The Ming artillery array roared continuously, and countless poisonous bombs and ash bullets fell everywhere in the first line of defense of the Qing army, and the poisonous smoke and lime were scattered everywhere, almost enveloping the entire defense line, causing great shock to the Qing troops stationed in these places, as well as a large number of casualties.

Those Qing soldiers fled in all directions amid the poisonous smoke and lime mist, and even if they did not die on the spot, they would inevitably suffer from all kinds of diseases in the future. The poisonous smoke bombs and ash bombs of the Ming army are actually the "dirty bombs" of this era, which will cause irreparable damage to the soldiers of the Qing army and accompany them for life.

At the same time, there were dozens of trebuchets in the artillery of the Ming army, although the Ming army had been dominated by firearms at this time, but the trebuchets still had a place on the battlefield.

Those trebuchets all threw earth-shaking thunders, although the earth-shaking thunders equipped by the various departments of the Ming army were not as good as the new ones used by the new army in Qinglai Town, but the victory was enough in large quantities, and under the intensive throwing, the Qing army's defense line was full of explosions.

With the help of the blast wave, it flew everywhere in the Qing army's defense line, even the armor on the elite body of the eight banners was difficult to resist, and the Qing soldiers around the explosion point fell in pieces.

In the hot weather at this time, coupled with the poisonous smoke around them, as long as these Qing soldiers were scratched by the fragments of the earth-shattering thunder, even if it was not a fatal injury, it was enough to make their wounds inflamed and pus.

Hundreds of mortars in the Ming army's artillery array continued to fire, and the Qing army in the first line of defense of Loess Ridge had become a pot of porridge, and all banners and departments suffered heavy casualties. Many people either ran around with their eyes closed, or wrapped their heads and faces tightly with various cloth straps, and many people's eyes only exposed a tiny gap to prevent the invasion of poisonous smoke.

As long as everyone heard and saw a cannonball flying, they all screamed and ran away, and no matter how angry they were, those generals such as Pashku and Jialazhangjing shouted and shouted, it was useless.

What's even worse is that at this time, the Hongyi cannon of the Ming army has completed its cooldown and began to fire again, and the huge solid iron balls continue to fly and smash all over the wall.

Poison bombs, ash bombs, earth-shattering thunder, and solid artillery shells were fired in succession, and the Qing army in the first line of defense of the Loess Ridge, especially in the area of the pier platform of Niangniang Temple, showed signs of collapse.

Liu Yan looked at the Loess Ridge in the distance with the help of a clairvoyant mirror, and sighed in his heart: "Who said that the army's firepower is weak?" As long as all the units of the Ming army dare to fight, as long as the quality of the firearms equipped by the Ming army is passed, judging from the powerful firepower of the Ming army in this era, the Qing army has no chance of winning, at least it has no ability to enter the customs and sweep the world! It's a pity ......"

Just when Liu Yan was sighing to himself, Huang Taiji and the others in the mountain city of Rufeng Mountain were extremely anxious, even the Dolgon, Duoduo, Jin Zidian, and Shi Tingzhu people on the pier platform of the Dongling Ridge of the Loess Ridge were also dumbfounded.

From Huang Taiji downwards, everyone on the side of the Qing army could not have imagined that the artillery fire of the Ming army was so fierce, and hundreds of artillery pieces of all kinds bombarded as if they were crazy, when did the Ming army have such strong firepower and fighting spirit?

At this time, Shi Tingzhu, who was already surging in blood, saw that his subordinates had suffered heavy casualties, and he couldn't hold back any longer, grabbed Kong Youde's armor, and roared loudly: "Where is your artillery, why don't you fire the artillery, do you have to wait until the warriors are dead before firing the cannon?" So what's the use! ”

Like the angry Shi Tingzhu, the Han army was extremely dissatisfied with Kong Youde.

Although everyone knows that whether the artillery of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion is fired or not, Kong Youde has no right to call the shots, and only Dolgon gives the order. But they understand that they are all minions, how dare they say a word more to Dolgon? So everyone's anger was vented on Kong Youde.

At this time, Kong Youde also gritted his teeth, hating the artillery of the Ming army, because the first line of defense in Loess Ridge also has the gunners of his Wuzhenha super battalion, those elite gunners are difficult to train, and now there are also many casualties, why is Kong Youde distressed?

At this time, Kong Youde pushed away the stone pillar and roared angrily: "The king of Ruijun has an order: the Ming army can only fire artillery within two miles, do you want to disobey!" ”

Shi Tingzhu and the others didn't dare to say anything more, just stared at Kong Youde and gritted their teeth. At this time, even Duoduo felt that he could open fire, after all, his own army could not fight back just by being beaten, and it was not a way to go on like this.

Duoduo was about to persuade, but saw Dolgon look at everyone coldly, and said: "Order: Eight Banners Manchurian Zhengbai Banner Xuzhangjing went to the front line to supervise the battle, dare to disobey the military order, panic and retreat, whether it is a soldier or a miscellaneous soldier, no matter the Eight Banners Manchurian and Han, or the Korean generals, all of them will be killed on the spot!" ”

Then, Dolgon said to Kong Youde: "The Wuzhen Chaoha battalion can only open fire when the Ming army enters within two miles, and those who fire the cannon in advance without authorization will be immediately killed!" ”

No one dared to say a word at this time, and on the side of the first line of defense, under the strong bullet pressure of the Eight Banners Manchurian White Banner Baya soldiers, the soldiers of the Qing army stationed in the Qing army stabilized slightly, although they were still retreating on the whole, they had stabilized their positions and began to re-enter the defense line from a small number to a large number.

At the same time, many miscellaneous servants took wet cloths and covered the faces of the front-line soldiers, but this could only reduce the damage caused by the Ming army's poison bullets and gray bullets, and could not completely offset it, it could only be better than nothing.

The effect of poison bullets and ash bullets fired by the mortar artillery of the Ming army is obvious, after successive waves of attacks, the Qing army has been killed by nearly 2,000 people in the banners of Mongolia and Han, as well as the Korean soldiers and horses, and the wounded are even more numerous, although most of the wounded can continue to fight, but the combat power will decline over time, and finally become a waste.

This is only the casualties of the soldiers in the Qing army, among the generals of the Qing army at all levels, there are also many casualties, Manchuria inlaid with white flag Niu Lu Zhang Jing Ning Erjia was seriously wounded, lost his left arm, and one of the people was hit by a gray bullet and lost his eyesight. A Han soldier was inhaling an overdose of poisonous smoke, his whole body convulsed and died, his expression distorted when he died, and he obviously suffered great pain. In addition, several lieutenants and staff officers of the DPRK army were unable to move when they broke their hands and feet, or attacked by poison bombs and gray bullets.

At this time, the defenders in the first line of defense suffered heavy casualties, and the number of dead and wounded troops had reached four or five thousand.

The 2,000 reinforcements were also terrified at this time, and everyone saw the tragic situation of the first line of defense, and at this time these reinforcements had covered their mouths and noses with strips of cloth, but they were still frightened in their hearts, and rushed to support.

Near the Dongling pier, here is a huge Qing army artillery position, dozens of large-caliber Hongyi cannons are deployed here, and the place where the muzzle is facing is the Ming army array under the mountain.

These dozens of Hongyi cannons are all heavy artillery that weighs more than 4,000 catties and can fire about 10 catties of shells, with a range of about three miles, and the power is huge.

At this time, next to a cannon, a Portuguese man in his thirties, named Meleses, looked at the roaring Ming artillery array in the distance, and his face was full of incredulity.

"It's incredible that there are so many powerful and diverse artillery pieces in this eastern country!"

Meleses was a Portuguese, that is, known as the Francophone at this time, who had seen the battlefields of Western artillery, and at this time, looking at the powerful artillery of the Ming army and the large number of heavy artillery carried by the Qing army, had made the Portuguese worldview begin to collapse. 33

Because in the concept of Westerners at this time, whether it is the Ming Dynasty or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it is impossible to compete with the West in terms of firearms, but in this current battle, the number of artillery pieces assembled by both sides, the power of these artillery, has far exceeded the military strength of European countries.

"Even if the heavy artillery of the whole of Europe is concentrated, it is estimated that the number of artillery on both sides is not as large as at this time!"

Meleses was originally a foreign mercenary recruited by Sun Yuanhua, and along with him, there were more than 200 Portuguese soldiers. Sun Yuanhua recruited people to train the Ming army in Dengzhou, hoping to build an elite artillery and firearms army.

However, with Kong Youde's Dengzhou Rebellion, this foreign mercenary army was coerced by the rebel army and came to Liaodong, and the last surviving more than 100 people, along with Meleses, became captives of the Manchus.

Now Meleses has brought more than 100 of his compatriots to serve the Qing army, serving as an assistant leader in the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion, specializing in training gunners for the Qing army.

Meleses looked at the situation of the first line of defense at the bottom of the mountain, and saw that the 2,000 reinforcements rushed in and immediately scattered everywhere in order to reduce the casualties of the shelling.

"If it were European soldiers facing such heavy artillery fire, it is estimated that they would have collapsed a long time ago, but it is incredible that these Tatars can still hold on!"

Meleses has been coming to the East for more than ten years, and he still feels good about the Ming Dynasty, thinking that the Ming Dynasty is a mature civilization comparable to the famous in Europe, not a backward savage tribe like the Native Americans.

But what Meleses didn't expect was that the Ming Dynasty, a mature civilized empire, was repeatedly defeated by the Tatars in the north, which was incredible!

And now Meleses has been captured by this kind of Tatar who calls himself the Qing Dynasty and is forced to serve for it, but Meleses still looks down on such a barbarian in his heart.

However, at this time, Meleses also undeniably believed that these Tatars were still very strong in combat, at least when equipped with a large number of artillery, they were capable of defeating most European armies.

"What a magical country!"

Although the Ming Dynasty had declined at this time, Europeans like Meleses still maintained the necessary admiration and awe for the Ming Dynasty, and even believed that the Ming Dynasty people, like Europeans, were Caucasian and a mature civilization.

Such an attitude is in sharp contrast to the end of the Qing Dynasty, and by the end of the Qing Dynasty, the attitude of Europeans towards the Chinese was very bad, which shows how incompetent the Manchu Qing is!

Suddenly, Meleses heard a passionate sound of war drums, and saw the boundless Ming army array at the foot of the mountain begin to move, and his heart suddenly became excited.

After all, a major war of this scale is placed in Europe, and it is an epic existence, but in this eastern country, it is only a key battle, so how can Meleses not be excited?

"I really don't know what the final result of this miraculous battle will be!"

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