The Qing army's carriages and artillery carriages were on the move before. It was difficult for the Ming army's gunners to aim, but they were still able to hit 20 to 30% of the hits.

Now that they have stopped, the hit rate of the Guangming artillery has immediately increased significantly, reaching 40 to 50%.

Guangming-type artillery is used on warships, and is mostly cannon, that is, a flat-firing cannon.

However, in order to facilitate their use in land warfare, Zhu Yurao asked craftsmen to build a batch of special artillery carts when he was in Chengdu.

By adjusting the elevation of the artillery, the Guangming artillery can projectile projectiles most of the time in land battles. Only when the elevation is adjusted to the horizontal can it be classified as level fire.

Seeing the Qing army's carriages and artillery carriages entering about a mile away, some artillery crews did not believe in evil and first tried to shoot with live ammunition.

However, although the live ammunition level shot at this distance is quite powerful, after hitting the carriage, it can even make it retreat significantly, but if you want to damage the carriage or even hit the Qing army behind, it all depends on luck.

This is only possible if the key and vulnerable parts of the car are hit.

But this probability is too small.

Therefore, two guns were tried, and each battery group used recycled shells.

If you want to project the explosive shells into the Qing army behind the carriage, you need considerable skill and experience, as well as some luck.

Once successful, the Qing troops hiding behind the carriages will fall to pieces, causing many casualties.

The blooming bombs fall on both sides of the carriage and can also achieve some killing effects.

But if the shells fall in front of the carriage, the power is not even as powerful as the live ammunition...

However, the Ming army had another advantage, there were many artillery.

According to the organization, each battalion of the Border Guards and the Guards has an artillery sentry, and at the same time, there is an artillery sentry directly under the military town.

That is to say, a military town has four sentry artillery.

Each post has at least twenty Guangming artillery pieces, so the second and third towns of the Border Guard Army in front have a total of at least one hundred and sixty Guangming artillery pieces!

Therefore, the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners troops now attacking felt as if they were being "enthusiastically cared for" by one or two hundred red barbarian cannons with explosive shells.

Duduo used his telescope to see the sudden increase in casualties of the Eight Banners Army in front, and couldn't help but said angrily: "Why is Bolo still dawdling behind? At this time, he should lead the Mongolian cavalry to cross the front and approach the Ming army's position!"

He is still cowering behind, does he want me to give an order to teach him how to command in battle?!"

According to the previous military discussion, the Mongolian cavalry was to be used to approach the Ming army's position first to test its firepower, and at the same time to provide some cover for the advance of the Eight Banners' heavy armored infantry.

But when marching, it is not necessary to let the Mongolian cavalry charge at the front from the beginning - if you do this, with the speed of the Mongolian light cavalry, the forward carts, and the slowness of the heavy-armored infantry, the two units will easily be separated on the battlefield.

Therefore, in actual battles, the Mongolian light cavalry advanced slowly behind the Eight Banners Army forward.

When they are one or two miles closer to the Ming army's position, the Mongolian light cavalry should speed up, pass the forward army, and approach the Ming army's position first.

Therefore, seeing the forward casualties significantly increasing, Dodo would angrily scold Bolo.

Perhaps feeling Dodo's anger, or perhaps knowing that this must be done, after Dodo finished scolding, Boluo and Oro Saichen led the Mongolian cavalry to speed up.

Because they were very loosely distributed, they quickly passed the Eight Banners Army forward and quickly approached the Ming Army's position.

At this time, Bolo's hands were sweating and he was very nervous.

Because he remembered the tragic scene when he was surrounded by the Ming army's formation yesterday and was bombarded by one or two hundred tiger cannons.

Driven by his nervousness, he not only did not slow down, but instead made his horse run faster...

On the Ming army's position, the generals of each artillery team were shouting at the artillerymen in accordance with the military orders of Zeng Ying and Yang Zhan.

"Listen carefully, we will only use half of the Crouching Tiger Cannon in a while. If we use all of it, it will scare away the Qing army, and it will be difficult for us to fight the battle later. Do you understand?"

"I understand!"

Therefore, when Bolo led the Mongolian cavalry to get a hundred steps closer to the Ming army's position, only half of the artillery crew used the trench cover to fire off scattered shells.

In an instant, nets of death surrounded the Mongolian cavalry outside.

Although the Mongolian cavalry was more loose than yesterday, many cavalry were still killed and wounded by shotguns.

Then a more interesting thing happened - many Mongolian cavalry turned around when they were two hundred steps away from the Ming army's position, and did not risk getting within a hundred steps at all, let alone shooting arrows from a closer distance.

Most of these timid Mongolian cavalry had fled back yesterday and had already been frightened by the numerous tiger squatting artillery pieces of the Ming army.

Duduo saw this scene through the telescope, and his face was livid with anger. He couldn't help but whip the air with his whip, and said angrily: "These Mongolian dogs, after withdrawing the troops, I will definitely charge them with cowardice!"

Han Dai on the side said: "Why should King Yu be angry? The Mongols have always bullied the weak and feared the strong. They lost so many people yesterday. Knowing that the Ming army's artillery shells are powerful, they naturally refused to go up and work hard again.

Fortunately, some people rushed forward and tried out how many cannons the Ming army had.

It looks like there are three to four hundred gates. It is indeed numerous, but it is not invincible."

Duduo glanced at Han Dai coldly and said angrily: "You don't have to say it!"

After saying that, he took the telescope and continued watching.

Han Dai and Nu Shan both looked envious - they also wanted to have a telescope, but currently only the commander of the Qing army had one.

As for when they will be available, it depends on the subsequent capture of the Ming Dynasty.

Through the narrow field of view of the telescope, Duduo saw that while the cavalry was circling the formation, some of the Ming army's artillery fire was somewhat dispersed. The forwards of the Eight Banners Army quickly established artillery positions, and then there were hundreds of Hongyi artillery, Franchise and other long-range machine guns.

The artillery began to be fired one after another.

The carriage, driven by the wrappers and slaves, continued to move forward and approached the Ming army's position.

It can be seen that the artillerymen of the Eight Banners Army are also consciously bombarding the Ming Army artillery positions, and they are working really hard.

However, this time the Ming army conducted free artillery bombardment by each artillery group, rather than cluster artillery fire coverage. Therefore, the artillery positions were loosely distributed on the west side of the position two to three miles long, just like the Qing army.

This made each artillery position a very small target, which was extremely difficult for the Eight Banners Army gunners to hit.

Based on the artillery skills of the Eight Banners Army gunners and the performance of their artillery, it can be said that hitting the Ming Army's artillery positions depends entirely on luck.

In addition, the Qing army's artillery used live ammunition, that is, iron bullets.

The border guards of the two towns had already dug many trenches, mounds, and even anti-artillery slopes on the west side.

The Qing army fired hundreds of artillery pieces one after another. On the surface, the battle with the Ming army seemed to be vigorous, but in fact it did not cause many casualties to the Ming army.

Only a few unlucky ones will be hit by live ammunition and either die on the spot or be seriously injured.

As for minor injuries - there are basically no minor injuries under live artillery fire.

Duduo could not clearly see the situation in the Ming army's position, but when he saw the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Eight Banners Army firing vigorously and even faintly suppressing the Ming army's artillery fire, he finally smiled.

After temporarily putting down the telescope, he turned around and rushed towards Nushan. Han Dai smiled and said: "Who said that our Eight Banners in Manchuria can't use cannons? We should let that old boy Kong Youde come and take a look, and our Eight Banners gunners can fire up artillery."

, no worse than his God Blessed Army."

The so-called Tianyou Army was the name Huang Taiji gave to the soldiers and horses under Kong Youde before the Han army flag was established.

Among these soldiers who rebelled against Kong Youde, there was a firearms unit. It was Sun Yuanhua who purchased Western Yi muskets and artillery, and specially invited Western Yi officers to train them. Therefore, the use of muskets and artillery was ranked first in the world in the late Ming Dynasty.

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Previously, the Qing army had repeatedly suffered losses from the sharp guns and artillery of the Ming army in the Liaodong War.

Kong Youde had such an elite firearms unit under his command. After coming to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji naturally valued him very much.

Therefore, although the Tianyou Army at that time was an army composed of Han people, it was unparalleled among all the armies of the Qing Dynasty.

Duduo had always despised the Han people, and could even be said to be hostile. Naturally, he couldn't bear to see Kong Youde, a Han man who had surrendered to the general, so gloriously.

Therefore, he has always wanted to seize the firearms force from Kong Youde or establish a Manchurian firearms force.

Seeing that the temporary artillerymen of the Eight Banners Army were able to achieve great achievements today, he felt that after this great victory over the Ming Army, he could write to Dorgon and ask for the establishment of the Eight Banners Firearms Army in Manchuria.

When Duduo's mind turned to the game and competition among the upper echelons of the Qing army, the forwards of the Eight Banners Army finally entered within a hundred steps of the Ming army's position.

At this time, the scattered shells of the Ming army's squatting cannons were blocked by the carriages, and it seemed that they could no longer cause too many casualties to the Eight Banners Army.

Therefore, Tu Lai, who was the commander of the Eight Banners' vanguard on the battlefield, ordered all the convoys to continue moving forward, trying to break into the Ming army's position in one fell swoop, leaving the Ming army's artillery useless.

"Come on -"

Amid the shouting, a large number of slaves, half-pushed and half-lifted, drove the carriage in vain to speed up.

In just a few dozen seconds, more than a dozen carts arrived behind the mound in front of the Ming army's formation, only a dozen steps away from the Ming army in the trenches!

The front end of the Qing army's pallet truck used a wooden raft as a shield, and covered it with iron sheets, cowhide, and mud. After it was lowered, the front end was tilted up, forming a thick baffle at an angle of nearly 45 degrees.

There are even shooting holes on this thick baffle.

Therefore, as soon as the cart was parked, the Eight Banners Army immediately fired arrows into the Ming Army's position through the shooting holes.
Chapter completed!