Under Zhang Qiang's gaze, of course, through the observation of the war eagle, the first field battle between the Southern Ming army and the Kong Youde army, the regular field battle officially kicked off in the suburbs of Guilin Mansion.

The two armies officially approached each other at a distance of 500 meters.

Gao Zhixiang ordered his artillery to enter the position very early and put on a posture.

"Boom, boom, boom," his artillery fired first.

The huge projectile with huge kinetic energy came out of the cannon, and there was a heart-tearing whistling sound in the air, and everyone subconsciously lowered their heads, as if they could not be hit by the cannonballs flying high in the air.

Facts have proved that it is useless, but the shells are not aimed at them, the shells are not next to anyone or anything, at a distance of less than 100 meters from the Southern Ming Army, the shells fell, and after smashing a few pits in the soft ground, they bounced up again, and fell again, and after a few times, they helplessly stopped bouncing at a distance of more than ten meters from the advancing team of the Southern Ming Army, and lay down quietly.

"Oh-" The hearts of all the people in the Nanming Army involuntarily let out a sound of relief that had escaped the catastrophe.

"Alas-" On the side of the Qing army, including Mang Gurtai, who was watching the battle, they couldn't help but put down their monoculars and let out a regretful cry.

The shells hit early, this is the conclusion that everyone has reached.

The artillery team on the Qing army's side did not follow the phalanx, but arranged it on a slope early, just over a mile away from the battlefield, more than 800 meters away.

These cannons of theirs are not so light, if they don't enter the battlefield early, if they don't set up early, I'm afraid they will have to have a cup of tea if they are busy, and the daylilies will be cold.

Of course, the Qing army also had not too heavy artillery, such as the Tiger Squat Cannon, the nine-pound Franc machine gun, and the small cannon imitating the Huaxia Army, the three-pounder cannon weighing more than 500 kilograms, which was also a horse-drawn cart and a Huaxia Army artillery carriage, and they were still following the team.

At this moment, it is located on both flanks of the Qing army.

Look at the close distance, at more than 400 meters, Gao Zhixiang let these cannons that can hit more than a mile unloaded, began to prepare, and the Huaxia Army also began to prepare, their ten-pounder guns, nine-pounder guns are also erected on both wings, with the training of the Huaxia Army, they are horse-drawn cart cannons with good mobility, or imitation products of the Huaxia Army, with the guidance of the Huaxia Army, their cannons are obviously lighter than the Qing Army's cannons, easy to move, and do not need to be fixed so much, it will be good soon.

By this time, the arquebus teams on both sides were already approaching a distance of two hundred meters, and even the small artillery began to deploy, and the team stopped advancing, hoping that the artillery of their own side would break up the enemy's ranks, and then they could rush up and defeat the enemy with a few rounds of fire.

"Boom, boom, boom," the second round of more than 2,000 catties of artillery of the Qing army fired again, which was a bit long, but it was also timely, and it was fired before the artillery of the Southern Ming Army was ready.

The artillery of the Qing army chose to strike at the enemy's artillery first, and this time the Qing army chose the large artillery that the Southern Ming Army had just prepared to fire, such as its own artillery of a thousand catties, as well as the ten-pounder cannon of the Huaxia Army, the position on the left side of the nine-pounder gun, the right flank of the Qing army, and the left flank of the Southern Ming army.

The shells flew through the phalanx of the Southern Ming Army, and smashed directly into the artillery positions of the Southern Ming Army, more than 30 shells smashed over, three shells hit the target, and a nine-pounder cannon imitated by the Southern Ming Army was smashed over, and more than a dozen artillery soldiers around were unlucky, the shells bounced several times, and even the pack horses and people who had no time to hide behind the artillery carts were stoned to death.

The other two shells swept a few people carrying the shells, and one swept the herald horses running back and forth, and the horses flew four or five meters away, and the intestines flowed all over the ground, and the cavalry on the horses were of course no better, the entire upper body flew more than ten meters away, and the lower body was crushed under the broken corpse of the war horse.

In the face of the two Qing army's preemptive artillery, the morale of the Southern Ming army suddenly dropped a lot.

Everyone's hearts are trembling, the shadow area is expanding infinitely, and the expectation of failure is significantly increasing.

The preparation of the artillery was also affected somewhat, and it took some time to regain its composure under the pressure of the officer's bullets, and it took some time to re-enter the state, and by this time, the artillery of the Qing army had already entered the time for the third round of firing.

Su Zhengqing was also full of depression, he still seemed to be inferior to Zhang Qiang, and let the enemy fire in front, which caused a shadow in the hearts of the soldiers and hit the morale of several parties.

But fortunately, he sat on his horse, at the end of the entire army, his eyes covered the audience, and he saw that the artillery units were affected somewhat, but the preparations were still good, and his order was the same as Gao Zhixiang, the heavy artillery hit the enemy's artillery positions first, and the small artillery advancing in the middle hit the enemy's arquebus queue.

At this time, no matter how much hesitation, the artillerymen should be ready.

In a few breaths, the artillery of the Southern Ming Army, which had been prepared first, was ready to aim at the heavy artillery position of the Qing army that gave them three rounds of artillery surprise attacks, and the small red flag waved down violently, and twenty-four artillery pieces on both sides fired at the enemy's heavy artillery position together.

Twenty-four cannonballs streaked across the sky, and this time it was the Qing army who clenched their fists and stared nervously at the cannonballs in the air.

"Ahh

"Mom-" There was a scream from the Qing artillery position nearly 900 meters away.

Six shells smashed into the enemy's positions, and the others were either close, far away, or deflected.

However, the six shells recovered all the heavy losses that the Qing army gave to the Southern Ming Army in the early stage, and they were greater than the losses of the Qing army's shells to the Southern Ming Army.

Three of the six shells knocked over six of the enemy's wagons, fatally wounding thirteen of the enemy's pack horses, and then scalded one of the men who was carrying the shells.

There was a cannonball that smashed a bloody path directly in the middle of the cavalry protecting the artillery, and five war horses and a dozen cavalrymen could not dodge, and they ended up with their heads separated.

Two shells smashed over a carriage pulling shells, bounced up again, injured more than 30 civilians, more than a dozen artillerymen, directly smashed a barrel of gunpowder that was being transported, the red-hot shells also ignited the gunpowder, set off a set of fireworks on the artillery position, and the smoke of gunpowder confused the rear of the artillery position about ten meters.

However, it did not cause losses to the Qing army's artillery, but the loss of personnel and baggage losses made the Qing army cry out for grief and bad luck.

The people immediately fled to one place, and the cavalry also fled to one place, and the artillery commander immediately sent a column of infantry to block it, and the artillery position was in a panic.

Gao Zhixiang and Mang Gurtai came to the conclusion at the same time that the artillery of the Southern Ming Army fired faster than their own artillery, and they had to be calm and more accurate, and that the artillery would have to be left behind in the future, and they could no longer be so close to the enemy.

After such a delay, the fourth round of artillery of the Qing army did not fire, and the two sides returned to the starting line again, and the artillery of both sides was nervously loaded.

The arquebusiers on both sides who stopped at a distance of two hundred meters nervously held the muskets in their hands, listened to the command of the officer, dismounted, loaded, prepared, ignited the torch, the artillery in the queue, the small cannon, was quickly adjusted to a good angle, and was also in the tense loading, at this time the artillery on both sides were pushed to the first line, ready to bombard the enemy for a few rounds first, and the heavy artillery in the distance was against the heavy artillery of the other side, and the threat they had to face was these small cannons that were lined up in front.

The small artillery is on one side of each phalanx, the Qing army is more concentrated, all on both sides of the phalanx, and the Southern Ming army learns from the Huaxia army, in the middle of the two phalanxes, with six small cannons in the middle of each phalanx.

The slightly larger artillery six-pounder guns were on one side of the phalanx on both flanks, facing the Qing artillery.

The Qing army had a total of sixty cannons, thirty on one side, and the Southern Ming army had a total of thirty-six, twelve in the middle, twelve on each side, slightly behind, twelve of the nine-pounder guns of the Huaxia army were in front of the Chinese army, behind the first line phalanx, with high muzzles, ready to shoot indirectly, which was more advanced than the Qing army, because the Qing army did not dare to do this, for fear of hitting their own queue, they had not yet learned to shoot indirectly.

The firing range of the twelve nine-pounder guns must have been guaranteed, and they were prepared a little earlier, because they did not need to run more than a hundred meters away, and they were only five hundred meters away from the enemy's heavy artillery position at a distance of three hundred meters.

So this time they hit the enemy's heavy artillery positions with shells.

The enemy's heavy artillery position fell into bad luck, eight shells hit, directly knocked over three cannons, killed fifty or sixty artillerymen, three cavalrymen, a dozen infantry protecting the artillery, and also smashed a cart pulling artillery shells.

The minfu was a little more cunning than the artillerymen and the infantry and cavalry this time, and the thief's little eyes were always staring at the landing point of the shells, and when he saw that it was wrong, he scattered at once, which was the direct cause of the death of several infantrymen.

"Damn Diao Min," Gao Zhixiang waved the whip in his hand fiercely and cursed.

But he was very helpless, and after cursing, he couldn't make any adjustments, because at this time, it was up to the commander in front of him, not him, the supreme commander of the Chinese army, who was sitting firmly for more than a mile.

But soon, he was happy, the Fran cannon in front of him opened fire, and the arquebusiers of the opposing side were in an uproar, with one dead and wounded, and at least thirty arquebusiers were wounded and fell to the ground, and the queue was in chaos.

Not long after he was happy, the other party's artillery also opened fire, and the queue on his own side also fell to the ground, and there were more than 100 people on a rough visual inspection, and his mood suddenly fell to a low point.

After a few breaths, the artillery on the other side also opened fire, and the tiger squat cannon could not go far, but the three-pounder cannon, the imitation of the three-pounder cannon of the Huaxia Army, still hit the enemy, and the other side also fell nearly 100 people, scattered in front of the Nanming army column on this left flank.

The Southern Ming army was in chaos.

The battlefield entered the moment when the artillery bombarded in turn.

The artillery of the Southern Ming army continued to bombard, and the artillery of the Qing army also destroyed each other's artillery and destroyed the opponent's first-line arquebusiers in color.

In half an hour, the battlefield was already filled with gunsmoke, and it was impossible to see friend or foe clearly.

The artillery fire stopped for a while, and both sides waited for the smoke to clear.

At this time, Zhang Qiang lamented, is it a mistake for him to shoot the Ming Dynasty in advance, because the fighting spirit of the soldiers on both sides has been trained to be extremely strong because of the arrival of this era, at least it is much stronger than before to suffer such heavy artillery bombardment, the Southern Ming army is just chaotic, and it has not completely collapsed, and the Qing army, which has always been vigorous, is also stronger than before.

After this round of bombardment, the Qing army's long-range heavy artillery was almost completely lost, and only three of them were still there, but they were driven by the artillery commander to continue loading, and the people were also driven to help the Qing army carry the shells and powder kegs, and they did not disperse.

In the past, even if it was the Qing army, these artillery should have withdrawn from the battle sequence a long time ago, and then those who were killed were killed, and those who were incorporated into the cannon fodder unit were incorporated into the cannon fodder unit, first retreated to a safe area to regroup, and waited for the order from the superiors, and then drove them to consume the enemy's bows and arrows, and the Qing army would definitely make the best use of it.

In this battle, until now, the two sides still have the confidence to want to fight, and they may be red-eyed.

This is definitely not what he wants to see on the battlefield.

(End of chapter)