The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 238 Offensive and defensive battle!
Shang Zhixin took the first step in going south to Macau, and entered the three townships!
Sanxiang Town was originally a very prosperous town, but after the Qing court moved the border to ban the sea, it was completely dilapidated.

Turned into a veritable ghost town!

Sanxiang Township was the first stop point set up by the Liberation Army.

Seven thousand Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Army launched an attack on Sanxiang Town!

The infantry pressed forward, the artillery deployed fire cover from the rear, and the cavalry wandered around Sanxiang Town, blocking the battlefield and preparing to stop the enemy's rout.

At this time, the Eight Banners of the Qing Army started fighting very well!

"Fire ready!"

The shelling sounded quickly!
Amidst the sound of rumbling guns, shells pierced the sky one after another and fell towards Sanxiang Town.

The troops deployed by the Ming army in Sanxiang Township were a group of cavalry infantry.

Facing the attack of the Qing army, a group of mounted infantrymen of the Restoration Army did nothing to resist at all.

The musket salvo fired a round, and then rode away, quite decisively.

The cavalry of the Qing army failed to catch up!
Shang Zhixin was stationed in Sanxiang Town, and he was quite excited, bragging to the Portuguese Ribeiro beside him.

"Haha, the Ming-British Allied Forces are really cowards, they are so afraid of my Qing soldiers!"

"As soon as the heavenly soldiers arrived, they fled in embarrassment!"

Ribeiro said with an apologetic smile on his face.

"If you can drive away the Ming-British coalition forces and bring them back to Macau, the Governor will be very grateful!"

Shang Zhixin nodded and said, but he was thinking about it.

Macau is rich. If you go to Macau with your own soldiers and don’t carry forward the Qing army’s fine tradition of burning, killing, looting, and liking to massacre the city, it would be unreasonable.

Instead of waiting for the Portuguese to give you a big thank you, it's better to do it yourself!
He still believes that he wants to stand up and make money!
But to Ribeiro, he didn't show any malice, just nodded and said.

"It should be, it should be!"

"Macau has been cooperating with Pingnan Palace for so long. Now that something is going on in Macau, how can I sit idly by?"

The Qing army didn't stay in Sanxiang for long, so they continued to march south!
Shang Zhixin made up his mind to go to Macau to make a fortune, and kept urging the soldiers of the Royal Palace under his command to speed up the march.

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After passing Sanxiang Town, there are Phoenix Mountain and Tanzhou Town!
The small plain between Phoenix Mountain and Tanzhou is the cemetery Zhu Hongyu chose for the Qing army.

This area is near the entire Macau, the most suitable place to fight a war of encirclement and annihilation!
There is Fenghuang Mountain in the east, Tanzhou Town in the west, and Qianshan Waterway in the south as a barrier.

That is to say, as long as the Ming army can hold Tanzhou Town, and the troops behind it will press down from the north, the [-] Pingnan Wangfu soldiers led by Shang Kexi will be the turtle in the urn.

Shang Zhixin looked at Tanzhou Town in front of him and ordered!

"Capture Tanzhou Town, and then go straight to Macau!"

Seven thousand Pingnan Palace soldiers received orders from Shang Zhixin and let out strange screams.

A large group of Qing troops in darkness rushed towards the small town of Tanzhou!

The Ming army built quite complete fortifications in Tanzhou Town, including trenches, traps, forts, and various firepower points.

There are still [-] recovery troops stationed!
Although due to time constraints, the Ming army's management of the defense system of Tanzhou Town was very rough.

But it is not so easy for the Qing army to take Tanzhou Town!
boom!Boom!

Facing the swarming Qing army, the artillery of the Liberation Army opened fire.

Cannonballs drew arcs in the air one after another, and shot towards the charging Qing army!

puff!puff!
The shells pierced through the human body with ease, smashing each of the Qing troops into a pulp.

Often a single shell can shoot through several Qing soldiers one after another before it runs out of kinetic energy and falls to the ground.

In just an instant, dozens of people were killed or injured!
However, the soldiers of the Pingnan Prince's Mansion led by Shang Zhixin deserved to be the elite of years of hard work. Facing the bombardment of the Restoration Army, they did not panic.

There are old soldiers in the formation who keep shouting!
"Hold on, hold on, Ming Thief's cannon is finished firing, and it will take a while to reload, everyone rush, don't panic!"

"Kill the thief!"

"..."

The Qing army's charge still did not stop.

At the same time, the artillery fire of the Qing army began to roar.

The artillery carried by Shang Zhixin aimed at Tanzhou Town, the smoke filled the air, and the shells flew across.

The artillery shells were fired one after another, and everything they passed was destroyed.

Fortunately, most of the soldiers of the Restoration Army hid in the anti-aircraft fortifications prepared in advance, so there were not many casualties.

In the fierce artillery battle between the two sides, the roar of artillery sounded continuously.

A shell hit the fort of the Liberation Army, but was blown away by the mound in front of the fort.

The solid shells spun on the spot, dissipating most of the kinetic energy.

The artillery of the Restoration Army was very accurate, and one round after another fired into the Qing army's formation, taking away one after another.

The experienced veterans of the battlefield turned into broken corpses in front of the shells!

However, the artillery of the Qing army was equally accurate!

The gunners of the Qing Army aimed at the artillery positions of the Restoration Army and opened fire one after another.

Amidst the rumble of cannons, shells would hit the fort from time to time.

Fortunately, the Restoration Army piled up mounds and sandbags in front of the gun positions to resist the shells, otherwise, the Restoration Army would suffer heavy losses.

Snapped!clap clap!

Gunshots rang out one after another!
Puffs of gunpowder smoke floated in Tanzhou Town, and the musketeers of the Restoration Army hid in the parapet fortifications and fired a round of salvos.

The Qing army rushing to the forefront threw down a large area at once!

The screams and howls sounded one after another!
The cavalry of the Qing army entered the field. Those cavalry wore Eight Banners cotton armor and held hard bows and heavy arrows in their hands.

Cavalry gallops across the field!

The cavalry on horseback bent their bows and set arrows, aiming in the direction of the town of Tanzhou.

collapse!Bumble!

The sound of the bowstring exploding is very crisp.

Under the blessing of the horse's speed, arrows shot towards the soldiers of the Liberation Army in the bunker.

The Qing army's cavalry and archery were very good, and their arrows were very accurate. From time to time, soldiers of the Guangfu Army would be hit by arrows and scream.

The plate armor worn by the soldiers of the Restoration Army had average protection against the heavy armor-piercing arrows of the Qing army!
Limbs and throats without armor protection are even more fatal.

From time to time, the wounded screamed and were dragged down!
However, the counterattack of the Liberation Army here was equally sharp, with heavy artillery roaring and muskets exploding.

Attacked the Qing army without any cover, causing heavy casualties!

Corpses fell to the ground one after another, and blood flowed across the battlefield.

Finally, the Qing army rushed to the edge of Tanzhou Town, and the handover of cold weapons between the two sides was imminent.

Just for a moment, the continuous musket volleys of the Liberation Army stopped.

One by one, the soldiers of the Restoration Army jumped out of the parapet with their muskets in hand. With their bayonets attached to their muskets, they marched towards the Qing army in formation.

The infantry on both sides kept approaching!

The soldiers on both sides were less than five meters apart, and even the rust on the padded nails of the soldiers of the Qing army could be clearly seen, and they were about to touch their faces.

The soldiers of the Liberation Army pulled the trigger in unison.

In an instant, the sound of hundreds of musket firings sounded at the same time.

The buckshot flew across and shot at the opponent!

The cotton armor on the soldiers of the Qing army was penetrated in an instant, and even at close range, the lead bullets penetrated the cotton armor and shot through the human body.

Blood gushes out from the big hole in the back!

The fierce soldiers of the Qing army who rushed to the front suffered a large number of casualties in an instant.

One by one, the Qing army, who were proficient in hand-to-hand combat and fought close to each other, was stunned by this round of guns before they could exert their own advantages.

(End of this chapter)