The East Coast artillery is the best at artillery warfare! The temporary second lieutenant Bernini, who served as the deputy commander of the artillery company, is very confident.

He had already experienced the strength of his Qing Dynasty colleagues in Yantai Fort: Compared with the artillery soldiers of European countries, the level was far below the average. At this level, he also wanted to engage in artillery battles with the East Coast people? Although they had a certain range advantage on the city wall, their cannon range was originally small and the caliber was not large, so they seemed a little overwhelmed when facing the four East Coast artillery.

At noon, the two sides finally decided the winner after firing countless shells. One artillery in the Qing army was destroyed, and one of them exploded due to excessive firing. As for the East Coast artillery, two were also destroyed, but the artillery was slightly damaged, so there was no big problem. It could be used after repairing it.

Two of the four artillery pieces were destroyed, and the Qing army's artillery fire stopped for a moment. However, they stopped. The East Coast artillery did not give them time. The remaining six artillery immediately moved the target and bombarded the city wall. The key bombardment was naturally the section where the Qing army's red-clothed cannons were smashed over a year ago. At the same time, the East Coast infantry and cavalry were also ready to attack outside the city, ready to intercept the Qing army leaving the city at any time to protect the safety of the artillery. In addition, the 4 squadrons of the Third Battalion of the Stand-Up Team (1,000 people) were sent out to collect food and grass in the nearby countryside. The scouts of the security team were running around nearby to ensure that they were not secretly approached by the enemy to launch a raid.

So the battlefield was stalemate in such a strange situation. The Qing army in Yangzhou City was similar to the east coast army outside the city, but they didn't dare to go out of the city to fight, which reminded Shi Tingzhu of the Ming army in Liaodong back then. Once upon a time, they did not dare to go out of the city to fight against the Eight Banners Braided Soldiers who were "unparalleled in the cavalry and shooting".

The Eight Banners soldiers at that time lacked sharp weapons to siege the Ming army, so they could only besiege the Ming army's city for a long time. But now the yellow-clothed thieves are different! Their yellow-clothed cannons are famous all over the world. Not only are they extremely light in weight, but they are far superior to the red-clothed cannons. This person is really pissing! How can this city be defended?! Nowadays, it seems that they can only wait for Gaoyouzhou, Taizhou, Xinghua, Baoying to reinforce the Qing army in prefectures and counties to attack the yellow-clothed thieves on both sides. Shi Tingzhu dared not think about defeating them, but it is still possible to force this bold bandit to leave. But the problem is that the Qing army in Gaoyouzhou and other places has only more than 4,000 people, all of which are green camp passengers with weak combat power from Henan. Do they dare to come? Thinking of this, Shi Tingzhu dared not confirm it.

The cruel fact shattered Shi Tingzhu's last fantasy. Because until the large-scale collapse of the northern city wall of Yangzhou on the night of May 12, reinforcements did not appear, and even their messengers failed to successfully enter Yangzhou City, but were intercepted outside the city gate. Although Shi Tingzhu and others organized a large number of civilians to block the gap at night, and sent a frontman out of the city to attack the artillery teams of the East Coast people, the attack was quite smooth at the beginning and destroyed the two artillery guns of the East Coast people, the East Coast Army, which came to their senses, immediately organized a counterattack. The dense volley of guns and black soldiers wearing iron armor pushed back the invading Qing army elites. In the second half of the night, the Qing army launched two more offensives, but no results were achieved.

After dawn on May 13, Mo Ming first ordered the beheading of more than 100 soldiers of Zhai Congyan who had escaped last night. Last night, they were guarding behind barbed wire and a trench, but they failed to resist and scattered in a sudden attack by elite Qing army. This fact made Mo Ming extremely angry. Although Zhai Congyan pleaded for mercy, he still ordered the more than 100 soldiers to behead in public to use the military law.

After the military discipline was strictly followed, the infantry, already covered in steel armor, dispersed into small square formations. Then, with the support of the other 8 short-barrel howitzers of the artillery company, walked along a moat that was filled overnight last night and headed towards a gap of about ten feet above the north city wall of Yangzhou. There were vaguely some Qing troops repairing the gap, but it didn't matter. The metal storm composed of 12 east coast artillery (4 were lost in front and behind) would make no one stand at this gap.

The two infantry battalions of the Black Eight Banners (more than 1,500 people) were wearing steel armor and holding brand new 4.2-meter spears to set up formations on both sides. In the front of the middle was Zhai Congye's troops acting as vanguards, with less than 2,000 people. They lined up into four small square formations in units of 500 people. In the gap between the square formations were field howitzers who were constantly advancing with the square formations. Behind the artillery were the 104th Company, the 105th Company and a forward-looking musketeer squadron, a total of 730 musketeers. The above 4,000 soldiers formed the first batch of attack troops against Yangzhou City.

After they set off, the 4 squadrons of the Third Battalion of the Stand-Up Team (the grain has been collected and returned) and the remaining Black Eight Banners Infantry Battalion, a total of about 1,800 soldiers were left to guard the camp. Mo Ming led all the 102nd Battalion of the Stand-Up Team, the 102nd Company of the Army and the Cavalry Brigade to form the second echelon, ready to deal with various emergencies at any time. Together with these about 5,000 soldiers, there were 2,500 soldiers holding spears and trembling.

For siege battles, the East Coast people have long had an effective set of principles. That is, like field battles, give full play to the artillery firepower, let the artillery play the protagonist, use firepower to destroy the enemy's strongholds or any attack actions, and try to avoid falling into a situation of close contact with the enemy. Of course, what they really do is rely on the qualities of soldiers and grassroots officers. If they are well-trained local army, then the Qing army will naturally have no chance to get close under the intensive artillery fire and platoon attacks. But if it were soldiers from Zhai Congye's army, although the training time was not short, it is really hard to say what they did...

Yangzhou City is very large, with rivers, theaters, gardens, temples, military camps and other buildings in the city, and it is crowded with people and is extremely prosperous. A year and a half ago, because the army on the east coast was on the side, Duoduo, who led the troops to break through Yangzhou City, did not dare to carry out an inhuman massacre, which caused the soldiers of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners under his command to be dissatisfied. Although the gentry and people in Yangzhou were also extorted by the great masses afterwards, they finally saved their lives, which was much stronger than in history. At this moment, Yangzhou City, which had been under the rule of the Qing court for more than a year, soon restored most of its prosperity because of its geographical location.

What the army on the east coast saw after entering the city was this scene. Although the Qing army blocked the gap was still fierce, its flesh and blood could resist the metal projectiles flying out of the muzzle. Therefore, after nearly 300 people were killed or injured, the Jiangxi soldiers of the two battalions of the gap no longer paid attention to the officer's orders and began to retreat along the streets of the north xiang. It happened that more than 3,000 Yangzhou regiments rushed to reinforce on the streets of the north xiang. These people collided with the two battalions of Jiangxi soldiers who retreated, cursing, shouting, and warnings came one after another. Everyone said you, I said mine, and no one could understand what anyone said. In short, it was extremely confusion.

The east coast troops who had just rushed into the city were also a little dizzy. Whether it was the two thousand Qingzhou soldiers in Zhai Congye's army who were leading the way, or the seven or eight hundred east coast musketeers who came in close behind, they were all shocked by the prosperity of Yangzhou City. Especially those musketeers from the 104th Army Company of Ping'an County, the "metropolis", when have they ever seen such a prosperous Tongdu Dayi? The Oriental Port, Buenos Aires, Asuncion and even Lima, which were talked about in the past, were slack in front of this magnificent oriental city. How can those cities full of monotony and heavy stone buildings be compared with this magical city?

"Don't be distracted! Archers quickly seize the commanding heights on both sides of the street!" "Eight Banners New Army Infantry Battalion, musketeers guard artillery clean up the buildings on both sides!" "Don't go ahead! Get close to the brothers around you, clean up one place and occupy one place, and do not leave nails behind!" "Note that there are Qing army infantry in front, be careful of their counterattack!" "Quickly notify the military team to come up, bring fire extinguishing tools and animal power pumps, and be careful of the enemy's fire attack!"

Before Mao Desheng, who was the commander-in-chief of the front enemy, said anything, the coding of the middle and low-level officers below were already heard one after another. Their professional combat literacy and rich combat experience ensured that they could make reasonable decisions at any time. They were one of the greatest wealth of this army.

The Qing army indeed launched a counterattack. The retreating Jiangxi soldiers and Yangzhou regiments launched a continuous attack on the gap in the northern city. However, black soldiers wearing heavy armor and holding a 4.2-meter spear in their hands lined up in dense formations to block the enemies far away. In their gap, more than 700 musketeers calmly fired the muskets in their hands, not to mention 8 cannons filled with grape bullets and shotguns. In short, the Qing army that rushed down like cutting wheat, killing and injuring hundreds of people in a short time, which made their morale collapse again.

Yangzhou City was divided into two parts: the old city and the new city. The people on the east bank entered the old city. Zhai Cong-he received the instructions from Mao Desheng and began to lead the men to clean up the buildings on both sides. The Qingzhou soldiers who had already changed into yellow military uniforms and large caps on the east bank fiercely knocked open the closed doors of the buildings on both sides of the street. Some Qing soldiers hiding inside could not resist and were stabbed to death by spears. Gongyuan, Huaiyang Guild Hall (Salt Merchants Hall), and theaters fell into the hands of the army on the east bank one after another. At noon, after a not-so-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-hard-

In the afternoon, Mo Ming personally led more than 2,000 soldiers and a large number of soldiers into the city, and the 2,500 cavalry brigade remained outside the city to support. The two or three thousand soldiers who had entered the city had also been on the front and back many times and would practice some combat formation cooperation techniques. At this time, under the command of Captain Zhang Xudong, the captain of the first regiment of the forward team, they began to expand towards the new city under the command of Captain Zhang Xudong, the leader of the first regiment of the forward team. Mo Ming equipped them with two artillery pieces. The fierce artillery fire first scattered the Qing army guarding the stone bridge (the river between the new city and the old city), and then broke into the new city. After a normal battle, they captured two streets and alleys and a temple, and with the assistance of the First regiment headquarters (more than 300 people), the 102nd Company of the Army and some artillery soldiers, they blocked the Qing army's two counterattacks.

By the evening of May 13, the east coast army had occupied a quarter of the Yangzhou city, and even the government office had been captured by Zhai Congye's troops after the hard battle. The Qing Han army was injured and Cai Shiying fled. Four hundred Han troops and more than a thousand Jiangxi Qing troops were completely wiped out inside and outside the Yangzhou government office. This made the Qing army, especially Shi Tingzhu, feel very distressed. You know, these are all Han army flag generals, and they were the Han army that have been trained one after another since the Huangtaiji era.

The flag. At that time, there was only one flag, led by Shi Tingzhu alone. Later, it gradually divided into two flags, and finally evolved into the current Eight Banners of Han. Each of these people is extremely precious. Now they have lost hundreds of losses in one battle. In this Yangzhou city, how can you let Shi Tingzhu live? Many of them are brought out by him over the years, which is his capital! Now they have died easily in Yangzhou city, which no one can accept.
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