Yang Mingyang turned over and dismounted, and with the help of the orderly soldiers, he removed the wet armor. He had just led his troops to rush back to drive a group of Qing troops who were trying to dismantle the artillery towers of the East Coast people. The beheading of more than 80 in this battle is a rare big harvest recently. Although the Qing army and the East Coast people have been playing this trick of harassing each other almost every day for nearly a year, there are usually only a few or a dozen casualties. This time, the Qing army was raided by the long-lost East Coast cavalry, and was almost wiped out by surprise. They should have calmed down in the next few days.

However, the Qing army's calm did not mean that the people on the east coast would also calm down. In the wilderness in the southern wilderness of Yantai Fort, eight artillery towers had been added to stand firmly in the scorching sun of midsummer. In the middle of the artillery tower, a wooden hamlet made of Sakhalin Island fish scale pine stood, with five hundred forward soldiers stationed in it. These soldiers were mixed with hot and cold weapons, and were in the cross-fire power of the artillery tower, so they were not afraid of the enemy's attack at all. On the contrary, when the enemy attacked a certain artillery tower, they could still go forward to support and defeat the invading enemy, which gave the Qing army a headache.

After the eight artillery towers were repaired, their firepower could basically cover an area of ​​more than five square kilometers, making the Qing army's range of activities less and less. In the past, they were trying to fill the muddy area on the west side of Yantai Fort, but after the artillery tower took effect, they disappeared from there. At this time, if the East Coast people fired 18-pound long-barrel heavy artillery from the two artillery towers arranged in the front, their shells could almost be next to the Qing army wall that was still under construction - of course, the East Coast people have not yet installed such a magical artifact on the artillery tower.

A total of 400 soldiers were stationed in these eight artillery towers, and 500 people were stationed in the middle of the city. With these people, the Qing army could no longer move forward comfortably to the city of Yantai Fort. Their formation would be cut off by the firepower clusters of these artillery towers. This would undoubtedly be fatal to the large-scale field battle between the two sides. However, in fact, the Qing army had long given up its plan to capture Yantai Fort through war. They had not even organized a team of more than 2,000 people to attack Yantai Fort for more than a year. They had more than 40,000 troops at hand. Chen Jin and others could only build a city seven or eight miles away every day, trying to trap the people in the east coast through this long wall.

They had indeed achieved this goal before. But after the East Coast people worked tirelessly to build eight artillery towers for more than a year, the Qing army's system now seems to be in danger of collapse. For example, the cavalry of the East Coast people can gallop across the vast wilderness between the fortresses and the city walls on both sides, but the Eight Banners cavalry did not dare to do this. There is no other reason, I am afraid of being bombarded by cannons!

In fact, the Ming army used this method to deal with them in Liaodong in the past. But on the one hand, the Ming army's construction of fortress artillery towers was expensive, and on the other hand, their artillery was not as powerful as those of the East Coast people. Third and most important point was that the Ming army did not have the ability to fight in field. At that time, in Liaodong, in western Liaoning, there were often dozens of Eight Banners cavalry standing out. The Ming army, which was several times or even dozens of times the number was scared to hide in the fortress like quails, allowing the Qing army to roar and move outside.

But the yellow-clothed thieves killed in heaven are different! Their semen cavalry are not afraid of the Eight Banners brigades with the reputation of "Caring and Shooting". They dare to fight and have good equipment. They often have the upper hand when the number of people on both sides is similar, which makes the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners outside Yantai Fort a headache. They are used to fighting the weak Ming army, but after suddenly facing a cavalry brigade that is not inferior to them, they are very unaccustomed to it. On the other hand, the Polish cavalry are used to it. They used to fight against the world-famous Ottoman Ganeshari Guards and Mamluk cavalry, and even ineffective, they also fight guerrillas with Cossacks and Tatar herders. None of them is good at fighting and winning.

At this time, they met these soldiers from the Manchurian Blue Banner. They treated them as ordinary opponents, so the psychological gap was not as big as the Eight Banners soldiers. Once people lost so many mixed ideas, they could of course better exert their combat effectiveness. Even the Tatar herders in the East Coast cavalry formation, although their war skills and fighting will not be as good as those of the Poles, they are better than those of the Eight Banners soldiers. The Mongolian descendants (Tartars) fight the authentic Mongols, and the battle scene is also funny.

Back to the topic. One month after the artillery tower was repaired, it happened that the army of Mo Dajun led his army to return from Jiangbei. Yantai Fort had a carnival for three days, and a small military parade and award ceremony was held, which made the Qing generals on the opposite side feel uncomfortable after seeing it. After the award ceremony, on July 15, with the order of the command of the coach Mo Dajun, who had just rested for less than ten days, began to assemble: the first brigade of the forward team, and the 16 squadrons of the second brigade, fought 4,000.

The corps, 500 combat soldiers in the corps; the 102nd Company, 104th Company, 105th Company, and 900 combat soldiers in Yantai Artillery Company (the vacancy has been added); the three Eight Banners New Army Infantry Battalions 2,300 combat soldiers; the Cavalry Regiment 2,000 combat soldiers, 300 scouts of the newly trained public security team, and 10,000 combat soldiers. In addition, there are 10,000 military husbands, and a total of 20,000 military soldiers were arranged several hundred meters in front of the East Coast artillery cluster, challenging the Qing army behind the outer city wall about seven or eight hundred meters.

The red-clothed cannons placed on some city towers of the Qing army fired a few times, but the weak shells consumed their kinetic energy before they reached the east coast military formation and fell to the ground weakly. The cannons on the top of the city could not hit the opponent, and their own field cannons (Does the Qing army have field cannons?) were extremely bulky and inconvenient to move, but the enemy's field cannons could easily make their uncovered formations in the field outside the city. How can they fight this battle?

At this time, the Qing army stationed here did not have many troops, but only Ke Yongsheng and others led more than 20,000 Han troops in the Green Camp led by Ke Yongsheng and others, and there were 2,500 cavalrymen of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners. Not far away, there were more than 10,000 troops of Chen Jin, the governor of Denglai appointed by the Qing court. As for the more than 15,000 troops of Li Rutai who were also guarding this place, they had been transferred to Binzhou long ago. Li Rutai himself had also served as the general of the Binzhou coastal defense for a long time.

The entire army had less than 25,000 people. Even though the proportion of garrison soldiers was higher, the Qing army still did not dare to go out of the city to fight. Except for one-third of their green camps, they came from Ningxia, Shaanxi and other places, some combat power. The other two-thirds were basically the local Ming army, bandits and regiments trained landlord armed forces. The combat power was very average. If they were to defend the city, they would be careless. If they went out of the city to fight, judging by the high morale of the yellow-clothed thieves who have repeatedly won, they would probably not know how they died.

Since the Qing army did not dare to go out of the city to fight, the people on the east coast were no longer polite. The large group of soldiers began to build fortifications under the protection of the field troops, vowing to use this as a base to break the turtle shell of the Qing army. When they were in Yangzhou, they faced the Shiting Pillar Division more than the Qing army in front of them. At the same time, there were also Yangzhou walls with high and deep cities, but they still pushed to the end. They fought against the green camp of the Han army. They were not vague at all!

In this way, until July 20, the East Coast people built a wooden combined camp on the front line that could accommodate 20,000 people. The Qing army did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field except for several medium-sized attacks at night. They watched the East Coast soldiers build this camp.

After the camp was built, the east coast troops had a place to settle down. Especially their artillery was able to go out under the escort of field troops to find the weak areas of the Qing army's city wall, while the Qing army's red-clothed cannons had a very small number of red-clothed cannons, with limited coverage, and it was very inconvenient to move once they were placed (especially on the city wall), so they could only sit and watch the yellow-clothed thief's cannons bombard the city wall. After a few days, several holes were opened in the city walls that were not very strong (the brick and wood mixing mechanism cannot afford to play with all bricks and stones).

Although the Qing army sent people to block the gap overnight, how could this be blocked? Under the bombardment of cannons, the bricks and stones had to be powdered, let alone the sandbags and stones that blocked the gap? In this way, after losing three cannons and more than ten gunners, the people on the east coast took the lead in opening a large hole of more than 30 meters in a weak point.

After opening the hole, everything was carried out according to the experience of previous battles. The people on the east coast had many artillery, and the shells were first washed into the gap like money, and then hundreds of musketeers searched and attacked the other side of the city wall under the cover of a large number of heavily armored spearmen. The cavalry troops were cruising on the periphery, as if waiting for the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to leave the city to fight with them, but they never received the invitation from these Eight Banners soldiers.

The subsequent battle was as usual. The army of the East Coast people flexibly formed small formations, with artillery firing and muskets shooting in close proximity. If they got closer, they would be the spear of heavy-armored spearmen, which made the Qing army extremely depressed. They did not have field artillery, and muskets were just a joke in front of the East Coast muskets. The bows and arrows were not very good. In short, they were extremely frustrated in this kind of battle, which was completely a tragic situation of being crushed. The East Coast people only spent a day capturing two small city towers and seizing two cannons. The Qing army was gradually defeated in an irresistible way.

On July 27, after the most intense battle since the war started, the most elite first brigade of the forward team finally conquered a city gate after more than 300 casualties and repelled two counterattacks from the Qing army. After conquering the city gate, all the infantry, cavalry, and a large number of soldiers also began to kill through the city gate, strongly supporting the battle on this side.

On July 29, the 16th Battalion of Ke Yongsheng's troops in Jiaozhou, the most capable green camp of the Qing army, was severely injured. Ke Yongsheng himself was also injured in cannons, and more than 3,000 people and horses were killed or injured, and the rest were all dispersed. In a critical moment, He Tuo personally led the Eight Banners cavalry to attack in an attempt to delay the offensive of the East Coast army, but was soon intercepted by the East Coast cavalry who had been waiting for many days. After a fierce battle, the two sides suffered casualties and wounded each other, and the Qing army retreated. At that time, the East Coast cavalry was prepared and rushed to the Eight Banners in the battle. As a result, the enemy formation was destroyed in one battle, and the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia were suddenly defeated. In the melee, the Qing army's Melezhen E Mengge was killed by the pistols of the East Coast cavalry, and several other assistants such as Jialazhen and Niulu Zhangjing died under the sword of the Polish cavalry. The entire battle was over 700 corpses left on the battlefield of the Qing Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, which was extremely tragic.

On July 30, except for thousands of Qing troops abandoning friendly troops, who fled at night, more than half of the Qing army defending the city walls lost more than half of them and were almost wiped out of Yantai City. Chen Jin, who stayed in Dengzhou, heard that he was devastated after his defeat. Although six or seven thousand Qing troops fled back to Dengzhou one after another, Chen Jin was still in panic all day long because he knew that the East Coast people with the great victory would inevitably rush to Dengzhou City. By then, Chen Jin would only have more than 10,000 defeated soldiers and generals. How should he resist?
Chapter completed!