Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 751
If you want to attack the city, you can retreat if you can't attack it, but if you attack the sandbar fort surrounded by water, you have to swim by yourself if you want to retreat.

There was no tentative attack, and the Ming army went directly to the battle to capture the Shazhou Fort.

In general dynasties, there are local troops and the central elite forbidden army. After the reform, the Wuzhong Army has actually replaced the emperor's personal guards in the Ming Dynasty. What green battalion soldiers.

This is the prestige and arrogance gained by the various units of the Five Allied Army who have moved to various places in the past few years.

On the river, the task of the navy was to block the warships of the Qing army to the east of the sandbar fortress, so as to prevent the Qing army's warships from attacking the soldiers of the five loyal soldiers who were rushing to the beach in small boats, and affecting the army's crossing of the river to attack the sandbar.

At this time, the fleet had entered the waterway between the sandbar and the south bank. As expected, the Qing army on the fort fired first.

On the fort, there were crowds of Green Battalion soldiers wearing red hats and gowns. They ran on the not-so-spacious fort, looking a little flustered.

Sun Youguang, the Qing general guarding the fort, wore a black official robe with horseshoe sleeves, a bowl cap on his bald head, and the flower feathers protruding from the top. He held a binoculars and looked towards the river, feeling a little nervous.

"The artillery is ready, I will beat you hard!" Sun Youguang saw the Ming army warships lined up on the river, put down the binoculars, turned around, and shouted suddenly.

The Qing soldiers on the fort packed the gunpowder, tamped the gunpowder with a pestle, and then pushed the iron bullets into the barrel of the gun. A few red-haired barbarians in strange clothes and high hats walked through it, drawing with their hands.

Suddenly, the general of the Qing army on the fort waved the command flag, and the Qing soldiers holding the torch immediately put the torch on the fuse.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, and the gun body retreated, and black iron bullets sprayed out from the muzzle, and nearly a hundred white smoke rose from the Qing army fort.

Many of the artillery pieces of the Qing army were obtained from the Dutch, so they have excellent performance.

At the beginning, the Dutch governor in Dayuan sent Kui Yi as an envoy to Beijing with the intention of cooperating with the Manchu Qing, but the Manchu Qing did not pay attention to it, and was sent back in a hurry as a vassal paying tribute from overseas. However, he was received by Hong Chengchou in Nanjing, and many cooperations and transactions were reached.

Dorgon originally didn't want to contact these Dutch people, but at that time it was important to get through water transportation, so he agreed.

On the fort, nearly a hundred iron bullets roared, and amidst the roar, water jets splashed on the river.

A cannonball hit the mast, and the mast, which was several tall, broke with a click, fell vertically, and hit the bow of the ship, causing the soldiers on the deck to panic.

The first warship was hit seven or eight times in a row. The ship was in a mess, the deck was full of broken wood, and the wounded soldiers rolled and wailed.

The full and strong ship was under the heavy attention of the artillery, but he stood on the ship tower and did not retreat, holding his saber, gritted his teeth and gave the order, "The gunner fires back, the sailors don't care about the fort, and move on!"

All of a sudden, each ship of the Ming army, with side artillery, shot up a cloud of white smoke one by one.

The surface of the river was immediately shrouded in gunpowder smoke, and under the loud bang, the artillery on the ship retreated one by one, and the deck shook again and again.

Looking down from the sky, the fleet on the fort and on the river fired fiercely at each other, and clouds of gunpowder smoke rose up, floated into the sky, and slowly dissipated. The scene is magnificent.

The fleets of the Ming army continued to move forward like mountains filled with smoke. At this moment, the navy of the Qing army came up to meet them, and a cannon slammed into the warships of the Ming army violently.

A series of "boom" cannons sounded, and the oncoming clearing ship spewed out a cloud of white smoke. A black iron ball passed in front of the full and strong ship with a sharp whistling, and fell far out of the port side. On the surface of the river, a "wow" brought up a large spray.

The navy was flanked by two sides, and the ships were constantly being hit. The soldiers on the ship were inevitably a little panicked, but amidst the sound of the rumbling guns and the lingering smoke, a burly figure stood on the ship tower, motionless.

On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Liu Shun saw that the navy had already met the Qing army navy, preventing the Qing army navy from entering the waterway between the sandbar fort and the south bank, preventing them from landing on the sandbar, and immediately drew out his sword.

"Brothers, get off the fort first, and then take Nanjing. I, Zhongwuzhen, will be loyal to the country, and the time has come to fight back to Yangzhou." Liu Shun raised his knife and roared, "Board the ship and attack!"

Loyalty and loyalty are the foundation of the Shun Army. After the reconstruction of Zhongyi, the foundation is the Taihu Rebel Army and a part of the Western Army, while Zhongyong and Zhongwu are the foundation of the old Yangzhou.

The morale of the soldiers preparing to attack was high, especially some old Yangzhou generals, struggling to raise their weapons and yelling at the soldiers to wait for the ship.

More than a thousand people in front carried long ladders and boarded the small boats first. The boatmen and soldiers rowed vigorously, and hundreds of small boats rushed to the sandbar together.

Before the first group of soldiers rushed to the sandbar, the second group of archers and musketeers followed closely behind and charged.

This is no retreat, giving all your strength from the beginning.

"Er Zhen, the Ming army is going to grab the beach!" On the fort, a member of Mr. Qian saw thousands of boats on the river, and hurriedly reported to Sun Youguang: "Are you going to adjust your position and start bombardment!"

Sun Youguang's face twitched, "The cannon in red has little effect on the small boat. Continue to bombard the Ming army's navy and defeat the Ming army's navy. Our boat will then be able to attack the Ming army who landed with the fort."

The red-clothed cannon hits big boats well, but the hit rate is too low when it hits small sports boats.

Sun Youguang hurriedly explained again, "Get the archers down, and the Ming army cannot rush to the fort!"

"twitter!"

Nearly a hundred small boats rushed up the sandbar like arrows. As soon as the boats touched the shore, the soldiers on them jumped down immediately, raised their ladders and charged towards the fort.

More than 500 soldiers charged forward with rattan cards and fifty siege ladders, followed by [-] sword shieldmen, followed closely, and the sound of killing was loud.

As soon as the attacking soldiers rushed within a hundred steps, arrows were fired from the fort immediately, and arrows rained down on the soldiers of the Ming army who were rushing forward. Stop the soldiers from running.

When attacking the sandbar, the Ming army could not use large-scale assault equipment. The forts on the sandbar were already small. After placing many red cannons, there was basically no space left, and there were not many defensive tools available.

This makes the battle easier, that is, short combat, that is, shooting with bows and arrows.

There was no such thing as a moat in the fort. The Ming army rushed to the fort built with stone bricks and earth bags amidst the screams of killing all over the sky. Siege ladders were erected, and the large iron hooks at the front were hung on the earth bags and earth bags. On the bricks and stones, soldiers swarmed and climbed up.

On the fort, Sun Youguang's face was covered with gunpowder smoke, and the green battalion soldiers with red hats and hats were scurrying on the running platform.The corpses killed in the artillery battle fell on the fort in a mess, and the green battalion soldiers had no time to clean it up.

On the fort, due to the attack of the Ming army's infantry, the artillery bombarding the navy began to thin out.

Sun Youguang knew very well that his troops were no match for the Ming army's infantry, and could only rely on the Qing army's navy, but the Qing army's navy was also a useless thing, without the support of the fort, it was no match for the Ming army's navy. So he knew that the artillery of the fort could not be stopped, and he would lose if it stopped.

"Hurry up and smash it with rolling logs and stones, don't stop the artillery!" Sun Youguang drew his knife and rushed to the earth wall in person, commanding the Qing soldiers to smash down countless rolling logs and stones like hailstones. He smashed down the ladder and fell down the dirt wall screaming.

There were still Qing soldiers on the dirt wall who used forks to lift up the ladder that had been built up, and then overturned it. The soldiers on the ladder immediately screamed and fell down along with the ladder.

The Qing army fired arrows and guns on the earthen walls, and soldiers on the siege ladder kept screaming and rolling down from the arrows, and the Ming army's offensive was suppressed.

Liu Shun stood by the river, observing the battle situation, feeling a little anxious, if Wang Yan hadn't told him several times, he would have gone up by himself, seeing his brother in front, but he could only be anxious, his heart was really scratching his head.

"Duzhen, don't worry, see our archers and muskets go up, and we will soon be able to suppress the enemy." General Tian Hualong said, pointing at the sandbar.

Sure enough, hundreds of small boats docked again, a thousand archers and two thousand musketeers galloped up, forming a powerful attack formation a hundred steps away, overwhelming arrows shot at the fort, and the sky was full of lead bullets. The Qing army did not dare to look up, and a large number of casualties began to appear on the fort. Hundreds of soldiers were shot one after another and fell on the fort.The Ming army quickly suppressed the counterattack of the Qing army on the fort, and the soldiers began to speed up their ascent to the city.

Wang Yan, who was at the Shangguan battle at Dongjiangmen, put down his binoculars and smiled slightly, "Liu Shun's soldiers trained in the past two years are not bad, and he has made some progress. When Nanjing is defeated, it's time for him to be promoted."

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