"This, this, put the board on! Yes, that's it! ”

Lai Dahai has not slept for two nights, and has been insisting on struggling in Shanhaiguan and other cities, feeling really tired and looking for a place to squint his eyes or drink a few sips of strong tea to refresh himself.

As a professional engineering builder, although Lai Dahai did not make much contribution during the battle, he was able to make much more contribution than ordinary soldiers after the war.

With his command and help, in just a few days, the dilapidated Shanhaiguan city defense was repaired, compared with the Qing Dynasty who occupied Shanhaiguan for a year, the Shanhaiguan fortifications at this time were much more perfect.

Of course, thanks to Hongmen's secret cement specialty, high plasticity and fast solidification characteristics, it has played an undoubted role in the improvement of the city defense, where the city defense is broken or cracks and collapses, through the mixing of cement and sand, it will take less than two days after modeling and watering, and you can have a rough appearance.

After a long period of dehydration and drying, at least when the Jurchens come back to kill, these newly repaired fortifications will already be able to come in handy.

In such a scene, there are countless Hongtang troops occupying the defense line from Shanhaiguan to Zunhua, countless laborers and soldiers collect all kinds of materials, work overtime to reimprove the fortifications they have destroyed and destroyed, and then hope that they can save their lives on the tragic battlefield that is likely to occur next, or help themselves resist the battlefield risks as much as possible.

There was good news from Jinzhou, 15,000 Ryukyu sailors led by Xiao Xiurong, with the help of many more powerful artillery fire, spent three days to carry out a frontal assault, stunned the entire eastern city wall of Jinzhou City into a sieve, and finally took the city guarded by the Qing people.

Subsequently, the Ryukyu sailors continued westward, heading towards Ningyuan, another important town under the control of the Qing people, and it seemed that it would not be long before they heard their good news again.

Shang Kexi and Wu Chao's two divisions, first 50,000 troops converged, designed the coastal defense line of the Qing people, and ambushed and defeated the Jurchens' most powerful 20,000 motorized cavalry, and their biggest reliance to protect the kingdom was wiped out under the first battle.

Subsequently, the two major armies that opened the coastal defense of the Qing people marched separately: Wu Chao took 20,000 elite Hongtang soldiers to the east and went all the way north; The 30,000 Dongjiang Town soldiers under Shang Kexi's department went west to Liaoyang and turned to attack Shengjing in the Qing Dynasty.

Along the way, in order to maximize the destruction of the Qing Dynasty, all the towns and fortresses encountered along the way, the places where large tribes lived, the two Hongmen armies did not show the slightest mercy, and the most powerful hot weapons in this era came to the fore, so that the Qing Dynasty soldiers who were still in the era of cold weapons felt what is called the difference in strength.

It's not that the Jurchen tribal warriors are not brave enough, it's just that under the continuous development of Hongmen for decades, including the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, they are now able to reach the point where each person has a flintlock musket.

Although the soldiers of Dongjiang Town had shown the strength of their musketeers before, but under the heavy requirements of Shang Kexi's actual combat training and base camp, the power of their poor musketeers was far inferior to the powerful strength displayed by the current army of 30,000 people holding spears all the way to crush the major tribal settlements in the Qing Dynasty.

Not to mention the fact that when encountering a fortified castle or a large-scale Jurchen Mongol army gathering, the soldiers of Hongmen used the field artillery transported by the horses to exert their might, at least the cannonballs with the thickness of the bowl mouth fell from the sky, and just hitting the ground in the open field would cause a pit of more than half a zhang, and the destructive power of the bombardment on the array of human flesh was even more amazing.

The cavalry, which the Qing people relied on to be proud, finally suffered heavy damage in front of the formed musketeers.

Shouting the stirring slogans of the tribe, a sturdy Jurchen Mongol cavalryman brandished a long knife in his hand, kicked the abdomen of the war horse under his seat, and accelerated to charge the Hongtang warriors lined up in front of him.

The Hongtang soldiers on the opposite side raised the spear in their hands unhurriedly, pulled the trigger under the command of the command tube beside them, and a dense gunfire brought up the vigorous gunpowder smoke and rushed out of the long gun barrel, without looking at the results of the battle, after the first round of shooting, the children turned around and retreated, leaving the battlefield to the Hongtang musketeers who were already prepared in the second row, and they themselves automatically returned to the rear column, and skillfully cleaned the chamber and loaded ammunition according to the drill.

There are still many soldiers in the Hongtang army who are new to the battlefield, and they will naturally feel nervous and panicked in the face of the Jurchen cavalry rushing over from a distance, but a huge advantage of the musketeers is undoubtedly shown here, that is, their shooting distance is relatively long, even if the most mobile cavalry in this era wants to rush to the front of the musketeers in the first row, it will take at least three or five minutes.

And during this time, it was already enough for Hongtang to drill the skilled musketeers to shoot back and forth for three or four rounds.

The Jurchen cavalry in the first row rolled to the ground with their horses, and then were trampled under the hooves of the horses by the cavalry of the second and third rows, causing more horses to stumble or directly crush them into meat cakes.

As the guns continued to fire, less than two or three out of ten of the Qing cavalry could finally get close to the Hongtang battle array.

At this time, when the cavalry finally exerted their powerful impact, the Hongtang warriors, who were first hit by the opponent's war horses and knights with strong kinetic energy, flew directly sideways, rolled straight back for several meters, and then saw that their bodies were strangely folded into a ball, and there was no longer life.

It's just that the number of cavalry that can rush to the front of the Hongtang battle array is too small, and under the sparse and unstructured impact, the Hongtang warriors raised the spear in their hands diagonally, and the bow body and horizontal horse put down the center of gravity of the body, and a spear disease was born, which resisted the residual impact of the Qing cavalry until its speed was controlled.

Needless to say, the Qing knights, who had no speed advantage and no numerical superiority, only waved the long knife in their hands a few times at will, and then they didn't know where it was sent out and waited for the cold gun to hit the vital point, so they fell off their horses obliquely, becoming another cold corpse on the battlefield.

Within a few days, Hongmen's two armies had achieved their intended goal, each coming to the city where the target was located, and aiming their guns at the Qing soldiers who were waiting on the city wall.

(End of chapter)