When the 2,000 soldiers of Hongtang returned with a full load, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty did not dare to take another step, but it also greatly boosted the morale of the 50,000 soldiers of the entire Hongtang Gongchangling Village.

Of course, under the elimination of one another, the Qing Dynasty's more than 100,000 troops who had been killed violently were demoralized at this time, but their morale was low, and the newly built military camp was shrouded in silence, and occasionally a few screams sounded, which made people panic.

The morale of the Qing army was so low that Prince Dolgon's hearts were full of sorrow, this time they had been preparing for a long time, and they thought that they would never return to the mistake of rushing back again, but they didn't expect that the other party would give such a big "surprise" to themselves after full preparation!

Artillery was originally very useful in siege battles, and with a few lucky shells, it could even break through the gate of a fortified city, so that the besieging side could reduce countless losses. It's just that artillery in this era was too cumbersome and difficult to transport, but it was used more during the battle to defend the city.

In this way, in this era of using solid bullets as cannonballs, in fact, how much damage it can do to a large refusal with a scale of more than 100,000 is really not what Prince Dorgon cares about.

In the past six months, the intelligence system of the Qing people has not been idle, and has already launched an in-depth investigation against the Hongtang army and obtained a lot of detailed information.

In the intelligence of the Qing people, the fact that the Hongtang army made good use of firearms was emphatically reminded, and the relationship between it and the Ming Dynasty was also referenced.

Therefore, in fact, Prince Dorgon and his family have long been wary of the firearms of the Hongtang army, but this vigilance is not enough, so that they can feel the pirates who should have been at sea in this era, so that they can feel the majesty of the real artillery salvo.

Moreover, the artillery fire of the Hongtang army can have such lethality, but also from the hollow bullets improved by the Hongmen Research and Development Institute from generation to generation, wrapped in steel and hidden inside, in terms of lethality, the Shanghai defense facilities are not as good as solid bullets, but they can deal with those flesh and blood soldiers but have a strong lethality.

Fortunately, it was the siege equipment prepared early, because of the bulky size and slow march, it has not been sent to the army until now, and the artillery attack at this time just avoided a catastrophe, so that the Qing army still has the confidence to launch an offensive against the Gongchangling walled city where the Hongtang army is stationed.

Among the siege equipment that was postponed, there were more than ten large-caliber artillery pieces captured by the Qing people from the Ming Jing Division and the battlefield in the past, including many red-coated cannons.

"Today's hatred, we will have to repay it again in the future!"

Even Prince Hauge, who was still arrogant before, was almost hit by a stray bullet in this artillery attack, and his heart has not calmed down until now.

It's been years since Hauge has felt the threat of death so really, and the threat comes from the pain of the artillery, and the fear in Hauge's heart is indescribable.

There is a secret scandal in the Qing royal family, the former emperor Nurhachi, in fact, was affected by the red-clothed cannons on Ningyuan City in the so-called victory of the Ming people, and finally died of serious injuries and drove back to the west.

The Ming people informed the Ming people of the great victory for this great battle that lost thousands of Jurchen Eight Banner disciples, and recorded it in the history books, which made the Qing Dynasty resentful. Therefore, the news that Nurhachi was seriously injured in this battle must not be known to the Ming people, otherwise wouldn't this Han man be about to fly?

After this lesson, the Qing royal family was in awe of artillery, and at the same time, the dynasty began to study the artillery casting, firing and other technologies, but the Qing Dynasty domestic craftsmen were very rare, stunned that there was not much progress, the only thing to do was to exchange some of the captured loot for some usable, or from the Korean kingdom.

Although the number of firearms sold by Hongtang is not small, the objects of sale have been investigated several times, and it is impossible for the pawns of the Qing Dynasty or the objects of wheat harvesting to obtain them, and even if they are obtained, they will pay a very high price, and the firearms purchased are likely to be backward models and so on.

"It must be, otherwise it will be difficult to comfort the more than 10,000 soldiers who died in the Qing Dynasty!!"

Prince Zheng Nuerharang was also angry, gritting his teeth and swearing poisonously.

An artillery bombardment is not without harvest with the Qing Dynasty, at least at this time, the three princes of the Qing Dynasty have reached an agreement because of this, and it is difficult to guard against each other, and they twist their hearts into a rope.

Taking advantage of the fact that the equipment for attacking the city defense in the army had not yet arrived, the three princes reorganized their morale one after another, collected their troops, and gradually calmed down the morale of the somewhat depressed army.

With the arrival of the siege equipment, it was already two days since the last shelling, and the morale of the Qing army had regained its fighting strength, which was enough for siege operations.

The distant sound of the bull's horn sounded between the hills in the northeast where the Jurchens had lived for hundreds of years, and with this distant sound of the horn, the Qing people finally began their attack after three days of rest.

The attack of Hongtang's artillery made the Qing people abandon the tactics they were used to, and at the beginning, they sent 30,000 soldiers from the main force of the Qing army to launch a fierce offensive towards the Gongchangling Walled City on the top of the mountain.

And the soldiers of the Han army, who had always existed as cannon fodder, were rarely left behind, pushing heavy siege equipment and slowly approaching along the hillside.

The artillery fire flew, at this time, in addition to the artillery of Hongtang Artillery, the Qing people finally fired their artillery, but it was only a condescending shot, which needed to be fired from the back, but the power of the shells on both sides was a step apart.

However, this did not prevent the gunners of the Qing army, with unskilled skills, under the cover of flying artillery fire, aiming the only dozen or so artillery pieces in their hands at the colorful and thick city wall of the Gongchangling Walled City, trying to use this to open a passage for the charging Qing soldiers.

Even in order to make the powerful impact of the artillery powerful, so that the artillery of the Hongtang army in the city was overwhelmed, the Qing artillery did not care about the army charging everywhere on the mountain, and insisted on risking the risk of accidentally injuring his teammates, sending solid bullets with powerful destructive power to the top of the mountain, and hitting potholes in various places.

At the same time, among the 30,000 Qing soldiers scattered all over the sky, there were also thousands of musketeers who came from Korea.

At this time, if you don't look at the picture and only listen to the sound of the battlefield, you can't think that you have traveled to the modern battlefield, and the sound of cold weapons clash is almost inaudible, but more is the crisp or dull roar of a musket and a cannon.

(End of chapter)