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After looking at the Qing ships and rafts marching on the south bank of the Qujiang River to avoid the artillery fire on the north bank for a while, Zhao Baozhen, who was standing on the improvised Huilongshan fort, ordered the deputy sentry officer of the division's artillery post beside him: "Start shooting." (The text was first published in the Cabinet biquge.info)"

The deputy sentry bowed his head slightly, and the artillery team leader standing behind him shouted loudly: "All squads are here, first hit the ship and then the ship!" ”

The rumbling cannon rang out, and the three divisions, which belonged to a reseat of a three-and-a-half-inch (12-pounder) gun, immediately fired eleven-pound projectiles into the river. Since it was not a rifled cannon, the round shells tumbled in the air, falling spontaneously without the will of the firing man, and then stirring up a column of water on the surface of the river.

Although the first shelling of the Zheng army on the south bank was completely lost, the waves stirred up by the huge kinetic energy of the projectile still overturned a raft of the Qing army. The Qing army who fell into the water shouted loudly for help on the water, but no one cared about saving them in the panic, so that many people were swept down by the river and became unjust souls under the water.

However, compared with this insignificant loss, it is worth mentioning that the formation of the Qing army boat regiment was chaotic as a result, many ships and rafts subconsciously drifted to the north bank, and were immediately dispersed by the more fierce artillery fire on the north bank, while others were washed by the river to the downstream departure position, and only a few still bravely went up, trying to get out of the shelling range in the direction of Huilongshan.

Thanks to the good mobility of the field guns used by the Zheng army and the rigorous training of the Zheng officers and soldiers, the three guns that had completed the fire were reloaded and quickly reset in just 40 breaths. Subsequently, Zheng Jun's gunners fired again, and three more projectiles fell on the surface of the river, but unfortunately only three water columns were splashed.

The deputy sentry officer who couldn't hang up on his face glanced at the team leader, and then walked to the gun position himself, and the team leader who had learned the same way also stood in front of a cannon with grinning teeth and fired three times after they personally calibrated the artillery, one of which fell on a Qing army troop transport ship with divine help, and suddenly the oars were broken, several stumps and broken arms were thrown into the air, and at the same time, the inland wooden boat that could not withstand the impact of the cannonball slowly began to sink; As for the other, although it did not hit the target directly, it can also be called a close miss, which also caused a raft to flip under the impact of a huge wave.

Seeing the tragic situation of their own side, even the most courageous Qing army panicked, and did not dare to go up lightly, but fled downstream with the current, and in the rush to escape, a Qing army's troop transport wooden boat even knocked over a raft of its own. Seeing the ugly state of the Qing army, Zhao Baozhen did not think it was proud, but urged the cannon to fire quickly, and the Zheng army shot two rounds quickly, although there was no gain, but it made the Qing army speed up the escape

Watching the Qing army's fleet disappear from his sight, Zhao Baozhen called the white soldiers who were watching the battle with their fists clenched: "At the latest, the Qing captives will attack the Longshan fort at the latest, and it is at this moment to avenge the ruler, now I order you to eat and sleep well immediately, and then you can only go to Huangquan Road if you want to rest."

"My lord, look at Jiangnan." The two Green Flag soldiers who were distributed on the front line of Sandu Village, Nanshui River, were enjoying the early spring sun, but the black smoke in the sky quickly disturbed their Yaxing, and the two who didn't know what was going on quickly found the foreman's foreign commissioner, Mr. Qian. "It's Su Gongzhai, why is it on fire?"

The two Qing soldiers were talking to themselves, but they heard a sound of chattering teeth, they looked at their commander for some reason, but saw the chief with a pale face running towards the entrance of the village quickly, and even tripped and fell on his horse without noticing the lump. The two kindly helped the adult up, but they were pushed away, and the two who thought that the horse's fart had slapped the horse's leg had to spit at the back of the foreign commissioner.

In Sandu Village, Jiatangling, and Bianshiji, the Qing troops in Hebei Province who saw the fire in Sugongzhai all over the country reported to Sang'e's base camp one after another, and the alert troops at the confluence of the rivers at the upper high dam, lower high dam, upper low dam, lower low dam, Mengzhou Dam and Bajiaokeng were even more frightened to report that the gunboats of the Zheng army appeared at the mouth of the Nanshui River.

The news like snowflakes reached Sang'e's military tent, and Sang'e, who was receiving the report of the failure of the fleet's upward movement, immediately found that he was in a deep crisis, and he didn't care about sending troops to attack Zhao Baozhen's department, and immediately transferred all the troops back to the front line of the Nanshui River, but although Sang'e reacted quickly, the Zheng army had already gained a foothold in Henan, and the Qing army only sighed at the river.

On the one hand, he sent a liaison force to cross the Furong Mountain to contact the Qing army on the northern front, and on the other hand, he sent troops to try to cross the river. However, the former could not get an immediate answer for a while, and as for the latter, the dense artillery at the Zheng army division and regimental levels made the Qing army dare not cross the thunder pool slightly. The Zheng army also tried to force the Nanshui River, but the Qing army also blocked the river with Hongyi cannons, and the Zheng army did not want to lose too many troops, so the two sides confronted each other across the river.

He Qian's idea was naturally to starve the Qing army to death, but how could Sang Er be willing to be a starving man, so under the urging of several envoys of Sang E, the Qing army on the northern front reluctantly marched to the west bank of the Beijiang River, for which the Qing army also took great pains to cross the Wujiang River from Yuxian Bridge, and then entered the west bank of the Zhenjiang River from the Taiping Bridge, and then advanced the whole army to the south.

On the third day of the first month of March, the Qing army on the North Road arrived at Baishan through Hechong, Changle, Yazikeng, Gaokeng, and Gaotou.

There are only two divisions of Zheng Jun Yingde and Conghua on the Baishan line, all of which are newly formed troops after Zheng Jun entered Guangdong, and their combat effectiveness is not reliable, and the only thing that can be relied on is the remaining four sentry posts and one artillery post of the third regiment of the Zuo Yiwei Division and the escort team of the deputy chief army office of about 1,200 people, which is really not enough to fight hard with the Qing army, but fortunately, a considerable part of the official road connecting the north and south is the valley road sandwiched in the Baishan Mountain, so the Zheng army can also take advantage of the geographical advantage to resist.

On the fourth and fifth days of the first month of March, after two days of fierce attack, the Qing army on the northern front successively captured seven small blockhouses with 50 Zheng troops, and opened the passage to attack Shaoguan Mansion. However, the progress of the Qing army on the northern front could not relieve the Qing army on the southern front, which was already waiting to be fed, and the Zheng army still held Zhangwuling and Huilongshan, cutting off the most convenient communication channel between the two Qing armies, and even if the Qing army conquered the strong Qujiang City, it still had to bypass the Longtou Village line, and it might not be able to break through the blockade of the Zheng army on the river.

As a last resort, the Qing army on the northern front led the army to retreat at a distance that could already see Qujiang City, and then blocked the Baigu Valley Road, and the main force crossed the Beijiang River again from the Shazhou line, captured Baimang and Dacun, and approached the Zheng army fortress under Zhangwuling. Fierce fighting ensued between the two sides, and although the Zheng army finally held the fort on the first day, the riverside forts were forced to abandon it.

The actions of the Qing army made Zheng Jun's plan to use Shaoguan Jiancheng to attract Qing troops completely failed, and Zheng Jun had to change his plan to reattack the Baishan line with Qujiang defenders, but suffered a lot in front of the fort he set up. Although the Qing army was finally wiped out, no less than 2,000 of the 4,500 Yingde divisions that served as the main attack had to be withdrawn for rectification. Although the remaining nearly 6,000 Zheng troops forced the Qing army's northern front to put aside the attack on Zhangwuling Fort and return to the Yazi Pit, it was simply not enough to fight a decisive battle with an opponent who still had superior forces.

Fortunately, although the Qing army, which also lost troops under Baishan and Zhangwuling, still had a scale of 10,000 people, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the department was extremely low due to the four crossings of the Beijiang River and a series of casualties, so they had to watch the Zheng army, which was far inferior to itself, retreated back to Baishan Valley Road.

The slow movement of the Qing army on the northern front made Sang E suffer, and he thought about it and finally made a decision to break the wrist of a strong man. According to his order, the Qing army in the north of the Nanshui River set up banners and golden drums for several days, making the illusion that the troops were tired and about to cross the river by force. In order to cover his whereabouts, Sang E did not even inform the friendly troops who were still on the front line of Yazi Pit, and did not tell him until he safely crossed Furong Mountain and retreated to Shiliting and Lishi.

The retreat of the Qing army on the northern front made the Zheng army in Qujiang City extremely puzzled, although they did not dare to judge whether the Qing army had set a trap, but the defenders still passed the news to the main force of the Zheng army in Nanshui Henan for the first time. He Gan, who had just woken up from a dream, immediately sent the vanguard to cross the river, but what was waiting for him was the weight of the Qing army's abandonment.

He Qian, who had lost the situation in northern Guangdong and even southern Hunan in one fell swoop, immediately commanded the post headquarters to pursue along the river, and although he continued to exterminate the backward rearguard units of the Qing army along the way, he still allowed the Qing army, which totaled more than 35,000, to retreat safely to Yizhang County and Chenzhou Zhili Prefecture in Hunan Province.

Of course, He Qian continued to pursue to achieve his overall goal of advancing into Hunan, but Mao Hongyan's troops, which had transferred the main forces of the two divisions and shallow water heavy artillery ships, faced the fierce attack of the Green Battalion in Gui Province, and successively lost the county seat of Deqing, Nanjiangkou, Jiushi, Liudu (Yun'an County), Yuecheng, Yangliu and other towns along the river, as well as the city of Dong'an County (Yunfu City) in Luoding Prefecture, and approached Zhaoqing from both land and water.

In the face of such a grim situation, Mao Hongyan naturally would not agree to let He Qian take the main force to Hunan regardless of his head, so on the one hand, he repeatedly ordered the fifth division of the main force to immediately move south, and on the other hand, he also asked Lu Xuefang, who was in Guangzhou, to build more long dragons and fast crabs, and cast more ship cannons to deal with the water power of the green battalion in Guizhou Province.

Lu Xuefang sent 20 large river gunboats from the Dongning Shipyard to build urgently, and this kind of gunboat, which Zheng Kezhang named the red single boat, had a sturdy hull and board like a sea ship, and was equipped with six three-inch short guns on both sides, and a three-and-a-half-inch short gun in the bow, and the firepower even exceeded that of the notification ship. However, the strengthening of the inland water division only made up for the shortcomings of the Zheng army, and the arrival of the land division was needed to completely repel the invading Qing army

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