Shi Tingzhu saw that eight or nine of his seventeen artillery pieces had been destroyed at once, his face was like ashes, and he was speechless. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThese cannons are Shi Tingzhu's only treasures...

Shi Tingzhu rushed to Du Du and knelt down, and asked loudly, "Lord Belle, what should we do now?" ”

Du Du trembled all over, but he was helpless, holding on to a baggage truck and couldn't speak.

Du Du didn't understand that Li Zhi could resist the Qing army seven times his size with such a stockade. How come the same stockade is so vulnerable to his own hands, and he has no strength to fight back.

In fact, Du Du didn't understand that when Li Zhi designed the Qingshankou camp, he designed it according to his own firepower advantage. The entire camp exerted the firepower of the Tiger Ben Division, which was stronger than the enemy. Therefore, when the Qing army relied on the advantage of firepower to defend the Ming army, it fought handily. The 30,000 Ming army attacked the village and was easily defeated by the artillery of the Qing army.

However, the camp designed by Li Zhi is not suitable for the inferior side in firepower to hold on. Once the firepower is at a disadvantage, the seemingly solid camp walls, forts and ditches will become weak and vulnerable.

How can the walls of the fortified walls that defend bows and arrows withstand the bombardment of artillery?

The Qing army had just learned a little bit of warfare in the era of thermal weapons in front of Li Zhi, and it was still some distance away from being able to use appropriate thermal weapons tactics to fight.

Li Zhi's cannon was reloaded, ignited, and fired a third round of shells at the Qing military camp.

In the roaring cannons, the walls of the camp were shattered one by one. The shells sprinted through the ranks of firecrackers behind the wall, killing them for an unknown reason. The camp was already in chaos, and the Qing army could not fight back at all, so they could only be beaten one-sidedly, and their morale was very low.

In the panic of the Tartars, it was discovered that the reason why the flying shells injured many people was because the shells were bouncing on the ground. If you lie down, you can greatly avoid the probability of being hit by a bouncing shell. Some of the Tartars reacted first and lay on the ground, and sure enough, the shells rarely hit these Qing soldiers lying on the ground.

Seeing this, the other Qing soldiers hurried to learn. In the end, the Qing troops in the entire camp all lay on the ground.

Li Zhi used a telescope to observe the camp of the Qing army. The wall of the camp has been smashed to pieces, and Li Zhi can easily see the situation inside the camp. Seeing that the Qing army was lying on the ground to avoid the shells, Li Zhi sneered and shouted: "Change the shells." ”

The artillerymen replaced the shells with flowering shells and fired these explosive shells into the Qing army camp.

Li Zhi's flowering shell is very thick, and it can also smash the earthen walls of the camp. What's even more terrifying is that these flowering projectiles will explode when they are fired into the wall, and the shotgun projectiles will sweep across the surrounding area of several meters. Although lying on the ground can reduce the probability of being hit by a shell, if you get close, you will still be killed by a shell.

Only the sound of a roaring explosion was heard in the Qing army camp. Li Zhi looked through the binoculars and saw sparks coming out of the camp one after another, and the shotgun projectiles were splashed, and I don't know how many Tartars were killed by the flowering shells.

The Tartars had lost their ability to resist, and could only lie on the ground one by one and pray that the shells would not fall on their side.

Seeing Li Zhi's flowering bomb in the telescope, Hong Chengchou's eyes widened.

Hong Chengchou heard that the artillery in the Beijing camp would use flowering shells, but that kind of shells were very complicated to use, which was to ignite the shells and propellants separately, and then fire them quickly before the shells exploded. In order to prevent the flame of the propellant from directly detonating the shell, the flowering shell was padded with several layers of soil, wet cloth and other barrier between the shell and the flowering shell, and each shot had to be fiddled with for a long time. And even then, it's easy to blow up.

Even so, the artillery of the Beijing battalion still kept the specific operation methods of the flowering shells a secret and never leaked them to outsiders.

As for Li Zhi's flowering shell, the shell can be fired directly as soon as it is stuffed into the barrel, and there is no risk of exploding. And the destructive power of those flowering shells seems to be much greater than that of the Beijing soldiers.

This kind of flowering bomb is really a sharp weapon for attacking the camp. How many people will be killed by the Qing army when they are blown up like this?

Hong Chengchou stroked his beard silently, and secretly said that after this battle, he would discuss with Li Zhi the secret of this flowering bomb. I just don't know if Li Zhi is willing to teach himself?

Li Zhi's cannon fired round after round, about one shot per minute, eight rounds, and the barrel was piping hot. After eight rounds of shelling, the cannon was too hot to fire any more, and it needed to be cooled for an hour.

After a few hours of cooling, the gun can be fired again. Li Zhi let the cannon fire again as soon as it cooled down, pouring shells into the Qing army camp on the hill as much as possible.

From noon to evening, Li Zhi's 70 cannons poured more than 2,000 shells onto the mountain. Half of the wall to the south of the Qing army has been knocked down, and half of the camp is exposed. Inside the camp, the Qing soldiers lay on the ground one by one to avoid the shells. As soon as he found that the flowering bombs had fallen beside him, he fled into the distance one by one in a panic.

Even so, many Qing soldiers were killed. Every round of shells exploded in the camp, and the camp resounded with screams. The Qing soldiers who were killed by the bombing and the Qing soldiers who were still alive were mixed together, and they all fell to the ground, and it was impossible to see which of the living people on the ground were and which were dead.

The blood from the wounds of the dead became a stream that flowed down from the knoll, staining the water of the ditch in the village red with blood. The north wind was blowing, and the air was filled with the smell of blood, even Li Zhi, who was two miles away from the camp, could smell it.

This is no longer war, this is a one-sided slaughter.

The Qing army had only 20,000 people, and the Ming army had Li Zhi's 15,000 strong army and Hong Chengchou's 10,000 Chinese army. The Qing army of 20,000 did not dare to rush out of the camp to die. I'd rather be shelled in the camp than out of the village.

Zheng Kaicheng observed the Tartars with a telescope for a while, and said with a smile: "Uncle, at least a few thousand Tartars were killed today!" Why didn't the Tartars abandon the village and run away? ”

"I don't know! Maybe the Tartars are ready to run at night! It was dark early in the winter in the northern country, Li Zhi looked at the darkening surroundings, and said, "Call it a day and set up camp, if the Tartars don't flee tonight, we will continue to bombard these Tartars tomorrow." ”

The flag was unfurled, and Li Zhi's order was passed on. Li Zhi's soldiers and horses retreated two miles and camped south of the Qing army camp.

Hong Chengchou's rout has basically been collected back by Hong Chengchou. In Liaoxi, which is freezing on this day, there is nothing to eat except for the military camp. Since there were no Qing pursuers behind, the defeated soldiers returned to the barracks one by one.

Hong Chengchou reorganized his discipline and led an army of 40,000 to camp in the west.

When it was time to eat in the evening, Hong Chengchou carried a cart of bacon, dried meat and various pickled vegetables to Li Zhi's army to reward the army.