The distance between the lower cross-bar island and the upper cross-bar island is less than 300 meters. The artillery dragged by the 6th team was able to shoot directly at two turrets on the upper cross-bar island mountain. These two turrets had fifty-four heavy artillery points, most of which were aimed at the main channel of the East Channel, and a few were aimed at the west channel, and the south was the lower cross-bar island for defense. Now that the lower cross-bar island was lost, there was naturally no barrier.

After the fall of the Lower Range Island, Xu Long, who was responsible for the guards of the two islands, ordered people to build a civil-structured artillery base on the south side of the Upper Range Island, and transfer the three-pound cannons and some lighter red artillery cannons. Compared with the navy that needed to transfer artillery from warships, the Qing army was still one step faster. The two sides were very close to each other and were temporarily built artillery bases. In the artillery battle, the 6th team with eighteen-pound artillery did not take much advantage, and it was not until four heavy howitzers came to the island to gain the upper hand.

The twenty-four-pound howitzer has a large aspect ratio and a longest range of over kilometers. Although it cannot compare with the direct cannon, it can hide behind the sand dunes to shoot the Qing army. The heavy howitzer shells shot into the artillery base temporarily built by the Qing army, and the temporary organization of the Qing army bombers were overturned. The mountain-bearing under the mountain guarding the western channel was also within the range of the heavy howitzer. This fort was shot by the Portuguese, with a wide shooting range and a good location, but it also inherited the shortcomings of the Portuguese style. There is no ceiling, and the howitzer falling from the curve can explode directly in the gun hands. The howitzer on the lower crossbar island suppressed the west side of the Qing army's lower crossbar island, while the artillery formations came forward, firing at the crossbar battery at the southwest of the upper crossbar island, directly covering the 6 teams on the 6th.

The iron-locked Hengjiang River, the position of the artillery formation was not good. It encountered the crossfire of the Qing army's cross-barrel turret and the consolidated artillery on the west side of the channel. Although the artillery formation had heavy artillery and the comparison of the number of artillery between the two sides was 234 to 35, it still could not gain the upper hand. This was the artillery battle in this era. Battleships covered with heavy artillery could not fire with the artillery.

Until Umu sent a sloop gunboat to participate in the battle, the sloop gunboat was transformed from a sloop. The mast in the front was completely removed. After the interior was reinforced, a ten-inch sloop cannon was arranged. This sloop can knock out a 50-kilogram grenade of 2,500 meters. Two sloop gunboats suppressed the consolidated turret on the west coast. Umu presided over the battalion-level climb 6 and successfully occupied the sloop-sloop-slaughtered cross-rack turrets. However, in the artillery battle, a Calaissa galleon battleship, the Five-Step Snake was lost.

The Manchus loved to learn military technology. They came into contact with cannons from the Ming army and quickly made artillery more sophisticated than the Ming army. In Guangdong, the Portuguese built artillery for them and cast artillery, but the artillery and shells were learned from the Dutch. Among the types of ammunition used by the Qing army, there were not only large 6-die items such as solid artillery shells, chain shells and shotguns, but also damaging bombs such as burning bullets. The Five-Step Snake was hit by a red-burned solid artillery shell. Because the damage pipe was not in place, it ignited the gunpowder on the gun deck. Although the captain's order to abandon the ship was very timely, it still killed 37 naval officers and soldiers.

Of course, this number of casualties refers specifically to the sailors, gunners, officers and 6th team members on the ship. Not many of the 380 slave paddlers in the Five-Step Snake paddlers survived, but in the statistics at that time, this was not casualties, but the loss of state-owned property.

In terms of using molten bullets, the turret has an advantage over the warships. Even the officers and soldiers of the most professional battleships dare not use such dangerous ammunition under such circumstances.

It was much more difficult to attack the Hengzhang Mountain Fort, which was the main fortress of Hengzhang Island. The Qing army strengthened the city walls and trenches on the turrets designed by the Portuguese, and arranged a medley gunman. It was not until the howitzer landed on 6th that it suppressed the enemy's firepower. However, after capturing the Hengzhang Mountain Fortress, it controlled the operation room of the Hengzhang Railway's iron lock in the western channel. The chain was cut off and threw it into the river, allowing the artillery fleet to continue northward and enter the Lion Ocean.

The military camp behind Hengzhang Mountain was exposed to the artillery fleet, and the Dahu Fortress deeper in the waterway was too far away to cover them. Perhaps the Qing army trusted the defense system of the fort and Hengjiang chains, so it could cover that there was no troops deployed on Zhutou Mountain on Hengzhang Island.

The Qing army's navy had a very low status. Apart from the sea defense cannons in the fort, they had almost no decent weapons. The 6th team that was on the 6th team encountered a few bird guns and three-eyed guns, especially the 6th team that consolidated the fort in the west bank. When the bayonet of the 6th team lit up, the Qing army fled. The 6th team used explosives and sulfuric acid to destroy the artillery in the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy the sturdy island, cut off all the sturdy iron locks, and the Pearl River Estuary channel opened the naval gateway.

At the end of the day's battle, the Allied water forces captured and destroyed five forts, opening up the deep waterway into the Pearl River. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the next step, the navy would attack the Weiyuan fort, followed by Humen City, completely eliminating the threat of the Qing army naval division. In the early morning of the next day, the Qing army naval division's counterattack arrived.

The Qing navy had no big ships, mostly small boats such as sampans and eight-pad boats, so the Qing army wanted to disrupt the war at the beginning, so they marched at night and attacked in the early morning, and commanded the water battles by Huang Fei, the commander of the Qiongfan Navy. In the past, when the pirates of Guangdong were wiped out, the Navy and the Ming navy had long-term cooperation with them. According to the usual style of both sides, the navy and the Ming navy carried out their own management on weekdays, and cross-command during wartime. The Canadian ships and a few sail warships in the Qiongfan Navy were arranged in the naval fleet in the Southern War Zone, and the paddle boats in the navy were arranged in Huang Fei's inland fleet. In command, the sail warships and the Calais gunboats were commanded by Huang Fei, while the other paddle boats, including the Galais ships, were commanded by Huang Fei.

There were twenty-four additional ships under Huang Fei's command, and eighteen fast crabs. As for small boats like sampans, there were more than 200. Qiongfan and Zhengfan joined a large number of soldiers who were good at water wars. Their strength should not be underestimated. The Qing army's strength could not be compared with the Inland Fleet. The Guangdong Navy Zhang Guoxun's troops had only 5,000 people and the Nantou Navy Battalion. These people were also responsible for the Humen defense system. The troops were definitely not as strong as Huang Fei, and their skills and tactics could not be the opponents of these veterans. In addition to the advantages of the downstream, the Qing army's navy relied on was a generous reward from the top leaders.

Manchus have always been generous in rewards, especially in wartime. If they get the merits, they can reward 500 taels and become generals directly. The black eyeballs are the most shameful. On the one hand, they are the big sword of the Manchu Taijun to suppress the formation, and on the other hand, they are rewarded by high-ranking officials. The Qing navy exuded sufficient combat power and also received the support of the Guangxi Green Camp under the name of Dingfan. Zhang Guoxun personally led the team and led the various troops to attack. He chose the eastern channel rather than the western channel with the shelling fleet anchored. At this point, Zhang Guoxun and Xu Long had a conflict. Xu Long strongly attacked the shelling fleet, but Zhang Guoxun, a two-knives from the green camp, was scared against the battleships full of cannon windows, and rushed straight to the inland fleet on the main channel.

Zhang Guoxun didn't know that in the water battle, giant ships such as battleships were much larger than sampans. Xu Long understood this truth, but his status was not as good as Zhang Guoxun, a close servant who was a fair vassal.

The water battle was fought from Lion Ocean to Lingdingyang, and hundreds of warships of all sizes fought back and forth. At the gentle estuary of the Pearl River, there were almost no commands. In the chaos, muskets were more effective than artillery. The Ming army, who was riding a small boat in a sampan, suddenly approached and fired a volley, leaving. They were having fun on the battlefield. Large sailboats such as the Gareth ship were unable to turn around. They had to use their strong hull as a turret, bursting out sufficient combat power among the enemy groups, but they could only drink hatred when facing the fire attack ship.

Most of the soldiers in the inland river fleet were Ming army, with Qiongfan and Zhengfan. Many people from the former Zhoushan vassal states joined the battle. These people enthusiastically participated in the battle because of the generous rewards issued by the navy. One level was rewarded with thirty taels, and a warship was captured by a hundred taels. The Ming army was well known to everyone in the Ming army. This time, the reward was also screaming. Some Qing army without ships even took advantage of the opportunity of the 6th team to go ashore to rest and drove away the sampans of the 6th team's inland river fleet. During the fierce battle, some generals ran to shell the fleet, borrowed the large boats, small boats and traffic boats on the battleships, and joined the battle group. Almost all the boaters in the Allied Navy coalition joined the battle, and the navy was at a loss for a moment.

The inland water war lasted for a day, and in the end, hundreds of dozen warships chased the Qing navy and ran wildly on the water. This scene was seen by the Qing army on the Dahushan Fortress, and fired a few random shots. It was worthy of the military pay given by Beijing Fulin, so it ran away on a boat. The Qing army lost the last stronghold in the channel.

During the water battle, Xu Long was captured alive, Zhang Guoxun was killed, and Xu Long was cut off by Huang Fei. It was said that the entire army was sent with the class to a large amount of bounty. Wu Mu ordered the captain of the Qinglong battleship to tie a broom on the top mast of the main mast and told everyone that we had cleaned the Pearl River Estuary.

The commander was killed, and the people of Humen Fortress were panicked. Boluo on the front line sent 300 Manchu soldiers to Humen, hoping to stabilize the morale of the army. The Weiyuan Fortress was very weak in resistance and sent envoys to surrender. Wu Mu could give the conditions such as silver, money, land and houses. The general wanted to continue to be an official, but in desperation, he sent the envoy to Huang Fei. Huang Fei gave the rank of general to the head of the defender, and gave another 3,000 taels of rice fields. On that night, the general of the Green Camp led his army to fight with the newly arrived Eight Banners Taijun of Manchuria, and exchanged more than 30 Manchurian heads for two thousand taels of silver. Huang Fei led his people to capture the Weiyuan Fortress and besieged the Humen Fortress two days later.

The Humen Fortress was quite solid. The Manchu soldiers defended the vassals of the Pingfan. The attacker was Zheng Cai's troops. Wu Mu supported his battalion 6 teams and handed him the gunboat. Wu Mu's target was not Humen. The east and north of Humen were Daling Mountain. This was no longer the food route from the Qing army to the Shenzhen Daying. If you want to break the backbone of the Qing army, you still have to capture Dongguan. As long as you capture Dongguan, the connection between Shenzhen and Guangzhou will be completely cut off with this majestic city and the vast Dongjiang River.

Wu Mu divided the army into two parts, one of which was a brigade and a cavalry regiment of the Second Division of the 6th Army, gathered with Tongzhou Bridge, artillery and engineers, boarded 6 with Huang Fei's troops, and was commanded by Duoya to go to Dongguan City from the 6th place. He and Huang Fei personally led the navy to continue to go north from the Pearl River Channel. Wu Mu's intention was very simple, and he first cut off the connection between Guangzhou, Dongguan and Shenzhen.

The various materials needed by Shenzhen Daying leave from Guangzhou, and you have to cross the Dongjiang River to go to Shenzhen no matter what. Because the entrance to the Dongjiang River is in the Pearl River Delta, the ports are crisscrossed and on the main channel of the Pearl River, ferries are naturally needed. In some auxiliary channel and ports, bridges are mostly used. Wumu arranged the inland river fleet and selected the fast crabs, long dragons and sampans with smaller displacement, and entered the small channel. When they encountered a pontoon bridge, the ferry was burned, and only the bridge was demolished. Huang Fei led large paddle boats such as a train ship to enter the east channel of the Pearl River to isolate the east traffic between the east and west.

Wu Mu personally led the 6th team to enter the tributary channel of the south of the East Jiangjiang River, landed 6th in the Yanggongzhou area, and led the 6th battle brigade to attack the city of Dongguan. On March 12, the troops gathered at the city of Dongguan on March 12. Among them, the 6th Navy of the United States, the Qiongfan was more than 7,000, and the Zhengfan had more than 4,000 troops, totaling 25,000 troops, and 18 heavy artillery gates. They began to attack Dongguan that day.

The garrison of Dongguan was Xu Erxian, the right-wing commander of the Pingfan. After Boluo went south to Guangdong and Guangxi, because he did not have many troops, the battle between Guangdong and Guangxi relied on the three Han vassals of Guangdong and Guangxi. Boluo appeared and changed the world. The three Han vassals of the present were no longer the time when he went south. When he heard Dorgon wanted to investigate fugitive slaves, the vassal lord was afraid of the three Han vassals who committed suicide. The Qing troops were mostly defeated by the United Kingdom army on the Beiyang battlefield, and even Dorgon died in battle. Li Dingguo fell into a famous king in the southwest. The more the Qing Dynasty relied on the three Han vassals, the less afraid of the three Han vassals. In the battle between Guangdong and Guangxi, it showed that the Han vassals did not work hard.

At this moment, Boro would not cause civil strife. In order to better command the Han vassal, Boro was foolish. Boro has shown that among the three Han vassals who were in harmony after Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's death, Shang Kexi's most prestige was Shang Kexi. With him, whether it was the line Guoan who led the Dingfu, or Geng Jimao, who inherited the title of vassal lord, they only followed his horse because Boro's first thing was to transfer Shang Kexi.

Boluo informed Shang Kexi that the battle between Guangdong and Guangxi was three times, and the battle was started in western Guangdong, Guangxi and Shenzhen were all started. Guangzhou was the core place and no one could be left alone. Therefore, Shang Kexi asked Shang Kexi to command the soldiers of Shenzhen camp. He returned to Guangzhou to take charge. Shang Kexi was not willing to agree that the Shenzhen battle was related to the overall situation and he could not bear the responsibility for failure. Shang Kexi did not know that this was Boluo's strategy of retreating to advance. Since Shang Kexi was unwilling to take charge of Shenzhen camp, Boluo asked him to take some of the vassals to Guangzhou and keep the elites of the Three Han vassals. Finally, Geng Jimao assisted Boluo, and the line Guoan was in the new security sea and Shang Kexi was in charge of Guangzhou. Shang Kexi was responsible for supporting the food and grass on the front line, so Dongguan was also responsible.

Xu Erxian was ordered by Shang Kexi to defend Dongguan. He had only eight thousand soldiers and horses under his command of the right-wing Green Camp. Later Humen started a war. Boluo dispatched Huizhou General Li Shilian and other green camps to assist in defense. There were only 15,000 people, and the situation was in danger.
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