After testing the firepower of the Ming battery, the Qing army landed on the coast of Qiongshan with a large number of fishing boats.

The artillery batteries on the coast really don't have much damage to these small fishing boats.

In addition, the main warships of the Qing army were outside the range of artillery.

In order to save the ammunition stored on the forts, the Ming officers and soldiers decided to let these Qing troops ashore.

For one morning, hundreds of fishing boats carried two or three thousand Qing officers and men back and forth, bringing them ashore.

Looking at the dense Qing officers and soldiers on the coast and the temporary wooden sheds that stretched for a mile, the hearts of the Ming officers and soldiers guarding Qiongshan sank.

Previously, the attacker was the Ming army, and the defender was the Qing army.

The Ming army could calmly gather forces and break them one by one.

And the Qing army guarding Qiong could only defend passively.

And now, the two sides have changed their identities, and the Ming army has become the defending side.

More than a dozen county towns of Qiongshan, whether it is Qiongshan, Lingao, Chengmai, or even Yazhou in the south, are all possible places for the Qing army to land.

As a result, the Ming army also had to transfer thousands of troops on the island to more than a dozen different county seats.

At this moment, Qiongshan County, which is heavily defended by the Ming army, is just a fighter.

And the officers and soldiers faced the green battalion of the Qing army, which was as high as tens of thousands.

"Hurry up and notify the officers and soldiers of the towns in the Lingao and Chengmai areas, and immediately rush to help Qiongshan." Under the city tower, the general of the Ming army gave orders to several scouts.

At this time, the Ming army could only pray that the artillery on the city wall could resist the Qing army's attack.

The number of Qing officers and soldiers who landed on the island was about two or three thousand, and they were commanded by the commander-in-chief Huang Zanzhong.

Looking at the nearby Qiongzhou City, Mr. Huang couldn't help laughing.

"Some thieves who fled south like lost dogs in fear, the army rested for the night, and tomorrow the city was attacked on time." Mr. Huang gave an order.

Because the Qing army was afraid of the artillery on the battery, the Qing troops who landed this time were just infantry.

A large number of heavy artillery pieces were on large ships such as the Rush Ship and the Fu Ship.

These large treasure ships were parked at a great distance from the sea for fear of the artillery of the fort, and a large number of ships were also used to transport the Green Battalion soldiers to shore.

Therefore, at this time, the Qing army on the shore lacked heavy artillery to attack the city.

However, Huang Zongbing didn't have this concern at this time, he only had Qiongshan City in his eyes.

In the early morning of the second day, the army lit a fire for cooking, and after a full meal, each battalion of Qing troops marched towards Qiongshan under the leadership of their own thousand generals and garrisons.

In order to destroy the coastal defense batteries of the Ming army, the Qing army also specially dispatched 800 Qing troops to capture the Ming army forts.

"Kill!" With a few cannon shots, a large number of Qing officers and soldiers shouted, brandishing steel knives and killing the county town of Qiongshan in front.

Due to the heat in the south and the slackening of the Qing army's combat readiness in Guangdong.

Many Qing officers and soldiers are not wearing armor, of course, *** only regard these green battalion soldiers as consumables, and they really don't pay attention to their armament.

However, the scene of thousands of Qing troops rushing towards Qiongshan County at the same time did make the soldiers of the Ming army defending the city feel pressure.

"The Qing army has entered three hundred steps, and the flying thunderbolts are ready." Seeing that the dense Qing officers and soldiers had arrived about three or four hundred steps away from the city, a Ming artillery commander shouted.

And on the upper floor of the Ming army, there are four mortars.

Different from the previous Ming army mortars, the barrels of these four mortars are huge, and they are like a big water tank.

I saw that the Ming army carried square gunpowder canisters and stuffed them into the barrels of mortar cannons.

"Let's go."

With the command of the gunner, the four gunners lit the gunpowder primers.

"Bang bang bang!" A series of thunderclaps were accompanied by bursts of black smoke.

The Qing generals who were watching the battle in the rear only faintly saw a few black objects flying over the city wall.

The black tank smashed directly under the city two or three hundred steps away from the city wall.

A Qing officer and soldier who was lucky to carry home was weighed by that black can

Hit hard, and suddenly the plasma splattered.

Before the Qing generals in the rear could wonder, they saw that the place where the black tank hit suddenly exploded.

Fireballs shot into the sky, accompanied by a splatters of dust, mud, and flesh.

There was a huge concussion, and even the sand slope behind him shook a little.

The Qing army's queue was blown out of four gaps.

Many Qing officers and soldiers were knocked to the ground by the shock wave generated by the explosion.

"What's going on!" A Qing army general in the rear lost his voice.

The commanders of the Qing army who stood on the sand slope and watched the battle were dumbfounded.

On the battlefield, the officers and men of the Qing Dynasty were even blown up, and those who were far away were better off, overturned by the blast wave of the explosion, or hit by sand and gravel, and shed some blood.

Close, where he stood, at this moment, there were only black holes and flesh and blood in the sky.

"Flying thunderbolts, hitting enemy troops, good." On the city wall, the commander of the Ming army shouted at the gunners.

Taking advantage of the Qing army's momentary efforts, the four mortars with huge barrels on the city wall were also ready for the second firing.

"Put!" This time, the four black canisters directly hit the Qing army's forward more than 200 paces away.

The Qing officers and soldiers here are even denser, and they have all rushed to the city gate.

When the cannon fired, these Qing officers and soldiers subconsciously raised their shields.

But instead of shells, it was the earth-shattering sound of explosions and flying sand and rocks.

At this moment, under the city, the Ming army's four-door catapult was also ready, and began to project black tanks at the Qing army outside the city.

This black jar is nothing else, it is the gunpowder jar used by the Ming army when it blocked the Qing army in Anhua County some time ago.

At that time, the huge lethality of the gunpowder jar stunned the Ming generals present.

Therefore, the generals of the Ming army urgently informed the craftsmen of the firearms division who came with the ship, asking them to think of a way to make the gunpowder canister fly out like a cannonball.

The craftsmen of the firearms division who came with the ship thought about it for more than ten days, and finally decided on two plans, one was to use a catapult to make a simple catapult to launch the gunpowder jar like a stone.

The second type is the mortar cannon, which adds copper plates to the bottom and around the gunpowder canister, and the gunpowder canister can fly out through the movement of gunpowder.

This kind of gunpowder canister, because all the powder filled in it is black powder, and one gunpowder filling is enough to add dozens of catties of gunpowder, because the explosion is extremely powerful.

However, due to this expedition, the Ming army basically did not bring mortar artillery to defend the city.

Therefore, the Ming officers and soldiers on the island searched for more than half a month before they found and transformed these four copper mortar cannons with a body as big as a large water tank on the fort.

Catapult uses the principle of leverage, one end is loaded with a heavy object, and the other end is equipped with a stone projectile to be fired, before firing, one end of the ammunition must be placed with a winch, pulley or directly pulled down by manpower, and the other end with a heavy object also rises at this time, after putting the stone bullet let go or cut the rope, let one end of the heavy object fall, the stone bullet is also thrown out of the trend, this kind of stone throwing machine was introduced by the Mongolian expedition to the west through the *** region and used to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, and is called "return artillery".

However, the trebuchet urgently produced by the Ming army was a light type, and its range was only a hundred paces, but it was more than enough for defense.

After all, the Qing army is attacking the city at the moment, and the Ming army is on the defensive.

With the sound of earth-shattering explosions, the Qing officers and soldiers who were besieging the city suffered heavy casualties.

"What's going on? What kind of firearm is this?" General Huang, who led the troops in battle, had red eyes.

As the vanguard, the hundred Qing officers and soldiers rushed up, and only one or two hundred people could still stand at the moment.

The battlefield was dusty, filled with gunsmoke, and blood and flesh were splattered.

One earth-shattering explosion after another, accompanied by firelight and dust, the Qing officers and soldiers of the explosion cried wolf.