On the west bank of the Yellow River, the ninth fort.

Shang Kexi raised the waist knife in his hand, and was giving orders in an orderly manner.

With Gao Kexi's command, the Han musketeers stepped forward in turn and fired at the outside of the fort.

With the sound of "呯呯", the Ming army on the opposite side fell in a pool of blood, and after falling about a dozen soldiers, the remaining Ming army finally collapsed and fled back with shouts.

However, before Shang Kexi could catch his breath, another team of Ming troops attacked with wooden cards.

"Furlong cannon, ready!" Shang Kexi gave an order, and two teams of Han troops pushed up the two Furlong machine guns.

The weight of these two Franc cannons is about seven or eight hundred catties, and they are fixed on two wooden gun carriages, and the bottom of the two wooden gun carriages has small wooden wheels, which can glide freely.

The Han army that followed Shang Kexi was mostly the border army of Dongjiang Town.

These border troops have been fighting for many years and have extremely rich experience in artillery operation.

Quickly fill the sub-cannon, lock it tightly, and then correct the firing angle.

Once locked, the gunner inserted the red-hot iron drill through the fire door.

There was a bang, and the two cannons slid backwards along with their bases.

At the same time, thousands of one-tael-heavy pieces of lead had already been fanned out.

The Franc cannon can be loaded with shotguns, and can also be loaded with mouth bullets, 200 stone bullets or 500 lead bullets of one or two weights when shooting at the wooden card formation, and 25 pounds of mouth bullets when shooting boats and vehicles.

At this time, it was loaded with one or two shotguns, and two guns were enough for a thousand shotguns!

In an instant, thousands of shotguns were fan-shaped and poured on the Ming army's wooden card array.

With the sound of "popping", more than a dozen wooden cards that were pushed in front by the Ming army were shot in an instant, and the first row of Ming troops shrunk behind the wooden cards were also shot into a sieve at the same time.

The Ming army's wooden array had no problem resisting heavy arrows with a large bow, and it was not good to resist bird guns or even Lu Mi guns, but the shotguns used to defend against the Fran cannon really didn't work.

A cannon is a cannon after all, and no matter how much it is not a gun.

More than a dozen Ming soldiers didn't even snort before they fell to the ground and died.

When Shang Kexi, the ...... of the "musketeers", was about to order the musketeers to step forward,

But it was found that the Ming army on the opposite side had collapsed, and after the wooden plaque array was destroyed, and the dozen or so Ming troops in front were beaten into a sieve, the Ming army behind collapsed at once.

This time the performance was even worse than the previous one.

The attack just now managed to withstand two rounds of bird-fired volleys.

"Phew, a bunch of garbage." Shang Kexi spat at the retreating Ming army and scolded disdainfully, "It's been more than ten years, and there is still no progress at all." ”

"Boom!" Suddenly, there was a fierce crash behind him.

Immediately, the entire fort was trembling slightly, but Shang Kexi didn't care at all, he didn't have to look back to know that it was the Hongyi cannon of the Ming army's naval division warship that hit the fort.

However, this is nothing, because the parapet wall built on the side of the fort facing the Yellow River has a large inclination angle and is extremely thick, so the Hongyi cannon of the Ming army naval division does not pose a threat at all.

At most, it is to smash a few large pits in the parapet wall.

Shang Kexi didn't even plan to move to the outside of the fort to direct the Hongyi artillery to fight.

Because compared to the Ming naval division on the river, the Ming infantry from the ground was obviously more threatening, so he had to stay on the inside of the battery to command the musket team and the Fran machine gun.

In the firelight, the Ming army on the opposite side suddenly scattered to both sides.

"Lord Wang, the red-clothed cannon!" Some Han soldiers shouted in horror.

"Huh?" When Shang Kexi hurriedly looked at it, he saw that the Ming army pulled more than a dozen Hongyi cannons in an ox cart, and dragged them to a distance of about 500 steps from the fort, and the Ming artillery began to nail into the iron drill.

At such a distance, the shotgun power of the Furlong cannon was clearly insufficient.

"Shut the mouth!" Shang Kexi immediately roared hoarsely, "Load the bullet!" ”

The artillery from Dongjiang Town was really good, and he replaced the sub-cannon with a closing bullet as quickly as possible, and then it took less than a moment to fill the sub-cannon with a 25-pound heavy closing bullet.

However, the reaction of the Ming army on the opposite side was not slow.

Just when the Eight Banners Han Army was preparing the Franc cannon,

The Ming army on the opposite side also built an earthen wall in front of the Hongyi cannon.

"Thief!" Shang Kexi couldn't believe his eyes.

At this moment, the Ming artillery actually built an earthen wall in front of the Hongyi cannon?

After looking closely, Shang Kexi found that it was not a rammed earth wall, but a sack wall made of sack, but the sack was estimated to contain sand, and its defensive power was estimated to be similar to that of a rammed earth wall.

The point is that the parapet wall made of sacks also has a large inclination.

Sure enough, although the two closed bullets accurately hit the target,

However, it didn't work, just knocked down a section of the earthen wall.

The Ming artillery soon brought in more sacks and quickly repaired the earthen walls.

The Eight Banners Han Army fired two more shots, the same hits, but it was still useless.

When the Eight Banners Han Army fired the fourth sub-cannon, the Hongyi cannon on the opposite side finally fired.

Shang Kexi only felt a flash of red light, and then there was a loud bang in his ears, followed by a crashing sound, and most of the parapet wall on the inside of the fort collapsed in an instant.

The lethality of the Hongyi cannon is by no means comparable to that of the Furlong cannon.

Because the double diameter of the Hongyi cannon is larger than that of the Franc cannon, the barrel is longer, and the projectile is heavier, the key is that the airtightness of the Hongyi cannon is also far better than that of the Franc cannon, and the kinetic energy of the projectile is greater!

More than a dozen Hongyi cannons gathered, and just one volley knocked down half of Jiannu's ninth fort.

Shang Kexi and nearly 100 Han soldiers guarding the back wall fell from the wall in an instant and were almost buried alive.

By the time Shang Kexi regained consciousness, he had already been carried to the pontoon bridge by his own soldiers.

"Ah Qi, where is this?" Shang Kexi felt that the corners of his forehead were sticky to the lake, and he reached out and touched it full of blood.

"Lord, on the pontoon." A soldier named Ah Qi gasped and said, "The fort on the west bank of the Yellow River can't be defended, and Shi Dutong has ordered all the Han troops to retreat to the east bank." ”

Shidutong, that is, the white flag solid mountain is the real stone pillar.

Shi Tingzhu is considered to be Dolgon's satisfactory lieutenant.

After Shang Kexi was injured and fell into a coma, the Eight Banners Han Army was replaced by Shi Tingzhu.

"Retreat?" Shang Kexi said, "What about the red-coated cannons left on the West Bank Battery? ”

"It's blown up, it's all blown up." Ah Qi said helplessly, "The red-clothed cannon is too heavy to cross the pontoon bridge." ”

"Blown up? All blown up? Shang Kexi couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this, and now the Eight Banners Han Army lost more than 50 red-coated cannons, and the number of red-coated cannons was less than 200.

……

As the night passed, the eastern sky gradually revealed the whiteness of the fish's belly.

The entire battlefield was also revealed in Chongzhen's field of vision.

As far as the eye can see, the Jiannu blockade ditch south of the Yellow River has been basically filled, the parapet walls and walled forts along the blockade ditch have also been torn down, and dozens of forts on the west bank of the Yellow River have also been razed.

In addition, all five pontoon bridges were destroyed.

However, the Ming army's attack on the east bank of the Yellow River was defeated.

In fact, last night, Chongzhen already knew about this result.

Facts have proved that Chongzhen's hopes for the Ming border army are still a little high.

In the battle on the west bank of the Yellow River, because Jiannu only had a small number of Eight Banner soldiers, and the rest of the tens of thousands of people were clothed, they were soon beaten by the Ming army, and the Eight Banners Han Army, which was still a little combative, was also backstabbed by the artillery team led by Qu Shawei, but when crossing the river to attack the east bank battery, Qu Shawei's artillery team could no longer provide backstabbing.

Because the fort on the east bank of the Yellow River was built facing west, and the west side was the front.

The rammed earth wall of the fort on this side is thick and has a large inclination, and the Hongyi cannon is helpless.

What's more, Qu Shawei's artillery team can't cross the Yellow River at all, and can only rely on the Hongyi cannon of the water division.

Due to the limitation of the tonnage of the bird boat, the Hongyi cannon of the Navy Division is lighter in weight and smaller in diameter, so its lethality naturally cannot be compared with Qu Shawei's artillery team.

Therefore, Jin Shenghuan, Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao attacked the border army of the three towns three times, all of which ended in a fiasco, and the 1,000 officers and soldiers of the more than 1,000 army who had been put into the attack were either killed by the Han army with bird guns or were driven into the Yellow River and drowned, and only a few soldiers with good water characteristics fled across the Yellow River, including Jin Shenghuan himself.

"Holy Lord, the minister is incompetent." Jin Shenghuan came to Chongzhen with a disgraced face.

Jin Shenghuan was really embarrassed, in order to escape for his life across the river, Shan Wenjia took off and sank to the bottom of the river.

Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao also trembled, and said in their hearts that the task assigned by the saint was only half completed, and it was difficult to avoid a reprimand, and if they were unlucky, they would be punished.

However, it was surprising that Chongzhen did not scold them.

Chongzhen not only did not scold, but helped Jin Shenghuan up.

"Jin Qing, you've done your best." Chongzhen helped Jin Shenghuan up, turned back to Wang Zuntan and Ma Huabao and said, "You have all done your best, go back to the camp and rest first." ”

"The ministers are leaving." Jin Shenghuan and the three of them limped away.

Seeing Jin Shenghuan and the three of them leave, Chongzhen said helplessly to his two sons and a group of scholars: "This is the most elite border army of our Ming Dynasty, nearly 60,000 elites of the border army of ten towns attacked, and 3,000 cavalry and artillery teams to help, and there are sailors on the surface of the Yellow River to help in the battle, but it still fights like this bear." ”

Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong, and a group of scholars were also quite speechless.

Although there are no statistics yet, the casualties of the Ming army will definitely not be small.

The naval division alone lost more than a dozen warships and more than 200 officers and men killed.

As for the border troops of the ten towns that attacked, the number of casualties was three or four thousand, to say the least.

Now I just don't know how many troops the Jiannu who was defeated by the Ming army are in total? How many real slaves are there? How many are the Eight Banners Han Army and the Eight Banners Mongolia?

Chongzhen continued: "How many troops do you estimate on the other side of Jiannu? ”

Zheng Sen said: "Judging from the battle last night, there are about 10,000 Jiannu who are responsible for guarding the blockade ditch, and there are about 10,000 Jiannu who are responsible for guarding the blockade ditch. ”