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In fact, the most unlucky thing is not the infantry soldiers of King Pingnan who rushed forward quickly, but the small number of generals and elite cavalry on horseback, they are a very small number of people in King Pingnan's army, it can be said that everyone's combat quality must not be said, otherwise they will not be selected to become cavalry. Guangdong, like Fujian, has no regular cavalry, and the fifty cavalry that rushed out first can already be regarded as the treasure of the Pingnan Wang's army!

The goal of the horses is much larger than that of people, and the cavalry who are rushing forward see that the horsetail army is in front of them, and their saber is about to cut through the enemy's neck, but there is a dense thud like a firecracker in their ears, and then they feel a numbness in their chest, and then the strength in their bodies is as if they have been withdrawn, and the knife in their hands cannot be lifted, and they fall off the horse. More often than not, the horses chirped in ash and then crashed to the ground with a thud and threw the cavalry on their backs far away.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

The rifle continued to spit out tongues of fire, making a sound like popping beans, and at this time in the center of the infantry battalion of the first division, the soldiers of the artillery division were not idle, and the three battalions of a total of 90 six-pound and eight-pound general guns were all fired grapeshot, and for a while, the bullets were as dense as hail and raindrops, and they shot towards the army of King Pingnan, and in the military formation that rushed up, there were immediately rows of soldiers who fell to the ground and died. Although there were also quite a few musketeers and archers who fired arrows at the horsetail soldiers, their bows and arrows had to be at least fifty or sixty paces away to be effective, so they were shot from such a distance. Not a few of them made it to the Mawei Army's formation. As for their muskets. Instead, a small number of Portuguese muskets fired buckshot that hit more than two dozen fighters. Everything else has been wasted so far.

Shang Kexi's army also followed the tradition of the Manchu Eight Banners, and the army was also divided into red armor soldiers and white armor soldiers, so such valuable things as armor were used by warriors, and ordinary soldiers were wearing ordinary thin armor, and only a small number of warriors were eligible to wear more than two layers of armor, and the white armor soldiers were even more gasping for three layers of armor. Soldiers in such armor. Generally at a distance of 80 paces away, it has a fairly good protective effect against bullet shooting. Even if the horsetail soldiers were holding new front-loading rifled guns, they could not effectively penetrate these armors without coming within sixty paces.

The musket volleys of the Mawei Army have always been unfired, and once they start, they must be continuous, and there is no gap at all. If you want to die the old muskets before, you still need to be given a three-stage shot formation or something, but now you don't need it at all, depending on the situation, you can do it in one or two rows. As long as it doesn't block the view of others. After such a long time of training, so many gunpowder bullets were fired. Even the average musketeer in the Mawei Army could fire four times in a minute, and basically five shots in a minute

The pace of the soldiers of Pingnan Wang did not stop, braving the rain of bullets, stepping over the corpses killed by guns, and still approaching the formation of the Mawei Army with difficulty.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

The sound of the general's cannon continued to sound, and the lethal effect of the grapeshot at the moment was even more terrifying than the musket in the hands of the marines. Every round of artillery sounded, accompanied by a dense crowd of nearly 10,000 bullets falling on the heads of the soldiers of Pingnan Wang. Not to mention those ordinary soldiers, even the shield soldiers holding shields in the Guangzhou army, they could not withstand the attack of cannonballs in the sky.

Obviously, the command of King Pingnan had not yet seen the power of the new muskets and artillery in the army, and rushed out with a loud roar, but they did not expect that this was basically a massacre. On the side of the south city gate, in just a few minutes, at least a thousand soldiers of the defenders of Guangzhou fell, and if they fell at this time, it meant that they would never have a chance to stand up again. The south gate is smooth, but the east gate is not so optimistic.

The defenders of Guangzhou who rushed out were indeed hit a lot, but because the first batch of people rushed out here was not very many, the total number was less than 2,000 people, and after paying more than half of the casualties, they immediately retreated back to the city, although they lost hundreds of people again in the process of retreating, but after all, they fled back. Just as the Mawei army continued to approach the city wall, the entire queue had approached the gap in the city wall less than 100 meters, and the quadrangular batteries on Yuexiu Mountain let out an angry roar, and five of the thirty cannonballs accurately smashed into the Mawei army's queue. The power of the five cannonballs was quite huge, and the solid iron bullets continued to bounce forward a few times after they landed, causing damage to the surrounding fighters again.

"Rush!" Jiang Dejun, who was commanding Fuzhou at the east gate, shouted loudly with red eyes, the shelling just now had brought a lot of pressure to the Mawei Army, and at the same time he was saddened by the losses of his army. In just one round, there were more than 60 casualties in the Mawei Army, and if there were two more rounds, the total casualties of his subordinates would have become the most severely damaged troops in battle. It was necessary to rush to the gap in the wall as quickly as possible, so as to avoid further bombardment by these artillery fires.

Just now, he ordered the artillery to open fire at a distance of 500 meters from the city gate, and the enemy's artillery did not fire at that time, indicating that the effective range of their artillery was limited, and they were unwilling to fire in advance to expose their targets.

"Raise troops for a thousand days, rush into the city, and kill all the enemy troops! Come on! Jiang Dejun took the lead himself, grabbed a gun and ran to the front. The gap is large enough, even a dozen horse-drawn carriages driving side by side, and this gap can also be accommodated.

Sure enough, when Shang Kexi ordered the second round of artillery shells on Yuexiu Mountain, the Mawei army began to approach the city one after another, and their figures were completely blocked by the city wall. The number of soldiers in the Mawei army attacking the east gate was also quite large, but in this short period of time, he lost sixty or seventy people again, which was also greatly unexpected by Jiang Dejun.

At the gap in the city wall, the Guangdong defenders were indeed ambushed at the gate of the city as expected, ready to counterattack as soon as the Mawei army entered. Jiang Dejun, who had already expected them to do this, immediately divided five six-pounder guns, loaded them with grape shells and began to bombard behind the gap. The six-pounder cannon was small in size, easy to transport, and very simple to operate, and the soldiers withdrew the six-pounder cannon after nine shots in a row.

Although only five six-pounder guns were used, forty-five guns were fired in a row, and a large number of grape shells were fired, centered on the gap in the city wall, and the killing effect within a hundred meters of the city was amazing. This is not much different from the previous situation of rushing out of the city, in a short period of time, the defenders of Guangzhou died again, and the morale of the soldiers was destroyed by artillery fire!

"Rush!" More than 3,000 horse-tailed soldiers did not stop at this moment, rushed into the city, and immediately separated and chased the streets. At this moment, the Mawei Army began to sweep the streets around the East City Gate in groups of various squadrons, and whenever they encountered the defenders of Guangzhou, they immediately opened fire. Of course, if they take the initiative to kneel and raise their hands in surrender, then it is a different matter.

The number of Guangzhou defenders at the east gate was originally quite large, but now except for those with fast legs and feet, most of them immediately discarded their weapons and surrendered the moment they saw the Mawei army catching up. There are also many who are unwilling to surrender, but the muskets of the Mawei Army are really powerful, and they can still accurately shoot deserters when they shoot from such a distance. This makes them even more afraid to move. The 5,000 defenders of the East City Gate, counting when the Mawei Army shelled the city tower, were wiped out more than 1,000 people on the city tower, which refers to the total number of casualties, and the seriously injured are also among them.

Just now they broke out of the gap in the city wall, and were wiped out again by the muskets of the soldiers of the Mawei Army and the grapeshot bullets of the general's cannon, and now, in this gap, another six or seven hundred were killed, and in just these three rounds, half of the five thousand people were removed. At this moment, the Mawei army that rushed in completely exceeded 2,000 people, and there was no morale on their own side, but the enemy's morale was so strong that it could not be increased. In this case, if you lead your subordinates to fight against the Mawei Army, it will really be your own brain.

At this moment, at the south gate, the situation here is still different from the east gate, and the defenders here seem to be crazy, and they are completely desperate to rush towards the array of the Mawei army. However, so far it has not broken through to the 30-meter range of the Mawei Army array, and at least 3,000 Guangzhou defenders have fallen at the distance of 100 meters between this short gap in the city wall and the Mawei Army array. If Geng Jingzhong were here again in this scene, he would have sighed why the Western invaders in later generations slaughtered tens of thousands of Boxers with only more than a thousand musketeers.

In the current situation, in the process of continuous charge, there are all the corpses of their own soldiers under their feet, and a large number of seriously wounded soldiers are wailing, and the defender horses behind are so difficult that they will no longer rush forward, and no one will really take their lives seriously. They had never seen such a scene before, but now they knew that the Mawei army on the opposite side was simply a group of devils, and their defense line could not be broken through at all, and no matter how many troops they piled up, there would be no other results. The sound of cannons was still ringing, and grapeshot was still falling like raindrops, but the number of defenders in front of them was getting smaller and smaller, and the defenders who had just rushed out saw the scene in front of them and immediately shrank back. (To be continued......)