Huang Sheng personally led the team to rescue the Zhongzuo Institute, leaving Huang Mingdao and Li Guozhu to stick to the port and not get off the warship to prevent Zheng Yiguan's fleet from moving nearby. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Huang Mingdao had already sent out all nine sentinel ships, and he was not very relieved, so he sent twelve more grass skimming ships to continue to create a shipless area.

He was worried that Zheng Yiguan's fleet would also follow the Huang family's attack steps, how uncomfortable it would be to be blocked in the harbor and beaten by others, and be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years.

Thirty chariots and ten troop carriers were ready to go, musketeers, grenadiers, and heavy infantry had landed in formation, and ten field guns had been assembled at the dock under the command of Gou'er.

After Zheng Yiguan defeated the Ming army and occupied the port of Xiamen, he immediately attacked the city of Xiamen, who knew that the defenders here had already prepared, not only the city gates were closed, but also the four city gates were blocked with stones.

Even if there is Zheng Yiguan in the center and left, there is nothing to be done, it is impossible to move those boulders away and secretly open the city gate without being discovered by the defenders.

Zheng Yiguan is a native of Fujian, he really used the internal response, but unfortunately he hurried to the Zhongzuo Institute did not as expected, the gate of the Zhongzuo Institute was wide open, and the pirates swarmed in.

No, Zheng Yiguan was worried that Xu Xinsu, the target of the hunt, had escaped, so he commanded his minions to quickly surround Xiamen City, and the scouts reported that they had seen Xu Xinsu and the Xu family members who organized a defense at the head of the city.

Zheng Yiguan saw that the main owner was still there, and he was relieved, seeing that it was not early, and he was too late to attack the city due to insufficient preparation today, so he would besiege him first.

He ordered the gunners and sailors in the port of Xiamen to bring in the artillery overnight, and prepare to hit the left post tomorrow.

In fact, the center left is not big, but it is less than three miles in circumference, and Xiamen Island is not large less than thirty miles in circumference, and the cities of the Ming Dynasty are rarely as close to the sea as the castle built by Huang Sheng.

On the contrary, the coastal city is also deliberately as far away from the sea as possible, so that the layout may be to leave strategic depth, so that the distance of landing on land when the Japanese invaders will be extended!

The pirates were able to attack the city after going ashore, and it took time to reach the location of the ships when they fled, giving the Ming army the opportunity to leave their heads behind.

The city wall of Xiamen is not only two feet high, about seven meters, because of the local materials, it is a stone city, and the firmness is not the same as the rammed earth city wall.

The distance from the port did increase the difficulty of the pirate attack, and if it was close to the port, it would be troublesome, and if the guns of the pirate warship could hit the city wall directly, the suddenness of the attack existed.

The pirate warships swarmed in, and the city did not have time to react, and a round of artillery fire could destroy the city gate near the sea, which shows that the Ming Dynasty was right to keep the city away from the sea.

On the premise that there is no escort of the interested sailors, it is indeed difficult to rely on the army to guard the coastal defense line.

The Huang family is not afraid, as the cast steel artillery continues to leave the factory, the artillery arranged in the fortress is greater than ordinary warships in terms of range and caliber, and it doesn't matter how many cannons the fortress takes, where can the warships afford it?

The next day, Zheng Yiguan's fifty six-pounder guns were deployed in place, but the artillery at the head of Xiamen City took the lead in firing, and the four six-pounder iron balls jumped wildly, and Zheng Yiguan lost more than a dozen of his men.

The artillery fire at the head of the city occupied the light of the condescending position, and Zheng Yiguan had the advantage of more artillery, and the siege battle was kicked off by the artillery battle.

This is Xu Xinsu's painstaking old nest, he has silver, and there are 300 ironclad family members under his command, 400 arquebusiers, and there is a thousand guards stationed in the center and left, and there are only more than 700 people who are not satisfied, plus more than 500 sailors and gunners who escaped from the loss of Xiamen Port, and there are about 2,000 defenders here.

It stands to reason that Zheng Yiguan has 7,000 people, and he shouldn't be able to fight the city, but this time it's different, you can't just count the head, this is a hot weapon war, and you have to calculate the firepower output.

Zheng Yiguan concentrated fifty artillery pieces to attack the gentle terrain of the West Gate, and soon killed the four six-pounder copper-core iron cannons that Xu Xinsu had placed at the head of the West Gate.

This was followed by a unilateral bombardment of Xiamen, and then Zheng Yiguan's pirates approached under the cover of artillery fire with ladders and shields to prepare for the siege of the city.

The city of Xiamen was resisting, the arquebus crackled, Zheng Yiguan's arquebusiers did not show weakness, they raised their guns to shoot back, the two sides fought for a morning and there were casualties among each other, this is already an offensive and defensive battle with a large number of hot weapons, and both sides are red-eyed.

It was also because the artillery here crackled and crackled into the arquebus, and the shelling of Xiamen Port, which was more than ten miles away, was covered, and Zheng Yiguan and his subordinates did not find the yellow finch behind.

Zheng Yiguan's men have already rushed to the west city wall that is already riddled with holes twice, the first time was when they were beaten in the face by Xu Xinsu's ironclad team.

The second time was that Xu Xinsu personally took more than 200 surviving arquebusiers to take a three-stage volley of guns and drove Zheng Yiguan's minions off the city wall.

Xu Xinsu saw the huge casualties and launched a city-wide mobilization, and even the prisoners in the prison were taken to the city, and everyone came to throw stones at the pirates.

The people in Xiamen City have helped to transport stones, fortunately, the buildings here are mainly made of stone, and the people are demolishing the houses closest to the West Gate, and the stones and giant trees are constantly sent to the city wall.

When it comes to the most difficult time to defend the city, it is the most primitive weapon is the most reliable, and a random common man can kill and injure the enemy by pushing down a boulder.

And the arquebus, due to the constant firing, began to explode, and instead of hitting the enemy, it wounded itself.

Due to Zheng Yiguan's artillery fire, which came every once in a while, the iron ball hit the stone and caused the stone to splash, and many of the defenders of the city were unable to defend themselves and suffered heavy casualties.

Zheng Yiguan knew the characteristics of artillery, he killed the artillery at the head of the city in the center and left, and then changed the fire, took three rounds of salvo, stopped for a moment to dissipate heat, and then came to three rounds of tactics, the effect was good, fifty artillery pieces roared at the same time, and the momentum was amazing, and the cries of the soldiers and civilians in Xiamen City were earth-shattering.

Zheng Yiguan's siege troops took advantage of the gap between the heat dissipation of the artillery to climb to the head of the city, and by noon, the battered Xiamen City was getting easier and easier to climb, and the confrontation at the head of the city was getting weaker and weaker.

Zheng Yiguan has won steadily! He prepared for the final round of artillery fire and after the whole army pressed down, and the general attack began.

The mobilization order has been issued, and after the city is broken, let everyone loot at will, and he Zheng Yiguan doesn't want anything else, as long as Xu Xinsu's head.

Xu Xinsu had done his best, he knew that it was impossible for Yu Zhigao, the chief military officer of Fujian, to send troops to rescue the Zhongzuo Institute, and this adult was hiding too far away in the first place for safety.

He looked at the battlefield strewn with corpses and wanted to cry without tears, and said to the scarred family members: "Zheng Yiguan's guy just wants to take the official's life, and the official is as he wishes." ”

After Xu Xinsu finished speaking, he was about to jump off the city wall to seek death, but his movements were not agile. Xu Xinhu, the head of the family, hugged the head of the family and yelled at the surviving family members and ordinary people around him:

"The pirates are ferocious, they are here to burn and loot, and now they have suffered a big loss under the city of Xiamen, and many people have died, once the city is broken, they will definitely retaliate frantically, Xiamen City will definitely not leave chickens and dogs, everyone cheers up and fights with the pirates."

These words had an effect, and the soldiers and civilians who had already been deflated began to pack their weapons again, carry stones, and prepare for a bloody battle to the end!

Xu Xinsu used Liu Bei's trivial trick of throwing children to arouse the hatred of the enemy, and he hurriedly continued to adjust the deployment, selecting one hundred and fifty arquebusiers and one hundred ironclad soldiers who were not injured.

Let Xu Xinhu, the head of his henchmen, lead them to retreat from the city wall to rest and avoid the casualties caused by the artillery fire, and when Zheng Yiguan's minions attack the city wall and fight with the defenders on the city wall, they will suddenly kill as a new force.

In order to prove his determination to live and die with the city of Zhongzuo, Xu Xinsu risked being directly killed by Zheng Yiguan's artillery fire and personally commanded the city with an arquebus.

After the rumbling cannon, the shouts of killing in Zheng Yiguan's position resounded in the sky, the sound of war drums was like urging life, and the pirates rushed in hoarse and shouting at trotting.