Duoduo gave an order, and the remaining more than 10,000 Han army eight banners, thousands of Korean eight banners, and more than 50,000 former Ming troops rushed out of the big array in a swarm, on the opposite riverbank, Dolgon, who was watching the battle from afar, almost fell off his horse when he saw this, but at this time it was too late to stop Duoduo, nearly 20,000 servants had already rushed to the river in a chaotic manner, and more than 50,000 former Ming troops had also rushed to the river beach.

On the ships of the Ming Army's naval divisions.

Scarface was looking out of the shooting hole, and saw that tens of thousands of Jiannu had rushed to the surface of the river with a howl, and a trace of inexplicable hideousness appeared on his face for a moment, and he raised his arms and shouted: "Ignition!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhang Yanlin, the sailor general standing beside Scarface, agreed in a slightly trembling voice, and his raised right arm waved down fiercely, and more than a dozen sailor soldiers who were waiting for the battle shook off the fire twist one after another, and leaned towards the lead in front of him, and the lead burned when it caught fire, and the green smoke burned outside the shooting hole, and continued to burn along the ice......

Scarface, Zhang Yanlin, and all the sailors in the cabin covered their ears and turned around and squatted on the floor.

More than 50,000 Ming troops surrendered to the army before, more than 30,000 servants of the Eight Banners were still shouting and rushing forward to kill, and 5,000 archers with blue flags were still firing arrows on the river to the Ming army's sailor warships.

The air seemed to freeze for a moment, and then more than a dozen huge red lights rose from the surface of the river, accompanied by a dazzling red light, more than a dozen mushroom clouds-like smoke rose into the sky, and violent explosions resounded in the sky, at this moment, there was no other sound between heaven and earth, only a deafening roar.

Seeing this terrible sight, all the Jiannu who were rushing forward to kill all stopped stupidly, and looked at the billowing smoke in front of them with some confusion, and the five thousand archers with blue flags also forgot to shoot arrows, and their eardrums rattled, and they could no longer hear any sound.

"Click!"

"Click!"

"Click!"

The crisp cracking sound rang out continuously.

The aware Jiannu stopped one after another, looking down one by one, the snow covering the ice blocked their view, they didn't see anything, but they could feel that the ice under their feet was shattering at an alarming speed, and they didn't know who yelled, everyone turned around and rushed frantically towards the river bank.

However, it was too late!

The ice on the surface of the canal has been blasted open by more than a dozen large holes, and the ice layer that has lost its intact surname immediately becomes fragile, just like an egg, the whole egg can withstand a lot of pressure, but if you poke a hole in the eggshell, the whole egg will become fragile.

With the crisp sound of ice cracking, Jiannu, who was crowded on the river, suddenly lost the ice support under his feet, and fell into the icy and biting river water......

The 5,000 archers with blue flags, more than 10,000 Han military flags and more than 10,000 Korean eight banners fell into the water one after another, and only the former Ming army was too numerous, and more than 40,000 people did not have time to rush to the river and survived.

On the right bank of the canal, before the Nu Formation, Duoduo was already stupid.

Among the leading generals of Jiannu, Duoduo can be regarded as experienced in a hundred battles, but the savages are still savages after all, and the wild boar skin will never learn the skills of the Han people, and he has never thought that the Ming army has done tricks on the river! A few days ago, the soldiers of the Ming army seemed to be poking the ice in vain, but in fact, it was just to confuse Jiannu.

In the middle of the piles of ice flowers, the soldiers of the Ming army have secretly buried dozens of barrels of gunpowder!

Even if it is the hardcore Han Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, I also didn't expect that in the end, these two guys were just Confucian students in the late Ming Dynasty, and what they were best at was Bagu articles and intrigue.

Yang Hao, the Liaodong Jingluo who was defeated by Salhu, and Yuan Chonghuan, the Liao Governor who was good at talking, were even touted as unprecedented national heroes by Qing history and some so-called experts and professors.

If Yang Hao had read the war book, he would never have divided the troops into four ways without having too much advantage in troops!

[Digression: The battle of Salhu is not a victory with less, considering the [***] of the Ming army at that time, as well as the situation of officers at all levels eating empty salaries, the Ming army participated in the battle with a maximum of 80,000 troops, and the strength of Houjin was about 60,000, in the actual combat process, if it were not for the bad weather that seriously affected the power of the Ming army's firearms, only Juniper's 20,000 Ningxia soldiers could severely damage Nurhachi's Eight Banners elite soldiers. 】

There is also Yuan Chonghuan, as long as he has a little strategic vision, he should be able to see how much Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Dongjiang Town, has a strong grip on Houjin, as long as Mao Wenlong is in the sky, Houjin's soft underbelly will always be on top of a sharp dagger, and Jiannu will not dare to enter the customs and wreak havoc on the Central Plains.

If Yuan Chonghuan is an excellent strategist, his wisest thing to do should be to appease Mao Wenlong, instead of building his prestige by killing Mao Wenlong!

All in all, except for Hu Zongxian, Wang Shouren, Sun Chengzong and a very small number of people of insight, there were few scholars in the late Ming Dynasty who studied the art of war, and it was impossible to talk about being proficient in the art of war.

So much so that Wang Pu, who only learned three moves and two styles of war from the TV lectures, crossed over to the Ming Dynasty, and could turn his hands into clouds and cover his hands for rain, but when it comes to the use of firearms and the tactics of firearms, compared with the people of this era, Wang Pu can indeed be regarded as a master-level bull, which is why he has repeatedly been able to rely on firearms to win more with less.

In this battle of Liaocheng, Jiannu once again tasted Wang Pu's power.

After the great shock, Duoduo finally came to his senses and yelled bitterly: "Quick, find a way to save people, what ...... save people"

Although the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Eight Banners of Korea are only the servant armies of Jiannu, how can it be said that it is forty or fifty thousand people, without these servant troops as pawns, the casualties and consumption of the Jiannu lineage will increase significantly, which is unbearable for the pitiful strength of the wild boar skin and the equally pitiful population base.

Many Jiannu rushed to the river, handed the spears in their hands into the river, and tried to pull Jiannu who was trapped in the icy water ashore.

The river mixed with ice and water is full of struggling Jiannu soldiers, the lucky Jiannu is still struggling desperately relying on a few pieces of ice floe, and the unlucky ones have already sunk to the bottom of the river, and there are many Jiannu who are familiar with the surname of the water cheered up and desperately rowed their limbs to swim to the shore, and there are already many [***] Jiannu who have struggled to climb to the riverbank......

It was at this time that Jiannu's nightmare came!

Because the 5,000 archers with the blue flag had all fallen into the water, and the bows and arrows on the shore could not reach, the Ming army sailors in the middle of the canal no longer had to worry about Jiannu's bows and arrows to suppress them.

The 5,000-hundred-thousand-hundred-hundred-thousand-hundred-thousand-hundred-hundred-square-liners-in-command, while the riverbank was less than seventy kilometers away from the center of the river, and was completely within the effective range of the Central Army's muskets.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The fire was shining and the smoke was billowing.

With a burst of violent gunfire, Jiannu, who rushed to the river to save people, and Jiannu, who had just climbed ashore after fighting for his life, fell down one by one, and the blood that flowed down quickly stained the riverbank.

Crowded by the river and trying to save people, Jiannu retreated in a panic, until he retreated far enough, and no longer dared to come forward to save people, and the Jiannu in the river had to endure the biting cold and retreat back into the water, never daring to rise easily, the firepower of the Ming army was too fierce, and the bullets that poured over were like raindrops.

The Ming musketeers also stopped firing at the right time, but as long as Jiannu had the courage to try to go ashore, a dense stream of bullets would immediately pour in, beating all those Jiannu who were lucky into a sieve one by one! The intention of the Ming army is already obvious, they want to completely block the river bank with muskets and prevent the Jiannu who fell into the water from coming ashore!

The weather is so cold now, if Jiannu who falls into the water can't get ashore in time, he will soon freeze to death, don't want to swim to other sections of the river and then go ashore, in the cold and biting river, Jiannu can't swim too far at all! What's more, after the ice broke up, the Ming army's sailor warships had already started cruising again, and the section of the river that could be controlled by fifty warships was very long.

Duoduo on the right bank of the canal almost gritted his steel teeth, but he had no choice but to watch the fallen Jiannu wail in the icy water, and watch them freeze to death one by one!

On the left bank of the canal, Dolgon finally couldn't hold it anymore!

Dolgon gritted his teeth and shouted, "Tong Yang's surname! ”

Tong Yang's surname trotted in front of Dolgon, knelt on the ground and said, "The slave is here." ”

"Pull up your Hongyi cannon!" Dolgon's eyes were hideous, and he roared hoarsely, "Boom, blast these damn Ming warships to smithereens!" There were also fifteen Niu Lu's musket teams also pulled up, and when they sank the sailor warships of the Ming army, they trapped the Southern Ming barbarians on the boat in the river in the same way and froze them to death! ”

When Jiannu entered the customs in a big way, he also brought twenty Hongyi cannons, the battle of Liaocheng was related to the life and death of Jiannu, of course, Dolgon also brought these twenty Hongyi cannons and the fifteen Niulu's musket team, Dolgon originally wanted to capture the warships of the Ming army's sailors, so he did not agree to Tong Yang's request to use Hongyi cannons to bombard the Ming army's sailors.

But now, Dorgon has changed his mind!

It is clear that it is no longer possible to capture the warships of the Ming army's sailors, and the thick ice layer has not brought good news to Jiannu, but has become the burial place of tens of thousands of Jiannu! If attacking on the ice can't capture the Ming army's sailor warships, what other way can Jiannu capture them?

Since it was no longer possible to capture the warships of the Ming army's naval divisions, why not blow them up with artillery?

"Wow!"

Tong Yang's surname agreed and hurriedly went.

Soon, twenty ox carts pulled twenty Hongyi cannons on the left bank of the canal lined up, and fifteen Niu Lu's musket teams also set up a firing queue behind the artillery array, Jiannu did not know that there were also Hongyi cannons in the Central Army, Dolgon, Tong Yang, they only heard the sound of the Franc cannon just now, although there were also Franc cannons on the Ming Army's naval division warships, but the range of the Franc cannon and the Hongyi cannon were not comparable at all.

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The Central Army Battalion, High Platform.

Seeing twenty black Hongyi cannons pulled out of the Jiannu array, Li Chengdong exclaimed, "Good girl, what the hell is the Hongyi cannon?" Twenty doors! ”

"And the musketeers." Li Ben said in a deep voice, "There are at least five thousand people!" ”

The rest of the five town commanders also looked solemn, they didn't expect that Jiannu also had a musket team and Hongyi cannons, so that the central army would have no firepower advantage over Jiannu.

Liu Rushi and Liu Qingyan couldn't help but turn their heads, and the four beautiful eyes looked at Wang Pu at the same time.

Wang Pu's expression was calm and calm, and a faint sneer bloomed at the corner of his mouth, this time, Wang Pu's well-designed trap was a serial trap, trapping and killing a large number of Jiannu to inflict heavy losses on the enemy, Wang Pu really had to deal with the Hongyi cannon hidden in the Jiannu army!

When the two armies carried out a tentative attack, Jiannu never sacrificed Hongyi cannons to attack the Ming army's sailor warships, Wang Pu suspected that Jiannu had an attempt at the Ming army's sailor warships, coupled with the weather suddenly turned cold, the canal began to freeze, Wang Pu was more sure of his guess, and set a series of traps for the plan!

"...... Sonor"

In the crisp and pleasant sound of gold and iron rubbing, Wang Pu slowly pulled out his waist knife, and Lu Liu, who was standing behind Wang Pu, immediately raised the waist knife in his hand, and the sound of neat footsteps came from behind him.

Lu Liu took a step forward and shouted: "Lift off the tarpaulin!" ”

The officers and men of the Central Army who were in place quickly stepped forward and lifted the pieces of tarpaulin, and the "things" covered with tarpaulins on the high platform immediately revealed their hideous true colors, and they were 20 Hongyi cannons, which have now been transformed into 20 cannons, and they are not the same as Jiannu's 20 cannons.

Wang Pu has already installed the 20 Hongyi cannons with crosshairs and illuminators for aiming, and also asked Song Yingxing and Fang Yizhi to summarize a set of simple and practical finger ranging methods and teach them to every gunner in the artillery battalion, although the error of the finger ranging method is very large, but the experienced gunners can accurately estimate the distance of the shooting target and adjust the corresponding shooting angle.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Without waiting for the Ming artillery on the high platform to fire, Jiannu's twenty Hongyi cannons fired first, and a cloud of billowing smoke rolled over, and twenty solid iron bullets roared and smashed into the center of the canal.

It is a pity that Jiannu's Hongyi cannon has no aiming device, and Jiannu's gunners do not know how to measure the distance with their fingers, although the target of the Ming army's naval division warships is large enough, but the hit rate of Jiannu's artillery is pitifully low, and only two of the twenty shells hit, and two holes with large pot lids were smashed on the side sides of the two naval divisions.

The rest of the shells either fell on the river in advance, or roared past the Ming army's naval warships, and one shell hit directly on the other side of the river, killing dozens of Jiannu.

After a cannonball was fired, the Jiannu gunners were busy erecting the fired Hongyi cannon diagonally, first filling it with water to extinguish the sparks in the cannon chamber and cooling the scorching cannon chamber, then tipping over the cannon chamber and pouring out the water, and then using a strip wrapped in cloth strips to clean up the remaining water stains in the cannon chamber, and finally filling it with gunpowder......

Just when the gunners of Jiannu were busy reloading ammunition, the gunners of the Central Army Artillery Battalion had already aimed twenty cannons at Jiannu's artillery position, and then knelt on one knee and half on the ground, stretched out their thumbs one by one, first closed their left eyes, then closed their right eyes, and used their eyes and thumbs to calculate the approximate distance of the Jiannu artillery array, and finally slightly sorted out the shooting elevation angle of the Hongyi cannons.

"The eighteenth gun position has been adjusted!"

"The sixteenth gun position has been adjusted!"

……

"The ninth gun position has been adjusted!"

With a loud trumpet, the gunners who had adjusted to shoot Zhu Yuan stood up one by one, and the official belt standing behind the gun position had already raised the waist knife in his hand, and twenty pairs of eyes looked at Wang Pu in unison.

"Fire!"

Wang Pu's eyes were cold, and the waist knife in his hand was slashed down.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

Twenty artillery battalion officers followed suit and waved their waist knives, and at the same time shouted hoarsely, and the ready gunners ignited the lead at the bottom of the cannon chamber with their fire twists, and then ran back a few steps away, squatted on the ground with their hands covered their ears, and the lead burned into the cannon chamber with green smoke, and soon became invisible.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Time seemed to pause for a moment, and then a violent explosion resounded through the sky.

Twenty flowering shells roared out of the barrel, and landed on the position of the Jiannu artillery camp in the blink of an eye, accompanied by a more violent explosion, the twenty flowering shells suddenly bloomed into twenty incomparably brilliant giant fireworks, a large number of fragments with scorching red flames roared and splashed around, and the Jiannu gunners and the Jiannu musket team lined up behind fell in an instant!

Although the target of Jiannu's artillery battalion position was not as big as a naval warship, at least eight of the 20 shells of the Central Army artillery battalion hit the target, and one of them directly hit the powder kegs stacked together, triggering a more violent explosion, directly blasting the two Hongyi cannons into the sky, and when they fell again, they had become a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron!

Six shells also landed in the Kennu musket queue, killing and wounding at least 100 Kennu musketeers.

"Damn, how is that possible?"

Tong Yang's eyes widened in surprise, he couldn't believe everything in front of him, as far as he knew, the Hongyi cannon of the Ming Dynasty was not much better than Jiannu, and the shooting deviation was very large, basically it was difficult to hit a target the size of a house in two steps and a hundred steps, so the Hongyi cannon was generally only used to bombard large targets such as city walls.

It was already difficult to bombard the warships of the Ming Army's naval division with Hongyi artillery, and using Hongyi artillery to conduct artillery battles was something that Tong Yang had never thought of.

In terms of the artillery surname of this era, artillery combat is indeed completely impossible, even if they are within range of each other, they can only be you hit yours and I hit mine, not only because the artillery of this era lacks the concept of artillery warfare, but also because the artillery hit rate of this era is too low.

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(To be continued)