Azig looked at the lineup of the Ming army, and in the face of the arrival of the Qing soldiers of the brigade, there was not the slightest confusion, and saw that the Ming army was standing in front of the formation with spears, and behind him was a queue composed of thousands of firearms soldiers in the artillery team, and he couldn't help frowning.

In the first battle of the Hunhe River, it was also the white pole soldiers with the Qi family army with firearms, and the casualties caused to the Qing soldiers at that time were extremely large. If it weren't for the fact that Li Yongfang, a general of the Ming Dynasty, helped him with a red-clothed cannon, and the final Qi army's bullet was decided, he was afraid that he would suffer greater losses if he wanted to annihilate the Ming army.

That battle even left a shadow on the fledgling Azig, which was a loss that the Qing Dynasty had never had, when the eight banners of tens of thousands of people were killed and wounded nearly one-tenth at a time, while the opponent was only 7,000 people, and now they are facing a full 70,000 troops, and the Ming army is now more powerful firearms.

"Don't worry, the king of the county, our Qing army is not comparable to that year, and now we have the red-clothed cannon of Shushan Gate, which is enough to blast open the opposite array." Yanguli repeatedly persuaded Azig not to lose confidence in the face of the army.

"What the duke said is extremely true, once the Ming army's array is broken, it will definitely not be my Qing army's opponent at that time!" Azig suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and laughed.

"Push the redcoat cannon up for me!" Azig shouted.

The form on the battlefield was on the verge of breaking out, except for the heavy footsteps of the two sides, there was a dead silence, and the two armies stood solemnly looking at each other from a distance of three miles.

Seeing that Yanguli kept looking at the Ming army, Azig asked eagerly: "Duke, are we just waiting?" The red-coated cannon is ready, why don't we send troops and horses to attack a temptation? ”

Yanguli shook his head: "The Ming army has set up an array, our army will not have an advantage in attacking first, and the rate of fire of the red-coated artillery is slow, now the Ming army is still far away from us, after the shelling, the Ming army also has time to rebuild the formation, it is better to wait for the Ming army to attack, and wait until it is close before firing the artillery!" ”

Azig nodded, pondered for a moment and said: "We have the advantage of cavalry, the emperor once said that the city wall of Xiong'an New City has not yet been built, so you can send a team of cavalry to bypass the Ming army to attack Xiong'an and force the Ming army to attack first." ”

Yanguli nodded, and randomly sent his elite cavalry under the Zhenghuang Banner and Liangniulu to go into battle, preparing to bypass the left flank of the Ming army to attack Xiong'an.

At this time, Yang Su and the others saw that the Qing soldiers did not move, and knew that the Qing soldiers were afraid of them, so they changed the usual practice of attacking first, and saw that the Qing soldiers had cavalry out of the formation and wanted to go around from the flanks.

Lu Xiangsheng shouted: "Since the Qing soldiers dare not go to war, then our army will take the initiative to attack." Beat the drums! Command, march on! ”

With the waving of the banner of the Chinese army and the sound of drums, Qin Liangyu shouted in front of the formation: "All the soldiers listen to the order, hold their guns, and form a formation to attack forward!" ”

Under the shouting of the front-line generals, the Ming army lined up shoulder to shoulder, and began to move slowly forward to the rhythm of drums. In the front row are two teams of white-pole soldiers, and in the middle are 10,000 forbidden troops armed with flintlock pistols.

The artillery team of the Ming army was also pushed out at this moment, at the forefront of the army.

Azig and Yanguli saw that the Ming army was gradually approaching, and tens of thousands of people moved forward together, and the Ming army marched neatly and in a disorderly formation. Looking at the momentum of the Ming army's battle array, I couldn't help but have a trace of jealousy in my eyes.

"Gunner ready!" Azig shouted.

The gunners, who lined up in front of the clearing formation, immediately checked the ammunition and raised their torches.

The Ming army was already hundreds of steps away from the Qing army at this moment, looking at the dozens of red-clothed cannons in front of the Qing army, the Ming army was not in a panic and still marched in formation, slowly approaching.

Lu Xiangsheng and Yang Su and others all held their breath, the infantry and cavalry had already suffered a loss, and they could only rely on the formation, if they dispersed the array because they were afraid of the red-clothed cannons, it would undoubtedly be a self-defeating death, but fortunately, the red-clothed cannons were all solid bullets, and the loading speed was extremely slow, as long as they could withstand a round of artillery bombardment, they could engage with the Qing soldiers.

"Put!" Azig shouted.

As the standard-bearer waved the big flag in his hand vigorously, a loud noise accompanied by skyrocketing smoke sounded in front of the formation, and dozens of shells roared towards the Ming army's large array hundreds of steps away.

The range of the red-clothed cannon was several miles away, not to mention that Azig deliberately waited for the Ming army to approach before ordering the cannonball, and the cannonball smashed directly into the Ming army's column, and the body of the soldier hit by the cannonball was directly smashed into pieces, and then the iron ball with blood mist bounced on the ground, and killed and injured more than a dozen people, which slowly stopped.

A round of shelling of the Ming army killed and wounded nearly 1,000 people, at this time the Ming army's artillery can also be powerful, all loaded with scattered bullets of the Franc machine, the casualties caused to the Qing army are greater, I have seen the power of the Ming artillery. Twice suffered setbacks under the artillery fire of the Ming army, and the performance of the Qing soldiers was even more unbearable than that of the Ming army.

There was a violent commotion in the Qing army's large array, and after the Ming army fired a volley, the entire army array was full of tragic limbs and broken arms, and thousands of people fell in an instant, and those who were shot fell to the ground wailing.

In particular, the Qing army was greatly injured, Yanguli's eyes were red, this time the loss was not only the Han army flag and the Mongolian soldiers, even the elite of the eight banners were killed and wounded, knowing that they could no longer fight with the Ming army, and did not wait for the gunpowder smoke in front of the battle to dissipate, and immediately shouted: "The Han army flag charges!" ”

The Qing cavalry immediately began to charge slowly, the two sides were already close to each other, and the artillery was useless. When the Qing soldiers rushed to the front, fifty steps, Qin Liangyu shouted: "The front team comes forward!" ”

The firearms soldiers in the Ming army took a step forward, raised their flintlock pistols and aimed their guns at the Han Eight Banners that had rushed to the front of the formation from the shoulders of the white pole soldiers, and pressed the trigger without hesitation.

The power of the flintlock pistol far exceeds that of the bird, the distance of fifty steps is enough to break the armor, the Han Eight Banners are not as elite as the Tartars, unlike the martial artists who practice the tendon realm can wear more than a hundred catties of heavy armor, and the bullet breaks through the iron armor on their bodies, directly punching a hole in their bodies.

"The second row is coming forward! Put! ”

The firearms soldiers in the front row stepped back and took out the paper powder bags that had been loaded, and gritted them with their teeth to reload, and the firearms soldiers in the second row stepped forward neatly, and after a volley, the two sides were closer at this moment, and more than 500 Qing soldiers on the opposite side fell off their horses.

"The third row comes forward!"

There was another burst of gunfire, and more people fell this time......

With the Ming army after three rounds of shooting, the Qing soldiers have been killed in front of the formation, in the face of the white pole soldiers neat gun forest, can only rush up with people and horses, instantly by the white pole soldiers several spears stabbed to pick off the horse, the Qing soldiers behind take the opportunity to rush to the front of the Ming army, the two sides into a group.

"The king of the county, you are in command of the Chinese army!" Seeing that the Han army flag had rushed to the enemy formation, Yanguli shouted loudly: "The whole army charges, follow me to break the Ming army!" ”

The Qing soldiers began to attack on all fronts, and went straight to the Ming army's large array to kill.