Central Army camp, high platform.

The choking smoke has not yet dissipated, and the gunners have returned to the gun position quickly and are ready to re-adjust the shooting elements. Time is tight and there is a lack of means, so Wang Pu has not installed a buffer stand for the cannon, so after each shot, the gun position will deviate seriously. Before firing again, the shooting elements must be re-adjustable.

Before the gunners adjusted their shooting numbers, the ammunition players were already nervously refilling the ammunition.

An ammunition hand poured water into the barrel, first extinguished the remaining gunpowder residue in the barrel, and cooled the barrel at the same time. Then two strong-body gunners hung on the barrel to lower the gun mouth and poured out the water in the barrel. Unlike Jiannu, the Ming army gunner did not use the strips wrapped in cloth to wipe the water stains in the barrel, but directly started to fill the ammunition!

At this time, because the Ming army was using gunners to fill the barrel of the gun, they did not fill the bulk gunpowder, but "paper shells".

This paper shell is rolled with thick kraft paper, with a diameter slightly smaller than the barrel and a moderate length. It is filled with gunpowder and flowering bullets with pre-measured amounts, and is then sealed. A thick layer of grease is also applied to the kraft paper, which is both waterproof and lubricating.

With the help of grease, it is easy for the gunner to send paper shells into the barrel chamber.

After pressing the paper shell to the bottom of the chamber with a strip, the gunner then uses a sharp iron spike to penetrate the lead hole and first penetrate the thick kraft paper, and then insert a piece of lead into the lead hole and connect it with the gunpowder in the paper shell. At this point, even if the ammunition is refilled, the gunner can adjust the shooting elements.

Compared with Tong Yangxing's Jiannu Artillery Camp, the Central Army Artillery Camp saved two most time-consuming processes, namely, drying water stains and filling bulk gunpowder, and the firing rate was increased by three times!

Tong Yangxing's Jiannu Artillery Camp had just wiped away the water stains left in the cannon chamber. When he was about to fill it with gunpowder, the second round of artillery fire from the Ming army artillery camp had already poured out on them. This time, the preparations of the Ming army artillery soldiers were significantly improved. Twenty shells, twelve shots directly hit Jiannu's artillery positions.

"Boom boom boom..."

Accompanied by the earth shaking loudly, balls of churning smoke suddenly rose from Jiannu's artillery position, and then two more loud explosions, which were the gunpowder filled on the artillery position, and Jiannu's entire artillery position was instantly trapped in a sea of ​​fire, and several of the remaining eighteen red barbarian cannons flew into the sky.

The poor Jiannu artillery fell into a pool of blood. The barrage of fire made them have no place to hide. Many Jiannu artillery were swallowed by the raging fire. In less than a moment, they were burned to charcoal, and the smell of barbecue began to float in the air...

The hardcore traitor Tong Yangxing was also dead, and a sharp piece of fragment cut off half of his head.

Not far away, Dorgon's facial muscles began to twitch violently. The first batch of artillery fire from the Ming army covered the Jiannu artillery position. He thought it was a coincidence. Even Tong Yangxing dared not imagine the artillery battle, let alone Dorgon, but the Ming army's artillery fire covered the Jiannu's artillery position twice in a row. This is no coincidence.

"Quick!" Dorgon yelled anxiously, "Let Tong Yangxing's artillery team retreat!"

"Master." Fan Wencheng behind him was surprised and sighed, "I'm afraid it's too late, the artillery team... is over!"

Soon, news of Tong Yangxing's death came. Twenty red barbarian cannons destroyed twelve, and the remaining eight were unable to continue fighting. Dorgon clenched his fists hard. Before he could say a few harsh words, the Ming army's artillery opened fire again. This time, twenty shells went directly to the Jiannu musket team arranged in the back of the Jiannu artillery position. The dense Jiannu formation immediately splattered earth and stones, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Dorgon's eyes showed grimacing hatred and quickly ordered the musket team to retreat.

When the Jiannu's fifteen Niulu musket team retreated, at least three Niulu had been lost!

The Jiannu Musket Team had just retreated, and the intense sound of war drums suddenly sounded from the Ming army camp. The closed gate opened and the hanging suspension bridge fell down. Countless Ming soldiers rushed out like a blue torrent...

Dorgon suddenly raised the monocular lens in his hand, and couldn't believe it all!

The barbarians of the Southern Ming Dynasty only had 40,000 troops. Do they still dare to go out to fight the Eight Banners soldiers in the field? In a flash, a terrifying cold light appeared in Dorgon's eyes.

The generals of the Jiannu Eight Banners standing behind Dorgon all howled excitedly. In their eyes, the Eight Banners Warriors of the Qing Dynasty were the kings of field battles. These cowardly Nanming barbarians dared to give up their strong camp choice to fight against the Qing Dynasty warriors, which was simply seeking death!

That’s right, Wang Pu really wants to fight Jiannu!

Not only Jiannu did not expect this, but even the generals of the seven towns such as Li Benshen and Li Chengdong did not expect that Liu Rushi, who joined the army, could not understand. She couldn't figure it out. Scarface had already taken a musket battalion to the ship. There was only one musket battalion left in the camp. Why did Wang Pu still fight?

Once the musket camp loses the protection of the camp, it will be completely exposed under the blades of the Jiannu Iron Cavalry and the Mongolian Light Cavalry. It is unwise and even stupid to force more than 100,000 Central Army to defeat more than 40,000 Jiannu elites.

But Wang Pu doesn't think so!

Although the eight cavalry of Jiannu is powerful, can they break through the chariot formation of the baggage battalion? Although the Mongolian cavalry is powerful, can they break through the raid formation of the long spear formation of the long spear camp? Although the Central Army's musket camp has only 5,000 people, the muskets in their hands have enough lethality, and they can penetrate the wild boar skin of Jiannu's body within a hundred meters!

If the huge red cannon is lost, what is the hundreds of thousands of Jiannu? What's more, in front of the dense formation of the Central Army, it is difficult to exert its strength. No matter how many Jiannu people there are, it's just a dish! As for Jiannu's poor thousands of musket teams, let's forget it. Whether it's the quality of the muskets or the level of training, these Jiannu's musket teams and the musket battalions of the Central Army are not on the same level!

The loud sound of trumpets, the chaotic footsteps, and the shouts of officers intertwined into a noisy battlefield melody. The five thousand musketeers of the musket camp were the first to set up a camp and set up a shooting queue on the empty river bank. The five thousand soldiers arranged the shooting queue in a very short time. Dorgon quickly gave up the idea of ​​launching a surprise attack while the Ming army was not yet firmly established.

Not only was he worried that the raid would not be effective, Dorgon was even more worried that the Ming army would retreat, and the Ming army that had retracted the camp was obviously more difficult to deal with. If he could choose, Dorgon would of course be more willing to face the Ming army lined up in the wilderness. The nightmare scene of Datong was always lingering in his mind.

In the eyes of all Jiannu, the Ming army's musket team that was guarding the danger was even more brutal than the most brutal beasts, but when they arrived in the wilderness, they were just a group of sheep waiting to be slaughtered.

Amid the sound of trumpets, more Ming troops drove out of the camp, with three battalions of spearmen and one baggage battalion. The three battalions quickly formed formations in front of the musket battalion and on both left and right wings. The baggage battalion was dragged at the end, responsible for guarding the musket battalion.

The combination of the musket battalion, the spear battalion and the baggage battalion is a perfect war machine. His only weakness is that the formation is too dense, and once it is covered by artillery fire, there will be heavy casualties. But now, Jiannu’s Red Barbarian Cannon is over, what else can threaten this huge war machine?

With Dorgon's order, two teams of Mongolian cavalry rushed out from the left and right wings of the Jiannu formation at the same time and launched the first attack on this huge war machine. The two teams of Mongolian cavalry combined only had two thousand cavalry, which was just a tentative small-scale attack.

The Mongolian cavalry were just herders on the grassland, and they were not well-trained. The only tactic they were good at was the cavalry guerrilla tactics left by their ancestors, so they often had only one formation when charging.

Two thousand Mongolian cavalry rushed out of the Jiannu formation and quickly spread to the two wings. When they were about 500 steps away from the Ming army formation, they had already formed a charge formation in the shape of the "man".

The two forks of the character "man" just cover the left and right wings of the Ming army's formation. This is the consistent tactic of the Mongolian cavalry. They cannot contact the Ming army's spearmen who are waiting for battle. Before they hit the Ming army's spearmen, they will sweep across the Ming army's wings along the "man"-shaped charge route, and then pour waves of arrow rain onto the heads of the Ming army.

Hundreds of years ago, Mongolian cavalry was able to sweep the world by relying on this simple but effective tactic.

However, this time, the once glorious Mongolian cavalry was destined to hit the chopping board, because what they encountered was not a cold weapon army, but a firearm army! The effective range of the Mongolian cavalry cavalry bow was only fifty meters, while the effective range of the Ming Central Army musket was 150 meters!

"Boom boom boom..."

When the Mongolian cavalry was more than 500 meters away from the Ming army's formation, twenty red cannons on the platform opened fire one after another, and balls of smoke rose from the wilderness. With the flying mud and ice cubes, Mongolian cavalry were hit by roaring fragments, and screamed and fell off their horses.

Compared with real killing, the Red Barbarian cannons brought more of the mental damage to these Mongolian cavalry, such as howling fragments, violent explosions, churn smoke, pungent smell of gunpowder, and the companions who kept falling down the horse, the fighting will of the Mongolian cavalry was facing unprecedented tests.

The rumbling cannon finally stopped. The Mongolian cavalry instinctively urged the mount under their crotch to speed up, hoping to quickly rush through this death distance. Soon, the Mongolian cavalry was only three hundred meters away from the Ming army formation. The Mongolian cavalry is worthy of being a nation on the horse's back. On the speeding horse, they all unloaded their cavalry bows from their shoulders and skillfully posed with feather arrows.

The formation of the Ming army also changed accordingly.

Rows of spears that rushed straight to Yunxiao were knocked down to the ground. Each spear battalion had a thousand oars and shield soldiers. The three spear battalions had a total of three thousand oars and shield soldiers. These three thousand oars and shield soldiers quickly built a solid barrier in front of the formation with a shield of more than one person in their hands, protecting the soldiers of the spear battalion and musket battalion.

Under the protection of the Long Spear Battalion, the troops of the Musket Battalion are not evenly distributed on three sides.

The head of the musket battalion will make appropriate military allocations based on the attacks in front or both wings to ensure the suppression of firepower on the enemy. At this time, the Mongolian cavalry had not yet approached the Ming army's formation, and were concentrated on the front of the Ming army's formation. Therefore, all five thousand musket teams were deployed to the front.

One thousand five hundred musketeers quickly stepped forward and put the Nanjing-made flintlock rifle in their hands into the shooting hole reserved on the oar shield. A row of black muzzles immediately appeared on the shield wall made of oar shields. The Mongolian cavalry who were galloping desperately did not know that the god of death had already shown them a hideous smile...

The distance between the two armies was approaching rapidly, and in a blink of an eye, the distance was less than 200 meters.

"Boom boom boom..."

Accompanied by a violent gunfire, the Mongolian cavalry galloped suddenly overturned the horses, and more than 200 cavalry suddenly fell backwards. Many Mongolian cavalry fell on their heads. Even though they were not killed by the guns of the Ming army, they were suffocated to death because of broken neck bones.

After firing the gun, the Ming army musketeers quickly retreated, and another team of musketeers came up, and countless black muzzles emerged from the wall of the oar and shield again.

"Boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom..."

The dense gunfire sounded at intervals, and the fallen Mongolian cavalry were more and more falling.

After the five-wheeled volley, the two armies were only fifty meters apart, and the two thousand cavalry were left at the time of attacking, but finally they entered the range of the Mongolian cavalry's bow and arrows. However, the poor Mongolian cavalry soon discovered sadly that the shield wall made of thousands of oars and shields more than one person had completely blocked their shooting angle.

The helpless Mongolian cavalry could only raise their bows and arrows to the sky and shoot the last feather arrow in their lives, and then fall under dense shotguns. Wang Pu had a clear requirement for the tactics of the musket battalion when encountering cavalry. The first three volleyballs were loaded with lead bullets, and the second three volleyballs were loaded with shotguns.

The so-called shotgun is actually a loose ball, composed of dozens of iron sand slightly larger than rice grains. The iron sand sprayed from close range is enough to form a huge barrage. It is impossible to have any shooting dead ends. If you rush into the range of the shotgun, it will be difficult for a mouse to shoot through the iron sand.

These iron sand may not be enough to kill the horse, but they are enough to seriously injure them and completely lose their combat capabilities.

The offensive of two thousand Mongolian cavalry was completely disintegrated, and no cavalry could escape unscathed! But their killing of the Ming army was very effective, and only a dozen soldiers from the spear battalions were injured by the falling arrows from the sky.

The wilderness was covered with corpses of Mongolian cavalry and war horses. Many Mongolian cavalry who had not died were struggling and crawling on the ground in pain, leaving blood marks behind them. From time to time, bursts of wailing sounds of sharks of slutty horses, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the entire battlefield with a strong smell of blood.

"call……"

Dorgon breathed a long sigh, raised his hands and waved forward fiercely at the same time.
Chapter completed!