The first line of defense Tian Xian they blocked the Mongolian cavalry for five hours until dark, although the second line of defense is slightly narrower than the first line of defense is a mile, but here is more wide and flat, not so complicated terrain, only three small hills, behind is a long one and a half miles of open land, although there are some ups and downs, but the ups and downs are not big, for the cavalry, it is simply a natural battlefield, only a thousand Mongolian cavalry can make Tian Xian's more than 1,000 main infantry, the remaining more than 700 cavalry collapsed or defeated.

Because when it comes to cavalry combat, the Mongolian cavalry is the best, maybe these Mongolian cavalry have abandoned their combat technology and combat skills over the years, but no matter how deserted it is, it is also a Mongolian cavalry, a nation that grew up on horseback since childhood, and many of their Mongolian cavalry have followed Azig, Bolo, Li Chengdong, Liu Liangzuo They fought all the way from the north to the south, and then were transferred back from the south to defend the Beijing division.

Because of the time and troops, the second line of defense has a lot more trenches than the first line of defense, but there are a lot less arrangements for organs, and there are no horse pits in the space of more than a mile in between, only some potholes with horses' feet, but this does not seem to be able to stop the Mongols, they only need to rely on their previous experience, send cavalry to dismount and walk in front, and then fill in these horse pits all the way.

Seeing all this, Zhang Qiang was also worried about Tian Xian's next battle.

However, because it was dark, because the Mongols suffered a great loss, losing more than 8,000 cavalry, more than 2,000 wounded, and the total number of troops lost more than 10,000 people, so the Mongol general Shult was very careful.

He sent 1,000 cavalry to retreat to the open area behind the first line of defense and set up camp, set up tents, and then sent people to move the wounded soldiers and corpses to the camp, and then sent 2,000 cavalry to garrison, and then held a cremation ceremony for the dead cavalry, and sent scout cavalry to find out the surrounding terrain and Tian Xian's arrangement, and then gathered the generals to discuss how to act, this delay was delayed for two hours, and it was already completely dark.

And the battle ahead obviously did not end because it got dark, but became more tragic.

At the beginning, Duolong ordered the artillery to attack Tian Bin's army with ten red-coated cannons weighing thousands of pounds that were dismantled, but Tian Bin was careless, did not take the lead in counterattacking the enemy, suffered a big loss, and the artillery bombardment came down, and the soldiers who had been fighting for thousands of miles were in chaos, and it took a long time to stabilize their positions, and they retreated more than a mile, and their artillery became the most conspicuous and convex target.

The artillerymen fought back violently.

Tian Bin came all the way, and also dismantled the cannons of several county towns, but it was too heavy to keep up with the troops, the artillery in his hand was only the largest twelve-pounder cannon imitated by the Qing army of the Huaxia Army, although there were also two thousand five hundred catties, but in the end there were more than a dozen left, brought to the present, the others are some small cannons of the Qing army and the Ming army, as well as imitation 9-pounder guns and ten-pounder guns, the most are of course the easy-to-carry six-pounder guns and three-pounder guns, four-pounder guns.

Although the imitation is not up to the mark because of the metal materials, the craftsmanship of the craftsmen is not up to the mark, the production process is very different from the Huaxia Army, and the quality is generally not good, but on the whole, this weight is definitely much lighter than the previous artillery of the Ming Army and the artillery made by the Qing Army itself, and it cannot be compared with the range of the dozen or so red-coated cannons of several thousand catties that the enemy removed from Liaocheng, but as an accompanying weapon of the infantry, it fell into the hands of Tian Bin, who was once the Jinhua Righteous Army, as well as the intelligence officers of the Military Intelligence Department, and now the generals of the rebel soldiers and officers. Of course, it is better to play than the Qing army.

At the beginning of the counterattack, the heavy artillery and twelve-pounder guns on both sides quickly knocked out the enemy's three red-coated cannons, killing and wounding hundreds of Qing artillerymen.

The Qing army reacted and immediately fired back, and the shells kept falling around them, and the red-coated cannon could hit ten miles away at the head of the city, and seven or eight miles away on the platform when placed on the mountain, but now the artillery of Duolong put him at a distance of five miles, and the twelve-pounder cannon could be hit.

Under the enemy's artillery fire, the artillerymen launched a fierce blow to the enemy's artillery, after being destroyed by the enemy's counterattack, they still hit the enemy's artillery every three minutes, and after a while, the enemy's artillery was knocked out more than a dozen, and the red-coated artillery was also destroyed again, the Qing army was afraid, the artillerymen scattered in a hurry, and the Manchu cavalry behind ran up quickly, slashed and killed, and the cost of dozens of heads drove the artillerymen to the original position, and continued to attack Tian Bin and their artillery.

In the course of the artillery battle, artillery of other calibers and weights also joined the attack, and the artillery of the Huaxia Army must have counterattacked the enemy's artillery first, while the artillery of the Qing Army was used to hit the enemy's infantry and cavalry, so the Qing army had to counterattack Tian Bin's artillery, which could hit Tian Bin's artillery position, and what was out of reach was still attacking Tian Bin's army.

The artillery fire was flying everywhere here, and Tian Bin's army over there suffered heavy casualties, soon suffering 2,000 casualties, and many formations were disorganized, and they had to reorganize their teams to suppress those soldiers who tried to escape.

And Duolong seized the opportunity and immediately ordered the Han Army Banner and the soldiers of the Green Battalion to march under the artillery fire of Tian Bin's troops and approach the enemy.

The Qing army was not without damage, although it was striking at the enemy's artillery, but there were still nine-pounder guns and ten-pounder guns that could counterattack the Qing army on the march, so after the Qing army approached three miles, it was hit by the artillery of Tian Bin's army.

However, Duolong's will is firm, anyway, those green battalions and Han army flags are Han people, die to death, die to contribute to this battle, and to continue his crown and his life for a little time.

As the queue approached Tian Bin's army, the Han army flag, as the main force, was hit by more artillery, which could not be used to counterattack the enemy's small artillery, and quickly and accurately harvested the lives of Qing soldiers in the Han army flag queue.

Although the Han Army Banner was the regular army of the Qing Army, it was a combat unit, and it has always been known for being more capable of fighting and being determined than the Green Battalion soldiers, but in the face of so many artillery blows and heavy casualties, nearly 1,000 troops were either killed or wounded before they rushed to the enemy's two miles of ground, and many soldiers began to waver and slow down.

In this way, they inflicted more artillery strikes, suffered more casualties, and some of the soldiers behind had already begun to flee, so that the Manchu cavalry rushed up and hacked them to death without hesitation.

One mile, a distance of more than 500 meters, is the best distance for the six-pounder cannon to fire, but also the most lethal distance, the Han army flag casualties are even more serious, 2,000 people fell to the ground, the Han army flag Qing army column is already crumbling.

Seeing the enemy's artillery destroying his own artillery one by one, Duolong's heart was bleeding, and he immediately ordered the retreating Mongol cavalry to attack the heavy artillery positions of Tian Bin's army on both flanks.

At the same time, the Qing cavalry of Xinjun Town was sent to join the assault on the enemy's array, and he led the Chinese army to continue to advance with cannon fodder, and entered the range of three miles.

The green battalions on both flanks had already collapsed, and they began to turn around and flee at a distance of six hundred meters, and were hacked to death again and again by the Manchu cavalry, forced to retreat, and had to continue to advance and charge.

Seeing the embarrassment of the Qing army, although his own soldiers and artillery were also suffering losses, and the losses were still more serious than those of the Qing army, Tian Bin was very happy, because the enemy had entered the rhythm of fighting on his own side, and it was time for the Qing army to suffer.

(End of chapter)