The Ming soldiers had already begun to disperse by this time.

It's not that they are a rabble, but that the situation on the battlefield has become bad, and this kind of running is the most demoralizing, and the soldiers dare not look back, but can only flee forward, listening to the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and louder, this bone-eating fear will be infinitely amplified.

Finished! These two words were the only thoughts that almost all the officers and soldiers on the run could think of at this time.

Running with his back to the enemy cavalry is a taboo against cavalry, and it is even more self-defeating.

The soldiers would rather turn back and fight to the death with the enemy than be chased by the cavalry, and then be humiliated by the horses and crushed by the horses' hooves.

But none of them had the power to stop this death run, and the army was like a mountain, who could stop it, who could stop it?

The most perplexing thing in the hearts of the soldiers is that Zhenguo Gong, who has always won every battle and is praised as the god of war by the soldiers, what is wrong with this today?

The distance between the Qing cavalry and the fleeing Ming army became closer and closer, gradually shortening to one mile, and the Qing cavalry began to raise their swords.

The next moment, the knife should have been swung at the back of the neck of the Ming soldier.

But at this time, "tom" "tom" "tom" ...... The sound rang out, resounding in one piece, densely like the drums of war.

The Qing cavalry looked up blankly.

Li Chengdong blatantly restranded the war horse, so frightened that the guards around him quickly turned the horse's head and almost hit Li Chengdong.

In this instant, between the distance between the fleeing Ming army and the cavalry of the Qing army, countless pillars of smoke rose into the air.

The galloping Qing cavalry almost crashed into the smoke column by itself, and then was hit by the fragments of the flowering bullet.

"Shelling ~~~~!" When Li Chengdong realized that something was wrong and shouted, his voice could no longer reach the ears of the Qing cavalry, and the huge and continuous sound of artillery covered the entire area.

At this time, the ship artillery is the master of this land.

When countless Qing cavalry crashed into this barrage, and even the men and horses were torn to pieces, finally the Qing cavalry came to their senses and began to turn their horses' heads to the left and right.

In just a few breaths, at least nearly a thousand Qing cavalry fell in this area shrouded in flowering bullets.

People everywhere, horse corpses, and severed arms are all telling of cruelty, grievance, and unwillingness.

But the tactical literacy of the Qing cavalry was really good, and the wide field in front of the dock gave them room to move.

Avoiding and turning around to the left and right, although many cavalry collided with each other and fell off their horses and suffered casualties, most of the cavalry finally escaped the bombardment of the ship's guns.

When he returned to Li Chengdong's side, the Qing army had less than 1,000 cavalry men.

Li Chengdong was furious, and he ordered to retreat three miles and withdraw out of the range of artillery.

Li Chengdong is no stranger to artillery, from the Jiangxi battlefield all the way to the south, almost every battle, the Ming army and the Qing army both have different numbers of artillery, different regulations to participate in the battle.

But Li Chengdong couldn't have imagined that in Fujian, where Zheng Zhilong announced the surrender of the whole army, there was still a Ming army in formation, a Ming army in formation, and a cavalry in the Ming army, as well as artillery of such a scale?

This dumb loss really made Li Chengdong feel heartwarming.

But he did not lose his reason, so he gave the order to retreat beyond the range of the artillery.

Wait for the rear army to arrive.

Li Chengdong wants revenge, revenge for this arrow!

As long as the rear army will be divided, even if there are endless shells on the opposite side, Li Chengdong will have the confidence to annihilate this Ming army that made him suffer a dumb loss, and at the same time capture this batch of artillery.

But Li Chengdong didn't realize at all that the Ming army in front of him was not the Ming army of the Longwu Dynasty, let alone the army of the Zheng family, but a behemoth that gathered the main gunboats of the two major naval divisions of Dinghai and Zhoushan.

The artillery that this fleet had just used was less than a third, and the port was too narrow for most of the ships to enter the firing range, and they could not reach it, otherwise, I am afraid that no matter how wide the dock square was, it would be completely covered by artillery fire.

And the range of the Ming army's artillery is not what Li Chengdong thinks is beyond the reach of retreating three miles.

Indeed, the flowering bombs are out of reach, and the thousand-pound Hongyi cannons on several main ships fired flowering shells before, and the range is only within three miles, but if it is replaced with solid bullets, the range is doubled, and it is not a problem to hit six or seven miles away.

It's just that the killing range of solid bullets is too small to pose a threat to cavalry.

Therefore, Li Chengdong made a very obvious mistake at this time, he should see the opportunity and quickly withdraw to Fuzhou City, so that he and his army will survive.

To be precise, Li Chengdong's mistake stemmed from his understanding of artillery and his control of the current situation.

The third round of fighting, which broke out after half an hour.

The main attacker, Li Chengdong and more than 12,000 people under his command.

The defenders, the Ming army of unknown origin, the number of whom is unknown.

According to Li Chengdong's experience, he should not have fought such an inexplicable battle, he should have surrounded it, and then sent scouts to find out the enemy's origin, number, equipment, and so on.

Zhu Yujian, who can be gained and lost, Wu Zheng's fierce and fearless attack and resentful eyes, as well as the dumb loss in front of the dock and the artillery under his nose, etc., have all become factors that affect Li Chengdong's decision-making.

The battle seemed ridiculous, but it happened inexorably.

Li Chengdong took 6,000 men as the main attack, and each divided 2,000 men to form a flank encirclement, leaving more than 2,000 people as reserves.

There's nothing wrong with being tactically decent.

The Qing army marched loosely and at great speed, which was the most effective way to deal with artillery casualties.

Even Wu Zheng, who was staring at it with a telescope, nodded in agreement.

Agreeable does not mean defeated.

If it is ten miles away from the shore, Wu Zheng will surrender, but within the range of artillery, it is definitely not Wu Zheng who needs to surrender.

Li Chengdong doesn't know this, only God knows.

Because Li Chengdong always thought that he was facing the remnants of a Ming army of unknown origin, but in fact, he was facing a formed fleet full of murderous weapons.

Faced with the same artillery coverage as before, the casualties of the Qing army this time were far less large, and they were no longer as panicked as before.

The artillery of this era was basically impossible to cover completely, and the lethality was not as great as imagined.

Unless it was hit head-on by a cannonball, the fragments of the flowering shell were not enough to kill the heavy armor soldiers of the Qing army wearing thick armor.

The heavy armor of the Qing army had already been in the battles of Suzhou and Changzhou so that Wu Zheng had witnessed its strength, and with the donations of the people of Jiangyin, Wu Zheng himself had formed a heavy armor army of 100 people, and Wu Zheng also knew its weaknesses clearly.

The light infantry had already retreated in embarrassment under the raging artillery fire, looking at the hundreds of Qing army heavy armor soldiers who were still calmly walking through the artillery fire, Wu Zheng said to Zhang Mingzhen, who had withdrawn: "Order, change the shells, and add some condiments to them." ”