Coming to the Chengtou Artillery Camp, Chongzhen breathed a breath of air with the smell of gunpowder and felt very excited.

The Ming Dynasty has always had a tradition of artillery manufacturing and innovation, and he has a relatively in-depth understanding of artillery research and development and tactics through several simulations before, especially he is well aware of the defects and weaknesses of the artillery system in the Ming Dynasty at this time.

However, these are not the top priorities now, now the reinforcements have been out, but as Li Shouqi said, Jianzhou will inevitably be dispatched this time, and the city is not all of its military strength to attack You Shiwei, and it is likely that after the Ming army is dispatched, the reinforcements will be sent around the point!

I don't have many cards in my hand now, and the only thing I can do is to mobilize the city's artillery to form a support.

Seeing that Ma Dengyun, the deputy chief soldier of Datong Town, had already left the city, he led the border army to assemble under the city.

The Changping soldiers, who were being attacked by the Jianzhou army, were stumbling on the left and right, almost crumbling. It's just that the other party seems to be intent on maintaining this situation, and he didn't send a large force of elite cavalry to split the impact, so that he survived.

Chongzhen said to Li Shouqi, "Immediately adjust the gun position and aim the gun at the two wings of the Jianzhou Army!" ”

Li Shouqi was dumbfounded, he didn't expect Chongzhen to go to the city, not only to inspect the artillery camp, but also to conduct micro-exercises.

However, the military order is like a mountain, and he can only follow it, but he still has a lot of complaints in his heart.

Chongzhen asked again, "Can our gunners control the landing point of the shells now?" ”

Li Shouqi looked at the head of the artillery battalion, and the other party explained with a bitter face that the artillery technology of the Ming Dynasty could not freely adjust the angle of fire, and it was often necessary to test the shell landing point many times by raising the sleepers of the cannon barrel.

Chongzhen nodded and ordered, "In this case, raise the sleepers under the barrel of the cannon and test the cannon first!" ”

Li Shouqi and the head of the artillery battalion looked at each other, now that the enemy has not arrived, coupled with Chongzhen's arrangement for the direction of the gun, now the test artillery is only on the open ground.

Your Majesty is not here to entertain me, or is he just greedy to listen to it?

The artillery position of the Ming army was smashed for a while, and the Hongyi cannon was finally launched, and a solid cannonball flew high, falling on the open space on the right side of the battlefield between You Shiwei and the Jianzhou army.

Seeing this sudden shell, You Shiwei was surprised in his heart, could it be that the Beijing camp was planning to repeat the old trick and use heavy artillery to bombard Jianzhou and friendly troops indiscriminately?

Looking behind him, he was pleasantly surprised to find that nearly 10,000 Ming troops mixed with Datong and Xuanfu had left the city and were marching towards him.

There were more than 10,000 Ming soldiers who packed up the deer firewood and other utensils that were abandoned by themselves before in the city, set up tiger squat cannons and fire gun arrays, and rearranged the defense line to resist the impact of cavalry.

You Shiwei originally felt guilty because he was worried about the "big fish" that slipped away when he got it, and impulsively ordered the Changping army to fall into a desperate situation.

even had the will to die, and decided to repay the country with death on the battlefield.

But seeing the Ming army coming to reinforce behind him, he saw the hope of life again, and then looked at the city, there was a bright yellow crown cover, which made him dizzy and bloody.

You Shiwei immediately shouted with all his might, "Brothers, reinforcements have been sent from the city!" The Holy One is watching us from the top of the city! If you support it for a while, you will be able to drive Jianyu back!"

You Shiwei turned his head and wholeheartedly commanded his soldiers to resist the enemy in front of him, as for the missing cannonball just now, he had forgotten about it.

Opposite him, the general of Jianzhou, whose cheeks were still bleeding, showed a cruel smile when he saw the reinforcements sent by the capital.

Akito, what a fool!

Such a simple strategy, but they have been fooled again and again.

This person is none other than the Lord of the White Banner, the twelfth son of Nurhachi, and the eighth Bel Azig.

The positive white flag commanded by Azig was originally the positive yellow flag of the Nurhachi era, and it was guarded by the real Great Khan.

It's just that after Huang Taiji took the throne, in order to show his status as the Great Khan of Jianzhou, the colors of the two white flags and the two yellow flags were exchanged.

However, at this time, the Jianzhou tribal system still had a residual influence, and Huang Taiji could only change the color of his clothes, and he could not really take away the troops of several younger brothers. Therefore, the two white flags led by Azig are still the most powerful.

Azig has a brave temperament, and before he was under the Desheng Gate, it was he who took the initiative to ask for battle, and braved the artillery fire of the city to defeat Man Gui and Hou Shilu.

Although there were some mistakes in the battle just now, with the strength of the two white flags, he was completely able to swallow the Changping soldiers in front of him.

The reason for maintaining the current balance is to continuously eliminate the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty.

He looked behind him, and the Ming people would never have thought that in addition to the elite of the Eight Banners who came this time, there were also Mongolian allies!

No matter how many soldiers and horses the Ming army sent, they would be annihilated under their capital.

Sure enough, as Azig expected, countless clouds of smoke and dust rose from behind him.

Ambushed far behind, the Jianzhou-Mongol coalition army led by Huang Taiji and Yue Tuo personally arrived at the battlefield.

The coalition troops divided into two routes, circling the flanks of the two white-flag armies.

If they successfully maneuvered, they would not only be able to surround the Ming reinforcements, but also separate the Ming reinforcements from the Changping troops, making them unable to take care of each other.

At the same time as the Jianzhou ambush troops charged, more than a dozen muffled sounds came from the head of the Jingshi city.

The volley of shells fell exactly on the path of the Jianzhou cavalry charge.

The Jianzhou cavalry, which could not avoid it, charged intensively at this moment, and was immediately smashed out of more than a dozen clouds of blood mist.

In particular, in order to speed up the maneuver and increase the impact force, Jianzhou adopted a dense long snake formation.

In this way, the solid projectiles that fell to the ground, each time they jumped, fell again to the densely distributed cavalry units.

After several bounces in a row, the shells, which were far less lethal than their deterrent power in the straggler formation, directly ploughed out more than a dozen bloody canals from the Jianzhou army, and the cavalry that was directly killed and wounded was as many as 200 people nearby.

The collateral effect of this shelling was that the Jianzhou-Mongol coalition forces were completely unable to maintain their original formation, and the other unwounded soldiers tried their best to avoid the shells and startled horses, and made a mess.

On the city wall, Chongzhen, who had just ordered a salvo, observed the results of the battle. Next to him were Li Shouqi and the soldiers of the artillery battalion who were full of shock.

Although the Ming army was accustomed to artillery, it was often simple to bombard the unarmored Mongol cavalry with shotguns.

For the Jianzhou cavalry dressed in cotton armor, the artillery tactics of the Ming Dynasty were often deflated.

Once encountering a Jianzhou general like Azig who dared to rush into battle and knew how to disperse the formation, even the Hongyi artillery achieved very little success, let alone such remarkable results as today.

You must know that the undefeated myth Li Chengliang of the year and the current Liaozhen boss Zu Dashou, the number of beheadings reported in a "big victory" is only two or three hundred, and this often has to pay for their own casualties.

On the other hand, Chongzhen was not satisfied with the results in front of him, seeing that the Jianzhou cavalry that came to reinforce had gradually recovered from the chaos, and the border army of Datong Xuanfu had not yet converged with the Changping army, and the battle situation was still at a critical juncture.

At this time, after a round of firing, the chamber of the cannon was already red-hot, and it was unusable after cooling.

Chongzhen ordered, "Immediately remove the shotgun from the Fulong cannon at the head of the city, modify the solid warhead, and bombard the two wings!" ”

Originally, the range of the Fulang cannon was not as far as the Hongyi cannon, but at this time, the vanguard of the Jianzhou-Mongol alliance was outflanking the back of the Datong army, and at the same time trying to surround the Ming army, so it rushed into the range of the Fulang cannon.

Just listening to the sound of cannons, the rate of fire of the Fran cannon that can be changed is much higher than that of the Hongyi cannon, and the gunners at the head of the city have seized the opportunity to brush up on military merits and do their best.

However, after two or three volleys, the advance of the Jianzhou-Mongol cavalry could not bear the casualties, left the corpses of friendly soldiers, and slowly retreated.

On this basis, the two border armies, which were also facing the danger of annihilation, finally rushed behind the Changping soldiers and converged with them.

Seeing that the friendly forces were safe, the city also erupted in cheers.

This is the first time that the Ming army has overwhelmed the arrogance of Jiannu since Jianzhou entered the fortress!