The huge chimney emitted white smoke, and these droplets of water vapor condensed by condensation seemed to the Eight Banners Tartars to be an ancient artifact that swallowed clouds and spitted mist. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Coupled with the harsh click of the bearings driving the tracks forward, it was like the steel beast baring its teeth, and a cannon blessed at the front end was like an elephant's trunk pointing the black hole at the front of these Eight Banners, which made them feel a chill.

The chariot travels very slowly, and the Daming steam manufacturing industry has just entered the era of locomotives, so the power transmission is not very mature, resulting in the chariot will suddenly stagnate or even fall back when it is moving, and it can only continue to move forward when the cylinder temperature rises and the steam power reaches the threshold again, but this will press the corpses of the Eight Banners under the track even harder, and the blood will fly out directly and splash on the black iron plate, giving these Eight Banners Tartars a great shock.

Huang Taiji himself was a little confused, he didn't expect that the Ming army would have such a monster, and it would be able to march with such a big iron weapon, he could only order: "Command the artillery battalion, bombard this thing!" ”

The current Huang Taiji couldn't think of any other way to deal with this iron monster, so he could only think of bombarding it with cannons.

As a result, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, who were familiar with the operation of artillery, began to ignite the artillery, and several shells whistled and smashed towards the chariot marching in front.

Boom!

At this time, Kennu also used solid shells, which were so powerful that they could produce a huge impulse even when hit on a steel plate like a chariot.

After the chariot was hit, it moved back sharply, and with inertia, it moved forward again, and the steel plate was also knocked out of an irregular circular pit.

The two gunners and the two improved three-eyed operators and igniters in the chariot, as well as the four improved winged tiger gunners and the four chariot marching operators, were all shocked, but fortunately, the chariot had already done impact experiments and could continue to move forward after a short concussion.

The click sound sounded again, and with a bang, new water vapor erupted, turning into clouds as soon as the cold air was encountered.

This scene made Huang Taiji stunned again, he didn't expect that even the artillery couldn't contain this iron guy, his eyes narrowed slightly, hoping to find a better solution.

"Get into range, launch!"

Here, the artillery on the chariot also began to spit fire, and the fierce recoil made the chariot move back a few steps again, and a flowering bomb exploded behind Huang Taiji like a firework, and with the howls of several Eight Banner Tartars sounded, so that Huang Taiji and Dolgon and other battlefield veterans couldn't help but shudder, and they had to admit that their strong bows and crossbows had become useless at this time.

"Bring in the firearms and let them shoot these iron guys!"

Huang Taiji can only use his own firearms now, and the firearms he is now equipped with have improved flintlock pistols, and most of them are lead bullets with strong penetrating power, which can break heavy armor, so Huang Taiji wants to try whether he can use firearms to penetrate this iron guy.

To this end, he also let these firearms men shoot from close range from both wings, so as to reduce the firing distance and increase the impact of the projectile.

But soon Huang Taiji will find that it is also difficult to use the clumsiness of the chariot to get close to the two wings of the chariot, because the improved version of the three-eyed gun and the improved version of the winged tiger gun on the chariot can almost cover a close range of 360 degrees of vision, so that these Eight Banner Tartars who tried to shoot at close range were shot down a lot.

As soon as the eight-banner Tartar was hunched towards the rear of the chariot, the three-eyed gunner on the chariot also spotted the eight-banner Tartar who was sneaking up on the approach through the observation port, and immediately fired, and a buckshot hit the chest of the tartar, bursting out with a lot of blood.

At the same time, the three-eyed man turned his hinge and fired a shot at one of the Eight Banners Tartars hiding in the right rear, and went on to shoot down four or five Tartars.

Seeing this, Huang Taiji couldn't help but be furious, and hurriedly ordered his archers to shoot at the firecrackers who used the chariot observation port to achieve the purpose of suppressing the chariot's fire system.

Many light arrows were fired, and they were extremely tricky, and the firecracker was accidentally shot directly in the eye, and he couldn't help screaming.

As a result, the musketeers in the chariot had to close the observation port.

The Eight Banners Tartars, armed with firearms, were also able to strike the chariot at close range, but they found that even with lead bullets, the thick iron plates of the chariot had no effect, and it was useless except to make a sonorous sound or leave a pitted hole at most.

"Withdraw!"

Since there is no way to deal with these big iron bumps, Huang Taiji no longer wants to solve these guys, but chooses to retreat first, avoiding these behemoths and then speaking.

But what he didn't expect was that at this time, the second cavalry army of the Praetorian Guard had already killed from both sides behind him.

At the same time, the flight battalion had also taken off and reached the sky above the main force of the Eight Banners of Huang Taiji, and directly dropped the incendiary bag.

The raging fire accompanied by the flowering cannons of the cavalry field artillery kept exploding in the middle of the main camp of the Eight Banners, like azaleas blooming in the mountains, extremely gorgeous, but for the Eight Banners Tartars, it was a nightmare for them to endure.

The Eight Banners Tartar rolled directly from the horse, and he who was about to fight the horse to retreat could not return to the horse at this time, because his whole body was already full of fire, and the whole person had to roll around on the ground, howling in pain.

The other Eight Banner Tartars, who were also beating horses and retreating, were blown up by the cannonballs that happened to be flying at this time, and the whole person was immediately split into limbs, and his waist was directly torn apart, and the blood and fat fell into the flames and made a crackling sound.

With just one attack, the main force of Jiannu, who was supposed to retreat with his whole body, began to become chaotic, but at this time, there were still incendiary packets falling and shedding a pair of raging fires.

Huang Taiji knew that he would not be able to retreat to the rear at this time, and detour to Harrier Ridge to enter Monan, because even if he dodged these artillery bombardments and the attacks of fireballs falling from the sky, he would still have to fight with the Ming cavalry in front, and even if his main force really broke through, he would lose a lot.

Therefore, Huang Taiji had to take most of his main force to break through in the direction of the chariot at this time.

Although the chariot is also firing cannonballs and lead bullets to attack the main force of Huang Taiji's Eight Banners at all times, because the agility of the Ming chariot is too poor, the accuracy is not high, and the firing frequency is not good, so the threat to the main force of Huang Taiji's Jiannu is smaller.

It's just that the volume of this chariot is too large, and Harrier Ridge is a bottle-like terrain at this time, and the location of more than a dozen chariots is just the location of the bottle mouth, so it is difficult for the main force of Huang Taiji's Jiannu to quickly pass through Harrier Ridge, and can almost only pass by alone.

For this reason, Huang Taiji had to let Dolgon lead the main force of the white flag to attack the second cavalry army of the Praetorian Guard, as a cover for himself.

And in this way, Dolgon's side rode directly towards the Second Cavalry Army of the Praetorian Guard, and Huang Taiji's side continued to advance towards Harrier Ridge, making its main force too scattered, and the burning casualties caused by the flying battalion were greatly reduced, and at the same time, the cavalry field artillery was also shortened by the distance between the Second Cavalry Army and Jiannu, and the main force of the Eight Banners began to gradually disperse, so that the artillery could no longer kill in a large area.

But the frenzied burning and bombing just now still caused huge trauma to the main force of Jiannu, which made its arrogance frustrated.

Even when Dolgon led his Eight Banners cavalry towards the second army of the Praetorian Guards, he was much more cautious than when he fought before, and as soon as the distance of the rest of the cavalry Janissaries reached the range of bows and arrows, the main force of the Eight Banners immediately launched a rain of arrows in the sky in an attempt to intercept the fast-approaching Praetorian Guard cavalry and crush its formation.

Fortunately, the muskets in the hands of the Praetorian Guard cavalry were faster, and when the rain of arrows came, a barrage of bullets had already been fired, and they directly knocked down the Eight Banners Tartars.

This made the dense rain of arrows that could have covered the sky much more sparse, and even when a large number of bows and arrows were fired at the Praetorian Guard, the Praetorian Guard raised their shields directly, except for a few soldiers who were shot in the legs and feet or their horses, but did not cause major casualties.

However, Dolgon's side also knew that the firearms of the Praetorian Guard cavalry were sharp, so while the Praetorian Guards were resisting the rain of arrows, they directly approached from the left and right flanks and engaged in a white-knuckle battle with the Praetorian Guard cavalry.

In this way, the firearms advantage of the second army of the Praetorian Guards cavalry could not be brought into play, but directly engaged in white-knuckle battles, the cavalry of the Praetorian Guard was not afraid of these Eight Banners armor soldiers, both sides were knights with superb riding skills, and they had undergone rigorous training, and they were able to fight without fear of death.

After a fierce battle, neither side was able to defeat the other, and except for a corpse, Dolgon's Eight Banners did not break through.

However, Huang Taiji's side was directly attacked by the firearms of the infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard.

It turned out that after Huang Taiji braved the fire of the chariot to block and enter the center of the Harrier Ridge, he found that there were more than ten chariots slowly driving at the other end of the bottle mouth of the Harrier Ridge, and behind the chariot was a large group of Ming troops armed with firearms.

This Ming army was the infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard, and the infantry battalion training method of the Third Army was to conduct combat training with land aircraft carriers such as combat vehicles as the core.

At this moment, the infantry of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard directly caught the chariot battalion as a cover and fired rapidly at these main forces of the Eight Banners of Huang Taiji that were coming quickly.

Because of the narrow section of the valley, Huang Taiji's archers could not form a lethal force, and the firearms troops could not shoot in rows, and the frequency of shooting could not match the firearms in the hands of the infantry of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard, so that Huang Taiji, the main force of the Eight Banners, was once again pressed and beaten by the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard.

However, this Emperor Taiji also seems to know the truth that the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and knows that if they stay in this valley all the time, they can only be annihilated little by little.

Therefore, he himself rushed forward with his personal guards, seemingly not afraid of life and death, but in fact, in every direction there were his loyal minions ready to block the bullets for him.

However, the infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard, which used the chariot as a cover, was not intimidated by the momentum of his charge, and when he saw these Eight Banner cavalry rushing towards him, a dense number of bullets also fired.

Lead bullets shot the Eight Banners Tartar cavalry to the ground like meteors, making them have to pay a heavy price before they could move forward.

The chariots began to turn, and each third chariot lined up at the intersection, directly forming several lines of defense.

Although these Eight Banners were extremely brave and broke through the first line of defense formed by the chariots, the infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard was able to quickly retreat to the second line of defense, and then use dense firepower to defeat your fledgling fighting spirit, forcing you to continue to pay a heavy price to break through another line of defense.

Even if you can't go back, you have to move forward, you have to try your best to break through, because if you go back or stop, the vehicles behind you will run straight at you.

As soon as Jiannu's Eight Banners broke through to the next line of defense, the chariots of this line would immediately turn around and crush behind these main forces of the Eight Banners.

At this time, the injured Eight Banners could only watch the behemoth with a screeching sound drive towards him and run over him, while several other Eight Banners soldiers who were a few steps slower were also quickly knocked out, some were knocked into the stone and were directly killed, and some were caught under the car, and quickly fell silent after a few wails.

Fortunately, this Emperor Taiji had the advantage of troops, so even though he paid a heavy price and lost countless troops, his main force of Jiannu still broke through several lines of defense.

And although Dolgon's side dragged the second army of the Praetorian Cavalry for Huang Taiji's reverse breakthrough, he also suffered a lot of losses, and after countless battles, he could only choose to continue to fight with the second army of the Praetorian Cavalry, because he now found that he could no longer meet Huang Taiji.

Because between him and Huang Taiji, there was suddenly another Praetorian Guard.

What Dolgon and Huang Taiji didn't know was that this Praetorian Guard was also an infantry battalion of the Third Army, and the task of their infantry battalion was to rely on this part of the chariot to cut off the connection between Dolgon's and Huang Taiji's troops, and divide and surround it.

Dolgon also obviously saw the purpose of the Praetorian Guard, and the troops he belonged to were all cavalry, so he could not break through the defense line formed by the chariot battalion at all, so he had to give up the idea of joining Huang Taiji, and instead tried to break through from the direction of the second cavalry army of the Praetorian Guard.

However, Dolgon is very depressed now, and the Second Janissary Cavalry seems to have seen his desire to break through from his own side, so as soon as he and his men want to break through, the Second Praetorian Cavalry Army will immediately bite you like a wolf, intercept your way, and force him to go back.

At this time, the artillery of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard and the cavalry field artillery of the Second Army of the Praetorian Guard were re-establishing the best artillery bombardment position, preparing that as long as the people of Huang Taiji or Dolgon successfully broke through, they would immediately carry out the next wave of indiscriminate bombardment, so that they could not retreat directly after the breakthrough, because during this bombardment, the infantry of the Third Army of the Praetorian Guard and the Second Cavalry Army would immediately adjust their positions and continue to divide and surround you.

Therefore, Huang Taiji and Dolgon can only continue to fight to break through now.

However, the Praetorian Guard did not have the advantage of strength, although the troops blocking Huang Taiji and Dolgon could not be completely annihilated.

Therefore, now we can only wait for the arrival of the First and Fourth Armies of the Praetorian Guard, so as to achieve the result of swift and total annihilation of the main force of Jiannu.