Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

Of course, because the Qing court moved the boundaries and banned the sea, the sea trade that originally belonged to Guangzhou was transferred to Macau, and Huangpu Village also declined from an international trade village to a fishing village.

But a skinny camel is bigger than a horse!What's more, it is an international trade village?Although the Qing Dynasty did not allow foreign ships and Chinese ships to trade in Huangpu Village, it did not force the villagers of Huangpu Village to relocate.

After all, Huangpu Village is at least 150 miles away from Lingdingyang at the mouth of the Pearl River, and the range of the forbidden sea in Guangdong is only [-] miles from the coast.Huangpu Village is not within the scope of the relocation, so naturally it will not be relocated, and no one went there to smash, loot and burn, and some of them just gradually withered.It has faded from an international trade village to a small fishing village... However, most of the ports, commercial ports, houses, warehouses, and government offices left over from the prosperous past still exist, although they are a little dilapidated, but they can still be used.If these facilities fell into the hands of Zhu Heqi, then his [-] to [-] troops would have a foothold at the gate of Guangzhou Mansion.

If Zhu and Qi's army captured Huangpu Capital and Huangpu Village at the same time, then Shang Zhixin could only retreat to the three strongholds of Guangzhou City, Yuexiu Mountain and Haizhu Island.

As for the matter of sticking to it, half depends on danger and half depends on people's hearts... It's hard to say whether it's dangerous or not in Guangzhou City, but people's hearts are definitely not on the Shang family's side.

Shang Kexi has millions of enemies in Guangdong, at least 30 to [-] of them are in Guangzhou city!

And Shang Zhixin can muster more than [-] people... It must be defended both inside and outside the city, it is impossible to defend against!

Therefore, after learning that Zhu Heqi's army was coming from the Pearl River waterway east of Guangzhou City, Shang Zhixin immediately decided to venture out of the city and set up defenses in Huangpudu and Huangpu Village.

As for Huangpu Island to the east of Huangpu Village and south of Huangpu Capital, it was not deployed because of insufficient troops.

The current Qing soldiers in Guangdong have finally tasted the lack of troops...they only have a total of tens of thousands of people, which of course is more than enough to deal with the rebels who only have a few thousand or a few hundred backbone elements.

But now Zhu Heqi has mobilized tens of thousands of strong men, and has given them quite advanced weapons... The sky in Guangdong has changed!

Shang Zhixin ordered the tiger general Zeng Qizhao who retreated from Humenkou to lead more than a thousand people to set up defenses in Huangpu Village.

And he himself took a thousand old men's soldiers, two hundred elite cavalry, and 22 younger brothers and cousins ​​of the zigzag generation on the bank of the Pearl River in Huangpudu.

He placed his Chinese army on the bank of the Pearl River in Huangpudu, occupying a very dilapidated Dragon King Temple.Although the Dragon King Temple is a bit broken, the terrain is still quite high... If it is not too high, I am afraid that it will be washed away by the flood. It would be shameful for the flood to wash away the Dragon King Temple!

But Shang Zhixin was standing outside the main entrance of the Dragon King Temple, surrounded by a group of old men who were about to become old and confused and little brothers who didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth, looking at the mighty fleet on the river, feeling so bitter in his heart!

This third grandson of Zhu is a fake... He, Wu Yingxiong and Yang Qilong forged it together to support the bandits.

But who would have thought that this Kou grew up so fast, and after only half a year of raising him, how could he lead tens of thousands of people to Guangzhou?

Where is this self-respect?This is obviously a danger to raising tigers!

And Shang Zhixin didn't dare to tell anyone about it, so he could only feel uncomfortable in his heart... If his unfilial father knew about it, he would have to chop him up!

"My lord, look quickly...the rebels have dispatched troops, and they have sent two fleets to Huangpu Island and Huangpu Village. They don't seem to be coming to us."

"Why didn't you come here? This old man wants to kill a few more Zhu family soldiers to have fun!"

"Old Zhang, are you already sixty? Can you still hold a knife?"

"Hey, just kill a few Wuhe soldiers from the Zhu family..."

"Master, give the order to attack! Otherwise, the rebels will be killed by that ruthless person Zeng Qizhao!"

Those who are bragging are the leaders of several old men's soldiers, they are all old traitors who betrayed Daming with Shang Kexi and joined Houjin.

These people later entered the customs from the dragon and killed all the way to Guangdong, staining their tops with the blood of the working people.Although they are all old bones now, they may not be so old and strong, but their psychological advantages are still there. No one really takes the mighty fleet on the Pearl River seriously.

Back then, Li Dingguo's army was much larger than these people in front of him!Moreover, Li Dingguo is a hero who has been famous for two times and shocked the world. How can he be better than the third grandson of Zhu, right?

But Li Dingguo was also defeated by the Shang family army?

So Zhu Hechi is nothing special!No matter how good he is, can he be better than Li Dingguo?

Lieutenant General Zeng Qizhao, stationed in Huangpu Village, is also a member of this group of old traitors... He is in his 50s this year, and he was only a teenager when he became a traitor with Shang Kexi more than 30 years ago.

To be able to have the current status, one is the gratifying promotion; the other is the grace of the Qing emperor; the third is, of course, that he can fight!

Don't look at him as a lieutenant general of the Luying Naval Association, but his landlubber navy is also one of the best under the Pingnan Wang Fan in terms of combat effectiveness on land!Known as "Ruthless General", the Cantonese gave him a nickname, "Ruthless Man Zhao".Others are "violent generals" and "tiger generals", but he is a "ruthless general". Of course there are differences. The bottom line of "violent generals" and "tiger generals" is relatively high. They are generally fierce on the battlefield, and at most they kill a prisoner and a little bit of the city...

And Ruan Renzhao was the number one murderer in the massacre of Guangzhou, and the massacre of Haiban was also the number one murderer among the generals under Shang Kexi's command!In the Battle of Wencun before the massacre of Haiban, he was also the number one murderer. Hundreds of members of the Wang clan and the clan of the Daming Tang clan died in his hands!

Many brothers of the same clan of Tian Wang Zhu and Huo Pao Zhu died in his hands!

However, such a ruthless person who kills people like hemp and kills without batting an eye is very much in Shang Ke's appetite.

Otherwise, Shang Kexi wouldn't let him guard the tiger's gate!

Because he is really good at fighting, Zhu Heqi had no choice but to walk around him when he sent troops to Guangfu... Before the third grandson of Zhu took over the coolies in the gate of the gate, the basic armed forces on hand were only [-] Jinyi pro-army , I couldn't help being exhausted at all, and of course I wouldn't go all out with a fierce general like Zeng Qizhao.

This detour made Zeng Daruojiang feel much better about himself.Walking around him shows that he has a great reputation, and the third grandson of Zhu thinks he can't beat him!

So he is still the second ruthless person in Guangdong——Shang Kexi is the most ruthless person in Guangdong, and Zeng Qizhao is naturally the second ruthless person in Guangdong.

It has become so ruthless, there is no need to be afraid of the tens of thousands of mobs of the third grandson of Zhu!

So when he saw 30 or [-] clipper boats that could only hold [-] people coming towards him at full speed, he couldn't help but be happy from ear to ear.

Because he has already discovered that the incoming enemy doesn't know how to fight at all. Now that he is putting in so much effort to paddle, will he still be able to fight when he lands?

It seems that after this battle, Zeng Qizhao should be promoted to the general army!

Chapter 149 It's really too insidious, too disrespectful of martial arts!

The first boat rushing to the forefront is Su Zhanshan, Zhu Hechi's favorite general, beloved apprentice and little fan.

His name is Zhanshan, but his family has been pirates for generations, only since his father Su Yong abandoned the boat and went up the mountain to become a pirate.However, the ancestral boat handling skills have not been lost. After all, Danan Mountain is on the seashore, and Tianwang Zhu sometimes goes to Haifeng County in Huizhou Prefecture to do business. sea ​​route.So the Su family on Danan Mountain can row and operate boats.

However, Su Zhanshan was neither steering nor steering the oars, but was fiddling with a hammer-throwing gun—a small bronze mortar that could be used to fire super-caliber sugar bullets.

This mortar was placed on the prow of a fast whistle boat, and a thick wooden shield was placed in front of the mortar. After filling the mortar with several young artillerymen, Su Zhanshan put on a Portuguese With a man's iron helmet, he poked his head out from behind the wooden shield and began to observe the situation on the wharf of Huangpu Village.

Facing Huangpu Island, there seems to be a parapet built on the wharf of Huangpu Village, which looks quite high, but there is no movement behind the wall.There were no colorful military flags, no weapons or human heads protruding, it was just quiet, as if there was nothing, but Su Zhanshan, who was very sensitive to the battlefield, still felt the aura of danger.

Among the houses far away from the wharf, there is a large green-bottomed flag, with a large "Zeng" character stabbed with red lines on the flag.

Su Zhanshan knew that this was the banner of Zeng Qizhao, the most ruthless general under the command of Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi, the second ruthless man in Guangdong, and the murderous deputy general of the Humen Association of the Green Camp.

This Zeng Qizhao can be entrusted by Shang Kexi with the important task of guarding the Humen Gate, but his ability to slaughter people is not enough, this guy is still very capable.Although he was born as an infantryman and gained wealth by fighting with a knife and a gun, after he reached a high position, he became a master of firearms without a teacher, especially good at using artillery.

The artillery he is good at is not the dead red cannon, but the general cannon left over from the Ming Dynasty. He likes to use the general cannon weighing several hundred catties most, which is easy to move and has decent power.The price is cheap and the quantity is sufficient... The guns captured in the wars over the years can be used for a long time, so it doesn't feel bad to throw them away after shooting.

And the place where he used the cannon most powerfully was that he was good at using the cannon to lay an ambush.His cannons were never put on display, they were hidden, either in the woods, or in the house, or put up a fence to hide them.

In addition, he is not good at bombarding the city with cannons, nor can he bombard cannons with cannons-not that skill.The red-clothed cannons placed on Shajiao and Dajiao Forts were handed over to his subordinates, and he couldn't manage them himself.His specialty is bombarding people!

It is to fill the general cannon with iron sand and hide it. When the enemy comes up, he will suddenly bombard a guy. After the bombardment is over, the infantry will rush up to kill people!

If there is no cannon, he will also organize a group of shotgun soldiers and a few tiger squatting cannons, and use the same method to kill people.

In short, this is an old bastard who has experienced many years of actual combat. The means of fighting are not formal, but very vicious.

He also has a group of 50- to [-]-year-old veterans under his command, all of whom have been with him for many years. Although they are old, they have a lot of experience—these people all came from the high-intensity wars of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Spelled out on the first line!

Now this group of old men and soldiers are lying behind the high parapet, calm and composed, without making a sound.

Actually the "breast wall" is a half-truth.Part of it is really built with mud, and the outer layer is covered with bamboo fences.Another part has only fences and no soil.

Among them, there are people hidden behind the breast wall built with mud, and only the "high imitation breast wall" of the fence hides artillery.

Just wait for the Ming army to land, the fence of the false parapet will be knocked down, and the general guns behind will spray iron sand!

After the general gun sprayed the iron sand, the veterans hiding behind the real wall went up to chop people!

With this set of tactics, if the English lobster soldiers in the Opium War encountered each other, most likely they would not be able to bargain for it. Even if they could win, the casualties would definitely not be light.

But what they met today was not an opponent who would fight after the battle, but also a group of little insidious people who didn't care about martial arts.

This is really "Old Yin" versus "Xiao Yin", it depends on who can put the "Yin" down.

"Old sinister" Zeng Qizhao was also lying on the roof of an old house that had been abandoned for a long time at this time, holding up a binoculars and looking towards the river.

A large red flag has been planted on the peak of Huangpu Island in the distance, with words tattooed on it. Zeng Qizhao can’t see what it is, and he has no interest in it. He just needs to know that Huangpu Island has been occupied by the enemy. ——Because Shang Zhixin's troops were insufficient, the island was not fortified, so he occupied it casually.

Zeng Qizhao turned his attention to those paddling small boats, thirty or forty boats, about a thousand people on board, about the same number as his men... and those boats were not that big, it should be Can't fit the cannon.Just wait for them to land ashore and spray a wave of iron sand with the general cannon, and then hack for a while, they should be able to win.

Thinking of this, Zeng Qizhao suddenly felt uneasy, so he turned his head and said to his own soldiers: "Go and pass orders to the brothers in front and tell them that the rebels are not allowed to fire until they land!"

"Whoo!"

A few soldiers were ordered to leave, Zeng Qizhao calmed down a bit, and continued to hold up the binoculars to look towards the river.

At this time, the boats rushing forward on the river suddenly slowed down, and the long oars on both sides of the boats were retracted.

What does it mean?Not logged in?

When Zeng Qizhaozheng was confused, he suddenly saw a burst of white smoke coming out from behind the wooden shields on the prows of the clippers, and then there was a rumbling sound of cannons, and then he saw a few long black Shaped things flew out from the bows of those fast boats, drew an arc in the air at an extremely fast speed, and flew towards the parapet on the wharf of Huangpu Village.

This is a cannon?

When Zeng Qizhao was wondering how such a small boat could mount a cannon, those long black things had already fallen from the sky with thick smoke!

It didn't land on the true and false parapets, but in front of the parapets. Apart from smashing the stone slabs and steps on the pier into small pits, there was a "boom, bang, bang" sound of heavy objects hitting the ground.But it didn't cause any damage, and it didn't explode, just smoke...a lot of smoke!

"Boom boom boom..."

There were a few more bangs, and several firearms that would not explode but only emit smoke were thrown in front of the Qing army. Although no casualties were caused, more thick smoke came out, and in a blink of an eye all the people in Huangpu Village were killed. A long section of the pier was covered with smoke.

Now Zeng Qizhao became "Zeng Blind", holding up a binoculars but couldn't see the situation on the river clearly, only heard the low-pitched roar and the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground!

What kind of play is this?

Did they log in?

Is it time for the general cannon in front of us to fire?

Zeng Qizhao, who has fought all his life, is also confused now, how did this happen?Is it a spell?Such a big smoke...couldn't be poisonous smoke?

When Zeng Qizhaozheng was thinking wildly, Su Zhanshan had already raised a red flag, and while waving it vigorously, he shouted loudly: "Kill the demon, restore Daming, attack your mother, kill!"

At this time, there were a total of 36 fast whistle boats on the water of the Pearl River near the Wharf of Huangpu Village. Ten of them had hammer-throwing guns on their bows, and now they were all moored by iron anchors and projected super-caliber smoke bombs on the water— - The raw materials used in smoke bombs are similar to ordinary sugar bombs, except that no catalyst is added, and the ratio of the two raw materials is different.This smoke bomb is not very afraid of being wet, and the smoke will be bigger when it is wet, so it is no problem to use it on a very wet ship.

In addition, the smoke grenade can be ignited before launching, and the smoke will fly out!

And the remaining 26 ships did not have hammer-throwing guns or smoke bombs on board. Instead, they were loaded with two baskets of "Zulotov" cocktail bottles!

These fast boats didn't stop, and the pro-military soldiers on the boat saw the red flag waving by Su Zhanshan, and they all put in more effort, paddling desperately, and rushed towards the smoky Huangpu Village wharf!

Chapter 150 It's time for revenge!

With the sound of "clicking" and the sound of wood colliding, more than 20 fast whistle boats have pierced through the smoke that filled the pier, and they all leaned on the long dike or steps made of stone slabs.

The wooden boat hadn't come to a stop yet, and the officers and soldiers in brocade clothes who were fully loaded on it had already jumped down holding porcelain bottles filled with kerosene.The first, a young deputy in brocade clothes, was wearing a Portuguese ship helmet on his head, but he only had a cross-collared cloth robe on his body. He held a shield in one hand and a torch in the other. His immature face was full of murderous intent.His subordinates came down with a bang, all of them were dressed similarly to him, including helmets, cloth clothes, and shields, but the torches were replaced by porcelain vases with cloth strips.

"Ignite! Start from number one, come one by one!"

Ling Zongjun, the No. 11 leader of Jinyi's pro-army Beizhen, the second deputy leader, held a torch, and while calling for the soldiers under him to come and light the fire, tears were streaming down his face.He was not from Chaozhou, but from Guangzhou. Most of his relatives were killed in the massacre of the Qing army. Only his parents ran away from Guangzhou to Wencun in Xinning County to join the Tang King Zhu Yu'e.He was born in Wencun, and later his father took him to follow Zhu Tianwang to open a "sub-base" in Dananshan, Chaozhou, and escaped a catastrophe.

Although he has never returned to his hometown of Guangzhou, it has been his dream since he was a child to fight back to his hometown and take revenge.

This dream... now finally come true!Revenge can be had immediately!

The group of young soldiers under his command are also like him, all of them bear bloody feuds-it's gratifying that their family has millions of enemies in Guangdong!These teenagers from the coastal areas of Guangdong are all one of those millions.

Now all of them are furious, holding up their shields in one hand and burning wine bottles in the other, rushing into the smoke screaming.You don't need to rush to the bottom, you can throw the wine bottle in your hand forward after a few steps.

The ignited wine bottles were thrown one after another, and then fell heavily, falling on the ground, on the human body, on the cannon, on the parapet, or on other things, all shattered, All turned into a mass of the deadliest fire.

The kerosene contained in these wine bottles is deadly enough, and Zhu Heqi also added sugar and gum arabic to the bottles... which is not bad!

The kerosene thickens immediately, and it will stick to people and burn, and it can't be shaken off, and it's useless to roll all over the floor.

The veterans of the Green Battalion hiding behind the "true and false parapets" couldn't bear it any longer!

When the smoke rose just now, they could still carry it.After all, the smoke does not smell dead, so it should be non-toxic.But who can bear this burning fire?The Green Battalion soldiers who were first set on fire immediately screamed hoarsely!

And with his screams, those who threw the bottles will have a direction!So more Molotov cocktails were thrown in the direction of the screams, and immediately burned ten or twenty green battalion soldiers hiding behind the parapet.

People who were burned did not die immediately, and they usually rolled over or even fled for a while before they were burned to death.Sometimes I would throw myself on my companions who were not on fire, to even out the flames from my own body...

As soon as the dozen or so firemen fled, the thousands of green battalion soldiers placed at the wharf of Huangpu Village suddenly became chaotic.

But Zeng Qizhao's veterans of the Green Camp were indeed brave. Even if they were covered by smoke, even if someone caught fire, they never thought of "running away from the fire". Not only did they not escape, but they even launched a counterattack.

First of all, the ten general cannons fired!

But these general guns are full of smoke, and the gunners don't know where to shoot?So I can only close my eyes and fight blindly, anyway, just shoot the iron sand forward!

After the ten generals finished firing, the musketeers who were ambushing behind the parapet also poked their heads out one after another, raised their shotguns and fired a row of random shots into the smoke.

After a burst of cannon and gunfire, the other green battalion soldiers drew their swords and raised their guns, yelling and rushing into the smoke.

……

"Fix the formation! Hurry up and form the spear formation..."

"Pikemen... the whole team, raise your guns!"

"Musketeers, line up, reload!"

"Sword and shield hand, cover the left and right!"