"Fire!"

On the fifth day of December, on the west bank of the Xinglong River, after several days of preparation, accompanied by the roar of the officers, hundreds of artillery pieces of various types launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the Qing army's position on the other side of the river.

Although the number of Hongyi cannons in it decreased, the Qing army's position was still blown upside down, and the Qing soldiers hid behind the shield cart shivering, praying that the shells would not fall on them.

Their gunners also tried to return fire at first, but as soon as they opened fire, they became the target of the Ming artillery, and the artillery, along with the surrounding area, was patronized by many shells.

The Qing gunners howled under the fierce shelling, and they couldn't care about the precious artillery, so they abandoned the artillery on their positions and fled in all directions.

A solid bullet struck the barrel of a Furlong cannon with precision, and the deformed barrel flipped one hundred and eighty degrees after a piercing crash, and smashed heavily on a gunner who couldn't dodge, directly smashing the gunner into meat sauce.

At the same time as the shelling, many Ming soldiers worked together under the cover of shields to carry the simple rafts to the river, climbed onto the rafts with shells flying overhead from time to time, and rowed hard to the opposite bank.

These rafts are the tools that the Ming army has prepared for crossing the river for several days, and the cost and construction period of the raft are much lower than that of the boat, so the Ming army adopted this most primitive tool.

However, the limitations of the raft were also obvious, and the soldiers would be directly exposed to the long-range fire of the Qing army after boarding the raft, and could only rely on the shields they carried to protect themselves.

But this did not protect every soldier on the raft, and the Qing army could not sit still when the Ming army tried to cross the river, and they knew very well that once the Ming army landed on the shore, it would be a matter of time before the Xinglong River defense line was lost.

Therefore, the Qing army did not care about the shelling, and leaned out from behind the shield cart one after another, shooting arrows at the Ming army on the river.

For a time, the Qing army fired arrows and cannons, and the Ming army on the Xinglong River suffered heavy losses, and those soldiers who were still paddling were all shot and killed, screaming and plunging into the river.

"Raise your shield to defend! Paddle it over! Come on! ”

"Cover the robes, shoot!"

Bang bang bang –

Whoosh –

The Ming army hurriedly launched a counterattack, intending to cover the Pao Ze crossing the river, but the Ming army on the river still had people falling, and the Qing army even took the risk of setting up the tiger squat cannon on the bank and bombarding the Ming army with small lead or small stones.

In addition to small lead and pebbles, they will also press large lead bullets or large stone bullets on top of them, so that when fired, large and small projectiles fly together, creating the power of shotguns.

After the Qing army put in the tiger squat cannon, the Ming army on the river suffered more heavy losses, four or five Ming troops on a raft were directly bombarded into a sieve by the stones, and the armor on their bodies could not block the power of the stones, and the big stones even punched the raft through a hole, and then the river gushed up, so that the raft sank to the bottom of the river together with the Ming army who died tragically above.

Braving the dense firepower of the Qing army, the rafts of the Ming army still docked one after another, and they even jumped into the water when there were still a few steps from the shore, wading ashore, but these sporadic landing Ming troops were quickly annihilated and fell unwillingly on the beach. Seeing the failure of the initial attack, Zhang Huangyan, who had been observing the battle situation on the front line, ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and stop the attack, and with the dull sound of the horn, the Ming army began to withdraw to the camp one after another, ending the attack in less than half a day.

In the dull sound of the horn, there were many corpses of Ming soldiers on the river surface and tidal flats of the Xinglong River, and because of the large number of dead and wounded, the surface of the Xinglong River was even stained red with blood.

Zhang Huangyan looked helplessly at the corpses of the Ming soldiers floating on the river, if there was no river, or if the Qing army had not destroyed the bridge across the two banks, then the soldiers under his command would have been fought a long time ago.

In the next few days, Zhang Huangyan tried several more attacks and a night attack, but were repelled by the Qing army, although the night attack successfully landed ashore, but was still discovered by the Qing army, in order to repel the landing Ming army, even did not hesitate to fire shotguns at the staggered war groups on both sides of the enemy and us, although the success of annihilating the small number of Ming troops, but also severely damaged their own morale.

This made the morale of the Qing army, which was not high, even lower, after all, no one wanted to fight desperately with the enemy by themselves, but their comrades were behind the butt and did not distinguish between the enemy and me.

In any case, the seeds of discontent had been planted in the hearts of the grassroots soldiers, and some fled the camp overnight in the dark to avoid becoming the next victims.

After counting the roster the next day and discovering that there were deserters in the army, those dissatisfied soldiers suddenly became active and began to plan when to run away, and the morale of the army was further shaken.

Although the Ming army did not know what was happening in the Qing army, Zhang Huangyan also heard that Hong Chengchou was personally leading the army to this place, in order to avoid being attacked by Hong Chengchou before and after, he personally went into battle to supervise the battle, and urged the whole army to attack again.

In the deafening sound of shelling, the Ming army once again sent rafts into the water and forced them to land under the fire of the Qing army, but for some reason, the resistance of the Qing army today is obviously much weaker.

After paying the price of nearly 100 people, the Ming army finally landed on the opposite bank, the soldiers shouted and raised their shields and rushed to the Qing army's position, the Qing army's bird hand hurriedly raised his gun and fired a volley, only to hear a popping sound sounded, the Ming army soldiers had a number of small holes in the shield in front of them, and the soldiers behind ran forward a few steps and then fell heavily to the ground, and there was no movement after a few convulsions.

The soldiers in the back did not pay attention to the robes that fell to the ground, they had lost a lot of robes these days, and everyone held a breath in their chests, and they fought into the Qing army one after another, and started a brutal hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.

As time passed, the roar of artillery on the battlefield gradually faded away, replaced by the shouts of the soldiers, and the Russian garrison with two-handed tomahawks finally landed, and they took over the robes of the fierce battle ahead with steady steps to engage the Qing army.

Every round of axe chopping can take the life of a Qing soldier, in the face of such a terrifying battle axe, even the strongest shield can not be effective, the Qing army died one after another, they finally could not bear it, screaming and scattering.

Eventually, the Ming army gained a foothold on the east bank of the Xinglong River, and on this basis, they gradually cleared the Qing army that was still resisting around them, and the Qing army had no intention of fighting after this series of demoralization blows, and they surrendered their positions and exposed their vulnerable backs to the enemy's firing range.

In just one day, the Qing army lost many positions in Hedong, and those who were still holding on to each other, in order to avoid being broken one by one, they had to abandon their positions and began to retreat in a disciplined manner.

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