Although Shuotuo felt that Duoduo was sure of defeating the Ming army, he was still trying his best to contact Kong Youde's department stationed in Tieshan.

Only Kong Youde has a naval army in his hands, and if he wants to drive away the Ming warships on the river, he has to go out with a sailor. So Shuo Tuo ordered people to take a small boat, trying to sneak to the other side.

But as soon as the boat was halfway up the river, it was spotted by a warship.

The tragedy soon struck, and the warship did not even fire its guns, but directly rammed into it. The boat was smashed in two, and the people on board fell into the river, where they were shot with muskets by the sailors on board.

A letter was found from the corpse, a letter asking Kong Youde for help. After Su Buheng received the report, he immediately became vigilant.

"Although Kong Youde's sailor is vulnerable, he also has to guard against it. I don't know if the ten armed merchant ships led by Yan Shiliang annihilated them. If we are not annihilated, it will be difficult to resist a sudden attack on us. Su Buheng estimated in his heart.

Now Su Buheng only has seven ships in his hands, and to block such a long river, it is naturally impossible to gather together, and it is very likely to be broken one by one.

For this reason, Su Buheng hurriedly sent a warship to inspect the mouth of the river, once he found the Qing army sailor, immediately set off ten cannons to give an alarm, and after the nearby warships heard the alarm, they fired ten more cannons, and passed them upstream one by one, and after hearing the alarm, they should immediately gather on a wide river downstream.

On that wide stretch of the river, there was plenty of room to set up a position, but the entrance was very narrow, making it ideal for combat. If there is a water battle on the narrow river, Su Buheng will not be able to line up the warships and warships.

Seeing that the boat sent by Shuotuo was sunk, he couldn't help but be angry, and in a fit of rage, he ordered the Hongyi cannon in Zhenjiang City to be moved out and set up on the river bank to shell the Ming warship.

Zhenjiang was used as the rear to attack Korea, and there were more than 30 Hongyi cannons in the city, which were prepared for attacking Korea.

However, because the Hongyi cannons were too cumbersome, they were only placed in Zhenjiang, and if the Joseon king refused to surrender, these Hongyi cannons were transported to Korea for siege.

Su Buheng saw in the telescope that the Manchu Qing was carrying more than a dozen Hongyi cannons to the riverbank, and couldn't help laughing, "Jiannu really has no one in his eyes, and he dares to set up artillery under our noses." ”

"They're not too stupid to set up artillery in piles." Wen Bangliang also laughed.

"Prepare for shelling~!" Su Buheng ordered to the herald.

The order was given, and the shelling soon began. I saw a roar from the guns on the side of the Qingdao, and the shells bombarded the artillery positions on the riverbank.

In an instant, two Hongyi cannons and dozens of runners were blown up and flew directly. The gun carriage of one of the Hongyi cannons was blown to pieces, and the entire cannon body was blown up three or four meters, and then fell again...... The artillerymen on the shore were so frightened that they lay on the ground, and after Niu Lu Ezhen, who was supervising the battle behind, got up from the ground, he was furious and cut down two Han artillerymen in a row.

The artillerymen were under high pressure and began to fire back.

"Boom Boom Boom Boom ......"

The Hongyi cannon made an earth-shattering cannon sound, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the riverbank. The Qingdao began to evade shells on the river and retreated directly to a distance of 500 meters.

The effective range of the Hongyi cannon is only about 500 meters, and the farthest can hit more than 1,000 meters, but it has no power if it exceeds 500 meters.

The Qingdao is a captured batavia, a warship made of oak by Europeans, and the kind of shells outside the effective range can only cause minor damage to the hull, which does not affect the operation at all, and the soldiers on board can repair it, and there is no need to pull it back to Longkou for repair.

Retreating to a distance of 500 meters, the artillery had already finished loading, the Qingdao stopped in place, Su Buheng gave the order for free shelling, and for a time the side line artillery opened fire one after another.

The cannonball, which was like a ball of light, landed on the river bank, blowing up dozens of large craters, and five or six Hongyi cannons were hit, one of which was directly hit the barrel, and the barrel was blown into a U-shape, and flew backwards for more than ten meters before stopping.

After the shelling, the Qingdao again began to evade the shells, and once the artillery was reloaded, it stopped to aim. In this way, in less than ten rounds of artillery shelling, all the Hongyi artillery on the shore was destroyed.

The Qing army was unable to pull away these Hongyi cannons in time, and the thirty Hongyi cannons were easily destroyed by the Qingdao, and Shuotuo saw from a distance without tears.

The Red Cannon is a treasure! Casting a door must cost a huge amount of manpower, consumables are even more huge, so far only two hundred doors have been built, he did this, thirty doors are gone, Shuo Tuo really wants to swallow the Qingdao on the river at this moment, but unfortunately he is not a mythical god and demon.

The messenger could not be dispatched, and the artillery battle was defeated and lost, so Shuoto had no choice but to wait for nightfall, this time he sent a dozen small fishing boats to sneak across the river.

It was very difficult to block the river at night, and it was impossible for Su Buheng to intercept all these ships, so this time Shuotuo finally sent messengers to the opposite bank, and hurriedly went to Tieshan to ask Kong Youde for help.

…… But he said that Kong Youde, when he saw the arrival of a large-scale Ming army sailor that day, he sensed that something was wrong, and after letting the sailor attack, it didn't take long for the sailor to collapse.

Kong Youde saw that the situation was not good, so he took a warship directly and escaped by chaos. When he arrived at Iron Mountain, he still felt cold behind him, and this time he was afraid that it would be difficult to deal with.

That Zhao Yan has a grudge against him to kill his father, if he is caught, it will definitely be worse than death. This made Kong Youde even more determined to defect to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and at the same time, as soon as he arrived at Tieshan, he began to gather the remnants of the defeated sailors.

Kong Youde has two sources of sailors, one is the warship built by Yuan Keli and Sun Yuanhua, and the other is that when the governor of Shandong appeased him, he was deceived by him and grabbed dozens of ships.

His warships once reached hundreds, but when he reached Shuangdao Bend, he was attacked by Huanglong, the commander of Lushun, and lost most of them, and now he only has more than fifty warships in his hands.

Previously, Phi Dao encountered the Ming army's naval divisions and lost more than ten ships. At present, there are only more than 30 warships, and there are more than a dozen that I don't know where to go, probably because they have escaped and are lost.

Nearly 20,000 people were lost on Phi Island, which shrank Kong Youde's troops to 10,000, but these 10,000 people were his backbone troops, and most of the troops lost on Phi Island were new soldiers, and Kong Youde was not very distressed.

With these 10,000 people in hand, they can still mix in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Not long after he returned to Tieshan, the messenger from Zhenjiang arrived.

The news from Zhenjiang surprised Kong Youde.

"The Ming army actually came from the sea? Also blocked the river? Kong Youde shouted loudly, combined with the Ming army's dispatch to Phi Dao, Kong Youde realized the seriousness of the problem, and immediately reported to Huang Taiji, who was besieging Nanhan Mountain City, but Kong Youde ignored Shuotuo's request for support from the sailors, and waited for Huang Taiji's will first.

At the same time, in his report to Huang Taiji, Kong Youde exaggerated the number of Ming troops supported by Phi Dao as 30,000.

On that day, Yan Shiliang did not pursue the Manchu Qingshui division that had fled, because they had to cover the landing of the first infantry battalion of the Liaodong Army on Phi Dao.

After the first battalion landed, Yan Shiliang led ten armed merchant ships and headed directly towards Iron Mountain. In order to attack Phi Dao, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had gathered at Iron Mountain before, and this time they fled, they also headed for Iron Mountain.

Yan Shiliang knew that his main task was to prevent the Manchu Qing sailors from entering the Yalu River, and at this time the First Fleet had begun to blockade the Yalu River.

Therefore, Yan Shiliang simply ordered to go to the mouth of the Yalu River to wait for the rabbit, which was the safest. Huang Taiji, as the emperor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was besieged in Korea, and he would inevitably break out of the encirclement at all costs, and the Manchu Qingshui division would inevitably hit the muzzle of the gun.

…… Just half an hour after the landing of the third battalion, Duoduo, who was stationed on the Liaodong Peninsula, also received news that seven or eight thousand Ming troops had landed in Zhenjiang, and hurriedly gathered his disciples with white flags to rush to Zhenjiang.

Duoduo's white flags were inlaid with one person and two horses, and 100,000 hurried towards Zhenjiang. Along the way, the men and horses did not stop, and finally it took an hour to arrive at the landing site of the third battalion.

An hour and a half had passed, that is, three hours, and the third battalion had already set up a tight fortification, and at the same time all the war materials had been moved off the ships, and after the successful landing, the forty fleets composed of flying clippers and merchant ships returned to Longkou again, and the thirty merchant ships transporting the first battalion of the infantry of the Liaodong Army had also begun to return at this time.

These seventy ships are all the money that Zhao Yan can mobilize, and this time all of them stopped commercial activities and devoted themselves to the war against Liao.

Dodor gasped when he saw the fortifications of the third battalion.

"Prince Yu, they have arranged thistles in front, and they have also pulled up a down-and-down iron net, and there are three trenches and a low wall in the back, if we rush over, we will inevitably suffer a big loss." One of the cows who had arrived earlier said to Duoduo with a sweaty face.

"It's hard to deal with." Duoduo's face was solemn, but he never despised the Ming army in front of him, although he was young, but the 50,000 horses led by Azig were defeated in the pass, and the Ming army must have good combat effectiveness.

However, Doze decided to test it first, and after nearly half an hour's rest, the horses had recovered. Immediately ordered a white flag to lead the team to attack the Ming army, the Jiala Ezhen was not afraid, after receiving the order, like a hungry wolf, let the war horse trot, and brought the 1,500 people he led out of the array, Le Ma turned, immediately drew out the war knife, and pointed forward: "Kill!" ”

Li Ran saw that the Qing army sent a Jiala to rush in, so he naturally knew that this was just a temptation, and immediately ordered the musketeers to take position, and the rockets and artillery ignored them.

In addition to rockets and artillery, Li Ran also has a killer feature, that is, the three warships hidden behind. These three warships can come forward for fire support at any time, but Li Ran didn't want to be exposed too early, so he let the warships drive to the back and hide.

"The first row of reserve ......" the commander shouted, his eyes fixed on the rushing Qing army, when the Qing army entered a hundred and fifty meters away, the flag in his hand fell heavily: "Shoot!" ”

"Bang Bang ......"

The sound of gunfire like fried beans exploded, and the three hundred musketeers pulled the trigger in unison, and a dozen Manchu cavalrymen who were charging in front suddenly dismounted and were trampled by the hooves of the horses behind.

These Qing troops were all Manchurian Eight Banners, the most elite troops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they were all wearing armor and cotton armor, and the lethality of bullets was not strong at a distance of 150 meters.

The first platoon finished firing and quickly retreated, and the second platoon quickly stepped forward.

"Second row...... Shooting ......"

"Bang Bang ......"

This time, there were more Qing soldiers who fell, reaching forty or fifty people.

"Third row...... Shooting ......"

In the previous round of shooting, there was not much success. But by the time the first row of musketeers came forward to shoot from Xin, the Manchus had already rushed within a hundred meters.

At this distance, the cotton armor on the Qing soldiers was no longer defenseless. After listening to the gunshots, hundreds of Qing soldiers fell off their horses.

It had already entered the sprint stage, and the charging speed of the Qing soldiers was increased in an instant, and when the second row of musketeers stepped forward, they had already rushed into the fortified area eighty meters away.

......The war horses in front of them collectively let out a mournful roar, and the spikes on the thistles pierced into their soles fiercely, causing the horses to kneel directly on the ground.

The momentum of the charge suddenly stopped, and within a distance of ten meters, it was densely packed with thistles, some of which were specially made thistles inserted into the ground, and more were ordinary thistles sprinkled directly on the ground.

The cavalry of the Qing army trapped in this area was simply unable to move an inch. It's not going forward, it's not going back, there's only a dead end to move forward, and you're afraid of making people laugh at when you go back.

The armor was really ruthless, and he roared behind him and ordered people to rush forward. As if they were not dying, the Qing army rushed into the area covered with thistles, and the horses continued to be stabbed to the ground, and the Qing soldiers above were also thrown down, and then stepped on the thistles, making heart-rending screams.

The shooting continued one after another, constantly harvesting the lives of the Qing soldiers who rushed into the eighty meters, which was a nightmare for the Qing soldiers who stopped the momentum of the charge, and hundreds of people were killed in each shooting.

Finally, more than half of the Qing soldiers who were killed and wounded rushed to the barbed wire, and in the face of this barbed wire stopped, and it was completely stagnant, the horses hit the barbed wire, and they could not be knocked down at all, and the barbed wire was driven into a wooden stake every five meters, and these stakes were driven deep into the ground, where could they be knocked down.

The sword in front of the barbed wire slashed and slashed, trying to destroy these barbed wire. However, the barbed wire fence has little force point, and it takes a lot of force to cut one of the swords, and the lower one usually bounces the sword.

They wanted to destroy the barbed wire, but they did not agree to the bullets that kept coming, and the bullets kept killing the Qing soldiers who dismounted and cut the barbed wire.

Finally, the Qing army behind couldn't stand it anymore, and the Jia Lae Zhen fled directly with the remnants of the defeated general, and when he fled to the main formation, there were only more than 500 people left.

Thousands of people fell on the charge, and Duoduo's face twitched in distress.

It was just a temptation, and he paid such a heavy price, and the strength of the Ming army on the other side was really beyond his expectations.

It should be said that the fortifications of the Ming army made him suffer a lot. As soon as this side retreated, several Ming soldiers carried a large bag and got out from under the barbed wire.

I saw these Ming soldiers carrying bags, stepping on the corpses of Qing soldiers, and sprinkled with thistles in the destroyed area.

Seeing this, Duoduo would let the Ming army get his way. Immediately ordered a hundred people to come forward and shoot.

However, just as the 100 people rushed into a distance of 300 meters, suddenly gunshots rang out. I saw more than a dozen Qing soldiers neighing and falling to the ground, and several Qing soldiers were shot and fell from their horses.

"What's going on?" Duoduo couldn't help but be surprised, this was three hundred meters away! Surprised: "How could the firearms of the Ming army fight so far?" ”

"Prince Yu, I'm afraid it's a big gun." The bystanders replied that the Ming army used a very large firearm, which was erected on a rack, like a machine gun, but it was a single shot, and the firing was very cumbersome.

"Why didn't I see that?" Duoduo was puzzled, he didn't see any big guns in front of the Ming army at all. Only a few dozen Ming soldiers armed with muskets were seen shooting.

Just as they were talking, gunshots rang out again. Immediately after that, more than a dozen Qing soldiers were shot, and then the gunfire continued sporadically.

In almost every shot, a member of the Qing army was shot. This kind of bullet is very domineering, and even cotton armor has no ability to stop it from three hundred meters away.

This is a new type of musket developed by the Ordnance Bureau, equipped with rifled guns with rice bullets, with a range of 680 meters and an effective range of 500 meters against cotton armor.

The third battalion was also equipped with dozens of such rifled guns not long ago, and Li Ran selected 50 people with the best marksmanship and issued them guns to form a marksman company.

Under the sniper fire of these marksmen, the hundred Qing soldiers rushed a distance, lost nearly half of the men and horses, and then ran back to the formation.

"It's so hard to deal with!" Duoduo had completely put away his contempt in his heart, so he let the army retreat three miles back and camp. He is not willing to gnaw this hard bone alone and spell out the white flag, what will he be Prince Yu in the future?

According to Duoduo's meaning, if this hard bone is to be gnawed, everyone should gnaw it together, so that it is fair. After he retreated to three miles away, he immediately asked people to ask Shengjing (Shenyang) for help.

As soon as Duoduo retreated, Li Ran immediately ordered his soldiers to clean up the battlefield and continue to dig deep into the fortifications.

The corpses of the Qing soldiers were collected, the armor was stripped off, the heads were removed, and then thrown directly into the sea to feed the fish, and the sappers began to repair the damaged fortifications.

The rest of the soldiers began to build fortifications, and Li Ran decided to dig five trenches, each five meters wide, behind the barbed wire, through which they could lay wooden planks.

In addition, five more low walls will be built in the back to serve as a buffer.

"My lord, this time a total of 1,056 real prisoners were captured, and there were no casualties in our army." Soon the results were counted, and Li Ran nodded with satisfaction.

…… In the afternoon of the same day, Dai Shan led the Zhenghong Banner to arrive, and Dai Shan learned that Duoduo's attack was not going well, so he inspected it from a distance, and saw that Li Ran's third battalion was well fortified, and he was not very willing to gnaw on this hard bone.

Daizen and Duoduo consulted and decided to ask Haug for help. Haoge sits in Shenyang, and there are also Mongolian Eight Banners stationed outside Shenyang, as well as four Han banner armies.

These are all excellent cannon fodder, and they can be found again when they die, but their Manchurian disciples are not so easy to replenish.

Haoge received a request for help from the two in Shengjing, coupled with Shuotuo's intelligence, and hurriedly led 60,000 Mongolian Eight Banner soldiers, plus 30,000 Han Army Eight Banner soldiers, to help Zhenjiang.

(To be continued)