Although the Qing army at this time had not yet developed such firearm battle formations as the Nine Advances and Ten Links, their bird gunners had already known how to shoot in three lines.

After lining up the queue, the first row of Qing army bird guns raised their bird guns, pulled the trigger, and the fire rope that had already been lit was fired to ignite the medicine pool, and then fired a volley at the Xia army on the opposite side.

Bang bang bang –

After the salvo, the surface of the wooden fence in front of the Xia army's infantry that served as a cover was suddenly crackled by projectiles, and there were countless white spots, but it did not cause the slightest casualty to the Xia army.

The Xia infantry took the opportunity to pull the trigger and shoot at the Qing army, because it had entered the optimal range of fire, and the number of casualties of the Qing army on the opposite side in this round of volley increased sharply, and they fell down screaming.

The exchange of fire between the two sides soon ended with the defeat of the Qing army's birdboys, or how the arquebus's gunners could beat the mature smoothbore flintlock pistols, and the birdboys, who could not bear more and more casualties, could only drop their corpses and retreat.

After the retreat of the birdmen, the Qing army attacked again, and the sword and shield men continued to push the shield cart towards the Xia army's position, and the archers behind the sword and shield men at this time took their bows and arrows and threw arrows at the Xia infantry behind the wooden fence.

The black rain of arrows rose in the air in the Qing army's formation, and after crossing an arc in mid-air, it fell like raindrops, shooting some of the Xia army infantry who were caught off guard.

Seeing that the Qing army was approaching, the artillery in the position replaced the flowering bullets with insufficient power, and instead used solid bullets and shotguns, several artillery pieces aimed at the shield car that the lead bullet could not penetrate, after the cannon sounded, the solid bullet flew through the shield car, almost smashed the entire shield car to pieces, and the Qing soldiers who were hiding behind the push were also shocked by the huge shock, and the shells continued to fly into the crowd, and killed several people before finally stopping.

"Charge!"

After advancing to a range of fifty meters, the Qing army threw down their shield carts and charged the Xia army's defense line, they protected their shields in front of them, shouted and strode away, all their attention was focused on the Xia army in red military uniforms behind the wooden fence, completely ignoring the slightly different colors on the ground from the surrounding ones.

After they had run a few steps, the soldier at the front suddenly felt empty under his feet, and before he could react, he fell directly into the trench with the straw covered on it, and was pierced through his body by the spikes stuck under the trench, and he didn't even have time to scream.

The soldiers in front of them disappeared in an instant, and the people behind reacted and wanted to stop, but the soldiers behind them didn't know what was happening in front of them, and they were still charging forward, colliding with each other, and the soldiers in front were directly knocked into the trench.

The momentum of the Qing army's charge was thus stagnant, and at this time, the Xia army also changed from salvo fire to free fire, and the gunfire on the position continued, and from time to time Qing soldiers were shot and killed, and the first trench was soon covered with corpses.

The Qing army that reacted was already shaken by the soaring casualties at this time, but they knew that the emperor was supervising the battle behind, and if they dared to flee without permission, they would die by themselves, and their wives and children would also suffer.

Therefore, they still resisted the fear in their hearts, gritted their teeth and jumped over the trench, and continued to charge forward, but they did not run a few steps before they stepped on the second trench, and this time because of their precautions, only a few unlucky ones fell down and died on the spot.

Several times in a row, the morale of the Han army flag and the Han people who rushed to the front finally could no longer support it, a Han man who was in charge with him saw that the brother who was charging with him was shot in the head by a projectile, the projectile penetrated very strongly within 100 meters, and the brain was disturbed and then the back of the head was pierced out, and the brother who was shot didn't even scream, the whole person fell to the ground forward, and the back of the head that was lifted can still see the brain that continues to flow outward.

After witnessing this scene, the Han man went crazy in an instant, he screamed and ran backwards, but before he could run a few steps, he was shot in the back, staggered forward a few steps and fell to the ground.

There are not a few people who are the same as this Han people, deserters began to appear in the Han people's clothes, and their escape also affected the Han army flag that fought side by side, although the Han army flag was a regular army, but they were also people, and they were also afraid of death, seeing

One by one, their comrades died, and they did not even feel the shadow of the enemy, and they finally lost their fighting spirit and joined the wave of flight.

Behind the Han attacked were the Manchurian banner soldiers, they naturally had no pity for these Han people who fled without authorization, and drew their swords and killed a number of Han people to stop the rout.

As the most elite of the empire's Shangsanqi, the Manchurian soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner and the Zhenghuang Banner were the best in terms of physical fitness, military morale and weaponry, and they charged against the rifle fire of the Xia army, and they were about to touch the wooden fence, but at this moment, the artillery deployed in front of them had no chance to open their guns finally let out their roar, and countless tiny iron beads shot forward in a fan shape, instantly shooting the Manchurian infantry in the fan shape into a sieve.

Shotguns, no matter how nerfed they are in the game, are still a weapon of destruction against infantry in reality.

Several artillery pieces opened fire one after another, and the shotguns fired covered the charging Qing troops, and those Qing troops who rushed to the front were all blasted into a sieve one by one, and their deaths were extremely miserable, and almost no man's land was created within the firing range.

These shotguns shattered the Qing army's fighting spirit, both Manchu and Han Chinese, all looked like relatives, and the Manchurian banner soldiers, who had just flaunted their might, were suddenly impotent, and they were so panicked that they retreated, leaving thousands of corpses and fleeing the battlefield.

In the Qing army's main formation, Emperor Shunzhi and a group of Manchu and Han ministers all looked at all this with shocked faces, and the army was silent, only the sound of hunting after the wind blew the flag...... How could Han Chinese firearms be so vicious? My Eight Banners athlete died a tragic death here."

No one answered him, everyone was watching the front-line soldiers and horses retreat in defeat, and after a while, Yue Le finally reacted, he sent a herald to order Suo Etu and Zhuo Butai to gather their troops and horses, withdraw to their own formation, and prevent the Xia army from taking advantage of the victory to pursue and directly attack the main formation.

But what he was worried about still happened, seeing that the Qing army's attack failed, Su Dingyuan directly ordered all the troops except for the soldiers and horses of Liaoyang City to assemble and go out of the camp to pursue the Qing army, intending to completely defeat the Qing army on the south bank of the Shahe River.

Su Ci did not object to his order, and the two quickly reached a consensus, with Su Ci staying in the camp and commanding the soldiers and horses to guard against the counterattack of the Qing army in Liaoyang, Su Dingyuan personally led the army out of the camp to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army.

After Su Dingyuan's order was issued, the infantry of the third town hurriedly assembled, and after lining up in the camp, they opened the camp and marched outward.