After Hu Dawei asked Hu Zichen to ask for help, soon, Lu Xiang sent Yang Guodong, the general manager of Qian, to come to support, bringing two teams of bird guns, one team of Lu Mi guns and one team of self-generated fire guns, a total of more than 200 firecrackers. As early as the Apocalypse, the Ministry of Industry at that time gave Shanhaiguan 2,000 rods of Lumi guns in one go, except for a few of the unqualified guns, most of the rest were excellent.

This is a terrible number, which proves that the Ming Dynasty has a strong ability to mass-produce high-quality artillery and firearms. Just like all kinds of Buddha wolf machine artillery, the Qing Dynasty was unable to master this kind of high technology until the Westernization Movement, but in the military forts of the Ming Dynasty, it was just a very common firearm.

In Wang Dou's view, the Ming Dynasty did not lose in terms of whether the weapons and equipment were advanced, but more political factors in all aspects. Moreover, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the warlordization of various feeds, coupled with the bad logistics, greatly affected the promotion of all kinds of advanced firearms. Firearms soldiers need systematic and rigorous training, and all aspects of insult are a complex problem.

And the cold weapon hand, casually pull some strong men, give swords, guns and sticks, you can fight, and you can boast to the outside world that you have tens of thousands of male soldiers, occupying an important position in the eyes of the court, why not?

In addition to supporting some of the bird and the Lu Mi on the two wings, Lu Xiangsheng also had a team of self-generated firefighters. With the urgent support of the firecrackers of the supervising battalion, the Qing soldiers on both flanks encountered great resistance when they advanced to the third layer of low wall trenches.

A total of more than 400 supervising battalion firefighters constantly aimed at the auxiliary soldiers who flashed out of the trench behind the wooden shields of the Qing soldiers, and knocked them to the ground one by one. Yang Guozhu and the archers of Hu Dawei's main barracks were also desperately assisting in shooting. At this time, the Qing soldiers on both flanks had already pushed closer to the earthen wall fifty paces, and their archers posed a great threat to the Ming army behind the earthen wall, and the two sides shot at each other for a while, killing and wounding each other.

Towards evening, the Qing army retreated, and in Wang Dou's defensive line, the Qing army filled two trenches and "pushed them closer to the distance of fifty paces in front of the earthen wall." On the two flanks, Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei's defensive line, they filled in three trenches and pushed them closer to the distance of forty paces in front of the earthen wall.

After Mingjin withdrew his troops, the Qing army retreated like a tide. When they retreated, they also brought back the bodies of their own casualties, so that the Xuan army did not know how many of them were killed and wounded. When they retreated, the rough wooden shields were left between the low walls and trenches.

It seems that they are not afraid of the Ming army dragging those wooden shields away and destroying them, presumably they have "more or less such rough wooden shields in their camp." Moreover, when the archers were shooting, the heavy armor soldiers of each banner were guarding the sides of each wooden shield to prevent the Ming army from rushing out of the passage and raiding the archers between the low walls.

The Qing army's fierce and continuous offensive surprised Wang Dou a lot, and there were many reserves in his army, which could constantly replace the tired soldiers to rest. Their fierce offensive could not shake the determination of their own army to fight, and it was not known whether the defenders on both flanks would be able to withstand such tremendous pressure.

In the afternoon, the Qing troops, who were attacking the Shunxiang army's defense line head-on, finally pushed a trench town with layers of wooden shields closer to forty steps in front of the earthen wall.

Compared with the bows and arrows of the Ming army, the bows of the Manchurians and the Mongols were weaker, but they had seven buckets and an effective range of 70 paces, and only when they entered 50 paces did they have obvious lethality to the target. To break the opponent's armor, leather armor, cotton armor, iron armor, etc., it is necessary to take about 30 or 40 steps closer. However, the arrows of their arrows are extremely long, their shape is like a chisel, and the arrows have been soaked in horse manure, etc., which is difficult to take out after shooting, not to mention, the toxin spreads, and it is easy to lose life.

Closer to this distance, the bow and arrow of the Qing army greatly increased the threat to the Shunxiang military gunners, and their arrows were ruthless and accurate, and a sharp arrow rain came. Many Shunxiang gunners were shot one after another. Although their firearms were fierce, they were far inferior to the bows and arrows of the Qing army in terms of firing and accuracy.

Shun Jinjun's firecrackers, now everyone has an eight-petal hat dumpling helmet, and everyone still has a cuirass, and there is a shop armor inside, even if some people are hit by arrows, most of them can't break through the armor. Is? The girdle was pierced, and the arrow did not penetrate deep into the flesh. For these sergeants, Wang Dou still ordered them to be helped down to rest and heal.

The Qing soldiers continued to rain fierce arrows, and their archers were too numerous. The Shunxiang arms fighters behind the earthen wall had to lie down on their stomachs, and after a fight, they quickly lowered their heads and tiptoed back to pretend to be barnyard trees.

The Shunxiang army has a lot of experience in dodging bows and arrows, and half of them still have iron masks, but the whistling ** arrow rain came, and there were still sergeants who couldn't dodge, and some people who didn't have masks were hit by arrows in the face, and some people's helmets were shot down and shot through.

Despite this, the Shunxiang arms guns behind the earthen wall still kept coming, and the deafening sound of their fire guns did not seem to have been interrupted ().

From the side of the Qing soldiers, the dense gunpowder smoke in front of the earthen wall was dense, and even the howling cold wind could not blow them away, which also affected the sight of the Qing archers. Fierce flames came out from the gunsmoke, and the debris of the wooden shield on the side of the Qing soldiers flew up.

Including the two armies, Han Zhong and Wen Fangliang's two thousand total firearms soldiers of nearly 1,000 people continued to attack the Qing soldiers in front of the earthen wall. From time to time, Qing archers and auxiliary soldiers who filled in the trenches were hit and rolled to the ground, and the casualties on both sides continued to expand.

It seems that because of the fierce fire of the Shunxiang army, the Qing troops attacking the frontal defense line advanced slowly, but they did not stop raining arrows, and those followers still kept throwing mud and filling the trenches, so that the Shunxiang army with earthen walls did not dare to take it lightly.

The battle on the front is stalemate. Looking at the fierce battle in front of him, Wang Dou was calm on the outside, but he was secretly anxious inside. The battle seems to have been difficult, and from yesterday afternoon to this afternoon, the casualties of the musketeers in his own army have reached more than 200 people.

Moreover, since yesterday afternoon, although the Qing army has also suffered casualties, most of the dead are the slave cannon fodder such as Aha and Baoyi who filled in the trenches of various brigades. Their heavy armor soldiers, and even the five hands wearing iron-inlaid cotton armor in each banner, suffered few casualties, and the prospects are not optimistic if they continue to fight like this. ))$ Old White Bull:

Well, resume the update today. My throat hurts badly these days, probably because I smoked too much. In the past, one pack of cigarettes for three days gradually increased to one pack of cigarettes a day, and three or four packs of cigarettes on the last day. Alas, the cigarette smokes more and more, and the throat hurts every once in a while. It seems that you should smoke less cigarettes and try to return to the previous pack of cigarettes a day.

In the past few days, some book friends are worried that the follow-up chapters will not be easy to write, and as of the end of the day, everything is under control. This book is still written in strict accordance with the prior outline plan, so you don't have to worry. There are also discussions about Lu Duchen, it seems that the Chinese people are willing to plan and use strategies, but in fact, in the face of the strength of the duel, no strategy can be used. As in the First World War, no intrigue can be used except for the vigorous efforts of both sides.

There is one more chapter in the evening.