In the ninth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, on July 18, early in the morning, there was fog.

Boom Boom Boom ......

The morning fog that permeated the Yanghe battlefield had not yet dissipated, and the dense sound of artillery sounded around Shihe Village, which was defended by elite soldiers with white flags.

Shihe Village is located right in the middle of the battlefield, so it is an important support point. Azig's son Fu Lehe led 10 cattle and drove into Shihe Village at night last night, spending half a night on the defense, and was busy until the early hours of this morning.

And the movements they made in Shihe Village, of course, couldn't hide from Duoduo. But Doddor did not send troops to fight the men of Fourle at night - night battles were fought by elite soldiers! Duoduo's soldiers don't have the spirit of Azig's soldiers, and it's okay to fight in formation, but there is no way to line up at night, and muskets and cannons are not much use, so they rely on personal bravery, and Duoduo's soldiers can't.

However, Duoduo didn't plan to let go of the "Qingxi Army" in Shihe Village, and his method was to attack early in the morning!

The so-called rush attack is to attack before the opponent finishes the formation!

Because Azig's army was too chaotic, the soldiers carried too many items, and many of them also carried clothed minions, so it was inevitable that there would be chaos when they set up the formation, and their deployment was also chaotic, some had to go up the mountain, and some had to enter the village, and the speed was not fast.

The army of Duoduo was much cleaner and had a simpler formation. Infantry battalions, cavalry battalions, and artillery teams are all out of the camp in turn. 18 infantry battalions, 2 cavalry battalions, 1 artillery battalion, plus Duoduo's own small team, set out before dawn, wading across the river, and it was set up in less than half an hour.

At this time, Geng Zhongming and Kong Tingxun's men were still grinding...... Fight against the brave king Duoduo of the Qing Dynasty! Not only Geng Zhongming and Kong Tingxun were afraid, but the people below were also afraid, their legs were weak when they were afraid, and when their legs were weak, they walked slowly.

So when Duoduo's artillery opened fire on Shihe Village, the people of the Green Banner who were supposed to line up on both sides of Shihe Village were still on the road......

"Erke Chuhur! Erk Chuhur! Erkechuhur ......"

Before the cannon stopped, bursts of Manchu slogans rang out!

"Erke Chuhur" means "brave", and in the Manchurian army it symbolized Duoduo. The lingua franca of the Qing Eastern Army was Chinese, but this "Erke Chuhur" was spoken by everyone. Duoduo asked the infantry below to shout "Erkechuhur" as they charged, in order to embolden them.

"The Brave King is here!"

A bull with a white flag rushed to Fu Lehe's side, and the voice of the report was trembling!

He never dreamed that there were not many cavalry, and the small number of Duoduo would take the initiative to attack, and the offensive was unusually fierce.

"What's the panic?" Cold sweat broke out on Fu Lehe's forehead, but he was still calm, "It's just some Han people, will our Eight Banners warriors still be afraid of them?" ”

"However, their cannons are so powerful that they have already destroyed more than a dozen houses in the east of the village, and our people can't line up at all!"

Although all the Manchurian warriors are strong in martial arts, after all, it is a battle with more than 100,000 people participating, how can they fight without array?

Now is the era of guns and artillery, if you don't set up a formation, let the spears, muskets, and artillery cover each other, but a mess of chaos, and you can be killed with a platoon of guns!

Moreover, Fu Lehe had 2,000 old Manchurias, a Han army of more than a hundred artillery teams, and hundreds of coats. The small Shihe Village couldn't open it at all, so it had to rely on the village to line up to meet the enemy. If you encircle people in the village, then wait to be destroyed by the artillery - the mobility of the Hongyi small cannon is very strong, if 30 cannons are pulled to the outside of Shihe Village and bombarded, the people inside will have a nervous breakdown even if they are not killed by the shelling......

Knowing that he couldn't shrink his head, he had to take a few of his own soldiers and walk in the direction where the cannons and shouts were most dense. As soon as I went up, I found that the situation was too wrong.

The house at the east end of Shihe Village collapsed, and many of the warriors with white flags who were guarding there were directly buried in it, some were injured, lying on the ground and humming, and some ran out in a panic, but left their weapons inside, and now they are empty-handed.

What's even worse is that the opponent's artillery array is placed on both sides of Shihe Village, so when their infantry advances, the artillery can continue to fire, and the shells still fall like raindrops!

The shells that landed in Shihe Village often bounced up and swept in different directions, making everyone afraid to stand......

"Where's our cannon?" Fu Lech crouched and asked.

"Lord Wang, it's all buried!" A small leader of the artillery team with a gray face and a broken head wrapped in cloth cried and reported to Fu Lehe, "The minions pushed the two cannons into the big house at the entrance of the village," and after a few shots, the house collapsed, and the brothers died, leaving everyone wounded......

Although Dadan Zhangjing of the artillery team of the Han Army Banner could handle artillery, he was not proficient in arranging artillery arrays, and he did not know what kind of house structure was strong enough to block a 3-pounder gun. As a result, he pushed his two cannons into a large house in disrepair, and as soon as he opened fire, he attracted the opponent's artillery counterattack. Duoduo's 30 cannons were used intensively and commanded, and the fire of all 30 guns was attracted, and the house collapsed with a few volleys!

"Dig it out!" Flage roared.

That Dadan Zhangjing saw that his master was about to explode, and he didn't dare to say that he couldn't dig it out, so he had to summon his subordinates to dig up the cannons.

However, they couldn't dig for long, because an infantry battalion of the "Eastern Army" reinforced with two muskets had already come up!

The first is 3 muskets, 900 gunners are divided into 9 platoons, using the tactic of "eight into nine links", while firing, while advancing, each fire is a salvo of 100 muskets, the firepower is not fierce, but it is endless.

Behind the 900 musketeers, there were 3 spear oxen, 1 knife bull, 1 archery bull, and 1 guard bull, and they didn't form any phalanx, just rushed up in rows!

All 10 of Flöch's cattle were also equipped with muskets, and one of them contained about 30 of them, half of them bird guns made by craftsmen with white flags, half of them "Nissan" arquebuses, and some of them practiced muskets. However, the musketeers of these "Western Army" will not form a large formation of "Niu Lu", but will be scattered in each Niu Lu, so it is difficult to concentrate when needed.

Under the circular bombardment of the opponent's 900 muskets, the position of the Western Army at the east end of Shihe Village was in chaos, and the Western soldiers who barely lined up in formation were knocked down by rows and rows, and the battlefield was full of corpses and screams.

By the time the continuous volley of gunfire came to an abrupt halt and the Chinese shouted for killing, Fu Lech already knew that it would be difficult to resist.

His more than 2,000 Manchurian soldiers could not form a formation at all, and they were out of control, and they could only be commanded by Niu Lu Zhangjing and Dadan Zhangjing below.

Huge shouts of killing soon rang out inside and outside Shihe Village, and a violent collision took place between the two Qing armies. The officers and men of the "Western Army," who had long been beaten by rounds of artillery bombardment, were unable to resist the rows of spears that came over at all, and their already scattered formation collapsed in an instant, and some of them fled in the direction of Caojia Village in the rear, but most of them still retreated into Shihe Village, thinking of fighting the "Eastern Army" that had entered in close combat.

So the brutal fighting continued in this small village.

And outside the village, a larger engagement has begun!

The two armies of Geng Zhongming and Kong Tingxun, under the strict orders of Azig, finally advanced to the north and south sides of Shihe Village, where they engaged in a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the infantry of the eight battalions sent by Duoduo.

The beginning is still firearm shooting!

Thousands of muskets from both sides, firing fiercely, firing round after round of guns! Then the artillery movement was in place, and also began to violently bombard the opposing infantry formations.

As soon as the morning fog on the battlefield cleared, the smoke of gunpowder spread again!