Yang Mingyang turned over and dismounted, and with the help of the orderlies, he took off his soaked armor, and he had just led his troops to rush and kill for a while, driving back a group of Qing troops who were trying to demolish the artillery tower on the east coast. More than 80 battles were killed, which is a rare harvest in recent times. Although the Qing army and the people on the east coast have been playing this little trick of attacking each other almost every day for nearly a year, the general casualties are only a few or a dozen, and this time the Qing army was attacked by the long-disappeared cavalry on the east coast, and they were almost completely wiped out by surprise, and they should almost stop in the next few days.

However, the cessation of the Qing army does not mean that the people on the east coast will also cease. In the southern wilderness of Yantai Fort, eight turrets stood firmly in the midsummer sun, and in the middle of the turrets, a wooden walled city made of Sakhalin fish scale pine, in which 500 soldiers were stationed. These soldiers were a mixture of hot and cold weapons, and they were in the crossfire of the turrets, and they were not afraid of the enemy's attack. On the contrary, when the enemy attacked a certain turret, they could still come forward to support and defeat the invading enemy, which was a headache for the Qing army.

After the completion of the repair of these eight turrets, the firepower can basically cover an area of five square kilometers, so that the scope of the Qing army's activities is becoming less and less. In the past, they were still trying to fill in the quagmire area on the west side of Yantai Fort, but when the turret wielded, they disappeared from there. At this time, if the easterners fired 18-pounder long-barreled heavy guns from the two turrets arranged at the front, their shells would have almost been able to hit the Qing army wall that was still under construction—of course, the easterners had not yet installed such artifacts on the turrets.

A total of 4oo soldiers were stationed in these eight turrets, and 5oo people were also stationed in the middle walled city, and these people were there. The Qing army could no longer advance comfortably to the city of Yantai Fort. Their formations will be fragmented by these turret fire clusters. This will undoubtedly be fatal for a large-scale field battle between the two sides. However, in fact, the Qing army had already given up its plan to take Yantai Fort by means of war. They hadn't even organized a team of more than 2,000 people to attack Yantai Fort for more than a year, and Heyu, Chen Jin, and others, who had more than 40,000 troops at hand, could only build a city seven or eight miles away every day, in a vain attempt to get through the long wall of Guò to trap the people on the east coast inside.

They have indeed achieved this goal before. But after more than a year of tirelessly building eight artillery towers on the east coast, the Qing army's system now seems to be in danger of collapsing. For example, the cavalry of the people on the east coast could gallop across the vast field between the two fortresses and city walls, but those Eight Banners cavalry did not dare to do so. For no other reason, I'm afraid of being bombarded by cannons!

In fact, in the past, the Ming army did not use this method to deal with them in Liaodong. But first, the cost of building fortress turrets was high for the Ming army, second, their artillery was not as powerful as that of the people on the east coast, and thirdly, and most importantly, that the Ming army did not have the ability to fight in the field. At that time, the situation in eastern and western Liaodong was often that dozens and hundreds of Eight Banner cavalry went out to stop at one station. The Ming army, which was several times or even more than ten times their number, was so frightened that they hid in the fortress like quails, allowing the Qing army to roar outside.

But the thief in yellow is different! Their colored cavalry is not afraid of the Eight Banners with the prestige of "unparalleled cavalry and archery", they dare to fight, and the equipment is also very good, and they can often have the upper hand when the number of people on both sides is similar, which makes the soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia outside Yantai Fort a big headache. They were accustomed to fighting the weak Ming army, and after suddenly facing a cavalry force that was not inferior to them, they were suddenly unaccustomed to it; On the other hand, the Polish cavalry, on the other hand, was accustomed to it, and they used to fight against the world-famous Ottoman Ganishari Guards and Mamluk cavalry, and even fought guerrilla attacks with Cossacks and Tatar herdsmen. None of them are good stubble, and they have long been accustomed to winning hard battles.

At this time, they ran into these soldiers of the Manchurian Blue Banner. simply treats them as ordinary opponents, so the psychological gap is not as big as that of the Eight Banners. And once people don't have so many miscellaneous ideas, they will certainly be able to better exert their combat power. Even the Tatar herdsmen in the cavalry formation on the east coast, although their war skills and fighting will were inferior to the Poles, they were superior in horsemanship, and they were not a problem against those soldiers of the Eight Banners. The Mongol descendants (Tatars) fought the authentic Mongols, and this battle scene was also joyful.

Straight to the point. A month after the turret was repaired, it coincided with the triumphant return of the army led by Marshal Mo from Jiangbei, and Yantai Fort carnivaled for three days, and held a small military parade and medal ceremony, so that the Qing generals on the opposite side did not feel good after seeing it. After the award ceremony, on July 15, with the order of Mo Dashuai, who was becoming more and more prestigious, the East Coast Army, which had just rested for less than ten days, began to assemble: the 1st Brigade of the Advancement Team, the 16th Squadron of the 2nd Brigade 4ooo soldiers, and the 5ooo soldiers of the Wing Headquarters; The 1O2 Company, 1O4 Company, 1O5 Company, and 9OO Soldiers of the Yantai Artillery Company of the 6th Army on the East Coast (vacancies have been filled); three Eight Banners New Army Infantry Battalion 23oo soldiers; The 2ooo soldiers of the cavalry wing and the 3ooo scouts of the newly reorganized security team have a total of 10,000 soldiers. In addition, there were still 10,000 soldiers and soldiers, and a total of 20,000 soldiers of the whole army lined up a few hundred meters in front of the cluster of artillery towers on the east bank, calling out to the Qing army behind the city wall about seven or eight hundred meters away.

The red-coated cannons placed by the Qing army on some towers fired a few shots, but the weak shells ran out of kinetic energy before they could reach the east bank army formation, and they fell to the ground weakly. The artillery at the head of the city could not hit the other side, and their own field artillery (did the Qing army have field artillery?) It is extremely heavy and inconvenient to move, but the enemy's field artillery can easily beat its unprotected formation in the field outside the city to holes everywhere, how can this battle be fought!

At this time, the Qing army stationed here was not very strong, but there were only more than 20,000 Han troops in the 40th battalion of the Green Battalion led by Ke Yongsheng and others, in addition to 2,500 cavalry of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners. In Dengzhou City, not far away, there are still more than 10,000 people appointed by the Qing court to detonate Chen Jin, the governor of Denglai. As for the more than 15,000 people of Li Shuotai's army, who were also guarding this place, they had already been transferred to the Binzhou area, and Li Shuitai himself had been in charge of Binzhou's coastal defense army for a long time.

The whole army was less than 25,000 people, and even because the proportion of garrison soldiers was higher, the Qing army still did not dare to go out of the city to fight. Except for one-third of the green battalion under their command, they have some combat strength from Ningxia, Shaanxi and other places. The remaining two-thirds were basically local miscellaneous Ming troops, bandits, and regimental landlord armies incorporated in Shandong. The combat effectiveness is very average. If you use it to defend the city, it's so-so. If they go out of the city to fight, judging from the high morale of the yellow thieves who have won many victories now, I am afraid that they will not know how they will die.

Since the Qing army did not dare to go out of the city to fight, the people on the east coast were no longer polite, and a large group of soldiers began to build fortifications under the protection of the field troops, vowing to use this as a base for advancing to break the turtle shell of the Qing army. When they were in Yangzhou, the Shi Tingzhu was still more numerous than the Qing army in front of them, and there was also a city wall of Yangzhou with a high city and a deep pool, but it was not still pushed to the end. Hit the green battalion of the Han army. They won't be ambiguous!

In this way, until July 2o, the people of the east bank built a wooden combined camp that can accommodate 20,000 people on the front line, and the Qing army did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field except for a few medium-scale attacks at night, and watched the soldiers on the east bank build this camp.

After the camp was built, the army on the east bank had a place to stay. In particular, their artillery was able to go out under the escort of field troops to find the weak points of the Qing army's city wall and concentrate fire and bombard, while the Qing army's red-coated artillery was very few in number, limited coverage, and once it was placed, it was very inconvenient to move (especially when it was on the city wall), so they could only sit back and watch the artillery of the yellow-clothed thieves bombard the city wall. A few days down. Some of the walls that were not very well built (brick and wood mixed mechanism, all masonry and stone could not be played) were blasted open several times.

Although the Qing army sent people overnight to frantically close the gap. But how is it possible to block the ground? Under the bombardment of artillery, the masonry had to be powdered, not to mention the sandbags and stones that blocked the gaps. In this way, after losing three artillery pieces and more than a dozen gunners, the people on the east coast took the lead in opening a large hole of more than 1 to 30 meters in a weak point.

After opening the opening, Yiqiē proceeded according to the experience of previous battles. The easterners had more artillery, first washing the ground into the gap with shells for nothing, and then hundreds of musketeers searched for attacks on the other side of the wall under the cover of a large number of heavily armored spearmen. The cavalry troops roamed around the periphery, as if waiting for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle with them, but they never received an invitation from these Eight Banners soldiers to fight.

The ensuing battle was the same as before, the army of the people on the east coast flexibly formed a small formation, the artillery fired from a distance, the muskets were fired at close range, and if they were closer, the spears of the heavily armored spearmen were stabbed, which made the Qing army extremely depressed. They didn't have field artillery, and the muskets were a joke in front of the muskets on the east coast, and the bows and arrows were not very good. It took only one day for the people on the east coast to capture two small towers and two cannons, and the Qing army was gradually routing in an almost irrepressible way.

On July 27, after one of the fiercest battles since the beginning of the war, the most elite 1st Brigade of the Advance Brigade finally conquered a city gate after paying more than 300 casualties, and at the same time repelled two counterattacks by the Qing army. After conquering the city gate, some of the infantry and cavalry on the east bank that remained outside the city, as well as a large number of soldiers, also began to fight through the city gate, strongly supporting the battle on this side.

On July 29, the 16th Battalion of Ke Yongsheng's Division in Jiaozhou, the most capable of fighting in the green battalion of the Qing army, was severely damaged, and Ke Yongsheng himself was wounded by a cannon, and more than 3,000 of his 8,000 men and horses were killed and wounded, and the rest were scattered. At the critical moment, the Eight Banners cavalry led by the peace and the relatives rushed into battle in an attempt to delay the offensive of the east bank army, but was soon intercepted by the east bank cavalry that had been waiting for many days, and the two sides suffered casualties after a fierce battle, and the Qing army retreated. At that time, the cavalry on the east bank rushed to the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners that were in battle with a prepared momentum, and as a result, the enemy formation was destroyed in a battle, and the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were suddenly defeated. In the melee, the Qing army Meler Ezhen Mengge was killed by the pistol of the East Coast cavalry, and several adjutants such as Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Zhangjing died under the knife of the Polish cavalry, and more than 700 corpses of the Qing Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry battlefield in the whole battle can be described as extremely tragic.

The battle ended on July 3o, except for thousands of Qing troops who abandoned their friendly troops and fled at night, more than half of the more than 20,000 Qing troops defending the city wall were lost, and they were almost wiped out outside Yantai City. Chen Jin, who stayed in Dengzhou, heard that after the defeat, he was like a mourner, and although six or seven thousand Qing troops fled back to Dengzhou in 66, Chen Jin was still in a panic. Because he knew that the people on the east coast with the might of a great victory would inevitably go straight to Dengzhou City, which was elbowed to the elbows, and when the time came, he Chen Jin only had more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated army on hand, how could he resist this?

After killing, wounding, and capturing 15,000 Qing army green battalions, Mo Dashuai, who had just won a big victory, immediately put forward the slogan of "fight to Dengzhou City and capture Chen Jin alive." More than 10,000 soldiers with high morale under his command responded to the order, and then followed the fleeing Qing army to Dengzhou City, and it was only less than three days later than the fleeing Qing army, which suddenly plunged the Dengzhou Qing army into chaos because of the new defeat. (To be continued......)

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