As a result, Wei Zheng, who was full of shock, quickly regained his composure, and ordered Zhou Shuyuan behind him with a stern face: "Military Division, according to the original battle plan, prepare for battle." Ten trenches outside the city of Guò, mass destruction and wounding of the enemy. ”

No sooner had hundreds of musketeers and gunners entered the positions than the Tartar offensive began.

It was not unexpected, and this time, although Dolgon did not really have a specific way to restrain the tiger and leopard army. However, there are still a lot of countermeasures.

Under the gaze of Wei Zheng, a shield wall glowing with silver light, pushed and assembled by thousands of infantry followers, slowly appeared four hundred steps in front of the position of the Tiger and Par Army.

When Wei Zheng raised the monocular and saw the true face of this shield wall, he couldn't help but gasp for Dolgon's generosity.

It turned out that the shield walls placed in front of the infantry and the soldiers, without exception, were all heavy shield vehicles captured by the Tartars. Dolgon, who had suffered a big loss in front of the Haw Par Firearms, in order to further increase the defense of the shield car and reduce the damage caused by the Haw Par Firearms to his own soldiers. All the shield carts facing the enemy side were very extravagantly added by Dolgon's iron plate.

In such a situation, it is already difficult to push these shield carts with manpower alone. However, Dolgon, who had plundered a large number of cattle from the Ming Dynasty, had an idea, and directly chose to use the oxen behind the shield cart and pushed the shield cart forward step by step.

As a result, there was such a scene on the battlefield......

Propelled by the armored ploughing oxen, the heavy shield wagons lined up slowly advanced towards the position of the Tiger and Par Army. The Tartar infantry, who was hiding behind the shield wall, held a weapon in one hand and a shield in the other, and attacked with a weak face.

Seeing this, the contempt and puzzled expression on Wei Zheng's face was directly replaced by a trace of solemnity, and he sighed to his subordinates behind him: "Dolgon's preparation is very sufficient...... With the help of these siege engines, the power of our firearms will be reduced by at least half. ”

Seeing the expressions of his subordinates behind him, who were also slowly calming down, Wei Zheng suddenly turned around and said, "However, no matter how strong the Tartar is, the shield cart can only be used on flat ground. By the time they start their siege, all of these shields will be turned into chicken ribs. Not only does it not help them block attacks from overhead, but it also slows down their attack. ”

Speaking of this, a smile full of weirdness quickly flashed away from Wei Zheng's face. He continued to his subordinates behind him, "Now I finally know why Dolgon the Tartar would risk attacking us when the morale of his troops is so low? It turned out that he had Dolgon to rely on. ”

Zhou Shuyuan, the military advisor, said: "General, with these shield carts as a support, coupled with the continuous infantry in Dolgon's hands, Dolgon will definitely be able to capture several defensive lines we have arranged outside the city. ”

"That's right......" Wei Zheng replied with an affirmative nod.

"In addition to these dependencies, Dorgon had another purpose. Tong Guò won a few battles against us, to restore the increasingly low morale of the troops, he wants to kill two birds with one stone......"

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng's face had already recovered unconsciously. Facing Zhou Shuyuan, he ordered in a firm tone: "Military Division, the Tartar attack is about to begin, order the brothers who participated in the battle to enter the position immediately, strike at the enemy according to the predetermined plan, and kill and wound the enemy's troops." Tell the brothers that you must not fight to the death with the enemy, and give up your position when it is time to abandon it. The total strength of the Tartars is several times that of ours, and we cannot afford to fight to the death with them. ”

"Boom, boom, boom......" A series of cannons sounded on the front line of the position, and ten black shells with a whistling sound flew towards the shield wall where the Tartars were constantly pushing forward at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The distance of 300 paces is the best range for a medium-sized Franc to fire solid shells. If the Tartars captured the shields of the officers and soldiers, these shields would have been smashed by the cannonballs under the attack of solid shells.

However, what happened on the battlefield in front of us was beyond everyone's expectations.

After the shield cart reinforced with steel plates by the Tartars, in front of the shells, the table showed its strong defensive capabilities. The black, solid cannonball hit the iron plate wrapped around the shield car, and after only making a pit in the iron plate, it was bounced off by the iron plate.

A round of shells passed, not destroying a shield cart covered with iron plates.

Seeing that the shield cart blocking in front of him was unscathed, thousands of infantry followers immediately accelerated their attack as if they had suddenly been beaten......

The gunners of the Tiger and Leopard Army who were holding the defensive line were also stunned, looking at the shield wall in front of them with a look of incredulity, as if the round of shells that had just been fired was not fired by themselves.

However, several officers who had already received the order from Wei Zheng reacted after only a moment's stunned look.

He shouted to his stunned subordinates: "What are you doing in a daze, there is an iron plate in front of the Tartar shield car, as long as we continue to fire shells, we can penetrate the iron plate and kill and injure the Tartars and infantry who are hiding behind the shield car." ”

"Boom, boom, boom..."After the ten Franc planes fired five rounds of shells in a row, the tight shield wall blocking the Tartar infantry finally showed a trace of movement.

Ten black cannonballs struck the iron plate with a whistling sound, and were no longer bounced off the iron plate as before. The iron plate, which was still impregnable just now, was lightly torn open by ten large holes like paper under the attack of these shells.

After passing through the iron plate, the cannonball continued to crash into the wooden shield of the shield cart.

Wooden shields are not iron plates, and all it takes is a hard blow to smash them to pieces.

Although the scattered shield fragments killed and injured many infantrymen, the power of the solid cannonballs ended here. The iron plate that stood in the way of the squatting cart, except for a shell hole, was still standing intact on the shield cart, blocking the Tartars and infantry in front of the followers.

However, the power of the solid shell was still like a stimulant, which made the gunners more motivated.

Soon, the tight shield wall was devastated by solid shells, and there were black holes of bullets everywhere.

However, because the iron plate canceled out most of the power of the shells, although the cannon sound on the battlefield was constant, it did not cause much damage to the infantry and Tartars who were blocking behind the iron plates.

At will, in the eyes of all the Haw Par Army, the shield wall, which was devastated by the cannonballs, still moved forward step by step, slowly.

Soon, the arrows fired by the Tartar archers began to arrive on the battlefield, to the positions of the Tiger and Par Army. Facing the subordinates who had already begun to suffer casualties, and facing the shield wall that was still advancing step by step in front of them, an order quickly spread across the battlefield.