Although the terrain on the first line of Maoerjing is flat, the second regiment still built some simple fortifications half a mile from the shore, and it is helpless to go so far from the shore, Liu Kongzhao's naval division warship has a lot of artillery, and the attack effect of solid shells is not good, but it is close, and the damage of shotguns to infantry is too powerful.

The riflemen and archers were behind the improvised fortifications, staring closely at the Qing soldiers who were jumping off the boat, and the Qing soldiers gathered together and rushed towards the shore.

The Qing soldiers were so dense that there was no need to aim at all, the riflemen took the lead in firing, and after a burst of explosions, the Qing soldiers fell in one piece, and there were dozens of people at a rough glance.

Ao Bai stood at the bow of the ship and looked at it, he was immediately surprised, he didn't expect that at such a distance, the muskets of the Yangzhou army could actually kill and injure the Qing warriors with three layers of armor.

But the Qing Dynasty "Baturu" Ao Bai is not in vain, if there is no strong battlefield command ability, only personal martial arts may not be so valued by the Emperor Taiji of the year, Dolgon will not let go of his personal prejudices against Ao Bai, and send him to lead the army thousands of miles away.

Ao Bai quickly adjusted the landing plan, and after all the ships of the Sailor Division had docked to the shore, Ao Bai ordered all the guns on the ships of the Sailor to start firing on the shore.

Liu Kongzhao's sailors were also very competitive in the absence of opponents, and soon swarms of solid lead bullets began to fly towards the defensive positions of the Second Regiment, causing dozens of casualties to the Second Regiment in an instant.

After the shelling, the Qing soldiers began to wade through the water from the wide front to the shore, the firepower of the second regiment was no longer enough to defend such a wide front, and after a while, thousands of Qing soldiers landed on the shore and besieged the defensive positions of the second regiment from both flanks.

At this point, the weakness of the garrison's lack of firearms training began to be revealed, and although the soldiers loaded as fast as they could, they were probably less than a third of the skilled gunners of the 1st Division.

In other words, the gunners of the first division fired three bullets, and the gunners of the garrison division could not fire even a single shot.

Although the role of firearms could not be fully utilized, the second regiment did not panic, and the infantry was already fighting with the Qing soldiers.

The soldiers formed a small hedgehog formation, surrounded by pikemen with swordsmen, and in the middle were musketeers or archers, fighting and retreating under the command of the regimental commander, although the casualties were not small, but the Qing soldiers did not please well, and the fallen Qing soldiers were not less than those of the garrison.

More and more Qing soldiers landed on the shore, and with the horses of the Qing soldiers coming ashore, the second regiment was already surrounded by Qing soldiers.

The casualties were getting heavier, and almost half of the men of the second regiment remained, but not a single one retreated.

A soldier of the second regiment was slashed in the shoulder by a Qing soldier, and slowly fell, but the fallen soldier took advantage of the situation to hug the legs of the Qing soldier, the Qing soldier hurriedly used the knife to slash down again, one knife, two knives, the leg that was held was never released, and another Yangzhou soldier stabbed the Qing soldier's chest with all his strength with the spear in his hand.

The Qing soldiers fell with a bang, and the soldiers who fell to the ground had a smile on their faces, tilted their heads, and never raised them again.

Ao Bai watched the battle on the shore from the bow of the ship, he was already stunned by the tenacity of the Yangzhou army, in his impression, no Ming army would be so capable of fighting, and so tenacious, he had an ominous premonition of this assault on Guazhou.

Ao Bai personally landed ashore and was about to order the cavalry to assault the hedgehog array of the second regiment with all his strength and annihilate the Yangzhou army in one fell swoop, when the reinforcements of the Yangzhou army finally arrived.

The reinforcements were the first and third regiments led by Wang Qiang.

Wang Qiang led a group from the Guazhou wharf all the way to the vicinity of the steel mill, met the waiting third regiment, and quickly rushed to the defensive position of the second regiment, and finally arrived at the most critical moment of the second regiment.

The exhausted regiment and the third regiment, which were not equipped with firearms, only rescued the remnants of the second regiment and could not stop the Qing cavalry from advancing, so Wang Qiang had to order a regiment of unskilled riflemen to cover the troops and retreat, slowly retreating to the vicinity of the steel mill, preparing to retreat into the steel mill and rely on the wall for defense.

The towering chimneys and huge furnaces of the steel mill attracted Aobai's attention, and he made this place his main target, and ordered the Qing army to start advancing towards the steel mill.

Wang Qiang led his troops to engage in another fierce battle with the Qing soldiers outside the steel mill. The results of more than a year of training of the garrison division were finally manifested, and the hedgehog formations composed of thousands of soldiers of the garrison division actually stopped more than 10,000 Qing cavalry and infantry troops from advancing an inch.

After Liu Lan organized the workers and their families to evacuate to Yangzhou overnight last night, Ren Minyu never let her go to Guazhou again, and Liu Lan had to stay in the house for one night.

The Red Lady and the female soldiers of the Art Troupe have arrived at the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to assist the guards in strengthening the defense of the Mansion.

Liu Lan circled around the courtyard, anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

Suddenly, Liu Lan's eyes saw the garage of the warrior car in the corner of the courtyard, Liu Lan's heart moved, went back to the house to get the key to the garage, and opened the garage door.

Then Liu Lan no longer had the good luck of last time, the warrior car that had been parked for more than a year, no matter what method Liu Lan used, she could no longer ignite the fire, she didn't know that Xiao Liu had sealed the warrior car, the battery had been removed, where was the fire?

Liu Lan slapped the steering wheel angrily, looked back at the car, and the box containing the on-board machine gun appeared in Liu Lan's eyes.

Liu Lan remembered that outside Tianchang County, Luo Jian and the others did not shoot many bullets, that is, there were at least more than 2,000 machine gun bullets.

Hurriedly called the guards to take the box down, opened the bullet box and saw that there were really more than 2,000 bullets there, Liu Lan was overjoyed.

The cartridge box was inconvenient to carry, so Liu Lan asked everyone to quickly put the bullets on the chain, and the remaining bullets were carried on the back of a guard with a package.

The weight of the machine gun is not too heavy, even the tripod is only more than 20 catties, and it is also put away and carried by a tall guard, Liu Lan went back to the house and carried her handbag, and led more than 100 guards and the red lady and others to ride out of the door.

Out of the mansion gate, Liu Lan was taken aback, there were countless people gathered outside the mansion gate, many of them were carrying knives, guns and sticks in their hands, and even some were holding hoes and sickles.

Seeing that Liu Lan led people out of the mansion, the crowd outside suddenly became noisy.

"Don't make a fuss, everyone! Let me speak to Madame. Zhang Laohan's eldest son shouted with a machete he got out of nowhere.

The crowd quickly quieted down, and the eldest son of the Zhang family walked up to Liu Lan and said, "Madam, the Qing soldiers are coming, and we are not afraid of death, you can take us to kill the Qing soldiers together, we can't let them destroy our home." ”

"Yes, we can't let the Qing soldiers destroy our home, madam, you can take us there!" Everyone raised all kinds of guys in their hands and shouted loudly.

Liu Lan, who was sitting on the horse, had moist eyes, and after thinking for a while, Liu Lan patted the horse and said to the crowd: "Let's go first, and you will catch up later!" ”

After Liu Lan finished speaking, she took the lead and ran towards the east gate, followed by countless people, including ordinary people, officials in Yangzhou City, and some large families' guards, and even Ruan Dacheng and Qian Qianyi, who ran to Yangzhou, also ordered their guards to follow.

The battle outside the steel mill became more and more intense, and although the garrison division was well-trained, the Qing soldiers who came this time were the most elite soldiers of the Qing soldiers who had been in battle for a long time, and the cavalry of the Qing army that posed the greatest threat to the garrison division.

Every time these galloping cavalry crossed the circle formation of the Yangzhou army, they always took the lives of several soldiers, and their cavalry shooting on the periphery caused greater damage to the Yangzhou army.

Shi Kefa, who was standing on the wall watching the battle, suddenly felt extremely nervous in his heart, and if he continued like this, the garrison would definitely not be able to withstand it for a long time and would be killed and wounded.

Wang Qiang also discovered this problem, although the Qing troops could not advance, the casualties of the garrison division were indeed too great.

Answered by the soldiers sent by Scofa, the garrison finally retreated into the compound of the steel mill.

Wang Qiang took a cursory look at it, and the more than 6,000 soldiers in the three regiments were probably less than 3,000, and Wang Qiang felt a pain in his heart.

Don't think about anything else, Wang Qiang, Shi Kefa and others hurriedly arranged the defense of the compound.

The tall walls of the steel mill finally relieved the garrison, and Wang Qiang gathered the riflemen, only to find that there were only more than a hundred rifles left that could be used.

In addition to the sacrificed riflemen, some rifles were used as clubs by soldiers who did not have time to reload, and they were basically deformed after two smashes, and of course could no longer be used.

The courtyard of the steel mill is very large, and thousands of people are not crowded in the courtyard, Wang Qiang gathered more than 100 riflemen to use them, Wang Qiang no longer expects the riflemen to give the Qing soldiers a lot of damage, they can fire a round of bullets is good.

Before the Qing soldiers surrounded the steel mill, Wang Qiang asked Shi Kefa to retreat to the back, but Shi Kefa refused.

"Xiao Wang, my Shi Kefa's life was saved by you, if you can't repel the Qing soldiers today, I will give you my life! You take people to evacuate to Yangzhou with Xiao Liu quickly, you can't die, and you shouldn't die, so let's fight for the last drop of blood for Yangzhou! ”

Except for Wang Qiang, no one else understood Shi Kefa's words, the soldiers all looked at Wang Qiang, they all knew that Wang Qiang was one of several "angels", and several soldiers said: "Division commander, you withdraw quickly, we will definitely not let the Qing soldiers rush over." ”

"Joke! When did I, Wang Qiang, become a deserter? Since the overseer is not leaving, let's nail the Qing soldiers to death in the steel mill together! I don't believe they have three heads and six arms! ”

Seeing that Wang Qiang was resolutely not leaving, Shi Kefa was helpless, so he had to carefully arrange the defense of the compound with Wang Qiang.

was busy, Liu Weimin and Chen Zilong both ran over.

As soon as Shi Kefa saw the two of them, his heart suddenly sank, and his face changed at that time.

"Didn't you two take the people away? Why are you still here? Shi Kefa shouted with a calm face.

He knows the importance of the two to Yangzhou, which cannot be exchanged for thousands of skilled workers, with them, Yangzhou still has a future, if they are also folded here, the road will be much more difficult in the future.

"Inspector, we let Song Lao take people away, you and Xiao Wang didn't leave, can we go? We've brought some treasures with us. ”

Liu Weimin said with a smile lightly, and asked the guard to gently put down a big burden from his back as he spoke.

"What is this?" Shi Kefa didn't get relaxed, and still asked with a calm face.

"Thunder! We worked overtime last night to get it, it's baby, right? Liu Weimin didn't care that Shi Kefa was already angry, and still said with a smile.

Wang Qiang opened the burden and saw that it was not a grenade style, but it looked like a wooden-handled grenade, and it looked like there were fifty or sixty of them.

"I have one here, but there aren't many bullets, just over a hundred, so you can save some of them."

Chen Zilong took out three cavalry rifles from his back, handed one to Wang Qiang and Liu Weimin, and held one for himself, he knew that no one was more familiar with this new type of rifle than the two of them.