Guangwu Mountain.

"This is target shooting!"

Zheng Han, the artillery team of the first battalion of the first brigade of the first army, often looked at the Yellow River surging eastward under his feet with surprised eyes......

Of course, he didn't focus on the magnificence of mountains and rivers.

He focused on the dense mass of rafts on the Yellow River, each loaded with Qing troops, slowly coming in the gentle murky waters of autumn. Then, with the efforts of the captain, he completed a 90-degree turn on the river surface nearly a mile wide, and then continued eastward along the river parallel to Guangwu Mountain......

This was the army of Dordor.

He couldn't find the ferry.

Yuan Zongdi would definitely not leave him a ferry on the north shore.

The Qing army could only build its own ships to cross the river.

But it is impossible for a 100,000-strong army to cross the Yellow River by building dozens of small wooden boats, not to mention that it is impossible for either the Shun army or the Ming army to let him build ships smoothly on the shore.

And he didn't have time to build that many ships.

The only way to force a crossing like this is to find a tributary upstream, and then quickly set up countless rafts, take advantage of the summer flood season, and the water is stable in autumn, and then enter the Yellow River and then cut cross-cutting to the south bank to land. In this way, the scale of the river crossing can be guaranteed, otherwise one hundred and ten small boats will be forced to cross, which will not be enough for the Ming army to be a dish, so the Ming army's firepower will be lined up on the river embankment, and all kinds of firepower will be bombarded, and one hundred and ten small boats of our Qing warriors can only be carried as fish food.

As for building a pontoon bridge, it's even more nonsense.

This is not the era of cold weapons, at most get a few bed crossbows and a few trebuchets, who is embarrassed to go out without a cannon in this era? As far as the range of the Ming army's cannons, where they built pontoon bridges was ultimately a target. Especially because of the destruction of Kaifeng and the Yellow Flood area to the south, their river crossing area was limited to a small section from Zhengzhou to Mengjin, and both the Ming and Shun armies were able to detect their movements in time and quickly mobilize troops to intercept them at the river embankment.

The only way is to use the numerical advantage to play large-scale forced crossing.

Build a raft in the upper reaches of the Qin River.

There is just a mountainous area, some logs can be used, put down the wood from the upstream, tie into a raft in the downstream and then load tens of thousands of Qing troops down the river into the Yellow River, and then forcibly land at the mouth of the garden, to offset the firepower of the Ming army with the number, tens of thousands of people at the same time forced crossing absolutely can not be prevented.

But......

They had to pass this special 90-degree turning point at the foot of Guangwu Mountain first.

"Fire!"

Han Chang roared excitedly.

The mountain splitting cannon beside him suddenly erupted into flames, and the three-pound heavy artillery shell flew out four hundred meters in the blink of an eye, accurately hitting a raft, and the huge force instantly shot a blood mist in the Qing army, and then crashed into the raft under their feet. Then because of the blockage of the log, the trajectory changed, with the splash of sawdust and the screams of the Qing army, it bounced up, and in the blink of an eye, it tore apart the bodies of the two Qing soldiers again. Because the angle of the bounce was very small, it even flew out diagonally, and hit the head of a Qing soldier on the raft next to it, and then flew into the sky and then fell to the surface of the river......

"This cannon is too small!"

Han Chang said dissatisfied.

"Team Zheng, can you drag the six-pound cannon to the top of the mountain?"

The gunner said with a pure face.

Han Chang was speechless, so he had to slap him on the back of the head, but at the same time, the artillery that was being loaded let out a cheer, and he saw that the raft they had just hit suddenly fell apart, and the unlucky Qing troops on it fell into the water......

It was clear that the ropes that bound the raft could not withstand such a sudden and ferocious impact.

"Keep firing!"

Han Chang yelled.

At this time, on the top of the mountain more than two miles long, on the artillery positions one after another, the mountain splitting guns were also constantly spewing flames, and the whistling shells were constantly piercing the air, flying over a distance of no more than one mile and hitting the raft on the river, just like shooting a target, the Qing troops crossing the river were splashed with flesh and blood, and even destroyed the raft directly. In the continuous shelling, the disintegrated logs floated like garbage, the broken corpses of the Qing army soaked in the river water and constantly released the red of blood, and those survivors who wore armor and fell into the water struggled desperately, but they were still sunk into the river by the heavy cloth armor, and soon turned into floating corpses. Only a few Qing troops clinging to the wood were drifting downstream, and were even pushed to the shore by the river, but there were still a large number of guns and birds waiting for them on the bank, just like artillery targets, those infantry were also waiting on the shore to shoot targets, and the Qing troops who rushed to the shore were then shot in the river.

Next to the constantly roaring cannons, those artillerymen enjoyed the spectacular scene of the Qing army's floating corpses all over the river, and continued to reload excitedly, while on the mountain roads behind them, there was a steady stream of people carrying ammunition on their burdens, and even more cannons were being pushed to the top of the mountain......

Or simply lift it up.

In total, it weighs more than 500 pounds, so what's the big deal if you lift it.

But the six-pound cannon will definitely not be able to reach the top of the mountain.

"Team Zheng, Jiannu has landed!"

Suddenly, shouts rang out.

Han Chang quickly turned his gaze to the west, a large number of rafts abandoned and continued to turn down and docked, and thousands of Qing heavy infantry landed directly and rushed straight to Guangwu Stream, which was not far to the west along the empty river beach with low water level in autumn. It was clear that they were preparing to attack from this famous mountain stream to the mountain, first destroying the artillery position and then continuing down, after all, Duoduo did not want to let the Eight Banners become cannon fodder.

"Turn around!"

Han Chang said without hesitation.

The mountain splitting artillery under his command immediately turned around and began to aim at these Qing troops, and at the same time, on another position not far from them, the mortars that had not fired let out a roar. Although the twenty-four-pounder mortar sound quite powerful, it is actually lighter than the mountain splitting cannon, the simple cannon body is only about two hundred catties, and the remaining is a thick oak base, the two parts can be broken down, and it can also be easily lifted to the top of the mountain.

The flowering shells that went straight into the sky quickly fell with their small tails dragging smoke trails, and just when the mountain-splitting cannon finished aiming, these flowering shells had already landed on the river beach and exploded in the landing Qing army.

Immediately after that, the shells of the mountain splitting cannon also arrived.

However, the Qing army was not intimidated.

The Qing troops who landed rushed forward in the flames of the explosion, and although they left behind dead bodies all the way, they still quickly rushed towards Guangwu Stream, and soon they began to storm the Ming defense line that blocked them. This kind of mountainous area will definitely not be able to form a car city, but the Beijing battalion trained by the Qi family army tactics is not only a car city, everyone knows that the Qi family army started out as a mountain infantry in a certain sense, as the current number one main force of the Ming army, of course, it is impossible to even have mountain tactics. When the Qing heavy infantry rushed down the hill and prepared to attack upward, in addition to the bird-gunners who were firing between the trees overhead, there were also groups of extra-long spearmen pouring out in front of them, and these Ming troops formed a dense small phalanx, like a wall of thorns pushing towards them.

The Qing heavy infantry, which did not carry a shield cart, quickly formed an infantry formation, with the sword player in front and the spearman in the back, and the archers in the back.

A horizontal array pushes forward.

But their spears are too short.

In the blink of an eye, this wall of thorns collided with them, and the heavy armor could not stop the spear thrust that charged down the mountain, and a large number of Qing troops were pierced in an instant, and the remaining sword players in the front row desperately used their shields to resist the spears, and pushed these deadly weapons away with their knives. But he didn't expect that in the dense forest of spears, one by one the Ming soldiers with small shields and war hammers bowed their waists and quickly drilled out, and in the dense spear stabbing protection above their heads, they bent down and rushed to the front, unceremoniously picked up the war hammer with a crane's beak in their hands, easily chiseled through the heavy cloth armor of the Qing army, and chiseled deep into their bodies.

The Qing army was in disarray.

For the first time, they encountered this tactic.

The spears are much longer than their big spears......

History records that the longest infantry spear of the Qing army was four and a half meters, but these forcibly landed infantry had more than three meters of spears in their hands, and the Ming army's eight spears were more than five meters.

The dense spear forest instantly blocked the Qing army's continued advance, they could not close the distance and stab the Ming army on the opposite side with their big guns, and their sword players were not specially trained and were not suitable for bowing down to drill spears. Moreover, the Ming army war hammer hand even specially selected the shortest soldiers, they were along the spear forward, even if the Qing saber player wanted to bow his head to drill, the Ming army spearman on the opposite side could continue to stab him with a slight movement, not to mention that they were not so dexterous with heavy armor. There were heroic people who simply grabbed the spear, but unfortunately the Ming army was densely packed together, and all the spearmen had already practiced to cooperate, and the Qing army grabbed the spear on the opposite side and poked the spear directly in the face at the same time.

As for the archers behind the Qing army......

That one makes no sense.

Because there were still countless Ming army birds and guns waiting for them in the high places, in the condescending shooting bullets whistling, the Qing archers behind kept falling. And their counterattack must be the most unfavorable upward shot of the bow and arrow, not to mention that the aiming range of the military bird gun exceeds them, even if the range is the same, they are still suppressed.

However, the advantages of the Qing army were also obvious.

Although more dead bodies were dropped in the impact of solid shells and the explosion of flowering shells, more Qing rafts rushed out of the mouth of the Qin River and then down the river, and even began to land and form formations outside the range of Ming artillery.

The river beach in autumn is wide enough.

Of course, reinforcements from the Ming army were also coming.

On the north bank of the Yellow River, Duoduo silently watched the battle of Guangwu Mountain with a gloomy face, and he was still confident that he was the ultimate victor, because he had an absolute advantage in troops. The Ming army only has an army of 20,000 people, even if it has the advantage of firepower, after all, it can't resist the groups of Qing troops constantly stepping on the south bank, not to mention that the 20,000 Ming troops are not all here, and some of them are pinned down in Bishui and Yangqiao downstream.

The other two Qing armies were making feints at the two ferries of Bishui and Yangqiao, in order to cooperate with the main force to cross the Yellow River and land at Huayuankou.

This was the plan of Dord.

But now the plan is blocked by Guangwu Mountain, but although Guangwu Mountain is not a planned landing site, as long as enough Qing troops set foot on the south bank, he will still be the victor after all......

Well, his confidence is a little early.