Win the Ding 1617

The artillery shells went fiercely, and went straight to the outer trench, where the soldiers of the Southern Guangdong Army were most concentrated.Wherever it went, there were constant crackling sounds, limbs flying, broken flesh and limbs, and blood mist rising. I don't know how many soldiers of the Southern Guangdong Army were killed by this shell. Wherever the shell passed, it was a mess.

However, in Zheng Zhiwan's mind, even if a hundred of such soldiers and officers were killed, it might not be as important as killing one Li Huayu!

The shells continued to viciously clashed back and forth among the troops of the Southern Guangdong Army, either piercing through the soldiers' chests, or bouncing up and hitting their heads, or rolling on the ground, knocking people's legs flying in all directions.

"Don't panic!"

"If there is any disturbance, the whole team will be killed if they retreat!"

Seeing the panic fluctuations of the soldiers in the troops around him who were hit by the artillery fire so close, especially those soldiers from the East, showing signs of breaking up again, Li Huayu knew that this soldier had come to the end of the mountain. At this moment, whether you can become a real elite team depends on whether you can persist at this moment.Regardless of the flying shells, he stood up and roared angrily in the team.

Liang Kuan at the side remembered that tears were about to come down.The young marshal is standing here, surrounded by dozens of personal guards, and in front of him is his own official position and flag. Isn't this exposing himself to the gun?Isn't it telling the other party that there are important figures in our army here?

Since the Southern Guangdong Army became an army, it has fought in the South and the North, and has relied on two sharp weapons most.One is the courage of soldiers to stand up and fight hand-to-hand no matter how powerful the enemy is, and the other is relying on artillery power.After many years of military use, the officers have a good understanding of the power of artillery.within the range of the cannon.No place is safe.Regardless of the humblest soldier or the commander-in-chief or general of an army, it is possible to be hit by artillery and take their lives while breathing.

In particular, in order to boost morale, Li Huayu exposed himself and the flag to the enemy's artillery fire. The flag standing here is the best target for Zheng Jun, and it will attract more and more soldiers. Zheng Jun's artillery bombarded the position where the flag was recognized.

But at this time, it was difficult to ride a tiger, no matter how dangerous it was, Liang Kuan did not dare to step forward to remove Li Huayu's recognition flag. At this time, the army is fighting, and the Chinese army's banner is the most important.The flag is falling.Represents the collapse of the chain of command.The impact on the morale of the army is indescribable.If he stepped forward rashly and removed Huayu's recognition flag, the fort would immediately shout that Li Huayu had been killed, and the situation of this battle might be reversed immediately.

in a blink.Another five-pound solid iron ball came roaring with more than a dozen small bullets.Crackling fracture.In front of Li Huayu, a campfire musketeer of the guards was smashed into blood mist.The broken arm and stump were shot up, seeing that the armored soldier had lost almost all casualties.

The solid iron ball bounced, and rushed towards Li Huayu and his handsome flag standing at the foot of the earth wall.There was a muffled bang, but it was one of Hua Yu's personal soldiers who rushed over, put himself in front of Hua Yu, and forcibly took the shot for Hua Yu. A cloud of blood mist immediately rose from his body. They dispersed, but the crowd couldn't find his body, only found his eight-petal hat and iron pointed helmet on the ground.

Two small bullets beat Li Huayu's flag soldier to pieces, and he fell to the ground immediately.A cannon hit the chest and abdomen, and a huge blood hole was punched out of the body. The internal organs and intestines coiled in the middle slowly came out, and the bloody red flesh flew into the air.The other cannon shot hit his left leg, breaking his entire thigh, and blood gushed out like a fountain. The severed limbs were filled with blood mist, which was not surprising at all on this killing battlefield full of casualties.

However, when he fell to the ground, Li Huayu's recognition flag also collapsed.

"Li Huayu is dead!"

"Li Huayu is dead!"

Seeing Li Huayu's recognition flag tilted to one side, Zheng Zhiwan on the fort couldn't help but be overjoyed.He ordered his soldiers to shout loudly, claiming that his artillery had killed Li Huayu, the young commander of the Southern Guangdong Army, and knocked down his commander's flag.

In an instant, the entire Central Fort became the eye of the storm, and fell into what seemed to be an eternal calm.On the contrary, the troops of the Southern Guangdong Army galloping here from all over the place were shocked!

"What is the young master dead?!"

"Damn it! This group of guys actually killed the Young Marshal?! Let me rush up! I want their entire army to kill the Young Marshal!"

Over the years, the Southern Guangdong Army has formed a system independent of the Ming Dynasty. If it was not for a legal identity, the officers and generals of the Southern Guangdong Army would not have Zhu Youjian at all. Classmates take it seriously.

They only knew Li Shouhan in their eyes.

But today, the eldest son of the lord took the lead in the assault and was unfortunately shot to death by artillery fire. How did this happen?Not to mention how to deal with Li Shouhan's thunderous wrath after the war, even emotionally, he couldn't forgive himself.

Most of the commanders of the various troops had such thoughts in their hearts, and now they all ordered their troops to rush towards the two remaining forts. First, they wanted to stabilize the battle situation, and second, they wanted to get Li Huayu's body back!

Li Huayu's handsome flag tilted to one side as the soldier in charge of the flag fell to the ground, and it was about to fall to the ground, a hand stretched out from the diagonal stab to grab it!

"I'm not dead yet!"

Li Huayu wiped the flesh and blood from his face, and roared towards the top of the wall.Waving the recognition flag in his hand, "Boys, fire!"

Seeing that Li Huayu was safe and sound, surrounded by more than a dozen personal guards, the whole army was immediately safe.

The gunners quickly adjusted the shooting angles of the four cannons, and pointed the muzzles at the most densely fired artillery on the top of the city, "Let you taste our shells!"

The storm-like cannons rushed to the artillery positions on the fort. The farthest distance between the two armies was no more than a hundred steps. At this distance, the artillerymen of the Southern Guangdong Army reached an unprecedented high hit rate, and Zheng Jiajun The artillery had just finished firing, and a group of gunners were nervously cleaning the barrel of the artillery, ready to fire again.

"Damn Yi! If the gunnery exam is so easy, I'll definitely get a perfect target score!" A gunner glared at the cannon and rushed towards the people on the fort, and such a thought suddenly appeared in his mind.

With a characteristic sharp whistling sound, the five-pound heavy artillery shells flew around the fort one by one with dozens of cannonballs. The shells jumped up and down and rolled.everywhere.Broken limbs flew everywhere, and the artillerymen of Zheng Jun, who were lucky enough to survive, couldn't help but turned pale and ran around.

After the four artillery fired a volley, everyone watched the situation at the top of the city intently.After this rain of metal bullets, there was no Zheng Jun gunner who could stand up around the artillery on the top of the city. They either lay down on the ground or fell on the gun mount, letting the blood in their bodies stain the artillery. Get scarlet.

"My lord, the blessings are equal to the sky! The young master is blessed by the gods!"

"My lord, the blessings are equal to the sky! The young master is blessed by the gods!"

Under Liang Kuan's military order, the people around Li Huayu shouted in unison, and quickly spread the news that Li Huayu was safe and sound to all around the battlefield in order to stabilize the morale of the army.

Li Huayu is safe and sound.This immediately raised the morale of the army to a new height.The cannonballs have to go around in front of the young marshal, what does this mean? !

"One more round, the infantry is ready to go to the city! Follow Lao Tzu's flag!" Li Huayu was completely washed away by the gunfire and gunpowder, and his demeanor was completely washed away by the nobles of the family, and his mouth was the same as that of Zhang Xiaohu and other old guys.Call yourself Lao Tzu.

Again the four eight-pounders fired in unison.It perfectly explains what bullet rain is.What is the perfect combination of fast and accurate, what is the classic shelling.

It was originally a salvo of cannons, but it was shot by these skilled gunners with the effect of slow-moving firecrackers!

Perhaps Zheng Jun's skilled gunners on the top of the city can fire a shell every 2 minutes.However, these Southern Cantonese troops under the city had no gunners, but they fired the eight-pound cannons beyond the level of the Franc machine, and they could fire once in almost a minute!

They fired, cleaned the barrel, loaded, and fired again, and the artillery was manipulated accurately and ruthlessly in their hands.The perfect artillery operation opened the eyes of the Zheng army officers and soldiers in the city. It turns out that the artillery can still be fired like this.

However, this is their last sliver of consciousness.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

A burst of firecrackers sounded like popping beans at the top of the city, and under the fort, a large white smoke rose in mid-air and quickly condensed in the air.Dozens of Zheng Jun soldiers who were already in a panic on the fort fell down. Their bodies were pierced by bullets, and bloody arrows were sprayed out, and they staggered backwards and fell out.

"kill!"

The Southern Guangdong Army under the city took advantage of the chaos above the city and let out bursts of shouts. Under the leadership of their respective team officers and armor commanders, hundreds of Dongfan soldiers climbed along the city wall of the fort that was riddled with shells. And up.

Seeing Dong Fanbing with a knife in his mouth and red eyes on the city wall, Zheng Zhi couldn't help being stunned for a while.

"My lord! This place can't be defended anymore! Let's go! There is a small boat hidden in the back, hurry up to Xiamen and ask the commander for help!"

One pushed the boss violently to Zheng Zhiwan, which made him wake up.

right!I'm going to ask the commander for help!

Without further ado, Zheng Zhiwan immediately took a few confidants and followed the general to the secret place by the sea, boarded a boat and fled to Xiamen Island.

"The official has escaped!"

"Leave us behind!"

"Ponyam! You sons of bitches!"

Although there was chaos on the fort at this time, Zheng Zhiwan's actions fell into the eyes of Zheng Jun's soldiers. Suddenly, exclamations and curses rang out from the fort.The soldiers no longer had the courage to fight back against the Dongfan soldiers of the Southern Guangdong Army who were climbing to the top of the city. They only thought about how to save their lives and how to escape.

"They all ran away! Let's run away too!"

"It's coming! Those barbarians are coming!"

As soon as a soldier of the Zheng army uttered an exclamation, he was cut in two by an Dongfan soldier who jumped on the top of the wall first, swung a long knife across his shoulders and strapped his back!

On the fort, panic became more and more sudden.

"Those who kneel down and abandon their weapons are deemed to have surrendered!"

"Whoever descends shall be spared death!"

The team officers stopped the high-spirited killing behavior of the Gaoshan soldiers under them, indicating that they could point their knives and guns at the soldiers who were still trying to resist or escape, and they were not allowed to kill those who had kneeled and surrendered.

When the troops of Lu Yunsheng and others rushed to the central fort, the fighting here was basically over, but there were bursts of swords and guns attacking and the roar of firecrackers shooting from some corners. The sound made when searching for remnants.

Outside the fort, in the short distance of dozens of steps from the city wall to the outer moat, there are piles of meaty parts, various limbs and broken arms, and scattered large intestines and small intestines.Scattered swords and guns, armor.The broken wheels of the cannon carts, and the shells covered with flesh and blood, were everywhere.There were corpses everywhere as far as the eye could see, layer upon layer, especially along the edge of the outer ditch, layer upon layer.

There was blood all over the ground, puddles of dark red blood, mixed with soil and gravel, it felt extremely slippery to step on.The blood flowed from the bodies of the wounded and dead on both sides, and silently flowed into the ground.

The sea breeze will blow in all directions with the smell of gunpowder smoke and the disgusting smell of blood.Along with the wind came waves of desperate moans and cries.Many people on and off the fort were hit by cannons and their hands and feet were broken.The soldiers of the Zheng army who were beaten to the bone and broken, or were hit by the dense volley of firecrackers, they were unable to escape, but sat and waited to die in tears.

"Calculate the number of prisoners. Send people to the East Fortress. Call a health battalion. A large number of our brothers have been injured here!"

Lu Yunsheng was the first officer to rush to the Central Fort, and besides Li Huayu, he had the highest rank here, so he had to arrange for his subordinates to rush to the East Fort for help.Heal yourself and the wounded among the captives.

"Liang Kuan! You bastard! Street boy! Red deer!"

As an old officer, Lu Yunsheng would naturally not be polite when he saw Liang Kuan, and the obscenities in his mouth were like the rising tide of the sea.There are people from both the north and the south in the Southern Guangdong Army, and it is not uncommon for all nationalities and races. For example, Li Huamei has Tianzhu female soldiers by her side.There are many types of people, and all kinds of swear words are spread in the army, and Lu Yunsheng is the leader among them.

"As the guard battalion officer next to the Young Marshal, you don't protect the Young Marshal, but let the Young Marshal take such risks. If the Young Marshal makes a mistake, I think you are too fat for a pig head!"

Although it was said that Li Huamei had something to say and wanted to slap Li Huayu when he saw him, it was after all an angry expression of concern between his siblings, and Lu Yunsheng could still handle this size clearly.Thus, the worry, anxiety, fear, and fright just now all vented on Liang Kuan.

Facing the old officer, Liang Kuan couldn't say anything to refute, so he could only show a naive smile, revealing a pair of white teeth on his dark face that was smoky.

"You bastard! How dare you play with me here?!" Lu Yunsheng swung the scabbard in his hand and wanted to whip him.But he was stopped by Li Huayu who was at the side.

"Lord Lu, don't get angry. We can wait until the battle is over. Now you and I will take down the West Fort together and conquer Gulangyu Island!"

Now that Li Huayu came out to speak, Lu Yunsheng happened to get off the donkey, and on the surface he dropped a word to Liang Kuan, "I'll settle the score with you later!" He immediately turned his head and saluted Li Huayu: "Young Marshal! , your subordinates have just fought hard, and the West Fort will be handed over to our brothers in the third town!"

"Old sir, this is not allowed! Although my troops suffered some casualties, their fighting spirit was strong. Wouldn't it be a pity to let them retreat at this time? Or should I be the vanguard in the front, and the brothers from the third town will give these troops back. The recruits hold their ground!" Friendship belongs to friendship, but in the face of military exploits, Liang Kuan is not willing to give in at all.

"you!......"

After some quarreling, the middle fort fell into a busy pre-war preparation.The flag of the Nanyue Army was erected on the fort, indicating that this place has been occupied by the Nanyue Army, and warned the fleet at sea not to fire here again.

On the artillery positions, the gunners got busy, and learned the lesson of the casualties in the attack on the central fort just now. This time, people should make full use of the cannons on the central fort, so that these cannons produced in Nanzhong, which belonged to Zheng Jun just now Let their old masters open fire, provide sufficient fire support for the charging troops, and destroy as much as possible the defensive facilities on the West Fort and the defenders' will to resist.

When the soldiers of the third town supervised and led the prisoners of the Zheng army to remove the huge 24-pound and 32-pound artillery from the original gun positions, and pointed the muzzle directly at the neighbor's West Fort, this Zheng Jun was in Gulangyu Island. At the last stronghold, an unexpected thing happened.

On the West Fort, the flag of Zheng Jun, fluttering in the sea wind, was hacked in the middle, and the rope and flag fell to the ground.Then, a white flag made of white cloth temporarily tied to a wooden stick appeared on the top of the fort with fear.

"Brothers of the Southern Guangdong Army, stop fighting! We surrender!"

There was a terrified sound from the fort.

These people could clearly see the scene of the Southern Cantonese Army charging with bayonets and long knives under the rain of cannons just now, and the scene of blood and flesh flying everywhere paralyzed them with fright.

After completely controlling Gulangyu Island, the three forts on Gulangyu Island immediately became a great help for the Southern Guangdong Army. They used the ready-made artillery and ammunition here to provide fire cover for ships that broke into the west waterway of Xiamen and entered the inner harbor. , the core fort that was called Jincheng Tangchi by Zheng Zhilong brothers, was the first to be completed and had the most complete facilities for artillery battles.

Gulangyu was guarded by the Zheng family army at the outer gate of Xiamen Island, and in a blink of an eye it became the cornerstone for the Southern Guangdong Army to capture Xiamen.

Dozens of fast crab boats shuttled back and forth here, unloading soldiers and supplies on the temporary pier trestle, and then transferring the slightly injured ships away.

Seeing the sun gradually sinking to the west, dyeing Gulangyu Island and the nearby sea brilliantly golden, Zheng Zhilong, who was commanding the battle on Sunlight Rock, couldn't help but feel the sun was fading away.

The Golden Gate in the distance was captured by Li Shouhan himself when Li Huayu attacked Gulangyu Island.Completely blocked the passage for the Zheng family's navy to escape to the sea!

"Master! Look!"

Zheng Zhilong looked in the direction of the staff's fingers, and saw that the Nanyue Army Navy, which was completely free from the interference of flanking artillery fire, was led by the Three-Headed Tiger and the Aomei, with more than ten large ships as the guide, covering nearly forty fast ships. The crab boat was flying towards Xiamen Island, and the target happened to be the fort on the south coast of Xiamen Island! (to be continued..)

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