On the morning of the eighth day of February, the battle was on the verge of breaking out.

After the Qing army crossed Jiulong Creek, it rushed straight to Tianbao Town under the leadership of Shang Kexi, intending to defeat Su Yanbu first and then besiege Zhangzhou City with superior forces.

The Qing army quickly passed through the ambush circle set up last night, and less than an hour later, Zhu Chenggong led the army to chase up, because the spies he sent had been chasing behind the Qing army, and did not find that the Qing army had stopped and set up an ambush.

As a result, the unsuspecting Ming army fell into the ambush circle of the Qing army.

After Zhu Chenggong led most of the soldiers and horses into the ambush circle, the Ming army only heard a cannon sound in the woods on both sides, and then, ten thousand arrows were fired in unison, and a large number of arrow clusters flew out of the forest and shot at the Ming army foot soldiers who were still marching.

In the chaotic army, several arrow clusters flew towards Zhu Chenggong who was standing under the banner, if it wasn't for his personal soldiers who sacrificed their lives to block the arrow clusters for him, then this young country surnamed Ye is likely to die young.

Seeing his guards fall from the arrows, Zhu Chenggong didn't know that he was caught in the Qing army's ploy, he hurriedly drew his sword and shouted, ordering the army to withdraw from this place, but at this moment, a burst of rolling stones fell on both sides, disrupting the formation of the Ming army, and then heard a trumpet, a large number of Qing army foot soldiers rushed out of the mountains and forests with a shout, and killed into the chaotic Ming army.

After Zhu Chenggong's soldiers and horses captured Zhangzhou Mansion, they absorbed many local men in Zhangzhou Mansion, so the army contained many recruits with no combat experience, After falling into the ambush of the Qing army, these recruits were the first to become chaotic, they panicked to resist the Qing soldiers who were killed, and they were cut down to the ground after a face, and the army was in turmoil.

Not only the front army was ambushed, but the rear army was also attacked by the Qing army, the Qing army bombarded the Ming army column with tiger squat cannons and bird guns condescendingly, and then covered up the past, disrupting the Ming army's formation, and the Ming army that lost its formation became more and more chaotic, and the Qing army, which was dominated by green battalion soldiers, saw that the battlefield was favorable, and they became more and more courageous.

Seeing that the defeat of our army was decided, the number one fierce general of the Zheng army, Gan Hui, rode his horse to Zhu Chenggong and persuaded him to break through and withdraw to Zhangzhou City.

The main general retreated first, and the remaining Ming troops naturally had no will to fight, except for those veterans who had followed Zhu Chenggong for many years who were still resisting stubbornly and intending to break through, most of the soldiers directly threw away their armor and knelt down to beg for mercy from the Qing army.

Although Zhu Chenggong dominates the sea, he is not proficient in land warfare, and it is not surprising that he will be defeated and returned.

On the other side, Su Yan, who was waiting for the battle, also engaged Shang Kexi's forward, and the Qing cavalry tentatively charged the Ming army's position, but was killed and injured by several rounds of salvos from the line infantry under Su Yan, and retreated in horror, reporting to Shang Kexi the fierce firepower of the thief army.

Shang Kexi had long heard of the sharp firearms equipped by the soldiers under Su Yan's command, so he did not reprimand the cavalry generals for wasting troops, but ordered the whole army to take a stance, set up artillery in front of the formation, and equip the equipment to shell the Ming army's position for a while.

However, just as the Qing army unfolded the artillery array, ready to load and carry out the artillery bombardment, Su Yan ordered the artillery on the position to fire in unison, and the 12-pounder infantry gun, Hongyi cannon, Fran machine gun and tiger squat cannon that had already been loaded were immediately ignited.

After the sound of artillery, dozens of dark shells whistled and flew towards the Qing army's military formation, mainly attacking the artillery they placed in front of the military formation, the Qing army was completely unprepared to protect the artillery, so after the first round of exploratory shelling, three artillery pieces were hit by the shells, and they disintegrated on the spot, and the flying artillery parts also affected the surrounding Qing artillery, killing and wounding several people.

Because Su Yan deployed the artillery behind the pit in advance, and used wooden planks in front to block the Qing army's line of sight, the Qing army could not see the existence of the artillery, so this round of tentative artillery bombardment caught the Qing army by surprise, and after they reacted, they hurriedly ordered to turn the muzzle and shoot in the direction of the Ming artillery.

Rumble –

When the first round of artillery bombardment of the Qing army came, the soldiers of the Ming army hurriedly hid in the trenches, so that the solid ground protected them from artillery fire, and the artillery on the position was deployed in the earthen pit, and the mounds piled up in front were compacted, and the artillery shells of the Qing army could not kill or injure the personnel on the gun position unless they hit the cannon body directly.

After the artillery bombardment of the Qing army, the second round of calibrated artillery bombardment of the Ming army came as scheduled, this round of artillery was far more accurate than the first round, and destroyed many artillery pieces, suppressing the loading of the Qing artillery.

The Qing artillerymen watched in horror as a shell hit a Franc cannon, which directly overturned the entire barrel and smashed heavily on an unlucky ghost who could not dodge, although the unlucky ghost was not crushed into meat sauce, but judging by his terrible appearance of bleeding from the seven orifices...... It's better to make a meat sauce.

Shang Kexi, the commander of the Qing army, looked at the artillery that was being pressed and beaten, and his face was also shocked, since he voted for our Qing Dynasty, he fought from the north to the south, and he had never encountered a situation where his own side had a numerical advantage in artillery but was still suppressed by the Ming army.

But he didn't feel helpless because of this, Shang Kexi quickly reacted, he knew that continuing to be bombarded by the Ming army like this would only hit his morale, but thinking of the sharp firearms of the Ming army, it was very likely that he would suffer heavy losses when he launched a charge, At this moment, the messenger from the rear came the good news of the ambush victory, and he immediately ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops and evacuate here.

The speed of the Qing army was very fast, they did not hesitate to abandon those corpses and damaged artillery, and began to retreat slowly, while retreating, Shang Kexi squinted his eyes at the banner of "Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang", and his heart was a little heavy.

Although it was only a confrontation between artillerymen, he could also see that this Su Yan was indeed not simple, the artillery under his command was fast and accurate, and he could directly press the artillery of the Qing army with a numerical advantage, and the firearms were also sharp, but I don't know how the performance of Su Yan's infantry would be after the two armies fell into close combat......

My Qing Dynasty was able to sweep the world, relying on artillery, higher morale than the Ming army and stronger hand-to-hand combat ability (of course, the third point only includes the Manchurian Eight Banner Army), and the invincible artillery does not work at the moment, so he can only find another way to deal with this group of Ming troops.

On the other side, looking at the Qing army that retreated without hesitation, Su Yan's face showed a little regret, what he wanted to see most was that the commander of the Qing army ordered the whole army to attack, so that he could teach the Qing army what a firearms unit was through the riflemen who had formed a scale, but it was a pity that this Shang Kexi was still too cautious and did not give Su Yan a chance to perform at all.

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