In the blink of an eye, in early July, the army led by Dolgon himself arrived at the front line of Liaocheng and confronted Cao Yue's 80,000 Ming guards.

Cao Yue's army arrived in Liaocheng before Dolgon, but the Ming army did not take the initiative to attack the city, but only took a defensive position. This made the defenders of Liaocheng very puzzled, in order to test the reality of the Ming army, the defenders of Liaocheng took the initiative to attack several times, but they were defeated by the Ming army, and under the huge losses, they had to hold on behind closed doors.

The news reached Dolgon, and Dolgon immediately understood Cao Yue's strategy.

However, Liaocheng was not captured by the Ming army, and Cao Yue waited for the arrival of the army he led before fighting a decisive battle, which was quite in line with Dorgon's wishes.

Although Dolgon was a little jealous of the Ming army's large-scale firearms shooting, the Liaocheng area was a plain, which was very suitable for large-scale cavalry operations, and the Ming army had no strong city to defend, and the Qing army had an absolute advantage in numbers, he still believed that the balance of victory in this battle would be biased in favor of the Qing army. Therefore, after Dolgon led the army to Liaocheng, he did not delay much, and immediately personally commanded his men and horses to launch a large-scale active attack on the Ming army's position.

In the middle of July, it was still the height of summer, and the weather was still very hot. However, it is already autumn, and the weather is a little cooler in the morning and evening.

In order to keep both the soldiers and the horses in the best possible spirits, Dorgon chose to start the battle in the morning.

The low, high-pitched sound of trumpets sounded in the camp of Jiannu, and then the sound of war drums that made people's eardrums tremble began to beat rhythmically. Accompanied by the sound of horns and war drums, a group of Jiannu lined up from the camp and quickly headed towards the position of the Ming army on the bank of the canal. After assembling a few miles away from the position of the Ming army, the various Jiannu departments slowly pressed towards the canal under the command of their respective generals.

The position of the Ming army was built on the canal, and the direction of attack of Jiannu came from both sides of the canal, and there were dense arrangements of Jiannu troops on the left and right banks of the canal. The Jiannu army in both directions has a strict lineup, with various colors of flags and windward bills. A look that covers the sky and the sun. Swords and spears glittering in the sun smell of death, and endless killing machines stretch across the wilderness.

As Dolgon's personal order to attack continued, the drums and trumpets grew louder. The Jiannu who were waiting in line, under the command of hundreds of households and thousands of households, began to move slowly in the direction of the position of the Ming army, and then the speed began to increase.

Han army and Korean army. There is also the Ming army that still plays the role of cannon fodder, and they will become the first wave of attackers.

As the sound of trumpets and war drums became louder and louder, the three thousand Han Army Eight Banners and the three thousand Korean Eight Banners and the three thousand Ming troops who took the lead began to accelerate towards the position of the Ming army from the Jiannu army formation on the left bank of the canal. Similarly, on the right side of the canal, an equal number of Han and Korean troops began the first wave of charge.

In order to prevent being shot by the dense muskets of the Ming army, the Jiannu who rushed to the front carried a large oar shield, and they would use the thick oars to shield the guns and bullets for their companions behind. Immediately behind the shieldmen were the archers, who hid behind the shields. You can use the parabolic shot of the bow and arrow to attack the Ming army from behind the shield.

In order to better observe the situation on the battlefield, Cao Yue boarded the lookout of the largest warship moored in the middle of the canal to direct the battle. Ascending the watchtower with him, there were also Huang Degong, Gao Jie, Liu Liangzuo, and several of Cao Yue's personal soldiers. Each person held a telescope, and when the Jiannu army began to charge, except for a few personal soldiers, everyone else held a telescope to watch the battlefield.

"The Jiannu battle is still the same as before. Dolgon can't think of a new way of fighting, and today he has a pain in the flesh!" Cao Yue laughed and threw out a joke. Immediately ordered the warships moored in the canal to prepare for shooting.

On the shore, there were artillery positions in the defense area of each Guards Division, but the first wave of artillery fire Cao Yue did not let the artillery of the Guards Division fire, but let the artillery on the battleship fire first. This is mainly to confuse Jiannu and make them confused about the situation. The first wave of attacks were all servants. This will be followed by the Jurchen Eight Banners and Mongol soldiers, the main forces of Jiannu. These artillery pieces on the shore were used by Cao Yue to attack the main force of Jiannu.

The relatively close range of the ship's artillery allowed Jiannu to make the wrong judgment that if their army dared to advance further, the artillery on the shore would dump vengeful shells on Jiannu, who thought they were safe. Hit them off guard.

With Cao Yue's order, in addition to the big ship he was staying in, other warships equipped with rifled guns began to shoot one after another.

With the roar of cannons, black smoke suddenly rose from the warship, and after the roar of rage, the solid cannonballs with a huge whistling sound flew towards the rushing Jiannu array at an extremely high speed.

The range of solid shells can reach more than four miles, and the range of the guns equipped on the ships is slightly worse, but at least about three miles. This range was something that Jiannu had dreamed of, and Dolgon believed that the Ming army's artillery range was at most two miles, so the line of charge was assembled at about five miles, and began to accelerate at about three miles. What he didn't expect was that just as the charging Qing army was starting, the whistling shells fell.

When the high-speed flying solid bullet fell, it directly smashed a bunch of people and horses into flesh and mud, and in the high-speed gliding after landing, it directly opened a bloody and fleshy passage in the Jiannu array. Dozens of solid shells inflicted great damage on Jiannu who attacked in two directions, and at least hundreds of Jiannu were killed by solid cannonballs with huge kinetic energy.

Dorgon, who saw this tragic situation, gasped, he knew that the range of the Ming army's artillery had increased a lot, and the power must be greater. However, he did not have any intention of changing the order, he knew that the next thing the Ming army was going to shoot was definitely a flowering bullet.

The lethality is greater, but the lethality of the flowering projectile, which has a relatively short range, is what he is most concerned about. There is also the time when the Ming artillery fire stopped twice, and only after this information can he adjust the attack plan later.

The Jiannu servant army, which served as cannon fodder, suffered a lot of losses under the blow of two rounds of strength bullets, but no one dared to retreat except for the Ming army. Some of the Ming troops who retreated and fled were soon shot by the Jurchen cavalry who enforced battlefield discipline. The other Ming troops no longer dared to retreat and escape, so they could only rush forward.

"Boom!" There was another loud sound of shaking the mountains, and the Ming warships moored on the canal fired shells again. This time it was a flowering bomb, with a series of screams and whistling, one after another shells fell into the charging Jiannu array, with the explosion that rose into the sky, countless Jiannu were blown up into the sky, and there were stumps and broken arms and other fragments produced after the explosion flying in the sky everywhere! (To be continued.) )