Lin Xingzhu, Luo Shizhen, He Yingyuan and others had already left the sailor and ran away, if it weren't for the fact that their families were still in the hands of the Qing court, they would have surrendered a long time ago. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 They took their own soldiers and mixed in with the water thieves and bandits, fled in small boats, and threw more than 200 soldiers of the Eight Banners, more than 600 soldiers of the Green Battalion and more than 1,500 people on the embankment to the Ming army.

The Green Battalion Qing Army stationed on the shore had no intention of fighting, but the two hundred and eight banner soldiers were pressing the formation behind, and the Green Battalion Qing soldiers could only stubbornly go up to stop the Ming Army.

A volley of shells from Hood's small steamer hit the shore, but the soft river beach affected the power of rifled artillery shells, which were originally more penetrating than solid shells, and if they hit hard objects, they would cause far more lethality than solid shells. However, when hit on soft soil, the power of the cannonball is not as strong as that of a solid cannonball, because the penetration is too strong, the cannonball penetrates into the soft soil, burrows into the ground, and crushes in the soil, and the splashed clods are not very powerful when they hit people.

If flowering shells are used, then the power of rifled guns is of course greater, but the price of rifled artillery flowering shells is too expensive, and there are not a few shells on this small steamer, and Emperor Hu Dedi is reluctant to use them.

Seeing that the rifled guns of the small steamer were not very lethal to the shore, Emperor Hu Dedi asked his soldiers to send out a flag, and let the pole mineboats and the small boats of the marines rush up to the shore.

"Kill the dog!" Kuroda Masao drew his katana and pointed at the shore, and the ashigaru on the boat stepped on the pedal quickly, and the wheels of the pole mine boat rotated at high speed, splitting the waves and rushing towards the shore. Before the ship could reach the shore, a volley of bullets from the musket sticking out of the shooting hole shot at the shore, knocking over many Qing soldiers.

The Marines approached the boat, their guns spewing fire and rows of shotguns ashore. The shotgun didn't care whether it landed on a soft river beach or solid ground, and the shotgun swept over in a fan shape, and a large number of Qing soldiers on the shore fell.

The pole mineboat leaned on the beach, and the Japanese samurai in wooden armor jumped ashore, and the katana in his hand beckoned to the Qing army. The ashigaru in the back, armed with muskets and short spears, also rushed forward.

The Qing soldiers of the green battalion had no intention of fighting at all, and they all turned around and ran. No matter how the Eight Banners fought to kill the deserters, they still couldn't stop the green battalion soldiers and Minzhuang who were defeated and retreated like a tide, and in an instant, the green battalion soldiers and Minzhuang on the lake embankment ran out, leaving only more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers.

The Eight Banners shot with bows and arrows, knocking over dozens of ashigaru who rushed over. However, the marines on the small boat of the Ming army continued to shoot accurately with rifled guns, knocking over more than 50 Eight Banner soldiers.

The remaining more than 100 Eight Banner soldiers were still brave, and they faced the Japanese mercenaries who rushed up, trying to shorten the distance and make the rifled guns of the Ming marines useless. However, after bumping into the Japanese, the Eight Banners found that the group of short gnomes in front of them, who were as short as children, were actually terrifyingly strong in combat! These Eight Banners have long since lost the combat effectiveness of the year, so the Japanese, who were not opponents at all, eventually all died.

"These flag men are still brave. But they are useless except that they are not afraid of death, and their combat effectiveness is really poor! Not at all a match for our Yamato samurai! Kuroda later wrote in his memoirs.

The Ming army occupied the Changhu embankment and cracked the plan of the Qing army to flood Jingzhou. However, because the communications were really backward back then, after seizing the Changhu embankment, Emperor Hu Dedi and his team were unable to contact the Ming army that was attacking Jingzhou head-on. In order to get in touch with the Ming army attacking from the Yangtze River in the southwest, Emperor Hu Dedi had to send ships back to the east, into the Yangtze River, and then sail west, and it would take a large detour to get the news to arrive.

The straight-line distance is only a short distance of more than 30 miles, and if a messenger is sent to take a boat to detour around the Neijing River into the Yangtze River, it will take hundreds of miles of detour, and it will take about three days to deliver the news.

However, the Ming army had a way to contact it, and there were wetlands and swamps near Jingzhou, and the Ming army's boats entered the swamp and lost land, and under the guidance of the local Tiandihui spies, they approached Jingzhou City. After nightfall, the messenger signaled fireworks.

"The embankment of Changhu Lake has been captured, and the city can be attacked!" Seeing the fireworks signal, Wang Yuyou gave the order to siege the city.

The city of Jingzhou is very close to the river, and the Ming army does not need the land division to go ashore to set up artillery bombardment, and directly use the naval guns of the Yangtze River Naval Division and the Nanyang Navy to directly bombard the city wall.

One after another, huge warships came sideways, the sides of the ships were aimed at the city wall, the gun doors were all opened, and the gun ports with black holes stretched out from the inside, aiming at the Jingzhou city wall. With an order to open fire, the overwhelming naval artillery shells roared and smashed into the city wall and the city gate tower, and all kinds of 24-pound and 18-pound heavy naval artillery shells smashed on the city wall, and the city bricks burst apart, revealing the rammed earth inside. Cannonballs fell on the gate tower, which collapsed in smoke and dust.

The Jingzhou city wall was destroyed by Zhang Xianzhong in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and the Qing court rebuilt it on the foundation of the Ming city wall in the third year of Shunzhi, and created a strong city. However, under the heavy naval bombardment of the Ming army, the city wall could not withstand the fierce shelling at all.

The women's wall was beaten to pieces, the city wall was full of potholes, no matter how the Eight Banners soldiers in the city coerced, the green battalion soldiers and the people did not dare to stand on the head of the city to be shelled.

The Ming army began to land, and a large number of Ming army land divisions got off the ship, and directly pushed all kinds of siege vehicles that had been built in advance to attack the city wall. The Ming auxiliaries approached the Shuinan Gate, and under the cover of fleet artillery fire and land division muskets, the auxiliaries dug several holes in the city wall, stuffed them with mixed gunpowder packs, and then lit the fuse to evacuate.

Due to the industrialization of sulfur [acid and nitric] acid, this black powder, which was mixed with nitroglycerin and other ingredients, could be used in large quantities.

This kind of dirt road explosive bag in later generations can blow up the reinforced concrete bunkers of later generations, not to mention the city walls.

The Ming army auxiliaries buried a total of more than 200 catties of mixed gunpowder packs in the city wall, and with an earth-shattering loud noise, the entire city gate and a large section of the city wall were blown into a slope.

"Kill the dog!" The Ming soldiers shouted and rushed towards the city.

Before the Ming soldiers approached, they first used a row of grenades to beckon over, blowing up the formation of the Qing army's hand-to-hand fighters into loose and chaotic chaos. After that, it was very easy and simple to use a three-person formation to deal with the Qing army with all the chaotic formations. The combat method of cold weapons, if you don't form a formation, you will not be able to defeat the opponent who is in formation.

The Qiongzhou army was like a bamboo, pouring into the city. The Qing army guarding the city engaged in fierce street battles with the Ming army, relying on the buildings in the city to resist stubbornly. However, the Qing army, which had just learned street fighting, obviously could not stop the Ming army equipped with a large number of grenades.

Grenades are an absolute weapon for street fighting, the defenders hide inside the houses and shoot outside, and the attackers can easily solve the problem by throwing grenades. The Qing army in the city did not even resist for half a day, and the whole line collapsed. Shuodai, the defender of the Qing army, launched a counterattack against the Ming army with the last five Goshkha, and was chopped into pulp by the ironclad soldiers.