[Thank you 'Lu Yifeng' 588 for the reward, thank you=]

"Damn, I didn't hit, and I missed the bullet again! Adjust the azimuth angle by 0°21 and the high and low angles by 0°20! …… Ready, put! ”

On the high lookout platform of the artillery position of the Fu Han Army, two miles outside Suzhou, the artillery observer waved the flag and accurately transmitted the information to the bottom. Huang Jingting scolded while waiting for the result of the next shot.

The secret camp in Suzhou City had already sent the city defense map of the Suzhou Qing army to Chen Ming, but Chen Ming really couldn't muster too many troops to attack Suzhou City, this place had a deep influence on the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the dozens of miles long fleet in the Wusong River used too many troops of the Fu Han Army to garrison, and the remaining troops had to draw out a part to explore Zhejiang.

In this way, Chen Ming could only fight back at Suzhou City with artillery.

On the one hand, the salvage work of Guajingkou is proceeding in an orderly manner; On the other side, the main artillery force of the Fu Han army was gathered outside the Changmen on the west side of Suzhou.

A ten-zhang high lookout was erected on the artillery position of the Fu Han Army, and the purpose was to accurately hit the shells in the area between the Changmen Gate and the Beitongzi Gate.

"Boom!"

Three cannons rang out, and three five-pound red iron bullets flew three miles away, accurately hitting the "target" - a courtyard, and black smoke rose into the air, and the observer on the lookout could clearly see the fireworks lit by the houses, as well as the panicked people.

The red-hot iron bullet has a very strong ability to ignite, and the dwellings in Suzhou are extremely narrow. There are few people here, the city residents are densely populated, although most of the dwellings are densely arranged along the waterway, the horizontal width is narrower, and the depth is longer, but the wisdom of the people is infinite, Suzhou people are the use of the tight construction area to form their own unique Suzhou residential style, the family must have a small courtyard - patio, abundant rainwater - eaves corridor, land cross-water traffic - arch bridge, for the expansion of narrow space - by the bridge, overhang, pillow flow, stilted building. But now, these many small buildings have become a source of disaster, because they are built with a lot of wood, so it can be said that as long as the shells do not hit the waterways in front of and behind the houses, it is not difficult to ignite the houses in Suzhou. Of course, in Suzhou, a place full of water, it is impossible to ignite the whole city.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

After the shooting of Zhu Yuan was set, the cannon roared loudly, and dozens of cannons of the main artillery team of the Fu Han Army burst out violently, only two or three cannons, and the southwest of Suzhou City was completely chaotic.

"Chen Ming'er, you don't want to die well......" Rong Bao's hysterical shouting and scolding came from the Humble Administrator's Garden in Suzhou, and he had a hundred reasons to believe that Chen Ming deliberately hit the southwest corner, and he did it on purpose.

Standing on the side, Soul's intuition hurt in his head, and he wanted to hand over the official seal immediately, and then hurry back to Beijing. The southwest corner of Suzhou City, not the entire southwest corner was bombed, and the area where the banner people lived was bombed, Chen Wei was definitely careful. Sould thought that he had forced the people to vacate their houses, and now that those bannermen were being shelled, this sin seemed to have become his own again. Sould felt that he was not human inside and out, and he really had enough feeling when he thought about how to clean up the mess after the shelling.

Do you want to vacate the most central place in Suzhou City for them? If you really do this, your reputation will be completely ruined.

"Your Excellency, Your Majesty......"

"Sir, what's wrong with you......"

"Doctor ...... Quick"

"Send the old man back to the house......

Rong Bao looked at Suerde, who had half of his breath closed, and was dragged out of the hall by his cronies and long-term followers, who were "unconscious" and "unknown", and he didn't say anything twice, he was so shocked that he was dumbfounded.

"Sir, is it appropriate for you to do this, ......? Doesn't this offend the general to death? ”

"So what? Could it be that the old man will work with him Rongbao for the second time? Go and tell the people outside that the old man is sick, very sick. I can't be a director, and I should leave everything to the general. ”

When Chen Ming asked the artillery to bombard the bannermen, he didn't expect that it could inspire such an effect, he was purely to block and make trouble for the Manchus. When the secret camp in Suzhou City spread the news to the camp of the Fu Han Army, Chen Ming smiled after seeing it.

It's a pity that the Qing soldiers from Hangzhou are about to arrive, and Huang Jie is in a hurry, the Qing army suddenly has a Eight Banners horse team to the south, cutting off the water transportation channel between Gaoyou Prefecture and Yangzhou, and at the same time the Qing army's offensive against Taixing and Taizhou has become urgent, and the third brigade must have reinforcements to keep the existing frame in Jiangbei. Chen Ming is now going back to Nanjing, otherwise there will be no worries - the surface fleet is about to enter Taihu Lake, and after the defeat of the Qing army in the first battle of Guajingkou, his Taihu Lake sailors have fled. The army of the Fu Han army attacked Suzhou, and it was defeated.

……

On the north bank of the Yangtze River, the east gate of Taizhou City - Jiangyan Town.

For example, the reason why this Jiangyan town got its name is because during the Northern Song Dynasty eight or nine hundred years ago, the salt merchant Jiang Renhui and Jiang Ge father and son led the crowd to gather funds to build a weir to fight floods, and the homeland was governed for a long time, and the meritorious work was eternal, and Jiangyan got its name from this.

This is the gateway of the Fu Han army to protect Taizhou City, but the strength of the third brigade is limited, and more than half of the army is now in Gaoyou Prefecture, Huang Jie has arranged a new barracks in Taizhou, although the geographical location of Jiangyan Town is very important, the Fu Han army guarding here is only one team.

"Damn! This is a heavy artillery, a heavy artillery of twelve pounds! An officer on the front line looked at the cannon that the soldier hugged to him and shouted with a dark face, not to mention his fortifications in Jiangyan Town, such a heavy artillery could not withstand even the stronger Taizhou City. And the sound of artillery outside is very dense, definitely not two or three cannons.

"Dog days, where did this Tartar get so many cannons?"

On the battlefield, distinguishing the caliber and quantity of enemy artillery by the sound of artillery shells is the basic skill of a qualified soldier! The officer is also a veteran, and the cannons of the Qing soldiers outside are not only numerous, but also have a different sound than usual. Compared to the sound of the general's cannon he had heard in the past, it was crisper and brighter.

And as if to prove what he said, before the words fell, there was a whistling sound in the sky, and the team officer's face was as gray as gray, and he shouted loudly: "Let the second platoon retreat, retreat!" ”

There were at least ten artillery pieces of the Qing army, and such artillery bombarded the offensive outside the town, and the second platoon would not be able to retreat if it did not retreat quickly. Because any experienced soldier knows that the two rounds of shelling just now must have been the opponent's proofreading fire, and the beginning of this third round of shelling is the official bombardment. And in the process of shelling, the enemy will definitely continue to correct the trajectory, and when the fourth and fifth rounds of firing come, this position will become a real hell on earth.

If you don't withdraw, the second platoon may really be fully reimbursed on the position.

Although the second row also has two tiger squat guns in their hands.

The Great Tent of the Qing Army.

A general dressed in eight banners cotton armor sat in the center, and on his left and right was Wang Pu, the deputy general of the Wendeng battalion in Shandong, who was originally a general of Fubiao in Shandong, and after Zhang Dajing, the deputy general of the Wendeng battalion, was transferred to the general of Nanyang Town, he was the deputy general of the Wendeng battalion.

Opposite Wang Pu is Yonggui, the deputy general of the Huai'an City Garrison, who attacked Tai'an this time, and Yonggui brought a thousand soldiers from Huai'an who dared to fight.

The person who was offered in the middle by Wang Pu and Yonggui was Cai Yi, the deputy commander of the firearms battalion out of Beijing, this person is Cai Yurong's great-grandson, and one of the heroes of the Han Army's Eight Banners who made great contributions to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, although this guy was finally sentenced to the Ministry of Punishment by Kang Mazi for the crime of conniving against the party because he accepted Wu Sangui's granddaughter as a concubine. Kang Mazi was carried into the Han Eight Banner in a few years in the thirty-eighth year, so Cai Yi was able to be the deputy commander of the firearms battalion.

Opposite the three Manchu generals was a Westerner with brown-red hair and a thick beard on his chin, but this Westerner was fluent in Cantonese Mandarin, which made it easy for the four of them to communicate with each other.

The battle report from the front made Cai Yi and the others very happy, and Perez also smiled proudly. The 12 16-pounder guns transported from Macao did not disappoint the hopes of both the Qing and Portuguese sides. This could be a good start for the future bilateral arms trade.

Of the defensive positions of the Fu Han army, three of the four civil forts were swept away, and only one of the remaining ones was half destroyed. The fortifications of the civil structure could not withstand the shells of the sixteen-pounder guns. Before the order for the officers to withdraw reached the front line, every shell exploded like a hammer on the nerves of the defenders.

It was clear to everyone what awaited them after the complete destruction and suppression of the fortifications and artillery on the surface. The Qing army, supported by superior firepower, could completely use the sea of people to annihilate all the efforts of the defenders of Jiangyan Town.

Fernández was a Portuguese artillery second lieutenant who had followed Perez, and when the defending positions outside Jiangyan Town were shattered by shells, he watched a group of Qing soldiers shouting and rushing towards the town ahead, running and approaching quickly. Fernández believed that there would be no more resistance ahead, that the rebels' firepower was so poor that they were completely suppressed by their artillery, and that the Qing soldiers could take the towns in front of them with marchers.

Fernández pulled out a pack of paper cigarettes from his waist, which was given to him by an officer of the Qing army's artillery corps. Of course, Fernandez knew that the note was wrapped in tobacco leaves, but he never thought that tobacco could be smoked like this, he thought it was a genius idea, and his pipe seemed to be ready to retire.

Fernandez was very interested in this kind of paper cigarette, but unfortunately, this kind of paper cigarette was rare even in the Qing army.

They could only find some sporadic from the soldiers killed in the battle of the Fu Han Army, and the whole pack of paper cigarettes in Fernandez's hand was very rare.

On the battlefield, especially in the artillery position, it was too convenient to light a paper cigarette, and Fernandez was also very knowledgeable to go to the front of the position to smoke, and the province inadvertently ignited the powder keg. But before he could reach his destination, he heard a dense and violent explosion in front of him. In a moment, the running Qing soldiers fell to the ground crookedly. The team of hundreds of men seemed to be on the way to attack in an instant, which made Fernandez's jaw drop.

"Shoot! Facing the town of Jiangyan in front, keep shooting—" The roar of a Qing officer rang out from the rear artillery team, and Fernandez understood Chinese Mandarin, although he was more familiar with Cantonese because he was a native of Macau. In the twenty-three years of his life, he has come into contact with too many Chinese.

"The Chinese are very tenacious. Whether it is the combat effectiveness of the rebels or the Qing soldiers, they are much stronger than I imagined before. They are brave! ”

"Captain Blanco? Do you think so too? Yes, you're right. The Chinese fought very stubbornly. If they had been armed with flintlock pistols, and not the ridiculous arquebus, and with a certain amount of training, I believe they would have been as strong as the European armies of the first rank. ”

"They don't need to be as strong as the first-class European armies, they just need to have the combat power of the second-rate European armies, and with their population and wealth, they can sweep the whole world like the Tatars of five hundred years ago."

Blanco took a paper cigarette from Fernandez and lit it with Fernandez: "Mint flavored, very good, I like mint." ”

"Mr. Captain, the rebels here are only the weakest fighting forces in the ranks of the Chinese rebels. Their main force was attacking the richest lands of China on the south side of the Yangtze River. ”

"Yes, I've heard that too. Moreover, this rebel army in China is known for its sharp guns, but now the rebels in front of us only have the poor grenades, and the even more pitiful Chinese arquebuses. May God bless them for having evacuated the town ahead, or they will be destroyed with that town. ”

Portugal is now in the midst of the most famous Pombal Reformation period, when the Marquis of Pombal turned the Inquisition into an instrument of his bidding. The aristocracy, the plebeians, and the clergy were cleaned up one by one, and then the Portuguese economy was saved from the brink of collapse after the Lisbon earthquake in 1755.

Why did the Portuguese in Macao dare to engage in a series of arms trades with the Manchus so easily? At the beginning, the missionaries and True God believers who had gone south from Xiangyang had arrived in Macao and told the Jesuit missionaries about the heavy blow of the "rebellion" to the Qing government, and the missionaries who were released by the Fu Han army in Nanjing also brought back the meaning of the Fu Han army, but the Portuguese still simply chose the Manchus, because the Manchus could immediately start a series of arms trade with them, as long as the Portuguese could come up with enough cannons and muskets. This was also the influence of the mercantilism that prevailed in Portugal during this period.

The Qing government still had a strong military and a huge amount of wealth, and the easy and fast trade allowed the Portuguese to earn lovely silver in no time. As for whether the Portuguese sending officers to guide the artillery of the Qing army will reveal the military level and skills of the West, hehehe, the Portuguese have no awareness of this at all.

Their first consideration is their own interests, then the interests of Macau, then the interests of Portugal, and finally the interests of Europa as a whole.

Military leaks or something? Hehe, you really think too much, the Portuguese don't think about this. (To be continued.) )