War? Big Ming is back?
Gunshots and cannons rang out on the streets, and the civilians hiding in their homes were trembling in fear. They had never seen such a large formation before. The roaring explosions were like the heavenly punishment described in myths.
Some brave people opened the window and looked out. The Ming flag was particularly eye-catching, and the scene of the Ming army killing the Qing army was even more shocking.
The commoners were shocked. The Great Ming Dynasty was still alive?
Not only did they not perish, but they even came back to suppress the Qing army?
"Oh my god, Great Ming is not dead. The imperial army is back, they are really back!”
"Mother, Father, Teacher Wang, Teacher Wang is really here! The Qing army had been defeated, with countless casualties. The streets were filled with the corpses of the Qing army!”
"Furthermore, there are huge warships of the imperial army outside the harbor. They are made of steel and weigh tens of millions of kilograms. Their cannons are so huge that they can shatter the heavens and earth with a single shot.”
"Hide well and don't go out, lest the Qing army massacre the city again!”
Everyone in the south knew about the disaster in 1650, the seventh year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty and the fourth year of Yongli in the Nanming Dynasty.
In October of the sixth year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army arrived in Guangzhou and besieged the city for 10 months. Finally, they captured the city. After Pingnan King Shang Kexi led the Qing army to capture Guangzhou, he massacred the city for ten days and corpses were everywhere.
After the city fell, King Pingnan did not let go of these civilians who had sworn to protect their homeland and resolutely ordered a massacre.
It was said that Guangzhou City was in a mess at that time. After the Qing soldiers entered Guangzhou City, they robbed everything they could get their hands on. They killed everyone they met, regardless of gender, old or young.
Countless people were killed or injured in the city. Those who were lucky enough to escape the city did not get a way out. The soldiers chased them all the way and forced them to die by the seaside.
Those who had a certain amount of money used this money to seek a way out, but more people were forced to sleep forever in this disaster. The massacre lasted for twelve days, and after that, there were almost no survivors in Guangzhou.
This inhumane massacre was passed down from generation to generation by the survivors.
Most of the residents in Guangzhou were relocated from the surrounding counties, such as Nanhai County, Panyu County, Shunde County, Hua County, Dongguan County, Conghua County, Longmen County, Xinning County, Zengcheng County, Xiangshan County, Xinhui County, Sanshui County, Qingyuan County, and Xin 'an County.
The people who were killed in Guangzhou had their relatives. Who didn't hate the Qing army? Who didn't hate the Qing court?
However, the situation was stronger than the people. The Qing court's high-handed rule and cruel and tyrannical methods made them not dare to complain at all.
However, the hatred had been hidden in his heart for more than a hundred years! All he needed was a fuse.
Since ancient times, the southern region had not been ruled by foreign races since the Han Dynasty. The Confucian culture of the south had been passed down for more than a thousand years without interruption.
Therefore, many of the policies implemented by the Yuan and Qing Dynasties had a huge impact on the values formed by the southerners for thousands of years. Especially after the implementation of the Qing Dynasty's policy of shaving their heads and changing their clothes, when the Qing army went south, it was immediately opposed by the southerners led by the Han gentry. In order to defend their dignity, they did not hesitate to give up their lives.
Although the Yuan and Qing dynasties conquered the south with their powerful military forces, the southerners did not yield spiritually. Their developed economy restricted the foreign rulers. As the conflict deepened, they would inevitably rise up to resist.
Now, the fuse had appeared. They only needed a complete victory to ignite the hearts of the southerners to resist.
"Kill! Charge!"
On the bank of the Willow River in the south of the city, Wang Chenghua led more than 10,000 remaining soldiers to retreat to the south bank of the Willow River. They met up with Zhou Lie, the commander of the Green Camp in Jiangxi. The two sides combined their forces and 50,000 people were stationed on the south bank in an attempt to resist the Ming army.
More than 2,000 Ming soldiers rushed out from several streets and gathered together, shooting at the Qing army across the Willow River that was more than ten meters wide.
At this time, the stunned Qing army calmed down and began to implement the tactics that Ah Gui had temporarily formulated. They used sandbags as cover and aimed at the Ming army on the other side.
Bang bang bang ~
The flintlock opened fire, and smoke swirled around. The sound was loud, but the accuracy was barely satisfactory. Whether or not they could hit the Ming army was all up to luck.
The Ming army's Leenfield rifle was different. When the mechanical scope was turned on, it easily shot the Qing army's heads.
When Zhu Zhenglong was still alive, he had implemented militarized management where all the people were soldiers. All the subjects on Flower Island, from 8 to 48 years old, had received militarized training according to the infantry code.
After Zhu Zhenglong's death, the cabinet still maintained this tradition. Every week, they organized military training for the island's residents, such as close combat, bayonet fighting, live ammunition shooting, tactical drills, and red and blue confrontations.
After years of training, although most of the subjects Zhu Zhenglong summoned were in their thirties or forties, their physical fitness was still very good. After more than ten years of training, their military qualities had been deeply ingrained in their souls.
Bang ~
With a gunshot, a Qing army deputy general was shot between the eyebrows. Wang Ying, the sharpshooter from the female barracks, pulled the bolt and continued to use the white light scope to find the target, focusing on the officers.
Wang Ying was already forty-five years old. She was the mother of three children. Her youngest son was eighteen years old and served on the navy cruiser Hangzhou.
Her eldest son, Li Kai, was a colonel in the army, her second daughter, Li Wei, was a military doctor, and her husband, Li Qingshan, was the chief of staff of the navy. She was originally a housewife who stayed at home to take care of her grandson. With the emperor's imperial edict, Wang Ying joined the army without hesitation. The whole family went to war with the army, and her eldest son, Li Kai, was still her regiment commander.
"Big Sis Wang, your marksmanship is too godly. This is already the 77th, right?”
The platoon leader Liu Fang was envious and admired Wang Ying's marksmanship.
In an hour of fierce battle, Wang Ying killed 77 Qing soldiers with a rifle with a scope. Most of them were officers. His marksmanship was comparable to the famous sharpshooter He Guang of the Army.
"Number 79, the Qing army is too stupid. They don't know how to hide and stick their heads out to die.”
As he spoke, Wang Ying pulled the trigger again, accurately hitting the gunpowder barrel next to a Qing artillery.
Boom!
A violent explosion sounded, and dozens of Qing soldiers were blown away. Hundreds of kilograms of cannons flew into the sky and smashed into the Willow River, splashing water everywhere.
"Heavy machine guns, heavy machine guns, mortars, quick! Open fire and cover!"
Li Kai's shout was heard, and the soldiers carrying Maxim heavy machine guns and mortars finally arrived. They quickly set them up and fired fiercely at the Qing army on the opposite shore.
The power of the heavy machine guns was needless to say. Mortars destroyed sandbag fortifications, and heavy machine guns killed the Qing army like cutting grass.
After struggling for ten minutes or so, the Qing army completely collapsed and turned around to run in fear.
" Cross the river, chase!!!"
……
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。