Ming Chinese Army.

Seeing the Jiannu army changing formations, Chongzhen, Xu Yingwei, Jiang Tianyi and Wang Jiayan all laughed.

"Isn't Jiannu stupid?" Jiang Tian smiled and said, "You actually know that putting the Green Battalion in the front row as a bait is to lure our artillery to attack the Green Battalion with all your might?"

"It's wishful thinking." Xu Yingwei said, "We are not stupid enough to shoot cannons."

Wang Jiayan immediately questioned that Jiannu's artillery was still in the Liaodong period: "Xu Zhizhi, if there is a chance to destroy the Jiannu artillery, it should still be destroyed first, after all, the Jiannu artillery is still extremely sharp."

"It's too hard to destroy the artillery." Xu Yingwei shook his head and said, "Didn't Wang Butang find out that the queue of Jiannu artillery was very spaced? The interval between adjacent artillery carriages was even more than fifteen steps! The interval between the front and back is more than 20 steps! With such a large interval, we may not be able to hit a single shot with ten shots."

Wang Jiayan was speechless for a moment, because the interval between the Jiannu artillery carriages was indeed very large.

The second wave of shelling by the seven field artillery brigades just now was very embarrassing, and only about 50 solid shells of the 630 guns hit the array of the green battalion.

And it also failed to completely destroy the cannon of Jiannu.

Each of Kennu's guns had a spare gun carriage.

Even the camel boom cannon has a spare carrying camel.

In contrast, the first wave of shelling destroyed at least 100 of Jiannu's vans.

The reason is also very simple, just now the first wave of artillery hit a dense infantry queue, but the second wave of artillery hit Jiannu's super-large interval artillery queue.

After a long time, Wang Jiayan said: "The hit rate of the Jiannu artillery is lower, but the one that can be destroyed is one, so that when the Jiannu artillery arrives, the pressure on us can be as small as possible."

Xu Yingwei said: "The Jiannu artillery can definitely get close to their firing range, no matter how much our artillery stops, it can't be stopped, and even if our artillery tries its best to stop it, it may not be able to destroy Jiannu's artillery eleven, so it is better to kill and injure the opponent's infantry with all our might."

Chongzhen nodded, "Artillery is best used to attack infantry."

Regarding this, Chongzhen has taken the scholars of the Shizi Battalion to deduce countless times in the sand table.

The results show that it is difficult to have a big impact on the battle situation by attacking the opponent's artillery with artillery, but attacking the opponent's horse infantry with artillery can cause a large number of casualties.

Especially when used at close range, the lethality is particularly terrifying.

Xu Yingwei smiled and shouted: "Order, all field artillery brigades don't need to pay attention to the green battalion, and turn to attack the Eight Banners Han Army in the third row, and when the Chinese army of Jiannu enters the firing range, they will fight against the Chinese army of Jiannu together with the Divine Artillery Battalion!"

Concentrating firepower to attack Eight Banners Manchuria and giving priority to hunting and killing the Jurchens was the established policy of the Ming army.

As long as the Jurchens of the Jiannu Chinese army were severely damaged, the remaining Han and Mongols would not have to worry.

As the order was conveyed, the seven field artillery brigades of the Ming army did not correct the firing parameters, but continued to bombard the Eight Banners Han Army that had just entered the firing range with the maximum firing angle.

[In view of the general environment,

After the Eight Banners Han Army passed through the strike range, it continued to fight the Chinese troops of the Eight Banners Manchuria and Jiannu.

Then the 7 field artillery brigades of the Ming army followed the Jiannu Chinese Army and constantly adjusted the firing parameters to ensure that most of the shells would fall on the queue of the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

As a result, every minute or so, hundreds of bloody roads would be plowed out of the ranks of the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and each plough out of a bloody path meant that a dozen or even more than twenty Eight Banner soldiers had been beaten to pieces.

The situation became even worse when the ranks of the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners Manchuria entered the 1,200 paces away from the Ming Army.

Because after reaching this distance, in addition to 7 field artillery brigades, 360 2.5-inch mountain guns from 4 mountain artillery brigades also joined the artillery bombardment, so the blood road that was plowed out of the Eight Banners Manchurian Formation became even more.

Another round of shelling, approaching

A thousand solid iron bullets roared and smashed into the ranks of the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Although most of the solid iron bullets landed in the middle of the queue and in the empty space before and after, more than a hundred still hit the Jiannu Chinese Army and the Eight Banners Manchurian queue, and more than 100 bloody paths were plowed out in the queue in an instant.

……

Sonny and the others looked down from the lookout, and the picture was extremely bloody.

I saw that among the originally dense and complete Chinese military phalanx and the six small phalanxes on the left and right flanks, more than 100 Manchurian warriors who were stepping forward fell in an instant.

It's really a string, a long string from beginning to end.

The shortest had seven or eight warriors, and the longest had more than twenty Eight Banners warriors.

Most of the Eight Banners warriors were killed on the spot by having their torsos or heads shattered, but there were also many Eight Banners warriors who were only shot in the legs, feet, or arms, and were groaning after being seriously injured and falling to the ground.

In this wave alone, more than 1,000 Eight Banner warriors were killed or wounded.

Counting the five waves of artillery bombardment before this, plus the damage caused by the Divine Fire Flying Crow, the two Yellow Flag elites of the Chinese army's main formation and the other six phalanxes on the two wings have already suffered more than 6,000 casualties!

Therefore, in just over three hundred steps, it is simply paved with the corpses of their Eight Banner warriors.

Looking at the Eight Banners warriors with broken limbs and lying on the ground, Sony's heart was dripping blood.

Sukh Saha cursed with a dark face, "Damn Ming dog, this is a special attempt to catch our Jurchens."

"And that's to be expected." Sonny said in a deep voice, "However, if the Ming Army thinks that this can intimidate us Eight Banner Warriors, then it is wrong, we Eight Banner Warriors will never be intimidated!"

Eight Banners Manchuria is indeed very tenacious and has a very high tolerance for death.

From the beginning of the battle to the present, the Eight Banners Manchuria has suffered nearly one-tenth of casualties, but the remaining Eight Banners Manchuria are still in a stable mood, their fighting spirit is still quite high, and they are still full of confidence in victory.

But Sony is also well aware that this situation will not last forever.

After all, the Eight Banners Warriors are also human beings, and they are just as afraid of death.

If the artillery of the Ming army continues to bombard the Eight Banners warriors, if such casualties continue, no matter how tenacious the Eight Banners warriors are, they will definitely collapse in the end.

Fortunately, this shouldn't last long.

Because the 400 red-coated cannons of the Green Battalion have already been erected.

There are also 500 Franc cannons of the Green Battalion that have also come into range.

As long as the red cannons, Franc cannons and camel cannons of the Green Battalion launched an artillery attack on the artillery positions of the Ming army, the artillery of the Ming army could not care about shelling the array of Eight Banners Manchuria, and the crisis would be lifted at that time.

However, it was still necessary to increase the interval between the infantry ranks of the Eight Banners Manchuria.

As he thought about it, another scream sounded as if it was about to tear through the air.

And this time the screaming sound was sharper than before, as if it was right in my ears.

Immediately after, Sony felt a strong wind pass through his ears, and the huge wave of air instantly overturned him, and then a soft "poof" sound sounded behind him, followed by a loud bang.

The loud bang was followed by an exclamation, and someone was shouting for Amma.

Sonny turned over and sat up to take a look, only to see Suppilon lying behind him, his head on his shoulder no longer visible, and only a headless corpse was spurting blood.

Following the direction of the blood spurting, Sonny saw his eldest son, Kabula.

I saw that the back half of the lookout had been smashed by cannonballs, revealing a large gap, and Kabula was holding a guardrail that was about to break with both hands, and under his feet was the ground three feet high.

Sonny hurriedly stepped forward and pulled Kabula up.

At this time, Sukh Saha and the others also got up.

Seeing that his head was shattered, Suke Saha and the others were a little embarrassed.

Sonny looked around the lookout again, and saw that the Chinese army with two yellow flags and the six army formations on the left and right flanks had once again been plowed out of hundreds of bloody paths, and at least a thousand more people were killed and wounded.

"Damn!" demand

Nee's teeth were almost shattered.

But fortunately, the red artillery of the Green Battalion has begun to counterattack.

And the Franc cannon of the Green Battalion is also about to be set up.

"Minggou, it's your turn to taste what it's like to be shelled!"

……

The first row of Jiannu's shells finally smashed in with a scream.

"Long live the Lord be careful!" Gao Qiqian hurriedly stepped forward and then opened his hands to block Chongzhen.

Lu Jiude's reaction was about to be half a beat slower, but after reacting, he quickly took a few little eunuchs to rush forward, and then spread his hands to block Chongzhen.

Seeing this, Chongzhen couldn't help but be amused.

Hell, this is a cannon, not a rifle.

Are you blocking a yarn? I can't stop it at all.

However, Chongzhen did not scold Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude.

In any case, these eunuchs are well-intentioned and should not be scolded.

"Okay, there will be no danger on the lookout, because Jiannu's red-coated cannons, Franc cannons, and camel cannons are basically near the maximum firing range, and they can barely hit our Chinese army, but it is impossible to hit so high."

At most, the shells of the Jiannu artillery hit the pillars of the watchtower, but the watchtower was very strong and not afraid.

Chongzhen patted Gao Qiqian and Lu Jiude on the shoulders and motioned for them to get out of the way and not block their view.

After Gao Qi dived and they got out of the way, Chongzhen found that the artillery position at the front of the Chinese army's formation had been plowed out hundreds of deep grooves by Jiannu's shells, and many artillery had fallen in pools of blood.

The medics who remained in the rear rushed forward to treat them.

Chongzhen glanced over, and there were probably more than 100 casualties.

Two more field guns had their right wheels destroyed and fell on their side.

It's just that the artillery attached to this gun is being replaced with spare wheels.

Chongzhen's gaze moved forward, landing on the infantry line in front of the Chinese army's formation.

I saw that the infantry in front of the phalanx was sitting quietly in the trenches, and there were no casualties.

A trench nearly a foot wide and nearly five feet deep provided perfect protection for the infantry.

As for the infantry on both sides, half went into the trench to take refuge, and half retreated to the back half of the phalanx, which was already beyond the range of the Jiannu cannons and was safe.

Looking around to the left and right, the hollow phalanx of the other five towns is similar.

The cavalry town, because of its remote location, was not shelled by the Jiannu artillery.