The wooden bridge was lit with raging flames, and the forced war horses couldn't stop retreating, and through the flames, you could see that the Ming cavalry on the opposite bank had stopped their horses, as if they were dismounting and arraying.

Nikan took a closer look, and it was a relatively narrow spot between the canal and the canal that diverted water for irrigation.

The wide canal comes from the north all the way to the south, in the Yangzhou section is particularly wide, the water volume is extremely abundant, and the Hongze Lake has a sluice to connect the lake river canal, which can adjust the amount of water in the canal. To the south of Yangzhou, in order to irrigate the farmland, the government organized the digging of some ditches to divert water for irrigation, which were connected to the canals.

This is one of them, at the confluence with the canal, the canal is wider, three or four feet, and there is a wooden bridge at the canal embankment for the people to come and go.

And now, the wooden bridge has been lit with flames, and without the wooden bridge, the war horses cannot cross the canal to continue to chase the Ming army.

The more he looked at the situation, the more frightened Nikan became, the flames of the wooden bridge burned so quickly, it was clear that someone had doused it with fire oil, and he was waiting to set a fire.

Looking down further, on the left side is a canal several zhang wide, with gurgling water in the canal, and on the right is a large canal that is dozens of zhang wide, rippling blue waves.

In the canal, more than 100 Ming ships were approaching the west bank, and the Ming army on the horses could see the guns raised by the Ming army on the boats.

Pitfall! In an instant, Nikan realized that he had been tricked, and was lured to such a Jedi by the Ming army.

Although he didn't know what the Ming army should do next to him, Nikan didn't have the heart to think about it, all he wanted to do now was to get out of here as soon as possible.

All that can be done now is to turn around and retreat, and leave the way you came.

The sound of "bang bang bang" fire guns sounded one after another, and the Ming cavalry that was being pursued by their own side forced back again, and opened fire on the Mongolian cavalry across the burning wooden bridge.

Several Mongol cavalrymen fell from their horses without saying a word, and the other cavalrymen in the front were about to raise their bows and arrows to return fire, but Nikan ordered the whole army to retreat.

Now, we must get out of this dangerous place as soon as possible.

In the canal, the front boat has stopped, and the back one after another has stopped, and on the deck of the largest boat, Lu Tai, the chief soldier of the water battalion, looked coldly at the Qing cavalry on the river bank, and waved the sword in his hand fiercely.

"Boom" a loud sound, the whole ship retreated to the right for a few meters, the hull shook violently, the white smoke on the deck was filled, accompanied by the firelight, a black dot quickly sprayed out from the muzzle of the broken cannon, and quickly flew towards the Mongolian cavalry queue on the shore, but the black dot on the way to the flight suddenly split into two, became two, and looked carefully at the iron chain between the two.

At extremely fast speed, the iron chain between the two projectiles is pulled tightly, and under the centrifugal force, the two projectiles are pulled by the iron chain and rotate at high speed, just like the scythe of death.

A projectile struck a Mongolian cavalryman in the chest, spitting blood from his mouth, turning over and falling off his horse, and then being pulled by another projectile and continuing to spin.

Still spinning the chain bullet and continuing to fly, the iron chain between the two bullets swept the neck of another cavalryman, and the powerful kinetic energy tore the human head off the neck, and then wrapped around the leg of a war horse and overturned the war horse to the ground before the kinetic energy completely disappeared.

Chain bullets, originally used in ship combat to destroy the masts and sails of opposing ships, were now used against the Mongol cavalry.

Of course, limited to the structure of the boat, only a few hundred catties of broken guns can be installed, and the volume of this chain bullet is not large, and the weight of the entire chain bullet is only seven or eight catties, and it only has a range of more than 100 zhang, but it is enough to shoot from a boat in the canal to the river bank.

As the flagship opened fire, the guns of other ships were fired one after another, and dozens of chain bullets flew towards the Mongolian cavalry array, which immediately lifted the cavalry to its back. As a result, the Mongol cavalry, who were about to retreat, had to rein in their horses and carefully avoid their fallen companions.

Chain bombs are too expensive to cost, and each ship is equipped with only a few of them, mainly for the purpose of destroying the masts and sails of enemy ships in future water battles.

After letting go of the chain bombs, the next step is the time for the Tiger Squat Cannon and various rockets to perform. In order to fight this time, Chen Yue ordered each ship to be equipped with three tiger squat cannons and a large number of "swarm bees" and "flying dragon" rockets. Relying on ships to attack the enemy from the river can only rely on long-range weapons, and the rate of fire of artillery is too slow, and if you want to kill a large number of enemies, you have to use firearms such as "a swarm of bees."

Like a fireworks display, a large number of sparks erupted from each ship, and then countless rockets flew over the canal like meteors, falling towards the Qing cavalry array on the riverbank.

"Retreat!" Listening to the deafening continuous cannon fire, and watching the rain of arrows falling like flying locusts, Nikan's soul flew away. The firearms of the Ming ships were so dense that it was beyond his imagination.

His subordinates are all Outer Mongolian cavalry, not as fully equipped as the Manchurian Eight Banners, and almost all of them have iron armor. The Outer Mongolian cavalry were all light cavalry, and at most they wore a piece of leather armor, and more people only wore a sheepskin jacket all year round.

The weather in the south is much hotter than on the grassland, and many cavalrymen are extremely uncomfortable here, many of them wear sheepskin jackets just out of habit, and as for the burden of leather armor, no one wants to put it on their bodies.

Therefore, in the face of the attack of the Ming army's bullet rain and arrow curtain, the defense of the Mongolian cavalry was extremely poor, and from time to time someone was hit by an arrow and fell off the horse.

At this time, Nikan was no longer required to order a retreat, everyone knew that it would be safe only if they quickly evacuated this narrow area.

Nikan lay on his horse's back and ran back, the arrows crackling down, and several arrows fell on him, but they were blocked by his iron armor. But the thigh is hot and painful, it should be a projectile, the tiger squat cannon on the Ming army ship is too annoying, a shot is a large number, several Mongolian cavalry on the left side of Nikan are tiger squat cannon projectile shot, rolled off the horse.

Fortunately, thanks to the cover of several Mongol cavalry, Nikan was only hit by a single lead.

Run, as long as you run out of this narrow embankment, you can escape the range of the Ming ships, and then find a way to deal with the Ming cavalry.

However, the running of the Mongol cavalry in front of him suddenly slowed down, which made Nikan furious, raised his head, and was shocked to see that the flames were burning again in front of him.

What's going on? Nikan's head was covered, how did the Ming army do it and put a fire on their own back road. But at this time, he didn't have time to think about it, and rode his horse to the front of the team.

"Rush over!" Nikan commanded. It's just a wall of fire a few feet wide, as long as the war horse doesn't stop, you can rush through it at once, what is it to be roasted by the fire?

"Lord Belle, look!" A Meler said with a sad face, pointing to the other side. Nikan looked intently and saw that behind the undulating wall of fire were layers of rejecting horses, and behind the rejecting horses was a forest of spears that slanted upward, and the heads of spears made of fine iron emitted a terrifying cold light through the flames.