Before dawn, Luo Jian was woken up by the guards, got up and looked at his watch, it was only five o'clock in the morning.

I didn't sleep well last night, and I had been thinking about today's battle, Luo Jian felt that he had overlooked a problem, that is, the role of artillery in the battle, and the other generals had not seen the cluster shooting of artillery at any other time except for the one at the head of Shouzhou City.

However, there was no time to think about this anymore, and by the time Luo Jian walked out of the tent, the troops outside had already begun to eat breakfast.

Watching Luo Jian come out of the tent, the soldiers with large porcelain bowls in their hands looked up at their Dadu Governor, revealing a look of reverence, it was this Dadu Governor who led them to win victory after victory.

Luo Jian greeted the soldiers along the way, looking at the young soldiers in front of him, Luo Jian actually had the feeling of being in the army in another time and space.

It's a similar scene, except that it was a drill at that time, and the soldiers in front of them will face a test of life and death, and I don't know how many soldiers will no longer be able to smile at themselves as simply as they do now.

When he arrived at a small river, Luo Jian simply rinsed his mouth with green salt, picked up a handful of cool river water to his face, and felt that he suddenly sobered up.

By the time Luo Jian put down the bowl, the troops had already left the camp one after another and headed in the direction of Qinji Town.

Luo Jian went directly to the artillery position, with Huang Degong in front of him, Luo Jian would not do the stupid thing of an insider commanding an outsider.

There were only a dozen guards who followed Luo Jian, and the rest of the guards were handed over to Huang Degong by him.

None of the five riflemen remained, and all the boxes of bullets they had brought were fired, and they were counting on the five gunners to hold down the cavalry on the right flank.

The artillery position was already ready, and the thirty-four guns were lined up in a large arc, the muzzles of the guns pointed to the Qing positions on the opposite side, and the shells were all loaded.

Two miles in front of the artillery position, the troops of the three divisions had already set up a position, the second division occupied the position of the central army, the fourth division was on the left, the fifth division was on the right, and nearly 2,000 cavalry of the three divisions were holding horses on both sides of the infantry to suppress the formation.

The land within a radius of several square kilometers is full of people and horses, if you look down from the air, it is like two huge carpets of different colors spread on the green grass, the red is the Yangzhou army, the blue is the Qing army, the Yangzhou army on the battlefield is no different from the cold weapon battle in the past.

Geng Jimao was riding on a horse, his eyes were carefully searching behind the Yangzhou army, he was looking for the "magic car" that made his heart beat, but the forest-like team of the Yangzhou army blocked his sight, allowing him to see the situation behind the Yangzhou army at all, which made him feel uneasy all the time.

Jueluo Bahana led the horse and led 1,000 white-armored soldiers and more than 2,000 Mongolian cavalry on the left side of the Qing army's array, and more than 5,000 Mongolian cavalry on the right side.

Jueluo Bahana looked at the formation of the Yangzhou army in front of him, he really couldn't figure it out, why did this Yangzhou army dare to fight with him so wildly?

In his memory, the previous Sun Chengzong, Zhao Shujiao, and Lu Xiangsheng were all defeated or even annihilated by the Qing warriors in such a battle.

The sky was already bright, and the air with the aroma of earth in the early morning was refreshing, Luo Jian took a deep breath and walked to the side of an elevated frame made of wood, Yan Yingyuan was standing on this high platform, stretched out his arms, squinted his eyes and looked in the direction where the thumb of his right hand was vertical, using the "eye-beating method" that Luo Jian taught him to estimate the distance.

Both armies were moving forward slowly, getting closer and closer, and the air on the entire battlefield seemed to be about to burst.

The two armies are less than a mile apart, Huang Degong has not yet given the order to open the artillery, Luo Jian is a little anxious, the current artillery is not accurate, and if it gets closer, it will definitely hurt his own people.

It was only half a mile, Luo Jian's heart began to tighten, and finally the walkie-talkie in Yan Yingyuan's left hand came from Huang Degong's roar of "firing the cannon".

"Fire!" Yan Yingyuan rushed to the position and gave the order in the loudest voice.

After a continuous loud bang, more than thirty black dots flew towards the heads of the Qing soldiers who were lined up in a neat line.

Luo Jian held the telescope and observed carefully, the target was too big, the shooting within the visual range, the dispersion of the shells was much smaller than Luo Jian expected, and after more than ten seconds, the black dots all fell into Geng Jimao's infantry without exception, and the shells had not exploded, and they had already smashed over more than a dozen soldiers.

Luo Jian saw it very clearly, just in an instant, the continuous explosion sound sounded in the queue of the Qing soldiers, with the sound of the explosion, as the Qing soldiers fell in pieces, holes suddenly appeared on the cyan "carpet".

On the artillery position, Yan Yingyuan gave the order to clean up the gun chamber, correct the gun position, and reload it hoarsely, and in less than a minute, the command to "open the gun" sounded again.

The first round of shells exploded in the ranks of the Qing soldiers, causing nearly 200 casualties to the Qing soldiers, and the riot of the Qing troops was quickly suppressed by the generals.

The Qing soldiers, who had just stabilized the formation, did not expect the second round of shells to fly over so quickly, and the same casualties of more than 100 people, the psychological blow to the Qing soldiers had far exceeded the casualties caused by the explosion, and almost all the Qing soldiers, including the generals who had just kept suppressing the soldiers, looked up at the sky, lest the shells fall on their heads.

After Huang Degong gave the order to open the cannon, he ordered the Yangzhou army to stop, and the archers and musketeers suppressed the formation under the cover of the shield bearers, and patiently waited for the artillery fire to disrupt the formation of the Qing soldiers.

The effect of the five rounds of artillery firing far exceeded Luo Jian's imagination, and the Qing troops on the opposite side were already in chaos, and the generals could no longer stop the chaos of the team.

Huang Degong saw that the formation of the Qing soldiers was out of order, and he waved the iron whip forward in his hand and gave the order to attack, and the archers and firecrackers first launched a blow against the Qing soldiers.

Li Chengdong carried the long knife rebuilt in the Guazhou Steelmaking Plant, and led his own soldiers to take the lead and rushed towards the Qing soldiers.

On the artillery position, Yan Yingyuan was directing the artillery soldiers to adjust the muzzle of the gun, preparing to intercept and shoot at the cavalry on the left side of the Qing army.

Jue Lo Bahana watched blankly from the rear of the infantry as the shells rang out again and again in the ranks of the infantry troops, and by the time he felt that the situation was wrong, the two armies had already been mixed up.

Jueluo Bahana reacted at this time, got on the horse and carefully looked at the situation on the entire battlefield, saying that it was no longer appropriate to say that the melee was no longer appropriate, because the Qing soldiers who were in a mess had almost no power to fight back, and the Yangzhou army, under the leadership of several generals, was rapidly advancing towards the Qing infantry army, obviously to divide them.

Jueluo Bahana felt that his cavalry should be dispatched, and with a wave of the saber in his hand, the white armor soldiers and the Mongolian cavalry began to slowly speed up the war horses, preparing to surprise the Yangzhou army from the left flank, disrupting the formation of the Yangzhou army, and giving the infantry army a chance to adjust and restore the formation.

More than 3,000 cavalry lined up in five or six rows, trotting towards the left flank of the Yangzhou army, and when there was still more than a mile away from the Yangzhou army, the formation slowly dispersed, forming a huge arc towards the Yangzhou army.

Under the command of the banner of Kyorophahana, more than 3,000 Mongol cavalry on the right side also moved at the same time as the cavalry on the left.

Luo Jian watched from the high slope and felt that the cavalry of the Qing army was like two huge pincers surrounding the Yangzhou army.

Huang Degong saw it clearly in the Chinese army, and saw that the Qing cavalry had already been dispatched, and with a wave of the flag in his hand, the four divisions and one regiment on the left immediately set up a defensive formation.

The shield-bearer was in front of the archer, followed by the musketeer, and then the pikeman, who was two meters long with a spear made of jujube wood, the tip of which was sharpened, and the pikeman knelt on one knee, holding the spear in both hands and pointing diagonally forward, ready to meet the onslaught of the cavalry.

The 5th Division and 2nd Regiment on the right flank did not take a defensive stance, but met the cavalry in an offensive formation.

In front were riflemen twenty or thirty meters apart guarded by hundreds of shieldmen, behind the riflemen were bombardiers who were also protected by shieldmen, and hundreds of musketeers followed closely with the muskets in their hands, obviously the right flank was to meet the cavalry onslaught with firepower.

The artillery positions were ready to fire, and this kind of shooting within the line of sight did not require the commander to give the order to gather fire, and each gun had already been adjusted by its own gunners, and all 34 guns were pointed at the Qing cavalry on the left.

Yan Yingyuan stood on the high platform, and his good sight in the early morning allowed him to see the situation on the opposite side clearly without a telescope, and seeing that the Qing cavalry began to accelerate, Yan Yingyuan waved down the small red flag held in his right hand heavily, and at the same time issued the order to "fire the cannon at full speed".

The first rays of the morning sun burst out of the horizon, and the earth seemed to be clothed in gold in an instant.

At this moment, Jueluo Bahana and Geng Jimao both regretted it, and the sunlight that had just jumped out of the horizon shot straight into the eyes of the cavalry, and each cavalryman felt that there was a sudden flower in front of him, and subconsciously reined in his horse and slowed down, and at this moment, there was a continuous whistling sound in the sky.

The Qing infantry who were desperately resisting the attack of the Yangzhou army were also facing the sun, and at the moment when the sun rose, the Qing soldiers subconsciously squinted their eyes, and at this moment, the Qing soldiers fell hundreds of people.

The formation of the cavalry is far less dense than the infantry, this round of shells fell in the running cavalry group, causing only a dozen horses, but the loud explosion had a great impact on the Qing cavalry, at least hundreds of horses were frightened, began to run indiscriminately, no matter how the riders on the horses controlled, it was no longer difficult to pull the horse's head in the direction of the Yangzhou army.

More than a hundred frightened horses smashed the attack formation of the Qing cavalry into disarray, and he was so anxious that Luo Bahana shouted behind him.

Before the cavalry could breathe their breath, the second round of whistling came from the sky, the damage caused by this round of shells was much greater than that of the first round, the speed of the cavalry had been increased, and the horses that had been blown over by the cannonballs had become a huge obstacle for the galloping cavalry.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Qing army was blown up by the artillery, Luo Jian realized that the flowering shells and instantaneous fuses used by the Yangzhou army's artillery had surpassed this era by one or two hundred years, and the scene he saw today made Luo Jian more determined to vigorously develop artillery.

The general of a white-armored soldier of the Qing army was lucky not to be hit by a cannonball, and with his superb riding skills, he dodged the overturned war horse in front of him, and while continuing to beat the horse and gallop wildly, he shouted loudly in Manchu, probably saying that if the Qing cavalry accelerated through this section, the artillery would not be able to hit them.

Luo Jian helplessly watched as the soldiers on the artillery position cleaned the barrel with a cloth soaked in horse urine wrapped around the wooden sticks, and carefully poured a rag dipped in water on the barrel to cool down, and a group of soldiers with tools such as pliers were waiting for the artillery to cool down after cooling.

Although the barrel is made of steel, it is only the most ordinary steel, not special steel, and the continuous shooting has overwhelmed the barrel, Luo Jian knows that if he continues to shoot, the explosion will be inevitable.

Although the more than a dozen volleys of artillery disrupted the formation of the Qing cavalry and caused seven or eight hundred casualties, the Qing soldiers quickly put out the formation after the artillery fire stopped, and it was only more than 100 meters away from the defensive position of the fourth division and one regiment.

There was no artillery fire on the right flank, and the Mongolian cavalry quickly circled around and outflanked the right flank of the Yangzhou army.

According to Luo Jian's explanation before the battle, the riflemen did not shoot, the shield bearer knelt on one knee with a wide shield, and the riflemen were in the same posture, the rifle was on top of the shield, and their eyes were staring at the galloping Mongolian cavalry.

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