With the sound of cannons, nearly 300 solid projectiles came. Navy ships could only stop at the center of Qiantang River due to draft problems, which was a mile away from the Hangzhou city wall. In this way, the most powerful shotgun was useless. Originally, Zhu Hongsan's navy was equipped with shrapnel bullets, but because this new shell was not up to standard technology, it was easy to explode the explosion because it was not well controlled, so it was not brought much this time. In this way, solid shots could only be used for Hangzhou shelling. Fortunately, the purpose of the navy was only to attract attention, and Zhu Hongsan's main attack direction was not here.

However, it is not easy to feel even solid bullets. The Navy's solid bullets are one-digit bigger than the Army's. It's okay to hit the city. The gravel that collapsed on the city wall is no less than the gun bullets. It's also a blood hole when hitting the body. The 18-pound cannon shell weighs twelve kilograms, and the 22-pound cannon shell weighs 16 kilograms. It's okay to hit the city wall, but it's just a few bricks. But it's not so beautiful when hit the battlements. The 16-pound cannon shell reached 457 meters per second, which has exceeded the speed of sound. The 16-pound cannon shell hit the battlements, and a large area of ​​gravel flew out in all directions. The Qing army, who had no time to dodge on the city wall, was immediately knocked down, and a few unlucky guys were hit by the solid bullets and were directly broken. They were not dead for a while and they were lying on the city wall to shout.

Jin Li didn't expect that the Ming army's artillery was so sharp. He had served as a soldier in Ningyuan before and had seen the red cannons of the court, but they were far inferior to the power of the artillery opposite.

Jin Li lay behind the battlements and looked back at his soldiers. More than a hundred people were injured, and several of them were seriously injured, so they were afraid they could not survive. Jin Li didn't care about their lives, but the howlings of these wounded soldiers were too harmful to morale, and the new recruits around him were obviously trembling with fear.

Jin Li called his personal captain over and asked him to organize people to get the wounded away quickly. The personal captain had no choice but to stand up at this time, but he had to listen to his words. He could only find a few people to lift the injured down the city wall.

Just after the naval warship artillery began, Zhao Guodong, who was staying in the rear team, knew that his mission had begun. Tonight he was the commander-in-chief of the landing, and His Majesty the Emperor handed over the command of the Imperial Guard Division to him.

Zhao Guodong stood on the deck and looked at the Hangzhou City two miles away. There was a fire. Zhao Guodong turned his head and said to Han Sanqiang, deputy commander of the Imperial Guard Division, and said, "Old Han, you leave three regiments to protect His Majesty. I will take away the other two regiments. How about it?"

Although Han Sanqiang was the deputy division commander, he was one of the first non-commissioned officers with Zhao Guodong and his relationship was pretty good. He heard Zhao Guodong say this and nodded, "Old Zhao, please bring people here, leave it to me!"

Zhao Guodong was relieved when he heard Han Sanqiang say this. After all, the emperor is the most important. If His Majesty does something, he will die.

"Come here, I'll send my orders and start landing on the dock!"

Zhao Guodong's order was passed on, and after a while the captain of the transport ship came to find Zhao Guodong.

"Sir, there is no pier in this place, it's still too dark, and the situation on the shore is unclear. What if it gets stranded?"

Zhao Guodong caught the captain and slapped twice, "Damn it, you are still worried about your ship being stranded on me at this time. If you have to compensate you for all losses, His Majesty the Emperor. Be careful that I will kill you!"

These transport ships are ships from major commercial banks in Guangdong. This time, Zhu Hongsan did not have enough transportation power, so he recruited them to help. Seeing that these Qiu Ba were so fierce, the captain knew that these people were killing without blinking, and that the heroes would not suffer the loss in front of him. It would be better to do what they said. Anyway, the emperor also said that there would be any losses to compensate according to the price.

Hundreds of transport ships received orders and began to risk their lives to approach the riverside. Today is Zhu Hongsan's lucky day. Because the Qiantang River is flooded back, there is no silt on the riverside. The transport ships can easily reach the shore, and only seven or eight unlucky stranded.

Seeing that he finally got ashore, Zhao Guodong jumped off the springboard on the boat without saying a word, and called a few regiment commanders to command the troops to unload the equipment.

The army's cannons were loaded in the cabin, and it was really difficult to unload on this shore without a dock and loading and unloading tools.

"Teacher Commander, the cannons are all in the cargo hold, and they can't be unloaded without a dock!"

Zhao Guodong saw that it was also a problem, but the emperor's order was placed there. Zhao Guodong looked at the transport ships and called his own guard company commander to find a few gunpowder packs for the artillery.

The company commander was confused and didn't know what the commander was going to do, but he had to obey the order. He quickly got a fixed gunpowder pack with five or six artillery guns. This gunpowder pack is filled with pellets, each of which is five kilograms heavy. A tight layer of oil paper was wrapped outside to prevent moisture.

Zhao Guodong brought one, found a dagger and nailed it to the boat, then stabbed the oil paper bag with a knife, and stuffed a grenade bullet in. The captain next to him was confused at first, but now he realized that the old man was going to bomb the ship. How could this be possible? The ship belongs to the owner, and if it is blown up, he will still survive?

"General, what are you doing? You can't blow up a ship! Can you say anything well?"

Zhao Guodong was lazy to take care of him, and asked someone to catch the captain, and then let everyone in the cabin come out. Next, Zhao Guodong lit the grenade bullet.

After a loud bang, a three-meter-wide hole was blown out of the side of the transport ship, and the weapons and equipment inside were leaked out. However, because this place was where the keel was located, the big hole was blown out, and the ship was also considered useless.

When the captain saw his ship being affected, he cursed angrily: "You guys, Qiu Ba, do you know whose house this ship is? Our boss is the Minister of Finance and the Emperor's old subordinate of Huguang. Our master will not let you go!"

Zhao Guodong didn't care about this guy's screaming and let his subordinates follow suit. For a time, hundreds of transport ships were blown out of big holes, but the transportation speed was many times faster.

After an hour, all the equipment was unloaded from the ship, but more than a dozen cannons were too close to the side of the ship and were blown up by gunpowder bags. However, this was not a big deal. The main equipment of the artillery regiment was there. Zhao Guodong looked at it and prepared it. He took one of his own divisions and the two regiments of the Imperial Guard Division and disappeared quietly in the dark. At this time, there was still a fire in the Fengshan Gate two miles away, and the navy's shelling had not stopped.

Zhao Guodong led the Jinyiwei guide and advanced in the dark night, but fortunately there were no people in the houses outside the city of Hangzhou. Everyone knew that there was a war. People living outside the city of Hangzhou either entered the city to hide or ran to the mountains to hide. If they dared to die at home.

The circumference of Hangzhou City is forty miles, and it is nearly twenty miles from the Qiantang River to Wulin Gate. Zhao Guodong walked for an hour before he arrived. When he saw the city gate tower of Wulin Gate, the sky was already lightning.

Wulin Gate is probably the oldest city gate in Hangzhou. The Hangzhou City in the Ming Dynasty was first built in the Sui Dynasty. At that time, Wulin Gate was called Yuhang Gate. In the Song Dynasty, the city of Hangzhou was expanded. The original sixteen city gates were changed to thirteen. Yuhang Gate was changed to Beiguan Gate, commonly known as Baiguan Gate. After the Ming Dynasty, it was called Wulin Gate. Since this place was the north gate of Hangzhou City, outside Wulin Gate, all dynasties were covered with loess and clear water, "The court's grace comes from the north and enters from this gate." Kangxi, who had a unique affection for Jiangnan, entered Hangzhou City from this, so the Wulin Gate in history was regarded as the gate of grace.

Since the Sui Dynasty, Wulinmen has been a hub area that communicates with the north canal and the canal in the city that connects the Hangzhou section of the Hangzhou Canal in Beijing, southern my country. It has a history of more than 1,300 years. From the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the late Qing Dynasty, money, grain, fish, salt and other silk department stores from Hangzhou to the capital mainly rely on this north-south water transportation channel. Therefore, outside the North Pass, the area between Wulinmen and Hushu has always been a place where "people are scattered and merchants gather". Whenever the sun sets, "the sails are unloaded and the department stores are on the market", and at night, "the bonfire (referring to lanterns) candles shine, just like the day."

.At that time, tourists and pilgrims who returned from the West Lake were often gathered here, "buzzing with crowds of people", forming a lively night market. Because of this, after the Song Dynasty wrote "Ten Scenes of West Lake" and the Yuan Dynasty added the "Ten Scenes of Qiantang" and listed "Beiguan Night Market" as a major landscape. A poet in the Ming Dynasty said: "The evening market in the north city is like a forest, and it has been passed down to this day. The green rouge is shaken by the wind, and the crimson gauze shines on the green shade. The fire shines on the back of the building. Drinking umbrellas and traveling on the lake, the people returning to the lake are scattered and drunk. The circle is as loud as the day, and the bell is not moving at night. "It is exactly the scenery of "Beiguan Night Market".

However, there is no usual fun outside the Wulin Gate now. The city was full of fire at Fengshan Gate. The people in this place were almost gone. The remaining older people also closed their doors and blessed the old gods not to fall on themselves.

Zhao Liangdong led a team to hide in the house outside the Wulin Gate before dawn. He looked at the closed Wulin City Gate a mile away, and asked the Jinyiwei guide beside him: "Didn't you say you have your own people inside? Why is the city gate not open yet?"

The Jinyiwei Xiaoqi was also very anxious, "My family made an appointment with me. As long as we arrived at the Wulin Gate, he would be responsible for opening the city gate. My subordinates didn't know what was going on?"

Just as Zhao Liangdong was talking to the Jinyiwei Xiaoqi, an important meeting was held on the Wulin Gate Tower.

The main combat power of the Qing army was concentrated in the southern city, and of course, no one was guarding the other city gates. The Wulin Gate was handed over to the newly surrendered former Ming general Wu Zhigui, who brought a thousand newly-designed soldiers to guard the Wulin Gate.

Lin Mingqiu, the Jinyiwei in Hangzhou City, was looking at Deputy General Wu who was sweating protruding his head.
Chapter completed!