Cao Yue was surprised by the two rounds of Jiannu's attack with artillery bombardment, but he was also very happy.

The power of the new artillery was tested in the war, and the effect was even better than he expected. Of course, Cao Yue knew that the artillery made with this technology at this time could have such great power, and a very important factor was that Jiannu had no experience in how to deal with artillery attacks.

Jiannu's attack formation was very dense, and after the artillery bombardment began, it still maintained its original formation and continued to attack. This dense storm trooper formation is purely for the sake of death, allowing the explosive power of the artillery to be maximized. If Jiannu's charge formation is scattered, lying on the spot while the cannon is firing, and then getting up and continuing the charge after the cannon explodes, the gun's lethality will plummet.

After two rounds of shooting, Jiannu stopped attacking and stopped attacking, which also surprised and puzzled Cao Yue. But the battlefield was full of black smoke, and it was impossible to see clearly with a telescope standing on a high place.

Jiannu did not attack again, and Cao Yue did not dare to be careless, so he ordered the elite team to dispatch to reconnoiter Jiannu's movements. At the same time, the soldiers were ordered to continue to prepare, replenish food and water, check weapons, organize artillery, and prepare to counterattack the attack of Jiannu again.

Although it is said that the men and horses of the party are at a disadvantage in numbers, Cao Yue is not worried, he feels that the defensive position he has deployed is tight enough, and the firepower configuration is also very good, as long as Jiannu does not change his strategy and continues to attack in this way, the one-sided result of the Bali Bridge Battle between the Manchu Qing and the Eight-Nation Alliance Army recorded in history will still appear.

An army equipped with cold weapons fights an army equipped with hot weapons, and as long as there is no accident, the army equipped with cold weapons basically ends in a crushing defeat. The firing distance and lethality of bullets and shells are incomparable with cold weapons, which can completely determine the outcome of a war.

In the original history, the reason why the Ming army was in a good position in the confrontation with Jiannu was that the most important factors were nothing more than a few: one was the poor overall quality of the army, coupled with the corruption of military discipline; The second is the failure to make good use of firearms. These two factors make Jiannu, who is good at riding and shooting. Gained the upper hand when the two armies faced each other.

But now, under his role, the Ming army has basically completed the transformation from cold weapons to hot weapons, the most equipped in the army is muskets and artillery, used to deal with the enemy's weapons, but also hot weapons, bows and arrows, spears, knives, swords, these cold weapons, have been relegated to a subordinate position, in the case of muskets and artillery can not be used, will use these cold weapons with much less lethality.

And the soldiers who have undergone rigorous training. It has also basically adapted to the combat mode of hot weapons.

Except for the First Guards Division, which is mostly composed of veterans, the other Guards Divisions are divided in this way, and the difference is only the proportion of new recruits and veterans.

Many of the veterans of the reorganized old army were elite men, and some of them, although they had never used muskets, had been on the battlefield and had seen death and killing. Therefore, there is not much fear in the face of the enemy's fighting. The use of muskets is not complicated, and after seeing the great lethality of this powerful weapon, everyone loves this new weapon.

Cao Yue believed. As long as Jiannu is not equipped with firearms on a large scale, the two armies will face each other, and Jiannu will never be able to win, even if most of his troops are recruits.

It was in Cao Yue's optimism. Most of the black smoke cleared, revealing the entire battlefield through the telescope. Soon Cao Yue found out that Jiannu was ready to attack again. And this attack, with a wider range and coming from multiple directions, used more troops. The order to immediately meet the battle was immediately conveyed, and Gao Jie, Huang Degong, and others, who were talking and laughing because they easily repelled the Jiannu attacks twice, also put the binoculars in front of their eyes again with solemn expressions, and nervously observed the situation on the battlefield.

"The Jurchen cavalry has also joined the attack," after observing for a while, Cao Yue muttered to himself, and immediately ordered: "The twenty new guns of the Third and Fourth Guards Divisions are aimed at the Jurchen cavalry at the highest angle of fire, and they will be fired with the highest frequency to destroy them." ”

Even if the Jurchen cavalry is not willing to be lonely, join the Jia regiment, and rush to the front of our Ming army together with other Jiannu who act as cannon fodder, then let them also taste the power of the Ming artillery, Cao Yue clenched his fists tightly.

Cao Yue also knew that Dolgon not only sent a servant army to attack, but also the Jurchen cavalry was sent to the battlefield, which must be to launch a large-scale attack, even if it suffered huge casualties, it would not retreat easily.

If that's the case, then give Dolgon a little more pain.

He again ordered the officers and men of the three and fourth divisions of the three and fourth divisions on the frontal defense to meet the attack of Jiannu with all their might. At the same time, the artillery battalions of the 5th and 6th Guards Divisions, which served as reserves, were also prepared to join the ranks of the battle.

By the time Cao Yue's latest order was given, the artillery had already begun to roar.

In the midst of a huge tremor, one cannonball after another whistled out of the thick barrel, flying towards the Jiannu array with a flash of sparks and black smoke. Solid and flowering shells once again flew in the Jiannu Formation, but this time the artillery bombardment caused significantly less lethality than the last time. Jiannu's attack this time, the formation is obviously not as dense as the last time, in military terms, it is to scatter in a straggler queue and rush towards the Ming army.

In such a charge, although the final impact force is greatly reduced, the damage rate will be much less when encountering artillery and musket fire.

Seeing this situation, Cao Yue couldn't help but be stunned, there were really people in the Jiannu Army who knew how to fight with firearms, and they thought of a countermeasure so quickly. This artillery bombardment is destined to be impossible to cause very much damage to Jiannu, and Jiannu will not be afraid of the huge power of the artillery and retreat, but Cao Yue did not panic, he has a lot of arrangements, and then Jiannu will slowly understand.

At this time, twenty new artillery pieces that had been hidden and inactive on the positions of the two guards divisions on the shore also began to fire in a salvo.

In the huge roar, twenty solid bullets flew towards the Jiannu array at high speed with a terrifying whistling sound, and under the gaze of many people, they flew directly past the Jiannu slave array that had already begun to charge, and landed on the Jurchen elite cavalry who were preparing to follow the Han army, the Korean army and the Mongolian Eight Banners to charge. Originally, they thought that the Jurchen cavalry was outside the range of artillery, but they didn't expect that more than three miles away from the Ming army's position, they were still outside the range of artillery, and without defense, the Jiannu who lined up densely suffered heavy losses.

In the first round of bombardment of the 10 new guns of the 3rd Guards Division on the left side of the canal, seven solid bullets fell in the densely packed Jurchen cavalry formation, killing at least nearly 100 Jiannu on the spot and wounding many more. Five of the ten shells of the 4th Division on the right side fell in the Jiannu formation, which also caused casualties among more than 100 Jiannu. And in the panic of the Jurchen cavalry, another round of artillery whistled and flew over, still solid bullets, and in the panicked dodge, there were hundreds of Jurchen cavalry casualties.

Gushan Belebolo, who commanded the second wave of attacks, had no time to dodge and was smashed into a pile of flesh on the spot by solid bullets flying at high speed. (To be continued.) )