The first person in the boat to rush forward was Su Zhanshan, Zhu Heji's favorite general, disciple and little fanboy.
His name is Zhan Shan, but his family has been pirates for generations. It was only when his father Su Yong abandoned his ship and went up the mountain to become a bandit. However, the ancestral boating skills have not been lost. After all, Danan Mountain is right on the seaside, and Tianwang Zhu sometimes has to go to Haifeng County in Huizhou Prefecture to do business. The land route to Huizhou is blocked by Qing soldiers and is not easy to travel, so he usually leaves Sea route. Therefore, the Su family in Danan Mountain can row and operate boats.
However, Su Zhanshan was neither steering the helm nor operating the oar. Instead, he was playing with a hammer-throwing cannon—the kind of small bronze mortar that can be used to fire super-caliber sugar-powder bullets.
This mortar was placed on the bow of a sentry ship. A thick wooden shield was placed in front of the mortar. After filling the mortar with ammunition with several young artillerymen, Su Zhanshan put on a Portuguese Wearing a man's iron helmet, he poked his head out from behind his wooden shield and began to observe the situation on the wharf of Huangpu Village.
Facing Huangpu Island, a parapet seemed to be built on the pier of Huangpu Village. It looked quite high, but there was no movement behind the wall. There were no colorful military flags, no weapons or human heads exposed, it was just quiet, as if there was nothing, but Su Zhanshan, who had a very keen sense of the battlefield, still felt the aura of danger.
Among the buildings far away from the pier, there was a large green flag with a large Chinese character "Zeng" embroidered in red lines.
Su Zhanshan knew that this was the flag of Zeng Qizhao, the most ruthless general under King Shang Kexi of Pingnan and the second ruthless man in Guangdong, the murderous deputy general of the Green Camp Humen Association, Zeng Qizhao.
Zeng Qizhao can be entrusted by Shang Kexi with the important task of guarding Humen Gate. His ability to massacre people is not enough. This guy is still very capable. Although he was an infantryman and gained wealth by fighting with swords and guns, after he reached a high position, he became a master of firearms and became a master of firearms, especially artillery.
The artillery he makes good use of is not the heavy red cannon, but the general cannon left over from the Ming Dynasty. His favorite is the general cannon that weighs several hundred kilograms. It is easy to move and has decent power. The price is cheap and the quantity is abundant...the cannons captured in previous wars can be used for a long time, so it doesn't hurt to throw them away after shooting.
And his greatest use of cannons is that he is good at using cannons to create ambushes. His cannons are not displayed for people to see. They are all hidden, either in the woods, in houses, or covered with fences.
In addition, he doesn't know how to use cannons to blast the city walls, nor can he use cannons to bombard the city - he doesn't have that skill. The red-coated cannons placed on the Shajiao and Dajiao forts were all handed over to his subordinates, and he could not control them himself. His specialty is bombarding people!
Just fill the general's cannon with iron sand and hide it. When the enemy comes up, you can suddenly shoot someone. After the bombing, the infantry will immediately rush up and kill the person!
If there are no cannons, he will also organize a group of shotgun soldiers and a few tiger squatting cannons to use the same method to kill the enemy.
In short, this is a veteran who has been trained in actual combat for many years. His fighting methods are not formal, but they are very vicious.
He also has a group of veterans in their 40s and 50s, all of whom have been with him for many years. Although they are older, they are very experienced in the yin people - these people all came from the high-intensity wars of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The first line of it is spelled out!
Now this group of old soldiers were crouching behind the high parapet, calm and composed, not making a sound.
In fact, the "breast wall" is half-truth and half-false. Part of it is actually built with soil, and the outer layer is enclosed by bamboo fences. There are also some areas with only fences and no soil.
Among them, people are hidden behind the breastwork made of mud, and only the cannons are hidden behind the "high imitation breastwork" of the fence.
Just wait for the Ming army to land, the fence of the false parapet will be knocked down, and the general cannon behind will spray iron sand!
After the general's cannon sprayed iron sand, the veterans hiding behind the real wall went up to kill people!
With this set of tactics, if the British lobster soldiers in the Opium War encountered them, they would probably not be able to get an advantage. Even if they could win, the casualties would certainly not be light.
However, what they encountered today was not an opponent who could fight in advance. They were also a group of villains with no martial ethics.
This is really "old yin" vs. "little yin", it depends on who can make whom "yin" get down.
"Old Sinister" Zeng Qizhao was also lying on the roof of an old house that had long been abandoned, holding a telescope and looking at the river.
A large red flag has been planted on the peak of Huangpu Island in the distance. There are words tattooed on the flag. Zeng Qizhao can't see clearly what it is, and he has no interest in it. He just needs to know that Huangpu Island has been occupied by the enemy - -Because Shang Zhixin's troops were insufficient, the island was undefended, so he occupied it casually.
Zeng Qizhao turned his attention to the rowing boats, thirty or forty boats, with about a thousand people on board, about the same number as his men... and those boats were also It's not big enough to hold a cannon. As long as they wait for them to land, use the general cannon to spray a wave of iron sand, and then chop them randomly for a while, they should be able to win.
Thinking of this, Zeng Qizhao suddenly felt uneasy in his heart, so he turned around and said to the soldiers following him: "Go and pass the order to the brothers in front and tell them that no artillery fire is allowed until the traitors land!"
"嗻!"
Several soldiers took the order and left. Zeng Qizhao calmed down and continued to look at the river with his telescope.
At this time, the first few boats on the river suddenly slowed down, and the long oars on both sides of the boat were retracted.
What does it mean? No longer logged in?
When Zeng Qizhao was confused, he suddenly saw a burst of white smoke coming out from behind the wooden shields of the bows of the clippers, followed by a rumbling sound of cannons, and then he saw several long black bars. Shaped objects flew out from the bows of the clippers, drew an arc in the air at extremely fast speeds, and flew towards the parapet on the Wharf of Huangpu Village.
Is this sex?
When Zeng Qizhao was wondering how such a small ship could mount cannons, those long black things were already falling from the sky with thick smoke!
It did not fall on the real or fake parapets, but landed in front of the parapets. In addition to making small craters on the stone floor and steps on the pier, it made a "thud, thud, thud" sound of heavy objects hitting the ground. But it didn't cause any damage, and it didn't explode. It just smoked...a lot of smoke!
"Boom boom boom..."
There were several more roars, and several more firearms that did not explode but only emit smoke were thrown in front of the Qing army's formation. Although they did not cause any casualties, more smoke came out, and in the blink of an eye, the people of Huangpu Village were destroyed. A long section of the pier was covered in smoke.
Now Zeng Qizhao became "Blind Zeng". He was holding a telescope but could not clearly see the situation on the river. He could only hear waves of low roars and the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground!
What kind of play is this?
Did they land or not?
Is it time for the general cannon in front to fire?
Zeng Qizhao, who had been fighting all his life, was confused now. How did this happen? Is it a spell? Such a big smoke...couldn't it be poisonous smoke?
When Zeng Qizhao was thinking wildly, Su Zhanshan had already raised a red flag, waved it vigorously, and shouted loudly: "Kill the demons of the Qing Dynasty, restore the Ming Dynasty, attack your mother, kill her!"
At this time, there were a total of thirty-six sentry boats on the Pearl River near Huangpu Village Pier. Ten of them had hammer-throwing cannons on their bows. They were now moored at anchor and projecting super-caliber smoke on the water. Bombs - The raw materials used in smoke bombs are similar to ordinary sugar bombs, except that no catalyst is added, and the ratio of the two raw materials is also different. This smoke bomb is not very afraid of getting wet. When it gets wet, the smoke becomes even bigger. There is no problem in using it on a very humid ship.
In addition, the smoke bomb can be ignited first and then fired, and the smoke will fly out!
The remaining twenty-six ships did not use hammer-throwing cannons or smoke bombs. Instead, each ship carried two baskets of "Zhulotov" cocktail bottles!
These clippers didn't stop either. When the Jinyi soldiers on board saw the red flag waving by Su Zhanshan, they all worked harder, paddling desperately, and rushed to the smoky Huangpu Village Pier!
