The Eight Banners Han Army like Huang Deheng is not afraid of death.

The combat effectiveness of the servant army has been like that since ancient times.

To say that the servant army can fight as bravely and well as the "imperial army" is either stupid or stupid.

However, because of their strict discipline, they knew very well that if they stopped or fled, they would definitely be captured and beheaded by the Warlords.

Retreat is only allowed in the event of heavy casualties.

So now, they have no choice but to forge ahead.

After about a hundred more paces, the air in front of him once again rang out with a scream that tore through the air.

Huang Deheng's heart immediately rose to his throat, this is the second row of shells fired by the Ming army, whoever hits and can't hit can only rely on everyone's luck, ancestors and ancestors, bless me.

Perhaps the ancestors of the Huang family really heard the prayer.

The second row of shells still did not hit Huang Deheng, but one shell fell behind him, and in an instant, it plowed a bloody path in the dense infantry formation of the Eight Banners Han Army.

A few more Eight Banner Han soldiers had their limbs shattered in an instant.

After the two rows of artillery bombardment, Huang Deheng was not very afraid.

Because he found that the chances of being hit by a shell were not high.

Although the red-coated cannons of the Ming army were sharp, they were actually not terrible.

Huang Deheng's perception is not wrong, at least in this period, the threat of red-coated cannons is not so great.

A cannon that erodes more than ten miles is bragging, and if it is hit by a shell from a red-coated cannon, it is indeed either dead or injured.

But if you want to be hit by a cannonball of a red-coated cannon on the battlefield, it is not easy, and the probability is very small.

One is because the accuracy is not so high, the second is because the rate of fire is slow, and it takes three to four minutes to reload at the earliest, and the third is because the flowering bullet has not been created so far.

There were no flowering shells, and a few were killed by one shot.

With the flowering shell, a large number of people will be killed by one shot.

Of course, firing a shotgun at close range is another matter.

It would be terrifying to be hit by a shotgun from a redcoat cannon at close range.

Therefore, the artillery of this period can only be an auxiliary branch, not a main battle branch.

According to the original trajectory, artillery will not become the main battle arm until at least the eighteenth century, more than 100 years from now, so the current main battle arms are still infantry and cavalry.

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Huang Deheng was in the military formation, so he couldn't see it clearly.

But Dolgon, when they stood on a high place, saw very clearly.

More than 100 red-coated cannons of the Ming army were divided into two clusters to carry out artillery bombardment on the two Eight Banners Han Army, but in the two shells, more than half of the shells failed to hit the target, either far or near, or they were off, and only less than half of the shells hit the two Eight Banners Han Army array.

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After all, the distance of a thousand steps is a bit far, and the hit rate can only follow fate.

There were also a small number of shells that fell to the ground, and then formed a ricochet and jumped into the array of the Eight Banners Han Army.

These ricochets and artillery shells that hit directly will basically plow a bloody path in the two infantry formations of the Eight Banners Han Army, killing and wounding several or a dozen Eight Banner Han soldiers.

But in general, the casualties were not significant.

The damage to the van is also fine.

According to the current casualty rate, when the Eight Banners Han Army approached within 50 steps of the Ming army's phalanx, the Ming army's artillery would fire five or six cannons at most, and according to the calculation of 350 casualties per shelling, the Eight Banners Han Army would suffer casualties of 2 or 300 people at most, and this casualty was not unbearable for the Eight Banners Han Army.

What's more, the red-coated artillery of the Ming army soon had to shift its target.

Thinking of this, a hideous smile appeared on the corner of Dolgon's mouth.

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"Huh?"

Xu Yingwei suddenly felt a pang in his heart.

Because the camel soldiers on both sides of the Jiannu infantry formation suddenly began to accelerate.

The hundred camels, driven by Jiannu, actually accelerated forward, and soon broke away from the infantry array.

In less than a moment, these more than 100 camels had already come to the middle of the Jiannu Formation and the Ming Army's hollow phalanx, about 500 steps away from the Ming Army's hollow phalanx in the northwest corner.

"This distance ......," Xu Yingwei's brows tightened even more.

Because this distance is just outside the maximum range of the Tiger Squat Cannon.

The Tiger Squat Cannon equipped by the Ming Army had a maximum firing range of exactly 500 steps.

Although the 4-inch field guns in the main artillery position were enough, the 10 field guns were now blocking the advancing Jiannu infantry phalanx, and they could not spare their hands to attack the Jiannu camel soldiers.

The point is that there are only more than 100 camel soldiers, and the target is too small.

If you really use a 4-inch field gun to fight, it belongs to using a cannon to fight mosquitoes.

In addition, there is a more important reason, Xu Yingwei does not know the threat of camel soldiers.

Xu Yingwei couldn't think of what Jiannu's intention was in sending these more than 100 camel soldiers? Direct charge?

If you really want to charge directly, the Ming soldiers will use their rifles to beat these camels into a sieve, and the vitality of the camels may be slightly stronger than that of war horses, but it is impossible to block the lead of the rifles.

Just when Xu Yingwei was confused, the more than 100 camels were actually driven by the slave man to lie down horizontally in front of the two armies, and then the slave man ripped off the blankets on the camels' backs.

The blanket was torn off, revealing the boomerol hidden underneath.

Seeing the whirling cannon, Xu Yingwei's Tong Kong shrank slightly, cannon!?

Entering the mother's thief, Jiannu actually hid the cannon? This camel team is actually an artilleryman?

It's just that Xu Yingwei is still not too worried, because Jiannu just used a camel to transport the cannon to the front of the two armies, but the Jiannu artillery unloaded the cannon from the camel's back, installed and fixed, and then measured the parameters, it will take time, and by the time the Jiannu artillery has made these preparations, the Ming army's 4-inch field artillery has already been prepared.

At that time, artillery against artillery, Jiannu artillery was not at all the opponent of the Ming artillery.

At that moment, Xu Yingwei was ready to give an order to the 10 field artillery commanders to adjust the firing parameters.

Compared to stopping the advance of the Jiannu infantry, it is obviously more important to fight the Jiannu artillery.

"Pass my order, all field artillery will be ......" Xu Yingwei's order was just halfway through, and a pair of eyes widened, because he was very surprised to see that the Jiannu artillery just took a flick of his hand, and turned the cannon on the camel's back around, and the muzzle of the black hole was already aimed at the hollow phalanx of the Ming army in the northwest corner.

"How is that possible?" Xu Yingwei almost lost his voice and exclaimed.

Jiannu's cannon was actually fixed on the back of a camel? Can it be turned?

Am I dazzled? The cannon can still be fixed on the back of a camel?

"Xu Zhizhi, is there any problem?" Gao Qiqian was keenly aware of Xu Yingwei's mood swings, and suddenly became nervous inexplicably.

The emperor is thick earth.

The ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

But don't let anything happen.

I'm a high dive, but I haven't become a eunuch king yet.

"Nothing, a little problem." Xu Yingwei quickly regained his composure.

As a general, he is most jealous of impetuousness, so he must calm down.

After a pause, Xu Yingwei shouted again: "All field artillery, the target of the Jiannu camel artillery in the northwest direction, reset the shooting Zhuyuan and switch to semi-fixed paper shell shells!" ”

Xu Yingwei's order was quickly conveyed.

The 100 4-inch guns in the main artillery position hurriedly adjusted the firing parameters.

At the same time, the fully fixed paper shell shells stacked next to the field guns were removed and replaced with semi-fixed paper shell shells.

The so-called semi-fixed paper-shell shell shells are only half of gunpowder, which are specially prepared for close shelling.

The operational level of the artillery of the Ming army is not high, the reaction speed is not fast, and the parameters have been measured in advance, but no matter how fast it is, it still can't catch up with Jiannu's camel whirlwind cannon.

The artillery of the Ming army had just begun to operate, and the first platoon of guns of the Jiannu artillery came over.

Xu Yingwei could clearly see that white smoke was rising from the muzzles of hundreds of camel cannons.

After a while, the shells hit the hollow phalanx of the Ming army in the northwest corner, because the distance was only 500 steps, so the camel cannon of Jiannu took direct aim and then added flat fire, so the hit rate was very high, most of the shells accurately hit the wall of the Ming army's side vans, and only a small part of the shells hit high or low.

But even a small number of shells that hit high or low mostly form ricochets.

In an instant, the horses in front of the formation and the wall of the side car were smashed into pieces, and the soldiers of the Ming army guarding behind the wall of the side car were also killed and wounded by dozens, and even the artillery in the hollow phalanx also suffered a few casualties, which was caused by the ricochet killed after the high shells fell into the hollow phalanx.

"Thief!" Xu Yingwei's face fell.

He had a hunch that the battle of the Hunhe River was going to be in trouble.

They expected that Jiannu would throw away the cumbersome Hongyi cannon in order to speed up the march, but they didn't expect that Jiannu would actually find a camel cannon to replace the Hongyi cannon.

Moreover, there are quite a few camel cannons in Jiannu.

Just now, Zheng Sen clearly reported to him that Jiannu owned four or five hundred camels.

This means that Jiannu has at least 400 camel cannons, and Jiannu has so many camel cannons, can the Ming army's infantry hollow phalanx and side van formation still be relied on?

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Xu Yingwei was in a bad mood, but Dolgon was in a good mood.

Seeing that the attacking Green Battalion had smashed at least a dozen vans of the Ming army's hollow phalanx in the northwest corner into pieces and broken wood with just one round of artillery bombardment, Dolgon finally smiled.

"Well played!" Hong Chengchou also clenched his fists hard.

Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan, the two dog traitors, are also celebrating each other.

The only fly in the ointment is that the power of the camel boom cannon is still slightly insufficient.

If this is a red-coated cannon, after penetrating the partial carriage wall of the hollow phalanx of the Ming army, it will definitely be able to cause fatal damage to the Ming army lined up behind the car wall.

But now, the camel boomerang cannon has been castrated after penetrating the side van.

But it doesn't matter, if one cannon can't be pierced, two cannons, and if two can't be shots, three cannons.

As long as the wall of the Ming army's side car is destroyed, the Ming infantry in the wall will be a live target.