After the retreat of the Ming fleet, Bolo once again sent his men to build a pontoon bridge. On the east bank of the canal, the Eight Banners under the command of Dolgon also arrived one after another. The two Qing armies looked at each other across the canal, and the banners of the Eight Banners fluttered on both sides of the canal.

For the battle-hardened soldiers of the Eight Banners, the canal with a water surface of more than ten zhang wide was nothing, but in two hours, the pontoon bridge was rebuilt, and there were two. The cavalry on the west bank of the river began to cross the river again.

"Lord Belle, the Ming army is attacking again!" Just when the Qing soldiers crossed the river, the sentry cavalry came to report that the Ming fleet was attacking again, and Bolo sneered when he heard this.

"Since they are coming to die, let them die, Luckdhun, and you take all the archers to give them a ruthless blow!" Bolo said to Luck.

Now there are more than 80,000 Eight Banner troops on both sides of the canal, and the Ming army dares to attack the pontoon bridge from the middle of the army.

Luckedhun nodded, and led the cavalry to meet him, and on the east side of the canal, Dolgon also sent an army to attack the Ming fleet.

At a distance of five miles from the pontoon bridge, the Qing cavalry and the Ming ships finally met, and the same tactics were still used, with the Qing archers pulling their bows and arrows, and a large number of rockets shooting towards the fleet.

"Give the order to go down, the ships behind follow, the ships will be narrowed apart, and the fleet will be lined up in two columns!" Li Yulin's order was quickly passed on. Cheng Jiu, the leader of the Cao Gang, commanded his subordinates Cao Ding to row the Cao boat quickly.

According to the last failure, Li Yulin summed up the lesson, that is, the distance between the cao boats was too far, resulting in a cao boat having to face dozens or hundreds of Qing attacks, so that the ship had no ability to counterattack after being attacked by countless rockets. The Cao boat in front was attacked, and the Cao boat in the back could not intervene at all because of the distance, which also made the Ming army always attacked by the superior forces of the Qing army and was in a passive situation.

Therefore, Li Yulin changed his strategy and ordered each boat to be connected end to end and discharge two columns in formation, so that the density of boats on the canal was greatly increased, so as to ensure that the Qing army would not fall behind.

Rockets like flying locusts fell on the Ming ships, and each ship was equipped with thick wooden planks to ward off arrows, the thick planks were blistered through, and the outside of the planks was covered with cement, even if a rocket was fired on it, it would not be ignited.

The middle board of the boat is covered with river sand, and even if the rocket falls on it, it will not ignite the board. Even so, there were five soldiers on each boat who were responsible for extinguishing the fire, pulling out flaming arrows and throwing them into the river, or pouring water on the fires.

More than a dozen caoding on each ship were responsible for handling the boat, another dozen or so shield bearers were responsible for protecting the soldiers on board, and the rest were gunners and artillerymen, responsible for launching a counterattack against the Qing army on Anshang. Each ship was equipped with two tiger squat cannons, twenty-five firearms, and a large number of firearms such as flying dragons. There is a chief flag officer on the ship, who is responsible for commanding the operation, and a leader of Caoding, who is responsible for the operation of the boat.

Seeing that the battlefield was attacked by the Qing army, the Cao boat in front had already been prepared, more than 20 fire guns had been loaded on the thick wooden wall, and launched a salvo at the Qing soldiers on the shore, the distance between the Qing soldiers on the shore and the Cao boat was eight or nine zhang, and the distance from the fire gun was not too far from the fact, although the accuracy of the fire gun was not too high, and one or two Eight Banner soldiers would be shot to the ground in every salvo.

Compared with the fire gun, the Flying Divine Dragon is more powerful, each Flying Divine Dragon can launch a hundred rockets, and several Flying Divine Dragons are launched at the same time to form an arrow curtain that is overwhelming, flying into the Qing army array.

Arrows on the canal are like rain, back and forth like shuttles, countless arrows fly over the canal with firelight, and rockets fall into the river from time to time, making a "poof" sound.

However, the sound of the bowstring vibrating and the arrow breaking through the air could not suppress the sound of the firebolt shot, let alone the huge movement of the tiger squat cannon when it was fired.

This is an era of parallel hot and cold weapons, and the replacement of cold weapons with hot weapons is an irreversible trend in history. In terms of the equipment of hot weapons and the importance of hot weapons, the Eight Banners naturally cannot be compared with the Ming army.

When the guns and cannons captured from the hands of the Ming army in the past were lost with the defeat in the south, the firearms equipped in the Qing army were no longer as good as before, and naturally could not be compared with the Ming army, which attached importance to firearms.

As a result, Luck Dehun, who was in charge of commanding the operation, was shocked to find that in the confrontation with the Ming fleet, his Eight Banners did not take much advantage.

A large number of rockets fell into the Ming fleet, but this time it was not possible to ignite the Ming ships. Countless arrows fell on the ship, but most of them were blocked by the thick wooden walls on both sides of the ship, which did not cause much damage to the Ming army in the middle of the ship.

However, the Ming army's counterattacks caused heavy losses to the Qing army. Countless projectiles and arrows shot from the flotilla in the middle of the river, dense like raindrops, and from time to time the warriors of the Eight Banners were shot and fell into the river.

After fighting for half an hour, none of the boats in the canal could be ignited, and the Eight Banners under Luckdehun suffered four or five hundred casualties. And the Ming fleet was still moving in the canal at unabated speed.

Li Yulin was very satisfied with the performance of the Cao Gang's children, relying on the oars sticking out of the holes in the wooden wall, the speed of the boat was not slow, and the cooperation between the Cao Ding was very tacit. Even if the boats were very close to each other, even if there were three trains of boats parallel on the narrow canal, there was no collision at all. The entire fleet sailed at a slow speed towards the place where the Qing army crossed the river.

Closer, closer, only half a mile away from the two pontoon bridges erected by the Qing army.

The number of Qing troops on both sides of the canal increased, and countless Qing archers frantically shot arrows into the canal, and the casualties of the Ming army in the fleet suddenly increased.

The three boats suddenly increased their speed and drove towards the Qing army's pontoon bridge, and the Ming army standing on the boat could see the frightened faces of the Qing army crossing the river on the pontoon bridge.

The pontoon bridge of the Qing army was still made of several wooden boats, covered with wooden planks, and the whole pontoon bridge was connected by ropes, and on the west bank of the pontoon bridge, a group of cavalry was waiting to cross the river from the pontoon bridge.

Less than a foot away from the pontoon, three boats crossed and aimed the boat gang at the pontoon.

The Qing troops on the bridge desperately shot arrows at the boat, but most of them were blocked by the thick wooden wall. The Ming gunners returned fire, and from time to time Qing soldiers were shot and fell from the pontoon bridge.

Several grenades that ignited the fuse were thrown onto the pontoon, and in the violent explosion of "boom, boom, boom", the Qing soldiers on the pontoon bridge were blown down under the bridge like dumplings, and the "click" sound, the planks attached to the boat broke, and the Qing soldiers on the bridge fell into the water.

More than a dozen clay pots filled with fire oil were thrown onto the boat at the base of the pontoon bridge, the clay pots were broken, the oil flowed on the ship's board, and a Ming army pulled out a rocket fired by the Qing army from the boat, threw it on the pontoon bridge, and the raging flames quickly burned. (https:)

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