Given that the East Gate faces Guangzhou City directly, it is the place where the Taiping Army exploded, and last year, Yunlong and Wu Jinzhong guard the Xinhui City, which is also the main guard of the East Gate, Zhou Shixiang transferred two teams of guards to Ge Zheng, and asked Liao Ruixiang to organize 300 Xinhui youth and strong men to defend.

Because the Ximen was blocked by the Qing army and faced Tan Jiang directly, the Qing army had the lowest possibility of seizing the city. Zhou Shixiang asked the Ximen Guardian Xiongweiying Baihu Shao Jiugong to draw another team of troops to the east gate, and the original dozen cannons on the west gate were also transferred to the east gate.

Including more than a dozen red-branded cannons, Xinhui City has more than 70 large and small artillery pieces, and requires a lot of medicine. Fortunately, the Han army flag prepared a large amount of gunpowder in the city last year, so the medicine was unlikely to be short of medicine. Zhou Shi, a later generation, did not know much about artillery pieces from this era, and only learned a little after the introduction of several Han army prisoners. Generally speaking, these artillery were mostly solid bullets, and only six red-branded cannons had the effect of "blooming" in later generations, but it was not the kind of shells that cracked and destroyed the enemy's blossoming, but filled with a large number of lead and small iron balls in the cannon chamber. The distance after firing was not as far as the solid iron bullets, and it could only reach one or two miles. It seemed that this kind of shell fell and shotgun had the same effect.

There are all kinds of copper cannons, some fire a few kilograms of bullets, some fire a dozen kilograms of big guys, and some tiger squat cannons that were in the early Ming Dynasty. In addition, large pole guns can also be used as small cannons at close range.

The Flowering Bullet was indeed the artillery that Zhou Shixiang wanted to own, but the reality was that he had no ability and had no technology to improve these artillery, so he settled for the second best. He could only hope that these cannons could cause the same huge casualties to the Qing army in Guangzhou just as they killed Li Dingguo's army last year.

In addition to artillery, the methods that the defenders could use in this era were basically used by the Taiping Army, including Jin Tang, Muli, Rockfall, Lime, and even the knife-setting were all comprehensive. Even the large tanks originally installed by the Qing army in the city were also asked to monitor, and a lot of water was prepared everywhere. If there were people in the monitoring tunnel, dig soil and pour water. In addition, you can also prevent rockets from falling in the city and causing a fire in the city.

The people sent to nearby mountainous areas to search for the remaining Ming army soldiers have not yet returned, and the Taiping Army could not get more manpower for a while. Zhu Er led the cavalry team to explore outside the city every day, with the focus on the Guangzhou direction. However, the cavalry team did not dare to get too close to Guangzhou direction because the Qing army's reconnaissance cavalry had appeared. The cavalry under Zhu Er's cavalry was not good at horsepower. They could not fight against the Qing army's provocation, so they mostly retreated after discovering it. Even if they met a Qing cavalry with only a few people, the cavalry team could not do anything. Fortunately, the Qing army's provocation had any intention of entanglement with the small-scale cavalry of the Taiping Army, and it was mostly intended to search for information, so the two sides did not fight.

The news of the Qing army's whistle cavalry activity reported to Zhou Shixiang. There was no doubt that Zhou Shixiang believed that the Qing army in Guangzhou was about to arrive in Xinhui. All preparations to defend the city were constantly urged to step up, and everyone clenched their fists and waited for the Qing army to attack. Among them, although many people were doubtful or afraid, under the high pressure of the city's mobilization and the Taiping Army, any abnormal movement was temporarily suppressed, and everything was only known when the Qing army truly discovered.

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The Qing army in Guangzhou came two days later than Zhou Shixiang expected, but when he saw the Qing army outside the city, it was no wonder that Zhou Shi was "late" relative to theirs. Obviously, the Qing army in Guangzhou had already received news of the loss of Xinhui. They reorganized their troops in the shortest time and transferred a large number of siege equipment. At first glance, the green flag of the green camp, the blue flag of the Han army, the yellow flag of the Han army, and the large flag of the governor-general camp.

Li Fuguo, who was once the Qiang-General of the Green Camp and was now a 100-household household in the Guards camp, couldn't help but exclaim: "With the governor's flag here, is it because the governor of Guangdong who personally led his troops?"

When Shao Jiugong heard this, he said "She is Ping, Jing Erfan is here, and the Guangdong Governor is the ball. This time it is probably the old guy Shang Kexi has come here in person!"

When the generals of the Taiping Army on the city heard this, their expressions were shaking. Even Zhou Shixiang couldn't help but make a sudden noise. Although he was extremely despised by the old guy Shang Kexi, he couldn't help feeling a little pressure when he appeared in front of him. This person was not comparable to those Qing generals he had met before. In terms of experience in the army, the old guy also came out of blood for decades. In terms of fame, although all the Han people gritted their teeth at him, in the Qing court, the old guy was a real hero in the southern expedition, one of the only two remaining Han vassal kings. If Shang Kexi came here in person this time, this battle would be a real life.

As soon as the Qing army arrived, they launched an attack on Xinhui. The direction they chose to attack was the East Gate. With the sound of the trumpet, about two thousand Green Camp soldiers rushed towards Xinhui City. The Green Camp soldiers and generals who rushed to the front were all wearing double armor, and officers with responsibilities were even wearing iron armor.

In addition to hundreds of green camp soldiers carrying cloud ladders, there were hundreds of people pushing shield chariots in the Qing army. There were several square formations in the crowd, and there were archers in the square formation.

At the end of the Green Camp soldiers, more than a hundred Han flag soldiers were slowly forward. These Han cavalry were used to supervise the formation. If they found that the Green Camp soldiers in front of them dared to turn back, they would immediately go forward and kill them. Because they knew that there were artillery on Xinhui City, the Han cavalry who supervised the formation did not dare to go further forward too much. While riding their horses, they looked at the city from time to time.

The more than 2,000 Green Camp soldiers who were attacking were not unaware of the artillery on Xinhui City, but at this time they were all very brave. Most of these Green Camp soldiers who were once Ming army looked down on the Taiping Army in the city and did not think that they had the ability to defend Xinhui City. In addition, there was a Han army flag to supervise the formation, so they were all willing to sacrifice themselves. Although the cannon was eyesless, it was also a bad luck for fear of death. As long as they were quick, the cannon could not hit them.

"Start a fire!"

Ge Zheng's soldiers rushed into the range of the Red Barbarian Cannon, and waved to order.

"fire!"

The Han army captured gunners who heard the order did not move at first. When the Taiping Sword next to them drew their swords, they were immediately frightened to take the torch that had been burning and burned them to the fire letter that had been exposed to the medicine chamber. After the fire tip, the gunners' faces looked as ugly as their parents who had died.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The eight red artillery artillery erupted from the east gate, and the shells roared out of the muzzle and flew towards the Qing army in the distance. The sharp cannon sound was very harsh. With a loud bang, a shell hit a shield cart, which made the shield cart split on the spot, with wood chips flying across the sky, and the wooden wheels shot into the air and fell to the ground in an instant. With a "thunderbolt", they broke into pieces. Several green camp soldiers who were pushing the shield cart were blown to pieces by the guns. With the missiles of lead, iron, and stones, dozens of green camp soldiers were either dead or injured.
Chapter completed!