Five days later.

"It's finally low tide!"

The grandson of the wild boar skin, the king of Jingjing County, Nikan, who was originally beheaded by Li Dingguo's troops in history, lay on the broken arrow stack, looked at the retreating tide and the Ming warships that also retreated, and said with a long sigh.

There was a mess on either side of him.

The broken bricks that were bombarded by the twenty-four-pounder naval guns, the dead bodies of the Qing soldiers who were killed, and the destroyed cannons were all scattered all over the city walls, and even the city walls not far away collapsed, although they were not very large, but they looked shocking. Behind him, in the military food city, there were also the remains of buildings smashed by artillery shells, and even flames ignited by mortar shells were burning, billowing smoke into the sky......

However, the sky was already filled with the smoke of gunpowder when they fought back.

The artillery battle between the two sides has been going on for four days.

Every day, the Ming cruisers came by the tide, pouring shells at the military grain city, and the Qing army defending the city also used Hongyi cannons to fight back, but there were no 10,000-jin cannons here, although those Hongyi cannons were not small, but they could not really destroy the Ming cruisers.

The latter is not European.

To be more precise, the Ming cruisers should be considered small battleships.

The Ming Navy is not a European navy that needs cruisers to sail to the ocean, and it must be thin-skinned and stuffed to take care of the speed, the Ming army is currently nothing more than operating in the first island chain, running to other people's houses to bombard, it doesn't matter if the speed is slower, but the protective performance is more important, after all, it has to be shelled. In particular, the thickness of the planks of the earliest cruisers was only slightly thinner than that of the battleships, but it was still no problem to carry eighteen-pounder guns in medium and long-range attacks, and the military grain city was not a Dagu battery, and the heaviest cannon was also of this level. As long as the Ming cruisers did not get closer to within 300 meters, they still did not want to penetrate the solid oak plank, in fact, because the latter plank was thick and deep, it was also impossible to leave the main channel of the Haihe River and get closer to within a mile, and the two sides were more than a mile apart to bombard each other.

"It seems that Mingkou is also poor in donkey skills!"

The Divine Army Gushan beside him said quite smugly.

"Another ship is coming!"

On the ruined castle tower overhead, the shouts of the observation posts were suddenly heard.

They immediately raised their binoculars.

In fact, you don't need a telescope to see that in the distance, on the main channel of the Haihe River, eight rowboats without sails are coming against the tide and turning into this lagoon under the military food city......

"Fire!"

Nikan said.

A cannon not far from him immediately erupted in flames.

But at this time, the distance was a mile, and with the level of the Qing army's artillery, it was undoubtedly difficult to hit such a small target, but fortunately, these rows of oars were not ready to continue forward, but relied on the shallow draft to enter the lagoon, and then stopped at the mouth of the lagoon. At this time, Nikan could also see them clearly, and there was something very similar to a cannon in these rows of oars, pointing diagonally into the sky, but it was certainly not a cannon, and it would be an exaggeration for such a small boat to open a cannon.

Nikan and the god army looked at each other.

"Heavenly thunder, it's the heavenly thunder of the Ming army!"

Suddenly, a Qing soldier who had fled back from Dagu let out a frightened scream.

Almost at the same time, a flame rose into the air from a row-row boat, and Nikan, who had seen it for the first time, watched with a shocked gaze as the thing dragging blazing flames and a magnificent trail of smoke streaked across the sky, and in an instant it was above his head. He subconsciously turned his head with it, and saw that the flame of this thing was extinguished at once, and then fell like a cannonball from a mortar cannon......

He could even see what it looked like.

And then it fell from the sky and landed in a building that was very important to the Divine Army athletes.

The god army Gushan screamed.

The next moment the building was reduced to pieces in the flames of the explosion......

"Fire, return fire!"

The Divine Army Gushan roared angrily.

At this moment, the second rocket roared, because it was launched on the ship, affected by the undulations of the waves, this rocket had a low trajectory, and it was like a fire-breathing monster, and it went straight to the two of them at a very fast speed. Nikan was so frightened that he rushed out to the right desperately, and the Divine Army Gushan also reacted quickly and crouched down behind the arrow stack, and the rocket almost flew past the arrow stack, and the tail flame that was still spraying behind it suddenly hit the Divine Army Gushan.

And then......

Wood has something then!

When Nikan got up tremblingly, the Divine Army had been purified, and was rushing out of the city wall and falling like mad with a body full of flames.

And six other rockets in the sky are roaring down with spectacular momentum......

"It's still too powerful!"

Yang Qing said dissatisfied.

This thing was mainly used by the navy, carried in small boats, approached the port city, and then kept shooting inside to create a fire, and during the Anglo-Danish war, the British fired 25,000 Congreve at Copenhagen, burning the whole city into a sea of fire.

He's just a test now.

"Protector, the last general thinks that this kind of rocket is a little too big, if you simply blow it up, at least it is not very useful before using explosives, and if you attack the city, it will be better to set fire. For example, in a city like Edo, if you shoot 100 rockets, the whole city is basically hopeless. But if the more arson, the better, the power is not very important, the important thing is that there are enough of them, then it is a bit wasteful to use such expensive large rockets. ”

Zheng Chenggong said cautiously.

As he said this, flames rose in the city.

"It makes sense, you have to make a small one!"

Yang Qing said.

He also found that this kind of weapon he used to pretend to be forced was actually very cost-effective, the power of gunpowder in this era was limited, rockets were more suitable for arson, and arson naturally did not need to be large, and the British idea of small rockets was right.

"Let's go, go back to Dagukou!"

He said with satisfaction after the inspection was completed.

As for the attack, his other two brigades have not yet arrived, and it is estimated that they have just boarded the ship in Penglai at this time, and he can only launch an attack on the military grain city after the arrival of these two brigades. It is not difficult to open the military grain city, but the difficult thing is to have an inevitable street battle with the defenders in the city, and it can be seen from the battle of the north fort at the mouth of Dagu that the resistance of the Eight Banners Divine Army is still very tenacious, and it is estimated that it is impossible to abandon the city and flee.

If you flee again, it will be Tianjin.

These enemies, who were simply forced out by his brutal way of rule, are sending him a righteous accusation with practical actions!

In this way, Li Zicheng's battle for Beijing will not be easy......

"I don't know where they've been!"

He said, looking to the west.

Bauhinia Pass.

In the mountains and forests east of Sekijo, two hunters were lying on the sun-scorched rocks, looking down at Sekiki in the distance.

Bauhinia Pass was under the control of the Shun army.

In fact, it is not only the Bauhinia Pass, from here to the south all the way to Jingcheng Road, the passes along the line are in the hands of the Shun army, the Qing army only controls the Juyong Pass and the passes leading to Zelu, but the passes leading to Taiyuan are under the control of the Shun army. And these two people are actually the spies of the Qing army staring at the Bauhinia Pass, and the Shangchen Station to the south of them is the defense area of the Qing army. But because of the alliance with Li Zicheng, this Mailer led the main force of his department to the south to participate in the war, and the only one who stayed behind to guard Shangchen Yi was a Niu Lu, and it was also the Eight Banners North Korea with the worst combat effectiveness.

After all, now the two sides are allies, and the Qing army on the southern front has already received a small amount of supplies from the Shun army!

Dorgon was reassured.

These two spies just came out to hunt for some delicious food by the way, and the poor Eight Banners athletes are also suffering now! Especially in the Eight Banners of North Korea, they really can't eat enough if they don't come out to hunt!

Spending time in the sun can also be regarded as reducing calorie consumption!

"What sound?"

Suddenly, one of them sat up and said.

"Look, isn't that cavalry!"

Then he exclaimed.

The other, slightly older sleepy-eyed sat up wistfully, and then his eyes widened.

Behind the Bauhinia Pass, a foggy dust was rising among the mountains and forests on the banks of the Juma River, and the front end of the dust kept moving, and quickly narrowed the distance between it and the Bauhinia Pass. A long dragon covering the mountain road could be faintly seen under the dust, and at the same time, the normally closed Bauhinia Pass gate was slowly opened......

"Cavalry, cavalry of the brigade!"

He exclaimed.

"Isn't Li Zicheng's army in Henan? Why is there a brigade of cavalry here? ”

The other said confusedly.

The two of them looked at each other, then got up at the same time, and ran towards the top of the mountain at full speed, and when they rushed to the top of the mountain, the front end of the dust had already entered the Bauhinia Pass. And among the mountains to the west of Bauhinia Pass, along the Juma River that winds in, a long dragon of dust is also winding, and there is no sign of fading at all, and even the further the dust spreads, the wider the range, so it has been disappearing westward among the mountains.

"There will be no less than 10,000 cavalry!"

The seasoned veteran said with fear.

His companion's face changed as well, and he was about to run down the hill, but was grabbed by the old soldier......

"Where do you want to go?"

The veteran asked.

"Return, go back and report the news?"

The companion said blankly.

"10,000 cavalry can be stopped by the old, weak, sick and disabled who can't eat enough for three hundred meals at Chenyi?"

The veteran said.

"But ......"

The companion is obviously not smart enough.

"It's nothing, the regent was deceived by Li Zicheng, no less than 10,000 cavalry of the Shun army, at this time, it is definitely not to help out of the Bauhinia Pass, this is to take the opportunity to attack Yanjing, the Qing Kingdom is going to die! Don't forget that we are Koreans, but we were captured by the Hu people and had to be soldiers, even if we surrendered to the Ming army, they would not kill us, so why should we give the Hu people a burial? ”

The veteran sneered.

After speaking, he turned his gaze to the Bauhinia Gate.

At this time, it seemed that an endless number of cavalry had begun to rush out of the city gate, and they did not even make any stop at Bauhinia Pass.

"Riding a camel and carrying a secondary horse, this is not an ordinary cavalry, this is Li Laiheng's iron cavalry in the Western Regions, this is Li Zicheng's number one elite! The regent has really been tricked this time! ”

He gloated.