Seeing that the hard-built pontoon bridge was burned by the Ming army, the Manchu Beyler Luck Dehun was furious and ordered his subordinate Eight Banners cavalry to attack the Ming army's boats.

Thousands of Eight Bannermen lined up on the banks of the canal, shooting a continuous rain of arrows at the boats in the canal. The Ming army was shielded, and the soldiers on the ship returned fire with fire guns.

There was a tiger cannon on the ship. The firing range of the Tiger Squat Cannon is more than half a mile, and it is not a problem to shoot from the river to the shore. Every time 100 projectiles were fired, 100 boats fired 100 cannons, and the power was very great, and in a short round of shooting, more than 100 Qing soldiers were shot, forcing Luck Dehun to order the army to withdraw to the river.

Bolo arrived at the canal with more than a dozen cavalry pegases and was meeting the retreating Luckedhun.

"What's wrong, why are you retreating?" Bolo asked hurriedly.

"The artillery of the Ming army is too powerful, and the casualties of the brothers are too great. Bolo, I'm afraid we won't be able to cross the river here. Lucked said chagrinedly.

After understanding the situation, Bolo couldn't help frowning: "The regent is about to have a decisive battle with the Ming army, we must cross the canal as soon as possible and join the battlefield!" ”

"But we can't cross the river here, let's cross the river in another place." Luckedhun proposed. From Liaocheng to Linqing for 100 miles, even the cavalry could cross the river by detouring to the north of Linqing, and he did not believe that the Ming army could block the entire canal.

Bolo shook his head: "I'm afraid it doesn't make much difference to cross the river in other places, unless we go around a hundred or two miles to the north." But how can you get in time to see the battle? ”

Luckedhun: "But the Ming army fleet is blocked, so let's not go over!" ”

Bolo said: "Then annihilate this Ming army fleet first, and then cross the river!" This canal is more than ten zhang wide, and so many Ming military ships are guarding the river, which is a target for us. You can make a large number of rockets and burn the Ming army's boats with rockets! ”

Lucked Hun was overjoyed: "This is a good solution! ”

The Qing army robbed several houses, and the looted materials contained a large amount of cloth and cooking oil, and it was very easy to make some rockets. Oil-soaked cotton cloth was tied to the head of the arrow, and tens of thousands of pieces were soon made.

Then, with Bolo's order, more than 500 horsemen galloped towards the riverbank, and when the horses reached the riverbank, they pulled their bowstrings and fired the rockets that had been ignited.

More than 500 rockets flew across the canal and landed on the Ming army's boats, countless flames burned, and the officers of the ships hurriedly ordered to extinguish the fire, and when the Ming army was in a hurry, more rockets were fired from the shore.

"Boom" a rocket was inserted into the gunpowder keg of the boat, and the powder keg exploded, dozens of Ming soldiers on board were torn to pieces, and the entire ship was on fire.

The rockets of the Qing army were too dense, and the forced Ming army did not have time to counterattack. Li Yulin hurriedly passed down the order, and the soldiers on the boat put out the fire, while the other half launched a counterattack against the Qing troops on the shore. The tiger squat cannon roared, and one after another the Qing army was bombed into a hornet's nest, but the Qing army on the shore did not retreat, and even braved the shelling to send rockets to the bow of the Ming army.

"Ahh One after another, the Ming army desperately slapped the burning clothes, trying to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but the space of the boat was too narrow, and there were too many rockets on the boat to extinguish it.

The Qing army of the dog day was too hateful, and dozens of archers specialized in dealing with a boat, so that the Ming army on the ship did not have time to extinguish the flames.

More and more boats were ignited by the flames, and they were burning. Many Ming troops were forced to jump into the canal, and Li Yulin had to order the fleet to lean to the east bank of the canal to avoid the Qing army's rockets.

"General, look!" Suddenly, his soldiers pointed to the east bank and shouted in horror, Li Yulin looked up and found that in the distance to the east, a cavalry was rapidly coming towards the canal.

"Full of cavalry!" Many Ming soldiers screamed. The canal is more than ten zhang wide, and it is possible to shoot the ships in the middle of the river with bows and arrows from both sides, and if it is really attacked from both sides, I am afraid that the fleet will have only one way to destroy.

"Order, evacuate, evacuate immediately!" Li Yulin ordered sharply.

So all the boats on the Cao Ding immediately began to row the boats and retreated in the direction of Linqing.

"Want to run? Which is so easy! Bolo sneered and ordered his cavalry to pursue along the riverbank, constantly attacking the fleet with rockets.

More and more boats were set ablaze by rockets and fell into flames. Of the 100 boats, more than 20 have been ignited by rockets, and hundreds of Ming soldiers have suffered casualties.

In the pursuit of the Qing army, the fleet finally retreated to the outside of Linqing City, and the river suddenly widened, here, the Wei River and the canal converged, the river was more than two miles wide, and the Qing army's rockets could no longer threaten the boats.

Hearing of the defeat of Li Yulin's ships, Chen Yue did not reprimand, and ordered to mobilize more Cao ships and send more troops to continue the attack on the Qing army.

"Lord, the canal is too narrow, and Dolgon sent an army to meet the Qing army in the west to cross the river, and our ships were attacked by the Qing army on both sides, so I am afraid it is not suitable for another battle." Knowing the reason for Li Yulin's defeat and retreat, a staff officer persuaded him.

"The rockets of the Qing army scared us away? It just doesn't make sense. Chen Yue said unhappily, "What did we rely on to defeat the Qing army several times?" It is that we have a strong naval advantage. The canal is narrow enough for boats. It was not easy to deal with the Qing army's rockets, and digging the river with mud and sticking it on the hull was enough to resist the rocket attack. The Qing army has rockets, we don't have them? Load the flying dragon and a swarm of bees on the ship for me, and each ship is loaded with two tiger squat cannons, and this king wants to see who has more firepower between the Qing army and us! ”

"Lord Wang, the last general is willing to lead the troops to fight the Manchu Qing again!" Li Yulin's face turned red and asked for orders again.

Chen Yuehu looked at him suspiciously: "Are you okay?" ”

"If the last general lets a Qing cavalry cross the river this time, he is willing to engage in military law!" Li Yulin said in a military order.

"Okay, I'll give you another chance. This time, I will give you 200 boats and 10,000 troops, and the cavalry of the Qing army west of the river will not be allowed to cross the river and join Dolgon! Chen Yue glanced at Li Yulin deeply and said.

Li Yulin nodded heavily and walked away.

On the riverbank wharf, Li Yulin and Cheng Jiu, the leader of the Cao Gang, were preparing to fight again. The canal is no bigger than the Yangtze River, it is too narrow, and only a man like Cheng Jiu who eats by the canal can have fun.

Cheng Jiu was an ambitious man, and he personally asked Chen Yue for orders to participate in the battle with a carefully selected group of 3,000 Cao Gang's children, who were responsible for operating the ship for the Ming army.

A large number of Cao Gang's children floated on the surface of the canal, digging out the silt from the bottom of the river and pasting it on the boats. With the silt, the rockets of the Qing army could no longer ignite the boats.

At the same time, a large number of firearms were carried on board. The 3,000 Cao Ding and 7,000 Ming troops boarded 200 Cao ships and marched south again.

PS: It seems to have reached a period of exhaustion recently, and I always don't want to code words, alas! (https:)

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