Under the city of Wanzhou, the banner hunting, the war drums rumbled, and the Ming army was attacking the city with various weapons.

The siege artillery roared, and the six four-pounder guns took turns to spew fire, and the cannonballs smashed on the city wall, causing bricks and stones to fly, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city were killed and wounded. The bricks on the women's walls collapsed, and many of the women's walls of the city walls were blown down, leaving only the bare city heads. The Ming army fired indiscriminately at the head of the city with bird guns and bows and arrows below, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city could not stand steadily.

The Qing army piled up sandbags and masonry to build new bunkers. As soon as it was built, it was bombarded by the Ming artillery, and the temporary bunkers that had just been piled up were blown to pieces.

Originally, the Qing army also had more than a dozen small cannons such as tiger squat cannons and general cannons in Wanzhou, but the range of these shoddy and tattered cannons was too close. Although the small cannon of the Ming army looks small, it has a long range. The artillery of the Qing army was only beaten and did not return fire, and most of them were quickly knocked out, and the rest of the artillery did not dare to go to the city to help defend it.

Suppressing the firepower at the head of the city, the Ming army beat the drums of war, and groups of captured Qing soldiers and civilians pushed shield carts to fill the moat. The first battalion of the infantry of the Nanyang Company of the Ming Army, the second town of the Zheng Army's naval division, the marine archery team and the Shenji team, were mixed into a joint long-range suppression fire battalion, with a total of 500 bird guns and 300 archers, to suppress the Qing army at the head of the city.

At present, Wang Xinyu has 3,000 troops in the hands of the first infantry battalion, the second infantry battalion, the artillery battalion, and the mercenary battalion of the Nanyang Company, and the Xiao Cavalry Battalion and the Iron Cavalry Battalion are temporarily empty; The Marine Battalion of the Second Town of the Navy Division has a total of 2,000 people, including the pro-soldier team, the heavy infantry team, the spear team, the long knife team, the bow and arrow team, and the Shenji team, 3,000 auxiliary soldiers composed of captured people, 1,000 artillery and bird soldiers of the sailor division who went ashore to help the battle, plus 500 heavy infantry borrowed from Chen Python, with a strength of nearly 10,000 people. As for the special forces and special forces, they are also directly subordinate to the Yanping King, and they are all borrowed soldiers.

The Miao Li Righteous Army, which had just been incorporated into the Wild Wolf Battalion and the Cheetah Battalion of the Nanyang Company Army, did not participate in the siege of Wanzhou, but dispersed, some of them maintained order in the two cities of Yazhou and Lingshui that had just been captured, and another part harassed the Qing army in the mountains and forests.

The war drums under the city of Wanzhou were rumbling, and fierce battles were raging.

Auxiliaries composed of Qing military and civilian prisoners pushed shield carts and filled the moat with sandbags.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city risked their lives to intercept them with bows and arrows and bird guns, and were hit by more intensive fire from the Ming army under the city, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties. The governor of Wanzhou held a sword in his hand and personally supervised the battle, inspiring the Qing soldiers to brave arrows and bullets to hold on.

The auxiliaries pushed the shield cart and reached the moat, constantly throwing sandbags into the moat. The Qing soldiers at the head of the city shot down rows of arrows and guns, and many auxiliary soldiers had just emerged, or threw sandbags, and before they could return to the back of the shield cart, they were shot by arrows one after another, and fell into the moat one after another.

The long-range fire battalion of the Ming army under the city hid behind the shields of the ironclad soldiers, shooting fiercely at the head of the city, and from time to time the Qing soldiers fell on the city head with screams, or fell from the city wall one by one.

There are also the twelve powerful heavy muskets, the gunner directly put the gun on the shield of the ironclad soldiers, and replaced it with a shotgun to bombard the city, one round of shooting, a row of shotguns can knock down a large number of Qing soldiers.

In the mountains and forests north of Hainan Island, there was a defeated remnant of the Qing army with ragged clothes, untidy military appearance, and thin and listless soldiers.

Two days ago, Yang Ji offered advice: "The Haikou are attacking Wanzhou, and they don't have so many troops to stop us in the north. As long as we go north to Qiongzhou Mansion, we can escape from the mountains and forests. Let's find a way when we get back to Qiongzhou Mansion. ”

Since the Ming army is attacking Wanzhou, the main force of the Ming army must be in the northeast. So Gao Jinku agreed to Yang Ji's method. He led the remnants along a stream and went all the way north. Along the way, the Ming army's wolf battalion and cheetah battalion were constantly harassed. These Miaoli warriors set up traps in the mountains and forests, dug traps, released traps, and sent small units to take advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to follow the Qing army, making the Qing army's northward escape road a bloody road.

The Qing army walked in the mountains and forests for two days and two nights, and finally a wide official road appeared in front of the road.

Seeing that he was about to escape, Yang Ji was overjoyed and said: "Haikou must be attacking Wanzhou, and it is impossible to capture the state city for a while and a half." They were short on troops, and we finally got out! ”

Happy and sad, Yang Ji's words did not fall, and a whistle sounded in front of him, and a team dressed in red clothes and white armor appeared on the official road, blocking the way of the Qing army.

"God will kill me!" Gao Jinku shouted.

However, Yang Ji soon found that the number of this army was not large, about five or six hundred. And the Qing army in the hands of Gao Jinku still has more than 3,000 people.

The capital city of Qiongzhou is not far in front of you, and it is impossible to turn back. If you go back, not to mention the harassment of the wolf camp and the cheetah camp along the way, maybe Wanzhou has been broken by the Ming army, and Gao Jinku and they just happened to throw themselves into the net.

Yang Ji said angrily: "The thieves want to catch us all!" They even want to stop Master Wang! ”

Although Yang Ji said this, Gao Jinku felt very uneasy in his heart, because the army in front of him was completely different from the Ming army they had seen before: this army was all in fiery red clothes, and the armor on the armor of the ironclad soldiers in the front team holding a strange weapon was completely different from the armor of the Ming army, all of them were polished silver-white iron armor, and they were pieces of plate-shaped iron armor, and there was a piece of iron mask on their faces, and only two glasses were exposed. The weapon in his hand looks like a double-headed axe and a spear. And the soldiers in the back are obviously all firearms soldiers, also red clothes and white armor, but not pieces of iron plate armor, but chain mail.

In the middle of this strange procession, there was also a marching band, and a redcoat soldier was beating a drum that looked like a Tessie snare. At the back of the ranks there were four small cannons with thin barrels that looked light, but with particularly large wheels.

"What kind of strange army is this?" The leader of the Eight Banners couldn't understand who it was.

Gao Jinku said: "It looks like the army of the Tessie and the Francophiles. This Haikou not only disobeys the king, but also colludes with the Taixi people! It's just a mess! ”

When the leader of the Eight Banners heard this, his face showed displeasure, because in the eyes of the Han people, they were also Yi people. It's just that they are barbarians from outside the Guan, and the Taixi people are Xiyi who don't pay attention to etiquette and morality.

Yang Ji sighed again and again: "There are so many heavily armored ironclad soldiers, I'm afraid this set of ironclad will cost a hundred taels of silver, right?" Where did this Haikou get so much silver! ”

"No matter who stands in front of us, we have to rush through today!" Gao Jinku pulled out the waist knife and pointed forward.

The Qing army marched out with drums and launched an attack on this strange force.

The Qing army, which was eager to escape, could not form a formation at all, and rushed towards the army blocking the road in a chaotic manner.

There are a total of 500 people, two hundred Spanish halberders in front, one hundred of whom are Spanish mercenaries, and the other 100 are mercenaries from Portugal. Behind there were two hundred and fifty English and Portuguese flintlock musketeers, plus artillerymen, drummers, captains and the like, exactly five hundred.

Looking at the Qing soldiers who rushed over in a hurry, Wang Defeng showed a look of pity.

"Lower the muzzle, prepare!" The British artillery captain shouted.

Four British three-pounder small bronze cannons were aimed at the Qing army, and the muzzles of the black holes were like the sharp teeth of sharks, ready to open their bloody mouths at any time to devour the lives of the Qing soldiers who rushed over.

The wheels of these small three-pounder cannons are so large and light that they can be pulled away by a single horse. The gun was fired with a fixed charge pack, and after loading, an awl was pierced through the gun door, piercing the pack, and inserting the fuse to complete the preparation before firing. A skilled gunner can fire three rounds at breakneck speed with a ten-second shot. But the back can't be so fast, the barrel needs to be cleaned, the barrel needs to be cooled, and the normal rate of fire is two rounds a minute.

"Four hundred meters, ready!" The artillery captain shouted.

"Three hundred and fifty meters, put!"

Four British gunners lit the fuse with torches, and the three-pounder gun spewed out dazzling fire, billowing white smoke, and the shells pulled four arcs at low altitude, accurately landing on the crowd of Qing soldiers who rushed over.

With the sound of bones shattering and tooth-aching muscles being torn apart, four cannonballs knocked over in succession in the crowd and shattered a large group of Qing soldiers, and the cannonballs fell to the ground and bounced again, shattering the armor and muscles of the Qing soldiers on the collision. The cannonball landed again, jumped again, and sent flesh and blood flying in the crowd.

"Rapid launch!" The artillery captain shouted.

This kind of cannon can fire three rounds in a hurry, and the first three rounds do not need to carefully clean the gun chamber, as long as the mop is stretched in, stretched to the end, and then pulled out, the gun chamber is simply cleaned. It was then stuffed into a fixed charge pack, and a shell wrapped in silk cloth was placed. Silk cloth can not only increase air tightness, reduce the link of pressing into the wooden board to increase air tightness, but also allow the shell to slide into the gun chamber faster, speeding up the reloading.

The gunner then punctured the pack with an awl and inserted the fuse.

"Put!" But in just ten seconds, the four three-pounder guns began to fire a second salvo!

Gao Jinku didn't expect that these Westerners' cannons would be able to complete the loading and fire again so quickly! The Franc cannon has such a fast rate of fire, but the Franc cannon does not have that much power and accuracy!

Four more shells drilled into the crowd of Qing troops, and after pulling out four blood lines, the shells jumped back and forth, and the bones of the Qing soldiers that collided with them shattered, the stumps flew sideways, and the brains burst out, and a large piece fell.

Within half a minute, three rounds of rapid fire were completed, and the Qing soldiers suffered hundreds of casualties.

In the back, there can be no more rapid fire, the chamber must be carefully cleaned, and the barrel must be cooled. However, it was also very fast, and half a minute later, the three-pounder cannon roared again. This time it was fired sequentially, and the four guns fired shells one after another, completing the last round of interception and shooting, and then because the distance between the two sides was close, the artillery could only hit the rear of the Qing army from a long distance, and could no longer intercept and shoot at the Qing soldiers in front, and the rest of the matter was handed over to the infantry to carry out.

The Qing army endured four rounds of shelling in a row, and finally rushed to the mercenary camp.

Seeing that the mercenaries had no shields, the Qing archers sent out a volley of arrows.

Feathered arrows fell into the crowd of halberders, crashing into helmets, plate armor, and visors, making a metallic crash. Not a single arrow could penetrate the hard plate armor, and all of them were shot off the ground.

The halberd soldiers followed the beat of the drum and stepped forward step by step.

The musketeers behind the halberders opened fire one after another, and the Qing soldiers who rushed ahead fell one by one under the dense bullets like peeled onions.

Gunfire roared, white smoke billowed out, and a large area of Qing soldiers fifty meters away fell.

No sooner had the musketeers finished their three-stage shooting, and the musketeers stepped back and reloaded. At this time, the Qing soldiers had already rushed to the front of the formation and began to rush desperately towards the halberd formation.

"Kill!" The Qing soldiers crashed into the Spanish halberds.

A large row of shiny halberds stabbed forward, and the Qing soldiers who hit the tips of their spears fell like harvested rice.

Some of the more agile Qingbing cats bent down and rushed to the front in a half-squat. But immediately, a long halberd stabbed out from behind, piercing the body of the Qing soldier. The axe that was pulled back hooked the neck of one of the Qing soldiers, and the Spanish soldier pulled it lightly, breaking the head of the Qing soldier.

Even if a Qing soldier is lucky enough to rush to the halberd soldiers, the long halberd soldiers behind the long halberd soldiers in the front row can suppress the long halberd and use the axe above to slash the Qing soldiers.

The musketeers in the rear began to fire freely, and the British musketeers and Portuguese musketeers had already loaded, hiding behind the halberders, constantly outputting fierce fire, knocking down the Qing soldiers in front of the formation one by one.

The artillery raised the muzzle of the gun and shelled the rear of the Qing army fiercely.

"Bypass from the side!" Gao Jinku, with a few personal soldiers and the Eight Banners, made a detour from the forest and attempted to attack from the side. If the attack fails, Gao Jinku can also escape from the side.

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