If you attack the city, you can still retreat if you can't capture it, but if you want to retreat from the sandbar fort surrounded by water, you have to swim yourself.

There was no tentative attack, and the Ming army was directly engaged in the battle to capture the Shazhou battery.

In general, there are local troops and the elite forbidden army of the central government, and after the reform of the Wuzhong Army, it has actually replaced the Ming Dynasty's Son of Heaven guard, they are well-equipped, they are a strong force with strong combat power, and they are not afraid of any green battalion soldiers at all.

In the past few years, all units of the Five Loyal Army have fought in various places, killing prestige and domineering.

On the river, the task of the naval division was to block the warships of the Qing army's naval division on the east side of the sandbank fort, so as to prevent the Qing army's warships from attacking the Wuzhong soldiers who were rushing to the beach in small boats, and affecting the army to cross the river and storm the sandbank.

At this time, the fleet had already sailed into the waterway between the sandbar and the south bank, and sure enough, the Qing troops on the fort opened fire first.

On the fort, the green battalion soldiers with red-topped hats and gowns were crowded, and they ran on the not spacious fort, looking a little flustered.

Sun Youguang, the Qing general guarding the fort, wore a black horseshoe sleeve official robe, a bowl hat on his bare head, and a flower feather stretched out from afar, he held a clairvoyant mirror and looked at the river, and his heart was a little nervous.

"Artillery preparation, give Ben a hard beat!" Sun Youguang saw the Ming warships lined up on the river, put down the clairvoyant mirror, turned around, and suddenly shouted.

The Qing soldiers on the fort loaded the gunpowder, tamped the gunpowder with a pestle, and then pushed the iron bullet into the chamber of the cannon.

Suddenly, the Qing generals on the fort waved the command flag, and the Qing soldiers holding the torch immediately leaned the torch on the lead, and the flames immediately flashed with light, raised a cloud of white smoke, and suddenly drilled into the medicine room.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the cannon body retreated, and black iron bullets sprayed out from the muzzle, and nearly 100 white smoke rose from the Qing army's battery.

Many of these artillery pieces of the Qing army were obtained from the Dutch, so their performance was excellent.

At the beginning, the Dutch were the governor of Dayuan, and sent Kuichi as an envoy to Beijing, intending to cooperate with the Manchus, but the Manchus did not pay attention to it, and only regarded it as a vassal of overseas tribute, and hurriedly sent it back, but these Dutchmen were received by Hong Chengchou in Nanjing, and reached a lot of cooperation and transactions.

Dorgon did not want to come into contact with the Dutch, but at that time it was important to get through the water, so he agreed.

On the fort, nearly 100 iron bullets whistled in, and in the roar, water columns splashed on the surface of the river.

A cannonball hit the mast, several times high, broke with a click, fell vertically, and smashed into the bow of the ship, and the soldiers on the deck panicked.

The first ship was hit by seven or eight bullets, and the ship was in shambles, the deck was strewn with broken logs, and the wounded soldiers rolled and wailed.

The full and strong ship was under the focus of the artillery, but he stood on the upper floor of the ship and did not retreat, pressed the war knife, gritted his teeth and ordered, "The gunner fires back, the sailor leaves the battery alone, and continues to move forward!" ”

For a time, the ships of the Ming army, the side guns, rose in turn a cloud of white smoke.

The surface of the river was suddenly shrouded in gunsmoke, and under the loud roar, the guns on the ship retreated in turn, and the deck shook again and again.

Looking down from the sky, the flotilla on the fort and on the river fired fiercely at each other, and the smoke of gunpowder rose up into the sky, slowly dissipating, and the scene was magnificent and magnificent.

The Ming fleet was like a mountain, in the smoke, continued to move forward, and at this moment, the Qing army sailors greeted it, and a cannon smashed fiercely at the Ming warship.

A series of cannons rang out, and the clear ship that met it spewed out a cloud of white smoke, and a black iron ball swept in front of the full and strong ship with a sharp whistling, and fell far into the river outside the port side, bringing a large splash of water with a "boom".

The sailors were flanked from both sides, and the ships were constantly hit, and the soldiers on the ships were inevitably a little panicked, but in the rumbling cannons, under the lingering smoke, the big and strong figures stood on the ship's tower, not moving at all.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Liu Shun saw that the sailors had already met the Qing army's sailors, making it impossible for the Qing navy divisions to enter the waterway between the sandbank fort and the south bank, preventing them from landing on the sandbank, and immediately took out his sword.

"Brothers, first get off the fort, and then take Nanjing, my loyal Wuzhen will be loyal to the country, and the time will come to fight back to Yangzhou." Liu Shun raised his sword and roared, "Board the ship, attack!" ”

Loyalty, loyalty to the foundation of the Shun army, after the reconstruction of loyalty, the foundation is the Taihu Lake Righteous Army and the Western Army, and loyalty, loyalty and martial arts are the foundation of the old Yangzhou.

The morale of the soldiers who were preparing to attack was high, especially some old Yangzhou generals, who struggled to raise their weapons and shouted at the soldiers to wait for the ship.

More than 1,000 people in front of them carried long ladders and boarded the boat first, and the boatmen and soldiers rowed hard, and hundreds of boats rushed to the sandbar in unison.

Before the first group of soldiers rushed to the sandbank, the second group of archers and gunners followed closely behind the rowing oars.

It's a matter of going forward and backwards, and giving your all at the beginning.

"Eh, the Ming army is going to seize the beach!" On the fort, a member of the Qianzong saw thousands of boats on the river in unison, and hurriedly reported to Sun Youguang: "Is it to adjust the running position and carry out a bombardment!" ”

Sun Youguang's face twitched, "The red-clothed cannon has little effect on the boat, continue to bombard the Ming army sailors, defeat the Ming army sailors, and our ships will be able to flank the Ming troops who have landed with the forts." ”

It's okay to hit a big ship with a redcoat cannon, but it's too low to hit a small boat with a sporty boat.

Sun Youguang hurriedly explained, "Put the archers, fall up, you can't let the Ming army rush to the fort!" ”

"Wow!"

Nearly a hundred small boats rushed up to the sandbar like arrows, and as soon as the ship landed, the soldiers on it immediately jumped down and raised ladders to charge at the fort.

More than 500 soldiers charged forward with rattan cards and 50 siege ladders, followed by 1,500 sword and shield men, followed by the sound of murder.

As soon as the attacking soldiers rushed within 100 steps, the fort immediately fired arrows in unison, and the overwhelming arrows rained down on the rushing Ming soldiers, and the soldiers were constantly shot by the arrows and fell, but they did not stop the soldiers from running.

Attacking the sandbank, the Ming army could not use large attacking equipment, the fort on the sandbar was already small, and after placing many red-coated cannons, there was basically no space left, and there were also not many tools available to defend the city.

This makes the battle simpler, that is, hand-to-hand, that is, bows and arrows and birds.

There was no moat or anything like that in the fort, and the Ming army rushed to the bottom of the fort built with stone bricks and earthen bags in the midst of the shouts of killing in the sky, and one after another siege ladders were erected, and the front end of the big iron hook was hung on the earthen bags and masonry, and the soldiers flocked to climb up.

On the fort, Sun Youguang's face was full of gunsmoke, and the green battalion soldiers with red hats were scurrying on the treadmill. The corpses killed in the artillery battle fell on the battery, and the green battalion soldiers did not have time to clean up.

On the battery, because of the attack of the Ming army's infantry army, the artillery that bombarded the water division began to thin out.

Sun Youguang knew that his men and horses were not the opponents of the Ming army's infantry army, and he could only rely on the Qing army's water division, but the Qing army's water division was also a useless thing, without the support of the battery, he couldn't do the Ming army's water division at all, so he knew that the artillery of the battery could not be stopped, and he would lose if he stopped.

"Quickly smash it with rolling wood and stones, and don't stop the artillery!" Sun Youguang pulled his knife and personally rushed to the earthen wall, commanding the Qing soldiers to smash countless rolling wood and stones down like hailstones, and the Ming army besieging the city was constantly smashed down the ladder and screamed and fell off the earthen wall.

There were also Qing soldiers on the earthen wall who used forks to jack up the ladder that had been set up, and then overturned it out, and the soldiers on the ladder suddenly screamed and fell down with the ladder.

The Qing army released arrows on the earthen wall, and the soldiers on the siege ladder were constantly screaming and rolling down the arrows, and the offensive of the Ming army was suppressed.

Liu Shun stood by the river, observing the battle situation, he was a little anxious, if it wasn't for Wang Yan telling him several times, he would have gone on his own, this looked at the brother in front, but he could only be anxious, and his heart was really scratching his heart.

"Duzhen, don't worry, watch our archers and guns go up, and we will soon be able to suppress the enemy army." Tian Hualong, the general next to him, pointed to the sandbar and said.

Sure enough, hundreds of small boats docked, a thousand archers, and two thousand gunners rushed up, listing a powerful attack formation a hundred paces away, and the overwhelming arrows were fired at the fort, and the Qing army that was hit by lead bullets in the sky did not dare to raise their heads, and a large number of casualties began to appear on the fort, and hundreds of soldiers were shot one after another and fell on the fort. The Ming army quickly suppressed the counterattack of the Qing army on the fort, and the soldiers began to speed up their ascent to the city.

Wang Yan, who was fighting on the Dongjiang Gate, put down the clairvoyant mirror, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, "Liu Shun's training in the past two years is not bad, and he has made some progress, and when he breaks through Nanjing, it's time to give him a knight." ”

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