But after all, the Qing army is outnumbered, the warships on the shore also began to fire back, the Ming army that was shelled, then dropped the cannons, began to fight and retreat, the first row retreated to the last row after completing the shooting, the second row did the same, row after row slowly retreated to the city gate, although the Qing soldiers also had a Shenji battalion equipped with all firearms, but because of backward tactics, there was no unified order, and the form was not a continuous strike firepower, which did not constitute a major injury to the Ming army, so it had to bluff, and slowly chased the Ming army far away to advance towards the city wall.

After the Ming army retreated into the city and closed the city gate, the Qing army finally landed on the shore and formed a group hundreds of steps away from the city in a chaotic manner, waiting for the field artillery to come ashore and be in place.

In this western expedition, Geng Jimao did not carry a large general cannon with a range of up to three miles and a weight of thousands of catties, but only brought a large number of light small cannons weighing several hundred catties, but unfortunately most of them had a range of only about 300 steps, and the heaviest ones only had a range of five or six hundred steps.

Liu Xulei and Jiao Lian above the city watched quietly, Liu Xulei had never seen the Qing army attacking the city, today he wanted to see the tactical level of the Qing army in this era, and he raised the telescope to observe the formation of the Qing army at the moment.

I saw more and more Qing troops on the shore, even the cavalry began to cross the river on boats, all the warships sailed from the Xunjiang River into the Qianjiang River and the Yujiang River, the cannons on the warships were also constantly transported on the river embankment, some Qing troops pushed the cannons slowly to the edge of the city, more people are assembling siege mantle cars and ladders, because there is no moat dug outside Xunzhou City, so the Qing army does not need to assemble trench filling vehicles.

After waiting for a long time, the Qing army's offensive formation finally gradually formed, and I saw the firearms battalion in the front, followed by the swordsmen and spearmen carrying mantle carts and ladders, and the cavalry with bows and arrows and long knives at the back of the two wings.

"Pretty usual." Liu Xulei said disdainfully.

"General Liu, is this governor leading the team out to rush?" Jiao Lian beside him was used to hand-to-hand combat, and he couldn't hold it anymore.

"Grandpa Guo is a little restless, just let the Tartars attack, as long as they all cross the river, none of them will be able to escape." Liu Xulei was confident, smiled faintly, and continued: "When they begin to disperse, Grandpa Guo can chase and kill them." ”

As he spoke, the Qing army's artillery had already been in place, but it was no longer forward when it was transported to the side of the firearms battalion, Liu Xulei visually measured a distance of more than 500 meters, and wondered in his heart: "Can their artillery hit so far?" This is comparable to the light naval guns on the Unicorn, right? ”

I was wondering, I saw a big handsome flag raised in the column of the Qing army, embroidered with a big "Geng" character, a team of officers under the banner, surrounded by a slightly chubby middle-aged man in Chinese clothes, this person should be Geng Jimao, Liu Xulei raised the binoculars and looked at the traitor carefully.

In the blink of an eye, I only heard the war drums beating in the Qing army formation, and the cavalry on both sides pulled out their swords and jumped out of the formation, shouting and charging forward, and the distance of hundreds of meters was to the city in a blink of an eye, Liu Xulei immediately ordered the cannon, and the Ming gunners who had been waiting for a long time took out the iron brazier from the brazier and inserted it into the fire door of the cannon, which instantly triggered the gunpowder in the cannon chamber, and the cannon made a sky-shattering roar while jumping backwards.

Suddenly, dozens of iron cannons roared and smashed into the enemy formation, only to see that the Qing cavalry had already been prepared, and they turned their horses' heads one after another, galloped along the city wall, and ran back to the team in an arc, but the left and right sides just exchanged positions.

Seeing that the cannon smashed out big craters on the ground after it landed, and then bounced up one after another, jumping and rolling forward, until it was more than 300 meters away, it had stopped, and it didn't hit a cavalry at all, Liu Xulei laughed self-deprecatingly, and muttered to himself: "It's quite cunning." ”

About five minutes later, the cavalry on both sides did the same and launched another charge, obviously adopting the tactic of consuming the enemy's ammunition.

After repeating this five or six times, Liu Xulei no longer ordered the cannon to be fired, and let the Qing cavalry act again, because the artillery colonel of the Ming army came to report that the cannon had reached the limit of continuous cannon firing, and the cannon could not be fired again after the barrel was fully cooled, otherwise the cannon would be in danger of exploding.

"I see? So...... Next, the Tartar's cannon should be on the field, right? ”

Liu Xulei turned his head and asked Jiao Lian.

"Yes, this is the usual tactic of the Tartars, and they began to bombard the city while our artillery was silent."

"It's just in time, so let's let their cannons be duke." Liu Xulei said with a cold smile.

Then he turned to Dong Chengping, the commander of the second company, and ordered: "Act according to the plan." ”

"Yes!"

Dong Chengping turned around and left, and greeted loudly: "Listen up, Plan No. 1, the sharpshooter prepares." ”

Sure enough, the artillery of the Qing army outside the city pushed the artillery out of the queue one after another, and did not stop until it was about 200 steps away from the city wall, densely lined up more than 20 guns.

This distance was just outside the range of the arquebus, and when they encountered the ordinary Ming army, they could only stare dryly, but unfortunately, today they had to deal with the modern new army.

I saw that the Qing artillery set up heavy cannons, loaded gunpowder, and dozens of soldiers were picking up their cannons and about to send them to the muzzle, when Dong Chengping gave an order, the sound of rifles at the head of the city sounded in due time.

Suddenly, several Qing soldiers with regular guns next to each cannon were shot one after another and fell to the ground, and the heavy cannons fell to the ground one after another.

It turned out that Liu Xulei had already made arrangements, and Dong Chengping selected dozens of soldiers with good marksmanship in advance to kill enemy artillery at this time, and Liu Xulei named it "Plan No. 1".

With several rounds of rifle firing in a row, the artillery next to the artillery of the Qing army was shot one after another, more than 20 cannons, five or six soldiers per artillery, in the blink of an eye, there was little left, a few fish that slipped through the net were frightened, turned around and fled back to the queue, only more than 20 cannons stood alone in front of the formation, and the Ming army at the head of the city burst into laughter when they saw this.

Geng Jimao was shocked and angry when he saw this, his whole face turned green, and he angrily ordered the whole line to attack, and attack hard without artillery! Made, more than 20,000 people, one person can drown your small Xunzhou City with a mouthful of spit.

I only heard the sound of drums of different rhythms immediately sounded, the musketeers in the Qing army array rushed forward with firearms, and the swords and spearmen behind also carried the ladders, pushing the curtain carts and shouting and charging forward, but the cavalry stopped in place to watch the battle, and they had nothing to do with attacking the city wall, and it was the time for them to enter the city and kill after taking the city gate.

Liu Xulei waved his hand to Dong Chengping and Gong Zhiming, the machine gun platoon commander, and the two immediately shouted: "Plan No. 2, prepare!" ”

Gong Zhiming squatted next to a machine gun, seeing that the Qing army had rushed to a distance of more than two hundred meters, and when the riflemen were about to open fire, he raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the Qing army's marshal banner, and shouted: "Kill him for me!" Fire! ”

Before the words fell, the machine gunner, who had already taken aim and aim, held his breath and pulled the trigger lightly, "Shh "A beautiful short shot, seven or eight bullets have been fired.

Liu Xulei quietly held a telescope to observe the officer team under the command of the Qing army commander 500 meters away, only to see that the commander of the Qing army, who had just jumped like thunder, was suddenly hit by several bullets flying at high speed, and his fat body flew backwards, and then fell to the ground without saying a word - he was already dead and couldn't die anymore!

Then, the bullets from this machine gun continued to shoot into the crowd next to Geng Jimao, and the group of senior officers were still wondering what was going on with the marshal, and they had already been shot one after another.