For Xu Du and Yang Weizhi, a group of trainee non-commissioned officers and students who traveled with the emperor, they had depicted the appearance of war in the mouths of idlers in the countryside and in school books, but today they were finally able to record a real war with their own eyes.

However, it is clear that the real war is not as unscathing as they imagined, and the enemy soldiers on the opposite side except for the Jurchens, the others are dressed like beggars, and it is obvious that these Mongols who are attached to the Later Jin do not receive much living materials from the Later Jin on weekdays.

Of course, Houjin himself didn't have many supplies, and Houjin himself had to go to Mingren to buy the living materials he needed. The little supplies that were given to the Mongol tribes were probably intercepted by the leaders of the tribes. However, the Ming people are different, not to mention the rich and abundant place in the south of the Yangtze River, just the various industries that emerged in Beijing, Tianjin and Tang can already purchase enough materials to trade with the Mongolian tribes outside the Saiwai.

Since the emperor had already divided the distribution ratio of materials for the leaders of the various tribes, Nayan, the army, and the ordinary herdsmen, the daily clothing and things of the right-wing Mongol soldiers who were subordinate to the Ming State were significantly better than before.

Looking at these Mongolian knights, who were neither tall nor mighty, and their clumsy action of filling the first shallow trench on the periphery of the Ming army's camp with the straw bales they carried on horseback, it really made the Ming soldiers guarding in front of the first earthen wall nervous.

In response to this kilometer of defense line attacked by the Houjin army, the Ming army arranged a musket battalion of 700 people and 300 migrant self-defense troops in front of the first earthen wall. Although the General Staff had begun to replace the arquebuses in the army with flintlock muskets, the north-western side was not a priority to replace them, so only one-third of the new flintlock pistols were used in the musket battalions, and the others were still using arquebuses that would be obsolete. The weapons used by the Migrant Self-Defense Forces are the same arquebuses that have been eliminated in the army.

Finally waiting for those Mongolian knights to fill in dozens of passages in the shallow trenches, and the next thing was to watch the Han army push the chariots through the shallow trenches with difficulty.

It should be said that when the Houjin soldiers crossed the shallow trench, they had already exposed themselves to the range of the Ming army's muskets behind the earthen wall, but the battalion commander Zhang Qingshi, who commanded this section of the defense line, did not give the order to shoot, so the musketeers in the first row could only squat quietly behind the earthen wall and aim.

When Zhang Qingshi observed that after one-third of the chariots successfully crossed the shallow trench, they automatically covered the passage on the shallow trench, so as to cover the Han army behind them to continue to push the chariots through the trench, which also made most of the originally cautious Han troops gather near the passage of the shallow trench.

So he turned back to the herald on the camp wall and made a gesture, and as the herald turned around, soon a thunderclap sounded behind the camp wall, and then a black iron ball seemed to slowly cross the camp wall, the barbed wire, and then the outermost shallow trench and the top of the head of the Houjin Han army, smashed a hole in the empty area of the grass, and then jumped two or three times. The soil here is mostly sandy loam, and the soil is loose, so the shells can easily jump instead of smashing into a hole like clay.

This is a three-pound cannon shell, that is, an iron ball slightly larger than an adult's fist, the surface of the ball is not very smooth, and there are some air holes. The appearance of this cannonball first made the Han soldiers who found it hesitate for a moment, but soon they continued to push the cart under the scolding of Shangguan, after all, the cannonball that did not hurt anyone could not arouse anyone's fear.

However, soon another artillery shell was fired at them from behind the wall of the Ming army's camp, and this time they were not so lucky. In addition to one shell that fell into the muddy water in the shallow trench, the other two shells hit the Han soldiers on the passage and behind the shallow trench, which immediately killed two people and caused casualties to the other three.

Just when the Han soldiers on both sides of the shallow trench fell into chaos, Tuna had already reacted, and he immediately urged Li Guohan and Li Sili to press these Han soldiers across the river, and shouted loudly to these soldiers: "Don't mess up, don't panic, the shells of the Ming army can only hit near this trench, as long as you rush through the trench as soon as possible and rush under the two barbed wires, the shells will not fall on you..."

Tuna's judgment was obviously right, with the continuous roar of the Ming artillery, the falling cannonballs were as small as fists, or as big as melons, and when they grazed the body, a stump flew up, and it was okay to fall on the cowhide on the front of the cart, but if it landed on the wooden surface, it immediately smashed the wooden stab and injured the nearby personnel.

But the shells, as Tuna said, landed on the left side of the shallow trench. Once they had rushed 20 paces through the shallow trench and approached the barbed wire, the shells could not hit them.

However, in such a panicked charge, less than half of the number of chariots crossing the river was there, and in addition to the seven or eight chariots that had been pushed into the shallow trench, the remaining twenty or so chariots were being thrown horizontally and vertically on the shallow trench side.

Each of these carts is about 4-5 meters wide, and every third of them can form a temporary defense of about 15 meters wide to protect attacking shooters. Now more than 30 carts have been pushed in front of the barbed wire, and at least a dozen or so attack points can be created.

Tuna felt that the next step was to cut down the barbed wire fences and force the Ming musketeers to abandon their defensive positions outside the camp.

However, what Tuna did not expect was that the barbed wire fence was not the old-fashioned wooden fence, as long as you approached, you could easily cut a passage with an axe, these wires were suspended in the air and were difficult to bear, and there was a certain elasticity, coupled with the interference of the Ming army on the opposite side at such a close range, and soon the Han army was suppressed behind the cart and could not emerge.

Although some Han soldiers ventured out of the chariot and launched a confrontation with the Ming army, the most courageous Han soldiers were often the fastest to lose their lives. Because the Ming army did not take individual aimed shooting, but adopted a salvo with officers as the commander and dozens of people in groups.

The soldiers of the Ming army did not seem to worry about their reserves, nor did they care whether their bullets could penetrate the cart that the Jin soldiers pushed to the front, as long as they had the orders of the officers, they could shoot endlessly, as if they were not on the battlefield now, but in routine shooting training every three days.

The soldiers of the Ming army may be accustomed to this kind of shooting, but for the Houjin soldiers, this is the first time that they have been beaten passively. They were unable to break through the barbed wire, and the Ming soldiers refused to stop firing even if they could not shoot through the car. Stray bullets from nowhere, from time to time, took the lives of soldiers on the edge of the cart, and it was really a terrible battle.

However, what is even more worrying is that the car is not as indestructible as the Houjin soldiers imagined. In fact, the distribution of bullet points at this distance is not very outrageous, so after the cowhide on the front is broken, the Han soldiers hiding behind the cart heard the terrifying sound of bullets burrowing into the wood, and God knows when the bullets will penetrate this layer of wood.

Seeing that the Han army's attack was blocked, Tuna had to think of another strategy, he discussed with Sonny, and asked him to command the Zhengbai Banner to send 300 archers to come forward to suppress the Ming musketeers, and ordered Zarut and Bahrain to send several teams of knights to step forward and pull out the stakes of the barbed wire fence in front with piso, so that the Han army could make a few gaps in it.

Tuna's response was quite appropriate, with bows and arrows with higher accuracy and rate of fire than muskets, and soon inflicted dozens of casualties on the Ming army and forced them to retreat to two defensive areas.

The Mongol cavalry took advantage of this opportunity to step forward and used horsepower to pull out dozens of wooden stakes in the defense area where the Ming army had withdrawn, creating two gaps for attack.

However, just as these white flag archers were covering the Han army to push the chariots forward, and the Mongol cavalry continued to pull out the wooden stakes on both sides of the gap, trying to establish a larger offensive channel, the camp wall opposite them was suddenly torn down, revealing two slender cannons.

The distance between the Houjin army and the two guns was about no more than 80 meters, and just as the archers with white flags reacted and tried to avoid the muzzles of the cannons on the opposite side, the guns on the opposite side had already begun to roar.

The hundreds of people in the conical range in front of the two cannons were quickly torn apart by a terrifying weapon, and after a terrifying whistling sound, whether it was a chariot, a human body, or a horse, they all became torn apart.

Looking at these broken bodies lying in pools of blood, the battlefield fell into silence for several seconds, and when the wounded soldiers came to their senses and began to wail, the Houjin soldiers on the front line had resolutely turned around and fled.

The artillerymen, who were using improved shotguns for the first time in actual combat, were also shocked by the casualties they had inflicted. This improved shotgun has a thin iron shell with a wooden chamber at the bottom, and the body is filled with small iron projectiles, each weighing about 28-29 grams, and the shape and size are close to the same.

When his subordinates asked Zhang Qingshi if he wanted to pursue him, Zhang Qingshi looked at the corpses strewn across the barbed wire gap, and finally shook his head and said, "It should be difficult for them to organize the next attack."

We counted our losses, took the wounded to the field hospital, and then cleaned the battlefield and sent people to mend the barbed wire. ”

The subordinate looked at the enemy soldiers lying in a pool of blood wailing, and couldn't help but subconsciously ask, "What about the wounded enemy soldiers over there?" ”

Zhang Qingshi thought quietly and said: "If there is no hope, give them a good time, and the corpses will be moved out of the barbed wire, and they will be allowed to move the corpses back on their own." As for the wounded who still have hope, they are also sent to the hospital together. But we have to wait until our wounded are healed before we can save them..."

When Tuna and Soni reorganized their ranks, they found that they had lost more than 600 people, including 312 Han soldiers, 239 Mongol cavalry, and 76 archers under the white flag.

The loss of more than one Niu Lu at once made Zhengbaiqi Jiala Zhenxifu very annoyed, and he refused to send any more soldiers from Zhengbaiqi to attack the camp of the Ming army. And the morale of the Han army is also low, and obviously no one wants to go back to face those two monster-like cannons.

Just when Tuna and Sonny were in a dilemma, they suddenly heard a very loud commotion from the eastern grassland, and then they saw that cavalry continued to appear in their field of vision on the eastern grassland, and then fled in the direction of their own camp.

Seeing this scene, Tuna was not in a hurry, he said to Sony: "It seems that we don't need to attack, wait a while, the Great Khan will send someone to let us collect our troops..."