Although Qing ships came to intercept them one after another, they were easily defeated by the Yangzhou Naval Division, and the Naval Division advanced all the way very smoothly.

On the morning of 20 September, the Yangzhou sailors stopped at Yangmiao outside Huai'an City, which was only three or four miles away from the Huai'an City Wall.

Wang Qiang led all the Minnie gunners of the special brigade to quickly get off the ship, set up a defensive line along the coast, and waited for the army to come ashore.

The 1st Division quickly disembarked and set up defensive positions, followed by the 2nd and 5th Divisions.

Zhun Ta did not come to intercept him, maybe he felt more comfortable guarding the fortified city.

Yan Yingyuan's artillery finally landed on the shore, and watching the artillery pieces carefully pulled ashore, Yan Yingyuan's heart was steady.

Yan Yingyuan was very satisfied with the solution of this problem, and now the firing speed of the artillery is much faster than before.

Yan Yingyuan led the artillery to the direction of the city wall for more than a mile, and according to the battle plan, the artillery position was arranged here, and in more than an hour, the artillery position was arranged.

At this time, the three divisions had advanced to a mile away from the Huai'an city wall.

Zhun Ta with more than a dozen generals stood behind the stomping of the city wall and carefully observed the Yangzhou army, seeing that the Yangzhou army was in an orderly manner, advancing forward one by one, the troops were marching extremely fast, but they were not chaotic at all, and they felt that the Yangzhou army was a little different from the Ming Dynasty army that he had seen before.

Luo Jian, Huang Degong and others were also carefully observing Huai'an City with binoculars at this time, the city wall of Huai'an City is not as tall as Yangzhou, and it is higher than the city wall of Xuyi.

Zhun Ta saw that the Yangzhou army did not have traditional siege equipment on the city wall, and felt very strange, what is the Yangzhou army going to do? Waiting for Huai'an City to open the gates and let them in?

Just when the tower was strange, the artillery position of the Yangzhou army raised a red flag, and just when the red flag landed, a cannon fired.

This artillery was personally adjusted by Yan Yingyuan, and he still hoped that the good fortune of Shouzhou City could continue to Huai'an.

This cannonball no longer had the luck of Shouzhou City, and the cannonball fell directly into the city, and after a loud bang, smoke rose not far from the city wall.

Yan Yingyuan personally adjusted again, and after a while, the second shell fired again, but this one fell outside the city wall.

Luo Jian, who had been observing with a telescope, remembered the saying he had learned before, "If you shoot far and near bullets, the difference between you will be cut in half, and the target will be finished", and now when you see Yan Yingyuan firing two long and near bullets, she feels as if Yan Yingyuan is shooting with the "pinching method", but he didn't tell Yan Yingyuan about this, whether it happened or intentionally, I have to ask him about this.

"Why is it so inaccurate?" Li Chengdong muttered beside him.

"Now we are using semi-direct-aim shooting, and it is only a god to shoot accurately, but now it is a normal situation, our kind of artillery is still very simple, and when the new artillery is successfully developed in the future, it will be able to hit more accurately." Luo Jian said with a smile.

"Governor, why don't you just aim at it? A few cannons have blasted its walls, so let's just rush in. Li Chengdong asked suspiciously.

"We use flowering shells, this kind of shells are mainly lethal to personnel, and the bombardment effect of this kind of strong city wall is not as good as the solid shell of the red-coated cannon. Luo Jian explained.

"Metropolitan Governor, what are you talking about, if the second division drags the back legs of the whole army, you cut off my hind legs." Li Chengdong was so anxious that he didn't choose what to say.

"Where's your hind legs? Take it out and show us? Liu Zhaoji laughed on the side, and Li Chengdong scratched his head embarrassedly.

Liu Zhaoji finished laughing, beckoned, and pushed a few strange-looking cars from behind the formation.

These siege vehicles were made according to Luo Jian's requirements, and they were actually small houses with movable steel plates, about one-third the size of the warrior vehicles.

After Yan Yingyuan's artillery fired a few more shots, sixty-two artillery pieces began to fire a salvo, and explosions suddenly broke out inside and outside the city wall opposite the Yangzhou army, and after a while, the entire city wall was shrouded in foggy smoke.

When the Yangzhou artillery began to test-fire, the tower was escorted by the soldiers and retreated to the city wall, and there were no standing soldiers on the city wall, and the Yangzhou army's shells still smashed towards the city wall as if they didn't want money.

The four strange cars had been pushed to the city wall by the soldiers of the 1st Division, and as the command flag continued to wave, the artillery stopped firing on the section of the road where the four cars were traveling, and soon the four cars were pushed to the foot of the city wall.

The artillery fire had already extended into the city, and there was not a single soldier on this section of the bombed city wall, and they had either run away or had been blown to the ground.

Dozens of sappers with shields and sapper shovels and pickaxes on their backs quickly ran towards the four carts, one of whom was carrying a box that was particularly well protected by the crowd, and the group quickly got under the four carts, removed the tools from their backs and began to dig up the walls.

Huang Degong, Liu Zhaoji and the others watched the movements of the four strange cars in amazement, and they couldn't understand what these people were trying to do. I'm afraid that these people won't be able to dig it up in ten days and half a month, and when a few people were wondering, Luo Jian gave an order.

"Order all divisions, after the city is broken, all divisions must move forward bravely, and if there are cowards and fearful fighters, they will be severely punished! Now everyone plugs their ears! ”

Wang Qiang's special brigade was ready to attack, all the Minnie guns had been loaded and ready to be fired, and the musketeers and archers of the first division followed closely behind.

Soon the four cars were pushed back with a long lead. Huang Degong and the others finally understood, the Metropolitan Governor was going to blow up the city wall, could this small box of gunpowder blow up the city wall?

The artillery had stopped firing, and the Qing soldiers hiding under the city wall poured towards the city wall, and Zhun Ta also led a group of generals to the city wall, which was directly above the place where the sappers had just worked.

The firebolts and bows on the walls began to shoot at the four strange cars, clanging on them, but they could not damage them in the slightest.

After running fifty paces away, all four cars stopped, the soldiers all squatted down to cover their ears, and one soldier took out the lighter handed by Luo Jian and lit the fuse.

Luo Jian stuffed his ears with cotton, and held the telescope with both hands to stare at the lead more than seventy meters long, and the fast-burning lead seemed to be frozen in Luo Jian's eyes, making Luo Jian feel that time passed so slowly.

Zhun Ta and other generals subconsciously squatted down, stretched out their heads from the side of the city and looked at them yearningly, wondering why these strange cars didn't move? Could it be that the Yangzhou army is going to open fire again?

Wang Qiang led the special brigade to the back of the four cars, raised the rifle in his hand and aimed at the city wall, his bullet was still given to him by Liu Zhaoji, only forty rounds, and now Wang Qiang only dared to adjust the rifle to the single-shot position.

Just when the lead was less than ten meters long, the lead under the city wall was finally found, and some soldiers shouted "They want to blow up the city wall!" The soldiers pulled the tower and ran under the city wall.

Before the tower could run out of the city wall, an earth-shattering loud bang was heard, and the city wall had collapsed.

"Yangzhou Army, attack!" Huang Degong shouted with all his strength, and rushed out first.

Zhun Ta and more than a dozen generals were not able to escape, and countless Qing soldiers were crushed and injured by the collapsed city wall.

Wang Qiang held his rifle and shouted "Forward!" "Take the lead and rush towards the gap in the wall.

Huang Degong was already running fast on horseback, and soon caught up with Wang Qiang's special brigade.

Wang Qiang and Minnie's gunners quickly rushed to the ruins of the city wall, shooting from the ruins to both sides of the wall, and soon the Qing soldiers on the city wall were wiped out.

The musketeers and archers who followed behind also quickly went up the walls, and a few hundred meters of the walls were occupied.

The infantry of the three divisions ran and rushed to this section of the city wall, and after a while, the west gate of Huai'an City was opened, and the cavalry of the three divisions quickly entered Huai'an City from the west gate, and while beating horses and galloping, they shouted loudly, "The Han army surrenders and does not kill!" ”。

The Qing soldiers in Huai'an City have been in chaos, the death of Zhun Tower and more than a dozen generals has left the Qing soldiers leaderless, the west gate is broken, and there are not many Qing soldiers in this direction to plug the gap.

Although the Qing soldiers in Huai'an City were numerous, they had no fighting spirit, and the three divisions advanced one by one under the cover of the Mini guns, and countless Qing soldiers surrendered on the roadside.

The defenders of the east gate, more than 20,000 people, had fled when the western wall was broken.

The first division did not stop in Huai'an City, and directly pursued the more than 20,000 Qing soldiers.

The second division encountered some resistance when it advanced to the south of the city, this was the wrapping slave of thousands of Qing soldiers, and it was the Han army that followed the Qing soldiers very early, and these people had already regarded themselves as Han Chinese.

The resistance of these people annoyed Li Chengdong, and he directly issued a "Kill them all!" ".

It took less than an hour for the Second Division to deal with these Qing soldiers, and the entire Huai'an City had been taken.

The first division pursued very quickly, and caught up with the fleeing Qing soldiers in less than two hours, but there were hundreds of white-armored soldiers and hundreds of Mongolian cavalry in the Qing soldiers, which made Liu Zhaoji feel a little tricky.

These cavalry did not abandon the Han infantry and fled on their own, these cavalry really wanted to run, and Liu Zhaoji would not be able to catch up with them no matter what.

Seeing that there was no way to escape, and seeing that the Yangzhou army was chasing only more than 10,000 people, the Qing soldiers turned around and greeted the Yangzhou army under the leadership of a Jia Lae Zhen (staff leader).

When Liu Zhaoji was about to order the first division to set up a position, Wang Qiang led the special brigade up.

Wang Qiang's special brigade was equipped with horses, but horses could not be used in the siege just now, so he attacked the city on foot.

After entering the city, Luo Jian asked him to lead the special team to cooperate with Liu Zhaoji to pursue the remnants of the enemy, and then rode on a horse to catch up.

The soldiers of the special brigade quickly dismounted, and soon lined up in three platoons about a hundred meters in front of the 1st division and were ready to shoot.

Seeing that the Yangzhou army did not have cavalry, the Qing soldiers did not use the usual way of attack, but used cavalry to directly charge the Yangzhou army.

The two armies were less than a mile apart, and after more than 300 Qing cavalry left the array, they began to accelerate directly, and the knights on the horse raised their sabers in their hands, shouting and screaming and rushing towards the first division.

"Raise your gun! Aim! With the orders of Wang Qiang and Wang Sicheng, the soldiers raised their mini guns and aimed at the charging Qing cavalry.

Liu Zhaoji had already ordered his troops to prepare for the onslaught of the cavalry, although he knew the power of the Minnie gun, but he had never seen it in actual combat, and he was very worried that Wang Qiang's special brigade would resist the onslaught of the Qing cavalry with only these people.

Liu Zhaoji had already walked to the back of the special brigade with the archers and musketeers, and took off the 95 rifle from his back.