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With a dull bang, ten bowl-sized iron balls blasted towards the artillery positions of the Ming army.

The artillery position of the Ming army was three miles away from the front line of the Qing army camp. Among the cannons of the Qing army, only the Hongyi cannon could hit three miles away, and it needed to be placed in a higher position.

Du Yinxi had known for a long time that the Qing army had ten Hongyi cannons on the opposite side, so how could he be unprepared?
Therefore, although there are a total of eighty bright cannons, the gun positions are scattered, and the cannon carriages of the bright cannons are all made of thick wood-clad steel baffles, and then steel bars are used as the skeleton to cushion the force. structure.

Although it is not impossible to completely block the iron bullets fired by the Hongyi Cannon, it can also be defended a little, so that the artillery has a place to hide.

In addition, when the artillery of the Ming Dynasty New Army set up artillery positions, they would set up special bomb shelters on the side.

At this moment, as soon as they heard the cannons in the Qing army camp, many artillerymen jumped into the nearby bomb shelters one after another-this kind of bomb shelters is quite effective in defending against the iron bullets of the Hongyi cannons.

I saw ten iron bullets whizzing towards me, and only three were lucky enough to hit the Ming army artillery carriage.

This probability is already quite high.

However, only two of the gun carriages were damaged, and one was only scraped to the side.

Only one of the bright steel cannons was slightly damaged.

As for the artillerymen, only one unlucky man was killed on the spot by the fragments of the broken artillery carriage, and three others were slightly injured.

Although the casualties were slight, the artillerymen of No. 14 Township of the Border Guards felt that they had been seriously provoked, and immediately bombarded several camps of Shang Kexi's department with explosive shells.

Shang Kexi now has only 5000 people under his command. In order to guard against Ming army artillery, he has set up four large camps.

Even so, after suffering [-] bombs, an average of [-] bombs were distributed to each camp.

Even though Shang Kexi's troops also set up trenches and bomb shelters in the battalion, there were still nearly a hundred casualties, especially the artillerymen near the artillery vehicles.

Several of the Hongyi cannons placed on the high slope, even three were blown to the ground. It would take at least a quarter of an hour to restore the cannon positions, and another quarter of an hour to fire them again.

For a quarter of an hour, the Ming army was able to fire more than a dozen rounds of shells.

The fact is exactly the same. One or two minutes later, the artillery of the Ming army took care of the four camps of Shang Kexi's department again.

Because Du Yinxi and Hao Xiaozhong didn't say anything to stop, or chose another camp to bombard, the artillerymen of No. 14 Town kept bombarding Shang Kexi's camp at a frequency of two to three minutes.

Wei Dacheng, who is temporarily in charge of commanding the 14 artillery groups, directly under the No. [-] township, is an old artilleryman dispatched from Sichuan. He was almost seriously injured in the shelling of the Qing army just now. The artillerymen fired their shells, swearing.

"The doggy Qinglu, dare to beat us, are you capable of killing us? If you can't beat us, you will die!"

"Continue to bombard me with bombs, let them experience what it means to wash the ground with shells!"

When Wei Dacheng was training in Chengdu, he also watched the movie, and the most profound impact was the scene of the shell washing the ground in the movie.

His regret all along was that he had too few cannons. This time he was able to command eighty bright cannons, imitating a cannonball in a movie to scrub the ground, which was quite enjoyable.

Wei Dacheng and other artillerymen had a good time, but the Eight Banners Han army in Shang Kexi's department on the opposite side collapsed.

Eighty shells fell in two or three minutes, which left Shang Kexi's artillery with no chance to fight back.

Anyone who wanted to operate the Hongyi cannon in the past would often receive a round of flowering bombs from the Ming army before they were fired, and all of their faces would bloom immediately, causing heavy casualties.

Those other Eight Banners Han troops who were all in trenches and bomb shelters were also having a hard time.

Their trenches and bomb shelters were unscientifically dug and rough, and they collapsed one after another after being bombarded by three rounds of flowering shells.

Shang Kexi's Eight Banners Han soldiers were either buried alive on the spot, or were killed and injured by broken porcelain pieces, iron nails, etc. in the explosive bombs.

Therefore, failing to survive ten rounds, the remaining Eight Banners Han army in the four camps of Shang Kexi's division collapsed.

Even Shang Kexi himself didn't dare to stay in the original camp, and hurriedly fled to one side with the rout soldiers - they didn't dare to run back directly, fearing that they would be directly beheaded by the Qing army's supervising team.

Azig was on the lookout car in a camp farther back, seeing the scene where Shang Kexi's camp was washed by shells, he was stunned in shock.

When he came back to his senses, he only felt that his heart was filled with fear. He felt that the Ming army had so many ferocious artillery that it was impossible for them to defeat the Qing. It's gone!

"Pass down the king's order, retreat!" Azig got out of the lookout car, and said dryly, "The Ming army has so many artillery pieces and is so fierce, this battle is impossible to fight!"

Other generals in the Qing army, such as Aobai, Sukesaha, Jin Li, Zu Kefa, etc., also watched the artillery battle just now, and were also frightened.

After receiving Azig's order, no one said that Azige was cowardly, and they retreated as quickly as possible.

There are many cavalry, and there are many mules and horses in the army. They still have certain confidence in the successful evacuation.In addition, if the Ming army really dared to take the initiative to attack and prevent them from retreating, perhaps they could still use their cavalry advantage to find a chance to turn defeat into victory...
the other side.

Du Yinxi, who was also standing on the lookout car, discovered the movement of the Qing army's camp at the first time with a telescope.

"The four camps where the Hongyi cannons were placed collapsed just like that?"

"There is no movement in other Qing army camps... Could it be that they are going to retreat?"

Thinking of this, Du Yinxi frowned, and immediately ordered the sixth team of the Flying Eagles to use drones to observe the situation in the Qinglu camp.

The six groups were already ready and on standby. After receiving the order, the group leader Ye Linrui immediately flew the bird's-eye drone into the sky.

Soon, the bird's-eye-view drone controlled by Ye Linrui came over the Qinglu camp at an extremely fast speed with a sharp whistling sound.

The observer clearly saw the situation in the Qing army's camps through the camera under the drone's bird's-eye view, and even went to someone to report to Du Yinxi: The Qing army is indeed preparing to retreat!

Du Yinxi frowned even more when he heard this, "If we let the Qing prisoner escape back to Weihui's mansion, we will fight again, but it will take a lot of time.

The point is, after this battle, I am afraid that the Qing captives may not dare to fight us again, and it is very likely that they will directly retreat outside the pass. "

Zhang Kuang said from the side: "The supervisor's concerns are justified, and the Military Affairs Council probably didn't expect that the Qing prisoners would be directly crushed by our artillery.

If these tens of thousands of Qing captives were allowed to escape at this time, and the situation was reported to the Qing court, the Qing court would probably fully shrink its troops and retreat outside the pass.

Liaodong is full of mountains and forests. If the Qing captives are really allowed to flee back to their lairs in Liaodong, it will not be so easy for us to exterminate them.

The officials thought that at this time, the supervisor made a decisive decision and ordered the whole army to attack the camp of the Qing prisoners, so as to wipe out the tens of thousands of Qing prisoners in one fell swoop! "

Du Yinxi frowned and said, "But if I annihilate these Qing prisoners, wouldn't the plans of the Military Affairs Council be seriously affected?"

Zhang Kuang said: "It is better to change the plan. After the Qing army is wiped out in this battle, the supervisor can immediately send a telegram to the Military Affairs Council, suggesting that the two soldiers and horses at sea should act immediately. Straight to Beijing."

Du Yinxi felt that it was not good to ignore the overall situation, but the current situation required him to launch a general attack, so he hesitated for a while.

Zhang Kuang was in a hurry, and persuaded again: "Master, the opportunity must not be missed, and it will never come again. As for the plan of the Military Affairs Academy, don't you hear that the king's order will not be accepted?"

Hearing this, Du Yinxi finally stopped hesitating, gritted his teeth and said: "Forget it. Pass down the order of the supervisor, and the whole army will attack, and we must wipe out all the Qing prisoners in front of us!"