However, the Qing army's cannon was not completely ineffective, such as the gunpowder smoke produced by this cannon (the gunpowder formula of the Qing army was not quite right, resulting in an extraordinarily large gunpowder smoke.) Of course, this can't be blamed on the Qing army, in fact, this gunpowder formula came from the side of the Ming army. When I made gunpowder, I gave relatively little nitrate, on the contrary, according to the theory of yin and yang and the five elements, they also added a lot of useless things to gunpowder, which not only made the power of gunpowder decrease, but also made the gunpowder smoke heavier. Then the entire position of the Qing army was tightly covered. Although the skirmishers had rifled guns with long range and high accuracy, they could not continue to attack when they could not see the enemy at all. Even the artillerymen, who were providing fire support, had to stop first because they could not see the target. However, the shelling has been going on for quite some time, and the cannon is already very hot, just in time to stop and cool down.

The attack of the Model Army was suspended, but the soldiers of the Model Army were not nervous, because the range of the shotguns fired by the wooden cannons of the Qing Army could not reach them at all, and they could completely listen to the artillery fire of the Qing Army as firecrackers set off during the festival. But on the side of the Qing army, it was different, they were on the defensive, and it was very bad to not see how the enemy on the opposite side was acting. In addition, they were quite afraid of the model army, and in addition, most of their artillery was not Zhenyi, (wooden artillery was very dangerous, so the Qing army was reluctant to use Zhenyi as artillery.) They just equipped these artillery with some real warlords. Experience is limited and morale is not high. Such an army is particularly prone to panic in this situation, and now that they can't see anything in front of them, they naturally imagine in their heads that the enemy army will take advantage of this opportunity to pounce on them, so their reaction is naturally to quickly open fire and knock down the possible enemy. At the same time, the rumbling sound of cannon seems to give them some comfort in the panic and tension.

At the beginning, the artillery and musketeers of the Ming army often made such mistakes when facing the Eight Banners, they would often fire indiscriminately because of the approach of the Eight Banners' reconnaissance cavalry, and then after being blocked by the gunsmoke, they would keep firing until the cannons and muskets were red and could not shoot at all. The Eight Banners waited outside the range of the Ming army until they themselves could not use their guns and cannons, and they themselves ran out of strength because of nervousness and fear, and then pounced on them, like killing chickens, sheep and piglets, and wiped out those Ming troops. Now they have made the same mistake when faced with a model army that has repeatedly defeated them on the battlefield.

"This ...... Stop those damn Nikans! The Qing army on the front line couldn't see the target because of the smoke of gunpowder, but Huang Taiji, who was standing at the back and on the top of the fortress in a higher position, could clearly see that the model army was waiting leisurely outside the range of the Qing army's artillery like the Eight Banners Army back then, watching the Qing army keep firing artillery, and couldn't help but roar.

In fact, without Huang Taiji issuing such an order, some experienced Qing generals in front of them had already spontaneously begun to stop those frightened Nikans from firing indiscriminately. Sony, for example, personally slashed and killed several Nikans who were carrying flags that fired indiscriminately, and it can be regarded as quickly stopping the artillery fire.

If the cannons on the first earthen wall defense line of the Manchu Qing were all iron or copper, then the consequences of the indiscriminate firing of the first few cannons in front were limited. But the cannons placed on the first earthen wall by the Manchus were all wooden cannons. Originally, this kind of cannon could only shoot two or three shots, but now there is a burst of random fighting, and many of them have exploded, and most of the remaining ones have already fired two to three shots, and God knows if they can still be used.

As the Qing army stopped shelling, the smoke began to dissipate gradually. The offensive of the Model Army restarted. At this time, the stragglers of the Model Army had advanced to the point where they were only about one hundred and fifty paces away from the first earthen wall of the Qing army. If the Qing army was armed with iron or copper cannons, it would have been possible to suppress these skirmishers with shotguns at this distance, but the shotgun range of wooden cannons was much shorter, at most only about 100 paces. So at this time, the position of the stragglers is still relatively safe. And at such a distance, the stragglers shoot more accurately. Although the number of stragglers is limited, and the number of people killed per shot is actually not very large, the damage to morale caused by only being beaten and not being able to fight back is very large. And the important thing is that now the model army seems to have seen through the first earthen wall of the Qing army, where the threat of artillery is not great, so the military formation behind the stragglers is also under the cover of the shield car, quickly approaching the earthen wall.

The shotguns of the Qing army's wooden cannons were obviously unable to penetrate the heavy shield carts. To deal with the shield car, it was necessary to rely on solid shells fired by metal artillery. The Qing army mainly had such a variety of cannons in their hands:

The first is the capture of the Ming army's Hongyi cannon, which can be divided into two categories, one is the authentic European Hongyi cannon, and the other is the copycat version of the Hongyi cannon sold by the Zheng family to the Ming army. These two types of artillery are the most advanced and precious cannons in the hands of the Qing army today. The number is also limited. They are deployed on fortresses, but their performance is still not comparable to the artillery used by the model army, and their range, although barely able to reach the area beyond the first earthen wall, is already at the end of the crossbow in terms of power, and most of them cannot penetrate the shield car.

The second is the Hongyi cannon imitated by the Manchu Qing Dynasty itself, as well as the Hongyi cannon copied by the Guanning Army captured in the Battle of Songjin. These cannons were a little inferior in performance, but they were more numerous, and the Qing army deployed them on the fortress, as well as in the artillery fort near the third earthen wall. Of course, these cannons deployed on the fortress are still beyond the reach of the shield carts of the model army, but the cannons deployed on the third earthen wall, according to the Qing army's own tests, should also be able to deal with the shield vehicles outside the first earthen wall.

The last type of artillery was cast after the Qing army and the model army fought in the field and suffered a big loss from the field artillery of the model army. At first, I tried to cast a 12-pounder cannon like the model army based on their visual impressions, but because of the technological gap, they simply couldn't build a 12-pounder cannon that could run with a few horses, let alone a 12-pounder one, even a 6-pounder one, and they couldn't build it. In addition, the Manchus did not have heavy horses, so in the end, the Qing army only built some 3-pounder guns. It can be regarded as being able to be dragged by horses to keep up with the speed of the march. But in this way, the power of this artillery is quite limited, the Qing army deployed them on the second and third layers of earthen walls, they can penetrate the Manchu Qing shield vehicles at a relatively close distance, but for targets outside the first layer of earthen walls, this kind of cannon is still somewhat beyond the whip.

The imitation Hongyi cannon deployed by the Qing army on the third earthen wall opened fire, but the Qing army's shooting level was very average. After all, in this era, even in Europe, artillery firing largely relied on experience. In this time and space, except for the Model Army, the artillery of no other army has learned trigonometric functions. In addition, they were shooting at the limit of the effective range, and the shooting accuracy was quite problematic, and the shells they fired in the first round were all missed, and none of them hit, and some of the shells were so deflected that they almost hit their first earthen wall.

The shield wagon continued to advance, and in the process, the Qing army fired a second round of artillery bombardment, this time the situation was slightly better, the shell successfully hit a shield cart, but failed to penetrate it, the shell jumped on the inclined wooden board of the shield cart, and flew far behind the military formation, and did not hit anything. The shield cart quickly overtook the skirmishers, who moved out of the way to either side and turned to the flanks to continue firing, or followed behind the shield cart.

However, the shield cart of the model army quickly stopped, because the first trench was ahead.

The trenches of the Qing army were dug very carefully. The cross-section of their trench is an inverted triangle, and the slope is relatively large, and people must not stand on the slope, and the bottom is very narrow, and if many people fall into it, most of them will roll into a ball. At the same time, this kind of cross-section, compared with the digging of rectangular cross-section, in the case of the same amount of work, the width of the trench is also larger. This creates even more trouble for bridging.

However, this is not difficult for the model army, in fact, for the trench of the Qing army, the model army has long conducted reconnaissance and observation, calculated its width, and prepared a springboard to cross the trench.

The shield cart stopped at the edge of the trench, and the soldiers, especially the skirmishers, extended their guns from the sides and tops of the shield cart and aimed them at the earthen wall opposite, and the artillery behind them began to fire a volley at this section of the earthen wall.

Taking advantage of the cover of artillery fire, some sappers pushed a long gangplank with wheels and flashed out from behind the shield cart to set it up on the trench.

The Qing army on the earthen wall still attacked with wooden cannons, muskets, and bows and arrows. Some of the wooden cannons were successfully fired, but many more exploded on their own, and by the way, they also blew up a lot of the Qing troops next to them. There were also some soldiers who ventured out and fired their muskets at the model army, but their shooting was obviously more about the task, and everyone was in a hurry to finish their own shot, and then hastened to hide behind. As a result, the vast majority of people shoot indiscriminately without aiming at all. Therefore, the Qing army's attack was not small, but the actual effect was limited, and there were not many model soldiers who were really defeated.

The Model Army soldiers also returned fire, and the crackling gunshots rang out. With the fire support of their comrades-in-arms, the sappers braved the rain of bullets and erected dozens of gangplanks on the first trench, while behind the shield carts, the array infantry had already loaded their bayonets and were ready to charge. ()

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