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When the appearance of the four warships and steam-armed merchant ships was already being repaired, they were repainted several times by the shipwrights with black dye mixed with tung oil, lime and other materials, and the whole body was gray and black, which was somewhat different from the original appearance when it had just been captured.

After Luo Jian took over, he asked the carpenter to install a few evil dragons with teeth and claws on the side panels of the ship, making the warships and armed merchant ships completely oriental, completely different from the original appearance with the colors of the western hull. Even if they were afraid to come, knowing that this was a warship captured from him, they would not dare to recognize each other.

It is only three or four miles away from the Yangjiang Naval Division's camp, but there are still no interception or sentry ships. In the first sea battle, although excited, Luo Xuan, who had been fighting for many years, was quite calm, he sent two fast sail boats to investigate, and the rest of the warships formed a formation and prepared to meet the battle.

Two hours later, the fast sail boat returned, the Qing army's Yangjiang water division, only empty village and more than ten broken boats remained, presumably the Qing army learned that the capture army was attacking on a large scale, and fled in advance.

Luo Xuan held a breath in his throat, he couldn't swallow it, carefully searched the water village, and really captured more than 20 veterans of the guards.

After interrogation, I learned that Wu Yuanyou, the original commander of the water division, fled to Yangjiang Town, and felt that the Yangjiang water division was lonely, so he ignored the opposition of Yangjiang Zhizhou, and transferred all the more than 4,000 people of the water division of Yangjiang Town to Jieshi Town, and joined forces with the water division of Jieshi Town, and defended the city according to the Jieshi camp.

As it turned out, it seems that inaccurate information would create a loophole in the plan. The people of the General Staff hurriedly recorded the situation.

Without the water division, only hundreds of city flood soldiers remained in Yangjiang Prefecture to guard it.

Luo Xuan laid down two infantry regiments and an artillery regiment in the 8th Division. The infantry regiment was well-equipped, with more than 2,000 people in the two regiments having a total of 1,300 flintlock smoothbore guns, but the artillery regiment was a little unworthy of the name, with more than a dozen Franc machine iron cannons plus a few bulky bronze clay cannons, and the best was the captured 3 field guns.

However, even such an illusory artillery regiment aimed more than ten iron cannons and three field guns at the gate of Yangjiang City, and bombarded it fiercely. Yangjiang City is already in chaos, and the city flood control soldiers are fleeing in all directions, how can they still take care of the defense of the city tower.

The few artillery pieces on the tower were also unused for many years, and no one paid attention to them.

After four rounds of artillery bombardment, the city gate was blasted open, and after the artillery regiment stopped firing artillery, the infantry regiment charged and entered the city, and Yangjiang City was easily captured without much effort.

In order to quickly occupy Leizhou and Qiongzhou and other places, Luo Xuan consulted with Lin Fengxiang and Chen Tianshi and decided to temporarily divide the army.

Led by Chen Tianshi, the Eighth Division went up the Yangjiang River in a small boat, conquered Yangchun, Luoding and other places all the way, and then turned southwest to attack the capital city of Gaozhou.

And Luo Xuan led the 5th Division, carrying Lin Fengxiang's 1st Division, according to the original battle plan, to capture Qiongzhou Mansion first, completely blockade and surround Leizhou Mansion and Gaozhou Mansion, and then send people to persuade them to surrender.

The next day, under the leadership of four warships and steam-armed merchant ships, the fleet approached Qiongzhou Mansion along the coast of Leizhou Mansion.

The capital city of Qiongzhou. The Yamen of the General Military Department of Qiongzhou Town, the chief soldier Huang Kaiguang closed his eyes and recuperated. Outside the door, there were already four or five staff generals and guerrilla garrisons, led by a deputy general surnamed Wang who took the lead, and walked in.

"My lord, there is an urgent report from Leizhou, and tens of thousands of rebels have been attacking Qiongzhou with great momentum. Now that I have few soldiers in Qiongzhou City, I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend! I hope you will make plans as soon as possible! The deputy general surnamed Wang stared at Huang Kaiguang blankly, hoping that he could get an idea.

"Yes, my lord, now it's time to leave or stay, you can give me a good word!"

"My lord, if you say that you will fight to the death, the brothers will definitely accompany you to defend Qiongzhou! However, as the saying goes, stay in Qingshan, don't be afraid of no firewood! The thieves are coming, why don't you lead the brothers to Ding'an to take shelter from the limelight first, wait for the thieves to retreat, and then return to the capital of Qiongzhou? ”

These guerrilla garrisons who followed Vice General Wang began to persuade one after another, and the quarrel made Huang Kaiguang have a headache.

In addition to this time, three groups of generals have already come to the Yamen of the General Military Administration to persuade them today.

Huang Kaiguang knew that these people were eager to let go of themselves, so that they could scatter and escape, and in the future, when the court investigated it, they would unite to push themselves out.

But how can I do what they want?

"Bastard thing! As a military general of the Qing Dynasty, you received the emperor's favor, and you ate the court's money every year, and you didn't think about retribution, but persuaded the general to avoid it. Before the thieves arrived, they were afraid to this extent, which is really a shame for my Qiongzhou Town! Huang Kaiguang scolded: "I, Huang, have experienced a hundred battles, how can I be scared back by thieves?" And then there are gibberish, cut! ”

Everyone was helpless, knowing that the bull temper of the chief soldier had come up, and no matter how much persuasion was useless, they could only sigh secretly, and were about to go out, when suddenly several soldiers stumbled in, shouting: "Oh no, Lord Chief Soldier, it's not good!" The thieves in Guangzhou came over, and hundreds of large ships had already entered the estuary. ”

It's coming so fast! The Qing generals glanced at each other, all panicked.

"It's good to come! All the soldiers, go up to the city tower with the general, and be ready for battle! I want to see what kind of thief has three heads and six arms, and even the provincial capital of Guangzhou is occupied! Huang Kaiguang exchanged for his own soldiers, put on armor, was majestic, and led everyone straight to the barracks.

Huang Kaiguang said heroically, in fact, he didn't plan to go out of the city to fight with the thieves, if he was ready to defend the city.

Huang Kaiguang just led his own soldiers, with thousands of green battalion soldiers, to the city wall to prepare for the city defense. Lin Hongnian, the prefect of Qiongzhou, also led thousands of regiments to train and came to help in the war.

Not long after, Huang Kaiguang saw hundreds of boats pouring into the Nandu River outside the East City Gate.

For the first few ships, two evil dragons are carved on the side panels, which are fierce and abnormal, and they are clearly visible. After a closer look, he found that the boat was three feet high and more than ten zhang long, and Huang Kaiguang's face couldn't help but change greatly!

"Why is the battlefield of the thieves so huge? It's comparable to a city! Huang Kaiguang was shocked by the huge warship of the thieves, and the prefect Lin Hongnian beside him also changed his face and shouted in horror.

"Governor Lin, what are you afraid of! No matter how big this ship is, it can't come to Qiongzhou City, we just need to hold on to the city, the thieves can't attack the city, and after a long time, the thieves will naturally retreat without food. Huang Kaiguang pretended to be calm and said.

"Yes, yes, yes! That's what the chief soldier said! "There is a request for Huang Kaiguang to defend the city, Lin Hongnian can only laugh.

"Hey, what's that giant ship doing?" Huang Kaiguang pointed to the Nandu River, three or four miles away.

The prefect Lin Hongnian turned his head to look, only to see that the huge warship was facing the side of the city tower, and it seemed to open the cabin, and more than ten rows of black things stretched out.

Because it was a bit far away, Lin Hongnian didn't see it clearly at first, but the next moment, his face suddenly turned pale, and he exclaimed tremblingly: "Lord Commander, the thief's warship is a foreigner's warship, and the artillery on it can bombard three or four miles." Let the brothers in the city tower hide, the thieves are afraid that they will bombard the city with the artillery on the warship. ”

Huang Kaiguang refused to believe it: "Governor Lin, you're afraid you're scared and stupid and talking nonsense!" The distance is so far away, I'm afraid that there are 4 miles, how can the artillery shoot it? ”

Lin Hongnian couldn't care about being polite anymore: "Mr. Huang, you have been in the north for a long time, and you don't know the power of the foreigner warship. When he was ordered to serve as the envoy of the canonization of the king of the Ryukyus, he crossed the ocean and saw the great power of the artillery on the foreign warships, as well as the Opium War. It's not good, I'm afraid the thieves are about to open fire. ”

After Lin Hongnian finished speaking, he hurriedly drilled into the cave of hidden soldiers.

Only the sound of a boom was heard, and it exploded suddenly, and more than a dozen guns on the huge warship opened fire suddenly, and the shells violently hit the city walls and towers. The Qing soldiers defending the city were frightened by this powerful cannonball, and then they hid in the Tibetan cave.

Huang Kaiguang's face was almost sluggish, he didn't expect that this thief artillery could really shoot so far, as Governor Lin said, this is a foreigner's warship. However, how could this foreigner's warship be in the hands of thieves, is it ......?

Before I had time to think about it, there was another continuous cannon sound, this time there were more, it was already more than thirty shells, and they fell near the city tower at the same time.

Dozens of Qing soldiers on the towers and behind the battlements were hit by shells and thrown into the air with broken bricks and stones.

Huang Kaiguang shouted: "Artilleryman, call Lao Tzu back!" ”

However, two of the four cannons on the castle tower had already been blown up, and the remaining two, with the encouragement of several gunners, finally fired a shot, but they were deflected and landed in a vegetable field two miles away from the city wall. Even if it is not biased, it will not be able to hit a warship four miles away.

Next, Huang Kaiguang's heart sank directly to the bottom. With another round of fire from the surface warships, nearly fifty shells hit the area around the tower, and the remaining two guns, along with the gunners, were hit at the same time, and both men and iron guns were torn apart.

Soon, only a boom was heard, and the side of the Dongcheng Tower, facing the Nandu River, collapsed with a bang.

Huang Kaiguang hurriedly ordered Deputy General Wang to lead more than 500 soldiers to bravely defend the gap. Unexpectedly, two messengers came to report that a large number of ships had also docked on the beach north of the capital city of Qiongzhou, and thousands of thieves wearing red scarves were surrounding the city.

Just when Huang Kaiguang wanted to send some people to guard the north gate and the west gate, a personal soldier hurriedly came to report, saying that a famous guerrilla and two thousand generals led hundreds of soldiers to flee to the direction of Lingao.

Huang Kaiguang was furious and ordered all his soldiers to block the city gate and fight to the death with the thieves who were preparing to attack the city. He himself led his own soldiers and three hundred soldiers to the gap in the collapsed tower.

At this time, the east gate was suddenly opened, and Vice General Wang led 200 soldiers to rush out of the city gate, shouting: "I am willing to surrender, and I beg the heavenly soldiers not to kill!" It turned out that the deputy general of the king saw that the captive army was too powerful to match, so he thought of surrendering and seeking a way to survive.

The captives rushed into the east gate. (To be continued.) )