"Rumble..."

"Crash..."

"Long live the Qing Dynasty, long live the Emperor..."

The sound of thunder, artillery, wind, rain, and cheers reached my ears, intertwining into the most magnificent battlefield symphony.

The heavy rain in summer has fallen heavily on the battlefield around Xiangkou Town, the gateway to the west of Anqing City, and it has become muddy everywhere. However, the heavy rain and the muddy ground cannot stop the fighting enthusiasm of the clear demons!

On the outskirts of Xiangkou Town, the Zhengbai Banner Qing army commanded by Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu braved the rain and advanced against the firepower of the Ming army. Because the Ming army relied on fortifications for defense, they were able to build defenses behind low parapets

The shacks were built so that their muskets could barely fire. Therefore, many of the minions of the Qingyao Zhengbai Banner New Army had fallen into the muddy water. But the remaining people were still struggling to move forward, and the people at the front had already rushed through the

The trench filled with corpses rushed in front of the dilapidated wooden fence.

At this moment, Wang Fuchen was very insidiously leading twenty sharpshooters equipped with "imperial flintlocks", following the attacking infantry on foot, waiting for the appearance of the "three grandsons in white robes"!

The level of firearms production in the Qing Dynasty during the Kangxi period was actually not bad - Kang Mazi himself was a scholar who excelled in science and engineering, a bit like Peter the Great next door. Although he could not do it himself, he knew good and bad, and knew the world.

Under his personal supervision, the level of "Eight Banners Firearms" of the Qing Dynasty was still acceptable at this time. And "Eight Banners Firearms" not only included various imitation Western-style artillery, but also very well-made flintlock guns.

However, because the firing device of flintlock muskets in this era was very unreliable (it was a world problem at the time), Emperor Kangxi did not let his craftsmen produce large quantities of flintlock muskets to equip the troops. Instead, he used these flintlock muskets for hunting rabbits.

toys.

A flintlock gun that can be used as a shotgun certainly has good accuracy - but don't think that the accuracy of a musket is necessarily a tragedy. In fact, a well-made musket and a well-trained musketeer can still shoot.

A goal a hundred steps away!

Wang Fuchen, who was a former imperial guard and had been a "porter" for a while, certainly knew that Emperor Kangxi's "personal collection" was very good. So when he formed the new Zhengbai Banner Army, he asked Kangxi to give him a batch of them.

To "control the gun", a group of sharpshooters were selected from the army and trained rigorously to form this "sharp gun team".

Of course, Wang Fuchen's purpose in setting up the Sharpshooter Team was not to plot against Zhu Heji, but to deal with the small mortars of the Ming Army and Zhou Army (Wu Sangui) - these small mortars were not big in size and light in weight.

It can carry cavalry and infantry, and it can also fire very powerful super-caliber hammers. It caused the Qing army to suffer a lot!

Although Emperor Kangxi also had similar small mortars imitated, because there was always a bottleneck in the supply of sugar in the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi did not dare to develop too many "sugar medicine weapons", so he did not equip the troops.

Wang Fuchen had to train sharpshooters to deal with the Ming army's small mortars... But what people didn't expect was that these sharpshooters did not find the opportunity to shoot mortars, but they had the opportunity to assassinate the "White-robed Third Grandson"

Got it!

Although there is an opportunity, it is not easy to succeed in the plot.

From the early morning of May 12th, when the Qing army besieged Xiangkou Town, Wang Fuchen, wearing a bamboo hat and raincoat, with twenty sharpshooters under his command, followed the attacking infantry again and again to look for the three men in white robes at the front of the Ming army.

I have found Taisun's figure... many times, but either the distance is too far, or the opponent is galloping across the battlefield, too fast, and there is no chance to take aim. Although I managed to fight a few times,

Several volleys were fired, but none of them hit the target.

At the same time, the situation on the battlefield began to become unfavorable to the Qing army!

On the one hand, the battle to siege Xiangkou Town was extremely difficult!

Although the Qing army's land and water armies arrived one after another on the night of May 11th and the morning of May 12th.

Moreover, a summer heavy rain also came as expected, soaking the entire battlefield!

However, the heavy rain not only limited the power of sugar and medicine weapons, but also limited the offensive and firepower of the Qing army.

Now the Ming army retreating into Xiangkou Town can rely on the parapets to build shacks, and rely on the shelter of the shacks to fire cannons - the cavalry brought by Zhu Heji are "multi-purpose cavalry". They can not only rush into formations, but also shoot arrows and throw grenades.

It can fire Iron Fist rockets and is also equipped with a flintlock gun produced in Foshan, Guangdong.

Although this kind of flintlock gun often fails to fire, it can still be used and its accuracy is acceptable.

In addition, sugar pills are not as "afraid of water" as the demons imagined... Although sugar pills are more susceptible to moisture during heavy rains, Zhu Heji's army occupied a town. There are many houses that can provide shelter from the rain.

, so they can boil the sugar medicine indoors and use it immediately. Even before the sugar medicine cools down, they are already thrown out to kill!

Therefore, Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu's Zhengbai Banner New Army fought desperately for two days, constantly filling in the subordinates one after another. Now they have defeated more than a dozen subordinates, but they still cannot conquer Xiangkou Town!

At the same time, the two towns of the Ming Army circled around from the south of Taiboze!

Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu had to separate thousands of people to resist in the narrow area south of Taiboze, delaying the Ming army's attack - the terrain south of Taiboze is relatively narrow, with swamps on one side and mountains on the other. It is indeed a place

A great place to fight a sniper war!

However, Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu's new Zhengbai Banner army wasted a lot of effort and was unable to stop the advance of Zhuge Zhengyang and Zhao Hongkui, and could only delay their progress.

Therefore, there is not much time left for Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu. It seems impossible to capture Xiangkou Town and then kill Zhu Heji.

Of course, the Qing army had no chance of winning.

First of all, in Tuhai, Shi Lang's navy has arrived on the river near Xiangkou! The large gunboats among them all have gun cabins - they are said to be large, but in fact they are not very big. One ship can carry a thousand-jin general cannon.

It is installed in the gun cabin on the bow of the ship.

Tuhai, Shi Lang built more than twenty such gunboats, and now they are all crowded on the Yangtze River outside Xiangkou Town, with their bows facing Xiangkou Town, firing endless cannons!

Although these shells did not kill many Ming troops, they destroyed many houses and dealt a certain blow to the morale of the defenders in Xiangkou Town.

Secondly, Shi Lang and the navy of Tuhai also sent a Gushan from Anqing to the Xinzi Fort on the riverside road that had long been beaten into a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

Temporarily helping the dying Zhao Liangdong maintain the situation.

And the third one is the one that makes Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu feel the most promising... It is the imperial edict, a yellow dragon flag and 500 yellow jackets sent to Wang Fuchen and Fei Yanggu's army last night!

Now this yellow dragon flag appeared on the battlefield south of Xiangkou Town, surrounded by five hundred cavalry wearing yellow jackets who braved the rain to protect it!

On the battlefield around Xiangkou Town, the cheers of the clear demons also rang out.

"Long live the Qing Dynasty, long live the Emperor..."

...

"Long live the Ming Dynasty! Long live the saint who oversees the country..."

On the Ming army's position south of Xiangkou Town, some people were shouting at the top of their lungs!

There were only a few of them, so their shouts were naturally soft, but Wang Fuchen, who had been waiting all morning, heard them soon.

He quickly took out his telescope and looked forward, and sure enough he saw the flag of "The Supervisor of the Ming Dynasty", "under the supervision flag", and a yellow umbrella cover. Under the umbrella cover, there was a knight in white clothes and a white horse.

Although this knight was wearing a large visor, looking at the knights wearing raincoats and bamboo hats surrounding "him", Wang Fuchen knew that this person must be the third grandson!

Now is the best and probably the last chance!

Wang Fuchen no longer hesitated and shouted loudly: "Beat the drums and march... Sharpshooters, please give me some energy. Whether it's wealth and splendor or shrouded in horse leather, it all depends on today!"
Chapter completed!