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The shouts of killing in front were shocking the sky. Zhou Shixiang stood in Daqing immediately as he watched the Han people fighting each other and taking their lives. They even belonged to the same camp not long ago, but now he is fighting to the death here, and no one is willing to give in.

This is a shame for the Han people. Since ancient times, all those who have lost Han people have been Han people.

The resistance will of Wuzhen Chao and the Han army and the guards of Zhengbai Banner soldiers were stronger than that of the Han army under the Pingnan and Jingnan vassals. Until now, the A Brigade and C Brigade in the First Town suffered more than a thousand casualties, hundreds of casualties, and the reorganized soldiers who were driven to charge the formation also had about thousand casualties. This was the record achieved when the opponent was caught off guard. If the Qing army was prepared, the losses in this battle would probably be greater.

Wu Zhenchao's Manchu meaning "heavy troops". The officers and soldiers were all old soldiers. They were all Liaodong Han people who joined the Later Jin Dynasty during the Chongzhen period, and were earlier than the Han soldiers under the command of Sanshun King. Some of these people were the grandfathers and grandchildren who worked for the Qing Dynasty for three generations, and they no longer regarded themselves as Han people. Although Wu Zhenchao's subordinate Han army, they considered themselves to be even higher than the Han army flag. This is not only reflected in their identity, but also in their combat effectiveness. At least, in Zhou Shixiang's view, Wu Chaochao's tenacity in the Han army was definitely not weaker than the Manchu soldiers led by Hahamu.

The Taiping Army besieged Wu Zhenchao and the guards of the Han army were three brigades in the first town, one battalion of the cavalry brigade, and the Iron Mansion directly under the Iron Mansion plus 4,000 adapted soldiers, with a total force of 13,000. The opponent Wu Zhenchao Ha artillery and the four Niulu Han army guards were only 4,000. The troops gap between the two sides was more than three times. Even so, the Taiping Army still did not win at a small price. The Suna team, who first raided, paid half of the mansions to disperse the Wu Zhenchao Ha artillery, causing most of the Qing army's artillery to roll to the side without being able to lift it from the artillery carriage and became waste. Then the first town drove the adapted soldiers to overwhelm the panicked Qing army with absolute strength advantage, and compressed the remaining Qing army to both sides of the official road less than two miles long.

Wu Zhenchao and the Qing army carried a large number of mules and horses to pull carts. In the chaos, many mules and horses directly dragged the cannons and ran down the official road. As a result, the cannon weighing thousands of pounds made the wheels fall into the mud immediately. No matter how hard they were, they couldn't pull them up.

Although this battle was sure to win, there were many problems that were exposed. The First Town made continuous mistakes in command and should have defeated the Qing army in one fell swoop, but due to the inadequate cooperation of the three brigades, it was impossible to arrive at the battlefield in time, allowing the Qing army to breathe and organize a bare line of defense, which made the First Town suffer unnecessary casualties.

The navy general Zheng Chengkui, who was watching the battle, was very satisfied with the situation and was very excited. He used a boat to transport the Taiping Army from Jiesheng Station in Huizhou to the Jinghai Station in Chaozhou, more than 200 miles away. Two ships were stranded on the way, one of which sank directly from the reef. The more than 400 Taiping Army on the boat fed the fish and shrimps in the sea without even seeing the enemy. After getting ashore from the Jinghai Station, the Taiping Army was tilted and had to rest for a day in Jinghai Station. Zheng Chengkui thought he would miss the Qing army artillery camp, but he didn't expect his opponent to be in Chaozhou.

At first, Zheng Chengkui was surprised that the Qing army was so slow, but it was not surprising that he saw the big guys on the cannon carts. The reason was that no one of the Qing army's cannons weighed two or three thousand pounds. Such a big guy could not pull it by mules and horses. Each cart had another twenty or thirty civilians to push it together. This official road was not paved with bluestone. The foundation was hard enough, and some places were just covered with gravel on the soil. It was not a problem to walk around. But it would be strange if a big guy weighed thousands of pounds was not stuck on it. If you can walk fast, you would be a ghost.

Zheng Chengkui estimated that it was only about seventy miles from Puning County to Xitang River, but the Qing army's artillery team took four days to walk, and it only took ten miles a day. It is hard to imagine how the Qing army transported these cannons from Beijing, thousands of miles away to Guangdong. It is estimated that most of them took water routes. If you simply take land, it would take at least two months to arrive in Guangdong.

When Zhou Shixiang asked to use naval warships to transport troops to land in the rear of the Qing army, Zheng Chengkui was very puzzled by this request. Now he finally understood that the navy could use naval warships to attack opponents' warships from the water. He could also transport troops on a large scale, using the sea to transport the Ming army to any location on the coast. He caught the Qing army off guard and let them be unprepared for defense. If this tactic can be flexibly used, it would mean that no place in the coastal areas of the Qing Dynasty was left behind, and even Beijing was under the threat of the Ming army.

If the fleet is large enough, wouldn't I be able to transport the Taiping Army to Nanjing and Beijing

Zheng Chengkui was very enthusiastic, but he didn't know that there was a prince in Xiamen hundreds of miles away who had the same abacus as him and had already begun to implement it.

"Xingpingbo, the Tartars' artillery after this battle"

"Don't worry, General Zheng, all these cannons belong to you, as long as you can transport them onto the ship."

Knowing that Zhou Shi was loyal to his loyalty, Zheng Chengkui couldn't help asking more questions. After receiving the other party's reassurance, he immediately became distracted. After all, this battle was fought by the Taiping Army, and there were so many cannons seized. If Zhou Shi repents, he would be embarrassed to insist on it. The lawsuit was to the old general and the old general's liking for Zhou Shixiang would definitely not be as good as Zheng Chengkui.

It is just that how to transport these cannons onto the navy warships to Zhaoqing is a difficult thing. Zheng Chengkui had a headache. Those cannons weighing hundreds of pounds are fine. They can be hung with ropes and pulled more people together, so they can be pulled onto the boat. But it is much more difficult for those big guys weighing thousands of pounds to pull on the ropes alone.

When Zhou Shi met Zheng Chengkui, he seemed to be thinking about how to transport the cannons onto the ship, so he asked Xu Yingyuan behind him to give Zheng Chengkui the drawings he had drawn a few days ago. Zheng Chengkui knew that this thing was great at first sight. He couldn't help but smile and thanked Zhou Shixiang for helping him.

Zhou Shixiang did not take these Qing army's cannons seriously. These cannons were too heavy and mostly solid bullets, which could be used simply to attack the city. However, in field battles, it would be a burden, not only inconvenient to move, but also inconvenient to use them.

The artillery battalion of the Taiping Army is now equipped with small cannons weighing hundreds of pounds, such as light cannons such as tiger squat cannons and large pole guns. Heavy cannons such as Red Yi cannons are not equipped at all, but are placed on the top of Guangzhou city to scare people. If you really want to assemble the Red Yi cannons to the cannon battalion, you don’t know how much mules, horses and manpower are needed to serve these big guys. In order to fight, you can’t help but be useless to fight. Zheng Chengkui is jealous of these big guys, and just can’t repay him for his military transport. With these hundreds of cannons, Chen Qice and Zhu Tong in Zhaoqing can also be more powerful, at least Zhaoqing City’s defensive ability is definitely not inferior to Guangzhou.

When siegeing the city, Zhou Shixiang already has the best choice, which is the blasting method that he once did under Xinhui City.

Bao Jing and Zuo Yuan led the Wu Zhenchao Ha soldiers, the Han army, and the adapted soldiers who were driven up by the Taiping Army to kill each other on both sides of the official road. There were no people falling in the Xitang River, and corpses floated on the surface of the river one by one.

The first town gathered its footsteps under Ge Yi's command and slowly advanced forward. Suna led the remaining 400 cavalrymen to leave the battlefield for a brief rest. During the raid just now, Suna's subordinates suffered heavy casualties. Two Manzhou General Banners and one Han army households were killed. Suna's face also blossomed, but the cannon, who called Wu Zhenchaoha, cut off a piece of meat from his chin. If it weren't for the head being raised up subconsciously at that time, he would have been blown away by the whole face. Now he thought he was very scared. However, Suna did not care about his injuries, but led people to drag out more than a dozen soldiers who were afraid of war when they charged just now and chopped off their heads in front of everyone. This made Suna's subordinates very afraid of him, but Suna enjoyed the gaze of his subordinates looking at him. This was the army he was used to.

Shen Yongxing commanded Wu Zhenchao's gunner to open the cannons without a single sound. With Bao Jing and Zuo Yuan retreating, the Qing army's cannons were already reaping lives in the formation without discriminating the enemy and our lives. Shen Yongxing's eyes were red, and he no longer cared about those family members who were still fighting with the Taiping Army.

The adapted soldiers relied on the large number of people, and the Taiping Army was supervised by the Taiping Army behind them. In addition, the Qing army showed obvious signs of defeat, and they bravely moved forward like chicken blood, forcing the Qing army towards the artillery formation. Seeing this, Shen Yongxing ordered his personal soldiers to carry him and lead the remaining hundreds of gunners to rush towards the Taiping Army, making a last fight. The hope of the reinforcements has been shattered, and the battle has been fought for almost an hour. If the Qing army came to pick them up, it would have been long since. Now there is no sign of reinforcements. Either the Jieshiwei and Lufeng's Qing army did not know that Wu Zhenchaoha was surrounded, or the Taiping Army divided the troops to block the Qing army coming to rescue. There are only hundreds of battalions of Wu Liuqi's troops in Puning City, and they cannot be counted on them at all.

Shen Yongxing was unwilling to fail and refused to surrender, so he had to fight to the end. The battle of trapped beasts actually made the Huaxian soldiers rushing forward unable to stop them and retreat. As soon as the Huaxian soldiers retreated, Conghua soldiers also retreated. However, Zhao Ziqiang's South China Sea soldiers did not retreat, but instead fought to block the Qing army's counterattack.

Zhou Shixiang, who was watching the battle from a distance, felt very uncomfortable. These South China Sea soldiers were the culprit of the Chaoyang bloody case, but the loyalty and combat effectiveness shown at that moment were stronger than those of the Huaxian soldiers, Conghua soldiers, and Xin'an soldiers. I really don't know if they should be happy or angry. Could it be that the large-scale massacre of the city really helps improve the combat effectiveness of the army? Otherwise, how can we explain the current performance of these South China Sea soldiers?
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