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"In recent years, he has developed Fujian thrivingly, and the financial resources are rolling, and it is just money, who would have thought that he secretly hid such a big ambition. He's not responding to Wu Sangui, he's trying to claim the throne himself! This king should have thought of it a long time ago, a few years ago, the imperial court had the intention of cutting the domain, how could Geng Jingzhong be unprepared if he had that condition? It's just that I didn't expect him to be able to prepare for this journey! Shang Kexi said with emotion. According to this king's expectations, the Geng family's army is far more than that, the army they sent out to attack our Guangdong is estimated to be only under his command, and he generally leaves enough troops to guard against Jiangxi in the west and Zhejiang in the north, not to mention that his appetite is big enough to march towards these two places! ”

"Ah, no, lord! How could the Geng family have such strength? They are only sharp artillery in front of them, and if they really fight, it doesn't necessarily mean that our sons will be inferior to them! Han Yucheng replied in surprise.

"Do you remember the news that has been circulating from overseas for more than a year? That's the one about Greater Luzon! Listening to the businessmen who ran to the South Seas, now Greater Luzon is already the territory of the Geng family, and now it seems that this rumor is eighty percent credible! Shang Kexi said faintly, with his intuition over the years, combined with the horsetail fleet in front of him, it can basically be confirmed that the rumor is not a lie.

"Ahh Han Yucheng opened his mouth wide in surprise at this time. "If that's the case, wouldn't it mean that the strength of the Geng family is not inferior to Wu Sangui? To take Greater Luzon, you must have at least 50,000 troops, and take Luzon without anyone else noticing. How much strength does this Geng family have to hide? ”

These are a few words. Shang Kexi's heart is also complicated. I don't know how to choose, whether to surrender to the Geng family to protect myself or continue to serve the Qing court and pay for the lives of hundreds of people in the Shang family! And while he was struggling, the time of two quarters of an hour had arrived, and the Mawei Army Artillery Battalion, which had stopped for two quarters of an hour, roared again, and a new group of Cantonese soldiers who had gone up to the city wall to change their defenses replaced the previous group that began to accept the destruction of artillery fire. However, this round of artillery is not as easy to suffer as the previous round, and this time the Mawei Army has already begun to dispatch flowering shells, and one by one flowering shells explode. Its lethality is far from being comparable to that of solid bullets.

At this moment, the use of flowering shells is on the side of the east gate, the south gate is still using solid iron bullets, the defenders on the east gate wall really listened to the rumbling roar before, and did not see the power of the artillery at all, but this time they tried it themselves. Whoever tried, the lucky one was to go directly to the king of Hades, and the miserable ones were the soldiers who were bombed but were still seriously injured and did not die, and the miserable howls resounded through the sky, almost overshadowing the deafening cannonballs.

Such a tragic scene also frightened many Pingnan Wang defenders. After only two rounds of shelling, there were not many people left on the wall of the east gate. In just three minutes, almost 300 people were killed, and no less than 500 fell and lost their combat effectiveness. Who let them stand so densely where a shell landed in the middle of the crowd, killing at least four or five people in the center and injuring seven or eight people on the periphery. The first round of artillery bombardment still hit many of them on the outer walls and before the city gates, and in the second round, most of them fell on the city walls, and the soldiers of the King of Pingnan with bows and arrows fell one after another.

After another shelling, more and more defenders of the king of Pingnan began to flee the city wall, and standing on the city wall could only end up being a dead end, and no one wanted to joke with their own lives. The shelling continued, and according to Zeng Yangxing's orders, this time it was to be full of twenty rounds.

"Boom! Rumble! After fifteen rounds of shelling, the vicinity of the South City Gate Tower could no longer withstand the bombardment of the cannons, and collapsed down two city walls, forming two huge gaps more than 20 meters long. Within a few minutes, such news also came from the east gate, although the east gate had only gone through this round of shelling, but the power of the flowering bullet and the solid iron bullet was different. The power of the gunpowder explosion was not yet visible to a single shell, but as soon as the number came up, the result was different, more than a thousand shells exploded at the east city gate, and the east city could not withstand such power, a large part of the city wall collapsed, and a large gap of 30 meters appeared in front of all the soldiers from the south of the east city gate.

"Look, the city wall has collapsed!" Han Yucheng saw the changes in the city wall, and immediately reported it to Shang Kexi.

"Well, I have long expected that Chaozhou City was taken in this way. However, there are not many defenders in Chaozhou City, and our chances of victory are still quite good, and the artillery of the Mawei Army cannot play a role in the city. It's time to mobilize your troops and keep a close look, and when the Mawei Army is about to reach the breach, the army will immediately fight and defeat the enemy. Shang Kexi still decided to take a gamble, betting that the Mawei Army would not be able to break his Guangzhou City, and now he will defend Guangzhou City first, and then look back to see whether it is better to take refuge in Wu Sangui or Geng Jingzhong. As for the imperial court, forget it, from the current point of view, the imperial court is more auspicious and less auspicious, and one Wu Sangui is almost there, but the two Wu Sangui are not inferior to the court compared to the victory or defeat.

This afternoon's artillery bombardment, thousands of shells were fired, hundreds of wooden boxes were emptied, and finally the city wall of Guangzhou City was smashed. But he didn't have such a hot head, and the previous bombardment of Guangzhou City, the two sides together killed more than 2,000 people and horses of King Pingnan, and there were still a considerable number of troops in the city, so they rushed into it rashly, and the result was quite bad.

But it's not a way to consume it like this, the current situation is that the defenders of Guangdong have also learned to be smart, no one is stupidly eating bombs on the battle knife city wall, only a few are far away on the top of the city wall to observe the movement of the Mawei army, if the Mawei army is close to the gap, they are ready to immediately rush out to kill the Mawei army.

Zeng Yangxing is also a big idea at this moment, not to rush into the city, but to advance slowly, using himself as bait to lure out the army of King Pingnan, no longer fighting in the city, but in the open space outside the city, which is more conducive to the battle of the Mawei army. It was not just the infantry battalions that were slowly advancing, but the two places where more than 3,000 soldiers each advanced steadily at the same time. The war horse that pulled the cannon did not pull it over again, all the general guns were left behind, and all the general guns followed by the advance, the caliber of the general cannon was smaller, and the mass was lighter, and a total of four soldiers in front of and behind each artillery truck pulled and pushed forward steadily.

"Rush!" The army of King Pingnan still did not hold back and took the lead in breaking out of the gap. In their opinion, the two were already only more than a hundred steps apart, less than a hundred meters apart, and a dozen breaths could rush in front of the Mawei Army. The one who launched the attack was also the elite of the army of King Pingnan, but he had never been on the city wall before, although the sound of the cannon shook people's ears, but the specific power of the artillery was not discovered. In fact, if they had seen the tragic situation on the city wall, they would probably not have rushed out so unafraid of death.

The army that rushed out at this moment was different from the ordinary army under the command of King Pingnan, they were not only equipped with a lot of bows and arrows, but also equipped with a large number of firearms, and the number of firecrackers was close to or even more than half of their strength. The musket used by this musketeer was not the bird gun used by the former Ming army, but the Western musket that his eldest son bought from the Portuguese at a great price, which was indeed much better than the bird gun in terms of power, and the firing range was also much farther, at least at a distance of fifty or sixty meters, and the lethality was very considerable. However, due to the limited number of Western muskets purchased, their musket team was also equipped with many old-fashioned shotguns and three-eyed guns.

Needless to say, the shotgun can only be fired once in almost two minutes, and although the three-eyed gun can fire three projectiles in a row at a time, and the projectile density is higher than that of a single-shot shotgun when firing together, the range of this thing is really pitiful, and the effective armor-piercing range is no more than thirty steps, that is, twenty meters, and it can only enter the Mawei Army to fight.

Although the range of the bird gun is much better than that of the three-eyed gun, it is not even as good as the Portuguese musket, and compared with the new flintlock rifling guns that the Matail Army is currently equipped with in large quantities, it has been thrown off eight streets in terms of range and power! As early as two years ago, the Mawei Army invented and adopted a butt design that can shoot against the shoulder, which greatly increased the hit rate of the Mawei soldiers again, which also made the horsetail army's firepower more powerful.

But the soldiers in the front row saw that the army of King Pingnan who rushed up from the opposite side was also a toddler in Handan, and they followed them to make it like this, it was really as funny as it was! Although the defenders of Guangdong are not copied from the Mawei Army, but in their appearance, they are indeed despised by the Mawei Army, and there is no formation of the musket team at all.

The Mawei Army could not just advance steadily, and the formation was maintained quite neatly.

"Shoot!"

Some of the Guangdong defenders who rushed forward had already begun to draw their bows and shoot arrows, and the Mawei army also gave the order to shoot.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

A series of gunshots rang out, and the new muskets of the Mawei Army were not comparable to the old-fashioned muskets on the other side. The guns on the Mawei Army's side were already fast, and the number of guns was large, and most of the nearly 500 Guangdong defenders who rushed in front immediately fell. But in the end, a large number of troops continued to pour out of the city, and after the Mawei army fired three shots, the number of troops rushing out had exceeded 3,000. (To be continued......)