When the Ming army's defense line was at its most chaotic, Cao Dagong, the commander of the First Artillery Regiment, finally couldn't bear it anymore and went to Mao Yuanyi, who was in charge of the defensive operation.

Cao Dagong, who had received an education at the military academy, still had great respect for Mao Yuanyi, the division commander, and he respectfully saluted Mao Yuanyi before he spoke: "Sir, if we continue to fight in this way, I'm afraid the situation will not be very favorable to us.

According to the Western missionaries, the Italian invention of this kind of fortress was mainly based on the combined use of artillery and arquebuses. The time we spent on building the barracks was too short, and the scope of the barracks was too large, so the defenses were not very well built.

Moreover, the number of artillery we carried this time was simply not enough to cover the entire defense line of the battalion, so it could not support a complete defense system.

Now these Jiannu are attacking from one direction with all their might, and the forces invested exceed the density of firepower we have prepared in this direction, which naturally shakes our defensive line. ”

Mao Yuanyi stopped what he was doing and said to him, "So, what do you want to say to me?" Say it all, I don't have time to listen to you at length right now. ”

Cao Dagong hurriedly made a long story short and said: "The students think that the artillery of the First Artillery Regiment should be concentrated and used, and the characteristics of the * artillery curved fire should be used to directly attack the rear of Jiannu over the camp wall and cut off the support of Jiannu.

Once the support of the Jiannu attacking force is cut off, even if these Jiannu attack the wall, they will be forced to retreat because they cannot get support. In this way, we will be able to curb the current offensive momentum of Jiannu, and we will be able to adjust the defensive line. ”

To be honest, before the new army was built, Mao Yuanyi felt that if he wanted to resist the invasion of the Later Jin army, he mainly relied on the border towns of eastern Liaodong that had fought with the Later Jin. As for the Jingying in the capital and the Weisuo army in the interior, it was simply a food delivery to the Houjin army. Even the other border armies of the Nine Sides, because they have not participated in large-scale wars for a long time, are now worrisome.

And when the New Army was established, his idea of admiring the Liaodong Frontier Army began to slowly transform. Although the Forces nouvelles had not yet proven themselves on the battlefield, every soldier of this army had been trained according to the regulations he had written, and most of the officers in this army had been taught by him himself.

In a way, this army is like his child, growing up step by step under his nose. This not only won Mao Yuanyi's love, but also won his complete trust.

If someone else had come to disturb him at this time and wanted to question his move to disperse the use of artillery of the First Artillery Regiment, Mao Yuanyi would have probably driven him out impatiently.

But for his students, Mao Yuanyi was still relatively generous, he just thought for a moment, and then said to Cao Dagong: "Except for the artillery on the eastern defense line, you can use the artillery in other directions." Those 12-pound guns are now also handed over to you for unified management. ”

After getting Mao Yuanyi's approval and regaining command of the First Artillery Regiment, Cao Dagong suddenly left Mao Yuanyi's camp with brisk steps, went out to find his subordinates, and began to arrange the artillery positions he fancied.

When Yan Yingyuan led his people to recapture the camp in the northeast corner, more than a dozen people who attacked the Red Banner in the middle of the east defense line of the Ming army's camp had already climbed the camp desperately.

After these Jurchen warriors who ascended first cooperated with the tacit understanding and forced back the Ming troops around the ladder, they did not immediately attack forward, but retreated slightly to form a small circle formation, protecting the two ladders in the rear, so that the comrades behind them could climb up safely.

After filling the trenches, the walls of these camps were no more than two people high, and they could climb unhindered with all their might, which was a matter of a few breaths. As long as they can hold on to a Niu Lu climb, they can then attack on both sides with all their might, and buy more space for the erection of ladders in the rear.

Generally speaking, as long as two or three Niu Lu climbed the camp wall, then the Ming army's defense line was broken. In hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army, these Jurchens all had certain psychological advantages, which came from their victories in defeating the Ming army countless times in Liaodong.

However, while these Jurchen warriors were still forming a formation to protect themselves, they heard a dull sound of breaking through the air, and then an iron ball the size of a melon floated towards their heads.

The speed of this iron ball did not seem to be fast, and the Jurchen warriors who were facing the direction of the iron ball's movement even felt that they could grab it as soon as they stretched out their hands. But as they were thinking so, the iron ball had already passed through the sky above their heads, and continued to fly outside the camp.

The Jurchen warriors below the camp didn't notice the iron ball at all, and the ball eventually landed far away in the open space outside the trench, bounced a few times and then stopped, causing no damage. Those who noticed this scene didn't think much of it, and seemed to think that it was really just a harmless iron ball.

On the artillery position at a distance of 350 meters from the eastern camp wall, Cao Dagong used a telescope to observe the information transmitted by the sight in front of him in the language of the flag, and then issued a series of instructions to the artillery commander beside him. According to the landing point of the first test shell, the muzzle angles of the 12 kg * gun and the 6 kg * gun were readjusted.

When the Jurchen warriors had reached the camp, they heard a series of breaking sounds, followed by five or six iron balls of various sizes grazing their heads and falling behind them.

This time, at least four of the iron balls flying over their heads landed in the dense Jurchen ranks under the camp. Two of the smaller ones penetrated directly through the bodies of 2 or 3 people before they were deeply embedded in the fill; A large iron ball landed on the outside, knocked off the head of the first man, wiped off an arm and a thigh of the two behind him, and rolled into an unfilled trench on the side.

The damage caused by these three iron balls was still acceptable to the Jurchens who were accustomed to seeing the firearms of the Ming army. For those Jurchen fighters who were hit, they could only consider it bad luck.

However, the damage caused by the iron ball that fell right in the middle of the team completely shocked the nearby Jurchen warriors. After this 12-pound cannon solid bullet fell from the middle of the Jurchen ranks, it was like an iron plow, plowing a ridge made of flesh and blood in a whole Niulu Jurchen soldiers.

Where the iron ball passed, all human limbs disappeared, whether it was heads, arms, or thighs, and some people were even split in two. Looking down from the camp above, in the midst of this dense line, a gap more than 30 meters long suddenly appeared, and it was basically impossible to identify anything other than the red blood mud.

This kind of terrifying damage was like a switch that stopped time, making the Jurchen soldiers in the shelled area and the Ming soldiers who witnessed all this stop their movements in unison. For a few breaths after the bombardment, the Jurchen warriors around this gap were still in a state of physical stiffness, as if they had returned to the first time they entered the battlefield.

Many of the female true warriors who passed by with the iron ball coincidentally had auditory hallucinations of tinnitus, and they all felt that what had just happened had a sense of unreality. A few young people who had not been on the battlefield a few times, in addition to their stiff bodies, also felt that their lower clothes were wet.

This round of shelling alone has knocked out the momentum of the two red flags that had just been attacking like a tide. The Jurchen warriors who had already ascended the camp immediately felt this change in momentum, that is, the comrades behind them, who had been climbing up, suddenly stopped.

These Jurchen warriors, who had their backs to the camp, had no idea what was happening behind them, and while they were trying to force back the Ming soldiers who had regrouped to attack them, they shouted loudly, urging their companions in the rear to hurry up and attack in formation.

However, their shouts had no effect, and their companions, who had just climbed the camp wall, did not form a line to attack the Ming troops on either side, they just stood there without moving.

Under the camp, the wounded who had lost their limbs finally regained consciousness, and began to roll on the ground and struggled and wailed and cried bitterly.

The Jurchen Eight Banners were originally developed from blood clans, and the banner people in the same banner were either relatives or in-laws, so they were naturally more united when they went into battle, and they would not easily leave the dead and wounded and flee.

But when they encountered such sudden casualties, they quickly broke the morale of these Niu Lu, so that they forgot to continue the attack and began to rescue the wounded. The Jurchen warriors under the camp forgot to attack, and the Jurchen warriors who had just boarded the camp to witness all this also forgot their responsibilities in despair.

The Jurchen soldiers lined up with their backs to the camp, and a few of them who were more short-tempered finally couldn't help but turn around and were about to scold their comrades in the rear, when the second round of artillery bombardment of the Ming army began again. After seeing an iron ball flying towards them again, several Jurchen warriors who were standing on the camp near the position of the ladder immediately climbed over the camp wall and slid down the ladder regardless of it.

With these people taking the lead, the Jurchen warriors who were in a daze on the camp immediately rushed to the ladder, trying to return to the bottom of the camp. The Jurchen warriors under the barracks, after hearing the sound of cannonballs breaking through the air again, turned around and fled to the rear. The escape of this group of Jurchens quickly affected the attack of the neighboring teams.

Although they didn't know what was happening, the neighboring Jurchen team also began to retreat with them. So soon, the escape of this group of men and horses turned into the collapse of the two red flag soldiers.

The Ming army, which regained control of the battlefield, was naturally not polite to the retreating soldiers of the two red banners, and the shooting of artillery and arquebuses at the Jurchen rout team, although the hit was not high, but it also achieved a lot of results.

As for the more than half of the two red flags on the barracks, except for a few people who successfully escaped from the barracks, most of them fell and injured their feet when jumping off the barracks, and were finally captured by the Ming army when they cleaned up the battlefield. After a small number of people who refused to flee and refused to surrender were shot to death by the Ming army, the remaining five or six people finally dropped their weapons and surrendered.