buried in the bricks and soil.

"Help, help, ......"

When the cry for help came, Zhao Guozhen and others, who were closest to the city, hurriedly rushed over, trying to rescue the people who were pressed in it from the bricks and soil, they were not worried about the Ming army attacking the city at this time, after all, there was more than one place where it collapsed like this, if there was no big slope in front of the city wall for the large group of people to immediately enter the city, the Ming army would never attack the city.

"Thank you, brother, thank you, brother......"

Zhou Chenglin, who was "rescued", was completely no different from the other people who fell, he had been hiding in the ruins of the burned outer city under the city for two days, just waiting for a small section of the city wall to collapse, taking advantage of the chaos to sneak into the city, it should be said that he mixed into the city, and then completed the task assigned by the above.

"What is there to thank for this, if it is ......"

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Guozhen vaguely saw the hair faintly exposed under the dusty man's headcloth, and this person only shaved some sideburns......

Could it be that he came from outside the city?