On the battlefield, Yang Guozhu received an urgent dispatch from the Chinese army, and learned the method of using sacks and bamboo baskets to load soil to block the artillery shells of the Qing army, and immediately shouted loudly with remorse.

At the beginning, Yang Guozhu was also a person who participated in the Battle of Julu, and Liu Yan used a large number of sacks and bamboo baskets to load soil in the Julu defense line at that time to block the artillery bombardment of the Qing army. At that time, it was possible to base sacks on the ground as a line of defense, but now of course it can also be loaded on a chariot and pushed forward, so why can't I understand such a simple change of path?

Yang Guozhu immediately ordered the people accompanying the army to act immediately, prepare sandbags as they walked, and deploy all of them to the chariots in front of the army formation and in the army formation to block the artillery fire of the Qing army.

At this time, Yang Guozhu's forward was about 4,000 people, and after paying the price of hundreds of casualties, it was already very close to the first line of defense of the Qing army at the foot of the mountain, only about one or two hundred steps.

Although some artillery and bird guns were also deployed on the wall of the Qing army in front, under the baptism of artillery fire of the Ming army before, there were heavy casualties, and there was basically not much firepower at this time.

Moreover, after approaching the foot of the mountain, because of the inclined plane, the artillery of the main ridge and the middle ridge of the Qing army also shifted the target, so that the forward soldiers and horses of Xuanfu Town finally rushed through the "death section".

Correspondingly, the Cheying artillery and a large number of mountain-attacking equipment in the middle and rear sections of the Xuanfu Town Army have entered the range of the Qing army's heavy artillery at this time, and these instruments are moving slowly, so they have become the target of the Qing army's artillery in the main ridge and the middle ridge.

These car battalions are basically the soldiers and horses of the rest of the towns, at this time by the Qing army's artillery fire is constantly bombarded, there has been turmoil, if it is not for the Xuanfu Town soldiers and horses to suppress the force, it is estimated that it would have been routed.

Fortunately, after Yang Guozhu's order was conveyed, the chariots in the army began to be equipped with sandbags, bamboo baskets and other equipment at a very fast speed, and the rear also sent a steady stream of modified chariots, so that the protection of the soldiers in Xuanfu Town and Shanxi Town has been greatly improved.

The cavalry officers and soldiers in the two towns also dismounted one after another, leading their horses to follow the nearby chariots, while the rest of the soldiers and civilians also hid closely behind the earthen carts.

At first, everyone was nervous, and many people didn't know that the roof of these modified vehicles was not used.

However, facts have proved that these earthen trucks can indeed effectively protect the Qing army's artillery, sometimes the earthen trucks are hit by whistling shells, and the cloth and dirt are stirring up, but the whole vehicle will not explode and hurt, and the people hiding behind the cars are also safe and sound.

Moreover, after the shells of the Qing artillery hit the earthen cart, it was difficult to form a wide range of ricochet damage. Although some casualties were still inevitable from their artillery, as some of the shells passed over the earththen carts and hit the chariots and the infantry, they were much better than the previous heavy casualties.

So Yang Guozhu ordered the whole army to speed up, and Li Fuming also ordered a rapid advance, and the two armies suddenly increased their speed, and soon rushed to within 100 steps of the first line of defense of the Qing army.

At this time, Yang Guozhu's Chinese army also stopped a hundred paces away, and then a large number of people rushed over, deployed a large number of sandbags around, and built fortifications to protect Yang Guozhu and the Chinese army from being hit by Qing artillery fire.

On the mountain, Dolgon and the others saw that the power of their artillery fire was greatly reduced, and the Ming army's mountain siege army rushed directly to the bottom of the mountain, all of them were dumbfounded, not knowing what was going on.

Dolgon was furious, and immediately asked, "What is the artillery fire, and why did it cause so little damage to the Ming army!" ”

Just now, Dolgon saw clearly with the help of a clairvoyant mirror, the Ming army pushed a lot of chariots, even if their own artillery fire hit those chariots, they were suddenly dumbfounded, no matter how big the cannonball hit it, it was like a punch on cotton, and it couldn't make any lethality at all.

Even under the bombardment of multiple artillery, Dolgon saw that a few shells hit the front of Yang Guozhu's commander-in-chief, and wondered if he could kill a general of the Ming army, but those shells did not cause any lethality except for stirring up some mud rain.

"Why do that?"

Duoduo also saw the situation ahead, and roared angrily at this time: "It must be a good thing that Liu Yan did, it must be him!" ”

Melcesto also looked and looked again with a clairvoyant, he couldn't believe his eyes at all, and his heart was very frightened, using some simple sacks and earthen baskets, he could resist the invincible cannon? Even in Europe at this time, such tactics did not appear. Could it be that in terms of tactics, the noble whites have fallen behind these yellow people?

The artillery battalion of the Qing army in Loess Ridge was still bombarding desperately, but the battle formation of the Ming army was still pressing to the foot of the mountain step by step, which made it difficult for the Qing army to accept, and even the morale of the banners was hit to varying degrees.

Huang Taiji and the others in the mountain city were also a little unable to sit still, and the Ming army used sacks and earthen baskets to block their own artillery? None of their luxurious and sturdy chariots could stop the artillery, and some simple mud bags placed on some simple vehicles could block the heavy whistling shells?

At this moment, Huang Taiji suddenly shouted: "It's not good, our artillery is useless to them, wait for their artillery to come up, to prevent them from shelling me!" ”

"Order the defense lines in various parts of the Loess Ridge to immediately carry and fill a large number of sacks and earthen baskets, and spread them on the defensive positions everywhere to prevent possible artillery bombardment by the Ming people!"

The trench wall of the first line of defense of the Loess Ridge has collapsed in many places, although the miscellaneous slaves in the army are desperately repairing, but under the fire of the Ming army, it has little effect. However, there are three trenches in front of the main wall. The low wall behind the trench repelled horses, and the stake ropes were mostly unharmed.

At this time, seeing that most of the Ming army was close at hand, the Manchurian soldiers who supervised the battle took the opportunity to command the miscellaneous soldiers to repair the trench wall.

However, because the Ming army was too close, the Hongyi cannon they set up on the wall and the pier platform of Niangniang Temple, no matter how to lower the degree of fire, the shells still flew far away from the heads of the Ming army in the forward wave, and some Wolf machine artillery shot the dirt car, and it could not cause much damage.

At this time, the artillery of the Qing army on the main ridge and the middle ridge, because of the slope of the mountain range, no longer shelled the Ming army at the front.

Just when the Qing army was in a hurry, Yang Guozhu ordered all the soldiers to transport sandbags to the front of the battle according to the pre-plan, and within 100 steps in front of the Qing army's defense line, a defense line made of sandbags was built for the army's gunners and artillery to shoot and prevent the Qing army's firepower.

At this time, there are not many troops left in the first line of defense of the Qing army, and they are all remnants who have been baptized by the artillery fire of the Ming army, they have no courage at all, and they have no ability to attack, they watched the Ming army defense line set up, and the rear Ming army's car battalion was under the cover of earth vehicles, braving the artillery fire of the Qing army in the main ridge and the middle ridge, desperately pulling up a large number of Franc machines, Huzun guns and other artillery, and there are countless mountain attack equipment behind, which is also desperately pulling up.

The fire soldiers of Xuanfu Town approached the first line of defense of the Qing army, facing the gate of a Qing army a hundred paces away. In front of the gate, a deep trench was dug with a heavy drawbridge. Not far to the right of this walled gate, there is a collapsed walled wall, which seems to have been bombarded by Ming artillery fire not long ago.

Looking around, I saw that the walls of the Qing army had collapsed, as long as their own mountain attack equipment was pulled up, and the defense line of the Qing army's wall in front of them was only in the blink of an eye.

Soon, a large group of musketeers and spearmen came up, and they hid closely behind several earthen carts. Behind them, hundreds of earthen carts pushed up, and behind many earthen carts, there were all Xuanfu Town bird soldiers wearing bright red cotton armor.

And the Qing soldiers behind the walled wall were shouting wildly, pointing at the earthen carts in Xuanfu Town. Some of the Qing soldiers opened their guns with a bang, and at such a long distance, most of the guns did not know where to fly, and some of them were shot on the earthen carts, only stirring up small strands of soil flowers, and the sacks hissed and leaked soil.

Suddenly, there was a drum behind the wall, and the drawbridge in front of the walled gate was lowered, and after the gate was opened, more than 200 Tartar soldiers wearing white and red armor rushed out. Each of them was armed with heavy shields, and the shields in their hands were extremely heavy, and they were afraid that they were iron shields.

Moreover, those Tartar soldiers with white flags were all wearing heavy armor, holding big swords and heavy axes, and rushed forward with a roar, wanting to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Xuanfu Town Brigade to destroy the sandbag defense line that had just been built.

In the past, more than 200 Manchurian heavy armor launched a charge, which was enough to make thousands, or even thousands, of Ming troops frightened, and even directly collapsed in fright. 33

However, at this time, the soldiers of Xuanfu Town had just experienced the baptism of fierce artillery fire, and miraculously did not collapse, and the army was still intact. After the baptism of artillery fire, the fighting will of these soldiers has been sublimated, and it is different from the past, even in the face of thousands of troops of the Qing army, they will not be defeated without a fight.

These soldiers are already an elite army!

Yang Guozhu looked ahead, only to see that the generals at all levels in the army were desperately shouting behind the defense line, before the Qing army entered seventy steps, the firecrackers were not allowed to open the guns, so behind the earthwheels, there was only a strange silence. There are also earthen carts on both sides of the walled gate, and the bird soldiers behind them also turn the bird guns and aim at the Qing soldiers with white flags who are impacting over.

I saw those Qing soldiers, roaring and rushing down the mountain, they rushed closer and closer, and the fierce expressions were more and more clear, but the Ming soldiers behind the dirt cart still endured and did not move.

Several Han and Korean troops armed with bird guns and three-eyed guns also followed, and suddenly flashed their shields and fired at the Ming army's defense line, and suddenly there was a smoke of gunpowder and crackling sounds. However, the soldiers of Xuanfu Town remained calm and ignored it at all.

In the blink of an eye, those Qing troops carried a large amount of dust and rushed down from the mountains, and the Qing troops in front rushed through seventy steps.

"Shoot!"

With the order of a general in the defensive line, the musketeers behind the defensive line opened fire almost simultaneously, and the dense muskets spewed out large puffs of gunsmoke.

Those Tartar soldiers with white flags suddenly knocked down dozens of people, and the traitors and North Korean soldiers of the Han army flag were also all killed.

The rest of the Tartars were terrified, and they found that the shield in their hands, even the iron shield, could not provide protection, and they were broken by the projectiles that hit them. After only a few breaths, the sound of a platoon sounded again, and dozens of people in the rushing Qing soldiers were shot and fell to the ground.

The firecrackers in Xuanfu Town use the firecracker passing tactics, shooting with a person who is good at shooting, and several rows of firecrackers behind him are responsible for loading, handing the bird's gun with medicine in their hands to the shooter, and then taking the empty bird's gun and urgently reloading.

Although the speed at which they loaded their ammunition was far less swift than that of the new army bird gunners in Qinglai Town, there were also a lot of errors. But this kind of foot attack, especially the several layers of firecrackers at this time, all have medicine in them, so they can keep the firepower flowing.

The sound of the platoon was wave after wave, and the charging Qing troops were constantly shot and overturned, and the sound of guns and screams continued for a while.

The salvo lasted only three times, and almost all of the more than 200 Qing soldiers were killed, and only three or five Tartar soldiers, who were not seriously wounded, fled back with rolling and crawling.

Yang Guozhu immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and at the same time, his heart was full of joy. This time the fight can be regarded as a small episode before the attack on the mountain, he concentrated thousands of various firearms to launch a salvo, and only used three salvos to shoot more than 200 Manchurian heavy armor elites with white flags, which was unimaginable before.

"If you fight against each other, it is estimated that if you don't kill 1,800 people, you won't be able to take this team of Tartar soldiers!"

Yang Guozhu secretly calculated in his heart, and at the same time thought that after going back, he must follow the example of the new army in Qinglai Town and vigorously develop firearms, and the soldiers who survived this battle will be his own treasures in the future, these are all elites who have seen the big battle array!

At this time, in front of the Ming army's defense line, the white smoke produced by the large-scale shooting of the guns gradually dissipated, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke mixed with the hot sun, as well as the smell of blood from time to time, was really choking.

And in the Ming army's winding defensive position, bursts of cheers suddenly broke out, this small-scale battle was completely a one-sided massacre, with many casualties and casualties, but few casualties on their own side, how could they not let the soldiers under Yang Guozhu cheer?

Yang Guozhu also laughed, and then shouted: "Soldiers, prepare to attack the mountain and kill Hu!" ”

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