"! It's fucking exciting! ”

In the infantry phalanx between the two wings of artillery, the nine-headed bird infantry knights watched the cannonballs roar and smash into the Tartar cavalry group from time to time, setting off bursts of bloody rain and bloody winds, stirring up bursts of people on their backs, watching with great excitement, and slapping their thighs.

"Happy, I didn't expect the artillery brothers to be so powerful!"

"That's, this is our nine-headed bird artillery, you haven't participated in the battle of the big man, at that time, our artillery brothers directly attacked the castle with that divine cannon, damn, a cannonball is nearly fifty pounds, especially at night, the cannonball rose into the air, and with sparks flashing, it was really like a meteor. At that time, the commander of our artillery regiment, Company Commander Lu, used a single cannon to collapse a strong fortress of the Dutch! A brother who had participated in the Battle of the Southeast Sea boasted excitedly, saliva foaming everywhere.

The one-eyed Qi Yuan stood in the middle of the formation with a waist knife in his hand, listening to the braggings of the soldiers, and smiling knowingly. He glanced at the Miao soldiers and the native soldiers in the array, these soldiers were the most difficult to manage along the way, and they always had to cause something to come out, either fighting or quarreling, for the sake of always some big things, what glanced at you, and was not convinced. What robbed me of my place, what smelly feet, snoring while sleeping.

Because it was scattered and reorganized during the war, Qi Duyan, the thousand president, did not all bring his original brothers, but most of them were recruits from other towns, mainly these town soldiers and white pole soldiers.

But now, these usually fierce barbarian soldiers were all full of shock and fear at this time, watching the Manchu Tatar soldiers in the distance struggling in the artillery fire.

"Look closely, where is this!" Qi Duyan said with a smile to these frightened brutes. Half of his troops were infantry armed with new firearms, and the other part was infantry with spears and swords, and these soldiers with cold weapons were mainly these new townsmen and white pole soldiers.

A lean and swarthy Miao town soldier had dry lips, he looked at Qi Yuan and asked, "My lord, this Tartar cavalry is about to rush up." Are we just standing here and standing in the way? ”

Although the artillery fire was fierce, the Tartars were also fierce and were already about to rush to the front.

"Don't worry, the more powerful ones haven't been shot yet." Qi Yuan said.

The artillerymen had already fired four rounds of shells, killing at least one or two hundred horsemen, but the Qing troops still rushed up.

Anderson was also amazed by the ferocity of these Qing cavalry, but he was not flustered.

"It's finally time for my big killer to come on, and it's time to witness the miracle." Anderson shouted excitedly, his face flushed, and he waved at the artillerymen. Shouted, "Push our howitzers up!" ”

There are four models of howitzers newly made by the Huangzhou Foundry Factory, five models of nine catties, eighteen, twenty-four catties, and forty-eight catties, which are Ming catties, corresponding to 12, 24., 32, and 64 pounds, but the 48-pound howitzer reaches more than 5,000 catties, which are not carried on the battleship, and the 32-pound ones are only more than 2,000 catties, but they are carried over.

Anderson has nine pounds and four doors. Two guns of eighteen catties, one gun of twenty-four catties, a total of seven howitzers, and the number of field guns for short cannons is the same.

"Load the shrapnel!"

Anderson personally watched as the gunner drilled holes in the disc fuse at the target distance, setting the explosion delay time. The set fuse is inserted into a shrapnel equipped with a wooden stock. Finally, it was transported and loaded into the barrel.

One by one, the regular shrapnel was loaded into the chamber of the new cannon howitzer, and Anderson excitedly gave the order to fire.

The cannon roared, and one after another shrapnel flew out of the barrel, and the propellant ignited the flame of the explosion, igniting the fuse powder on the shell. One by one, the shrapnel flew out with more momentum, and the previous solid iron bullet was even stronger. These cannonballs with wooden backs do not spin when they fly, but instead fly headlong towards their targets like shuttlecocks, with a sparkling tail.

Anderson stared at the shells.

These shells had a higher arc than the previous short cannon solid rounds. A large curve, and then fell straight towards the Qing cavalry.

"The show is about to begin, keep your eyes open!"

Anderson shouted frantically.

"Ten, nine, eight!"

When Anderson shouted one, the shrapnel finally fell on the head of the Qing cavalry, no more than a foot away.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! ”

In front of the Ming army, Zakdan led his subordinates to charge, a short distance of a few miles, but it seemed to have experienced a lifetime as long, the enemy was in front of them, but they couldn't rush through. Along the way, shell after shell bombarded and killed hundreds of warriors, who were killed in the charge before they could even take a picture of their enemies.

Shells hit again, this time in more numbers.

And, as if something different, these shells did not come straight at them, but with a very large arc like a stone thrown by a trebuchets.

"Spread out!" Zakdan watched the cannonballs fall from the sky and hurriedly shouted, but before his words fell, those cannonballs, which were still more than a foot high from them, suddenly exploded one by one.

Clusters of flames burst overhead, like the sun blooming.

Zakdan's eyes were flashed by this bright light, and he was temporarily blind, he couldn't see anything, only a white light left in front of him. His heart was flustered and frightened, and his ears were buzzing with the sound of a huge explosion like a thunderbolt.

The next moment, countless sharp sounds broke through the air.

There was a sudden huge impact on his left shoulder, and then his whole body was smashed off the horse, he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, and reached out to touch it, but he didn't touch his left hand, it was empty.

Yes!

Zakdan cried out in sharp pain, and he found that half of his left hand had been severed off with half of his shoulder bone.

The cannon howitzer was used for the first time and achieved amazing results. In particular, after Anderson made a new adjustment to the time of the fuse explosion time, he changed the original shell to explode when it was almost on the ground, and changed it to an air explosion, which exploded over the enemy's head.

Shrapnel grenades, which contained a lot of gunpowder and shotguns, successfully exploded in the air above the heads of the Qing cavalry.

Like a blooming spark, it is so brilliant and beautiful, and it brings incomparable lethality.

Each shrapnel exploded in the air, blasting countless small lead bullets at the soldiers below. Compared with the solid big iron ball, this kind of shotgun that explodes on the head is really desperate.

Each shrapnel can cover a radius of several feet, killing and injuring enemies within a radius of several kilometers below. The lead ball iron ball from the top of the head was nowhere to be avoided, and the Qing army was unexpected, and it was impossible to dodge.

One by one, the Qing troops were hit and knocked off their horses. Many Qing troops wore cotton armor, even double armor, but their mounts were at most covered with leather armor, which was impossible to defend against.

The horses were shot more, the horses were wounded and fell, and the knights who were not shot were thrown off their horses. Trampled by the chaotic war horses behind.

In this round of salvo strikes by six artillery batteries, dozens of shrapnel shells were fired, causing more than 100 casualties at once.

"Come again!" Anderson shouted, and the other artillerymen were also immersed in a huge shock at this time, they didn't expect this new type of artillery to be so terrifying.

The infantry and cavalry in the center of the artillery on both wings also kept resounding with exclamations, and the cries of God and Buddha did not stop.

"Is this the power of the cannon howitzer? This is still against cavalry, if it is used against dense infantry formations. Who can stop this? Qi Yuan said in amazement. The infantry is the most dependent on the array, and the strongest part of the infantry formation is the outer layers of shields or spears, but now there are this kind of howitzers with howitzers, which are blown up in the air from the head. It's still so far, how can this be hit?

The denser you are, the more powerful and lethal the shell will be. Even the cavalry. It is also impossible to withstand such a cannon salvo.

The trumpet sounded suddenly, and the command of the Chinese army, immediately after another round of shrapnel bombardment, issued a military order. Let the cavalry units attack.

The cavalry of the Qing army has been beaten into a sieve full of holes by artillery fire, and the morale of the army has been robbed.

"It's our turn, cavalry brothers, draw your swords, come with me, and cut them down!"

The cavalry general ran in front of the cavalry formation with his sword and horse, shouting loudly, watching the artillery show their might, and abusing the cavalry on the opposite side like dogs, and the cavalry was also very unhappy. Now, they want to prove to everyone that they will not be worthy of the great cost of the Hou Ye, and they will prove their bravery with the enemy's head.

"Slaughter them!"

The cavalry charged out and killed the Qing cavalry who had already rushed closer.

The cavalry fought out of the phalanx of the infantry and rushed towards the enemy in three groups, and in the three groups of cavalry, there was still a large space left. As they charged, Qi Yuan also waved the long knife in his hand and shouted loudly, "Prepare the firecracker, aim, and shoot freely!" ”

One by one, the Hydra infantrymen armed with flintlock pistols began to raise their guns, aiming at the approaching enemy, and shooting at the Qing army from the gap between the three cavalry teams.

Under the cover of the infantry brothers behind, the nine-headed bird cavalry quickly rushed forward, and when the distance was only twenty or thirty paces, they pulled out their short guns and slammed towards the Qing army.

After one shot, another gun was pulled out, and another blow was blown.

After firing two shots, they inserted their short guns back, raised their spears and slammed into the Qing army that had been beaten and collapsed, and each cavalryman remembered the pre-battle confession, and just rushed forward, not fighting.

Soon they rushed through the already thin military formation of the Qing army to the other side, and then they quickly dismounted, formed a phalanx, and began to take off the long guns on their backs, and fired a volley at the pursuing Qing cavalry.

After this shot, they did not care about the results of the battle, they put their guns on their backs, jumped on their horses, and began to run back from one side towards the infantry formation.

Qi Yuan waved his knife and shouted again, "Shoot the fuck!" ”

The infantry thumped in a volley, covering these cavalry to run back. The Qing cavalry that was pursuing behind immediately suffered a continuous wave of guns and fell.

The cavalry circled back to the front of the formation, regrouped, and soon completed the assembly again.

The cavalry raised their spears again, shouted to slaughter them, and once again turned around and killed the Qing army.

Impact, penetration, back again, regrouping, and killing.

The cavalry of these nine-headed birds, with the support of infantry musketeers behind them, went in and out again and again, and repeatedly rushed into battle.

No one could withstand such an attack, not to mention the Qing army that was still stunned by the artillery, among which the Han army was the first to be unable to withstand it and began to flee to the rear of the battlefield, and some simply ran directly to the front of the Ming army, raising their hands and surrendering.

Although the Manchurian cavalry was very fierce and had superb riding and archery skills, they could not fight it at this time. They began to flee, and the cavalry of the Hydra gave chase with a roar of Ouroboros.

Golden State.

Most of the men and horses led by Liu Jun sailed in Dalian Bay and landed directly on the southwest coast of Jinzhou City, although there were still more than 1,000 defenders in Jinzhou City, but mainly Han army banners and Korean spearmen, these soldiers were already frightened half to death when they saw the mighty Ming army gathered under the city.

The artillery of the nine-headed bird directly dragged several siege mortars to the city gate 200 paces ago, and then fired several 48-pound howitzer shells towards the city, and several heavy shells fell into the city over the city wall, and the violent explosion frightened the defenders in the city.

Moments later, the Han army defending the city cut down the Jurchen officers who remained in the city, and Kaecheng surrendered.

The city of Jinzhou was easily captured, and more than 1,000 defenders surrendered.

After entering the city, Liu Jun found that this large city was very withered, with a small population and few shops on the streets. After the Qing army occupied Lushun in Jinzhou, it killed many people, and later plundered many Han people as slaves and distributed them to those Jurchen generals and nobles.

Liu Jun still stopped the killing and surrendering, and the people in the city, whether they were generals or ordinary people, did not kill them. But they didn't let it go easily, all the property of these people was confiscated, and they were forcibly sent to Lushun and Zhenhai to repair the city.

As for the Han army and Korean soldiers who surrendered, Liu Jun did not give them any preferential treatment, neither let them continue to serve as officials, nor confiscate them. Liu Jun restored them to the people and let them begin to strengthen the defenses of Jinzhou, but before they were disbanded, Liu Jun gave each of them a severance pay, which was also a reward for their dedication to the city, and their respective properties were also retained.

"Does the Golden State have to be guarded too?"

"The terrain of Jinzhou is good, there is a big black mountain on the back, there is Nanshan on the right, there is Dongshan in the east, there are green mud depressions and Jinzhou Bay on both sides, guarding the Jinzhou Isthmus, which is the important place leading to Zhenhai and Lushun. If we plan to occupy Zhenhai Lushun and operate Lushun Port and Qingni Port, then Jinzhou must defend. ”

Liu Jun pointed out the importance of Jinzhou, there are two bays on both sides, and behind it is a narrow Jinzhou isthmus only ten miles wide, which is like a gateway, guarding here, and the one hundred and thirty miles behind it can naturally become a stable rear.

"Strengthen Jinzhou City, build a fortress in the north of the city, Nanshan in the west of the city, and Dongshan in the east of the city, arrange cannons, and garrison troops. Well, send someone to dig the Golden State Canal again. ”

"Digging the Golden State Canal? Is it to dig up the ten-mile Jinzhou Isthmus and connect Jinzhou Bay and Qingni Bay? The"

Many generals were surprised when they heard Liu Jun's plan, and their first feeling was that this game was too big.

"That's right, dig a strait out and turn Zhenhai Lushun into a big island!" Liu Jun confirmed that this was not true. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the support of Piao Piao Heixue, Fearless So-called, and the fourth young man of the Feng family, I had a cold yesterday, and I lay in bed for a day, and I still have some headaches today.