Guangzhou.

"Come on, lift the ladder!"

Foshan boatman Chen Kai waved his hand to the back and shouted.

On the bank of the Pearl River behind him, dozens of ragged poor people ran excitedly on the side of the side carrying a long ladder. On the bank of the Pearl River, countless ragged poor people holding various messy weapons, carrying long ladders to the ancient city walls that lie in front of them. As for the moat, these poor people who grew up on the riverside, could ignore them.

But there were no Ming soldiers.

In fact, the Ming army that was chasing the Qing army had not arrived yet, but the people who couldn't wait to start siege the city first.

"Over your head!"

Suddenly, someone shouted to Chen Kai.

Chen Kai hurriedly raised his head.

On the city wall above, several old and weak flagmen were desperately pressing down a cannon to fire at them.

In fact, there are very few defenders on the city walls, because most of the Qing army, even some of the Eight Banners garrisons, were brought to the front line by Yang Fang. They completely herded sheep during the Ming army's pursuit and the beatings of the people from all over the country. No one has escaped until now. By the way, they can't escape, so there is no real defense in the city. Moreover, after the news of Yang Fang's miserable defeat reached the city, the poor in the city had already taken action. At this time, the smoke in Guangzhou was rolling, and the shouts of killing were shocking. The Eight Banners and the gentry training of the Eight Banners and the gentry, plus a small number of green camps, they were too busy to deal with the rebels in the city, but there were too many troops to defend.

Guarding the city wall. Especially the regiment training and some green camps have also begun to turn against each other. After all, this chaos is a good opportunity to make a fortune. Those green camps that have completely become local pi and those who are local pi are well-known to them that such opportunities cannot be missed. Fortunately, the Eight Banners have been forced to the dead end. It can be said that the whole people are soldiers, and even women and children have taken up weapons. Now these people are mainly on the city wall, but they are too small to care about the dozens of miles of Great Wall. Moreover, even these people are not just defending outside. Some rebellious dock coolies have already fought with them on the city wall.

Chen Kai looked at the city wall and held the spear in his hand without hesitation...

Actually it's not a spear.

It was a hoe that broke the blade of the hoe. The front end of the iron pipe embedded in the wooden handle was sharpened. It could basically be used as a spear. He roared and threw it upwards. He was hit by an old Eight Banners soldier who was about to ignite the fire. He passed through his chest in the screams of the latter, and the ignition rod immediately fell on the city wall.

At this time the ladder arrived.

But just as the ladder was setting up, another Eight Banners Army picked up the ignition pole and prepared to light the cannon with a ferocious look on his face.

Almost at the same time, a man in a martial arts costume raised a slingshot and the Niwan hit the Eight Banners soldier accurately in the eyes of the Eight Banners soldier. The latter screamed and hurriedly covered his eyes. Another man in the costume threw a hook up, grabbed the rope and almost got on the top of the city in one go. He rushed towards the Eight Banners soldiers with a sword. At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers didn't care about the cannons anymore, and raised their waist knives to fight, but at this time the ladder was also

When he arrived at the city, Chen Kai was the first to rush up. As soon as he showed up, an Eight Banner soldier pulled the trigger of the bird gun. The bullet suddenly hit his shoulder with splashing blood and flesh. Chen Kai roared fiercely, and rushed up the city wall regardless of the bleeding wound. Looking at his hideous face, the Eight Banner soldier on the opposite side wanted to reload the bullet. Then Chen Kai came to him. The guy screamed in fear and turned around and ran away. Chen Kai raised his foot and put it on his butt.

The Eight Banners Athletic Screamed and fell off the city wall.

Chen Kai pulled out his hoe spear, turned around and threw it to the right again, accurately nailing it to the back of an Eight Banners soldier who was fighting with a man in the costume.

"Good means!"

The man stabbed another Eight Banners soldier to death with his sword and said.

"It's practiced by sucking fish."

Chen Kai grinned and said.

"Red Boat Disciple Li Wenmao."

The man in the costume bowed and said.

"Chen Kai, the boat ride."

Chen Kai bowed and said.

"Let's go, kill the Tartars together to welcome the God Emperor!"

Li Wenmao said.

The two immediately smiled at each other, then shouted and rushed towards the nearest Eight Banners Army. The two leaders who rebelled in the Tiandihui period in Guangdong began their side-by-side battle more than ten years in advance.

At this moment, more and more ladders were laid on the city wall, as if they were about to flood the city wall. Countless poor people shouted and rushed towards the city. The few cannons at the top of the city were more like welcome salutes. The few defenders were flooded by dozens or even hundreds of times the poor. At this moment, Guangzhou City has been actually broken in a sense, and there is no need for the Ming army to take action at all, nor does it even require the bravery of other places to arrive. Only in Guangzhou, plus the surrounding Nanhai, Panyu, Huaxian and other places, at least 200,000 poor people took action together, easily overthrew the Qing Dynasty's rule in this city for two hundred years.

"This is the power of the people!"

On the river several miles away from Guangzhou, Yang Feng looked at this scene and said with emotion.

It was obvious that this scene surprised him quite. Although he knew the decay of the Qing Dynasty's rule at this time, he did not expect that the decay would end. No wonder in history, a crow gave less than 10,000 British Navy and Army, and more than a dozen warships were begging for mercy. By the way, most of the dozen warships were cruisers. The real main force of naval warfare was only three third-class ships with 74 guns. Moreover, there were a large number of colonial troops in the British army, that is, Indian indigenous soldiers. By the way, the military power of the Qing Dynasty was completely paper-made.

In fact, what he didn't know was that the Eight Banners who were really resisting on the city wall at this moment were less than two thousand old, weak, sick and disabled, and others...

By the way, the wisest choice at this time is whether it is good to run away.

Just as the two thousand loyal and brave Eight Banners were shed the last drop of blood for our Qing Dynasty on the city wall, all the officials, gentry, and those clear-minded bannermen in the city were fleeing the city. At this time, the integrity of the Qing officials had already been fed to the dogs, and it would be too naive to expect them to be loyal to the Aisin Gioro family. If there was still hope, they might consider persisting, but in this situation, they would be fools. These poor people still have a chance to run. If the Ming army launched a large-scale operation, they would not even have a chance to run. Just like when the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing, before the Ming army arrived, Guangdong officials led by the imperial envoy Qishan abandoned the city and fled.

"Your Majesty, Dingyuan reports that two British warships arrive at Humen."

Chen Liu beside him said.

Next to him was a little female soldier guarding the telegraph.

"It seems that Elliot really wants to fight!"

Yang Feng sneered with his hands behind his back.

"Then let's meet his requirements. Send Yang Zhao a newspaper without hitting the Humen Fort, and directly beat the British, just let him practice his skills. It's not interesting to bully the Tartar navy. Before fighting, tell the British that they entered the territorial waters of the Ming Empire without permission from the Ming Empire. Don't say we are unreasonable."

Then he said.

"Then how big is our territorial waters?"

Chen Liu asked.

"Ambana Island is all about this."

Yang Feng said.

"It's so arrogant. Why didn't he say the entire Western Pacific is all?"

Brigadier General Bomer said indignantly on the fifth-class battleship of the Royal Navy Druid.

"Uh, then how do we respond?"

his secretary asked.

At this time, they were stuck in the waterway of Humen, claiming to be preparing to protect overseas Chinese in Guangzhou in front, but because the Hengjiang rope of Humen could not pass, and next to them were the forts of Humen Fortress. Guan Tianpei, who was guarding the fort, had already received notification from Ma Dichen that they were here to help, and behind them, the Qing navy led by Chen Huacheng was also on guard. As for their enemies, there were actually only two, the Dingyuan and the Zhenyuan that rushed to reinforce, but these two Ming warships did not fire at the fortress, and in fact they did not seem to have the intention to attack Humen Fortress. After all, Guangzhou was fighting, and it was meaningless to attack whether the Humen was still attacking or not. Instead, they warned Bomai to ask them to leave within half an hour.

"Reply? They are just provocative, they don't need to pay attention to them, tell them that we were invited by the Qing Dynasty and don't know what the Ming Dynasty!"

Bomai sneered.

"Prepare for the fight!"

Then he said to the captain beside him.

"Since they want to fight, let them see the majesty of the Royal Navy. We are not the waste behind us!"

He then said.

He was indeed very confident, although his men actually only had two warships, and they were watching the fun, not fighting. The Royal Navy was not idle yet, and a fleet of more than a dozen warships ran to Guangzhou to watch the fun. In addition to the Druid, Bomai also had a twenty-eight-cannon cruiser, the Gallop, the two totaled 74 guns, nearly half of which were thirty-two-pound Caron guns. This short-barrel gun was powerful and was an important reliance on the Royal Navy to dominate the ocean. It even developed to the extreme 68-pound warship on Victory, which could fire flowering bullets, but Bomai's warship was not good.

But that's still enough.

After all, their enemies only had sixty cannons in total, and they were also surrounded by heavy artillery from the shore defense fortress and the Qing army navy behind them.

"Reject, then you'll be fine!"

Then Yang Zhao, who received Bomai's reply, also issued an order to fight.

On the wide river surface, the two ships of Dingzhen tangentially were ahead of the two ships of the Druid. Bomai on the opposite side also adjusted the hull and opened the side muzzle. When the four warships were one thousand yards apart, the Dingyuan fired first, and the eighteen-pound long cannons on the Druid also fought back. Neither side gained any gains, so they continued to close the distance like two diagonal lines, and fired almost at the same time again at 800 yards.

Then……

"Go ahead at full speed and continue to get closer!"

Bomai roared as the loud noise of the cone-head shell pierced through the hull one foot thick wooden board.

The screams of soldiers in the cabin were also heard.

A forty-two-pound shell accurately hit the starboard side of the fifth-class ship, and then easily drilled through the wooden boards and made the cabin a mess. Although the British 18-pound long cannon also hit the Dingyuan, the 18-pound shell could not penetrate the teak shell at such a distance. It was obvious that Bomai needed to close the distance, to within 400 yards, and then use the 32-pound Caron Cannon. The power of this short and heavy cannon could not bear the Victory. In fact, the battle distance between the Royal Navy was within 400 yards, and the closer the better. Within 200 yards was the most ideal battle distance, just like their lobster soldiers also required to open fire within 30 yards. This brave face-to-face battle defeated almost all the enemies for the British Empire.

but……

Not working here.

After determining the reasonable combat distance, Yang Zhao started flying a kite again. While the Druid and Galloup were moving forward at full speed, the Dingzhen two ships, which were driving at full speed, also adjusted their course, and the side guns were also firing. Soon, the Druid and Galloup were shot again.

"keep going!"

Bomai continued to yell in the soldiers' screams.

Almost all sails of the two battleships that were in the wind were bulging, and under the push of the Pearl River, they could barely exceed ten knots, but they could not get closer.

Even though the speed of these two warships had reached their limit, they still struggled in vain in front of the full-speed propeller. The two ships of Dingzhen, which were always eight hundred yards away, kept firing with their 42-pound and 24-pound cannons. The precise and powerful shells continued to penetrate the wooden boards of the Druid and Galloupe. The two warships were soon covered in bruises and were covered in dead bodies in the cabin. Bomai was not a fool after all. After knowing that he was cooking in front of the Ming army warship, he immediately gave up the battle and turned to the Humen Fortress. At the same time, he asked the defenders on the fortress for help according to the agreed signal. The two ships of Dingzhen gradually entered the range of shore defense heavy artillery, and on the Weiyuan and other turrets, one 6,800 or even 10,000 kilograms of cannons began to aim.

Guan Tianpei looked at two Ming army warships dragging black smoke on the Weiyuan Fort with complicated expressions.

At this time, news from Guangzhou had already been heard.

The fall of Guangzhou put him and the defenders of Humen into an embarrassing situation.

The meaning of this fortress is to protect Guangzhou behind. If Guangzhou falls, they lose their defensive meaning, but they can't leave. The sea was blocked by the Ming army, and the land was full of rebellious people. He just got the news that Dongguan and Xin'an had been controlled by the rebellious people. It can be said that Humen became an isolated city in a blink of an eye...

It should be said to be an isolated island.

Because Humen Town has been controlled by the rebels, and the first line of defense of Humen, Dajiao and Shajiao, was also captured by the Ming Marines and the rebellious people, and the defenders can almost be said to have fled without fighting.

All he could control was Weiyuan Island.

"Your Majesty, I am loyal!"

He whistled to the sky.

"Fighting against the enemy, our Qing soldiers will die and surrender!"

Immediately afterwards, he pulled out his knife and roared at Dingzhen Eryuan on the surface of the river.

The officer next to him waved his hand to the small flag, including Weiyuan, Jingyuan, Zhenyuan, Nanshan, Yong'an, etc., on the fortresses, hundreds of cannons roared in unison, and then...

"Where are you hitting your mother?"
Chapter completed!