"Yu Taishou, the Shang family soldiers have lined up out of the ferry!"

On the side of the Guangdong Township Soldiers, Yu Deshui was sitting upright on the Maza, and he was only a dozen steps away from the breast wall line being constructed, almost on the front line!

Two large flags stood behind him, in the shape of a flag-gate, fluttering in the wind. The word tattooed on the left side is "Acting Xiangshan County of the Great Qing Dynasty", and on the right side is a bright red line of big characters "Revenge!" ”

Well, while still waving the banner of the Great Qing Dynasty, he wants to seek revenge from the King of Pingnan of the Great Qing Dynasty, and this position is really casual enough.

At this time, on the flat ground outside the ferry on the south bank of the Xiaolan Waterway, opposite the Guangdong Township Soldiers, hundreds of flag soldiers wearing cloth armor and gun helmets also recognized the flag of the deputy commander and pushed a few improvised shield carts, and began to line up.

And more than a dozen steps behind these flag soldiers, probably outside the gate of the ferry, a big flag was also erected, and the big characters on the flag were "Daqing Ping Nanwang Domain's Commander Shang"!

When Kangxi saw this scene, he probably vomited blood.

The authors on both sides are all people from the Qing Dynasty!

Now the Qing capital is in danger, Wu Sangui's army has begun to attack Gannan Qishan and Xiangxi Yongzhou, Li Zicheng in northern Hunan has also begun to conquer the city, and there are two big thieves in Guangdong, Ao Bai and Wu Sanwei. However, the troops of Shang Kexi, the vassal king of Guangdong, and Wang Fuchen, the governor of Liangguang, did not go to King Qin to destroy the thieves, but fought a civil war on their own.

This is the Qing Dynasty. He's going to finish meowing!

The commander of the Pingnan Wangfu Domain, who was forced to fight by Shang Zhixiao, looked at the "Great Qing Yueyong" and Yu Deshui's banner erected on the opposite Guangdong Township Soldiers' position, and was also speechless for a while. He actually led his troops to attack the army of the governor of Liangguang in the Qing Dynasty under the command of the prefect of the Qing Dynasty (acting Zhixian)!

Has this King of Pingnan already taken refuge in Wu Sangui?

But the problem is that he has just come down from the front line of the confrontation with Wu Sanwei in Dongguan. If King Pingnan had already taken refuge in Wu Sangui, then Wu Sanwei and Ao Bai should be invited into Guangzhou City, but there was no such thing! Dongguan is still in the clear field and divided troops to guard it!

How can this have a little bit of the meaning that Timur and Boluo Timur left the Red Turban Army in the south not to fight and fought a civil war themselves?

As soon as this counselor thought of these two "Timurs", his heart was cold.

But no matter how cold his heart is, he has to attack hard, because the drums of life have already sounded!

"Knock Knock"

In a burst of snare drums, hundreds of elite banner soldiers of the Pingnan Wangfu had formed a wide column with six shield cars as the lead, and began to press on the front of the Guangdong township soldiers.

The flag soldiers who followed behind the shield car were quite elite, not only everyone was wearing armor, but also equipped with "two battles", in addition to bows and arrows for long-range shooting, bird guns and spears for breaking into formation, they were also equipped with waist knives, and some of them were also carrying rattan cards.

Yu Deshui didn't panic at all, he was born as an "armed master", and he also served as the teacher of Jingwutang, and the principal Wang Zhongxiao has always been a busy man, so he was responsible for the military teaching of Jingwutang for a long time.

He was all too familiar with the matter of setting up a battle in battle.

He is also very familiar with the tactics of the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion, and of course he knows how to deal with them - isn't it true that a large group of rebels who have fought and served as the Qing army in Yunnan are summing up lessons and exchanging experiences in killing captives? Moreover, Wang Zhongxiao later combined some of the tactics and tactics of the Napoleonic era and even the American Civil War era that he knew, and came up with a set of methods to restrain the tactics of the Eight Banners, and Yu Deshui also mastered them.

After seeing the Shang Jiajun on the opposite side pushing out the shield cart, Yu Deshui immediately thought of a move to deal with them.

He ordered Lu Yijia to immediately draw out a team of heavy bird spearmen and two teams of light bird spearmen from the Guangdong township soldiers under his department, and under the escort of the same number of infantry using wolf swords and swords, they opened the sandbag chest wall defense line that had not yet been fully completed, and set up a "crane wing array" in front of the shield cart and flag soldiers of the Shang family army - that is, the heavy musket team was in the center and hit the shield car! The light spearmen outflanked left and right, and chose places without shield carts to fight!

The so-called heavy shotgunners are shotgunners who are armed with heavy smoothbore guns known as turtledoves. The turtledove is imitated from the Spanish heavy arquebus, the power is quite reliable, the projectiles used are one or two smaller, and the shield car or something can't resist the projectiles of this caliber!

Because the musket was too heavy, the recoil when firing was too great, and it had to be supported by a girl-shaped bracket to fight. That's why the Cantonese called this kind of musket "turtledove foot" - the bracket looks like a thin turtledove foot, which is quite vivid.

This kind of musket was introduced to Guangdong more than 100 years ago, and the blacksmiths in Foshan would have made it long ago, and the Portuguese also sold the turtledove foots made in Foshan to Nanyang and Japan. That is, the soldiers of the Northern Front of the Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty did not get many heavy bird guns "made in Foshan of the Ming Dynasty".

However, Wang Zhongxiao is not a person from the Ming Dynasty, and he has no place to engage in that kind of poor quality explosive goods. It's still the year of Kangxi, and that kind of fried bore has not been re-"developed"!

As for the light arquebus, it is naturally a light arquebus, which was also introduced to Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty at that time, and a large number of equipment was in the Qi family army in the early years, and the Qi family army infantry battalion was equipped with 1,000 and 80 bird guns among the more than 2,600 people, accounting for about 40%.

And the light shotguns in Guangdong are also made in Foshan. The quality is quite reliable!

Most of these light and heavy shotguns are sold to the Tukechao clan in Guangdong to fight with weapons, and they are bought by private individuals, can the quality be unreliable?

The battlefield of the Battle of Xiaolan Ferry was composed of an open official road and paddy fields with good crops on both sides of the official road - although it is winter now, crops can still grow in the paddy fields on this side of Guangdong! And the paddy fields with crops are not easy to pass, that is, the Guangdong township soldiers wearing straw shoes and trouser legs rolled up high run fast inside, and the old flag soldiers of the Shang family can only take the official road. How could those old men in stuffy official boots and heavy and impermeable cloth and iron armor fight a chase battle with a group of lightly armed peasant villagers in a muddy paddy field?

Now the sun is shining overhead!

So seeing that the two wings were outflanked by a group of country soldiers, the commander was also anxious, and looked back at the ferry - he was waiting for Shang Zhixiao Mingjin to withdraw his troops!

But where is Shang Zhixiao willing to sing gold, but it makes people beat the war drums louder and louder!

In fact, Shang Zhixiao couldn't stop the army - because the Guangdong villagers watched the battle team came!

Cantonese people still like to watch wars! Historically, when the English came, many Cantonese people were watching - maybe they were learning the advanced international war fighting technology, right? The people there have a strong clan concept, and the contradictions of the local passenger tide are big, and they have to fight because of the land and water from time to time, so they can't be wrong if they have the opportunity to learn more.

In addition, the terrain on the seaside of Guangdong is very "fragmented", and these people who watch the excitement are all looking across the water, which is not easy to be affected by the battle, which can ensure the safety of studying and observing.

And at this time, on the north bank of Xiaolan Waterway, there are many Shunde people who are watching the lively scene, and the Xiangshan people next door are "playing Shangjia", so he can't take a good look? If this Shang family is not beaten, then they will also have revenge and revenge, and revenge!

Under the "supervision of the war" of these Shunde people, where does Shang Zhixiao dare to show weakness?

"Woohoo"

Just when Shang Zhixiao was urging the drummers around him to work hard to beat the drums, after a piercing "suona" on the opposite side, twenty or thirty turtledove foot fire guns had already started!

Almost at the same time as the gunshots rang out, several holes the size of bowls appeared in the shields of the six slow-advancing shield carts dozens of paces away, and the wooden blocks and sawdust that were broken by the smaller projectiles were splashed everywhere behind the shield carts, just like shotguns, but they were not so powerful, but it still hurt to hit people! If you don't hit it well, a larger piece of wood hits someone's skull, and it is possible that the head will break and bleed.

So after the gunshots rang out, the screams and curses rang out together.

However, the Shang family's banner soldiers are not waste snacks, they can still bear this loss, not only did they not retreat, but accelerated and pushed forward. They are all quite confident, and feel that as long as they can push up, with their martial arts, it is not easy to fight a group of Guangdong township soldiers?

"Woohoo"

Gunshots rang out again!

This time, it's the turtledove's foot that hits! The Guangdong township soldiers also took turns shooting, and they spread out a front of 20 people on the official road and on both sides of the official road, and a group of 200 shotgunmen lined up in ten rows, all of which were sparse formations, and after fighting, they retreated one row after another, retreated to the back to charge and reload, and then waited for the fire. The shotgunners in the back row took turns firing to keep the fire going.

And the continuity of firepower and the density of firepower cannot be both. Therefore, although those shield carts were quickly beaten to the ground, the Shang family banner soldiers who followed behind could of course still face small casualties and move forward with their heads covered.

If you advance a little further and shoot unarmored spearmen with your bow and arrow, you should be able to win!

But the shotgunners fought and retreated

On the one hand, they were fighting and retreating, and on the other hand, they were advancing step by step, and at the same time, there were two teams of Guangdong township soldiers with bird guns, and under the escort of two teams of pikemen and sword soldiers carrying wolf swords, they outflanked from both sides of the Shang family soldiers.

The Shang family soldiers also knew that they were going to be beaten on both sides, so they also made adjustments, and put the soldiers with shields on both sides, probably to rely on rattan cards to block bullets, right?

However, unlike the heavy bird gunners who fired in formations in front of them, the light bird gunners seemed to be "skirmishers", and they did not line up to shoot the guns, but spread out in formation, cats bent on their waists, and then quickly approached the target under the cover of ridges and crops.

After getting close enough, he picked up the shotgun in his hand and aimed it for a shot. When the fight was over, he ran backwards until he was behind the wolf soldiers (also pikemen) and sword soldiers who formed a horizontal formation and slowly advanced to reload.

Their firepower is not dense, or even a little sporadic, but the damage caused is not small, from time to time a few Shangjia banner soldiers were knocked down by the bullets fired by the shotgun, or killed on the spot, or covered the wounds and let out a burst of screams

The Shang family soldiers immediately fought back, and they also had muskets and bows and arrows!

But the effect is much worse, after all, the opponent has the cover of tall crops and ridges, and the formation is scattered, which is not easy to hit. And the Shang family army marched in formation, and a large group of people were huddled together. Fortunately, the opponent has no artillery, at least not yet, otherwise the losses would have been even greater!

Although the losses don't seem to be large, they are continuous losses, and as more and more people fall, the morale of these Shang family soldiers is getting lower and lower, and they have also discovered a reality that makes them chill - the Guangdong township soldiers who are defending against the chest wall in front of them have not wavered because of their approach, but have become more determined!

Needless to say, this must be a tough battle!

Just when the hearts of these Shang family soldiers sank, a few dull bangs suddenly sounded behind the chest wall in front of them, and before everyone could react, a huge fireball exploded above their heads, and then something slammed into the crowd without knowing something, killing and injuring two or three "Shang soldiers" on the spot!

"Cupola anti-thief has cupola!"

I don't know who shouted, but the "Shang Bing" who could still insist on moving forward immediately stopped doing it, how can there be artillery?

There are guns and cannons, and the shots are quite accurate! The morale is quite high! How can this be fought?

Just as their hearts were shaken, a dull drum beat sounded behind the chest wall defense line of the Guangdong villagers.

"Knock Knock"

And then there's a shout of killing!

"Kill!"

"Hit Guangzhou City! It's gratifying to be captured alive! ”

The counterattack of the Guangdong township soldiers began!

At least 2,000 village soldiers armed with swords, wolves, and spears rushed out of the position like a tide. They also did not rush from the front, but outflanked the rear of the Shang soldiers advancing along the official road from the left and right directions. Now the bannermen of the Shang family can't hold back anymore! Who can stand copying the back road? Once the back road is broken, there will be no way to live!

I don't know who took the lead and shouted, "Defeated, defeated, run"

Hundreds of "Shang soldiers" shouted "defeated, defeated" in this way, and then spread their feet and retreated to the ferry.

And the people of Shunde, who watched the battle across the Xiaolan Waterway, let out bursts of "cheers"!

"Shang Ke is happy to lose!"

"The Shang family is going to be finished!"

When Shang Zhixiao saw this scene, his face was pale, the corners of his mouth trembled, and his face was covered with cold sweat, only to hear him shouting there: "Resist!" Resist it for me! ”

But who will go to the top?

The soldiers who followed Shang Zhixiao's side, everyone looked at each other.

At this critical moment, suddenly a "Beijing film" accent shouted: "Don't panic, Guangdong Admiral Li is here. It's also rotten, what's there to be afraid of? ”

It turned out that it was Li Rot, the rotten master, who took his green battalion soldiers to board the ferry on the south bank of Xiaolan Waterway, and this time there were not many people, only a few hundred, but it was enough to stabilize the hearts of the Shang family soldiers and keep this ferry not lost.

Shang Zhixiao also breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the ferry is not lost, the troops on the north bank will continue to drive over, and there will be artillery coming back!

So this advantage. It's still with me!

Macau Commercial Market.

The atmosphere here is starting to get tense, too!

People don't know what happened on the battlefield of Xiangshan in the north?

Rumors also began to spread among the merchants of Macau and the landlords of the three counties who had been forcibly relocated.

Some people say that Shang Kexi's soldiers have occupied Xiangshan County!

Some people also say that Shang Kexi has taken refuge in Wu Sangui, and now he is working with "Shen Aobai" to deal with Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao!

Some people also say that the "deep worship" has infiltrated the Macau business market and is about to raise troops in Macao!

Some people even said that Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao took refuge in Wu Sangui, so the imperial court sent a lot of heavenly soldiers to crusade!

In short, I don't know who voted for Wu Sangui? I don't know who the imperial court is supporting this time?

However, these rumors are not completely false, at least one of them is right, that is, "Shen Ao Bai" has really arrived in Macau!

On the same day that Wang Zhongxiao left Macao, he was ordered by Wang Zhongxiao to take 200 "iron soldiers" from Xiangdao and cross the sea to Macao.

Now there are a total of two Ao Bai in Macau, but they are all fakes, and the real Ao Bai has long been turned into ashes, and it will not be possible to come anyway.

According to Wang Zhongxiao's instructions, he had to sit in Macau after Wang Zhongxiao left. Once the "landlords and old wealth" in Macao took the opportunity to make a rebellion, he had to bring 200 "iron soldiers" to help suppress it.

These 200 iron men are all imitated by the elite iron men of the Yanping Domain, and they are Wenzhou iron soldiers! But it's still very iron, and it's been tested in battle!

At this time, he was in the castle of Macau to see the third prince Zhu and Wang Zhongxiao's wife Wu Xiaosu, the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, as well as the alternate concubine Wu Xiaojiang, and Wu Xiaosuo's nominal sister-in-law, Wang Zhongxiao's concubine Yang Xiaohuan!

(End of chapter)