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The artillery battle on both sides did not end with this, after the first round of artillery battles.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The second salvo of the Ming army began, this time, in addition to the original dozens of Frankie and small and medium-sized Hongyi artillery that fired at the field positions of the Qing army, there were also four ten-pounder Hongyi cannons and eight eight-pounder cannons prepared.

In order to maximize the concentration of firepower, even the artillery attacking Yiyang has been moved, and Yiyang's side is only besieged for the time being.

Most of the Qing army's infantry arrays were within effective range of these behemoths, including artillery positions that were heavily surrounded by enemy mid-battalion soldiers.

With a rumbling explosion, 100 shells were divided into several waves and flew out in turn, among which more than 50 small and medium-sized shells fell into the front army formation of the Qing army, followed by a continuous miserable scream and groan, hundreds of Qing army foot soldiers could not dodge, and were directly killed and injured by the shells. The infantry array suddenly became a little scattered, and the military academies at all levels desperately commanded and shouted before they could stabilize the formation.

The real elite of this Qing army is only more than 8,000 Dongjiang veterans, and the other more than 20,000 are green battalion soldiers, including the remnants of the camp of Toucheng, the troops of the original four towns in Jiangbei, the local indigenous town soldiers of Huguang, and the troops drawn from the northern provinces.

Needless to say, the two setbacks since the battle have dealt a blow to morale, and now the array can still be stabilized, except for a kind of blind self-confidence cultivated by the consistent "invincibility" after following the Manchurian Tatars, the rest is almost entirely suppressed by the full strength of the Dongjiang soldiers.

In addition to the more than 50 large and small artillery pieces that opened fire on the Qing army's infantry positions, the remaining 12 eight-pounder and ten-pounder cannons were more clearly targeted, and these relatively long-range field guns were specially used to deal with the small and medium-sized artillery in the enemy's artillery positions by virtue of their range advantage.

Zhu Youlang had been trying to close the distance between them, just to cover the enemy's artillery under the effective range of the heavy Hongyi artillery.

These large-caliber shells directly crossed the heads of the Qing army's front troops and smashed into the artillery positions behind them, and the artillery positions surrounded by heavy troops were bombarded by twelve shells at once, and suddenly a burst of people turned on their backs.

Four or five cannons were smashed and smashed in an instant, dozens of artillery guards, and guards were crushed to death and injured by iron bullets carrying huge kinetic energy. In this case, no matter how you protect it, it is in vain, as long as you are rubbed by an iron egg, you will either die or be injured!

In a dignified and upright infantry field battle, what is fought for is hard power, and hard power is embodied in the quality of equipment, the overall quality of the soldiers, whether military discipline is strict, and whether orders and prohibitions are carried out.

The Qing army also has a lot of heavy Hongyi cannons, all of which were brought from Liaodong by King Sanshun, as small as three or four pounds, as large as eight pounds, ten pounds, very well-made, and the firepower is not under the Ming army.

It was precisely because Zhu Youlang was reported earlier that Kong Youde was still in the lair of Yuezhou Mansion and did not have all his troops out, so he dared to fight with Geng Zhongming's partial division so openly.

With the frantic counterattack of the Qing artillery team, the artillery positions of the Ming army were also attacked by dozens of shells, fortunately, Zhu Youlang was prepared, and did not concentrate the artillery in one place, but divided it into several pieces, hidden in various military formations, and then listened to the commander's military orders when the artillery was fired, adjusted the angle, and concentrated the attack.

Because of this precautionary arrangement, the losses of the Ming army were much less than those of the Qing army, and although the Qing army fired a lot of shells, it did not have a clear goal, and only destroyed one or two three- or four-pound Hongyi cannons, killing and wounding six or seven Ming artillerymen.

There is no obvious gap between the two sides in terms of the quantity and quality of artillery and the gunners' handling skills. The difference is only in the use of tactics.

Zhu Youlang did not underestimate the firearms strength of King Sanshun, but Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun, suffered the loss of empiricism and seriously underestimated the firearms strength of the Ming army.

In Geng Zhongming's inherent concept, the artillery on the Ming side has always been old four-pound and three-pound artillery, rarely more than six pounds, and they have no qualified gunsmiths, no cannon casting workshops, and no extra financial resources to cast cannons.

The only artillery in the army is still some inferior products produced by the Ming Court Ordnance Supervision ten years ago, there has never been a replacement of the statement, it has been used repeatedly for many years, most of them are seriously aged, and it is good that ten percent of the power can be exerted fifty percent, and it can also bully and bully thieves or bandits who don't even have a few artillery.

When Dolgon ordered the army to march south, Geng Zhongming was full of confidence that he could crush the army of those feudal towns of the False Ming in terms of firearms, or they would be able to scatter and flee in all directions without a few rounds of artillery bombardment!

When he arrived in Huguang, after suffering two losses in Yingtianguan and Changde, Geng Zhongming, including the monk Kong Youde, was pleased with them, and felt that he had attached great importance to the army of the puppet emperor's personal command, which was united by the Jingying, Chuangying, and the original Xiying, but he didn't expect it to backfire!

Facts have proved that they still underestimate the combat power of this army, including the use of firearms and tactics!

A round or two has not been able to see anything, along with a few rounds of salvos from both sides.

Geng Zhongming gradually became a little unbearable, and every time he lost a little more than the Ming army, this kind of war of attrition was really not cost-effective!

In a few rounds of artillery bombardment, nearly one-third of the sixty or seventy large and small artillery pieces that he had been supplying like treasures were scrapped, and the artillery soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the morale of the army was so weak that they almost lost the ability to fight back!

And in addition to the artillery, the infantry in the array also suffered heavy losses, and in just a moment's effort, there were one or two thousand infantry soldiers who died under the artillery of the Ming army, and many of them brought out the Dongjiang soldiers from their hometown in Liaodong!

Geng Zhongming's heart is dripping blood!

Although the number of casualties among the soldiers and soldiers accounted for only one-twentieth or thirty-tenth of the whole, and the main force was still there, the grievances and fears of being bombarded by artillery but not being able to fight back were not something that this Qing army full of miscellaneous cards could bear.

In contrast, the situation of the Ming army composed of the Son of Heaven and the Western Army was much better, they were either strictly trained, or the old soldiers who had survived a hundred battles, although hundreds of people were killed and wounded by the artillery of the Qing army, the army was still stubbornly maintained, and there was no sign of collapse.

The soldiers all know that the Son of Heaven is with them, sacrificing his life to live and die together, so the morale of the three armies is high!

This is a big contest of psychological quality and morale, in the case of the same number of artillery and power, which side has the toughest and which side is the final winner!