The combat effectiveness of the Qing army is still superior, and the Hongtang army has almost gone all out, but it still fails to achieve the level that Wu Jie and the others hoped for.

From the early morning of the next day to around 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the Hongtang army gradually changed from the initial offensive to a defensive position, and even began to be forced to retreat slowly by the Qing army's offensive.

Perhaps fearing that opening the city gate in front of the battle would give the Qing army an opportunity, and at the same time, it was also worried that as many as 100,000 Korean people in the city would take the opportunity to escape, and the main battle force of the Hongtang army bypassed Guoshan City and withdrew in the direction of the coastline.

Seeing that the Hongtang army could be defeated without sending out the Qing cavalry, although Dolgon was still a little unhappy in the letter, and he couldn't simply take the Hongtang army, but he was also happy to see that the Hongtang army was entangled by his own army, and bought enough time for the reinforcements sent by Huang Taiji.

In the direction of Hongtang's retreat this time, there seemed to be a problem, and the rear saw that there was no way to retreat, and it was already an endless sea, but at this time, Dolgon suddenly woke up: the most powerful place of this Hongtang army is their invincible fleet on the sea!

The other party dared to retreat in the direction of the coastline, in fact, he was not worried that there would be no way to retreat from the beginning, and after being designed by Hong Tang several times, Dolgon's heart was open at this time, and he would not believe that Hong Tang would take such a stinky move!

"Order the three armies, all retreat!! Retreat!! ”

Dolgon woke up just in time, and a long snake-like black shadow had already appeared on the distant sea level, but it was the location of the Hongtang fleet that had long been lurking outside the horizon.

"Boom! Boom!! ”

The ships of the Hongtang fleet were not yet clear, but the artillery on the warships had already landed on land first, grazing the edge of the place where the Hongtang army was located, crackling and bombing indiscriminately.

The power of the guns on the locks of the main battleships of the Hongtang fleet was not as soft as the eighteen-pounder field guns they had used before, and in a salvo of the main guns in the bow, the 64-pound and 48-pound solid guns were smashed down, which was really injured by rubbing, and even the fragments of stone chips scattered by the shells could cripple people.

I don't know when, the soldiers in the first row of Hongtang have already held up strong shields, but even so, there are still a few unfortunate guys, who were overturned by the flying stone chips and wood chips, or the air waves formed by the bombardment, spitting blood, inputting less air and excavating more.

Even the Hongtang army was like this, not to mention the soldiers who were not prepared in the Qing army, under the sudden order of Dolgon to retreat, the retreat road happened to become the fierce artillery bombardment of the Hongtang fleet.

Although Dolgon had anticipated the backlash of Hongtang's army in advance and issued an early retreat order, nearly half of the soldiers were still within the range of the opponent's main artillery bombardment.

I thought that this was already the most terrifying and intensive bombardment of this era, and there were more than 30 huge shells in a single round of artillery bombarding the retreating route of the Qing army unscrupulously, but it was not until the Hongtang fleet was on the verge of the sea and turned sideways that Dolgon and they understood what despair was!

"Huh~~Boom!!"

The artillery was far denser than before, and under the full fire of the gun emplacements on the flanks of the Hongtang fleet, it was like hail, and the sky was filled with the sound of death roaring.

Even the powerful Ming Dynasty, the number and power of the artillery placed on the city wall of the important town of Biansai are afraid that they are not half of the scale of the artillery fire of the Hongtang fleet at this time, and even for a moment Dolgon was a little suspicious, is this really just the force possessed by a naval commander of the Ming Dynasty?

If this is the case, then no matter how brave their Qing soldiers are, in the face of such an artillery offensive comparable to heaven's curse, how can they always be so arrogant and complacent to regard the Ming Dynasty frontier as their back garden, and they can enter and exit whenever they want!

"Let's go!! Walk!! Walk!! ”

The coastline is no longer able to stay, and the cavalry team under Dolgon's command has not yet entered the battlefield, and the war horses under their crotches have already begun to feel the powerful crisis, and they gradually began to stir under the drive of instinct, even the Jurchen and Mongolian knights, who have been riding skilled since childhood, have been unable to control the reins, and are dragged away from the battlefield by the war horses under their feet.

The Han army was even more unbearable, and had been fighting desperately under the obscenity of Dolgon, but now when the Hongtang fleet showed their sharp and deadly minions, even Dolgon's fierce and vicious suppression methods could no longer make the Han soldiers fearful.

Since the Hongtang fleet has been pressing such a one-handed arrangement that can be called the needle of the sea god, it is displayed in front of Dolgon at this time, and while blowing up Dolgon's subordinates, it also makes the future famous general of the Qing Dynasty understand a truth: no matter how elite the soldiers are, in front of the steel weapons, they are just a group of lambs to be slaughtered!

The Hongtang fleet has been standing still, and it is only now that the price of sudden appearance is placed in front of everyone, the artillery bombardment of half an hour is only, and the base number of cannonballs used is less than half, but it has caused more than 3,000 Qing troops to die on the séance.

Among them, the mixed army of the Jurchen and Mongol armies of the Qing Dynasty, which was the backbone of the battle at that time, had not suffered casualties of 1,000 in the battle of yesterday, but at this time, because they were in the forefront at that time, they naturally became the rear team when they retreated, and they happened to be within the bombing range of the Hongtang fleet.

Waiting for Dolgon to slowly retreat beyond the range of the Hongtang fleet's artillery, he watched coldly as the south gate of Guoshan City gradually opened, and long dragons emerged from the city gate, landing towards the huge sea ships that were gradually landing on the dock, at this time Dolgon's heart was almost broken!

Three battles with Hongtang's army, all three of which ended in defeat, were such a huge blow to the arrogant and unseen Dolgon.

But if he was to take the rest of the army to take advantage of the opportunity to follow the ships to the shore and transport the supplies and people that originally belonged to them to the Qing people, not only did Dolgon tell him that the chances were slim, but at the same time, deep down in his heart, there was also an unknown weakness: in the face of the previous artillery attack like a natural disaster, no matter who would have a deep sense of powerlessness, and then began to question himself.

(End of chapter)