On the twelfth day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar, the sky was just dawning, and a Ming soldier yawned and stretched his waist on a beacon tower on the west side of Qiongzhou Mansion. He's been on duty all night, and it's about to be a shift change. The sentry guards who had changed shifts in the back had already gone to the beacon tower, and they would soon be able to come over and replace him. Seeing his comrades coming, his nerves relaxed slightly. Just as he was about to step down from the beacon tower, he suddenly saw a black convoy of ships on the hazy sea in the distance, approaching the beach.

"Here comes the Tartars! The Tartars are landing! The Ming sergeant disappeared without a trace after falling asleep, and opened his voice and shouted loudly.

"Quick, light the beacon signal! Tell Haikou City and Qiongzhou Mansion that the Tartars have landed! The Ming sergeant who had changed shifts shouted.

Wu Liuqi saw the wolf smoke rising from the distant mountain, and couldn't help but scold: "Why is there a Ming dog here?" ”

This landing site was carefully selected by Wu Liuqi, far away from Qiongzhou Mansion and Haikou City, and it was not easy for the Ming army to find themselves, and this beach did not reach the sea with hills and mountains, so the Ming army had no terrain advantage.

Daniel Zhang looked up to the sky and laughed, "Master Wu doesn't have to be nervous!" We Hong Jingluo is far-sighted and thoughtful, and we have already explored the deployment of Minggou's troops clearly! What if our landing site is exposed? There are less than 3,000 soldiers on the island! plus the auxiliaries and the people, there are less than 30,000! Our army has 100,000 elite troops, do you think Minggou will come to intercept us ashore? ”

The Qing ships came ashore and landed one after another.

Without the Ming army intercepting it, the Qing army's landing operation was smooth sailing, and in about an hour, all 25,000 Qing soldiers went ashore. The fleet of Qing soldiers was unloaded and returned to the Leizhou Peninsula to pull the second batch of landing Qing soldiers.

Within one day, the Qing army crossed the sea twice in succession, and a total of more than 50,000 people immediately went ashore. During this period, the six giant ships of the Nanyang Ming army came to harass the Qing army many times. But the Qing army's naval division was under the command of Wu Liuqi's "superb". A prismatic attack formation was formed, with the gunboats behind the palace, the fire attack ships charged head-on, and the clippers attacked on both flanks. After all, there were no small boats to help the war, and the six huge ships of the Ming army were weak, and they all suffered varying degrees of losses. Seeing that the situation was not good, Albert fled from the warship with six ships.

"Haha! That's all there is to it! As the saying goes, more ants bite the elephant to death! Wu Liuqi slapped his palm on the boat gang and laughed arrogantly.

After nightfall, the Qing army crossed the sea overnight. The next day, more than 10,000 Qing troops landed on Qiongzhou Island.

Fang Yizhi stood at the head of Haikou City. Overlooking the Qing army camp opposite. The Qing army set up two large camps in the west and south of Haikou, leaving a road to the north and east to the sea. Originally, it was supposed to encircle Sanque Yi, but due to the terrain restrictions, the Qing army could not attack from the sea direction, so it launched an attack in two directions.

Zheng Yun, dressed in military uniform, stood on the city tower, with a silver helmet and silver armor and a red cloak, looking heroic. This time the defense of Haikou was commanded by her. Although she is a female general, she is familiar with the method of attacking and defending the city wall, and she is confident that the Qing army will break the blood flow when they meet under the city of Haikou!

The continuous Qing army camps were densely packed. From the beginning to the end, there was a big flag with the word "Hong" fluttering in the camp, as well as Hong Chengchou's carriage.

In fact, Hong Chengchou did not really land on Qiongzhou Island, but hid on the Leizhou Peninsula to command. Through Fan Wencheng's description of Huang Taiji, you know. Hong Chengchou cherishes his life very much. Originally, Hong Chengchou also wanted to finally exert his residual heat for the Qing court, rescue the captured Eight Banners, and make great contributions to the Manchu court. But after "persuasion from everyone", Hong Chengchou realized that it was too risky for him to go to the island in person. In case the Ming army really doesn't care about the civil strife of the Zheng family's army, they will come directly to Qiongzhou, as long as they sink the Qing army fleet. Hong Chengchou was trapped on an isolated island, and at that time he could only die in Qiongzhou.

As for why Hong Chengchou didn't come, he deliberately played the banner of Hong Chengchou, put Hong Chengchou's car in the camp, and a stand-in who looked very similar to Hong Chengchou from a distance, this is actually a set of poisonous tricks by Hong Chengchou, he wants to gamble, if the bait of his stand-in is big enough, the Ming army is likely to give up pacifying the civil strife of the Zheng family army to deal with themselves, so that the Fujian Green Battalion can take advantage of Zheng Jing and Zheng Raid to defeat both sides, and take advantage of the situation to seize Xiamen and Kinmen. As long as the main force of Zheng Zheng was destroyed, the remnants of the Zheng army on Dongfan Island would be easy to deal with, and the Qing court could offer high enough conditions through coercion and inducement to make the remnants of Zheng Zheng surrender.

However, although Hong Chengchou knew that his bait was enough, he still didn't dare to take the risk himself.

Even if the Ming army didn't bite the bait, it didn't matter, anyway, attacking Qiongzhou was Hong Chengchou's established plan, and following up on the intelligence of the Qing army, the Ming army on Qiongzhou Island was very weak.

"The Tartars are besieging the city!" Someone shouted.

With a cannon sound, drums and trumpets rang out, the Qing army rushed out of the camp, opened a formation a thousand steps below the Ming army's city, and blocked the road right in front of the city gate. The rattan soldiers were in the front, the pikemen were in the center, and the archers were in the back to prevent the Ming army from going out of the city to attack and disturb.

Huang Yingjie, a "famous general" who once "defeated" Li Dingguo in Xinhui, served as the commander of the Qing army besieging the city. With Huang Yingjie's order, shield carts were launched in the Qing army camp, which were filled with sandbags to fill the moat.

Seeing that the shield cart of the Qing army was getting closer and closer to the city wall, advancing from 1,000 steps to 700 steps, to 500 steps, and then to 300 steps, the gunners of the fort in the city were very calm, and so far no cannon was fired, allowing the Qing army auxiliaries to push the shield cart close to the city wall.

"Hurry up! The Tartars are coming up and destroying the stakes and the deer! Shen Yuxiao was so anxious that he clenched his fists, and his palms were sweating.

"Lord Shen, Mrs. Ben is not in a hurry, what are you anxious about?" Zheng Yun had a sneer on her cold face.

Shen Yuxiao said anxiously: "The Tartars are about to destroy our stakes and deer!" The obstacles we have worked so hard to set up cannot be destroyed in vain by the Tartars! ”

"Uncle!" Xia Yunshan turned her head, a pair of big eyes bent into crescents, and said with a smile, "Madame is not in a hurry, and you don't have to worry either!" In a moment the Tartars will know how good we are! ”

The Qing army had already entered the obstacle area in front of the city wall, and only then did Zheng Yun give the order to open fire.

The cannon at the head of the city roared, and one after another the shield carts were shot, and the solid cannonballs smashed the shield carts to pieces and fell to one side, and the Qing army auxiliaries behind were exposed to the fire at the head of the city.

"Boom, boom, boom" Behind the battlements at the head of the city, a powerful spear spewed flames. At the same time, the archers at the head of the city also hoisted rows of feathered arrows, and dozens of Qing army auxiliaries who had lost their protection fell.

However, the artillery fire at the head of the city was not intensive, and not many shield carts were destroyed. Zheng Yun is obviously preserving his strength, and the powerful Hongyi cannon in the city will not explode until the Qing artillery appears.

"Famous general" Huang Yingjie commanded the siege of the city or a set, the Qing army's shield car formation is very scattered, the spherical cannonball against the moving small target is not very high, the destroyed shield car is not much, the Qing army did not risk leaving the shield car, with an axe to chop obstacles, but directly pile sandbags forward, piled into protective fortifications, used to offset the power of the city defense weapons.

Behind the shield car, groups of Qing army auxiliaries sweated like rain to dig trenches and slowly advanced in the direction of the moat.

The Qing army suffered little losses, and the sandbag platform advanced more than 50 steps, losing only more than 10 shield carts and more than 100 auxiliaries. Such losses are quite affordable. The earthen platforms and trenches of the Qing army effectively blocked the artillery shells of the Ming army and minimized the casualties of the Qing army's auxiliaries.

"Sandbags are piled up for fortifications, and the trenches are pushed forward! That's a great trick! Who taught you? Daniel Zhang asked.

Huang Yingjie laughed: "General Zhang, do you know how Jiangnan Aobai was defeated in the hands of Ming Gou?" Lord Hong said that Ao Bai is not used to digging trenches by Ming dogs, and the cannon cannot exert its power, so it is a fiasco! General Ben just learned the methods of the Ming Dog and gave them back! ”

At the head of the city, Shen Yuxiao was so anxious that he was sweating profusely: "Princess Niangniang, the Tartar methods are insidious and despicable, if they are pushed forward like this with an earthen platform, they will be able to set up Hongyi cannons to bombard our city directly!" And our cannons are blocked by their earthen platforms, and they can't destroy their Hongyi cannons! ”

Zheng Yun said calmly: "Lord Shen, just see how we keep it!" It's not time for the Tartars to fight hard! Our killer feature can't be unveiled too soon! ”

However, the Qing army seemed to be preserving its strength, and after the earth platforms were piled up, the Qing army did not push out the heavy Hongyi cannons to bombard Haikou City, but continued to advance until it reached the bottom of the moat. The auxiliaries behind the shield cart moved sandbags from the cart and began to fill the moat.

"The shield car can defend the front, can it defend the side?" Zheng Yun smiled slightly and asked Liu Er to give the order.

"Fire!" The small blue flag in Liu'er's hand waved.

The fortress set up on the city wall showed great power at this time, and a number of bird guns stretched out from the shooting hole, aiming at the Qing army's shield car under the moat. Because of the bulge of the bastion, only a large section of the side of the shield, which was protected from the front, was exposed to the muzzle. With the crisp sound of gunfire, billowing smoke rose from the shooting holes, and the Qing soldiers who were filling the moat fell in pieces like harvested rice.

The gunfire was incessant, and there were thirty bird-gunners in each fort, and when the six bird-gunners had finished their bullets, they stepped back to reload their ammunition, giving up the shooting holes to others, and letting the bird-gunned men who had loaded the bullets and gunpowder behind them come forward to shoot. The five-person group can ensure the continuous output of firepower, and the Qing army screams and suffers heavy casualties.

Behind the battlements above the fortress, there were a large number of archers, shooting a dense stream of arrows from the side. The auxiliaries without any armor were shot into hedgehogs and fell into the moat screaming.

The auxiliary soldiers of the Qing army turned the shield car in a different direction, and the front of the shield car was aimed at the side of the fortress, but this could not block the firepower of the front city wall, and was shot by the random arrows at the head of the city, and there were countless casualties, not to mention, there was a fortress on the other side, shooting arrows and projectiles from behind, and the flesh and blood of the Qing army were flying.

"It turns out that these bulges to the outside of the city walls are used for such purposes! You can attack the side of our shield car! Huang Yingjie was terrified.

"Go up! The Retreater, Slash! Huang Yingjie gave the death order.

Daniel Zhang, who was standing on the side, said: "The thieves can hit the side of our shield car, if we build a car that is protected on all sides and the bottom is empty, won't the thief's attack on the side fail?" (To be continued.) )