Eighteen cannons were fired one after another, and eighteen three-pound solid iron bullets pierced into the dense crowd of Qing troops one after another, only a scream and the sound of broken bones were heard, and smashed skull fragments, brains and arms holding weapons flew into the sky. The cannonball landed on the ground, bounced again, and pierced into the crowd behind it again, pulling out blood lines in unison.

"Ahh A Qing soldier who looked to be about sixteen or seventeen years old with only a faint fluff on his lips looked at the head that fell beside him, screamed in horror, turned around and ran. Before he could take a step, he felt a chill on his neck, and then the pigtail at the back of his head was lifted up and grabbed in his hand.

"Fight to the death and do not retreat, and those who retreat without authorization will be killed!" A Qing army commander grabbed the bloody head and shouted.

"Fight to the death!" All the Qing soldiers shouted in unison.

Zhang Guoxun shouted: "Rush another hundred steps, and our bows and arrows will be able to shoot them!" ”

The Qing army in the Xiangshan and Jiangmen areas was not an ordinary Qing army, and the Qing army in the green camp in these years was originally strong in combat effectiveness, and the backbone of these Qing troops was also the veterans of the Qing army who had fought viciously with Li Dingguo, and some of the army commanders and even chiefs were fierce people who participated in the Jiangmen Campaign and the Xinhui Campaign. With those backbone forces pressing the formation, those small soldiers who were recruited later did not dare to turn around and run away, but continued to charge forward against the fire of the Ming army.

After firing the shells, the Tiger Squat Cannon was lifted up and retreated. The three-pounder guns with big wheels remained in place, and the gunners reloaded according to the method of rapid fire: they reached into the chamber with a mop, stretched out to the bottom, simply cleaned the chamber, immediately stuffed the kit in, stuffed a shrapnel into the chamber, pushed it to the end with the mop, and then picked up the awl. Pierce through the gun door, puncture a hole in the fixed charge pack, and insert the fuse into it, and the rapid-fire reload is completed.

When the Qing army rushed to one hundred and fifty meters, they saw puffs of white smoke spewing out of the Ming army's formation in front, and it seemed that it was not artillery firing. It's the birds that are shooting.

A Qing army commander sneered: "Is it useful to fire so far away?" ”

But Shi Chang's smile quickly stiffened on his face, and the shield in his hand shattered like an eggshell. The chief watched in disbelief as his waist broke, the upper half of his body flew up, and the lower half of his body and two legs were still standing on the ground.

A Qing soldier behind the commander was also pierced by the projectile, and one leg was torn off his body and flew out of the back. The projectile, which had not diminished, continued to ram backwards, knocking another Qing soldier into the air.

A hundred heavy muskets fired a volley, and one after another a goose-egg-sized projectile drilled into the crowd of Qing troops. stirred up a choking mist of blood.

Large bullets pierced into the crowd, and each projectile could knock down a large area of Qing soldiers before plunging headlong into the dirt.

The ironclad soldiers of the Ming army walked neatly, holding a three-foot-high square iron shield, standing on both sides of the three-pounder cannon. When the three-pounder cannon roared again, the ironclad men immediately stepped forward, and then the gunners dragged the cannon and ran backwards.

The shotgun formed a fan-shaped killing surface in front of it, and the Qing soldiers were beaten into a hornet's nest and fell screaming. From time to time, scarlet blood swords splattered from the crowd.

The ironclad soldier's shield fell to the ground, forming a row of shields in front of him.

"Put!" A Ming officer yelled.

At this time, the Qing army was less than a hundred meters away from the Ming army. It can be seen that in the crowd of Qing troops, some people have already begun to draw bows and arrows.

The archers of the Ming army easily opened their bowstrings, and rows of random arrows flew into the sky, piercing the Qing soldiers like locusts. At the same time, the Qing soldiers also fired a volley of random arrows.

The chaotic arrows fired by the Qing soldiers pierced into the Ming formation, and most of the arrows were withstood by the ironclad soldiers in front. The iron shield, the plate armor connected into the body, the bright light helmet, the iron mask, and the ironclad soldiers who were seamlessly protected were each hit by at least a dozen arrows. But the feathered arrows were bounced off, and the ironclad soldiers were intact.

Some arrows drilled into the back row of the Ming army and shot at the halberd soldiers, pikemen and Miao knife soldiers, all of whom were also wearing iron armor, although the protection was not as good as the iron armor soldiers, but they could still block the bow and arrow. Except for a few unlucky soldiers who were wounded in the lower arms and lower legs by bows and arrows, the rest of the Ming army was unharmed.

The Ming army shot into the crowd of Qing soldiers, but caused a lot of damage: these Qing soldiers originally came to slaughter the people to make meritorious contributions, most of them only wore a number of clothes, no armor at all, and as a result, they were shot by random arrows, and a large number of people were killed and injured at once.

"Musketeers, prepare!" Wang Defeng roared.

Five hundred musketeers, lined up in a neat formation, carrying loaded flintlock muskets, cut through the gaps in the ranks of pikemen and halberders, and formed five hundred-men behind the ironclads, each divided into three rows.

"One team forward, put!" Wang Defeng roared.

The first row of flintlock musketeers raised their flintlock pistols behind the half-crouched ironclad soldiers and pulled the trigger.

With a deafening roar, puffs of choking white smoke erupted from the muzzle.

The bullet penetrated into the crowd of Qing soldiers and knocked down dozens of Qing soldiers in one fell swoop.

The flintlock who has finished firing the bullets retreats and goes to reload; The flintlock musketeers in the back stepped forward, pulled the trigger again, and fired a barrage of bullets.

The second row of flintlock musketeers fired bullets and retreated, and the second line stepped forward and fired again.

At the same time, the Qing army's bird guns also opened fire at the same time, but the bird guns hit the shields of the ironclad soldiers, only to see sparks splashed out, and they couldn't penetrate the shield array of the Ming army at all.

The five hundred flintlock musketeers were divided into five hundreds, and each hundred-man team was divided into three stages of firing, and the fire was constantly output, continuous, continuous, and the gunfire never stopped for a moment. Every row of gunfire rang out, and dozens of Qing soldiers fell.

"Bird hand, prepare!" Gong Xiaoda shouted.

A hundred bird-gunned soldiers walked out, picked up bird-guns, fired at the Qing soldiers in front, pulled the trigger, and fired projectiles.

With the roar of fire, the primer spewed fire, ricocheting the inquisition on the hook. The mouth of the gun spewed out white smoke of fire, and the Qing soldiers in front fell one by one.

After firing the bullets, the Birdmen immediately hindered and gave way to the next platoon of soldiers to come up and continue firing. After firing the bullet, the bird soldier took a few steps back, poured gunpowder from the gunpowder bottle hanging on his body, poured it into the muzzle, then filled the projectile into it, compacted it with a whole strip, then opened the lid of the medicine pool, took out the primer pot, poured the primer into it, then covered the cover, hung the fire rope on the hook, and then took a few steps forward and pulled the trigger.

Because the reload speed of the Bird Gun is slower than that of the Fusiliers, 1,000 Bird Guns are equivalent to 500 Flintlock Musketeers. Birdmen who are divided into ten centuriens can also shoot continuously, constantly outputting firepower.

The archers of the Ming army also switched to heavy arrows that shot straight and mixed in the ranks for free fire. Almost every arrow shot with wolf teeth can take the life of a Qing soldier.

At this time, the heavy musket, which was the slowest to load, also completed its loading, and fired a powerful heavy projectile at the Qing army.

The tiger squat cannon and the three-pounder cannon also fired at the same time, and the shotguns and feather arrows were mixed with bullets and feather arrows, piercing into the crowd of Qing troops, stirring up bursts of red waves, and suddenly a scream sounded in the crowd of Qing troops.

The Qing soldiers who rushed over kept falling in front of the formation, and the corpses on the road ahead were piled up into a small mountain.

Occasionally, a few Qing soldiers rushed to the ironclad soldiers, and were slashed by the ironclad soldiers with a single sword. And the broadswords and spears of the Qing soldiers can't hurt the ironclad soldiers.

Behind the ironclad soldiers, the pikemen, halberd soldiers, Miao knife soldiers and long knife soldiers were gearing up, waiting for the Qing army to rush up and start hand-to-hand combat. But at this time, the Qing army had already begun to collapse!

A large number of Qing soldiers no longer ignored the officers' knives, and turned around and ran away. Although the veterans of the Qing Army of the Green Battalion who had experienced many bloody battles were strong, they could not suppress the collapsed army at all. A large number of Qing soldiers cried, turned and fled. The Qing army cut off several heads of the general, the chief and the chief of the Wu one after another, but they could not stop the collapse of the formation, and they were carried by the defeated crowd and joined the defeated army, retreating like an avalanche.

The more than 6,000 Qing troops from Xiangshan had not yet rushed in front of them, but they were killed or wounded by the Ming army's long-range weapons. If it weren't for Zhang Guoxun and those veterans who pressed it, the Qing army would have collapsed long ago. When they were about to rush to the Ming army, they found that the Ming army's muskets could shoot endlessly, and the power was endless! Even if a few people rushed in front of the ironclad soldiers easily, the weapons in their hands could not hurt those ironclad soldiers at all. can only be beaten in vain, but can not fight back, such a situation no one can afford. The psychology of the Qing soldiers finally collapsed and they retreated.

"That's too easy, isn't it?" Seeing that the Qing soldiers had retreated, Luo Xiang said with a smile.

But for Zhang Guoxun, the nightmare is not over. When the Qing army retreated along the official road by the river, it happened to meet the Ming army transport fleet that was preparing to pick up the people and the land division.

Although it was a transport fleet, the artillery on the Spanish galleons and the armed Galen ships were not comparable to the small boats of the Qing army's sailors.

The starboard gun doors of the eight Spanish galleons and the two Dutch Galen ships were all opened, and the black holes of the guns protruded from the inside, aiming at the retreating Qing troops on the shore.

Every transport ship has ten cannons on one side, and the power of ten large ships and a hundred naval cannons can be imagined.

Ten transport ships lined up in a column of one mile long, connected head to tail, sailed over the river, from the bow gun door of the first ship began to spew out white smoke, a long flash of fire like lightning, from the head of the fleet to the tail, a stream of white smoke rose on the river, cannonballs rained into the Qing army formation.

The green camp of Xiangshan was beaten to the ground, Zhang Guoxun took the remnants of the defeated army, hurriedly escaped from the official road by the river, fled into the small road, ran lifelessly, escaped from the riverbank, and ran back to Xiangshan County.

The Qing army of the green camp that came from Xinhui did not know that the green camp of Xiangshan had been defeated, so they crashed into it in a daze, but they were bombarded by the Ming army, and after approaching, there was a row of shotguns and a few rows of muskets, and they were beaten back.

Ten transport ships arrived, anchored in the middle of the river, lowered their small boats, and headed for the shore.

"The boat that came to pick us up is coming!" On the mountain, the masters of heaven and earth will tell the people.

"What a big ship!" People looked at the huge white shadow in the river and let out exclamations. (To be continued......)