Just a few days after the Bajingtai cannon window was re-enlarged, one day in June, the Ganzhou defenders found an abnormality in the Ganjiang River ahead: a huge fleet of ships was surging up the river, with mast sails standing like snow walls, and rushed straight to Ganzhou, and alarms suddenly erupted in the city.

"It's just now." Zhu Qingzheng from Ganzhou Prefecture rose up, picked up the knife beside him and walked out the door.

Turning over and riding on the horse, Zhu Qingzheng shouted: "Go to Gongshui Navy immediately!"

"General, are you not supervising the battle in the city?" One of the subordinates was puzzled.

"What am I doing in the city? This is not defending the city, this is attacking!" Zhu Qingzheng roared and led his personal soldiers to rush towards the navy.

On June 12, 1854, the Qing troops in Hunan and Ganzhou formed a group to attack Ganzhou, the second largest city in Jiangxi. Among them, 6,000 people were on land, 3,000 people in Hunan Army, and 3,000 people in Ganyong. They were led by Taqibu, a vanguard bannerman of the Hunan Army, and attacked from the west along the Zhangshui River. 6,000 people were led by Hunan Army General Peng Yulin, 6 battalions of the Hunan Army Navy, and 3,000 people in Jiangxi Qing Yao Navy.

Not counting the temporary recruitment of local soldiers and labor, Zhu Qingzheng, the basic army under the Song Dynasty, was 8,000, and 5,000 were used as the navy, of which 2,000 were the original navy, and 3,000 were newly entered; across the Liangjiang River in Ganzhou, the wide tribute water on the right was used as the camp of the Song Dynasty Navy, waiting to compete with the Hunan Navy; and the narrow part of the Zhangshui on the left was already locked by iron chains, and Li Wenmao Shuai 2,000 Sun and Moon soldiers camped at the iron chain on the other side, connecting with the city with a small boat, and a camp was built in the southeast. 1,000 Song soldiers and 2,000 Jiangxi soldiers were added as reserve force.

"Ignite!" The commander of the Bajingtai Cannon City in the Song Dynasty roared, and the iron cannons fired in the cannon city immediately. The Ganjiang River immediately flew into war, announcing the beginning of the battle for Ganzhou.

What is the basis of Zeng Guofan’s Hunan Army?

Navy!

Its navy formed an army in February 1854. Its namely focused on sharp artillery fire and advanced in coordination with the size of the big and small.

Because in that era, the Qing Dynasty had no steam engines or engines, and all ships were rowing by wind or manpower, and even large ships such as boats, long dragons, and fast crabs were not flexible during combat, but they were large in size and could carry and install a large number of artillery, which was amazingly powerful to distant targets.

The small sampan is all about the soldiers paddling on it, and its firepower is not strong. However, it is flexible in water battles. It can launch rockets a little farther away, throw fire pots to ignite enemy ships, and in close combat, you can jump up to grab the ship and kill people.

Zeng Guofan's navy relied on the cooperation of these two ship types to form a combat formation. He also knew very sensible that the Qing Dynasty built his own ground artillery at all, so he spent a lot of money to buy a large number of Western artillery from trading ports such as Fujian and Shanghai to arm himself.

Using this kind of navy to fight against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the kind of navy recruiting civilian ships with small sampans as the navy troops in many places is so sharp.

Zeng Guofan built the most powerful navy in China at that time by combining Chinese and Western cultures.

Now, the Hunan Navy is approaching the territory of the Song Dynasty, a vassal state of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

"Ignite! Ignite!" The Bajingtai cannon city protruded under the city of Ganzhou, and with the roar of the superior...

A white cloud formed by gun smoke had risen from the cannon city, and nearly three artillery fired frantically at the Qing army fleet at the Ganjiangkou.

With a loud bang, the mast of a large ship in front was ejected in the middle by the chain of the eight mirror platform. The sail like a snow wall screamed and flipped into the water, and the ship behind was suddenly in chaos.

Then a solid bullet penetrated a fast crab with a sharp whistling, and the Hunan army above it wailed and dived and fled.

The other Qing warships fired fire to fight back, and suddenly screamed from the sandbank, and shells flew everywhere, but the hit rate was far inferior to Song.

Because this water area has been practiced, and the Qing army was walking here, the firepower of Bajingtai Cannon City seemed to be increasingly sharp and unstoppable.

"Commander! The cannon thieves in the cannon city ahead are sharp! Please give me instructions!" On the ship (flagship), a commander was kneeling on one knee to report to the navy commander Peng Yulin.

"Zhangshui has been blocked by iron chains, and it will take time to break through. As for the eight mirror platform, do you see?"

"Send 800 brothers to attack the Bajingtai Cannon City! The other warships avoid artillery fire, and the whole team sailed into the Gongshui River to attack and destroy the Guangdong thieves and navigate the Guangdong thieves, and let them see how powerful our Hunan and Jiangxi men are!" White-faced scholar Peng Yulin sneered.

"Prince, look at it! The enemy ship is coming!" The Bajingtai Cannon City was standing in the ammunition box book, unbuttoning his crotch and peeing to cool down a Qing cannon. While sprinkling water, he set up a turret to look at the river. The large fleet began to change to the dock to avoid the Bajingtai and bombard violently, and dozens of sampans were sailing out of the fleet, loading up the braided book soldiers, rowing straight towards the sandbank.

"This is the Tucheng brothers below, so I won't do our business!" The soldier shouted: "I'll beat the sampan! I can't beat the sampan, I'll waste gunpowder! Don't worry! Go aim at the big ship and launch it!"

The sandbank under the cannon city had already built an earthen wall around the cannon city back against the city wall. The soldiers of the 800th Sun and Moon Legion hugged behind the earth wall, staring at the river surface where the Ganjiang River seemed to be boiling with cannons above, and dozens of sampans on it rushed towards the sandbank like hyenas.

A middle-aged soldier in his thirties held a musket and covered his ears. Seeing the copper cannon next to him firing violently, he shouted loudly to his comrades beside him: "I didn't expect that these Hunan Zaishu were not afraid of death, and would dare to counterattack the inaugural station in our city?"

"Hunan guys... don't know what they want." A slight fear appeared on his comrades beside him.

"All members obey orders and prepare for battle!" Seeing that the enemy was about to land forcibly, their soldiers shouted. The soldiers turned around behind the earthen walls, and rows of Western muskets pointed at the beach. The brothers behind them were helping them load another front-loading ammunition, and their firearms were mostly there.

"Boom!" Tucheng bronze cannons kept firing, but the Qing Dynasty bronze cannons were not far away, and dozens of cannons could not see a small sampan that could stop manpower paddlings. Seeing the Hunan Hunan Army with a braided and dark face getting closer, even their eyes could see clearly.

"Hunan guys want to compete with my Tiandihui buddies? Damn it. Do you believe it or not? If I were on the street, I would chop thirty of them! Last time in Foshan, there was a... "The 30-year-old middle-aged man chattered on the earthen wall.

"Old Long, shut up!" The two comrades beside him shouted in unison. This is not on the street. They have a guy in their hands.

"Lower the muzzle! Bang the beach!" Several soldiers received the order and shouted at the order: "Fuck you! Stop fucking water! Lower the muzzle!"

Seeing the small group of the Hunan Army landing, throwing the sampan, waving its swords and guns, rushing towards the east wing of Tucheng with its upper body naked, many Song soldiers' faces immediately changed color--I was used to seeing the Qing soldiers turning around and running away when they saw them, and they had never seen such a brave man.

"Fire the cannon!" The Song army officer yelled.

"Boom!" The ten defensive cannons in Tucheng fired almost at the same time, and the roar of unanimous voices immediately shocked the entire Tucheng. All the soldiers lying under the earth wall were suffocated.

When they raised their heads behind the earthen wall, they couldn't help but be stunned: Where is the enemy?

I saw that the sandbank was quiet in front of me, and there was no one of the enemy troops who had just flocked to me.

In the wind, countless figures on the sandbank jumped up and rushed towards Tucheng again. It turned out that when the cannon sounded, all the Hunan army immediately rushed to the ground, waiting for the shells to hit the mud and water beside them before jumping and attacking again.

This pounce made the Song army behind Tucheng shocked him and couldn't even close his mouth. On the battlefield, it was not that you yelled loudly or that you were scared by a scary tattoo. This deterrence came from the order and consistency of the entire team. This move by Hunan Army has already made the enemies behind Tucheng feel fear, and this is not an easy opponent to mess with.

"Recharge the bullets quickly and shoot again!" The commanders behind Tucheng were shocked when they saw that the first gun shot was ineffective, and their faces turned pale.

The second cannon fire, the Hunan Army lay on the mud like lightning again. When they got up and rushed forward, they had reached a place 50 meters away from the earth wall.

"The musket is accurate..." Before the commander behind said that, someone ticked the trigger nervously, and immediately took the lead. Suddenly, a ball of white smoke rose from half of the earthen city on the east side. The soldiers on the side who were facing the Hunan Army's strong attack almost immediately fired the bullets in their hands.

"Fuck you guys!" The commander behind was so angry that he jumped: With the level of muskets in their hands, the enemy was not much different from shooting the moon from attacking such a far distance. Sure enough, only seven or eight people fell down in front of him, and the remaining people rushed towards the earthen wall with swords and guns like crazy.

"Prepare! Second shot!" The Song army, who had all shot all the guns and bullets in their hands, turned pale and took the bore gun filled with ammunition from their comrades behind. This gun was farther than a musket. But loading ammunition was also time-consuming.

"Shoot!" The patriarch behind shouted, bent down and picked up a spear. The Hunan Army in front had already rushed to the front!

The second volley was good. The first two rows of Hunan Army fell to the ground, but there were 800 people. The remaining 6,700 people howled and pushed the bamboo stick position, jumped down the trench, rushed up again, and rushed to the edge of the earthen wall. The battlefield immediately turned back to hand-to-hand combat.

The sword light and flesh flew together on the east side of Tucheng, screaming and muskets roaring. The Hunan Army below stepped on the body of his comrades and wanted to climb up to Tucheng, and the Song Army in Tucheng was also stepped on the body of his comrades and wanted to drive them down.

Everyone who was ordered to guard the Tucheng Land Sun and Moon Legion was not crazy, but was at the silly level.

Unexpectedly, this strange Qing army was so scary. While being scared, everyone was doing things according to their instincts. The soldiers near Tucheng were slashing and slashing any moving objects like crazy. The Song army, who was far away or injured, was occupied by fear and screamed and wanted to escape from this flesh-and-blood Tucheng.

Their land is a veteran of Guangxi who has experienced many battles. He has a real estate and wife in Guangzhou. He is neither crazy nor stupid in the face of this situation. He only knows that if he takes a step back now, his damn gang subordinates will be fucked!

The commander of the pawn yelled in Guangxi: "Kill these demon dogs!" While pounced on it, he stabbed the spear in his hand into a Hunan Army's belly book that was climbing up the earth wall. He stirred it up suddenly, and then twitched it again, and the body suddenly fell off the earth city.

But then a Hunan Army rushed up like a ghost. He held the earth walls with one hand and jumped up while slashing the pawn with one sword.

The blood-covered squealed, and the spear in his hand hit the ghost's ear. Suddenly, the two of them fell to both sides of the Tucheng.

The hero Lao Long, the Heaven and Earth Society, was throwing his musket and tremblingly to draw his own knife, but the knife was stuck in the scabbard. Before he could pull it out, a Hunan Army ground fire pot was thrown in and hit the book on the ground shed in front of him. It immediately became angry. Lao Long screamed and ran behind the formation with the knife in his arms.

But he didn't run two steps. A leather shoe kicked his belly book. Old Long staggered to the ground. In front of him was the bloody face of the pawn. The pawn stood up with a spear and shouted: "Kill me back! Kill me back!"

"Captain of the Soldiers, the Guangdong soldiers below can't hold on! The trouble is not good!" The soldiers in Bajingtai Cannon City found that the Tucheng under his feet were in a bad state and immediately rewarded the boss.

"Fuck! You're coming in! These Guangdong idiots!" The long-time soldiers stretched their heads and looked down at them, and they were immediately furious.

Because this Bajingtai can directly bombard the enemy, its status is very important. Most of the soldiers on the cannon city are veterans. Because of military merits and trust, they were sent by Zhao Kuo to learn Western cannon shooting methods. Everyone is a Guangxi buddy who has experienced many battles. Now when you see that the Bajingtai Tucheng is actually dangerous, who is not shocked and angry?

The head of the pawn lowered his head and thought for a moment, and immediately shouted: "Return the muzzle on the east side and bombard me the beach head directly. What kind of shells are there! Blast the Qing Demon to the front and back!"

Then he walked around the turret like a trapped beast in the cage, and then shouted: "Close the door below the cannon city immediately! Light the bonfire on the top of the cannon to ask for help in the city!"

"Brothers, Qing Yao may come in later. Get the guys for the old book!" The turret captain roared at last.

Bajingtai Cannon City immediately lowered its muzzle to the maximum extent and shot at the beachhead on the east side of its feet: no matter what flowering bullets, shotguns, or even the chain bullets that deal with the ship, the solid bullets were shot.

This did not essentially help the battle for the Tucheng City, but the shells flew everywhere, sand and mud were lit up, and the situation shook the world, slightly blocking the fierce offensive of the Hunan Army, at least making these guys stunned.

With the help of artillery city, the east side of the Bajingtai Tucheng immediately launched a counterattack. All the soldiers howled and killed the Hunan Army jumping into the Tucheng, and cut down the enemy who was climbing over the chest wall.

The blood-faced soldier roared. He pulled out his shirt and roared: "God, take care of me!" He held an iron spear in his hand. He roared: "Follow me!" He pressed towards the enemy. Inspired by the commander's soldier, the soldiers of the Sun and Moon Army around him gritted their teeth and followed with steel swords, and fought with the seven or eight Hunan troops who broke into Tucheng where he had a written word. Lao Long finally pulled out his sword. He followed his comrades and roared, chopped into the back of the enemy who was arching his waist and stabbed a friendly army to death, pulled out with one knife, and then roared again.

At this moment, the city gate was wide open, and Luo Jingpeng, the Supreme Chief Executive of Ganzhou, personally led 500 soldiers out of the city to reinforce Tucheng. The prefect who once served in the Mission and Education Department held two guns and rolled over and dismounted, shot fiercely at the walls, and his subordinates flocked to the Hunan Army.

The Hunan Army finally lost. After dropping more than 100 bodies and wounded soldiers on the sandbank, the survivor hurriedly retreated to his sampan and drove away from the Bajingtai sandbank.

The Great Song Cannon and the Bu soldiers gritted their teeth behind them and launched their shooting and chasing. Everyone was covered with blood. They were surrounded by the bodies of their comrades who were laughing half an hour ago.

After repelling the Hunan Army's rush to the beach, there was a rumbling sound of cannons sounded from the invisible Gongshui. Behind the Tucheng, the blood-faced pawns were explained in a hurry: "Sir, they were shot too early just now, otherwise..."

In response to him, he slapped hard, and Luo Jingpeng roared: "I'll fuck your mother! You can't even hold on to the Bajing Platform? Next time you can't hold on to the fuck, cut off your head!"

As he said that, Luo Jingpeng left this subordinate with an angry look and hurried back to the city.

The pawn whose nose was cut halfway through the nose was covered, and then he kicked his subordinates who were about to bandage him. He walked behind the earth wall and looked at the scarred subordinates and roared: "Can your heaven and earth be fucking waste?! I can't hold you next time, before Lao Shu dies, he will also stab you crappy desolate to death! Scrap Book!"

The soldiers changed their color, and embarrassedly avoided the blood-faced officer, and looked at the wounded comrades who were wailing everywhere.

The unscathed Lao Long was very excited. He sat against the wall with a spear in his arms, closed his eyes, and panted for a while, and suddenly opened his eyes and poked the brother beside him with his elbow, and smiled and said, "Brother, did I see it just now?...I just killed a Qing soldier!...Damn it! The first time I saw blood...I was scared to death...Where are you..."

"You Malegebi's Foshan Old Dragon!" Before the guy could answer, an angry roar rang around him: "Didn't you say that you were the boss of Foshan who killed people before joining the army?!"
Chapter completed!