But no matter how trustworthy they could, there were only 3,000 people stationed in a small city with a not-so-solid city. There were also some refugee cannon fodder soldiers in Huangzhou City, and the combat effectiveness of those soldiers was negligible.

As soon as the 20,000 naval troops led by Wang Quan arrived at the Huangzhou River, they attacked the Zuo Army Navy.

The sound of cannons rumbled on the river, and one after another, the left army ship was smashed into pieces or sank into the water. The huge Huai army warship rushed directly to the left army's ship, smashing the left army's ship into two pieces, crushing the river to the bottom of the river.

Nearly half of the Left Army Navy warships were sunk, and the remaining Left Army Navy warships either fled into the small river to hide or surrender to the Huai Navy.

After the Huai Army Navy easily solved the Zuo Army Navy with no effort, transport ships loaded with Jinyang Army infantry docked on the riverside, and groups of officers and soldiers came down from the ship and headed straight for Huangzhou City.

Large-scale siege weapons are all ready-made, and they are convenient for the navy. After the batch of large-scale siege weapons built to attack Jingzhou six months ago were used up, they were dismantled and transported back to Wuchang. Now that they are attacking Huangzhou, the navy transport ships have transported these siege weapons again.

The auxiliary soldiers moved the large siege weapons that were dismantled from the ship and began to assemble siege weapons on the beach. At the same time, the navy warships on the river surface launched violent shellings on Huangzhou City. Warships sprayed fire, and the whistling shells hit the city wall, making the city wall full of holes and smashed the female wall to pieces.

Then the auxiliary soldiers pushed shield chariots, large ladder chariots, and other large siege weapons, and gradually approached the city wall. The three-pound cannons, six-pound cannons and twelve-pound cannons of the Land Division all approached the city wall, suppressed the defenders with fierce firepower, covered the auxiliary soldiers to fill the moat, cleared the wooden stakes of deer forts outside the city, pushed the large siege weapons over, and launched a fierce attack on the city wall.

More than 100 riflemen were stationed on more than 20 tall tower cars, using Danish rifles. These muskets with high cost and troublesome loading were unwilling to buy imitations in European countries at that time, but Li Guodong had money. What he valued was the advantage of the long range and high accuracy of this gun, so he bought a batch from the Portuguese at a high price, and then equipped the muskets to his own stragglers.

The scattered soldiers equipped with rifles were originally the nemesis of the Qing army's archers, but now they have been used by Li Guodong to deal with Zuo Liangyu, which gave the Zuo family army the honor to taste the power of this weapon.

In order to reduce the loading time, Li Guodong spared no expense to wrap the bullets with leather and silk, which ensured airtightness and the smoothness of the silk, and made the loading of bullets more smoothly. However, Li Guodong could not train a lot of scattered soldiers with high cost, and only a few sharpshooters could become scattered soldiers. All scattered soldiers wore green uniforms, and shot enemy archers and gunners at long distances. The military pay for scattered soldiers was even higher than that of cavalry because they could play an important role in the battlefield.

Li Guodong's opponent, the Qing army, the ordinary Qing army archers, had a direct shooting range of about fifty steps, which was comparable to the range of ordinary bird guns, and was not as good as the improved new bird guns of the Jinyang army. The range of a few elite Qing army archers could reach 150 steps, and could reach a hundred steps through the Yang, but they were a few elites after all. Li Guodong's scattered soldiers had a range of more than two hundred steps, and he could point the elite archers of the Qing army at about 150 steps.

Fires were spit out from the tall car in the tower. Almost every gunshot sounded, a defender on the city was emitting blood arrows and fell down screaming.

"How come Li Zhe's bird gun is so far away?"

"It's not a bird's gun, it should be a big gun like a turtle dove-legged gun."

The soldiers of the Zuo Army were so scared that they dared not show their heads, and they hid behind the knife chariots and large shields on the top of the city.

Even the soldiers of the Left Army hid behind the knife and chariot and large shields, it was useless. More than ten well railing cars from the Jinyang Army pushed up, and the cruel Li Guodong put all three-pound field guns on the well railing car. Each well railing car had four three-pound guns, and ten well railing cars swept across the city wall south of Huangzhou and bombarded for a while, and there was no one standing on the city wall.

Next is the moment when infantry siege the city. After suppressing the defenders at the city, even large siege weapons such as large ladders are not needed. As long as infantry siege up the simple ladder, the ant siege will easily climb to the city.

In Ezhou City on the other side of Huangzhou, the left army found that the Jinyang army on the other side of Huangzhou was attacking Huangzhou fiercely, and immediately sent people to Fankou to report the matter to Zuo Liangyu.

"Master, Master, big things are not going well, Li Zhe is attacking Huangzhou!" A messenger reported to him when he saw Zuo Liangyu.

The bad news about Xu Yong's defeat had already been heard, but Zuo Liangyu suppressed this matter. Now the old nest in Huangzhou is about to be destroyed by Li Guodong again. If this matter spreads, the generals under his command will probably be worried about the safety of their family and will never have the intention to attack again. So Zuo Liangyu turned his head and whispered to Zuo Menggeng, deciding to suppress this matter temporarily.

"My father, it's too late for us to return to Huangzhou now, not to mention that there is Li Ergou's navy on the river surface. We can't even get through the Yangtze River. It's better to change Huangzhou to Wuchang." Zuo Menggeng agreed with Zuo Liangyu's meaning.

Huangzhou is about to fall, and the Zuo family army attacked several military offices of Li Guodong again, so Zuo Liangyu nodded: "We now order the entire army to attack Wuchang."

"My father, I must not! I don't know if Zhang Yingyuan took Wuchang. If they were blocked outside Wuchang City, we went to Wuchang and lost the two cities of Fankou and Ezhou. At that time, we will be trapped between Wuchang and Fankou by Li Zhe, and even a city will be gone! Let's wait for Zhang Yingyuan's news. If Wuchang City cannot be taken down, we might as well retreat to Jiujiang Nanchang. Although Huguang is good, Jiangxi is not bad either. If we occupy Jiangxi, we can curb Li Zhe's water transportation. Jiangxi's grain output is not inferior to Huguang, which is enough to support my 300,000 army." Zuo Menggeng said.

Zuo Liangyu nodded and agreed to Zuo Menggeng's proposal.

The 100,000 Zuo family troops attacked three military households. The three military households had only more than 1,000 guards. Even women and children joined the bloody battle, and only 2,000 troops were in power. If the terrain of these three military households had not been favorable, they would have been defeated by Zuo Liangyu long ago.

Seeing that the defenders were about to be unable to hold on, more than 10,000 reinforcements led by Li Guodong personally arrived.

"Cabin! The Li thief cavalry is here!" Just as the left army attacked three small military offices, someone screamed in horror.

The formation of the Zuo Army was a little confused for a moment. Zuo Liangyu, who received the news, personally suppressed the formation and finally suppressed it. The Zuo family army formed a dense infantry formation and prepared to fight against the Jinyang cavalry.

"Brothers, don't worry! The water network in Huguang is wide and wide, and it does not have much advantage over the Li Bid Cavalry! There is not much open space for the Li Bid Cavalry to unfold. As long as we form a formation based on rivers and lakes, there are navigators behind us to transport food, they will not be able to consume us." Zuo Liangyu stood up and cheered his generals.

In the water net area, infantry cooperated with the navy, and its mobility was even greater than that of the cavalry! However, Zuo Liangyu ignored the most critical point: the navy was also Li Guodong. When fighting in the water net area, once the navy is lost, it will be difficult to move forward.

The infantry of the Jinyang Army had conquered Huangzhou. Wang Quan ordered the navy's small fleet to enter the tributary of the Yangtze River and launch a fatal blow to the remaining navy of the Left Army.

Small warships, centipede clutch and small sampan entered the crisscrossing tributaries on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and soon entered the lake and launched an attack on the back of the Zuo Family Navy.

"Master, Master, it's not good! The Li Zhe Navy is here! Our Navy can't resist it." Li Guoying, who was defeated in a crushing defeat, stumbled and ran to report to Zuo Liangyu.
Chapter completed!