The rifled gunner behind the muzzle, through the gauge and crosshair, steadily aimed at the back of the Qing army, and moved the expensive musket in his hand slightly as the target ran......

Snipers are the standard equipment of the Ming army.

At least in the four infantry corps of the Northern Front.

The birth of crucible steel made Yang Qing's flintlock pistol production grow steadily, but in addition to giving priority to equipping the Marine Corps, it did not provide it to the armies on the northern front, but concentrated its production capacity and equipped the northern armies with rifled guns as snipers. In addition, the battalion also has a special sniper team, it is obvious that Yang Qing's advanced thinking is still very worthy of recognition, in today's skirmish, this rifled flintlock pistol has almost become the master of the battlefield.

"Blessed by the Divine Marquis!"

The sniper silently recited the honorific title of the Ming soldiers to Yang Qing at this time, took a deep breath, and suddenly pulled the trigger.

The erected faucet fell instantly.

The flint at the front end slammed into the pit pool with the lid open at the same time under the force of the spring, and the spark immediately ignited the fine powder of gunpowder, and then the burning flame ignited the granular gunpowder in the chamber through the small hole in the side, and the expanding force of the rapid combustion of the gunpowder pushed a projectile wrapped in deerskin to shoot out violently. Because it was forced into the chamber of the gun, the bullet rotated with four rifling lines while being fired, and continued to rotate after being discharged, and then flew over more than 100 meters in half a second.

The Qing army slammed forward.

The sniper cheered excitedly.

At this time, the seven or eight Qing soldiers who chased into the mountains and forests fled in a hurry, and the person who hid in the mountains and forests immediately ran out, looking at the dead bodies of the Qing soldiers on the mountain road with a shocked face, as well as the Ming soldiers who bled a few wounded soldiers inside......

"Master Wang, Master Wang, save us!"

He suddenly fell to his knees, kowtowed, and shouted.

Two hours later.

"Xie Qian?"

In the headquarters of the Second Brigade of the Ming Army in Tai'an Prefecture, the brigade commander Dou Mingming said suspiciously: Isn't he the one who made Gao Yuan to build a slave rebellion and fought guerrilla in the northern part of Lubei?

"Yes, that's him!"

The chief of staff said: "According to the messenger sent for help, they conspired with a leader of the Eight Banners Han Army in Zichuan to seize Zichuan and then use Zichuan to sacrifice the city to us. But the leader did not do things carefully, and was known by the Sun family in Zichuan, that is, the Sun Zhiqi family who was cut off in Nanjing, and told the Qingzhou general Ba Duli who built a slave. As a result, it was designed by Baduli to deliberately let these people go outside Zichuan City and then encircle, Xie Qian's more than 10,000 righteous troops and more than 1,000 Han troops of the Eight Banners were forced to hide in Baiyun Mountain and were trapped in the mountains, so they could only send people to risk coming to us for help. ”

"How long will they last?"

Dou Mingwang said.

"For two or three days at most, they have no food, and they were originally going to fight Zichuan together, and the most important thing is to replenish food."

Said the instructor and chief of staff.

"Hurry up and report to the military headquarters, order the first battalion to attack Zhangqiu immediately, I will bring the cavalry battalion, artillery battalion and the second battalion to reinforce, Lao Wang, you take the third and fourth battalions to stay."

Dou Mingwang said without hesitation.

"This has to wait for the order of the commander, right?"

Commander Wang said.

The Ming army did not take the initiative to attack, in fact, the two sides have maintained a truce for a long time, the Qing army did not dare to go south to provoke the Ming army, and the Ming army was not interested in attacking the area controlled by the Qing army. Once the second brigade attacked, the Qing army in Jinan would inevitably respond by attacking Tai'an in the south, but the military headquarters in Dongping would have to transfer reinforcements, so the Qing army opposite Dongping might attack south, and eventually form a chain reaction, and it may even become another major battle between the two sides.

"It's too late, send the letter to Dongping, and then send it to Xuzhou, the Metropolitan Department will make a decision, and it will be at least two days before it comes again, and it will take one day for the first battalion to attack on the way! This period of time is enough to build slaves to solve Xie Qian's rebels, if we can't even save the rebels who are not more than a hundred miles away, then what face will there be in the future to shout for the recovery of Heshuo? ”

Dou Mingwang said.

Commander Wang didn't speak again, the front-line commanders had the right to decide, and besides, they were actually all eager to go to war, how could they make contributions without going to war?

At the same time as sending people to report to Dongping, the Ming army led by Dou Mingwang immediately dispatched, an infantry battalion plus an artillery battalion composed of six-pound cannons and twenty-pound mortars, plus a cavalry battalion of hussars to be precise, plus a temporarily conscripted militia transport team, a total of more than 3,000 people went straight to Laiwu. At the same time, the first battalion that was ordered to leave Laiwu, but not out of Qingshi Pass, but north out of Jinyang Pass, which was also under the control of the Ming army.

Neither side had a real garrison in the mountains.

The Qing army was fortified north of Laiwu with Zhangqiu and Boshan respectively, but it was subordinate to two command systems, the former under General Jinan and the latter under General Qingzhou.

Dou Mingwang gambled that the two did not cooperate.

After all, a group of thieves in their eyes doesn't need two generals to work together.

Soon he led his subordinates to march a hundred miles a day to Laiwu, and the first battalion raided and routed the Qing army's alert troops in the mountains.

The two sides have not fought for a long time, and the Qing army never thought that the Ming army would take the initiative to attack, but the Eight Banners Korea, which was guarded by five hundred outposts, was immediately defeated under the surprise attack of a battalion of the Ming army, and there were even more than 100 defectors. In other words, the Qing army is already considered a stepmother like the Eight Banners of Korea, the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia Needless to say, the Eight Banners Han Army at least has gentry from all over the country to support them, and the Eight Banners Divine Army also has elders, and there is a fart behind the Eight Banners of Korea. They are purely a group of cannon fodder, originally Dolgon used them as cannon fodder, and their treatment was almost the worst among the Eight Banners armies, and they were limited in strength compared to the Ming army guards back then.

Anyway, at this time, it is estimated that they can surrender without a fight.

Immediately after that, the 1st Battalion continued north.

As soon as they left the mountainous area, they were blocked by the main force of the Qing army attacking from Zhangqiu......

"Formation!"

Lin Qing, the commander of the first battalion, roared.

A huge car city on the plain was quickly formed, and the side vans with three-millimeter-thick wrought iron plates nailed to the outside were connected end to end, and a wall of steel was erected on each of the four sides. Then, on the four corners of the artillery carriages, the three-pound guns of the battalion, which had been increased to eight, stretched out of the muzzles, and in the iron plates of the side vans, the muzzles of a row of furlong machines also stretched out......

These Furlong machines are an improved version, and the sealing performance has been improved, mainly by adding a notch around the muzzle, and adding a ring around the cartridge, all of which are polished to a very smooth surface, which can be snapped into the notch with a small gap, and then form a second layer of seal, so that the gas leakage is reduced. In this way, the weak power of the Furlong machine increases, and at least in the case of using a single bullet, it can easily destroy the shield car within a hundred zhang, which is also the limit to which this backward weapon can be improved.

And the guns and arquebuses are still the same.

But the arquebuses are all of the latest type, that is, the Sur type.

In the face of the Ming army's Checheng, the Qing army's response was very simple.

They stopped the attack, and then waited for the heavy artillery to be transported from Zhangqiu, without heavy artillery resolutely not to fight, the light artillery could not bombard the Ming army's three-pound artillery, the infantry attack was purely looking for death, and the cavalry attack was even more suicidal, even if the shield car was useless.

People's shield carts are stronger.

"Four formations forward!"

Lin Qing, who was originally thinking of a big battle, gave the order depressedly.

The car city quickly decomposed, each side formed a small car city alone, and then on the terrain that was not empty, it turned into a diamond array forward, but because of the terrain restrictions, this diamond formation was not close enough, and it was obvious that this was a very good opportunity for the attackers......

The Red Flag Manchuria, Mailer and Entrust hesitated.

"Master, Mingkou must have reinforcements, it is impossible for a battalion to dare to invade the north, the red-clothed cannon will be dragged over from Zhangqiu for a day, if Mingkou is a brigade-level northern offender, he will bring a flowering bomb, and our Hongyi cannon will not be able to bombard the flowering bomb. Either we withdraw to Zhangqiu and wait for reinforcements, or we use five times the strength to encircle and annihilate this Mingkou, that is a miracle, so far there has never been a whole battalion of Mingkou! ”

The cronies next to him said.

"Attack, five thousand against one thousand and retreat, isn't it a joke!"

He said immediately.

"Manchuria feinted left and right with cavalry, divided the car battalion in front, the Han army bombarded with artillery, and the Korean and Shen armies attacked with shield vehicles!"

He quickly made subordinates.

Immediately after that, the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners Manchuria began to move forward, and the four Checheng of the Ming army that was originally advancing stopped at the same time, and the distance between each Checheng was nearly two or three hundred meters at this time. After all, you need to face obstacles such as ravines and forests in the field, and this is not the unobstructed terrain of the northern grasslands. Such an interval was enough for the Qing cavalry to move, and the surging cavalry immediately divided the four chariot battalions to launch a feint, while the Qing army's shield chariot heavy infantry also moved forward in formation, and at the same time there were also artillery of the Eight Banners Han Army.

No Qing army will carry a red-coated cannon at any time, and the weight of that thing can be measured in tons, and the field battle is a few hundred catties of small cannons.

More than 1,000 pounds is extremely heavy.

But before these guns entered the firing range, the Ming army's two three-pound guns fired first, even if they were nearly a mile apart, these bronze cannons with processed breeches were still quite accurate, and only two rounds of artillery bombardment hit one of the largest jacks of the Qing army, and the gun carriage was smashed into the dirt by the broken cannon body.

The Qing army continued to advance.

They couldn't fire at such a distance.

Even if the Hongyi cannon hits so far, Yang Qing has always had a question, did Yuan Dudu add a zero when reporting the range of the Hongyi cannon, obviously the accurate aiming range is six hundred, and the limit range is about two thousand, and then he will become a cannon erosion for more than ten miles.

In this way, the Qing army struggled forward amid the falling shells.

Soon the distance is four hundred meters.

The Qing army began to stop erecting their artillery.

This is a safe distance, and if you go forward, you have to face the muzzle of the Fran machine, and the shield chariot soldiers of the Qing army have also begun to adjust their formation, and then they will definitely have to face the muzzle of the Fran machine. However, they didn't notice that in the grass fifty feet away in front of them, thirty snipers were aiming in a kneeling position, as for their target......

A powder keg next to a cannon of the Qing army.