Zamparini squinted and pulled the trigger slightly, only to hear a burst of lead bullets from the barrel of the Model 1633 flint pistol, knocking a man in cotton armor and a lightning rod to the ground.

"Master Ma is dead! Master Ma is dead! Some Qing troops who were close to shouted the news of the death of the main general in Wu language. Soon, only to hear a chaotic sound of hula, hundreds of green battalion soldiers with pigtails on the back of their heads broke their morale and fled backwards and evacuated the battlefield. Zamparini sighed softly, this was the Yangzhou army storage warehouse, they had just occupied this place for less than two hours, and the Qing army had already launched three attacks. This was the third time, and like the previous two, it was repulsed by the easterners, and this time it seemed that he had killed a mid- and high-ranking officer of the enemy army, which made Zamparini somewhat satisfied.

"Platoon commander!" Just after repelling the Qing army, the soldiers swarmed over, just now Zamparini as an officer attracted the firepower of the Qing army, and many feathered arrows hit him, but fortunately, the arrows of the Qing army could not penetrate the high-strength curved steel armor of the east coast, and Zamparini was not injured.

Zamparini glanced away, and now he still had 18 brothers under his command, which made his heart cold: another person died? But fortunately, the brothers knew what he was thinking, and they immediately said in a gossipy: "Platoon commander, Lin Xiaohu was shot in the shoulder by a Tatar arrow and is currently being bandaged in the infirmary, so there is no big problem." Secretary Lin was scolding him, he rushed too far forward this time. ”

Zamparini nodded, then sat down beside a stone lion in front of the door of the barn, took a pipe out of his pocket, stuffed some tobacco into it, lit it, and smoked it. The name here is the military storage warehouse. As the name suggests, it is the material warehouse of the army in Yangzhou City. And that's exactly what happened. After being conquered by the East Coast army this morning, everyone found a large number of swords, guns, arrows, uniforms, leather armor, oriental muskets (bird guns) and some gunpowder. At that time, the Qing army guarding this place fought for a long time, and more than 100 Qingzhou soldiers of Zhai Congge's department, who were in charge of the main attack, were killed and wounded, and the 2nd squadron of the forward team that assisted in the attack also suffered casualties of more than 30 good men, and only then did the Qing army of about 7 or 800 people be defeated - most of them were killed or scattered, and more than 100 people surrendered.

After occupying this place, the Qing army immediately organized several powerful counterattacks, but they were all routed by the reinforced East Bank troops. This time the Qing army lord will be killed. Their offensive should have stopped for a long time.

There was a rhythmic sound of footsteps from behind, and Zamparini didn't need to look to know that it was their company's deputy commander, Gao Shan. Sure enough, the person who came was Gao Shan, who was tall and fat, and I saw him holding a saber in his left hand and a copper whistle in his right hand, and he immediately blew it when he walked to the door of the military storage warehouse. Some of the soldiers of the 1O4 Company, who was resting, immediately stood up in formation, and Zamparini was among them, and he emptied his half-smoked pipe, and then quickly lined up at the head of the right row of his platoon.

When Gao Shan saw that the soldiers of the five platoons were here, he immediately raised his loud voice: "The commander has an order." Reinforcements were immediately sent to the Temple of the City God, where the Qing army used two cannons. The 2nd Battalion of the Eight Banners New Army suffered heavy losses under surprise, and they are currently waiting for reinforcements in the Chenghuang Temple, and a large number of Qing troops are blocking outside. Let's act quickly, Mo Dashuai has already ordered several long-barreled cannons outside the city to also enter the city to assist in the battle. The task here was given to the 5th and 6th Squadrons of the Standing Force, and they had already rushed over from the Yixue School. ”

After Gao Shan gave the order, the hundreds of musketeers of the 1o4 company immediately handed over the defense with the five hundred soldiers of the standing team, and then walked along the avenue by the small river for two or three hundred meters to a junction and then stopped. The City God's Temple is close to the Jiangdu County Ya, which is the key area of the Qing army. It is said that yesterday during the day, Shi Tingzhu, the commander of the Qing army, was still sitting in the county government to personally command the battle, but when the east bank army successively conquered the Yangzhou Mansion and the military storage warehouse that were only one street away from the county government, this guy withdrew to the Yangzhou Academy in the south of the city, and he was really afraid of death.

Zamparini rushed ahead, and he saw that the street here was quite wide, and he was afraid that it would not have to be more than ten meters wide. The building at the intersection is Yangzhou Fuxue, which has 25o spearmen who stand up and more than 2oo soldiers who are also equipped with spears, but unfortunately they have no artillery, and they are afraid that they will not be able to defeat the numerical advantage of the Qing army with the spears in their hands, so they hold on here, waiting for reinforcements to arrive.

Seeing the arrival of the reinforcements of the yellow-clothed thieves, there was a commotion on the side of the Qing army, and I saw that they began to clumsily move a cannon, trying to aim the muzzle of the cannon at the intersection. This caused Zamparini's pupils to shrink sharply, where did his cannon go? We have never been the only ones who have bullied barbarians with cannons, and when will barbarians be able to bully us with cannons?

As soon as the deputy company commander Gao Shan saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately ordered the troops to withdraw to Fuxue and rely on the brick wall to defend it. The Qing army outside was greatly encouraged when they saw the yellow-clothed thief retreating into the Fuxue, and the officers quickly organized hundreds of people to kill them, intending to rush into the Fuxue. These people shouted in all kinds of unintelligible dialects and looked excited, but their efforts were not destined to succeed. The narrow entrance to the school was blocked by dense 4.2-meter spears, and the Qing army rushed in with shields, but could not rush in for a while. This stalemate gave the musketeers an excellent opportunity to shoot their targets, and the soldiers raised their guns and began to fire freely without the need for the officer's orders.

The Qing troops crowded at the front fell in pieces, but the people behind did not know what was going on, and they were still squeezing forward desperately. The tragedy was born in this way, only to see more than a dozen grenadiers in heavy armor rushed to the front, bravely threw the hand-thrown bombs lit in their hands towards the rear of the Qing army, only to hear a few muffled sounds, the iron nails, broken iron pieces, and steel balls wrapped in thin iron bombs scattered in the crowd, and the casualties of the Qing troops were extremely dense and unbearable. After killing more than 100 Qing troops who intended to climb the wall to attack, this wave of Qing army's counteroffensive was finally repulsed, and Zamparini was also slightly relieved.

However, he was still very anxious, because their artillery had not yet arrived, and in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, their superiors forbade them to storm the strong positions of the Qing army with artillery fortifications. Just now, the 2nd Battalion of the Eight Banners New Army was taking neat steps to compress the Qing troops on the street step by step into the Jiangdu County Yanei, but they did not expect to be suddenly bombarded by two cannons of the Qing army, and they were killed and wounded on the spot in a dense formation, and then hurriedly hid in the nearby City God Temple to wait for help. Without artillery, it can only be filled by human lives, and the people on the east coast are obviously reluctant to take human lives to fill it.

Soon there was a rhythmic sound of footsteps outside, and as soon as Zamparini heard it, he knew that it was the sound of leather boots stepping on the stone streets, and that reinforcements were coming!

I don't know if it's been a few minutes or more than ten minutes, just listen to "Boom!" Rumble! Two cannon shots, two solid iron eggs with the whistling sound of the air fired directly at close range, and the Qing army suddenly became noisy. Only two minutes after the battle, the two artillery pieces opened fire again, and the shouts of the Qing army became louder.

After another two minutes, the artillery on the Qing side had not counterattacked, and the artillery on the east bank side had been firing mercilessly, which made Zamparini a little excited, could it be that the artillery of the Qing army was destroyed?

There was a jumble of footsteps in the streets, and Zamparini could faintly hear some Chinese with a Henan accent that he was familiar with, as if the Qing commander was instigating the soldiers to charge, was it to stop the artillery of the 6th Army on the east bank from continuing to attack them?

Without waiting for Zamparini to continue his thoughts, Gao Shan, the deputy company commander over there, had already ordered the squadron leader of the forward team to open the gate of Fuxue, and a large number of spearmen wearing cuirass rushed out with spears and attacked the Qing army from the flank, and the formation of the Qing army was suddenly a little chaotic.

"Go up to the wall!" Gao Shan, the deputy company commander, held a pistol and said with a stern face.

The soldiers brought some ladders and set them up to the wall, Zamparini nodded, and then ordered his brothers to climb up the wall after him. The head of the wall was about a meter wide, and it was difficult to stand, and Zamparini leaned on the wall with his feet on the ladder, took a rifle handed up from below, and shot at the street outside the wall. When he finished shooting, he handed the rifle to the man below, then took a new loaded gun and continued shooting. For a while, more than 20 people lay on the wall and shot non-stop, but they also beat the Qing army outside the city.

The rest of the battle will be less suspenseful. The Qing army, which had lost artillery support, was squeezed from both sides by the lancers on the east bank covered in their bodies, and after hundreds of casualties, they were again compressed into the Yanai of Jiangdu County. Mao Desheng, who came in a hurry, saw that the county government was a mixed structure of bricks and wood except for the courtyard wall, and immediately ordered the county government to be burned. The soldiers did not dare to hesitate, they found a large number of clay pots, filled with flammable materials such as lamp oil, and threw them into the county office. After throwing it, he threw a lot of torches and firewood soaked in lamp oil into it, and the Jiangdu County Ya suddenly burst into flames.

After the county government caught fire, the Qing army immediately panicked, they organized several charges in a row to try to break through, but they were all killed and wounded by two guns that fired scattered bullets continuously at the narrow gate, and then they were bombed and musketed, and those who were lucky enough to rush through this barrage were also stabbed to the ground one by one by the spearmen on the east bank.

The battle ended half an hour later, and the Jiangdu County Ya was drowned in the raging flames, and most of the seven or eight hundred Qing soldiers who finally retreated into the county Ya were killed, and another 300 were captured, which can be regarded as the end of this tragic battle.

Zamparini looked indifferently at the corpses of the Qing soldiers lying on the street, and there was a faint smell of burnt corpses wafting from the county office, which made him a little disgusted. At the entrance of the street was an army with rifles with bayonets on their shoulders, and it was supposed to be the only musketeers in the marching group, and they seemed to be advancing further south, where there was a private garden, and it was not known if there was a Qing brigade stationed there.

But even if there were people stationed there, it didn't mean much. After the capture of the county government, more than half of the area in Yangzhou City was already in the hands of the people on the east coast, and I heard that Captain Zhang Xudong, who was in charge of commanding the battle on the side of the new city, fought very easily. The main force of the Qing army should not be arranged there, and the strongholds such as the Guandi Temple, the Jingzhong Temple, the Anding Academy, and the Yamen of the Salt Transit Envoy have all fallen into the hands of the people on the east coast, and they are currently advancing to the area of the Western Temple, trying to attack the Qing army gathered in the southeast corner of Yangzhou City in a roundabout way. (To be continued......)

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