Although Liu Zhaoji looked down on the red-coated cannon of the Qing soldiers, he knew that once this thing was fired, the lethality of the huge solid shell was no less than that of the Wehrmacht shell.

After waiting at the city gate for the artillery to maneuver outside the city, Liu Zhaoji found Yan Yingyuan.

"Liheng, did you find the Qing army's red-coated cannon?"

"Senior Commander Liu, our observation post has already discovered it, don't worry, we will knock out these things first."

Yan Yingyuan said to Liu Zhaoji while organizing the troops to go out of the city.

"Good! So I'm relieved. After Liu Zhaoji finished greeting, he quickly walked out of the city gate.

The Qing troops had already approached too close, and the artillery had to set up a position a few hundred meters away from the city wall, which Yan Yingyuan had already seen yesterday, and before all the infantry were in place, the artillery had already built a position.

The Qing army brigade has already set up a formation, more than 100,000 people have set up, the formation is very scary, there are rows of artillery in front, the thick cannon body in the middle is the red-coated cannon, the two sides are mainly general cannons, and the number is at least seventy or eighty.

Behind the artillery of the Qing soldiers is a brigade with the "Tianzhu Army" as the main force, which seems to be no less than 30,000 or 40,000 people, and it is also divided into three parts of the middle army and the two wings, and there are thousands of cavalry leading horses waiting behind the side, which is the standard field formation. Far away from the tens of thousands of Qing soldiers, Hong Chengchou personally led nearly 100,000 horses and horses in a loose formation and waited.

Seeing that the Qing soldiers were so numerous, the people on the city walls began to worry about the Wehrmacht.

Yan Yingyuan returned to the city wall, stood high and saw far away, and all the formations of the Qing soldiers were in full view. Yan Yingyuan held a telescope and carefully searched the location of the Qing soldiers' Chinese army.

The red-coated cannon is a direct-fire artillery, and it must not be placed behind the infantry like the Wehrmacht, Yan Yingyuan directly saw a row of red-coated cannons arranged in front of the Qing army, and the Qing gunners were ready to shoot.

Yan Yingyuan saw that there were many generals of the Qing soldiers behind him, and a few people were watching the battle on a hillside, but this hillside was far away from the range of artillery, it seemed that Hong Chengchou had already been prepared for the artillery of the National Defense Army, and Yan Yingyuan was originally going to send the thirty special shells to Hong Chengchou, but now seeing that it was too far away, he had to regretfully let go of this idea.

Wooden watchtowers were erected on the artillery positions, and the observers had already climbed to a high place to observe the formation of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side, and the gunners had already prepared to shoot.

The cavalry division did not leave the city through several gates in the north, but went out of the city from the east and west directions, and their purpose was very clear, that is, to wait for the first and second divisions to defeat the Qing troops and block the way of the "Tianzhu Army".

Gu Yuanjing rode a horse and walked side by side with Liu Zhaoji, looking at the huge formation of the Qing soldiers, compared with the more than 20,000 people in the two divisions of the National Defense Army, the formation was too far behind, and Gu Yuanjing also beat the drum in his heart.

The 1st and 2nd Divisions stopped more than 3 miles away from the Qing soldiers, and they were still outside the range of the Qing soldiers' red-coated artillery, and the 30,000 Ming troops from the city of Guangzhou followed the flanks and rear of the 1st and 2nd Divisions.

Shang Kexi did not command the troops at the forefront, he also knew that the artillery fire of the Wehrmacht was powerful, so he only dared to observe outside the range of the artillery, and saw that the Wehrmacht was neatly shaped, advancing and retreating freely, looking at the muskets on the shoulders of the Wehrmacht, he was also secretly frightened, he did not see the artillery of the Wehrmacht, and the dense formation of the first and second divisions blocked his vision.

Tens of thousands of Qing soldiers and archers are also lined up in a neat queue, they are the long-range strike force in the "Heavenly Aid Army", Shang Kexi pointed to them to carry out heavy casualties on the Wehrmacht, and now seeing that the Wehrmacht is full of muskets, he no longer has this kind of thought.

"The whole army is in an offensive formation!" Seeing that all the troops were in place, Liu Zhaoji gave an order.

The troops of the 1st and 2nd Divisions quickly ran small distances, and soon formed small phalanxes, each of which was about 200 men, which was decided according to the situation of the Qing troops on the opposite side, and if the enemy had few people, the number of people in the phalanx would also be reduced.

The long-term training made the Wehrmacht extremely proficient, and soon a separate small phalanx was formed, and Gu Yuanjing was speechless, thinking about how the troops could be trained like this.

After the infantry formed an offensive formation, Liu Zhaoji continued to order the heralds beside him: "Order the artillery to fire!" ”

According to the observed situation on the city wall, Yan Yingyuan had already reported the shooting to the artillery position, and the position was ready to shoot, and as the flag and whistle reached the artillery position behind the formation, the artillery commander on the position gave the order to open fire.

With a few cannon shots, a few sporadic shells flew towards the position of the Qing soldiers, Liu Zhaoji and others knew that this was an artillery test firing, but Gu Yuanjing and other Ming army generals looked at Liu Zhaoji in puzzlement, Liu Zhaoji did not speak, just pointed to the position of the Qing soldiers, so that everyone could pay attention.

Only two shells landed in the ranks of the Qing soldiers, and the others came close.

Although the two shells killed and injured more than a dozen people, the impact on the Qing soldiers was not great, and Shang Kexi was about to order the red-coated artillery to start firing as well, but there was a dense sound of artillery under the city of Guangzhou.

After adjusting the shooting of Zhu Yuan, Yan Yingyuan gave the order to fire a salvo, and the power of a hundred artillery pieces firing at the same time was not trivial, and the Ming army and the people on the city wall a few hundred meters away from the position were instantly shrouded in smoke.

"Oh my God, I've grown so big, I've never seen this formation!"

"Who's to say it isn't? So many cannons of the Yangzhou army are really powerful, I think this battle is won! ”

"It's not enough to win, I heard that the generals of the National Defense Force said, 'Tianzhu Army' is not a single person left, 'Tianzhu Army' is really a bunch of brutes, when Shaozhou slaughtered the city, I had a distant relative whose whole family was killed by them."

As soon as the cannon fire passed, there were bursts of exclamations on the city wall, and the discussion became louder, but there was no way, the sound of the artillery was too loud to be heard if it didn't speak loudly.

A hundred shells covered the red-coated artillery position of the Qing soldiers, and after the continuous explosions, clouds of smoke rose from the red-coated artillery position, and soon even Shang Kexi, who was more than a mile away from the red-coated artillery position, could not see the position clearly.

The second salvo did not wait long, but after thirty seconds, the sound of artillery sounded again from the artillery position, this time still targeting the positions of the red-coat artillery and some other small guns.

Before the third cannon sounded, Liu Zhaoji gave the order to attack.

With Liu Zhaoji's order, the small phalanxes of the Wehrmacht began to run forward quickly, and the gunners still carried their rifles on their shoulders.

Yan Yingyuan, who returned to the position, stood on the high platform erected, raised the binoculars in his hand to look at the Qing army's position, the smoke on the position had not yet dispersed, and it was very unreal, but Yan Yingyuan still observed carefully, and saw that the infantry had attacked, Yan Yingyuan did not care whether he saw it clearly or not, and gave the order to fire again.

He wanted to try to knock out the artillery of the Qing soldiers, so as to reduce the casualties of the Wehrmacht.

Before the infantry reached the Qing artillery position, the artillery fired two more volleys, and although the smoke from the shells made the artillery observers unable to see the situation clearly, the Qing soldiers could not see the situation in the distance at all, and they did not even know that the Wehrmacht infantry was not far away.

When the first attacking phalanx of the Wehrmacht stepped on the Qing artillery position, all they saw was a mess, full of large general artillery and other small cannons that could not be named, although the red-coated artillery did not move its position, but it was surrounded by the corpses of the Qing artillery men lying on the ground, and there was not a single person standing on the entire position, obviously the artillery positions of the Qing soldiers had been completely destroyed.

When the smoke on the Qing artillery positions gradually dissipated, and the attack formation of the Wehrmacht was less than half a mile away from the Qing troops, Yan Yingyuan gave the order to open fire again.

Hearing the sound of artillery behind them again, Gu Yuanjing and the generals of the Ming army looked back at the artillery position in surprise, they were surprised that their own people had already stepped on the artillery position of the Qing army, was this to hit their own people?

They didn't know that the Wehrmacht's artillery was now firing at an extremely fast rate, and they thought that the artillery was still firing at the original target.

Waiting for the cannonballs to fly overhead, and then looking ahead, a cannonball from the black crow was flying towards the Qing soldiers' brigade, and soon exploded in the queue of the Qing soldiers.

As a matter of fact, this kind of artillery synchronization unit had already been rehearsed in Xuzhou when it was in initial coordination, and the main purpose was not to give the enemy troops a chance to reorganize after a large number of artillery casualties.

As the infantry phalanx continued to approach the formation of the Qing troops, the artillery fire gradually extended forward, and the formation of the Qing soldiers was already in chaos.

Shang Kexi was already stunned after the battle, the red-coat cannon and the general's cannon that he had high hopes for were all destroyed without firing a single shot, he really didn't expect the Wehrmacht to have such a fierce artillery fire.

By the time Shang Kexi reacted, the formation of the "Heavenly Aid Army" had been completely disrupted by the artillery fire, and the soldiers began to flee in all directions, dodging the shells that were constantly flying over.

The small phalanx at the front was already less than 50 meters away from the Qing soldiers of the brigade, Yan Yingyuan gave the order to stop shooting, the artillery quickly put away the artillery, the mules and horses were quickly led from behind, and the artillery had to maneuver two miles further, and set up a position there to prepare to block and shoot at the Qing soldiers who might come to help.

The commander gave the order to open fire, and the musketeers in the front row opened fire on the formation of the Qing troops, and the musketeers who had finished shooting the bullets in the guns stood still and began to reload, and the gunners in the second row quickly stepped forward with their rifles and opened fire.

The Wehrmacht riflemen shot extremely fast, and the four rows of gunners became one, and when the fire did not stop at all, the "Heavenly Aid Army" on the opposite side had already fallen one by one.

As more and more small squares rushed up, the "Tianzhu Army" could no longer hold on, and began to retreat backwards, but behind them was the supervision team sent by Shang Kexi, seeing the Qing soldiers rushing backwards, the supervision team slashed towards them with bright swords.

Under the threat of the overseer's broadsword, the large group of Qing soldiers turned and ran in the direction of the Wehrmacht, and were soon knocked to the ground in rows.

At this time, Yan Yingyuan's artillery was gaining all the time, and whether his artillery could be maneuvered in place and effectively intercept and shoot at the Qing reinforcements in time would become the key to the success or failure of the entire campaign.

Hong Chengchou, who was watching from afar, saw that the defeat of Shang Kexi's "Tianzhu Army" had been decided, and was about to order Shang Kexi to withdraw, but he saw a large number of cavalry appearing on both wings of the "Tianzhu Army" and was outflanking the "Tianzhu Army".

When Hong Chengchou saw it, he was shocked, he didn't expect that in the face of the Qing army's more than 100,000 horses, the Yangzhou army wanted to leave all the "Tianzhu Army" behind.