A round of flowering shells bombarded down, and the Eight Banners soldiers who were ambushed in the woods suffered more than 60 casualties on the spot. The rest of the Eight Banners rushed out of the woods, but were met head-on by the Ming army's six-pounder and four-pounder guns.

Hundreds of artillery shells bombarded, and dense shells smashed in a row, and the Eight Banners who rushed to the front were hit by the cannonballs on their horses, and they flew up with men and horses. Hundreds of shells landed on the ground, bouncing and colliding, plowing blood-red traces in the crowd of horses of the Eight Banners who rushed out of the woods.

"Turn back! Don't rush the barbarians' infantry! One of the Eight Banners soldier shouted.

Obviously, the Ming army came prepared, since the artillery suddenly shelled the woods, then the infantry must have formed a formation, and at this time the cavalry went to charge the infantry who had formed a formation, it was not a self-defeating way.

The Eight Banners soldiers, who were about to rush out of the woods, turned back and returned to the woods where they had just hidden. Anyway, the mortar cannons of the Ming army did not fire so fast, and only flowering cannonballs could cause damage to the Eight Banners hiding in the woods.

The Eight Banners attempted to run through the woods and rushed out from the other side to escape. Just then, the sound of horses' hooves sounded outside the woods, followed by a row of "whooshing" sounds.

"Rocket!" A Eight Banner soldier leader screamed in surprise.

The Ming dragoons who rushed to the outside of the woods shot rows of rockets, and countless rockets shot into the woods, igniting the thick dead leaves on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, the smoke was billowing and the flames were blazing, and the Eight Banners soldiers hiding inside could no longer stay.

Someone shouted: "Rush out and kill all the barbarian cavalry!" ”

The Eight Banners rode out like mad and charged at the dragoons who shot rockets at them.

The dragoons got on their horses and quickly broke away, not fighting with the Eight Banners soldiers who were extremely capable of melee combat and were wearing two layers of cotton armor in hand-to-hand combat. Many of the dragoons were Mongol soldiers who had surrendered before, and they held compound bows with extremely long range in their hands, and they did not forget to turn around and shoot arrows while riding their horses away, using Mangu tactics against the Eight Banners cavalry.

Seeing that the opponent's cavalry led themselves to the side of the Ming infantry, where did the Eight Banners dare to chase after them, they had to turn around and leave. But the dragoons turned back, and the Mongols who surrendered chased the Qing with compound bows and fired arrows at the ass of the Qing army. When the Eight Banners turned their heads, the dragoons turned around and ran back, once again using Mangu tactics.

"It's the Mongols! There are Mongols in the barbarians! The familiar tactics seen by the Eight Banners Leader were so angry that their lungs were about to explode, but they were helpless.

If the Mongols dared to use Mangu tactics against them, the Manchurian cavalry would be able to dismount and shoot at the Mongols with their bows, and then use another armored cavalry to charge the Mongols. The Mongols' cavalry bow could not shoot through the double-layer cotton armor of the Eight Banners at all, and if they were approached by the cavalry of the Eight Banners, they could cut the Mongols like cutting melons and vegetables.

However, after these cowardly Mongols surrendered to the Han dogs, their archery skills also improved, and it was incredible that they could shoot their bows and arrows so far on horseback.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners did not know that the Mongols in front of them had gone through three years of hard labor after being captured, and during these three years, although they did heavy and rough work, the food of the Mongol captives was well guaranteed, and the heavy physical work was a kind of exercise, which strengthened the degraded Mongolian physique and increased their strength. After joining the Ming army, the Mongols were physically trained, and with the power of compound bows, they were able to shoot arrows far on horseback.

If it is not a compound bow, an ordinary bow and arrow, a strong bow with a long range needs to stand on the ground, with the help of foot force and waist force, in order to pull the strong bow. It is impossible to draw a strong bow on a horse, so the range of a riding bow is far less than that of a foot bow. But with the compound bow, this problem does not exist, the compound bow is small in size, and it can be easily pulled on horseback.

After being teased a few times, the Manchurian Eight Banners thought that the Han people on the opposite side had restored the Mongols to the power of Genghis Khan's time, and they did not dare to entangle with the dragoons anymore, so they could only turn around and ride away.

However, Wang Xinyu did not let go of the Qing army like this, and the flying cavalry artillery arrived under the protection of heavy cavalry. Although it was no longer possible to catch up with the cavalry of the Eight Banners, the artillery set up its cannons and fired a row of shells aimed at the backs of the Eight Banners.

"Despicable! Shameless! Didn't you say that you were going to fight? How did you stop and shell us halfway? The Southern Barbarians simply don't keep their promises! In the camp of the Qing army, Zhuo Butai roared angrily.

The halfway ambush plan failed, and the Qing army not only did not get a little advantage, but also lost more than 300 elite Manchurian cavalry in vain, but did not even kill a single Ming army.

Wu Ruju, a veteran of the Qing army, stepped forward and arched his hand: "My lord is angry, the thieves must have seen through our plan to set up an ambush halfway, and as a result, we lost more than 300 Manchurian warriors in vain." But we don't have to worry, now that they're out of the camp, we don't have to be afraid of them in the field! As long as they attack our battalion, we will be able to concentrate our forces and annihilate them in one fell swoop! ”

Although the Eight Banners were defeated for a while, for the Qing army, which was outnumbered, only a little skin was lost. The main force of the Qing army still exists, as long as the Ming army continues to advance and launch an attack on the Qing army's camp, the Qing army can concentrate its forces to start a field battle with the Ming army, relying on its own field combat ability to annihilate the Ming army outside the city.

In fact, the Qing army was indeed very despicable, and they sent a war letter to the Ming army, asking for an agreed time and place for field warfare, but the Qing army occupied the four deserted villages around them, used these abandoned villages to build fortifications, and dug trenches and pulled up wooden fences outside the camp. When the Ming army attacked, the Qing army first bombarded the village with artillery in ambush, and then the infantry and cavalry launched a counterattack together.

The location of these four villages is just on the two flanks of the Qing army camp, and artillery is arranged there, which can form a crossfire bombardment to bombard the Ming army attacking the Qing army camp head-on. As long as the artillery bombardment of the Ming infantry formation caused the infantry formation to collapse, the Qing army attacked head-on with the infantry, and the cavalry flanked it.

The cavalry of the Ming army was small, and once the infantry was in chaos, the cavalry of the Qing army could take advantage of the large number of people to besiege the cavalry of the Ming army, and after defeating the cavalry of the Ming army, they would turn back and cooperate with the infantry to annihilate the infantry of the Ming army.

It seems that everything is in the plans of the Qing army.

At the end of the day, the Qiongzhou army was about to arrive at the predetermined position, preparing to attack the Qing army camp.

On the plain of central Zhejiang, between the Wujiang River in the southeast and the mountainous area of western Zhejiang in the northwest, there is a large flat open land. On this land, the eyes are full of dazzling red, and the neat phalanx is moving steadily in the sound of drums, and the neat steps make the ground vibrate slightly, and the teams of all parties are slowly advancing in unison like a whole.

"Wang Wei's department is in order, I'm afraid that the Qi family army back then would not be able to reach such a level!" Wu Ruyu looked at the formation of the Ming army and sighed.

Liu Liangzuo sneered: "What's the use of neat steps!" After a few days of testing, the thief's cannon is equivalent to the range of our army's new artillery! With the artillery of our new army, as long as it bombards the formation of the thieves' infantry, it will inevitably confuse the thieves! They have given up what they are good at, but they want to come out to fight us in the field, that is not self-defeating! ”

"My lord! The thieves have stopped moving forward again! At this time, someone came in a hurry to report.

Seeing that the Ming army stopped moving again, Zhuo Butai and the others' hearts suddenly twitched again.

"Is there going to be any move from the thief?" Wu Ruyu muttered to himself.

Zhuo Butai picked up the telescope given to him by Nan Huairen and observed the Ming army position in the distance, only to see that the artillery of the Ming army was busy, the mules and horses pulling the cannons were uncovered, and the two-wheeled vehicles were separated from the gun trucks and pulled aside. There is one of the thickest heavy artillery erected by people, and the direction in which the muzzle of the cannon is aimed is the village where the Qing army has arranged artillery!

"Not good! The thieves are going to shell the village! Zhuo Butai exclaimed.

"My lord, hurry up and let the red-coated cannons in the village fire! Suppress the thieves' heavy artillery! Wu Ruyu shouted.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was still very far, and the artillery of that year was very poor in long-range accuracy, according to the plan of the Qing army, after the Ming army approached, the villages on both sides fired crossfire, and at that time the Ming army could be killed and injured to the greatest extent. At this time, if the cannon is fired in advance, the killing effect will definitely be extremely limited. However, the Ming army had already aimed its artillery at the village, obviously suspecting that there was an ambush in the village and preparing to shell the village first.

"Don't worry, it's such a long distance, there are three miles of road, and the thief's cannon accuracy is also very poor! They are aiming at our village, and they may not be able to hit! Liu Liangzuo said.

Before the words fell, the Ming army's twelve-pounder cannon had already spewed out a ball of flame, white gunpowder smoke rose from the Ming artillery position, and rows of shells smashed towards the small village where the Qing artillery was ambushed.

"Sure enough, the thieves suspect that we have an ambush!" Seeing the shells flying towards the small village, Wu Ruyu said.

However, at this distance, the accuracy of the artillery was really poor, and even when it bombarded a target as large as a village, two-thirds of the shells missed and hit the farmland outside the village, and only one-third of the shells hit the small village. The shells hit the villages, hit the buildings, and the houses with adobe and thatched roofs could not withstand such shelling, and the solid shells smashed over, and the houses collapsed in the billowing smoke and dust.

What's more, the shells fired by the Ming army were all fired after heating and burning red, and some of the shells penetrated the roofs of private houses, smashing the entire thatched roof, and the red-hot shells met the thatch, and immediately ignited a fire.

"Minggou has opened fire on us!" The Qing gunners who were ambushed in the village had long since lost their breath.

"Hurry up and shoot back!" Someone shouted.

In fact, the artillery of the Ming army did not cause any losses to the artillery of the Qing army, except for a few unlucky people who were injured by the wood chips and bricks smashed by the shells, the artillery of the Qing army was almost unscathed. But constantly seeing the shells fall on their front and back, those Qing gunners felt fear, and to eliminate this fear, they used their own artillery to counterattack the opponent. (To be continued.) )