Tiger Gate.

Chen Shangchuan boarded four galleys and sailed up the Pearl River to reconnoiter the enemy's situation.

The Tatars urgently built a sandbag battery on the river, which was full of soldiers.

As the battleship drove by, the enemy began shelling, and the shells fell at a considerable distance from the central channel.

The Tatars probably lost too much heavy artillery, the guns mounted on the sandbag batteries were of small caliber, and the Pearl River was too wide for such shelling to be of much use other than fishing.

The reconnaissance fleet ignored it and continued its upward movement along the river.

Tatar soldiers jumped on the fortifications and shouted loudly into the river, and some took off their pants and urinated into the river.

There are two shoals on the Pearl River, which the current depth battleships cannot pass, and the main fleet is moored in front of the shoals, waiting for a suitable high tide.

Everything is buried in silence.

It wasn't until nearly midnight that a sentry in the bow of the Brenshire saw several sand boats coming down the river at low tide. The sentry blew the horn to warn the fleet.

The sand ship immediately set on fire, shrouded in smoke and fire almost simultaneously.

The Burrenhill hurriedly lifted anchor and denied the threat of the attacking ships.

Some of the water warriors swam towards the boat cable, perhaps they wanted to drill holes in the bottom of the boat. The sailors hurriedly gathered on the bow of the ship and fired downward by the light of the fire that attacked the ship.

The small boats in the avant-garde fleet hurried forward and pulled the fireboats. The longboat, which was on guard around the battleship, drove to the front and smashed a few water warriors with the hook of the small boat.

Far upstream, there is also a fleet of sand boats and clippers. It appears that more than a thousand soldiers launched this night fire attack, and the enemy's intention was to come down and attack the ship in the confusion. If the fire attack ships come into play, the fleet can be disorganized.

However, things did not turn out as the enemy had hoped, and the Brenshire's broadside guns fired at the enemy, and the enemy retreated.

Enemy batteries hidden in villages on both sides fired sporadically. The night was dark, it was difficult to identify the battery, and the battleship's return fire was not effective.

There were casualties aboard the Burrenshire, two side skews were severed, and other bits and pieces were lost. Due to the unfavorable wind direction and tides, some ships anchored near the shore could not turn and suffered some losses. Later, the bow of the ship was turned around, and it was out of range of the Tatars.

When the tide was high at night, the fire attack ship tried a second time, but it was also ineffective.

The fleet was escorted by many galleys, and these light warships met and pulled the fireships away.

As dawn broke, the battleships approached the makeshift enemy batteries exposed last night and destroyed the village and its artillery with overwhelming shelling.

The galleys went to attack the remaining enemy sailors, the enemy anchored in a river in the Pearl River, and the warships and fishing boats collected totaled nearly 200 ships, and the flag was the inland river division reinforced by Zhaoqing.

There is a water city near the anchorage, which is a traditional Chinese craft, with rafts and warships connected in parallel, and a wooden wall is built on it, and there are cannons, which is a floating battery.

Ten galleys and longboats with guns fired at the city with 40 guns, causing wood chips and the walls to crumble.

The marines landed on both flanks in small boats, and the troops burned nearly 50 sand boats and almost as many attack ships.

The rest of the boats untied their cables and flew into the complex channel that diverted on all sides to escape for their lives. Some of the boats hit the shore, and the soldiers of the Green Battalion immediately abandoned the boats, climbed in all directions, and soon disappeared into the delta.

Chen Shangchuan put down the binoculars, the corners of his mouth full of disdain, and there was almost no resistance worth mentioning.

Several captains, along with Marine Corps officers, boarded small boats and crossed the shallows to measure the depth of the water and find a suitable landing place for the troops.

The Tatars were armed with a number of fishing boats with bronze or iron furlong cannons outside the divisions. The reconnaissance detachment recaptured several sand boats and clippers in the course of their mission, which led to a tragedy.

The first mate of the Brenshire fired at the fleeing enemy with a Fran plane, presumably due to a problem with the locking mechanism, and the Franc plane blew up, and five officers and men were severely burned on the spot.

It was the last and heaviest single casualty incident in the battle before the shoal.

The tide was rough and the wind was light, and the fleeing enemy troops desperately rowed their oars upstream.

The fleet destroyed the enemy's temporary batteries and the last base of the naval division, taking advantage of the high tide during the day, and successfully crossed the shoals.

The fleet sailed to the Hunter battery, and the Tatars sent five more large rafts.

Although the raft did not harm the fleet, it caused a lot of harm to the surrounding people. The fire attack ship floated to the countryside in the wind and waves, burning the villages living near the water on the south bank of the Pearl River. The people quickly gathered and took fire extinguishers to extinguish the flames.

Despite their best efforts, the flames continued to rage for several hours, and the villages were not only farming, but also had warehouses for stockpiles, and the villagers would rent berths and warehouses to merchants, and the fire destroyed a lot of property.

The Hunter Fort is not a small trouble, and the enemy elite troops stationed at the Liede Fort are about the enemy.

Sailboats and galleys armed with artillery fought fiercely with the Hunter Battery.

The Tatars held on to their gun emplacements, braving the heavy fire of light warships, loading and firing.

Enemy rockets rained down on the boat, like fireworks at the festival, which was spectacular. These rockets are firearms handed down from the Ming army, which have almost no military role, and their entertainment value is far greater than their practical value.

The light guns of the galleys could hardly inflict a major blow on the enemy batteries, and the cruisers could not approach the reefs and shoals in front of the batteries due to the rapid receding of the tide. The Navy towed the avant-garde ship Bronhill with eight galleys, but the tidal force was too great to do so.

At this time, it was almost dusk, and the battery continued to fire, and the accuracy was getting higher and higher, and one shell actually injured 5 soldiers on the frigate Yuexiu, which was really rare.

Inland river operations were so troublesome, there was no way, and the fleet had to temporarily withdraw from the range of enemy batteries.

At night, the small boats were on guard around the fleet, and the towering figure of the city wall of Guangzhou was clearly visible in the distance, and in the northeast, the vanguard of the 2nd Division of the Army and the Tatars broke out in successive skirmishes.

After daybreak, taking advantage of the high tide again, the fleet towed the two cruisers Brenshire and Hyperion with galleys over the reefs and shoals, anchored directly in front of the enemy battery, and violently bombarded the Hunter battery with a platoon of guns.

The Marines were again dispatched, and 12 companies of soldiers landed on both flanks of the battery.

The enemy learned the lesson of Humen, and behind the batteries there were positions covered by temporary fortifications.

The Tatars' artillery fire was fierce, and by their standards, it was quite accurate, and it actually hit more than a dozen marines.

The only place where the soldiers could hide was in a gap between the battery and the barracks, where they were pinned down by enemy fire. The enemy concentrated in the entrenched barracks, and seemed to have the intention of going out of the camp to counterattack

The resistance of the Tatars this time appeared more dignified, until it was crushed by the fire of two cruisers.

The Marines took the opportunity to jump up, climb the ladder to the wall, and engage in hand-to-hand combat to completely drive the enemy away.

The newly landed army soldiers dragged howitzers to attack the enemy camp, and the soldiers lined up in a single line and marched along the fields, braving the heavy artillery fire from the barracks.

300 Eight Banners armed with swords, guns, swords, and shields rushed out of the camp in an attempt to snatch the army's howitzers, but were easily crushed by a volley of guns.

The remaining enemies, as usual, waved their flags out of range of their rifles, provoking the army forward, while enemy officers rode to and fro on ponies before the soldiers.

At the beginning of the battle, some of the Tatar officers left their horses behind and mingled with the soldiers, fleeing rather than fighting.

The army occupied the enemy camp, and the enemy, under the cover of a cavalry, retreated to the residential areas outside the city of Guangzhou. The army did not pursue and sent a detachment to the north to establish contact with the main forces of the 2nd Division.

At low tide, the ships Burrenshire and Hyperion ran aground, and the battleships Ling Wei and Croto ran aground on the beach.

The frigate approached the last battery outside the city of Guangzhou.

The two forts of Haizhu and Haiyin were built on the reef, each equipped with 40 cannons, including heavy artillery, which were almost two unsinkable battleships on the Pearl River.

Haizhu and Haiyinshi are isolated on the surface of the Pearl River, and the entire rocky island and reef are surrounded by a wall made of three-layer soil and rocks, and there are battleships outside the island that are difficult to cross the shoals and reefs.

Shou Xuan raised the binoculars and waited, and at night, a burst of battle fire broke out in the fort, which quickly subsided, and after dawn, the two batteries lowered their flags and changed flags.