The ant-like dense coat pushed the shield cart forward, and more coats in the back filled the small potholes, and they had filled the potholes dozens of paces ahead, but the signal to withdraw the troops had not yet sounded.

The field artillery of both sides bombarded each other, the black iron balls with a scream smashed the shield carts one by one, and countless coats flew in the shelling, still unable to stop those coats from approaching step by step, and the Houjin soldiers who supervised the battle forced them to move forward, and shot the retreating coats without mercy.

The artillery of the third battalion brought by Chen Xin was strengthened to this section, and the artillery pushed the cannon up to the breastwork, and quickly prepared on the reserved gun position on the breastwork, and the four eight-pounder guns began to roar one after another, and the artillery reinforcements from other defensive lines also came from the wide passage behind, and the artillery density here doubled. The smoothbore cannon had good accuracy at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, and the sturdy locust wood was like paper paste in front of the artillery a hundred paces away, and the gunners maintained a rate of about two rounds per minute, and continued to kill and wound the Houjin soldiers.

The artillery of the third battalion concentrated on dealing with the field guns of Houjin, and after several consecutive salvos, several shield carts on both sides of the bronze cannons of Houjin soldiers were broken into decomposed wooden blocks, and the gunners suffered casualties under the blows of those wooden blocks, and the two Jiannu field guns fell silent, one of them was also hung by a four-pounder shell, and the gun body and wheels flew high, and the other was so lonely that it was cut out of the line.

Chen Xin took a closer look, it looked a little like the four-pounder gun in Dengzhou, but the cannon wall seemed to be much thicker, and the whole gun body was very low, so it didn't seem like a field gun.

After the golden shield car array was shattered, behind those crooked and tattered shield cars were countless still busy coatings, and the furlong machines that began to be silent began to scream with joy, and the ultra-high rate of fire of five or six rounds per minute swept through the uncovered coatings, and the shells between a few taels and a pound cut through the human body and turned into flying pieces of stumps. Turning the filling of the post-gold pit into an expensive job.

Liu Pojun gave an order on the earthen wall, asking the artillery to speed up the rate of fire to hit the archers and coats behind, the artillery roared endlessly, the chest wall in front of the earthen wall flashed red, and the defending Lushun garrison shot those rockets one after another.

One rocket after another was thrown far away, and it was not clear how many of them were shot in the smoke, and these rockets were not selected this time. It was transported with a container, and there were many shoddy ones, some of which fell after only flying more than 20 steps, and some of which turned around after flying out, and some of them even turned around directly. From Chen Xin's head, there was no shadow.

Chen Xin shook his head secretly, the Ming army's armament system is worrying, in the past, Dengzhou Town was also very difficult to choose rockets in the arsenal, it was necessary to look at the weight and the process to see the batch, the overall situation of some batches is good, and more will be selected, and the weight is to see if it cuts corners. This time, Wang Ting's test was in a hurry, and everything he thought could be used was transported to Lushun, and these things were transported, and Liu Pojun gave them all to the garrison. Let them all go out.

Chen Xin can also understand Wang Ting's feelings, it was Chen Xin who put forward a new tripartite policy for Wang Tingqian, Dengzhou's status is becoming more and more important, and this year's military salary budget has reached 1.6 million. It is also a slight increase from last year, and Wang Tingtry eats kickbacks and smuggled dividends every year to a soft hand. He has military merits to take, and he is not afraid of building slaves to besiege the city, but now the governor of Denglai is a fat shortage, and there are many people staring at the court. If Lushun is lost again in this case, the saliva of the imperial historians can drown him.

He was worried that the rockets flying around might ignite the gunpowder of the artillery, so he looked back with some anxiety, there was a fixed gun emplacement next to it, and the gun emplacement opened a gap in the earthen wall, and the front was filled with a bamboo basket more than one person high, and there were half-human high soil bags at the bottom, and behind the gun emplacement was a semicircular open space, and then there was a zigzag tunnel, and ten steps behind the gun emplacement was a small ammunition depot with wooden planks, and the ammunition for this gun emplacement was there, and there was no problem in protection.

At this time, Liu Pojun's flag waved, Dai Zheng on the left wing just returned a banner, and Zheng Sanhu on the right wing also returned the flag, after a drum sounded, several detachments rushed out of several passages at the same time, they ran from the passage to the outermost horse barrier, and then jumped into the half-man high curved horse barrier, and used the bayonet flintlock pistol in his hand to shoot at the Houjin soldiers who had lost cover.

The dense platoon of guns left the Houjin soldiers no longer had time to fill the pits, and they all hid behind the remaining shield carts, and the archers flashed in the shield workshop, firing at the Dengzhou soldiers who only showed their heads.

A group of coats were escorted by a few bayaras, rushed to the lonely field cannon, they attracted the attention of the Dengzhou soldiers, the soldiers of the detachment on the opposite side fired a volley, and the dense coats howled miserably, two field guns also shot there, six pounds of shells pierced the crowd, none of the flesh and blood passages were intact, and the field cannon was almost surrounded by falling limbs.

The rest of the coats scattered and fled, being shot to death by Houjin's bow and arrows one by one, and then another group of coats were sent to push the cannon, trying to move the cannon, and the corpses and wooden blocks piled up around were already stacked to more than half of the wheels, not to mention moving the artillery, it was difficult for them to even walk on their own, and this group of coats was once again wiped out by both sides.

The life of the coat seemed so cheap in the flying firepower of the opposing sides, so humble that it was worth only a piece of sawdust that flew out.

The Dengzhou artillery on the earthen wall increased the rate of fire, and the fragments of the shield car after breaking were like a bomb, more powerful than solid bullets. The Houjin generals finally couldn't bear the casualties, and the rear formation sounded gold twice, and the Zhenghong Banner of the Zhengshan Ezhen Banner retreated, and the Houjin soldiers on the front line retreated like a tide.

As soon as the horn sounded on the earthen wall of Dengzhou Town, several officers commanded loudly, and the detachments jumped out of the barrage with the non-commissioned officers in front, lined up to pass the remaining potholes, shouted and rushed to the position of the shield line, chased the retreating Jiannu with muskets and shot, and then killed the wounded soldiers on the ground with daggers.

Liu Pojun's banner moved again, and hundreds of auxiliary soldiers poured out of the passage, carrying shovels and hoes on their backs, and waist knives in their hands, they rushed directly to the shield car position through the passage, and desperately harvested those heads with waist knives, whether they were alive or dead, they were all cut with a knife. A few sentry horses rushed out of the passage on both flanks, and swam around the battlefield in the middle, taking a look at the scattered heads along the way.

"Firepower is king, Jiannu is in front of this position, and he can't fight us." Chen Xin smiled faintly.

Liu Pojun let out a long breath at this time, it was the first time he commanded such a big battle, and the pressure in his heart was very great, and his spirit was highly nervous. As soon as Chen Xin arrived just now, Liu Pojun seemed to have a backbone, and that nervous mood eased a lot.

"My lord, I have killed nearly a thousand, and this is the first time I have gone out to cut off my head, and the ones I killed a few days ago were all transported and burned by the Tartars themselves. These days have been artillery battles, and our casualties are very few, but today's small artillery hits several breastworks. There were quite a lot of casualties. ”

"Don't worry about hurting your head, we've cut enough Tartar heads." Chen Xin pointed to the detachment in front, "They all marched in formation when they passed through the guò pothole, are there still mines buried around the pothole?" ”

"My lord, there was no such thing in the previous plan. Later, the subordinates found out during the exercise that they could set up more traps, and the mine guns were buried within 40 steps close to the barrage ditch, and the Jiannu along the line had not yet come in, so they were added to the plan, not only in the pothole area, but also in the barrage ditch, I wonder if the adults have seen the latest defense plan. ”

Chen Xin had seen a defense plan before. At that time, I was very careful, and I checked with the officers of various departments one by one, but then I didn't have time to look carefully, and this kind of detail naturally couldn't be found.

He didn't answer Liu Pojun either. Looking at the auxiliary soldiers who cut off people's heads, he smiled: "These auxiliaries are all from Dongjiang Town in the past, after this battle, they can also become a combat force, but unfortunately there is not so much silver to raise more soldiers now." For the time being, I can only farm. ”

Liu Pojun arched his hand and said: "My subordinates feel that they are no worse than ordinary battalion soldiers. At least in terms of discipline. In Lushun for more than a year, he was able to eat well, and his body was better than most of the battalion soldiers. ”

Chen Xin smiled and turned back to the topic, "This defense operation is still directly commanded by you. ”

Liu Pojun was stunned for a moment, he thought that Chen Xin would personally command when he came, Chen Xin caught a glimpse of his expression, nodded at him and said approvingly: "The details of the defensive operation in Lushun are all formulated by you, your personal command is the best, the front is very good, is there anything else that needs my help?" ”

"The subordinates feel that Jiannu has not yet exerted his strength, and now several attacks are all temptations, or trying to fill the holes. The subordinates deduced that they would have a night attack, and there would be a big attack in the back, and Huang Taiji would not be able to explain it if he didn't fight seriously. This person has some Taoism, and he rarely loses in battles, this is the first time he has directly confronted him, and his subordinates always have a kind of worry in their hearts. ”

Chen Xin searched everywhere in the telescope, but did not see Huang Taiji's big name. The auxiliaries in front had already cut off their heads, they took out shovels and hoes, and began to dig those holes again, and some even picked up the soil, so as not to be used by Jiannu again, this is the advantage of controlling the battlefield, and this section is always under the fire control of Dengzhou. As long as Jiannu can't attack it once, the auxiliary soldiers will come out and dig the pit. In this way, hundreds of people died in vain, and every qiē was restored to its original state.

Chen Xin said lightly: "Don't think about Huang Taiji so much, his records are all from other border armies, and he has no victory in front of my Dengzhou Town. After all, he is only one person, we are rich in materials, and the plan comes from many staff officers and officers, and the base that should be thought of has been thought of, and he is not a god, no matter how powerful a person's head is, can it be more powerful than many of our officers and staff officers? What's more, Huang Taiji has more experience than us in terms of fighting, but if you want to talk about qualifications, you may not be able to compare to you Liu Pojun, throw away the worries about those reputations in your heart, just like when we were under Gu'an City, no one dared to be the Jiannu soldiers, we just defeated Jiannu, looking back, but that's it. ”

Liu Pojun's heart was relieved, he did have a fear of the Houjin army at the beginning, especially the Huang Taiji leader, that was the slave chieftain, the name of Nurhachi was like a demon in Liu Pojun's heart, and it always affected him, so he determined that after the Houjin army arrived in Jinzhou, he repeatedly asked Zhu Guobin to give up the Kiba Station as much as possible, reducing the time in the original plan.

At this time, after listening to Chen Xin's words, his heart knot seemed to be opened, and one by one the Houjin generals who were blown into invincible generals were killed and captured alive, and even Niu Luyi really wanted to surrender, on the real battlefield, what is the use of Huang Taiji's reputation. Dengzhou Town is like a rising sun, dispelling the clouds of Liaodong.

Chen Xin observed with a telescope, the Houjin artillery on the opposite side were all evacuating, they could not fire if they were not fixed, and said to the newly promoted attendant officer next to him: "Put up my recognition flag." ”

The flag of the general army was raised, the red flag of six feet was hunting and fluttering in the sea breeze, the soldiers of Lushun Nancheng were the first to find Chen Xin's banner, they cheered loudly, this is the middle of the battle line, all the soldiers can see it, the entire Dengzhou defense line is thunderous with joy, and the momentum is like a rainbow.

Chen Xin enjoyed the cheers of the sea under the banner, but his eyes looked at the Houjin army formation in the distance, he squinted his eyes and laughed in a low voice: "Huang Taiji, I tell you and I are here, now you should always work hard." ”