Early the next morning, Yang Xuan personally led the guard town and the cavalry association and artillery to press the formation behind, and organized the 6th town, the 9th, the 13th, and the independent association to attack Yiting City.

Different from the large prefectures and counties, the city of Yiting was unusual in the past, and after thousands of years of development, its scale is only an ordinary county seat.

In order to defend the city, the green battalion was mostly stationed outside the city, and the Manchurian elite party such as the Eight Banners of the Han Army lived in the city.

Seeing that the volunteers were pressing on the whole line and preparing to attack the Yiting, Duoduo had no choice but to actively meet the battle, instead of holding on in a large city.

On the one hand, Duoduo ordered Yue Ledu, the prince of An, to lead the Han army to fight in the north banner and the green battalion soldiers and horses in the north banner, and on the other hand, he commanded his own cavalry to actively prepare to go out of the city to counterattack at any time.

I looked at the Tartar formation with a telescope, and then at the artillery positions around me.

Thanks to the four-wheeled carriages, the red-coated cannons could not only be transported to the front line by water, but could also be transported to the front line by means of post roads through four-wheeled carriages, so that the artillery was not far away from the brigade like other departments.

As mentioned in the past, pig iron and wrought iron calcined in ancient China were brittle because of the large amount of sulfide contained in Chinese coal.

In order to make a good weapon, the blacksmith grinds it many times to knock out impurities such as sulfide.

Although the steel smelted by coke is quite different from modern steel, its hardness is much higher than that of pig iron and wrought iron, which contain a lot of sulfide in the past, and it is very difficult to break.

Due to the improvement of the iron-smelting process, wrought iron and steel manufacturing has become possible, although Song Shihui and Song Shiyi brothers still use clay molds to cast weapons, but because the material used in casting cannons has changed from pig iron to wrought iron smelted from coke, the weight of the cast red-coated cannons is much lighter than in the past.

For example, these 2 catties of cannons, in this era, the weight of the cannon cast by Wu Sangui was 620 catties, and the weight of the iron-core copper cannon cast by forging iron molds many times was only 400 catties, and the gun carriage was only 700 catties.

For example, the weight of the 5-kilogram cannon was 1,600 kilograms in the past, but after the new casting method was adopted, it was only 1,000 kilograms, and the gun carriage was only 1,800 kilograms.

In order to kill the other party by surprise, the towns secretly pulled the 2 catties of artillery under their jurisdiction to the front line of the position, and now it is only more than 500 meters away from the city wall (the effective range is 250-800 meters), and it is completely possible to bombard the Tartar Han army flag on the city wall.

In the previous life, there was a saying, that is, the cannon is the mother of land warfare, compared with the success rate of less than 1 percent in the past, now the pass rate of the cannon cast by the iron mold casting method has reached more than 8 percent, it can be said that the cannon casting technology is basically mature now, coupled with the four-wheeled carriage and transport ship towing, so the number of artillery in the army is deliberately increased.

Each regular battalion (division) basically has a tiger squat artillery squad, equipped with three tiger squat guns.

Each regular standard (regiment) has a Franc cannon brigade, equipped with 10 large Franc cannons.

There were 1-3 brigades of redcoat artillery in each town, each armed with 5 three-pound guns, to support the front-line infantry.

In this way, there is no need for artillery (marking) out of the horse, the artillery of the towns on the front line is more than the Tartar artillery on the city wall of the Yiting City, and the red-coated cannons of the towns on the front line are the first to attack, and they fire artillery at the two Baihan military flags on the city wall.

Although the Tartars placed a large number of artillery on the city wall, they did not have an advantage in numbers at all, and it was quite difficult to aim without a gun mount, and they did not dare to use flowering shells for fear of exploding, so they were bombarded three times in a row before they began to return fire, but they did not hit the target at all.

Taking advantage of the smoke from the explosion of the red-coated cannon, Liu Wenxiu and others commanded the headquarters to approach the Tartars under the city wall, and then relied on the forest heights to establish an artillery position in front of them to bombard the green camp camp outside the city.

Yue Le originally wanted to lead all the troops to wait for the battle, but he saw that the artillery fire of the Volunteers was very fierce, especially when the battalions of the Volunteers were gradually approaching, and the flowering bullets fell into the camp and exploded after the fragments flew sideways, so that everyone fled everywhere, and they could not restrain their subordinates at all.

At first, there were some generals who led their troops to kill with their own bravery, but they were intercepted by the volunteers, and the two sides fought back and forth, and suddenly a group of men and horses rushed out of the oblique stab, and the rear was unstable and was forced to retreat again and again.

The generals of each battalion gathered their soldiers and horses to rely on the fortifications to hinder each other, but the most odious thing was the grenadiers, who threw the earth-shattering thunders into it from a distance, frightening the soldiers behind to retreat again and again to avoid the debris produced after the explosion.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the volunteers rushed over, and under the cover of the musketeers, they pulled away the fir wood and killed them, fighting with the panicked soldiers in the camp.

In the process of fighting, the green battalion soldiers will be frightened one by one, everyone used to bully the Ming army, bullying the rebels in various places mainly rely on the number of people, mainly rely on well-equipped, now encounter more well-equipped, more well-trained, higher morale soldiers and horses, fake Tartar nature at a glance.

Under the general supervision of Mr. Bai, especially after seeing the bloody heads in the rear, everyone also wanted to turn around and fight, but they were even more frightened when they fought just now.

Each squadron of the Volunteers had a grenadier group, composed of three people responsible for throwing the handle-mounted earth-shaking thunder, as long as the opposing people gathered together, they often threw two flaming earth-shaking thunderbolts, startling everyone to flee one by one.

There are also musketeers, each brigade has 1-2 squadrons of musketeers, they usually support in the rear when they charge, and sometimes they also rush over suddenly, facing a volley of guns at the brave soldiers in the distance, because the distance is too close, even three heads and six arms are difficult to resist.

Of course, some soldiers rushed to the forefront, because the local taxes were greatly improved, the soldiers ate and were full one by one, and from time to time they even went up to the mountains to hunt and fish in the fields to improve their lives, and the soldiers of the volunteers were quite powerful.

In the process of fighting, they often form groups of three or five, and the soldiers who face the lone often surround them, greeting left and right, and they are either dead or wounded.

In the face of the stubborn resistance, often the squad leader with 3 soldiers blocked head-on, and a corporal or sergeant or something with two soldiers desperately attacked and outflanked the back, and then suddenly killed, killing the opponent to flee again and again.

In the process of fighting, rattan players, boring handles, knife and axe hands, and wolf players cooperate tacitly, constantly covering and killing the Tartar soldiers and horses who dare to resist.

At first, the Tartar soldiers and horses also wanted to rely on the advantage of numbers and rely on the height of the horses to resist, but everyone fought separately, and they could not resist the volunteers with the Mandarin Duck Formation as the basic formation.

Seeing that the brothers around him were constantly killed, everyone's morale was gone, and some even fled backwards again and again, and the volunteers were killed and wounded in battle, and the whole army was full of momentum.

Since the defeat of the ancient back army, the morale of the whole army has been low, and now the Tartar generals have to let everyone fight to the death with the Tartars, and the soldiers of the whole army are quite low.

Seeing that the volunteers broke through four or five camps in a row, Wang Mazi, the general banner of the green battalion, gradually retreated, and looked at his own president left and right, and deep down in his heart Wang Mazi looked down on this second-generation general officer.

It seems that this Bai Zong is also in a hurry, in order to block the tide of retreat, the deputy general has already slashed and killed four Bai Zong, in order to survive Bai Zong is also a hateful hand, with a few personal soldiers standing behind, and when he finds the retreating one, he will be killed on the spot with a knife in his hand.

looked at the left and right wings, and saw that the other two flags couldn't resist and retreated, and the other general flags that Wang Mazizi felt relieved couldn't resist at all and retreated one after another.

Wang Mazi felt that he was different from others, he was the oldest, and the following generals listened to him, so he immediately let go of his courage and prepared to retreat.

Just ran without two steps and was stopped by President Bai Chen Fu, Wang Mazi's voice trembled: "Boss, the volunteers are not human at all when they fight, and the brothers have no choice, you, do you want to let the brothers?" ”

President Bai Chen Fu's voice trembled: "Brothers, it's not that I want to, but the deputy general is blocking behind, if I let you retreat, then the deputy will cut off my head." ”

Looking at the approaching volunteer soldiers, Wang Mazi's voice trembled: "Chen Fu, you bastard, you, do you live for your own life, don't care if your brothers live or die." ”

Chen Fu was shocked, looked back at the head hanging on the treetops, and said in a trembling voice: "Brothers, you have nothing to do until I Chen Fu, I joined the Green Camp just to be promoted and make a fortune."

I can't imagine that the volunteers are so brave, not only well-equipped but also not fatal at all, let's talk about it, how can we save everyone's lives? ”

Wang Mazi's eyes rolled, raised the big knife and said: "Those Tartars of the dog day, since they are unkind, they have to blame Lao Tzu for being unjust."

Brothers, we all have this kind of rat tail in the back of our heads, and we can't see our ancestors after death.

It's the opposite, in order to live to follow Lao Tzu, the volunteers are known as loyal, and they must give us a way to live. ”

Chen Fu was shocked, took Wang Mazi's hand and said, "Uncle Wang, this, this is not very good, right?" ”

Wang Mazi viciously pushed away President Chen Fu, picked up the big knife majestically and asked, "Brothers, do you listen to my Wang Mazi or this turtle son?"

Retreat and be killed, and take refuge in the Volunteers has a way to live, let's talk about it, do you love to submit to the Volunteers, or continue to work for those Tartar traitors who have lost their conscience? ”

When everyone heard this, they cheered loudly, and everyone immediately cut off the rat's tail at the back of their heads and announced a battlefield uprising.

In less than half an hour of the battle, Chen Dahai and others rebelled on the battlefield, and the chief soldier He Mingluan's face was pale, this is the era when there are soldiers and mothers, if there are no soldiers under him, how can he speak in front of the Tartars and stand firm?

In this way, he did not dare to force the soldiers below too much, and gathered his troops to resist gradually.

Taking advantage of the interval when the other party was gathering troops, how could Li Laiheng and Yuan Zongdi, who were born in rogues, give up this opportunity and lead their troops to kill them again and again, killing and injuring the Tartars who were retreating.

The defeat of the army was like a mountain, especially for the soldiers and horses of the green battalion with low morale, seeing the volunteers coming, everyone retreated, and in the end, despite the dissuasion of the barbarian Qing Jia Laezhen who supervised the battle, they moved closer to Yue Le in the middle of the road.