Yangliuqing Town.

After learning that Truqin had reinforcements arrived, General Shengjing Qinggui was obviously a little uneasy.

As the son of former Grand Secretary Yin Jishan and a member of the Inlaid Yellow Banner, he could not understand the true strength of the Qing Empire now.

The so-called three camps, because they have been in peace for a long time, the bannermen enjoy occupying the fields of Han farmers all day long. It is really suspicious how much of their real combat power is left.

As for the Eight Banners of Shengjing, they are naturally the true descendants of the Eight Banners of the Old Manchuria, but there is also the same problem. The real combat power is actually still the Eight Banners of Jilin, which are mainly composed of the New Manchurians and the Eight Banners of Heilongjiang.

The only thing that can be comforted is that Yangliuqing Town is sandwiched between the canal and the Ziya River. If the enemy wants to come, they need to cross the river except by boat, and Truqin's big ship obviously cannot reach here.

Of course, with three camps near, Qinggui still had some support. Although the Qing army's combat power had declined, it was obviously not corrupt to the point of later generations.

Although the governor of Zhili Zhou Yuanli also came, the commander-in-chief of the three armies was naturally the General Shengjing. Because there were Zhou Yuanli's Green Camp soldiers and Prince Korqin's Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers outside Tianjin, and the surroundings of two rivers, Qinggui did not think that the Truqins would take the lead in attacking him.

One autumn morning, the Grand Canal and Ziya River were filled with fog.

The Eight Banner Camp outside the Pass was peaceful.

"Rumbling..."

A roar that the Eight Banners soldiers had never heard before broke the tranquility.

The sleepy soldiers on duty on the watchtower in the middle of the camp quickly checked around, but the fog around was too thick and they found nothing.

Yangliuqing Town is located in the narrowest part between Ziya River and the Grand Canal, which is only six or seven miles wider from south to north. There are docks on both sides, and bridges are also connected to land at both ends. Since it is the camp of the governor of Zhili to the south, it is afraid that the Truqin army will invade from the north, so Qinggui immediately demolished the bridge to the north after arriving.

Ziya River and the Grand Canal are connected to the Haihe River and are close to the important town in Tianjin. The rivers on both sides are well dredged. Due to the backflow of Haihe River, the river water is at least four meters deep.

If Truchen's Saiyin number reduces its own load capacity, the main cabin is mainly used for ammunition, and its draft will be maintained at about two and a half meters!

There are two iron armored silhouettes, and the two wooden silhouettes are all driven through the Haihe River to the Ziya River in the north!

As mentioned earlier, there are two twelve centimeter cannons on both sides of the Saiyin number, and there is also a rotating cannon on the first deck of twelve centimeters. In this way, one Saiyin number has three cannons!

The terrain in Yangliuqing Town is gentle, with the ground less than three meters away from the river surface. Even if it is fired on the middle deck, as long as the muzzle is raised, it can still hit the Qing army camp!

In addition, the farthest range of the Truchens' twelve-centimeter cannon reached four miles, which means that half of the Qing army camp was within their range!

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

"Boom..."

“…….”

The nearest shell actually landed near the mansion where Qinggui was located in the middle!

As the Eight Banners of Manchuria who entered the pass in a hurry, they were obviously cavalrymen. All they had were cold weapons. After reacting, they could only use bows and arrows to fight back against the warships, which was naturally scratching the surface. The Truqin warship could also exercise to both sides, and after adjusting the left and right angles of the muzzle, they could hit more ranges.

In this way, the four Saiyins bombarded while walking, bombarding for half a day, and waited until the ammunition was exhausted before returning.

Half a day later, Qinggui Camp was in a mess - the 15-pound howitzer weighing 15 kilograms is not just for fun. When it explodes, it can cover at least one hundred square meters!

This made the eight banners outside the gate, who were already full of confidence, frightened.

When the four ships reloaded their ammunition and drove into the Ziya River in the north again, Qinggui could no longer hold it back.

"The whole army quickly move to the south!"

To the south, naturally, is near Tianjin City, and is located on the west bank of the Haihe River. They moved in a hurry and obviously could not carry all the food and grass, so they could only rely on Zhou Yuanli nearby.

Also, there were not many cavalrymen in Zhou Yuanli, and they used to strengthen their power.

All of this is under the calculations of Truchenjun.

Just as the four Saiyins bombarded the Qinggui camp, Sangjice had already taken a division to bypass the Zhou Yuanli camp and came to the south of the canal. Although Zhou Yuanli had 20,000 Green Camp soldiers under his command, he had only 3,000 cavalrymen. After learning about the actions of the Truqin army, he could only transfer these 3,000 cavalrymen.

But these three thousand Han cavalry were pieced together from the entire Zhili Governor General's jurisdiction, and they had long been deeply afraid of the combat power of the Truqin army. Although they walked out of the camp, they just followed behind from a distance and did not dare to start a war directly.

Yes, Sangjice was full of cavalry and 9,000 people. It was still a whole horse, and the three thousand Han cavalry were all Mongolian horses. Not to mention anything else, they were at a disadvantage just for horses.

Sangjice's cavalry stopped about five miles to approach the bridge on the south bank of the canal. He occupied a village near this place, and then used a brigade of cavalry to monitor the Han cavalry in the south on the periphery, while the other two brigades were hidden in the village.

At around 2 p.m., the Qinggui army finally came out of Yangliuqing Town.

During the morning bombardment, at least a few hundred people died and injured by the Eight Banners under Qinggui, which was also the reason why he immediately decided to migrate to the camp. If this continues, the hateful Truqin barbarian thieves will be killed for another three or two days. Wouldn't they be wiped out?

It was a wooden bridge connecting Yangliuqing Town and the mainland. It took half an hour for all the Qinggui army to pass through this bridge. When they all arrived at the southern continent, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

When Truqin's army arrived here, it obviously had strongly blocked the surrounding area. Naturally, no one went through this bridge to report to Qinggui Camp. The only possible Han cavalry that was to report was blocked from the south and could not move.

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When Qinggui's army all arrived on the south bank, the four Saiyin ships sailed into the canal again. After several shells fell, the wooden bridge immediately broke. Only then did Qinggui wake up, but it was too late.

Sanjice and two brigades of cavalry have come up!

The Truqin cavalry with a large brimmed hat, short suit, one hand saber, and the other hand pistol quickly caught Qinggui's eyes. No matter how stupid Qinggui was, he also understood that the Truqins were going to drive them out of Yangliuqing Town.

After all, he was a Manchu. Although Qinggui was a Jinshi, the Manchus did not abandon his martial arts at this time. He gritted his teeth and shouted loudly: "What a thief, he is very kind, but I want to fight with my Eight Banners Cavalry in the wild, isn't it my hope?"

He shouted to the commander of the Bayala Guardians beside him, "It depends on you. The thief has no armor. Even if he has a short gun in his hand, he may not be your opponent."

Unfortunately, at this time, the Eight Manchu Banners still had excellent armor and skillful martial arts, and were indomitable as the goal of becoming an army. Their Bayala guards were still wearing three layers of armor like in the early Qing Dynasty, with a layer of cotton armor inside, a layer of fish scale armor in the middle, and a cloth armor with the logo of each flag on the outside.

For example, the cloth armor is yellow in color, and the inner part is lined with iron sheets.

It's a pity that the autumn is still early, although it's a bit chilly, wearing so many armors on his body is both hot and stupid. In addition, the Bayala guards are all tall and stout, with at least 200 kilograms in total, so naturally they must have a tall and big horse camel.

Qinggui has three hundred Bayala guards under his command, which is the whole Bayala army under the command of General Shengjing. As for the other Bayala, it is just a piece of cloth armor.

At present, these three hundred Bayala guards took the lead and rushed towards Truqin's army with great momentum!

The Truchens are obviously ready to deal with such an army.

At that moment, Sangjice asked himself to lead the most elite regiment in the brigade to break out. Such regiments are usually equipped with two pistols, one riding a rifle and one steel saber. After seeing the Bayala army in the telescope, he rode his horse to meet him. The battalion in front immediately raised the rifle.

The cavalry rifle was not only shorter than the rifles used in infantry, but in order to play a role in cavalry warfare, the previous rifle bullets had been abandoned, but the shotgun mode was adopted in later generations!

Compared with shotguns with effective range of up to 100 meters in later generations, the Truqin shotgun using black gunpowder has a range of only fifty meters. The principle is similar to that of later generations. Later generations can load three to four bullets at a time. The Truqins obviously cannot do this at this time, and can only load two bullets at a time.

Each bullet contains thirty small projectiles. When the bullet is out of the bore, the skin wrapped around it explodes immediately, and then the projectiles are carefully sprayed out.

Although they are all pellets, due to the different base fire, their power is no less than that of the lead bullets used in the shotgun. Moreover, they are numerous and have a huge coverage, which is just suitable for cavalry battlefields!

This was naturally invented by Qitade's genius, and it was the best choice for heavy cavalry wrapped in armor.

"Boom..."

The three hundred Bayala guards on the opposite side were riding tall horses, wearing thick armor, iron helmets with high lightning rods, and holding various heavy cold weapons. A large cloud of dust was rolled up on the dry Haihe Plain in early autumn, and the momentum was quite impressive.

The remaining Eight Banners soldiers followed behind. Once the Bayala guards defeated the enemy in front of them, they would quickly follow. In the past, the Qing cavalry adopted this strategy when dealing with the Junggar people. Otherwise, it would be obvious that it would not be possible to implement the battle of destruction on the vast grassland to rely on the infantry alone.

But the Qing army had a fatal flaw. If the cavalry equipment was strengthened, it would be impossible to strengthen the war horses as well. Otherwise, they would not be able to run at all. Therefore, their war horses were almost naked!

Forty meters!

This is the first time that the Truqin brand shotgun has been used on a large scale since its debut. In order to achieve the best effect, the Truqin army has transferred the enemy cavalry to a range of 40 meters!

"Bang..."

Three hundred cavalry special shotguns are fired together!
Chapter completed!