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Because Huangpu Port is still far away from Baietan, preparations for fire attack are in full swing here, and they did not find any movement here in the summer.

Xu Ting was very proud of his proposal, and he thought that the thief's choice to anchor at Baietanan was a way out. If it is safe to anchor at Huangpu Harbor and the fireships depart from Baietan, then the fleet can also choose to go to sea along the Pearl River to take refuge, and the river channel upstream from Baietan, which is getting narrower and narrower, and the big ships are more likely to run aground.

Soon, it was the last day before Xia Nan and Yu Baocheng privately agreed on a three-day deadline without firing, and both sides were ready and waiting for the upcoming battle.

Night falls.

A flotilla of more than 50 arsonists and more than 100 rafts set off from Whampoa and rowed upstream by moonlight. Xu Ting led dozens of large and small ships, and followed far behind as the main force of boarding and fighting.

In the city of Guangzhou, more than 10,000 people and more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the guard station have also assembled in the area of the south gate, waiting for the order to set off.

According to the plan, the team in the city will go out of the city at three o'clock to launch an attack, and the fire attack fleet will also set off at the time of Hai, and it is expected to arrive at the latest, and when the thieves on land deal with the night attack in the city, they will take advantage of the chaos on the water to launch a fire attack and burn the thief ship. If the thieves cannot be completely eliminated in one battle, they can at least cut off their rear roads and make them lose their fighting spirit, and the balance of victory will eventually fall to Guangzhou's side.

The general who led the night attack was Sun Tianbiao, the commander of the Guangzhou Guard. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the guard was dilapidated, although Guangdong had been brilliant, and the results of suppressing the rebellion of the Miao and Yao tribes were brilliant, but they could not escape the fate of decay, and there was a serious shortage of soldiers, and it was already very good to have three or four hundred soldiers under one thousand households, and the establishment of five thousand six hundred people in Guangzhou could only pull out more than 1,400 people.

Sun Tianbiao, as the commander of the guard, is the martial artist of the third grade, although he is not very much looked down on by a seven-rank magistrate in Guangzhou City, but he is still a soil emperor in the guard. Originally, such an envoy who led troops to fight could be pushed to the commander Tongzhi or Qianhu, but this night attack was very important, and there was no room for mistakes, and the governor personally ordered the generals, and he could not hide in the guard post to watch the excitement, so he could only go out in person.

At this moment, he was cheering up the thousands of households under him: "I have seen it in the city during the day, and the thieves may be afraid of the Hongyi cannon on the city wall, so they hide a few hundred steps below the wall, so that the cannon will not be able to hit." At such a distance, you can rush to the front at once, more than 10,000 people fight 1,000 people, even if the other party is Da Luo Jinxian, invulnerable, so many people rush up densely, and they are all trampled to death. There is no suspense in this battle, we have to win the first credit, those Ding Zhuang are only strong and powerful, and the credit cannot be taken away by them. ”

Thousands of households raised their swords and shouted: "Take the first merit!" ”

At three o'clock, a cupola cannon on the city wall rose into the air and exploded, kicking off the prelude to the night attack.

Sun Tianbiao pulled out his saber and shouted: "Hurry out of the city, whoever rushes to the front of the thief formation first, I will reward ten taels of silver!" ”

The officers and soldiers of the guard station were holding spears, swords and other weapons and rushed towards the city, and at this moment the city gate was slowly opening, and the officers and soldiers who were anxious wanted to take the lead and wanted to go out from the gate that was only half opened, but they did not reach it quickly, and the crowd was crowded at the city gate, and most of the people could not get out. The people in the back were also squeezing forward, and the front couldn't get out, and the street leading to the city gate was full of people, and more than 10,000 people were blocked on this long street.

A sharp whistling sound sounded in the city, and Sun Tianbiao wondered in his heart, didn't he just send the arrow, why did he send it again? When I looked up, I saw a fireball over the city wall, leading the scorching flames through the night sky, like a meteor piercing the night sky.

The fireball flew high above the city wall and fell straight down, smashing impartially into the crowd, and the hard bluestone street was smashed to rubble, and a few unlucky people were almost smashed into a mess of flesh. The people around them were stunned and stood there.

Sun Tianbiao knew that thieves could throw flowering bullets into the city, so he reacted first, secretly screamed badly, and hurriedly hid behind the crowd.

With a loud "boom", the fireball exploded, and the huge air wave overturned all the people within twenty or thirty meters around, and then the broken shrapnel splattered out, and more people were hit by shrapnel, screaming and falling, rolling on the ground.

The people suddenly exploded, crying for their fathers and mothers, and fled in all directions. However, there were people in front and behind, houses on both sides, and there was no place to escape, and the consequence of running was to cause crowding and stampede, and many people who were injured by shrapnel and fell were trampled to death.

Sun Tianbiao was fifty or sixty meters away from the center of the explosion, and with the blocking of the dense crowd, he escaped a catastrophe, but the power of the explosion was too great, his ears were buzzing, and his head was like being drunk. He shook his head vigorously, trying to sober himself up.

A pro-soldier walked up to him and said something. There was still a buzzing sound in his ears, and the crowd was running and shouting, it was too noisy to hear what his soldiers were saying. He grabbed the collar of his own soldier and shook it, "What the hell are you talking about?" ”

When I got closer, I found that blood was flowing from the mouth and nose of the pro-soldier, and it was falling down. Sun Tianbiao was startled, let go of his hand, and the soldiers staggered and stood unsteadily, and blood flowed from their ears.

With a "snap", the pro-soldier fell to the ground. Sun Tianbiao knew that he must have been injured by the explosion, and his injuries were serious. Looking around, the people are becoming more and more chaotic, if they are not stopped, in such a narrow space, I am afraid that it will cause a catastrophe, and before they get out of the city, their own people will be trampled to death.

He drew his sword and shouted: "Hurry out of the city, the thieves are not far from the city, rush up, we will win!" But his voice was drowned out in a cacophony that was barely heard.

Sun Tianbiao was in a hurry, if he didn't even go out of the city gate and didn't see the face of the thief, the governor would definitely cut off his head. He led his own soldiers, personally acted as a supervising team, and cut off the heads of more than a dozen people in one go, and this turmoil gradually subsided.

The gates of the city were finally fully opened, and the officers and men of the guard post at the front rushed out first. The people in the back slowly restored order under the pressure of Sun Tianbiao and his own soldiers, and walked towards the city gate.

Seeing that things were about to get back on track, a sharp whistling sound sounded again. Sun Tianbiao's heart tightened, looked at the sky, and found that this time it was not one cannonball, but seven or eight cannonballs appeared in the air at the same time.

"I'll give you a lung!" Sun Tianbiao's scalp was numb, and he hurriedly squeezed forward with all his might. He knew that this kind of shell was similar to a siege machine like a trebuchet, and the closer it was to the enemy, the safer it was.

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