"Prefect Yu, the Shang family soldiers are marching out of the ferry to line up!"
On the side of the Guangdong soldiers, Yu Deshui was sitting upright on the horse. He was only a dozen steps away from the parapet line being constructed, and he was almost on the front line!
Two large flags were erected behind him, forming the shape of a flag gate, fluttering in the wind. Tattooed on the left side is "Alternate Magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, Acting in Xiangshan County", and on the right is a line of bright red characters "Revenge!"
Well, while still using the banner of the Qing Dynasty, at the same time he wanted to seek revenge against the Qing Dynasty King Pingnan. This position is really casual.
At this time, opposite the Guangdong Township Soldiers, on the flat ground outside the ferry on the south bank of Xiaolan Waterway, hundreds of flag soldiers wearing cloth masks and gun helmets were also holding flags in recognition of the vice-capital, pushing several vehicles. The improvised shield vehicles began to line up.
And a dozen steps away behind these flag soldiers, probably outside the ferry gate, a large flag was also erected. The big characters on the flag were "The Great Qing Ping Nan Wang Du Tong Shang"!
When Kangxi saw this scene, he was probably so angry that he vomited blood.
Both co-authors are from the Qing Dynasty!
Now the Qing Dynasty is in danger. Wu Sangui's army has begun to attack Qishan in southern Gansu and Yongzhou in western Hunan. Li Zicheng in northern Hunan has also begun to attack cities and territories. There are also two big rebels in Guangdong, Ao Bai and Wu Sanwei. And the vassals guarding Guangdong The troops of Wang Shangkexi and Wang Fuchen, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, did not go to help the king to destroy the thieves, but started fighting a civil war on their own.
This Qing Dynasty is about to end!
The subordinate officer of Pingnan Palace who was forced by Shang Zhixiao to fight looked at the banners of "Great Qing Yue Yong" and Yu Deshui erected on the Guangdong Township Soldiers' position opposite, and was speechless for a while. He actually led his troops to attack Daqing. The army of the Qing governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi under the command of the Qingzhengpai magistrate (acting magistrate)!
Has King Pingnan already taken refuge with Wu Sangui?
But the problem is that he just came down from the front line where he was facing Wu Sanwei in Dongguan. If King Pingnan had defected to Wu Sangui, he should have invited Wu Sanwei and Ao Bai into Guangzhou City, but there was no such thing! The Dongguan side is still clinging to the wall and clearing the country, and is guarding it with divided troops!
Why does this mean that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Chahan Timur and Boluo Timur left the Red Turban Army in the south to fight and started a civil war on their own?
When the counselor thought of these two "Timurs", his heart went cold.
However, no matter how cold his heart was, he had to bite the bullet and attack, because the urging drums were already ringing!
"Dong dong dong"
Amidst the sound of military drums, hundreds of strong flag soldiers from Pingnan Palace, with six shield vehicles as the leader, formed a wide column and began to press towards the battle line of Guangdong rural soldiers.
The flag soldiers following the shield car are all very elite. Not only are they all wearing armor, but they are also equipped with "second weapons". In addition to bows and arrows for long-range shooting, shotguns and spears for breaking into formations, they are also equipped with waist knives and swords. Some strong ones even carry shields.
Yu Deshui was not panicked at all. He was an "armed master" and had also been a teacher at Jingwu Hall. Wang Zhongxiao, the principal, had always been a busy man, so he was the military instructor at Jingwu Hall for a long time. Responsible.
He was very familiar with setting up battle formations.
He is also very familiar with the tactics of the Eight Banners Soldiers and the Green Camp Soldiers, and of course he also knows how to deal with them - a large group of rebels in Yunnan who have fought and served as Qing soldiers gathered together to sum up their experiences and lessons. , exchange experiences of killing captives? Moreover, Wang Zhongxiao later combined some of the tactics and tactics he knew from the Napoleonic era and even the American Civil War era to come up with a set of methods to restrain the Eight Banners' tactics, and Yu Deshui also mastered them.
After seeing the Shang Jiajun on the opposite side pushing out the shield cart, Yu Deshui immediately thought of a way to deal with them.
He ordered Lu Yijia to immediately dispatch a group of heavy shotgun soldiers and two groups of light shotgun soldiers from his Guangdong rural soldiers. Under the escort of the same number of infantrymen using wolf swords and swords, they drove out the sandbag parapet that had not yet been completely completed. On the defense line, a "Crane Wing Formation" was set up in front of the Shang Jiajun's shield vehicles and flag soldiers - the heavy musketeers stood in the center and fought against the shield vehicles! The light gunners surrounded him from left to right, targeting areas without shield vehicles!
The so-called heavy shotgunners are shotgunners equipped with heavy muskets called turtle-dove muskets. The turtle-dove musket is copied from the Spanish heavy matchlock gun. Its power is quite reliable. The projectiles used are one or two smaller in weight. Shield vehicles and other things cannot withstand projectiles of this caliber!
Because the musket was too heavy, the recoil when firing was too great, and it had to be supported by a Y-shaped stand to shoot. So Cantonese people call this kind of musket "turtle dove's foot gun" - the bracket looks like a thin turtle dove's foot, which is quite vivid.
This kind of musket was introduced to Guangdong more than a hundred years ago. The blacksmiths in Foshan have already been able to make it. The Portuguese also sold the turtle-dove-foot muskets made in Foshan to Southeast Asia and Japan. It’s just that the Ming Dynasty’s Northern Front didn’t get many heavy shotguns “Made in Ming Dynasty Foshan” to deal with the Qing Dynasty soldiers.
However, Wang Zhongxiao was not from the Ming Dynasty, and he had no place to produce such low-quality explosives. It's still the year of Kangxi, and that kind of explosive stuff hasn't been "redeveloped" yet!
As for the light shotgun, it is naturally the light matchlock gun. It was also introduced to Guangdong during the Ming Dynasty. In the early years, the Qi family army had a large number of equipment. Among the more than 2,600 people in the Qi family infantry camp, there were 1,080 rifles. A shotgun accounts for about 40%.
The light shotguns in Guangdong are also made in Foshan. The quality is quite reliable!
Most of these light and heavy shotguns were sold to the Tukechao clan in Guangdong for fighting. They were bought with private money. How could the quality be unreliable?
The battlefield of the Battle of Xiaolan Ferry was composed of an open official road and paddy fields with good crops growing on both sides of the official road. Although it is winter, crops can still grow in the paddy fields in Guangdong! It was not easy to pass through the paddy fields with crops. That is to say, the Guangdong soldiers wearing straw sandals and rolled up trousers legs were running very fast inside. The Shang family's flag soldiers could only take the official road. Those who wore stuffy official boots How could a man wearing heavy and airtight cloth-covered armor be chasing a group of lightly-armed peasant soldiers in a muddy paddy field?
The sun can now shine overhead!
So when he saw that the two wings were surrounded by a group of country soldiers, the military commander became anxious and kept looking back at the ferry - he was waiting for Shang Zhixiao to withdraw his troops!
But Shang Zhixiao was not willing to pay gold, but instead he had people beat the war drum to urge him to die louder and louder!
In fact, Shang Zhixiao couldn't pay the money to withdraw his troops - because the Guangdong villagers' spectator team was coming!
Cantonese people still like to watch fighting! Historically, when the British came to fight, many Cantonese people were watching - maybe they were learning advanced international fighting techniques, right? The people there have a strong sense of clan, and the conflicts between locals and foreigners are great. From time to time, they have to fight over territory and water sources, so it is always a good idea to learn more if you have the opportunity.
In addition, the terrain on the seaside in Guangdong is very "fragmented". These spectators are looking across the water and are not easily affected by the fighting, which can ensure safety when studying and observing.
At this moment, many people from Shunde gathered on the north bank of Xiaolan Waterway to watch the excitement. People from Xiangshan next door were "beating Shang's house". Why didn't he take a good look? If the Shang family had not been beaten, then they would have to take revenge and complain!
Under the "supervision" of this group of Shunde people, how could Shang Zhixiao dare to show weakness?
"Bah, bah, bah"
Just when Shang Zhixiao was urging the drummer next to him to beat the drum hard, after a harsh "suona" from the opposite side, twenty or thirty turtle-dove-foot fire cannons were fired!
Almost at the same time as the gunfire sounded, several bowl-sized holes appeared in the shields of the six slowly advancing shield vehicles dozens of steps away, and pieces of wood and sawdust shattered by projectiles one or two times smaller were everywhere. The back of the shield car splashed everywhere, just like shotguns, but it was not as powerful, but it still hurt when it hit people! If the blow is unlucky and a larger piece of wood hits someone's head, it is possible that he will suffer a bloody head injury.
So after the gunfire, screams and curses started.
However, the Shang family's banner soldiers were not useless snacks. They could bear this loss. Instead of retreating, they accelerated and pushed forward. They were quite confident and felt that as long as they could push forward, they could defeat a group of Guangdong soldiers with their martial arts skills. Isn’t it easy?
"Bah, bah, bah"
The gunfire rang out again!
This time it was the turtle dove's cannon that fired! The Guangdong rural soldiers also took turns to shoot. They deployed a front of twenty people on and on both sides of the official road. A team of 200 shotgun soldiers lined up in ten rows. They were all sparse. After fighting, one row retreated. In a row, retreat to the back to load the ammunition and then wait to fire. Rows of shotgunners at the back took turns firing to maintain continuity of firepower.
The continuity of firepower and the density of firepower cannot have both ends. Therefore, although those shield vehicles were quickly beaten with holes, the Shang family's flag soldiers following behind could still withstand moderate casualties. Head forward with your head covered.
As long as we advance a little further and can shoot those unarmored shotgun soldiers with bows and arrows, we should be able to win!
But those shotgun soldiers fought and retreated at the same time.
One side was fighting and retreating, while the other side was advancing step by step. At the same time, there were two groups of Guangdong soldiers carrying shotguns, escorted by two groups of spearmen and sword soldiers carrying wolves. The two sides of the army surrounded him.
The Shang family soldiers also knew that both sides were going to be beaten, so they made adjustments and placed the soldiers carrying shields on both sides, probably hoping to use shields to block bullets, right?
However, unlike the heavy shotgun soldiers who formed a team to fire in the front, those light shotgun soldiers seemed to be "skirmishers". They did not line up to fire volleys, but spread out, squatting, and followed the field ridges and crops. cover and quickly approach the target.
After getting close enough, he picked up the shotgun in his hand and took aim. After finishing the fight, he ran back in a hurry until he ran behind the wolf soldiers (also spear soldiers) and sword soldiers who formed a horizontal formation and were slowly advancing to reload their ammunition.
Their firepower was not dense, and even a bit sporadic, but the damage caused was not small. From time to time, several Shang family banner soldiers were knocked down by shotgun bullets, or were killed on the spot, or they covered their wounds and let out bursts of scream
The Shang family soldiers immediately fought back. They also had muskets and bows and arrows!
But the effect is much worse. After all, the opponent is covered by tall crops and field ridges, and the formation is scattered, making it difficult to hit. The Shang family army advanced in formation, with a large group of people crowded together. Fortunately, the opponent did not have artillery, at least not yet, or there were no artillery, otherwise the losses would have been even greater!
Although the losses seemed small, they were continuous losses. As more and more people fell, the morale of these Shang soldiers became lower and lower, and they also discovered a reality that frightened them - the front The Guangdong soldiers who relied on the parapet to defend themselves did not waver because of their approach, but became more determined!
Needless to say, this must be a tough battle!
Just when the hearts of these Shang family soldiers were sinking, several dull roars suddenly sounded from behind the parapet in front. Before everyone could react, a huge fireball exploded above their heads, and then another sudden explosion. Something slammed into the crowd, killing and injuring two or three "shang soldiers" on the spot!
"The sky cannon rebels have a sky cannon!"
I don't know who shouted, and the "shang soldiers" who were still insisting on pushing forward immediately stopped. Why are there still cannons?
There are guns and cannons, and the shooting is quite accurate! The morale is quite high! How to fight this?
Just when their military morale was wavering, a dull drumbeat sounded from behind the parapet defense line of the Guangdong rural soldiers.
"Dong dong dong"
Then there was a cry of death!
"Kill!"
"We hit Guangzhou City! It's great to capture him alive!"
The counterattack of the Guangdong rural soldiers has begun!
At least two thousand rural soldiers armed with swords, wolves, and spears rushed out of the position like a tide. They did not charge from the front, but from the left and right directions to outflank the Shang soldiers who were advancing along the official road. Now the Shang family's flag soldiers could no longer hold their nerve! Who can afford to take the alternative route? Once the way back is cut off, there will be no way to survive!
I don’t know who took the lead and shouted, “We are defeated, we are defeated, run away.”
Hundreds of "shang soldiers" just started to retreat towards the ferry amid shouts of killing and "defeated, defeated".
The Shunde people watching the battle across the Xiaolan Waterway gave out bursts of "cheers"!
"Shang Ke is happy to be defeated!"
"The Shang family is going to end!"
When Shang Zhixiao saw this scene, his face turned pale, his mouth was trembling, and his head and face were covered in cold sweat. He could only hear him shouting: "Hold it! Hold it to me!"
But who will take the lead?
The soldiers following Shang Zhixiao all looked at each other in confusion.
At this critical moment, someone with a "Beijing Film" accent suddenly shouted: "Don't panic, Guangdong Admiral Li Lan is here. Mr. Lan is here, what is there to be afraid of?"
It turned out that Li Lan, the bad guy, led his green battalion soldiers to the ferry on the south bank of Xiaolan Waterway. Not many people came this time, only a few hundred people, but it was enough to stabilize the swaying hearts of the Shang family soldiers and keep this place. No crossing is missed.
Shang Zhixiao also breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the ferry is not lost, the troops on the north bank will continue to come over with energy and artillery can come back!
So this advantage is still with me!
Macau Commercial Market.
The atmosphere here is starting to get tense!
People don't know what the situation is like on the Xiangshan battlefield in the north?
Moreover, rumors began to spread among businessmen in Macau and the landowners from the three counties who were forcibly relocated.
Some people say that Shang Kexi's soldiers have occupied Xiangshan County!
Others say that Shang Kexi has taken refuge with Wu Sangui and is now working with "Shen Aobai" to deal with Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao!
Others say that "Shen Aobai" has infiltrated the Macau commercial market and will soon raise troops in Macau!
Some people even say that Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao took refuge with Wu Sangui, so the imperial court sent out a large number of troops to attack them!
Anyway, I don’t know who voted for Wu Sangui? I don’t even know who the court is supporting this time.
However, these rumors are not completely false. At least one of them is right, that is, "Shen Aobai" has really arrived in Macau!
"Shen Aobai" is He Tianran. On the same day that Wang Zhongxiao left Macau, he followed Wang Zhongxiao's order and took two hundred "iron soldiers" from Xiang Island to cross the sea to Macau.
There are two Aobai in Macau now, but they are both fakes. The real Aobai has long since turned into ashes and will never come back no matter what.
According to Wang Zhongxiao's instructions, he had to take charge of Macau after Wang Zhongxiao left. Once the "landlords and old wealth" in Macau took the opportunity to cause trouble, he had to bring two hundred "iron soldiers" to help suppress it.
These two hundred iron soldiers are modeled after the elite iron soldiers of the Yanping clan. They are Wenzhou iron soldiers! But it is still very solid and has been tested in actual combat!
At this moment, he was in the Macau Castle meeting with Prince Zhu San, the chief rudder of the Tiandi Society, Wang Zhongxiao’s wife Wu Xiaotuo, and his alternate concubine Wu Xiaoxuan, as well as Wu Xiaotuan’s nominal sister, Wang Zhongxiao’s concubine Yang Xiaohuan!
(End of chapter)
