Not to mention that Duoduo stood up and loudly agreed, even Yueto and Zilharang also spoke out in support of Dorgon's remarks. Although the two of them were dissatisfied with Dolgon's domineering, as members of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, seeing the hesitation of their ally Eight Banners Mongolia, they could only stand on Dolgon's side at this time, and at this critical moment, the Manchu and Mongolian alliances could not cause disagreements.

If the Ming army camp is not broken, if Lu Xiangsheng's department is not annihilated to provide a guarantee for the smooth looting in the future, then the casualties of each banner these days will be in vain. More importantly, at this time, everyone has seen the hope of victory, and it is impossible to give up easily.

Yue Tuo said: "It has been three days since the Ming State Supervision Army led the army to Jize, which is only a few dozen miles away from Julu, will they take advantage of our army's urgent attack on the Xuanda and Shandong camps to attack us from behind?" ”

Dolgon said disdainfully, "Do they have the guts?" The sentry heard that the Guan Ning army, which was high and diving, was in the high wall of Jize, and they were holding on to it, so I am afraid that they were more worried that our army would attack them, right? ”

All the Qing generals present laughed, but having said that, Dolgon still discussed with Yue Tuo and others about preventing an ambush, just in case.

The next morning.

Today's Qing army camp seems to have been silent for a long time, until the early noon, the Qing camp finally has movement, in a burst of horn sound, the flag Qing soldiers came out densely, began to gather the whole team, busy for half an hour, from three sides of the black pressure to surround over.

Unlike usual, their dense chariots stopped when they advanced to Erli. Liu Yan and the others were surprised to see them push out four artillery pieces from behind the formation, although they couldn't see clearly from a distance, they could still see the huge number of artillery.

Liu Yan was also shocked at this time, Qian Yan came up to report to Liu Yan with a face like earth, according to his estimates, the four artillery pieces of the Qing army, two were Hongyi twelve-pounder guns, and two were Hongyi twenty-four-pounder guns, the firing range was two miles away, and the Huzun cannon in his army and the Francophone cannon supported by the Dubiao battalion could not hit them at all.

Qian Yan's face was pale and he muttered, "Where did the Tartars get these artillery?" ”

Then he shouted: "I know, it must have been transported from Tongzhou and Wanping, and there must be gunners from the Beijing camp on the Tartar side." ”

He hated himself, the Hongyi cannon supervised by the court at the end of the Ming Dynasty was of good quality, but there was no excellent gunner, and the improper operation would also explode, just like the artillery of the Qing army a few days ago. The only people who had experience in operating the Hongyi cannon in the Ming Dynasty were the Nine-sided Army, the gunners of the Beijing camp and the Kong Youde Department of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. If there is really a Beijing artillery operator who surrendered to the enemy, several Hongyi cannons bombarded it......

At this time, Chen Xun, Wang Yue, Zhang Yi, Wang Bo, Miao Shao, Xu Ming, Shen Tuo and others all gathered around Liu Yan.

Liu Yan thought very quickly at this time, and after a while, he suddenly shouted: "Order the baggage soldiers of all the generals to immediately use cloth bags and sacks to hold soil, and spread them within the defense line, if there are wooden baskets and the like, they are all filled with soil, and they are also arranged." ”

Liu Yan suddenly remembered the method of defending solid smoothbore bombs in later generations, the artillery at this time was most afraid of ricochets and the like, as for the earthen walls and trenches, if they wanted to bomb, they would let them bomb. The low earthen walls, if they could hit them.

Under Liu Yan's order, all the baggage soldiers in the battalion were urgently operated, and Liu Yan sent people to inform Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Guozhu and others at the same time, and asked them to send people to assist.

At the same time, Liu Yan also ordered all the soldiers in his battalion to hide behind two earthen walls. Liu Yan and his own soldiers from the Central Military Department hid behind the second earthen wall, and Zhang Yi and Wang Bo hid behind the first earthen wall.

Under Liu Yan's persuasion, Lu Xiangsheng also got out of the Yuan Rong car and hid with him behind the second upper wall. The auxiliaries of each battalion, after getting the news of Liu Yan, also desperately dug up the soil and packed the bags. There were baskets and the like in the army, and all of them were found and loaded with soil.

Like the ground shaking, a cannonball from the Qing army roared, smashing heavily in the open space of the first line of defense of the new army in Xiahezhai, and the big iron ball weighing more than 20 pounds hit the hard ground, bounced up hard, rushed straight away, and hit the second section of the earthen wall out of a big gap.

The titanium ball did not lose its power, rolled back, and rolled off the calves of several pikemen and bird soldiers of the new army of Xiahezhai who were densely gathered behind the first earthen wall.

A terrible scream sounded, Liu Yan clenched his teeth, and ordered the medical officers of various departments to carry them down for rescue. After waiting for a while, I heard the sound of artillery on the side of the Qing army, and then I heard dozens of iron balls coming one after another, and it was actually the Qing army's Hongyi cannon that used a group of shell butts, one for each large bullet, accompanied by more than a dozen small bullets.

These shells roared in, constantly smashing on the earthen wall defense line in front and back of the new army in Xiahezhai, as well as on various low wall trenches, dense iron balls jumped and rolled on the ground, and from time to time the soldiers of the new army in Xiahezhai were hit by shells. The projectiles of the Qing army also penetrated into the camp tents, and the tents inside were smashed to a mess, some tents were even burned, and several chariots in the core defense line were also shattered, and some of the doctors inside were killed and wounded.

The battalion auxiliaries, who were busy filling in the earth and bagging in the battalion, were also constantly carried down by the shells, and they fled in exhortation, and then they were hit by the shells that came from them.

Wang Bo hid tightly behind the earthen wall, and when he saw the continuous artillery fire of the Qing army, he scolded: "These fresh goods, are they endless?" His grandma's! ”

As soon as the words fell, a large iron ball weighing more than 20 catties smashed on the earthen wall beside him, and the hard earthen wall was immediately collapsed.

With a loud "boom", a Hongyi six-pounder cannon erected on a passage was hit by a projectile from a red twelve-pounder cannon, and the cannon was immediately smashed and paralyzed on the spot, and the iron ball flew around the gun wheel of the gun carriage.

Dozens of large and small iron balls of the Qing army came in three waves in a row before they stopped temporarily, obviously the cannon Luo was hot and needed to stop to dissipate heat for a while.

Liu Yan and Lu Xiangsheng stood up, the scenery in front of them was like hell on earth, the ground of the two lines of defense was full of blood and stumps, and the screams of the sergeants rang out. Those wounded sergeants were all killed and fractured by the iron ball, and their injuries were extremely miserable.

The Qing army has long-range high-power artillery, and it seems that this battle is becoming more and more difficult to fight. Liu Yan estimated that only these few rounds of artillery firing by the Qing army had already caused casualties of one or two hundred of its own soldiers, and the remaining auxiliary soldiers of each battalion did not know how many.

In particular, this kind of shelling has dealt a great blow to morale, but fortunately, the officers and men of the new army in Xiahezhai are strictly trained in peacetime, and although the officers and men have suffered a lot of injuries, they will not collapse in the face of this round of shelling.

Liu Yan pondered for a while and said: "Governor, the slaves and thieves have Hongyi cannons, although our army is caught off guard, but we only need to set up mud bags and earthen baskets everywhere to prevent them from tumbling their projectiles, and we can still avoid the increase in casualties among the officers and soldiers of various departments." ”

Lu Xiangsheng nodded slowly, the two of them looked at the field quietly, the dense auxiliary soldiers of each battalion did not care about fighting to rescue the wounded, under the orders of the generals, they were all racing against time, and the mud bags and baskets filled with soil were scattered all over the defense line. When they could not find the baskets, they also tore down the tents and used them to bundle up the earth.

At this time, it can be said that the life is at a juncture, everyone moves very fast, and soon, the flat ground between the two earthen walls of the new army in Xiahezhai is covered with large and small mud bags and soil baskets, not only that, but after the second earthen wall in the army, it is also covered with large and small mud bags. One of the cannons in the passage was also pushed behind the earthen wall.

On Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei's side, although they did not suffer from artillery fire, they were prepared, and they also prepared a large number of mud bags and earth baskets.

It didn't take long for the early morning artillery to whistle again, and immediately everyone hurriedly lay down again, especially the baggage soldiers and the auxiliary soldiers of the battalions, and even more tightly lay down behind the mud bags and earthen baskets. Large and small iron balls followed one another, and the front and rear earthen walls were constantly knocked down by them. The large and small iron balls shot into the open space in front of and behind the earthen wall, causing the cloth and dirt to fly. The screams of the crowd continued to sound.

After a while, the artillery fire of the Qing army stopped, but fortunately there was the buffer of those mud bags and earthen baskets, and those projectiles could not jump, although the Qing army's artillery was strong, as long as it was not hit by the artillery on the spot, the number of casualties in the army was greatly reduced compared with before, and the mood of the officers and men of various units quickly stabilized.

Liu Yan exhaled when he saw this, and put his mind at ease, Lu Xiangsheng felt a lot of relief at the same time, fortunately, with these mud bags and earth baskets, the power of the enemy's sharp artillery fire was greatly reduced.

Many doctors came out to rescue the wounded, and when they saw them carrying the bloody wounded into the camp one by one, Chen An and the others behind Lu Xiangsheng all showed unbearable expressions.

There was silence in the field, only the terrible cries of the wounded as they were carried in, the cold winter weather, these people who were carried by artillery projectiles, I am afraid...... Many sergeants gritted their teeth, and they couldn't fight back just by being beaten, which was really aggrieved.

The cold wind was still howling, bringing a biting chill, and the weather was getting colder and colder, and many soldiers were wrapped tightly in their heads and faces, and they were still shivering from the cold. In this cold weather, I'm afraid there are dozens of degrees below zero, right? In the dry and cold air, there was a thick smell of blood from time to time, as well as a faint smell of gunsmoke.

In the silence, Lu Xiangsheng, who had been staring at the front for a long time, suddenly said, "Liu Yan, it seems that your department is about to retreat to the second line of defense." ”

Liu Yan immediately understood this problem, the first line of defense of the new army in Xiahezhai, the two earthen walls were empty, and the ground was full of obstacles......

Liu Yan said: "What the governor said is extreme, let go of the first line of defense and let the thieves in, the ground is full of mud bags, they are slow, and our army can continue to rely on the second line of defense to fight......

At this time, Liu Yan was hit by the Qing army's Hongyi cannon, sneered, and said: "The slaves and thieves have artillery, and we have firearms, just see how much blood will flow after they rush in." ”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at Liu Yan and said, "It's okay to say that the slaves rushed in from the front, but it is even more important to prevent them from rushing into the wings to attack."

Liu Yan said: "Don't worry, the two trenches are only more than a hundred steps apart, and the army of slaves and thieves rushing in is under the blows of our artillery and firearms, and they can't rush into the two wings. ”

At this time, the horn sounded, in addition to the frontal enemy, the Qing army on both wings had already poured in from two miles away, Lu Xiangsheng urgently summoned Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei to come to discuss military affairs, and inform them of the tactics of the frontal defense line, lest they think that the frontal defense line would collapse and affect the morale of the soldiers in their army.

In addition to asking Miao Shao to lead his troops to prepare more mud bags and earthen baskets, Liu Yan also ordered Wang Bo and Zhang Yi to come to discuss the arrangement, so that Wang Bo's subordinates could defend the first earthen wall, and Zhang Yi and the rest of the birds would defend the second earthen wall. All the pikemen under their command also retreated behind the second earthen wall.

If the Qing army attacked head-on, Wang Bo's subordinate bird soldiers pretended to resist for a while, and then all retreated to the second earthen wall, and then concentrated all the fire soldiers in the camp to inflict maximum damage on the enemy, and then the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers launched a pursuit.

Not long after, the sound of fierce artillery fire came from both wings, and it was obvious that Yang Guozhu and Hu Daqi had exchanged hands with the Qing army.

In the frontal defense line of the new army defense of Xiahezhai, after the Qing army carried out another round of artillery bombardment, finally their horn sounded, and the tide of Qing troops pushed chariots and rushed with shouts. Behind the chariot, there was a dense crowd of miscellaneous servants of the Qing army, carrying many wooden shields and other objects in small carts, which were rushed in.

Seeing the Qing army rushing towards him, Liu Yan relieved himself and ordered Miao Shao to lead people to pack up the mud bags and soil baskets behind the second earthen wall and recreate the flat ground. Those mud bags and earthen baskets were gathered together and used in the next shelling by the Qing army.

According to Liu Yan's orders, the first earthen wall defense line, except for the bird soldiers under Wang Bo's department, the rest of the bird soldiers were all concentrated behind the second earth wall.

In Liu Yan's army, each of the hundred generals had a total of more than 260 guns, including the heavy soldiers, so that the seven hundred generals had a total of more than 900 guns.

Even if you remove the fangcai, and the number of casualties of these heavenly bird guns, the whole army still has more than 1,600 bird guns to use, and they will gather together to give those Qing soldiers who rushed in a little color. In addition to the bird soldiers, the seven hundred pikemen and sword and shield soldiers were also neatly lined up behind the bird soldiers.

Liu Yan's Chinese army was located behind, not far behind him, was Lu Xiangsheng's central military headquarters, and Lu Xiangsheng boarded the Yuan Rong car and commanded the entire Xuanda army to fight. The standard-bearer of the pole car not far from him was also standing on Diao Dou, constantly passing on the movements of the Qing army.

In addition, there were only four Hongyi six-pounder guns left in the Dubiao battalion, and five Huzun cannons from the Xiahezhai New Army were pushed back.

Compared with the first earthen wall, the second earthen wall has four large passages, and there are also many small gaps in the width of one or two steps.

These passage gaps were staggered from the first earthen wall, and after the artillery was pushed back, they were placed in each channel gap at the low wall.

All the artillery pieces were filled with shotguns, and the artillerymen held back their fire, thinking that when the Tartars came in, they would fire a salvo and give them a ruthless blow to see if they dared to bombard indiscriminately with Hongyi cannons.

Some people died, but not completely......