"Hurry up!"

Bi Jiyou shouted with a sword in his hand.

In front of him, countless militia soldiers carried the assembled track sleepers one by one, quickly stepped forward from behind, and then put them in front of the track sleepers that had been laid on the ground long ago, and there were special Ming army sappers who quickly connected them, and soon a series of six groups of such track sleepers were connected to form a light rail more than 30 zhang long.

There are more young and strong ahead.

They took shovels and other agricultural tools, and kept filling in the potholes in front of them.

On the other side of this track, eight 20-pound siege guns lined up in a long line, and then slowly moved forward on this light track under the drag and propulsion of horses, ploughing cattle and even manpower......

This is a twenty-pound cannon.

And in order to increase the penetration, Yang Qing also lengthened the barrel and increased the thickness, the total weight of each cannon exceeded two and a half tons, although it was still much worse than the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon, but it was not a road that could be walked in the wild. Especially in this era, there are no real roads, nothing more than small roads with wheelbarrows, donkey carts, and carriages, and it is pure nonsense to want such a roadbed to bear two and a half tons of heavy artillery that is not a modern wheel. Especially since these roads are not really smooth, how difficult it is to push a two-and-a-half-ton cannon up even just an ordinary high ground, just look at the scene of exhausted war horses in the movie War Horse.

It was a German-made 150 field howitzer.

It weighed just over two tons.

So you can only use this stupid method.

Use a prefabricated section of light rail, lay while walking, let these cannons take the light rail, remove the back immediately after walking, and then lift it to the front by manpower and reinstall it, such a track is not heavy, and it is also suitable for manpower to lift, and the ground does not need to be tamped, only need to be slightly flattened, and then let the light rail reduce the crushing of the cannon on the ground.

Fortunately, the distance is not far.

It is only a hundred miles from the Gangaxe Village Wharf to the city of Zichuan, and it is roughly a plain, and there is no real river in the middle, and the small ditch or something is directly filled with stones and sand and then installed with light rail, in this way, these eight cannons can travel thirty miles a day, and can be reached in four days at most. And as long as they arrive, there will be no suspense in breaking through Zichuan, no city wall can block this, before the Ming army field infantry artillery only had the maximum six catties, in fact, it was a nine-pound cannon, this thing siege is still weak, and the mortar cannon flower shell killed too much of the people in the city, so it was forbidden to use it in the siege.

Twenty catties of siege artillery is the current theater-level strategic weapon of the Ming army.

Each has an artillery brigade.

These cannons were transported all the way from Xuzhou to Laizhou and then escorted by the marines, while the Dengzhou Metropolitan Division, which Zheng Chenggong was the capital commander, was not equipped with this kind of heavy artillery because of the different circumstances.

Of course, he has the Beiyang Naval Division.

"There's a boy who works hard!"

Lu Zhiyu, deputy commander of the Second Army of the Ming Marine Corps, said to Bi Jiyou with approval.

"General Lu, rest assured, as long as it doesn't rain, these cannons will be delivered in four days!"

Bi Jiyou said.

At this time, a cavalryman suddenly ran over.

"Deputy marshal, Jiannu rode five thousand to Weiqiao and landed on the shore."

He said.

"Let's go, Bi Gongzi, come and see how my Da Ming Jian'er can break the enemy!"

Lu Zhixi said.

He is a defender of Suzhou, a hereditary officer, who originally counterattacked Suzhou in history, led 300 families to play a decisive charge, and finally died in the street battle in Suzhou.

Bi Jiyou hurriedly followed him and quickly turned around and quickly joined the Ming army in the west, and the Ming army of a brigade lined up in the gang axe village, setting up a standard infantry line, musket phalanx, spear phalanx, and cavalry phalanx arranged at intervals one by one. The three infantry battalions formed a straight line in the front, but each had a company in front of it, an infantry battalion as a reserve in the rear in a diamond formation, two companies of the cavalry battalion in the front and two companies in the rear to protect the infantry flanks, and a four-and-a-half and three-pound guns of the brigade and battalion artillery were in front of the formation.

In the middle is the mortar of the brigade.

This is the plain, there is no high ground to exploit, and field artillery can only be in front of the formation.

Their enemies soon arrived.

The Qing army was also transported by water, which was dispatched from Jinan, and Luckedhun had already received the first batch of 5,000 reinforcements from Dezhou, and was transferred to block the Ming army.

Once these cannons are transported to Zichuan, Baduli will definitely be finished.

At present, the Qing army is actually locked in five battlefields from Jinan to Jiaozhou, Jinan and Zhangqiu are one battlefield, one is Zichuan and Boshan, one is Qingzhou, one is Weixian, plus Jiaozhou. The fall of any battlefield will make the attacking Ming army draw out and join the others, and then eat them one by one. The only thing that the Qing army could get reinforcements was Jinan, and the others did not even have reinforcements, and the sea was blocked by the Beiyang Naval Division, and the land was blocked by horizontal rivers from north to south. The Sujin River, the Maji River, the Shang River, the Tu River, the Daqing River, two hundred miles of five traversal rivers, the only channel for land reinforcements is Jinan, take the Daqing Bridge across the Daqing River in the Qi River and enter Jinan.

Other directions are simply not suitable for military operations.

Once Zichuan is conquered, the Qing army will never have the possibility of rescuing the armies in the east, and then all the Qing troops there can only wait for the result of annihilation, on the contrary, drag the Ming army and continue to maintain the current situation, Dolgon will have enough time to mobilize more Qing troops into the Shandong battlefield and then turn the tide of the war.

The first to attack was the Qing cavalry.

But at this time, a cavalry battalion of the Ming army in Zhangqiu arrived and formed a formation on the flank of the battlefield, and the 1,000 Qing cavalry who were originally preparing to bypass the Gangaxe Village to attack the transport team quickly stopped, and also lined up on the flank of the battlefield to cover the Qing infantry in Weiqiao.

The latter is still a shield car.

The 4,000 shield chariot heavy infantry completed the formation at Weiqiao and lined up to the east, and the two teams that were actually less than ten miles apart met on the endless plain, and the strength of the two armies was about the same, but the Ming army still had slightly more. The Qing army also carried artillery, and they all carried more than 2,000 catties of heavy artillery, which was the biggest benefit of the water transportation march, but unfortunately the gap between their artillery and the Ming army had been too large......

"Fire!"

Lu Zhiyu looked at the enemy army with a telescope and said.

The twelve mortar cannons next to him suddenly spewed flames into the sky, and the twenty catties of flowering shells that rose into the sky kicked off the battle.

One hit.

In the flash of the explosion, a shield cart was blown away.

The Qing army continued to move forward silently, these are mainly the Eight Banners Divine Army, it is said that the Divine Army is Dolgon's greatest harvest in the north, because Yang Qing's own barbaric behavior caused the Divine Army to have no choice, coupled with Li Zicheng's Bao Xing, making these people the most loyal subjects of our Qing Dynasty......

At least for now.

The shield carts lined up in a fish-scale formation on the empty plain, slowly but surely moving forward.

And among them were the artillery of the Han Army of the Eight Banners.

A gate was still using the brass cannon of the three-wheeled gun carriage moving forward slowly.

These are actually not those standard Hongyi cannons, which can't be fought in the field like this, but these are closer to the Qing version of the Shenwei Invincible General used by Ma Ge when he bombarded the Russians. It weighs more than 2,000 kilograms, and the shells are six or seven kilograms, which is the same level as the six-kilogram field artillery of the Ming army's artillery, but because of the gap in materials and casting technology, the six-kilogram field artillery of the Ming army is much lighter. In fact, the Hongyi cannon is only a general term for this type of cannon, and there is no exact weight standard, a thousand catties can also be called a Hongyi cannon, and a 10,000 jin coastal defense heavy artillery can also be said to be a Hongyi cannon.

The Ming mortars continued to bombard.

The Qing army endured casualties and continued to advance.

The distance soon entered a thousand meters, and a Hongyi cannon was hit by a flowering shell, and the bounced cannonball exploded less than a meter above this cannon, and the power of the explosion instantly overturned it.

The Qing army continued to move forward silently.

"Four and a half pounds of cannon fire!"

Lu Zhixi said.

In front of the Ming formation, twelve six-pounder guns of the brigade artillery battalion opened fire, and although the guns were processed and even the shells were preliminarily processed, the firing range was still more than two miles, even if the effective firing range was more than one mile.

There is an essential difference between a cannon that has been bored through the chamber and a cannon that has not been bored.

All artillery targets were still Qing artillery.

The poor Qing army only had ten heavy artillery pieces in total, and they had just lost one, and then the Ming army hit one again in the first salvo, and most of the other shells also fell near the cannons. But the Qing army still did not stop erecting artillery, such a distance they still could not hit the target, the Qing army continued to move forward in the bombardment of the Ming army's flowering shells and solid bullets, fortunately, these cannons only one round a minute, and the damage to them was still limited.

But the accuracy of the Ming army's artillery bombardment is also getting higher and higher.

The Qing cavalry next to them immediately attacked, and it was clear that they were trying to destroy the Ming artillery.

But only three hundred cavalry attacked.

After all, there was a cavalry battalion in array opposite them.

The latter did not move.

The 700 Qing cavalry that remained behind did not move.

Three hundred cavalry quickly killed in front of the Ming army, but the cavalry on both wings of the Ming army did not move.

It was the infantry that moved.

Faced with the cavalry, which was rapidly approaching range, all the infantry musketeers checked their guns.

Still an arquebus.

The Qing cavalry continued to charge at those cannons.

The latter ignored them at all, and all the gunners methodically repeated the procedure of loading and firing twenty meters in front of the formation, pouring shells at the Qing troops in the distance, constantly destroying one cannon after another. Just after the Qing cavalry entered the range of 100 zhang, all the three-jin guns suddenly opened fire, and the shotguns instantly knocked down a lot of cavalry, and then those gunners completed the loading as fast as possible, and when the Qing cavalry was less than 30 zhang, they fired a second round of shotguns and quickly retreated.

Including four-and-a-half-pound gunners.

All the artillerymen retreated and quickly lay down in the foxhole in front of the troops, while the rifled gunners lying beside them pulled the trigger.

Then more Qing cavalry fell.

By this time, they had already lost more than a third.

The rest were still charging, and raised their bows and arrows on horseback, and did not rush straight into the Ming formation, but quickly swept in front of the formation, and at the same time prepared to attack with their throwing bows and arrows......

"Gyro shot!"

Lu Zhiyu said speechlessly.

Suddenly, all the arquebuses in the front row erupted flames at the same time.

Despite the distance of more than fifty meters, the arquebuses still had a one-fifth hit rate, and dozens of Qing soldiers fell on horseback, followed by the front row of musketeers turning around and walking to the end. The second row of musketeers fired forward again, and more Qing cavalry fell, and then these musketeers also turned around and walked towards the end, and the next row fired forward......

Six rounds of shooting are completed in the blink of an eye.

Less than a hundred Qing cavalry were left and fled in terror.

The artillery in the foxhole rushed out of the cannon rushing towards them as quickly as possible, and completed the loading at the fastest speed to shoot a retaliatory shotgun on the back of the Qing cavalry, and the latter left half of it, and finally only more than 50 horsemen fled from the battlefield.

However, the Qing army finally set up the cannons.

But only five doors remained.

The artillery of both sides began to bombard each other at a distance of 500 meters, and the Ming army even joined the three-pound cannons, and the first round of shells of the Qing army fell quickly, and a very shit luck fell near the Ming army's formation and bounced, crashing into a team of musketeers at once, causing two dead and four wounded, but then there were six musketeers in the reserve behind to make up for it.

This was also the only harvest of the Qing army's shelling.

In fact, they fired a total of three rounds of shells, and before they could fire the fourth round, the remaining five cannons were all destroyed.

500 meters!

At such a distance, the gunners of the Ming army who opened their guns in training could accurately hit a small grass hut, not to mention that this was a 28-to-5 counter-bombardment.

The Qing army was dumbfounded.

"Attack!"

The commander of the Qing army, Aobai's elder brother with a yellow flag, Meldron Butai, gritted his teeth and shouted.

"They have cannons!"

His lieutenant general was inlaid with the yellow flag god army Meler, and Liu Fangming, the former chief soldier of Liugou Town in the Ming Dynasty, was stunned.

"They don't have shields!"

Zhuo Mutai shouted.

Liu Fangming quickly closed his mouth.

Indeed, the Ming army opposite them did not have the protection of the shield cart, and what they did was that since this was the case, there was nothing to fear, Zhuo Mutai's knife swung forward, and the fish scale array of the original shield cart continued to move forward and began to run wildly. Then twenty-eight cannons and twelve mortars on the opposite side aimed all their fire at them, and although they continued to fire one round per minute, these shells were terrifyingly accurate, and almost every shell fell on the Qing army.

Those mortar shells are not the most terrible thing anymore.

After all, there is some power.

But the solid bullet is extremely ferocious.

Almost every solid bullet that landed in the Qing army easily pierced the Qing army's shield cart, and then created a patch of flesh and blood among those heavily armored soldiers.

And they need to run a full 500 meters.

They had to run 500 meters with a heavy shield cart.

"A bunch of idiots!"

Lu Zhixi looked at this scene with emotion.

The mortar shells beside him continued to rise, falling with smoke trails, and then used the power of the explosion to shred the shield car of the Qing army and shredded the bodies of the Qing soldiers. The smoke of the field artillery fire rose in front of him like a cloud, and the solid bullets whistled through the air in the rumbling cannon, smashing the Qing army's shield car with the kinetic energy given by speed, and then smashing the bodies of the Qing soldiers behind.

The corpses of the latter stretched across every foot of land they walked, and the badly wounded Qing troops in the broken shield workshop rolled and struggled......

The charge of the Qing army was only halfway carried out.

Just when they were still two hundred meters away from the Ming army, all the Qing troops seemed to collapse, screaming without the slightest hesitation and abandoning their shield carts, and then running backwards like crazy.

Almost at the same time, the cavalry on both wings of the Ming army rushed out......