The smoke in front of the Qing army's position dissipated for a long time, and the Yangzhou army did not continue to shoot during this period, and Yan Yingyuan would not order the artillery to fire with all its strength until he saw the shooting effect clearly.

Hundreds of artillery guns fired at the same time to frighten the Qing soldiers on the position, although there were trenches and fortifications, the casualties of the Qing soldiers were not too large, but many people were still frightened to the ground.

Luo Jian was also observing the shooting effect, a hundred shells did not kill the Qing soldiers much, the fortifications and bunkers played a key role, Luo Jian felt that he had to concentrate his firepower to attack a section, the firing range of the artillery just now was too wide, resulting in too scattered firepower.

Just when Luo Jian was about to let someone inform Yan Yingyuan, Yan Yingyuan had already discovered this problem, and Luo Jian's telescope allowed him to see everything on the Qing soldier's position more clearly than others.

Yan Yingyuan commanded the artillery to quickly adjust the shooting of Zhu Yuan, the front of the shot just now was more than a mile, and the shooting effect was not good, this time Yan Yingyuan adjusted the front of the shot to about 200 meters.

The Qing soldiers on the opposite side did not wait long, and after a few minutes, a hundred artillery pieces rang out again, and this time the place where the smoke rose from the Qing army's position was much smaller.

Yan Yingyuan did not order the artillery to stop firing, and only stopped after a series of five salvos.

As soon as the artillery stopped firing, Liu Zhaoji ordered a group to attack, and with Ma Yingkui's order, a small phalanx began to run quickly, rushing towards the smoke of gunpowder that had not yet dispersed.

At the forefront of the charge formation is a row of shield bearers, these shields are not the kind of Ming army in the past, this is specially made of steel in the Guazhou steel mill, even the Yangzhou rifle bullet can not penetrate a little farther, although the weight is slightly heavier, but a soldier can still carry it.

The sappers in the back also followed quickly, carrying planks and ladders to prevent the trenches dug by the Qing soldiers from being too deep and affecting the advance of the troops.

Ma Yingkui ran at the front of the queue wearing the reconstructed armor, and when he was close to the position of the Qing soldiers, he saw that there was still some distance between the front trench and the earthen wall piled up behind, and Ma Yingkui estimated that there were still fifty or sixty steps.

There were not too many Qing soldiers sticking out of the trench with their heads and holding firearms and bows and arrows, and it is estimated that the first few volleys just now gave them a lot of casualties.

When they reached a place fifty or sixty meters away from the trench, Ma Yingkui commanded a group to stop, and the shield bearers quickly lined up in front.

The Qing soldier's musket had already fired, and the lead bullet clanged on the shield, but the shield hand felt that the impact was not violent, indicating that the range of the Qing soldier's musket was still insufficient.

A group of riflemen soon opened fire, and as the gunshots rang out, puffs of smoke began to rise above the clouds, and the musketeers and archers of the Qing soldiers in the opposite trench kept falling, until the Qing soldiers lay in the trench and did not dare to show their heads.

Geng Jimao stood on the city wall of Dangshan County and watched the battle ahead, and the Yangzhou army's hundreds of cannons fired at the same time made him feel deceived, and the gap with what he knew in advance was too big, which made him have serious doubts about whether he could hold Dangshan County.

The idea of giving up Dangshan County and retreating to Guide was inflated in Geng Jimao's heart, but Geng Jimao still forcibly suppressed this thought, and he also wanted to see if the Yangzhou army could attack Dangshan City, of course, the main thing was to retreat without a fight, and he couldn't explain it in front of Duoduo.

Seeing that the Yangzhou Army's infantry began to attack the position, Geng Jimao's heart suddenly lifted.

As the number of buckshot shots from the trench became less and less, Ma Yingkui ordered the regiment to continue to attack forward.

Several small phalanxes ran from the array to both sides, which was to prevent other Qing soldiers in the trench from reinforcing this position, and the area of more than 200 meters was enough for the Yangzhou army to break through the defensive circle of the Qing soldiers.

The small phalanx in the middle continued to approach the trench under the cover of the shield, only a dozen steps away, there was no lead projectile in the trench, Ma Yingkui took the lead to run to the side of the trench, seeing that the trench was not very deep, and the corpses of the Qing soldiers were lying at the bottom of the ditch.

Ma Yingkui beckoned, and the sappers behind him quickly ran to the trench, and soon the planks were erected on the trench, and a passage of more than 30 meters was opened up.

Liu Zhaoji saw clearly from behind, and was extremely happy to see that the first regiment had quickly broken through the trench of the Qing soldiers, and immediately ordered the third and fourth regiments to quickly follow and continue to advance towards the positions of the Qing soldiers, while covering the two flanks of the first regiment.

"Governor Dadu, why don't you see the general cannon of the Qing soldiers?" Huang Degong stood next to Luo Jian, also carefully observing the battlefield, and saw that the general cannon of the Qing soldiers had not sounded, so he asked Luo Jian suspiciously.

"Immediately notify Division Commander Liu and ask him to be careful of the artillery of the Qing soldiers." Luo Jian did not answer Huang Degong, but said to the herald.

The heralds galloped quickly to the headquarters of the 1st Division, which was commanding at the front.

"The front line of defense of the Qing soldiers is a trench, so naturally there is no way to erect artillery, you look at the mound behind it, the artillery must be there." Luo Jian saw that the herald had run out, so he turned around and said to Huang Degong.

The heralds arrived but it was too late, and Ma Yingkui's regiment had already rushed to the next line of defense of the Qing soldiers, which was a row of mounds.

The Qing soldiers behind the mound were not seriously damaged during the shelling of the Yangzhou army, only a few unlucky eggs far away from the mound were injured by shrapnel, but the Qing soldiers who were close to the mound were unharmed.

On the front of a regiment of attack, the Qing soldiers placed two general cannons behind the mound, seeing the Yangzhou army attacking, the Qing soldiers began to get nervous, the gunners held red iron drills, stared at the fire rope of the general cannon, and waited for the general's order to ignite.

Geng Jimao didn't know which direction the Yangzhou army would attack from, so he had to scatter dozens of general cannons, although these general cannons were much lighter than before, but they were still a lot heavier than the Yangzhou army's artillery that could be pulled by mules at any time.

The firecrackers of the Qing soldiers also raised the firecrackers in their hands, lying on the mound of dirt and aiming at the Yangzhou army, and there were still more than a dozen steps before the Yangzhou army was about to enter the range of the firecrackers.

More Qing soldiers rushed in this direction from other defensive areas, and some soldiers also rushed over with the general's cannon, the main attack direction of the Yangzhou army has been determined, and the Qing soldiers must strengthen the defense in this direction.

Ma Yingkui had already seen the cannon barrel of the Qing soldiers sticking out from behind the mound, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good, and when he was about to order the troops to retreat, the cannon of the Qing soldiers behind the mound had already sounded.

Hearing the sound of artillery on the Qing army's position, Luo Jian's heart tightened, staring at the soldiers in front of him, and seeing that the shield bearers in the front row had fallen, Luo Jian closed his eyes in pain.

However, when Luo Jian opened his eyes and looked again, many fallen Yangzhou soldiers got up from the ground, and Luo Jian was both happy and a little surprised.

Although there are many soldiers in a regiment who fall to the ground, there are not many who are really fatally injured, this is not because the power of the general artillery of the Qing soldiers is not good, several factors have caused this result.

First of all, the artillery of the Qing soldiers fired too early, there is still a distance of seventy or eighty meters from the artillery, and the artillery of the Qing soldiers uses shotguns, and the range of the shotguns is of course not as good as the solid bullets.

The second is that the protective effect of the shield of the Yangzhou Army is really good, it is basically impossible for the shotgun to penetrate the shield at this distance, and most of the soldiers who fell to the ground were pushed down by the huge impact force.

A few more guns were quickly set up on the Qing army's position, and the gunners were nervously loading solid lead bullets, and the two guns just now did not shoot well, and the generals of the Qing soldiers also found out, this time they learned a long lesson, and all of them were replaced with solid lead bullets.

Ma Yingkui's battlefield reaction ability was really good, as soon as he saw that the troops were being shelled, he immediately ordered the troops to retreat to the trench, and the regiments behind also quickly ran to the sides, and the next few solid lead bullets all failed.

Liu Zhaoji saw clearly from behind, and saw that the Qing soldiers reacted very quickly, and there were already more artillery on the opposite side, so he had the intention to attack in a different direction, but seeing that the Qing soldiers' artillery was moving quite quickly, he thought about it and broke off this idea.

Luo Jian calmed down in front of the position in the back, and the Yangzhou army's attack was blocked, and he was also a little anxious, but Yan Yingyuan's artillery did not shoot well at the target behind the earthen wall, and if the artillery was ordered to shoot again, I am afraid it would only be a waste of shells.

The Qing soldiers behind the mound came out one after another, and individual Qing soldiers arrogantly stood on the mound and pointed at the Yangzhou army and laughed.

Luo Jian suddenly remembered the twenty mortars equipped for the first division, and was a little puzzled why Liu Zhaoji didn't use them, the trajectory of the mortars can be extremely high, and the shooting effect on the target behind this kind of shelter should be the best.

Luo Jian greeted Huang Degong, and rode straight to Liu Zhaoji's forward command position with Zhao Quan and several escorts.

"Division Commander Liu, why don't you attack with mortars?" Luo Jian patted his horse and walked up to Liu Zhaoji and asked.

"Governor, how do you attack with mortars?"

As soon as he heard Liu Zhaoji's questioning, Luo Jian knew that Liu Zhaoji did not know much about the performance of mortars, and some regretted that he had forgotten about it before the war, and only regarded mortars as accompanying artillery for infantry and assigned them to the first division, and forgot to tell them about the performance of mortars.

After a while, Yan Yingyuan also rode over, it seems that he also discovered this problem, the firing specifications of mortars are summarized in his artillery unit, and he also knows a lot about the performance of mortars.

With Liu Zhaoji's order, more than 100 soldiers came to the front line with mortars and shells on their backs, and stopped a mile away from the Qing army's position.

Luo Jian and Yan Yingyuan personally adjusted the two mortars, and then the two shells flew into the sky.

The soldiers of the Yangzhou army and the Qing soldiers saw it clearly, and they felt a little strange when they saw the two shells flying into the sky, but the Qing soldiers soon became strange, and the two shells smashed directly behind the earthen wall.

Both shells were a bit far away, and only a few Qing soldiers were blown up.

Luo Jian and Yan Yingyuan made a little more fine-tuning, this time the two shells just fell behind the earthen wall, and with the sound of two explosions, the shouts coming from behind the earthen wall could even be heard clearly by Ma Yingkui, who was eighty or ninety meters away.

The other gunners quickly adjusted their mortars according to the firing angle of the two, and then twenty shells fell from the sky towards the Qing position.

Geng Jimao saw on the city wall that the second line of defense had blocked the attack of the Yangzhou army, and his heart suddenly became happy, and he secretly said that there was no need to run away now.

Who knew that not long after, the Yangzhou army got dozens of strange-looking artillery guns and fired at the position, the Yangzhou army could not see the situation behind the earthen wall, Geng Jimao could see clearly on the city wall, with the continuous explosion of shells, the Qing soldiers fell down in groups.

With a few loud noises behind the earthen wall, Geng Jimao's heart rose again, and he knew that this was the fire that the Qing soldiers had piled up on the position was hit.

Luo Jian personally commanded the mortars to fire five shells each and then stopped, at this time Ma Yingkui was already ready to attack, as soon as the sound of the cannon stopped, a group quickly rushed out of the trench and rushed towards the earthen wall.

There was no more cannon sound from behind the earthen wall, and when Ma Yingkui rushed through the earthen wall with a group, the first thing he saw was the corpse of a Qing soldier, and then the back of the Qing soldier who was desperately fleeing behind.