The sky cracked, the mountains shook, and the tremors from a small valley even disturbed the warriors fighting at both ends of the valley.

The earth-shattering change was accompanied by gray-yellow smoke and dust rising into the sky, until the narrow part of the valley completely changed after the dust settled, and the scenery in the field was shocking, even though the soldiers on both sides were fighting in teams.

In the valley in the cracks, the originally steep slopes have been completely deformed, as if the ground has been torn by a giant, and the relatively flat mountain roads at the bottom of the valley are already covered with purgatory composed of war horses, dead people, gravel, dirt and branches, etc., and deep pits between the slopes have appeared, making it even more difficult to move an inch on the already steep slopes at this time.

It was just a matter of a moment, and the Qing cavalry who were still leading the team to charge forward at an accelerated pace, at this time, except for the sporadic lucky ones who lost their souls, stood or sat in the valley in a daze, and the frightened war horses roared and screamed, and galloped outwards like a blown hair, but more of them were buried deep in the ground by the mudslide like mudslides on the hillside, and not even a single corpse could be found.

If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, no one would have imagined that in the fresh soil of such a valley, the corpses of almost seven or eight thousand Qing knights would be buried.

The wails, the sounds of help, and the neighing of the horses gradually sounded, hovering over the warring sides, and in the face of such a great change, the soldiers on both sides had their own tastes.

Even the musketeers and artillery positions on the flanks of Hongtang on both sides of the valley were slightly deformed due to the previous violent explosions and vibrations, and many of the horse-repelling piles fell to the ground, and the artillery on the batteries was also affected.

"Devil, you are all devils!!"

The few soldiers of the Han army who still insisted on fighting against the Hongtang soldiers were finally frightened, and while roaring all kinds of crazy language, they fled back without looking back.

The willpower of the Jurchen Mongolian infantry soldiers was stronger, but in the face of such a great change, their ferocious killing intent gradually became waves, and the indomitable will to fight earlier also showed signs of exhaustion after such a change in the company, at least they could not be as brave and fearless as before.

"What a means!! Good! Good!! ”

Dai Shan's face was pale, and the anger in his heart was blazing, and he had thoroughly experienced the means of the enemy in front of him, which made him feel painful in his heart.

But after all, he is a veteran on the battlefield, and now that he has suffered heavy losses, Prince Daishan still has not lost his mind, and the more than 10,000 Red Banner soldiers in the Chinese army have no intention of making a move, but have issued a stern order to the 30,000 Jurchen Mongolian infantry who had just killed in front of the Hongtang army, forcing the army commander to personally go into battle to supervise the battle.

"Ahem, ahem!"

"Brothers, the biggest threat has been eliminated, the next thing is to win or lose depends on everyone's means, follow me, !!"

Wu Chao, who had just won a huge battle feat and buried a Jurchen cavalry in formation, was really embarrassed at this time, but the choice he made next was once again beyond the expectations of the Qing people, and he launched an order to charge the whole army not long after the real main force of the two sides engaged, which is the meaning of making a fish to die and break the net!

The musketeers on the hillside who had been responding to the main force of Hongtang in front of the valley either directly grabbed the long muskets and rushed towards the Qing troops down the mountain, or threw the muskets in their hands to the grass next to them, drew out the cold long knives at their waists and ran, and also made a charging posture with no indomitable movement.

For their 20,000 soldiers, if they can't kill this 10,000-strong cavalry in the Qing reinforcements at the first time, even if they finally separate the victory or defeat with the Jurchen infantry, they will inevitably not escape the fate of being chased and killed by the Jurchen iron cavalry.

However, the number of battles with the Jurchens also made Hongtang's professional staff members discover some clues and habits of the Jurchens in using soldiers. Compared with the Han Chinese, who had few cavalry and were forced to use more infantry, as long as the battle was in the field, the Jurchens were very fond of using their powerful cavalry to break the stalemate and inflict a heavy blow on the opponent when the two sides were in a stalemate.

When Wu Chao and his family chose this valley, they took a fancy to the long promenade mountain road in this valley that is more than three miles long, as well as the steep slopes on both sides of the valley. Before arranging the main force of Hongtang at the entrance of the valley, they were even more prepared for the worst by the opposing cavalry to break through the formation, and the valley behind them was a great gift they prepared for this cavalry that broke through their formation.

Although they were not 100% sure that the Qing Dynasty's main general, Prince Daishan, would definitely carry out their military operations according to Wu Chao's plans and other plans, Wu Chao and the members of the Aircraft Department of the Hongtang who had a strong gambler mentality calculated that more than 50% of the other party might carry out the original methods of the Qing people according to their expected plans, and Wu Chao and they dared to use this prediction to make some countermeasures and plans.

No matter how bad their 20,000 troops are, they can also make this Jurchen army lose more than half, weaken the opponent's only strength stationed in the kingdom, and create a great opportunity for the Shang Kexi army on the other side, and they can be regarded as completing the task assigned to them by the base camp.

Compared with the Europeans who are tens of thousands of miles away, in the vast continental territory of the East, there is no one or group that can compare with Hongmen in the technology of hot weapons.

Black powder has been developed and improved by the R&D Park several times, and with the current rationing of raw materials, it has already reached the maximum power it can achieve, and it is even said that in the R&D Park, the researchers who developed gunpowder are researching another kind of gunpowder that is more powerful, but it has not yet been successfully developed, and Wu Chao has never seen the real thing once, even if they have heard of it.

However, the granular gunpowder materials carried by Hongtang's army for the musket team and the artillery team were enough to support Wu Chao's 20,000 troops for two or three months, and now except for a small part, the rest were all buried between the slopes on both sides of this valley.

Roughly calculated, on both sides of this valley, which is only more than three miles long, Wu Chao and the others were stunned to bury about fifty or sixty thousand catties of gunpowder in it. The power of granular gunpowder may not reach the explosive raw materials developed by modern science and technology in later generations, but when tens of thousands of catties of gunpowder explode together, the destructive power is still enough to change a valley more than three miles long, causing huge destructive power.

(End of chapter)