"Good! Commander Tong, I will see you succeed! ”

Yue Tuo's face was grim, in his opinion, more than 100 steps of glue would definitely not be able to stop the thunderous blow of the Qing army.

"Wow! General, just look at it! ”

Tong Tulai suddenly received the order, and with a move of the long knife in his hand, he shouted loudly: "Sons, go with Ben to kill those despicable Han dogs." ”

"Wow!"

The Han army of Zhenghuang Banner, which had been prepared for a long time, held bows and guns, lined up in a neat queue, and slowly pressed towards the west bank of the Jiaolai River.

"Fire!"

Jin Li, the commander of the Red Banner Han Army, waved his hand.

Seven 600-pound cannons erected on the river beach were ignited one after another, and the first round of test firing began.

One cannon after another roared and smashed towards the Jingbei Army's defense line on the east bank of the Jiaolai River.

Because it was a test firing, and the performance of these small cannons also varied, only one cannon hit the wall of the Jingbei Army, and the rest either fell in the boiling Jiaolai River, splashing up a column of water that soared into the sky, or smashed on the river beach on the opposite bank.

"Reload, reload."

Jin Li frowned, and once again issued the military order to attack.

"Wow!"

Dozens of Han gunners, constantly nodded to the leader, although they have not been professionally trained, but they have never eaten pork, they have always seen pigs run, Kong Youde trained artillery in Shenyang, they have also seen it.

A few gunners worked hard to empty the chamber of the cannon, then filled it with powder and cannons, and then poured gunpowder into the pool and connected it to the arquebus.

The gunner waved the torch in his hand heavily, and seven cannons burst out of the barrel in response, and smashed into the wall of the Jingbei Army with a terrible whistling sound.

After a few rounds of firing, the gunners became more and more proficient, and the hit rate of the guns was much greater.

"Bang, bang, bang."

The roar of artillery in the Qing army's array was endless, and iron bullets constantly hit the wall of the wall, and even an iron bullet hit the watchtower of the Ming army's village.

"Fire, fire, fire."

Jin Li, who was in front of the formation, roared hoarsely.

Under the baptism of artillery fire of the Qing army, the wall of the Jingbei Army was smashed and the earth and wood flew together, and the rubble was splashed everywhere.

The Jingbei Army, which was deployed on the west bank of the glue, did not dare to fight back at all, because their arrows could not hit the gunners on the opposite side at all, and they would shrink behind the wall one by one to avoid the falling artillery.

"The firecracker suppressed the wall of the Ming thief, Tong Guoen, you led people to repair the pontoon bridge, today we will cross the Jiaolai River in one fell swoop and kill all those hateful southern barbarians."

Tong Tulai is also an old man, and seeing that the Ming army did not dare to move, he resolutely issued a military order for the whole army to attack.

The two Niu Lu's Han gunners lined up, they were all veterans who had followed Wuzhen Chaoha and practiced the tactics of the firearms, and they were also very skilled in the three-stage shooting method.

Although there were no auxiliaries to help reload ammunition, there was a lot of discipline between advance and retreat.

After the fire was fired, the west bank of the Jiaolai River was suddenly filled with puffs of choking gunsmoke, and lead bullets hit the Jingbei Army's wall battlements like raindrops, and the Jingbei Army, which was defending the wall suppressed by the dense firepower, did not dare to raise its head at all.

"Quickly erect a pontoon bridge!"

Tong Guoen is Tong Tulai's nephew, who has been fighting in Liaodong for many years, and is also quite familiar with military affairs, seeing that the firepower of the Fang side has covered the wall of the Ming army, he resolutely issued a military order to attack.

I have to say that the Manchurian soldiers of this era were the strongest army in the whole of East Asia, and they didn't care about the cold weather at all.

After receiving the order to attack, more than 1,000 Han soldiers with yellow flags took off their cotton armor and stepped into the icy river with logs and door panels.

The construction of the pontoon bridge mainly relies on the splicing of small boats, but the Ming thieves on the opposite side have already collected the boats in the river, but this is difficult to Tong Guoen, the width of the river on the left and right is no more than 30 zhang, and those brave thieves do not dare to fight back under the firepower of the side.

One after another, the Han army flags plunged the logs in their hands into the water, and then desperately beat them with wooden hammers, and the wooden stakes were quickly laid in the shallow water area of the glue and the west bank, and the subsequent Han troops spread the door panels on the wooden stakes on two sides, forming a simple bridgehead.

After having a stable platform on the water, the Han soldiers climbed onto the platform and continued to bury wooden stakes along both sides of the platform.

The rest of the Han army even found a lot of three-zhang long bamboos, tied them up, and then laid them forward along the wooden stakes.

The advantage of large numbers of people and great strength was undoubtedly demonstrated in the construction of pontoon bridges, and in more than half an hour, the pontoon bridges of the Qing army had been erected to the middle of the Jiaoshui River.

As the pontoon bridge of the Qing army got closer and closer to the east bank of the glue, the Jingbei army, which was hiding behind the battlements of the wall, also began to fight back.

Relying on the cover of the wall, the cavalry of the Jingbei Army, mainly armed by the Jurchen soldiers and the Han army flag, drew their bows and arrows one after another, and shot at the Han troops who were working the wooden stakes in the middle of the Jiao River.

Their archery skills were very accurate, and those Han army flags, stripped of their cotton armor and piled on the water, became the best live targets, and under the dense number of arrows, people kept falling, either on the water or on the pontoon.

Those Han soldiers who took off their armor because of the construction of the pontoon bridge suddenly messed up, and no one expected that the Ming thief's archery skills would be so accurate, and they could still shoot themselves after sixty or seventy steps.

"Quick, quickly use the door panel to block the thief's arrows, let's hide behind the plank and move on."

Tong Guoen, who was in front of the command, hurriedly issued a military order after a short period of shock.

Tong Guoen's strategy was simple and effective, and with the cover of wooden planks, the work of building a pontoon bridge under the banner of the Han army was carried out in an orderly manner.

Yue Tuo, who had an overview of the overall situation on the slope, saw it and said to the fifth leader Ao Bei on his side: "Who is the one who commanded the construction of the pontoon bridge?" is also clever, if he can break through the wall of the thief in one fell swoop later, it is not impossible to reward him with a few futures. ”

Ao Bei looked at it fixedly, and replied with a smile: "Master, this seems to be the child of the Tong family, and it should be Tong Tulai's nephew Tong Guoen." ”

"Hmmm! Tong Guoen! Well, it didn't insult Tong Jia's reputation, as long as he broke the wall of the Ming thief, he would have rewarded him with a future! ”

"Break a wall, and reward him with a future? Although he has entered the flag, he is also a Han in the end, and he is our slave, and the master is rewarded with grace, is it too much to promote him? ”

Ao Bei was a little surprised, since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, he has been awarded knights for military merits, and he is extremely strict, the generals present are not full of military achievements, but no one has made meritorious contributions because of breaking a wall.

Yue Tuo pointed at the tip of the whip and said with a smile: "Although the Ming thief is vulnerable, the place is too big, how many of us Manchurians can have?" How can we occupy this huge country, the Han dogs are so cowardly, it is not a pity to leave them with this flowery country, we only reuse these Han dogs, they are willing to work for us, for us to lay the Ming country. ”

Ao Bei suddenly realized, and complimented him repeatedly: "Master Shengming, since we want to use these Han dogs, then we must give them a few bones." ”