Smelling the obvious smell of blood in the military camp and hearing the faint wailing and screaming, Shang Zhijie's complexion began to turn slightly pale again.
Throughout the Eight Banners Cavalry barracks, there was a sense of dejection everywhere!
In this fierce battle outside the city, the defeat was really tragic!
Facing the Ming infantry, which was about the same number as our own, the two thousand Eight Banners cavalry suffered heavy losses and then retreated in despair.
You know, this is cavalry versus infantry!
This defeat really hurts morale!
This defeat seemed to instantly expose the lie that the Eight Banners were invincible.
As a real person who experienced this battle, I was affected by a deep sense of powerlessness and inner guilt.
These more than a thousand Eight Banners cavalry looked quite dejected!
Shang Chengan knelt in front of Shang Zhijie and said with tears streaming down his face.
"His Royal Highness, my servant was defeated. I really can't help you, the prince, and I can't help you!"
"Ke Ming's firearms are really sharp!"
"Our decoys don't work. We can't stop the Ming thief's muskets even though we're wearing armor from a hundred or two hundred paces away. My brothers risked their lives and rushed into the Ming thief's formation several times, but they couldn't do it at all!"
"The Ming thieves' explosive shells and rockets are really terrible. Every time the artillery shells and rockets explode, there are countless casualties."
"Brothers are miserable!"
"It's not that our Eight Banners athletes of the Han Dynasty are afraid of death and war, it's really because the weapons of the Ming thieves are so incomprehensible."
"After a battle, hundreds of Eight Banners athletes died one after another. Our Eight Banners' sons and daughters have a limited population and cannot withstand such a torment!!"
"..."
Shang Chengan's crying made the morale of the Eight Banners soldiers around him even lower.
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Outside the city, with the victory of two fierce battles on the docks, the Ming army's landing troops completely established a foothold on the docks.
The main force of the Ming army began to land quickly!
Field artillery pieces, countless shells, gunpowder, armor and equipment were transferred to the shore.
As for the heavy siege artillery, there is no need to transport it ashore!
The wharf of Guangzhou is not far from the city wall of Guangzhou. The Ming army's fleet is parked in the Pearl River. The outer city wall of Guangzhou is completely within the fire coverage of the large-caliber naval guns on the battleships.
Instead of wasting all the effort to transport the heavy siege artillery to the shore, it would be better to use the naval gun directly as the heavy siege artillery.
Anyway, among the naval guns on Ming army warships, the smallest caliber guns were ten-pound guns.
Most of them are heavy cannons weighing 20 kilograms, 30 kilograms, or simply Big Macs weighing 50 kilograms.
Using it as a siege gun is no problem at all!
The purpose of removing the field artillery is to use it as infantry support artillery.
Zhu Hongyu stood on the bow of the boat, looking in the direction of Guangzhou City.
The waves of the Pearl River below were surging, and the waves hit the shore, and then quickly broke into spray.
The sound of the rushing waves is not quiet!
However, vaguely, Zhu Hongyu seemed to hear bursts of wailing and screaming.
He took a deep breath, narrowed his eyes, and the look on his face made people feel inexplicably sad.
Zhu Hongyu spoke to Wang Ruxian next to him.
"More than ten years ago, Shang Kexi must have massacred hundreds of thousands of Guangzhou people here, and even asked the Guangzhou people to erect a memorial arch to thank them!"
"Why, does the Qing court want the hundreds of thousands of innocent souls in Guangzhou to thank them for not killing them?!"
"It's so disgusting!"
"Standing here alone, it seems as if I can hear the screams of hundreds of thousands of suffering people!"
"It is Ming Dynasty that has failed to protect the people under its rule. It is the Ming Dynasty that is sorry for the suffering people of Guangzhou!"
Zhu Hongyu's voice was full of sadness and suppressed anger.
It is not only the sorrow and indignation for Shang Kexi’s massacre of the people in Guangzhou, but also the reason that future generations have forgotten history.
Shang Kexi, who killed millions of people in Guangdong, can be promoted as a national hero!
But go to hell!
The resentful souls of millions of Guangzhou people in the Pearl River are staring at you!
Wang Ruxian opened his mouth to persuade.
"Your Highness, calm down!"
"Your Highness has a body of ten thousand gold, and is the hope for the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. Because Shang Kexi is such a thief, it is not worth it to get angry again!"
"At worst, when the time comes, the general will be happy for the entire family, and we will just stay here on the banks of the Pearl River!"
Zhu Hongyu nodded slightly and said nothing more, but looked firmly in the direction of Guangzhou City.
Then, he waved his hand and ordered.
"Instruct the fleet artillery group to open fire!"
"Target Guangzhou City Wall, shoot quickly!"
The flag on Zhu Hongyu's ship changed, and the next moment, the whole world resounded with the roar of heavy artillery like thunder.
A huge amount of gunpowder smoke filled the air instantly!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
One after another, the cannonballs were mixed with firelight and smoke, and shot towards the city wall of Guangzhou.
One after another, the naval gun shells hit the Guangzhou city wall. The shells carried strong kinetic energy and made the city wall tremble.
The outer brick cladding quickly shattered, and dense spider web-like cracks appeared on the city wall.
The gunners of the Ming Army quickly used pulleys and cables to reset the displaced naval gun after firing, then cleaned the gun bore with a brush and loaded it again.
Boom! Boom!
The next moment, large-caliber naval guns fired one after another.
Although the location of the pier is not far from Guangzhou City, it is also not particularly close.
In order to exert the power of the artillery attack, almost all the artillery fired this time were large-caliber naval guns weighing more than 20 kilograms.
Hundreds of artillery pieces, large and small, were aimed at the city walls of Guangzhou, firing continuously!
The movement is extremely terrifying!
The cannonballs were as dense as raindrops, or they fell on the city wall, causing the masonry of the city wall to break and cracks to appear on the wall.
Or cross the city wall and fall into Guangzhou City!
Wherever the cannonball passed, there was an apocalyptic scene of collapsed buildings.
The wooden houses in Guangzhou were almost no different from pieces of paper when faced with heavy artillery shells fired from naval guns.
The shells plowed out very obvious gaps in the dense buildings in the outer city of Guangzhou.
Under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Liberation Army, the city wall of Guangzhou's outer city near the Pearl River quickly became dilapidated.
Wall stacks, gate towers, turrets, watchtowers and other buildings were almost wiped out by cannonballs!
Even the main building of the city wall had countless cracks caused by cannonballs.
No one can be left on the city wall for a long time!
All the defenders retreated into the city, preparing to fight stubbornly in the barbican city.
As the shelling continued, the outer bricks of the city wall continued to fall off, gradually exposing the innermost layer of rammed earth.
Then, the shells used by the Ming Dynasty naval guns were changed from solid bullets to blooming bullets.
Boom! Boom!
The blooming bomb was embedded in the rammed earth layer, and then the fuse burned out and exploded.
The violent explosion caused sand and mud to fly everywhere near the city wall.
The Ming army seemed to be using the roar of hundreds or thousands of giant cannons to announce to the entire Guangdong that the Ming Dynasty was back!
The landing troops of the Ming Army have begun to advance towards Guangzhou City!
They were on the pier, eating with the roar of heavy artillery, repairing for a while, and then prepared to continue fighting.