Win the Ding 1617

After being searched by the Southern Cantonese Army, it was confirmed that there were no weapons on their bodies. The Zheng Jun prisoners looked west through the crenel of the fort with relief.

To the west, the chaotic and chaotic footsteps gradually became uniform and came from a distance. The low footsteps seemed to hit the hearts of the prisoners who had not had time to escape to the West Fort.At this time, the sky was high and the clouds were clear, and the vision was good. Through the crenels on the fort, countless people could be seen, and gradually formed more than ten square teams, running slowly towards the west in a sparse formation.

Before the queue, what bumped into people's field of vision was a huge sun and moon flag, black and red representing iron and blood, burning people's eyeballs like two flames.A short and stout man was holding the flag high and galloped to the front of the queue. The huge flag was blown by the sea wind and kept rolling up and down.

Behind this military flag, there are the same bright sun and moon flags and iron-blooded eighteen-star military flags. The most dazzling one is the flag of the Guards Battalion. Marching in a neat line, with the proud temperament of a master who has fought a hundred battles for the rest of his life, this is the core force of the various departments of the Southern Guangdong Army, the Guards Battalion.

Although this kind of formation seems sparse, under the command of the leading officer, it can instantly become a dense formation, causing huge damage to the opponent with the firecrackers and bayonets in hand. In front of the relatively well-organized enemy positions, the fate of being massacred is overwhelming; what's more, there are two solid forts waiting for them.

To keep the queue neat, terrain is a big key.Tidal undulations and potholes on the beach.Gully vertical and horizontal.For Zheng Jun, under such terrain and features, it would be difficult to keep the army in order anyway.

However, from the perspective of the Nanyue Army's formation, this kind of terrain seemed to be no problem. They ignored sand dunes, gravel, ditches, hills, dwarf shrubs, and deep ditches washed out by the tide.Amidst the sound of neat footsteps, they just ran forward slowly, the queue seemed loose.But subtle yet tight.

It was the three battalions of Dongfan soldiers who followed closely behind the guard battalion.Although the movement of the formation was far inferior to that of the Southern Guangdong Army, it was quite neat compared to Zheng Jun's marching troops, and the formation of this generation was filled with a layer of wild and brutal murderous aura.

"madman!"

On the West Fort of Gulangyu Island, Zheng Zhiwan hastily wiped his face with the towel handed over by his own soldiers.Use binoculars to stare at this army from far to near.

If someone else saw the Nanyue Army's approach to the enemy.It is unavoidable to think that Li Shouhan or someone in the army used puppetry and other sorcery and evil methods to control people's minds.Only in this way can hundreds of people move forward in unison under the enemy's muzzle.However, Zheng Jun has also been in contact with the Southern Guangdong Army for many years, and he is quite familiar with the training methods and combat methods of the Southern Guangdong Army.

But even so.Zheng Zhiwan had no choice but to think that the Nanyue Army's bold and reckless move was extremely crazy.Especially in the middle army of the team, he vaguely saw the recognition flag of the Taiwan Guard Commander.In the detailed military briefing, he remembered that this was the official position of Li Shouhan's eldest son, Li Huayu.

While Zheng Zhiwan was yelling and cursing, he had to admire this army in his heart, but in this way, when the enemy attacked from the side, many heavy artillery could not be used!

He suddenly looked at the eight-pound cannons in front of him. These cannons were originally only used as auxiliary firepower for the fort, and he didn't want to use them today.In order to maintain firepower, they will be divided into three waves, and they will shell continuously in turn. Most of the artillery will focus on shelling the central army of the Southern Guangdong Army.

The gunners and soldiers on the turret were urgently transferred to the six-pound and eight-pound guns to help the gunners adjust the muzzle of the guns that were facing the sea to the east.Pointing to the team that was slowly moving.

Most of these cannons have already been loaded with ammunition. A large group of gunners, armed with gauges and gun gauges, nervously made the final calculation and adjustment. The momentum of the Southern Guangdong Army made their palms full of sweat, and their foreheads and temples were covered with fine beads of sweat. Full.

Finally, seeing the huge banner in front of the Southern Cantonese army crossing several inconspicuous sand dunes, marking that they had entered the range of the eight-pound gun, Zheng Zhiwan couldn't help but took a deep breath, and rushed up Before that, he snatched the arquebus from an artilleryman, and let out a beast-like roar with a tearing sound, "Target distance, 530 steps, the first round of artillery, fire!"

He ignited the fuse of the cannon in front of him, and sparks hissed instantly.

"fire!"

While repeating the password, the Zheng Jun gunners of the brigade fell into a state of madness. They all saw Li Huayu's recognition flag, and they yelled like Zheng Zhiwan.As long as we can kill or injure the young master of the Li family with one shot, we will win this battle!Save your life!

There was a thunderbolt-like sound of cannons, the unique sharp whistling sound when the cannons were ejected, and a large puff of white smoke rose from the fort. Zheng Jiajun's six-pound cannon, eight-pound cannon, Dafolang machine and other dozens of large and small caliber artillery were fired one by one. It spewed violent flames to the east.

Li Huayu's fame battle and the fortified battle of Gulangyu Fortress, which impressed countless people, no matter whether they praised or criticized him, had a deep impression on him. He warned his subordinates to stay away from this young master of the Li family.

The chilling whistling sound came from far and near, and there was a loud bang, and an eight-pounder shell hit the beach dozens of steps away from the right front of the military flag, smashing the sand, gravel, and shells on the beach to the ground. The excitement was all over the sky, and the people scattered all over their faces. However, because of the beach, the shell did not form a secondary damage caused by jumping up.

Li Huayu, who was guarded by his own soldiers, breathed a sigh of relief. On the beach, the shells could not bounce and kill. This kind of terrain is still beneficial to his own side. Hearing the faint sound of relief from his brothers next to him.

The roar of the artillery continued, and more and more artillery shells from the Zheng Army came. Fortunately, for the Nanyue Army who was marching, their accuracy was not enough, and they were either front or rear.And because it is located on the beach, the shells will sink into the soft sand after landing, making it difficult to bounce and jump.Or because the rolling distance is not large, it cannot cause huge damage.

A cannonball hit Li Huayu hard a few steps away, the ground seemed to tremble a few times, smashing several soldiers around Huayu to a bloody mess, and the mud stained red with blood and minced flesh, covering Huayu's beautiful and delicate body. The armor was stained blood red, looking sideways, a deep hole appeared next to the formation of the Nanyue Army.

"Don't stay! Injured and injured brothers, step aside! Get out of the way. The team passes quickly!

Zheng Zhiwan put down the telescope in his hand a little excitedly.An order was issued: "All artillery, stop bombarding the frontal bombardment, and try to bombard the Nanyue Army's team from the side!!"

"fire!"

"fire!"

"fire!"

Amidst the frenzied roar of the gunners, the six-pounder and eight-pounder guns on the turret, and the Dafo Lang machine fired round after round.The West Fort and Middle Fort were shrouded in thick smoke.

The gunners of Zheng Jun who fired in the first round.Then desperately pushed the cannon back to its original position.Using the degree board to calculate the distance nervously again, the gunner desperately cleared the chamber and filled the ammunition.

Because it is divided into three rounds of launch.Their barrels have more time to dissipate heat.Because of the home defense, they have already been familiar with the nearby terrain, and even made use of some terrain to make inconspicuous marks. Relying on these, the gunners of the Zheng army can more calmly launch fierce artillery fire against the incoming Li Huayu troops. Raid!

The sound of the cannon was rumbling, and the heavy solid iron ball drew a long arc in the air, and slammed it fiercely at the infantry of the Nanyue Army who were getting closer and closer with intensive side fire.

In the ranks of the Guards Battalion and the ranks of the Dongfan soldiers, flesh and blood were continuously thrown into the air along with the sand by the huge impact force. From time to time, wounded soldiers were dragged and dragged out of the ranks by their comrades nearby, lying down on the ground. By the roadside, waiting for the rescue of follow-up troops.Even in the formation of Dongfan soldiers, a battalion officer's flag was knocked to the ground by shells. Although it was erected again in an instant, the formation of that battalion of Dongfan soldiers was already a little scattered, presumably the battalion officer had already died in battle.

Zheng Zhiwan showed a smirk on his face: "Forced with foot formation? It's comfortable now!"

The shelling on the West Fort and Middle Fort of Gulangyu Island continued, and waves of shells whizzed over.

"Aim at these two turrets! The whole ship fires!"

Hurrying to the Aomei on the water of Gulangyu Island, ignoring the fact that there are still a large number of fast crab boats on the sea that are quickly transporting supplies and wounded soldiers, under Li Huamei's slamming, with a firing density that does not hesitate to beat the artillery to scrap, Shells were pouring towards the West Fort and Middle Fort.

"If something happens to my eldest brother, even if you kill your heads, it will not be able to dispel the anger in my father's heart!"

"Anyone can die, but the young master must have nothing to do!"

The remaining two Zheng army forts on Gulangyu Island attracted as many as two hundred artillery pieces with 24-pound guns or more in an instant, and they bombarded these two forts non-stop in turn.After the gun deck on one side of the ship fired a salvo, it quickly turned the hull and blasted the artillery on the other side at the fort.When the gun barrel became hot, pour a bucket of clean water on it to cool it down. As long as it can fire the shell, no matter how much damage it causes to the gun, it will not hesitate!

When the fleet and the battery fired fiercely and provided fire support for Li Huayu's shock troops, the two health battalions of the Nanyue Army were carried by fast crab boats to a temporary trestle built with broken ships hit by artillery. .

Numerous civilian husbands rushed to the beach under the leadership of doctors and nurses, carrying bamboo stretchers.

Most of these peasants are native and Japanese laborers recruited in Nanzhong. In addition to normal wages, there is also a preferential policy.

"Anyone who participates in the first-line ambulance can make up for one year's labor period, and get an account card one year in advance. If you get a lottery number on the first-line rescuer, you can also get one year for each person!"

Such a temptation is extremely generous to those Japanese and native laborers who are struggling in the mountains, forests and mines.What if there is danger?How about digging coal in a well tens of miles deep?Isn't it four stones with one piece of meat?

However, after landing on the beach, the battle was brutal, and there were broken limbs everywhere, and the civilians were all terrified. From time to time, wounded people were carried down in front of them, and all of them were missing arms or broken legs. Or get beaten to pieces, which is pretty scary.Some civilian husbands did not care about rescuing the wounded, but started to vomit loudly while supporting the bamboo stretcher.

A few doctors carrying bamboo first aid boxes embroidered with portraits of Bodhisattvas came over and looked at the bodies of these peasants, "What are you doing there? Hurry up!"

Several civilian husbands who were kicked and beaten nodded submissively, "Hi Yi", and rushed forward with the group of doctors carrying bamboo stretchers.These doctors.All of them enjoy the salary of officers, and they are separated according to their seniority level. Although they will not go directly to the battlefield, the entire Southern Guangdong Army has no complaints about it.Because no matter who it is, there will be times of illness and injury, and these doctors are the saviors of the soldiers.

Their first aid kits are full of various medical instruments, knives, scissors, and hemostatic powder.Knife medicine.Sore medicine, shochu, cotton gauze bandages and other things are all available.

At this time, the Southern Guangdong Army used field ambulance, field hospitals, and trauma treatment methods.It can be said that it is the first in the entire civilized world.To know.Europe is in the Napoleonic era.The most important part of surgery, hemostasis, still needs to be helped with a red-hot soldering iron.Under a soldering iron and a knife.Surgical mortality rate is more than [-]%.Specially treat trauma, at this time, use boiling oil and pour it into the wound. Is this murder or saving people?And can you imagine that the two professions of doctor and hairdresser can be held concurrently by one person?

On the open space of the East Fortress, which was still smoking with green smoke, a large number of sanitary tents were set up, and the boiling water used for surgical preparations began to roll in the iron pot. He was carried to the health camp for diagnosis and treatment.

On the fort, hundreds of people struggled to move the artillery discarded by Zheng Jun's artillery team, aiming the muzzle at the middle fort, "Damn! Use the cannons made by me to hit me, and I will use yours!" Cannon will teach you!"

Under the cover of artillery fire from both sides of the friendly army, land and sea, the pressure on the troops of the four battalions under Li Huayu who swooped on the central fort and west fort was greatly reduced!Li Huayu saw that there were fewer shells flying over the fort, so he urged the troops to speed up quickly. As long as they rushed under the fort, Zheng Jun's artillery would be a deaf man's ear!

With a shout, the troops rushed towards the two forts that were constantly emitting smoke and fire, and fired shells, and rushed to an open space less than a hundred steps away from the forts in a blink of an eye.

At this distance, the soldiers of Zheng Jun on the fort were dumbfounded!

Because the Nanyue army rushed too hard, it was too close to the fort!The three-pound cannon they erected on the parapet of the fort as an auxiliary defense, no matter how low the rate of fire was, the shells still flew far away over the heads of the Ming army in front of the forward wave, and fell behind the formation of the Nanyue army.

Taking advantage of this precious time, Li Huayu ordered the troops to take a short rest and sort out their equipment, and the organizational units with relatively large losses of personnel were brought together with neighboring units.

He himself summoned the battalion officers of the four battalions to look carefully at the two forts not far away.

About forty or fifty steps away from the fort, an earthen wall was piled up with earth, which can be regarded as a fortification built around the periphery of the fort. Behind the earthen wall, there were waves of people shouting and roaring. It is trying to move the eight-pound gun to the earth wall, as a condescending firepower to bombard this uninvited guest who has already entered the room.

At this time, although the trench walls on the two forts were claimed to be strong, they had already collapsed in many places under the fierce bombardment of artillery fire from both land and sea directions.

Although Zheng Zhiwan kept urging the auxiliary soldiers in the army to use sacks and bamboo baskets filled with soil and gravel to repair them desperately, but under the artillery fire of the Southern Guangdong Army, there was little effect.However, the ditch in front of the earth wall, the trap behind the ditch, the second ditch in front of the fort, the low wall behind the ditch, the wooden stakes and ropes are all intact.

"My lord! We must rush up first and occupy this section of the earth wall, otherwise the Zheng family's artillery will drag us up, and our casualties along the way will be in vain!"

Hearing the hoarse people behind the earthen wall yelling and roaring, and seeing Zheng Jun's soldiers and horses appearing and disappearing behind the earthen wall, Liang Kuan anxiously suggested to Li Huayu.

"Okay! You go back and prepare separately. When the volley of guns in my camp sounds, the whole army will pounce!"

Hua Yu also saw it very clearly, not far from where he was lining up, it was the entrance and exit of Zheng Jun's fort.In front of the gate of the village, a deep trench was dug and a heavy suspension bridge was drawn.However, the suspension bridge was hit by intensive artillery fire so that half of the bridge deck was suspended in the air, and half of the bridge deck fell on the ditch.Not far to the right, there is a parapet that has been bombarded by artillery fire and half of it collapsed. Judging from the situation, it seems that it has just been patronized by a mortar shell.

"In a while, we will rush into the fort from here!"

Li Huayu pointed to the gap to the battalion officers beside him.

Two short and rapid volleys of guns sounded, and the team of more than a thousand people shouted in unison, "Kill!" Like a volcanic lava erupting, they rushed straight to the earth wall in front of them.

Behind the earth wall, the four eight-pound guns that were struggling to climb were hit head-on by these red-eyed soldiers. Those Dongfan soldiers covered in tattoos showed their white teeth and waved their guns. Juehu Dao fought ferociously, shouting loudly in the tribal language, "Mgaya!" If he could understand it, the roar would be, "Headhunter!"

Li Huayu, who was firmly guarded by dozens of guards, could see clearly that although these Dongfan soldiers were not as tough and disciplined as the soldiers of the Guards Battalion, as a new army facing such a fierce battle for the first time, there was Li Huayu's performance is already enough to make Li Huayu gratified.After all, after training, this soldier was only used to mop up those mountain people who didn't listen to the call. This was the first time that they faced such a cruel and fierce battle.

In this battlefield where shells are raining, flesh and blood are flying everywhere, and turning around is life and death, it is enough to be able to stay calm. (To be continued..)

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