The next day, Jiannu did not attack again.

They retreated two miles, camped outside the range of the Ming army's artillery, and built various facilities in front of the camp to defend against enemy attacks.

After knowing these circumstances, Cao Yue also immediately made a judgment, it must be that Dolgon learned a lesson, knowing that the army under his command would be defeated so badly, because of the initiative to attack, as long as he did not take the initiative to attack, and did not rush to the guns of the Ming army, it was impossible to defeat so badly.

Cao Yue anticipated this early and formulated countermeasures. "Since Dolgon thinks so, let's try to see if our army can take the initiative to attack, and whether Jiannu can resist it." Cao Yue also ordered that the two guards divisions of the First Guards Army, equipped with muskets, prepare to take the initiative to attack the camp of Jiannu.

With Cao Yue's order, the 1st and 3rd Guards Divisions left the trenches one after another and lined up in several phalanxes in front of the formation, preparing to attack.

Dozens of new artillery pieces, as well as nearly 100 Franc cannons, also slowly advanced forward through the reserved passage.

One and a half Guards Divisions of the Second Guards Army led by Huang Degong were armed with muskets, which served as the flank escort of the First Guards Army, and the arch guards were on the flanks of the First and Third Guards Divisions. The rest of the two guards became the outermost guards of all the attacking men. Cao Yue also ordered 20,000 cavalry troops to assemble at a distance of about a mile behind the two sides of the musket array, ready to respond to support or pursue at any time.

Cao Bianjiao, who commanded the frontal attack, made a military order in front of Cao Yue in front of all the generals, and was willing to accept any punishment if he did not win the battle.

With everything ready, the two guards divisions in the lead, stepping through a messy battlefield, slowly marched in the direction of the camp of Jiannu.

The Ming army began to take the initiative to attack, and the news reached Dolgon as soon as possible.

Hearing this, Dorgon couldn't help but be taken aback, Cao Yue must have seen through his tricks. But how could the Ming army still dare to take the initiative to attack? Dolgon believed that Cao Yue must have been prepared for this and was confident, otherwise it would be impossible to change his tactics immediately. Because he was too jealous of Cao Yue, Dolgon couldn't help but be a little nervous, he was afraid of what would happen next. What he didn't expect was that the Qing army was incapable of guarding.

He didn't dare to be careless, and immediately ordered everyone to be ready for battle.

In fact, when Dolgon left Duoduo and Fan Wencheng last night, he made an analysis of how to deal with the Ming army's active attack and formulated a countermeasure. It's just that Dolgon thought that the Ming army would launch an active attack so soon, and Cao Yue's decision was too immediate.

The strategy has not yet been fully implemented, and everything can only be dealt with in a hurry.

Fortunately, Dorgon has commanded countless battles. I saw a lot of strong winds and waves, and I didn't panic too much, and I gave the order to meet the battle in an orderly manner. He ordered the two sons of Duoduo and Daishan, Shuotuo, to lead the Jurchen elite to meet them from the flanks, and the Mongol and Han armies were responsible for the frontal battle against the Ming army.

The frontal army will inevitably encounter the fire of the Ming army's muskets, and the losses will definitely be large, so Dolgon arranged it in advance. It is the power that allows the relatively weak Mongol soldiers and the Han army to fully meet the frontal attack, and the Jurchen elite cavalry with the strongest combat effectiveness. In the midst of chaos, he was ready to rush out from the flank and completely disrupt the musket array of the Ming army.

Without the support of field fortifications and artillery, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army must have been greatly reduced, and the Qing army will be able to defeat the Ming army with all its strength to counterattack.

Dorgon had recovered from his initial shock. He also forced himself to calm down, wanting to use a counterattack with all his strength to severely damage the Ming army that dared to take the initiative to attack. He also personally commanded the counterattack, and led a group of men to gallop up a high slope. Use a telescope to observe the situation of the battle.

The movement of the Ming army was very slow, and the huge momentum was also discounted because of the slowness of the movement, which did not give people a huge sense of pressure.

But the Ming army's slow action made Dolgon wonder, what is Cao Yue doing? Is it still to lure the Qing army to take the initiative to attack?

In the strategy formulated by Dolgon, in fact, it was not completely passive, as long as the Ming army dared to leave the trenches and take the initiative to attack the Qing army, the Qing army could take the initiative to counterattack. If the impact of the Qing army was not enough time for the Ming army to return to the trenches, a counterattack could be launched. But the Ming army attacked so slowly that Dolgon couldn't help but suspect that Cao Yue had a bigger conspiracy.

It's just that tens of thousands of musketeers lined up like a sea of mountains, raising a lot of dust and sand, completely covering up the situation behind the musketeers, and Dolgon couldn't see the follow-up movements of the Qingming army.

Dolgon hesitated in his heart, and when the time came for him to counterattack, he did not dare to order the whole army to go on the offensive, but waited for the Ming army to continue to advance. The Ming army continued to advance, and although it put pressure on the Qing army, the effect of the counterattack would be better. The flanks of the Ming army were also exposed as they continued to advance, and as the distance increased, even if the Ming musketeers wanted to retreat to the trenches, it was impossible.

And just as Dorgon forced himself to remain calm and wait for a better opportunity to fight back, Dorgon sent someone to ask for his life, asking to lead his army to attack, but Dorgon stopped him.

Finally, when the Ming army advanced to about two miles from the front of his own position, Dolgon ordered the frontal Jiannu to launch a counterattack and took the initiative to attack the Ming army that continued to advance.

It was also when Dolgon gave the order and the tens of thousands of Jiannu assembled in front of him launched a counterattack, and the slowly advancing Ming army stopped advancing.

This did not surprise Dorgon, what surprised him was that as the counterattack of the Qing army began to accelerate, from behind the Ming army, several loud roars were heard.

"It's not good, the artillery of the Ming army is also moving forward with the army," Dolgon instantly understood the reason why the Ming army's attack was so slow, it turned out that Cao Yue let the artillery advance with the attacking men and horses, but Dolgon didn't know how many Ming artillery moved forward. But he didn't dare to be careless, and immediately ordered Duoduo, and when he counterattacked, he was ready to copy the rear road of the Ming army and destroy the Ming army's artillery under great pressure first.

Soon, the artillery fire of the Ming army began to intensify, and shells began to be fired from the musket formations that had stopped advancing.

The Furlong cannon, which was advanced with the musketeers, began the test firing.

Although the range of the Franc cannon is not far, but because of its light weight and convenient transportation, it is also deeply liked by Cao Yue, so the army is equipped with a lot of equipment, and this initiative to attack also allows nearly half of the Franc cannon to march with the musketeers as suppressive firepower.

With the test firing of the artillery, one after another shells fell into the Jiannu formation, which had just raised its speed and was ready to counterattack head-on, setting off a huge explosion and overturning many Jiannu off their horses.

This is just a test firing, debugging the firing unit, and only then is the official firing.

Because a series of operating methods were formulated, and the distance estimation method adopted by the artillery in later generations was widely adopted, the debugging of the artillery of the Ming army after the test firing was very fast, and after a round of test firing, more dense shells also came roaring, and fell into the formation of Jiannu one after another. (To be continued.) )