That's what Dolgon thought, and so did the Green Battalion artillerymen.

As soon as the first shot was over, the Green Battalion artillery quickly began to clear the chamber and prepare to reload again.

The loading process of the Camel Boom Cannon is basically the same as that of the Red Cannon, which is to extinguish the sparks in the barrel first, then use the barrel to clean up the debris and then wipe the barrel dry.

Then reload with gunpowder and solid iron bullets.

It took about five minutes for the Green Battalion to finally complete the reload.

The second wave of shelling by the Green Battalion opened fire almost simultaneously with the Ming artillery in the opposite central position.

At the same time that the shells of the Green Battalion hit the hollow phalanx of the Ming army, the shells of the Ming artillery also hit the temporary artillery positions of the Green Battalion, and the two camels were beaten to pieces in an instant.

On the side of the Ming army, seven or eight more vans were smashed to pieces.

When Dorgon saw this, he couldn't help but feel a pang of pain.

I don't know if the two camel boomerguns are still intact?

It's good to replenish when the camel dies, but the casting of the camel whirling cannon is quite troublesome.

At that moment, Dorgon shouted: "Spread my will, and the green camp will move a hundred steps sideways as soon as it is reloaded. ”

As early as the Battle of the Loop, Dolgon had already realized the biggest advantage of the camel whirling cannon over the cardinal cannon, that is, it could run when it got up and move quickly!

It took a long time for the redcoat cannon to adjust the firing angle.

Therefore, although the redcoat cannon has a longer range and greater lethality, it is still difficult to suppress the camel boom cannon.

Dolgon's will was quickly conveyed, and the Green Battalion, which received the order, reloaded as quickly as possible, and then led the camel to get up before the Ming artillery fired again.

Almost as soon as the Green Battalion left, the shells of the Ming army fell.

Hundreds of shells plowed deep grooves into the black soil in an instant.

However, the Green Battalion, which had already completed the transfer ahead of schedule, was unscathed.

After quickly moving a hundred steps sideways, the green battalion led the camel to lie on the ground again, and the muzzle of the black hole hole was once again aimed at the hollow phalanx of the Ming army in the northwest corner, boom!

Another row of shells passed, and seven or eight more vans were shattered.

Moreover, this time, two shells hit the gap in the wall of the side car that was smashed before, and the soldiers of the Ming army standing behind the side car wall suffered a big loss.

Because the soldiers of the Ming army stood in a dense array.

To what extent? One meter is enough to be able to stand three people on their side.

Therefore, these two shells killed and injured eight Ming soldiers in an instant, two of them died on the spot, four of them had their arms shattered and completely lost their combat effectiveness, and two others were also slightly injured, but fortunately the injuries were not serious.

The medics in the formation rushed forward to treat them.

……

"Thief!"

Xu Yingwei cursed hatefully in his heart.

But there is no expression on his face.

Xu Yingwei's battlefield insight is also very keen.

He keenly foresaw that the 4-inch field artillery was afraid that it would be difficult to effectively suppress Jiannu's camel artillery, so it was inevitable that the partial van walls of the four hollow phalanxes on the periphery would be destroyed.

Even the side car wall of the central phalanx may not be able to be saved.

Once the protection of the van wall is lost, the officers and men of all five infantry brigades will be directly exposed to the muzzles of Jiannu's camel cannons and rifles, and they will have to change formations.

The dense formation is to strengthen the density of firepower.

When dealing with cavalry, you need to increase the density of firepower.

However, against the Jiannu infantry, there was no need to increase the density of fire.

Because the Jiannu infantry did not have the same strong impact as the cavalry.

At that moment, Xu Yingwei shouted: "Order, the 1st Infantry Brigade immediately repairs the damaged side van, does its best to ensure the integrity of the side van wall, and at the same time increases the interval between the infantry queues. ”

Since you don't have the ability to suppress Jiannu's camel cannons, then you can only fight yours, and I can fight mine.

Jiannu used camel cannons to hit the infantry phalanx of the Ming army, and the Ming army used 4-inch field guns to hit the Jiannu infantry phalanx, and then see which army had the stronger ability to withstand the shelling.

"Yes!" The herald quickly gave the order in the language of the flag.

The 1st Infantry Brigade in the northwest corner, as well as the field artillery in the central position, responded quickly.

In Chongzhen's future plan for the Ming army, each infantry brigade had a baggage battalion, and this baggage battalion was specifically responsible for guarding the baggage carried by the infantry brigade.

According to the structure of the Ming army, each team was equipped with a side van.

So the number of partial vans equipped with each infantry brigade is 135 vehicles.

The two infantry brigades that Xu Yingwei brought to Liaodong and the four infantry brigades brought by Chongzhen did not have exclusive baggage battalions, but they all had an infantry battalion that temporarily took charge of the baggage battalion.

Then every once in a while another infantry battalion would take charge.

Therefore, after Xu Yingwei's order was issued, the infantry battalion sent by the 1st Infantry Brigade and also in charge of the baggage battalion quickly broke away from the line formation, and found spare parts such as carriage wheels, wheels, and guard plates to repair the side van that was damaged by the Jiannu camel cannon.

The four partial van car formations of the peripheral Ming army, because they are horizontally spliced, only 112 partial vans are used in each vehicle formation, and each infantry brigade is equipped with 135 partial vans, so there are 23 partial vans that can be extra for backup.

In addition to repairing the damaged vans, the queue of the 1st Infantry Brigade also changed from three to nine.

The line array changed from three rows to nine rows, and the entire hollow phalanx immediately became much more sparse, and it was no longer as crowded as before.

Xu Yingwei made this series of strain, the effect is also immediate, the northwest corner of the van car formation was quickly repaired, the Ming army soldiers in the car formation was effectively protected again.

Of course, this is only temporary, as long as the shelling of Jiannu continues,

The Ming army's partial van formation will eventually be destroyed, and the Ming soldiers will still be exposed to the muzzle.

But at least, the officers and men of the Ming army at this moment were effectively protected, and they no longer had to bear the shelling of Jiannu's camel cannons, and there would be no unnecessary casualties.

At the same time, the Ming army once again began shelling the Jiannu infantry, and the casualties of the Jiannu increased sharply.

Because at this time, the Eight Banners Han Army of 8 Niu Lu, which attacked in separate ways, was less than 600 steps away from the Ming army's phalanx, and less than 800 steps away from the Ming army's central main position.

……

The situation on the battlefield has changed dramatically.

The smiles of several hardcore traitors who were still talking and laughing just now froze.

Dolgon's face suddenly became even more gloomy, and he could scrape off the frost.

The reason why Dolgon and a few traitors around him changed their faces was because every shelling by the Ming artillery would inevitably plow more than a dozen or dozens of bloody roads in the two Han formations of the Eight Banners.

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However, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army's hollow phalanx by the Green Battalion suddenly had no effect.

Because every time the green battalion destroyed several or even more than a dozen partial vans, the Ming army in the formation would find spare parts such as wheels, wheels or guard plates to quickly repair the damaged partial vans.

The Green Battalion has so far fired no less than six rows of shells.

However, the hollow phalanx of the Ming army remained intact.

Hou Fangyu said with a dark face: "Master, Chongzhen plans to exchange lives with us. ”

"I can see it, too." Dolgon grimaced and said, "But he's delusional, and I won't do what he wants." ”

Saying this, Dolgon shouted again: "Spread my will, the 8 Niu Lu Eight Banners Han army that attacked immediately withdrew, and the camel whirlwind cannons of the green battalion attacked on all fronts, and first knocked out the Ming army's side car formation." ”

I have to admit that Dolgon's ability to learn and summarize is really strong.

In such a short time, Dolgon keenly captured the weakness of the Ming army.

The order was issued, the horn of the retreating troops sounded, and the Han army of the 8 Niu Lu Eight Banners immediately changed the rear team to the front team, and the front team dragged the side van car back quickly.

At the same time, more Green Battalion soldiers drove their camels out of the big formation.

The 100 camels that had just started to attack, there are still 98 left, plus the camels that attacked later, a total of 398 camels, divided into eight artillery teams, which launched artillery bombardments against the four hollow phalanxes of the Ming army in the four corners, and changed positions after one shot, never firing two shots in the same place.

……

Now it was Xu Yingwei's turn to be dumbfounded.

"Entering the mother thief, Jiannu is too hateful!" At this moment, even Gao Qiqian saw that something was wrong.

"Xu gave advice, aren't we going to take Jiannu now? Jiannu's artillery can hit our side car formation, but our artillery can't beat Jiannu's infantry phalanx, nor can it hit Jiannu artillery, isn't this just watching Jiannu artillery gnaw off our side box car formation little by little? ”

Xu Yingwei's face became extremely embarrassed, because this was almost the case.

If the current situation continues, at most one hour, the wheels, wheels, guards and other parts and spare side cars will be exhausted, at most by the end of the afternoon, all four side car cities on the periphery will be beaten to pieces, and it will no longer be able to provide effective protection for the Ming soldiers in the battle.

But fortunately, the Ming army has another killer feature.

Just as he was thinking about it, Zheng Sen's flying car landed just in time.

Because the four barrels of tung oil carried by the flying car have been burned, they have to be replenished again.

Xu Yingwei immediately ordered: "Order, the air force will attack, carry a full load!" ”

After receiving Xu Yingwei's order, Zheng Sen and the air force officers and men who had been sitting on the ground to rest immediately cheered excitedly, and then began to assemble the flying car and prepare the grenade.

Soon, nine other flying cars also ignited and began to inflate.

Zheng Sen also took the air force officers and men to load two barrels of tung oil and 20 grenades into the gondolas of all ten flying cars.

The payload of the No. 1 flying car now equipped by the Daming Air Force is 400 catties, and the payload is the excess loading weight after removing the hull, gondola, blast furnace and other devices and the crew.

It can lift a 400-kilogram object into the air, but it can't fly far.

If the 400 catties of payload are used to carry tung oil, the flying car can fly in the air for two hours, and the farthest can fly a hundred miles, Zheng Sen has been floating in the air for nearly two hours from the morning to now.

Full ammunition means carrying 200 kilograms of tung oil and 20 ten-kilogram grenades.