night.

"Hurry up, push the cannon up!"

He Guanzheng waved his knife and shouted at the old thief Wan Duan, Zhu Yougui who rushed towards the palace with a thief Wan Duan, and waved his crutches and shouted at Chengtianmen.

Of course, he was actually standing on the Gongbei Building.

This is only one mile away from the palace. Even if the distance is still at the range of the cannons on the opposite side, the hit rate is already very limited. In addition, although the city below is indeed not as high as the sovereign, it is also the closest commanding height in Guangzhou City, so there are also heavy cannons here, but they are not afraid to use them for the time being. After all, they also understand that they cannot kill the emperor. Once the emperor is beaten to death, there is no way out.

It's old guy!

It is impossible to count on them to burn their boats.

It is also for this reason that the cannons in Fanshan and Yuexiushan in the north dare not be used to bombard the palace.

If the distance is too far, it is difficult to ensure accuracy. In this era, it is normal for the shells that have hit Tianmen to fall into the Tai Chi Hall.

More than one mile does not consider the accuracy.

So at this moment, on the Imperial Street facing Chengtianmen below them, those fully armed new troops were pushing field artillery and constantly moving forward. Only the close-range bombardment of these field artillery can ensure that they accurately strike the target they want to attack without accidentally hurting the emperor.

These soldiers are now quite like European peers, all with breastplates or half-body armor, while officers are three quarters of the officers. Moreover, these officers are already real European plate armor. This thing has been introduced by the Portuguese long ago, and imitation is also a trivial matter for Guangdong's industry. The level of the steel industry here is higher than that of the current Europe. Although iron ore is not as good as those of Sweden, it is also about the same level as that of Europe's main goods.

As for craftsman skills, it is just learning.

There are also hydraulic machinery.

Cheap plate armor has long been no longer a problem here. At present, it is only limited by the number of craftsmen, so the price is relatively high, and only rich officers can afford it...

Well, they all bought their armor with their own money.

Originally, the council wanted to make centralized procurement, but local local scholars firmly disagreed.

Centralized procurement is to give large capitalists like Li Dawen’s family and give money to soldiers to buy them by themselves, so that small capitalists from all over the country can get a share of the pie.

They must buy the best quality and cheapest ones.

Let's take a look!

So the cheap plate armor on soldiers is still in the Ming Dynasty. To put it simply, it is full iron armor-type breastplate and iron arms.

The hat and helmet on his head are the same, and it is also a large eaves.

It can be used as a protection, as a hat, and can be used to cook and boil water in emergency situations.

Not only the Guangdong New Army, this kind of helmet is very popular in all the Ming army, and even the Beijing camp is the same.

Although it is indeed a bit troublesome under the sun, this problem is easy to solve in Daming because bamboo weaving can be added.

At this moment, the Guangdong New Army, holding muskets and spears and pushing field cannons, was like a steel river under the moonlight, surging towards Chengtianmen. In the city streets and alleys around them, the fully armed militia guarded to block any people who were trying to come out to watch the fun...

The rebels in the city caused chaos.

His Majesty the Emperor said that Huang Shijun and others have accomplices.

Since there are accomplices outside, it is reasonable to take the opportunity to cause trouble this night. In order to protect the people from harm, they must be kept at home honestly. The militia will also patrol all the streets and alleys, and thus all the people are enclosed at home.

Then the new army attacked the palace.

As for the aftermath, if it wins, it will certainly be the extermination of the rebels and everyone will be happy.

If it fails, it means that the rebels are causing chaos. The new army has their accomplices, and they are afraid that they will be given away, so they rebel and cause chaos.

It's easy to explain.

But the first premise is that the unruly people cannot come out.

"Mr. Qiao Zuo, Linyu's reply has arrived. He said that he would arrive at least the day after tomorrow. In addition, Sanshui Township will send someone to report that the Lianggao Gate of the Yunnan Army had arrived, but its troops were all infantry, so they would not arrive tomorrow morning as soon as possible!"

Li Kaifang walked up and said.

At this time, several Shangshu in Guangzhou had already avoided it.

After all, the most unlucky thing about the Yunnan Army entering the city was the gentry of Guangzhou Prefecture, especially the Nanhai and Panyu counties. In addition, the closest to Foshan, the gentry in this area was the first to be brunt, so they had to stand out. But the gentry of Chaozhou Prefecture chose to watch it, and even looked at it with gloating. Seeing that the people in Guangzhou were unlucky, the people in Chaozhou were inevitably a little happy.

What's more, many of them are from Fujian.

Li Kaifang couldn't avoid it, after all, he had already met Wanli during the day.

In short, this action was led by He Weizhi and the Cantonese elders from the Guangdong Council, and Li Kaifang cooperated as a representative of the Fujian League.

Others were blocked by the rebels in various government offices and residences, and they were unable to arrive to rescue the car!

It’s not that they are not loyal to His Majesty the Emperor, but that they really can’t come over. After all, the ministers in the court are very wary of the emperor’s sudden appearance. Now a beast is trying to get out of the cage. If his cage door is not closed again, it will be very troublesome in the future. So at this time, just watch, and then let the Guangdong New Army attack, control the emperor again, dispel his unrealistic fantasy, and be a puppet honestly.

Why resist?

How embarrassing it makes everyone this!

"Three hours left, enough!"

Chen Lu said.

The next moment, the fire shone in the direction of Sheji Altar, followed by a whistling sound of breaking through the air, and then the shells fell on the street.

The powerful twelve-pound shells shot out a broken limb and arms in the New Army. The Guangdong New Army, which had not experienced real war, had chaos.

"Fire the cannon and aim at the sovereign!"

Chen Lu lowered his head and shouted.

The cannons in the Sheji Altar must be removed, but it is impossible to count on field cannons.

The officer below shouted immediately, aiming four equally heavy artillery on the city platform towards the direction of the palace. The muzzles immediately ejected flames. With the sound of deafening cannons, four shells rushed straight to the Altar. Under the moonlight, you can see that the roof of the altar of the Enjoy Hall was missing in an instant. But immediately in the direction of the palace garden, the flames of two cannons fired flashed one after another. With the sound of shells breaking through the air, a shell was in the middle of Gongbei Tower and swept across the eaves on the second floor below them.

Broken wood and rubble splashed and fell, and the artillery below hurriedly avoided.

He Guanzheng and others were also shocked...

"Brother Qiao Zuo, let's go down first?"

Chen Lu said tremblingly.

"What are you afraid of? You and I are over 70 years old, so why are you afraid of death?"

He Weichai shouted.

Chen Lu had to shut up...

The problem is that he is not seventy yet.

He is only sixty-eight.

But since the elders did not retreat, the new army below had to fight to the end.

However, He Guanzheng's courage did not last long, because the next shell hit their heads, and a skylight opened on the roof, falling rubble and broken wood, and even injured an elderly person. In this case, even He Guanzheng, who died, was so scared that he was the first to escape.

But the soldiers still have to continue fighting.

Besides, I just got the bonus and there will be a heavy reward tomorrow. In this case, my morale is still very strong.

The artillery battle between the two sides continued.

Accompanied by the sound of cannons resounding throughout the night sky, under the horrified eyes of the people in the houses, shells roared through the night sky, and then quickly hit the other party's forks, creating killing and destruction. The Xiandian and Gongbei Tower of the Altar of the Soji Altar were destroyed by the shells. The shells flying towards the mound of the palace garden also caused death in the palace, and even the shells that deviated from the target fell in the bedroom. No one thought too much about this when they were stunned.

fighting.

It's fighting.

The battle between the emperor and the ministers.

Emperors and ministers who bombard each other with cannons are also unprecedented in history.

At the same time, the new army infantry was still hit by the shells flying from the altar of the country, and continued to push the field cannons forward, and then kept throwing dead bodies. Fortunately, the short guns of the officers and the silver of the elders behind were also effective motivation. This new army, which had been trained for many years under the banner of serving the king and rescuing the emperor, had the first real battle to the emperor. I have to say that this was really ironic, but the Ming Dynasty at this time was such a magical way.

The Beijing camp bombarded the emperor, the navy bombarded the emperor, and now the new army bombarded the emperor.

Regular operation!

The magical Ming Dynasty!

They bravely moved forward, reaching the opposite side of Chengtian Gate. The simple barricade piled up by sandbags had been completed. The field guns in place aimed directly at the city gate. The simple city gate fell down with the flames erupting from the muzzle.

But the next moment, these artillery soldiers fled in horror.

Because inside the fallen gate, there was a heavy artillery that had been waiting for them for a long time.

The black muzzle aimed at them behind the barricades piled up by sandbags. Although it was inside the Meridian Gate, because the palace was too small at this time, there was no difference for a cannon of this level.

"put!"

Zhang Ju shouted.

The twelve-pound cannon spewed out flames instantly.

The huge solid bullet also instantly cut through the air, passing through the Meridian Gate and Chengtian Gate, and then overturned the barricade here. As the sandbag shot, a field gun was also instantly knocked over. The artillery that had not yet escaped around screamed.

"Recharge!"

Zhang Ju shouted inside.

"fire!"

The new army general here shouted.

Another field gun then shot shells into it.

However, although the first shell hit Zhang Ju's barricade with good accuracy, the weak shell could not penetrate the sandbag. After all, two and a half kilograms of shells were not the same level as nine kilograms of shells, and the heavy cannon that returned to load was quickly pushed out, and the next moment it was its roar again.

Although the direct shells did not hit the barricade, they flew over the barricade and then raged on the Imperial Street.

The huge power created a bloody alley among the reinforcements of the new army.

At the same time, the cannons on the sovereign were also replaced with shotguns.

Amid the sound of large shotguns breaking through the air, the new army crowded on the imperial street was covered in blood...
Chapter completed!