Chapter 552: Grenadier (1)
The Ming army was still adjusting the heavy red-coated cannons, and the loading speed was even more outrageous, but the British grenadier breech guns had already completed the preparation for firing, Jackson smiled, and the adjutant ordered not to hurry to open the cannons first, and bring up the Ming prisoners who refused to cooperate in the city.
Because Jin Sheng invited officials from all over the world to attend the meeting, most of the officials in Haifeng County at this time were low-level officials, and most of them were bribed, but they didn't expect that the red-haired devils in the British Isles would want to occupy Haifeng County.
After they reacted, Jackson took the lead and ordered 1,500 British infantry from Haifeng and Lufeng to assemble at Haifeng, and the two armies launched an attack inside and outside the city at the same time, and entered the city and the guard post without much effort.
More than 1,000 soldiers of the Ming army were wiped out, and the officials in the city were either killed or captured.
Jackson arrogantly looked at the dozens of Haifeng officials who were beaten to pieces, and more than a dozen Ming army officers were driven to the city wall, and said contemptuously; "Slaves, a group of minions, look, it is their greed that makes their people and cities belong to my king of the British Isles."
A Lu Feng official angrily scolded the red-haired people for being barbarians, Jackson hated it the most, don't say they were barbarians, as soon as the little official's voice fell, Jackson raised his hand and shot it, and a hole the size of a peanut appeared on the forehead of the little official.
The corpse of the officer fell to the ground with a bang, and then Jackson waved his hand, and the soldiers brutally pinned the officers and officers to the wall, knocking them down one by one with mallets.
Outside the city, He Zhen watched dozens of people being hit on the back of the head with a hammer by the red-haired devil, and then fell straight down from the city wall, dying in pain one by one.
He scolded Wu Daling: "Damn, what about your artillery, why haven't you set it up yet, let Lao Tzu bombard." ”
Wu Daling had just opened his legs and wanted to go to the fort to see how the cannon was prepared, and an artilleryman ran to report to him, and the gun carriage had already been prepared, just waiting for the launch.
Wu Daling did not go to the fort, waved the order flag from afar, and ordered the cannon to be fired.
As soon as the order flag fell, the Ming gunners immediately launched an artillery bombardment, dozens of shells flew into the city, these shells were almost accurate, most of them hit the city wall, only a few shells fell in the city, did not cause much damage to the red-haired devils.
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Without waiting for the Ming artillery to attack again, the artillery of the British soldiers finally roared, and their artillery was more powerful than the artillery of the Fuso.
Boom, boom, twenty shells rushed out quickly, and then Jackson smiled and saw that there was a violent explosion in the artillery position of the Ming army.
Wu Daling was not in the artillery position, he and He Zhen were directing the battle, and it was also because he was not in the artillery position that he was not injured by the artillery fire, but his subordinates and the artillery position were almost razed to the ground, and Wu Daling almost cried.
He Zhen was also blindsided, he thought that the red-haired devil was more powerful than rifles and grenades, but he didn't expect that in a small Haifeng City, there were dozens of more powerful artillery.
He couldn't help but hate the magistrate of Haifeng County even more, and actually gave up Haifeng County?
In order to avoid being killed or injured by artillery fire, He Zhen was forced to have no choice, so he had to continue to retreat with his troops, until he retreated to a place ten kilometers away from Haifeng County, and then ordered to stop the retreat, and the whole army was stationed here.
He believed that Ling Jingyang would come to support him, but when he thought that he was defeated by the red-haired devil, what should he do if he was punished by Ling Jingyang?
Thinking of this, a general said softly to him: "Lord Commander, we used to be the official army, and then defected to the Dashun army, the Dashun army was a waste, we surrendered to Jiannu again, and then we came back, this fiasco, if you are blamed by Ling Jingyang, this..."
After finishing speaking, this general deliberately pretended to be very mysterious, but the next second he regretted it, He Zhen quickly pulled out the big knife, went down with a knife, cut off the head, and ordered the generals fiercely, and if there are any more disturbers in the army's heart, there will be no forgiveness.
After finishing speaking, he kicked his head away, and then ordered to strengthen the defense, that is, He Zhen's iron and bloody wrists, so that the Ming army troops that had fallen into a desperate situation did not collapse.
At this time, there were more than 3,000 people under He Zhen's command, and the artillery battalion only brought back five red-clothed cannons, seven tiger squat cannons, and more than 70 gunners, Wu Daling looked at He Zhen pitifully.
He Zhen was embarrassed to say anything, the two of them waited here silently for Ling Jingyang to arrive, Ling Jingyang led the army from Huizhou City, and it would be the next morning at the earliest, He Zhen must be there
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Hold your ground tonight,
Zhao Tu, who had already arrived at the battlefield, did not join He Zhen at the first time, but turned his horse's head and withdrew to Lufeng in one breath, he estimated that the red-haired devil might launch an attack tonight, and decided to lead the army to attack Haifeng City tonight.
As he expected, Jackson was ordering his troops to raid the Ming army outside the city tonight, and he knew that the Ming army would have reinforcements coming, and he wanted to destroy as many civilian troops as possible.
He and his adjutant ordered that they should capture as many Ming troops as possible tonight, and then also form a puppet army, so that the British puppet army and the Ming army and the Fusang army could fight, and they would watch the play in the back.
The adjutant happily patted him on the back.
"What the head of the regiment said is that this Ming people have a lot of land and resources, and they really don't deserve to have so much land, and the tea I drank in Haifeng County and our British coffee seem to have a refreshing effect."
Jackson laughed and scolded the adjutant for not being knowledgeable, after he came to the land of China, he first tossed and turned around as a businessman, of course, he did not go deep into Central China and North China, but only wandered around South China.
In order to better touch the Ming people, he sometimes entered South China as a wanderer or a missionary, and thoroughly understood the customs, troops, and fortresses of Guangdong, Fujian, and some parts of Guangxi, just so that the Royal Grenadier Corps could enter the land of China, and quickly conquer the city and seize the opportunity for the British Empire.
He always remembered that when he boarded the ship from the mainland, the king once told him that the biggest enemies in the land of China were the Ming people and the Fusang people, and told him not to be careless.
Especially the Ming people, who were temporarily divided, were pressed and beaten by the Qing army and the Fusang people, but as long as the Ming people were united. Even the Fuso people and warriors from the island of Europa are no match.
At first, Jackson believed that the king spoke to them, but when he came to Guangdong, he learned more about the Ming people, and found that the people here did not seem to be affected by the war in Jiangbei, but were still happy, and the literati played the piano and painted all day long.
Tens of millions of people are still unclothed, as if the Ming and Qing wars in Jiangbei have nothing to do with them.
Sometimes Jackson thinks that the king, is he exaggerating the strength of the Ming people?
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