When Liu Jinzhong, escorted by a group of soldiers, held his general flag and the recognition flag with the character "Liu" out of the north gate of Jieyang, the green camp soldiers, minzhuang, and regiment men outside the north gate were already in chaos.
These people were originally under the control of Li Chenggong, but now Li Chenggong himself is dead. They are leaderless, and of course they are in chaos. Coupled with such a terrifying enemy as "Obai's Eight Banners Soldiers", this group of green camp soldiers, minzhuang, and regiment men did not disperse in a hurry, and they were really worthy of the young British master in Beijing.
And when Liu Jinzhong's banner and soldiers appeared outside the north gate of Jieyang City, this group of Qing soldiers who looked like headless flies finally saw their backbone. A group of guerrillas, Qianzong, and Dianshi (minor officials in Guan Minzhuang and Tuanding) all ran to Liu Jinzhong and kowtowed to see him. After seeing him, they even complained about the ferocity of "Obai" with salt and vinegar!
"Headquarters, the people in Obai are so powerful. They are all Manchurian soldiers with great strength and superb martial arts. They can also throw thunder, and the thunder is even more powerful. It explodes in a large area..."
"Zong Rong, that Obai is the number one Batulu in Manchuria, and all those who follow him on the run are small Batulus. The young ones really can't resist it!"
"Zongrong... look at this. This is an unexploded thunder hammer that Xiao picked up on the battlefield. Look, there is a talisman on it. This Obai turns out to be able to do magic. !”
After listening to the reports of these subordinates, Liu Jinzhong became very angry!
Who are these people? In order to shirk his own responsibility for losing the war because of his greed for life and fear of death, he forced a group of Guangdong rebels under Zhu San's grandson to be the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers under Ao Bai. If it's really Obai's Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers who are coming, then...it seems to be just that powerful!
Liu Jinzhong suddenly thought of a serious problem!
A wave of three hundred cavalry raided and captured one of his camps, an artillery fort, and a fortified bridge, and defeated thousands of green battalion soldiers, minzhuang, and regiment men. Although they have the kind of Zhuge Shen Lei that explodes a large area to help them, they are a bit invincible... But the Qing Dynasty seems to be unable to restrain Zhuge Shen Lei!
Since the Qing Dynasty could not restrain Zhuge Divine Thunder, it seemed that it could not imitate it... Then Zhu San Taisun's "Divine Thunder Soldiers" were not equivalent to the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers that were rampant back then?
Moreover, they also grabbed a red cannon and continued to bombard the head of Jieyang Beiguan City. If it collapsed, they would be in big trouble!
Just when he was having a headache, the Chaozhen guerrilla who had just handed a picked-up divine thunder to Li Chenggong suggested again: "General Rong, I think this Zhuge divine thunder is not light. It shouldn't be thrown very far. It certainly doesn't have our bows and arrows." Shoot far.”
Yes, how far can a hand-thrown hammer be thrown? Liu Jinzhong immediately felt his eyes brighten, and immediately said to the guerrillas: "Go and select three hundred elites immediately, two hundred of them will carry bows and arrows, and one hundred will carry spears...The spearmen are in front, and the archers are in Then, approach along the pontoon until you are fifty steps away from the enemy's position, then stop shooting!"
"嗻!" The guerrilla responded with a loud "嗻", and then turned around to mobilize his troops.
Watching the guerrilla leave, Liu Jinzhong issued several more orders one after another.
The first is to rectify the chaotic green camp soldiers, minzhuang and tuanting soldiers on the south bank of Beixi River.
The second option is to mobilize troops from within the city and south of the city - he still has a thousand people in the city, including many shotgun soldiers, so he quickly mobilized seven to eight hundred troops to help. There are also a thousand people in the south of the city, and some can be transferred here.
The third step is to adjust the artillery... There are still two old ancestral artillery pieces on the Nanxi Bridge, and they must be mobilized to bombard the rebels in Beixi and Hebei together.
After issuing the three orders, Liu Jinzhong set up the Chinese army outside the north gate of Jieyang City. The flag was raised, the horn was blown, and the war drum was beaten. The soldiers supervising the battle were holding the big order and the ghost-headed sword to kill people. After wandering around, the Green Camp soldiers, Min Zhuang and Tuan Ding, who were originally in a mess, also stabilized.
At this time, the guerrilla finally gathered enough 200 archers and 100 spearmen, and asked them to form a team and start marching towards the pontoon bridge on the Beixi River.
The pontoon bridge on the Nanbei River in Jieyang is not just for traffic, but also has the defensive function of cutting off the Nanbei River waterway - the Nanbei River waterway is the most convenient passage for Qiu Hui's pirates to invade the interior of Chaozhou Prefecture. If not If it is cut off, Qiu Hui's pirates can easily penetrate all the way to Mianhu Village, a city located in the hinterland of Chaozhou Prefecture.
In order to ensure that the pontoon bridge would not be easily destroyed by Qiu Hui's warships and pirates, both the Nanxi Bridge and the Beixi Bridge were built very solidly, and the bridge deck was wide enough to allow two carriages to run parallel to each other.
Three hundred Qing soldiers formed two columns, with spears in front and bows and arrows behind, and they marched onto the pontoon bridge!
The water surface of the northern and southern streams of the Rongjiang River near Jieyang County is very wide. Even in relatively narrow places, there are more than a hundred steps.
The grenade hammer can't be thrown that far, the bow and arrow can barely reach it, but it can't shoot accurately and can't shoot well, and the shotgun has no accuracy at all.
So these Qing soldiers had to walk about fifty steps along the pontoon bridge before they could shoot their bows!
Fifty steps is about seventy-five meters. It is not easy to throw a grenade hammer that far.
But Zhu Hesheng had thought of this problem a long time ago...so he "helped Zhuge Liang" design the "Zhuge Machine Cannon" early on, which was a small, simple counterweight trebuchet.
Two units have now been assembled and are placed outside the entrance to the north end of the pontoon.
Zhu Hesheng was still riding his long-legged horse that was not very obedient. He stood between the two "machine guns" and watched the Qing troops approaching in formation.
I have to say that the Qing soldiers these days are quite powerful! Even the green battalion soldiers from Chaozhou, Guangdong, look impressive when displayed.
If it weren't for the "Zhuge Divine Thunder" and "Zhuge Machine Cannon", we might not be able to defeat them!
Thinking of this, Zhu Hesheng said to Su Zhanshan, who was commanding the two "machine guns" next to him: "Zhanshan, throw mines!"
"I have the order! Cast..."
With an order, the live hooks on the two "Zhuge Machine Cannons" were opened, and then the cocked end of the throwing rod was immediately pressed down by the heavy object hanging on it. The other end of the throwing rod that was previously hooked by the live hook was immediately lifted high under the action of the "seesaw" until it hit the horizontal axis on the top of the wooden frame with a "snap" and stopped abruptly.
Although the throwing rod was blocked by the horizontal axis and could not move, a large "explosion ball" placed in the throwing pocket at the top of the throwing rod was suddenly thrown out!
The two "machine guns" threw a total of two "explosion balls" weighing seven or eight kilograms, drawing an arc-shaped parabola in the air. In the blink of an eye, they flew a hundred and eighty steps in the air, and then landed on the ground at the same time. Among the columns of two hundred archers who just stepped onto the pontoon bridge!
The shells of the two "explosion balls" are made of bronze, and they are not light. They are falling objects from high altitudes, and no one can bear the impact! It knocked over two people on the spot, causing a moderate chaos, and a few people who missed it screamed in surprise.
"Shapao! Obai has a cannon!"
"Watch the top of your head..."
Liu Jinzhong, who was standing on the south side of Beixi Bridge supervising the battle, saw this scene, but his expression changed drastically - he had already remembered that during the battle in Guiyu City, Prince Zhu and that Zhuge military advisor had used cannons to launch large " Zhuge Shen Lei".
This is going to explode, so what's the point?
Liu Jinzhong quickly shouted: "Ming Jin! Ming Jin!"
But it's too late!
Before he finished speaking, he saw a huge fireball suddenly rise from the south end of the pontoon - this was a bomb that exploded... and another was a "dumb ball" that did not explode.
But this "explosion ball" is also very powerful!
This "explosion ball" contains more than a kilogram of explosives, and is also filled with hundreds of copper coin fragments!
Encouraged by the gas and energy generated by the explosion of sweet gunpowder, these hundreds of copper coin fragments and the fragments of the shells of the explosive balls immediately turned into deadly sharp blades, flying in all directions, from those unlucky people on the pontoon. The Qing soldiers swept over them!
No armor or shield can withstand it! In the blink of an eye, a large area was swept down. The southern entrance of the pontoon bridge was full of lying corpses and dying and wailing injured. At least thirty or fifty people fell, even the thick and strong pontoon bridge deck. A big hole was blown out of the wooden planks!
The remaining Qing soldiers who were not knocked down by the explosion were also frightened and collapsed... How could they not collapse? This is too powerful!
Don't say that the Green Camp soldiers can't handle it, even if you let Dorgon's Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers pass through, they won't be able to handle such a "explosion ball"!
Both those carrying spears and those holding bows and arrows lost the courage to move forward, but they did not run away immediately. They just stood there in a daze, not knowing whether they were frightened or not.
When Zhu Hesheng on the other side of the pontoon saw this scene, he became excited for some reason. He drew his sword and pointed it forward, then shouted in Manchurian: "Batulu, attack your mother..." Kill!"
After roaring, he took the lead, held up a big sword and roared at the frightened Qing soldiers in front...
