Although the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion sent by Jiannu this time was indeed equipped with a large number of firecrackers, and the number of firecrackers was close to or even more than half of their strength, it can be said that it was a bit interesting to draw the tiger according to the cat, but they found that among the opponent's firecrackers, there were still a large number of Han soldiers holding three-eyed guns that had long been eliminated by them.

Although the three-eyed gun can fire three projectiles in a row at a time, and the projectile density is higher than that of a single musket when firing together, the range of this thing is really pitiful, the effective armor-piercing range is no more than thirty steps, and it can only be roughly aimed, and it is impossible to achieve accurate aiming at all.

As for the bird gun, it is needless to say, it is still a relatively advanced weapon in this era, but compared with the large-caliber flintlock pistol that the large Chinese army is currently equipped with in large quantities, there is probably a fight in range, but the power is far behind, not to mention that the musket of the large Chinese army has been designed with a butt that can be aimed and shot against the shoulder many years ago, so that the large Chinese army has a higher hitting accuracy than the standard bird gun of the Ming army from the earliest bird gun, plus the use of flintlock device, As a result, the Dazhong Army has now completely eliminated the bird guns in the army, and completely let the firecrackers get rid of the burden of the fire rope, making the firepower of the Dazhong Army more powerful.

But today they didn't expect that Jiannu would actually be a toddler in Handan, and follow them to make Jiannu's Han army into such a tactic, and want to use the tactics of the Dazhong Army to restrain the Dazhong Army, and really want to make people laugh off their big teeth, if the two armies fight against each other, and the Dazhong Army loses to these Wuzhen Chaoha battalions, then the Dazhong Army will not have to mix up anymore in the future, everyone can go back to their respective homes to find their own mothers, wash and sleep!

So when he saw Jiannu on the other side using this tactic to meet their Dazhong Army, not only Xiao Tianjian smiled, but many generals in the army couldn't help but show a disdainful smile on their faces, not only did their morale not be affected at all, but it made the morale of Dazhong Army even more invigorated.

"Damn! Jiannu Tartars actually want to learn from us! Use our methods against us! Grandma's, if they don't fight today, they are looking for teeth all over the ground, and Lao Tzu's surname will be changed to the mule's mule! Luo Li, of the First Guards Army, who was lined up in front of the Chinese army, laughed and scolded on the spot.

This time Xiao Tianjian led the troops to battle, as the main force of the Great Chinese Army, Luo Lixuan snatched the errand of the forward from Liu Yaoben, and led the troops of the headquarters to line up in front of the most central part of the army, so it was the soldiers and horses under his command who faced the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion of King Sanshun of Shangjiannu.

The infantry army of the first town under Yan Chongxi and the infantry army of the second town under Diao Zheng were arrayed on the left flank of the large formation of the Great Chinese Army, while Wang Chengping and the cavalry of each army were temporarily led by Wang Chengping, lined up behind the infantry of the Great Chinese Army, and the direction by the sea was the general of Liu Yaoben's Second Guards Army.

However, this way of arranging the formation of the Dazhong Army fell on the side of Jiannu, but it made the slave chieftains of Jiannu feel that the front of the Dazhong Army was too open, so that the horizontal line of the Dazhong Army was only a few dozen people, which seemed a little thin, which made all Jiannu see a glimmer of hope, and felt that Xiao Tianjian, the emperor of the Dazhong Army, was really arrogant today. Therefore, slave chiefs like Daishan, Jierharang, Ahsan, etc., who had never fought against the Dazhong Army, all showed a hint of joy.

But like Dolgon, Duoduo, and Dudu, the slave chiefs who had fought with the Dazhong Army, did not dare to underestimate the formation of the Dazhong Army, and their faces were still very solemn, watching the situation in front from a distance behind the big array, Dolgon opened his mouth a few times, and finally did not say a word to remind Huang Taiji.

Now Dolgon knows that because of the successive attacks on Shanhaiguan, and after incurring them to build slaves and lose soldiers, his position in the Qing Dynasty is already precarious, and now Huang Taiji did not immediately clean up him and Duoduo and their three brothers, but it does not mean that Huang Taiji will not clean up their three brothers after going back this time, so at the moment he doesn't want to say anything more to Huang Taiji, anyway, he has already said what should be said, and now he also sees that Huang Taiji actually does not want to completely defeat the opposite Dazhong Army through this battle, Huang Taiji wanted to consume those Han troops and Mongols, so he only needed to watch this battle.

The two armies slowly approached each other to the sound of their war drums, and when the two sides were arranged, they spread out their cannons, and the muzzles of the guns were aimed at the battlefield.

As the infantry of the two armies began to enter the battlefield, when they approached the enemy, they gradually began to enter the range of the enemy's artillery.

The gunners on both sides watched the enemy nervously, constantly calculating the distance of the enemy, until they felt that the enemy had entered the range of their cannons, and the dozen or so heavy Hongyi cannons pulled by the Jiannu side this time, under the command of Wu Shoujin, finally took the lead in firing the first shot of this big duel between Dazhong and Jiannu in Shanhaiguan.

Jiannu's Hongyi cannon weighing two or three thousand catties can be said to be the most powerful artillery in China in this era, and Jiannu's mastery of this kind of big killing weapon is also due to the rebellion of the original Sanshun King, bringing the Ming Dynasty cannon craftsmen to Liaodong, Huang Taiji is also because of the kind of big killing weapon they brought, so they attach great importance to them, and vigorously cast this kind of Hongyi cannon outside the gate, so that Jiannu's ability to attack fortifications over the years has been unprecedentedly improved, at least in terms of heavy artillery, Completely suppressed the army of the Ming Dynasty who had ridden them for many years.

But this kind of Hongyi cannon casting process is very complicated, not only the requirements for the craftsman's craftsmanship are very high, from the mold to the casting and even the final drilling, it takes a long time not to say, and the scrap rate is very high, so the number of red-coated cannons that have been cast by the Jiannu side for so many years is not very large.

Just to transport and serve these red-coated cannons, Jiannu used thousands of cloth slaves and thousands of mules and horses to drag these cannons, and each cannon, almost hundreds of people had to take care of them, so that they could be transported here to participate in this war.

But unfortunately they did not meet the Ming army this time, but the big Chinese army that was better at playing with artillery than them, you must know that Xiao Tianjian attached great importance to the application of artillery from a very early age, and after he just occupied Yangcheng County, he used Gao Su, a foreign devil cannon casting division, and began to cast cannons for the big Chinese army.

Over the years, under the unremitting efforts of many craftsmen of the Xingtian Army, the casting cannons of the Dazhong Army have already realized the casting of Hongyi cannons of various calibers, and under the "creation" of Xiao Tianjian, the Xingtian Army has abandoned the mud fan casting method that is easy to cause pores and a cannon from a very early age, and has replaced it with a more advanced iron cast cannon, so that the artillery casting of the Dazhong Army, whether it is speed or quality, has been improved by leaps and bounds, and in the past two years, it has been with the continuous development of steelmaking capacity. Experiments have already begun to be made of steel to forge lighter and stronger steel cannons.

In addition, Xiao Tianjian was also busy and personally presided over the "design" of the gun carriage and ammunition truck similar to the Napoleonic cannon of later generations, making the cannon of the Great Chinese Army much more convenient in transportation and deployment than the red-coated cannon under Jiannu.

So don't look at the weight and caliber of the cannon of the Dazhong Army is not as big as the Hongyi cannon of Jiannu, but in terms of power and range, it is not much worse than the Hongyi cannon of Jiannu, and the accuracy of the launch is far more than that of Jiannu.

This time, Xiao Tianjian's three-way army was on the Northern Expedition, and the three-way army was equipped with a lot of artillery, although most of them were battalion three-pounder light guns, but the number of six-pounder and eight-pounder medium guns was added up to more than 100 by the three route armies, and as for the twelve-pounder heavy field artillery, the three-way army was also equipped with no less than 30 guns, which was also one of the guarantees that the Dazhong Army was almost invincible in attacking cities and conquering cities along the way.

Although Jiannu's artillery strength has increased greatly, but when he encounters a large Chinese army that is better at playing with artillery than them, Jiannu can be regarded as a small thing, although Jiannu's heavy Hongyi cannon seems to be more majestic and heavier, but their red-coated cannon can only be regarded as a siege cannon at best, and it is not suitable for use in the field at all.

And the Great Chinese Army is not at all unable to make heavier 24-pound heavy Hongyi cannons, but considering that this kind of heavy artillery is transported, under the current transportation capacity of this kind of manpower and animal power, it is very difficult to transport heavier cannons, so the production of cannons is temporarily limited to 12-pound cannons, and no larger heavy artillery is built, compared to the red-coated cannons of Jiannu that are often two or three thousand catties, the weight of the heaviest 12-pound field gun of the Great Chinese Army with the gun carriage is only about 1,700 catties. Coupled with the iron artillery carriage designed by Xiao Tianjian himself, the cannon of the Dazhong Army was much more convenient and easier than the red-coated cannon of Jiannu in terms of transportation and deployment, and it was also much stronger.

But before the Dazhong Army opened fire, it was Wu Shoujin on Jiannu's side who couldn't hold his breath first, and when he saw that the infantry formation of the Dazhong Army had entered a distance of more than three miles from their artillery, Wu Shoujin couldn't bear it, gritted his teeth and waved the waist knife in his hand, shouting and ordering the cannon.

More than ten red-clothed cannons of Jiannu were immediately ignited by the Han soldiers and gunners of the Wuzhen Chaoha battalion, and in an instant, they let out a roar like the earth shaking the mountains, and hit more than a dozen solid shells of more than 20 catties at the Dazhong army formation that was slowly advancing with the beat of drums.

When they saw the flash of Jiannu's distant artillery array and the rising gunsmoke, the hearts of all the soldiers in Dazhong were tightened, especially the soldiers of the first town stationed in Shanhaiguan and the first guard division of Luoli, during this time, they also learned the power of Jiannu's Hongyi cannon, although they are not afraid, but nervousness is inevitable, after all, although they are strong, but they are still human after all, and people will be afraid, this is not ashamed, this is human nature.

As an old-style cannon, the flight speed of the cannonball is not very high, when the huge projectile flies, in good weather conditions, you can even see the trajectory of the cannonball flight with the naked eye, only to see the dozen or so Jiannu cannonballs whistling out of the cannon chamber, together with a rapid smash to the battlefield of the large Chinese army, not long after the battlefield fell one after another, raising a cloud of dust.

(Wow, today I would like to thank the two brothers Bai Yunguo and Buyang for their tips!) Thank you very much! ）