The artillery fire of the Ming army was extremely ferocious, which made Amida, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners who supervised the battle, gasp: "The thieves' artillery fire is like a tide, and the fire light sets off thousands of waves, such a bandit is really fierce." Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Daniel Zhang sneered: "General Amida, the thieves are nothing more than sharp with firearms!" Now the puppet Ming Haikou is attacking the mountain, and he can't give full play to the full power of firearms. Our army has trenches and fortifications to defend against the artillery fire of the thieves. If the thieves want to take the mountain, they need to come up on foot. When the thieves come up, they will naturally let them know that they are powerful! ”

The Ming artillery bombarded fiercely for an hour, and in one hundred and twenty minutes, a total of more than 10,000 shells were fired. Theoretically speaking, more than 200 cannons can fire 300 shells in a minute and more than 30,000 shells in an hour, but the efficiency is only one-third after deducting the cleaning time and cooling time. But more than 10,000 shells smashed on the mountain, which was enough for the Qing army to drink a pot.

The wooden fence and wooden wall on the hill were shattered, a lot of rolling wood and stones were knocked down, and some Qing artillery arranged on the high platform was destroyed, and some trenches fell into the flowering shells fired by mortar artillery, killing many Qing soldiers. The deer stakes in front of the position were beaten to pieces.

"Let the brethren go up!" Shang Zhixin observed the effect of the shelling and took the initiative to request to fight.

Anyway, Shang Zhixin pushed them in front of some temporarily recruited auxiliaries, most of whom were original prisoners of war of the Green Battalion, and Shang Zhixin pushed these people out as cannon fodder who didn't want money.

"Get ready!" Zhang Wenxuan led a group of Cantonese soldiers wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets and white felt hats to walk up to those auxiliary soldiers who wore black Qing army uniforms, red tassels and hats, or blue cloth wrapped around their heads, and urged them to get up and attack the hilltop position.

The auxiliaries with blue cloth wrapped around their heads were all captured by Xiangyong. Because these people are all relatives and friends in the same army, and there are relatives killed on the battlefield, it will arouse the anger of other people for revenge, so Xiang Yong is particularly brave in battle. These Xiang Yong, who were directly selected into the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army, instead of being sent to Nanyang for labor reform, were specially selected, and their relatives and friends did not die at the hands of the Ming army, but were all captured.

The Xiangyong people stood up one after another, after they were captured by the Ming army, they became the auxiliary soldiers of the Ming army, the equipment was slightly improved than the original, there was only one coat on the body, and now there is a paper armor or wooden armor, although the cost of these two armors is low, but it is much better than wearing only one coat, especially the effect of the bow and arrow is very good.

The supervising team composed of the Guangdong army stood behind the Xiangyong, Zhang Wenxuan's personal soldiers waved drumsticks, the war drums rumbled, the flags danced on the position, and the Xiangyong in groups walked up the hill step by step. Xiang Yong in the front held a wooden shield in one hand and a machete made of broken iron in the other; Xiang Yong in the back is holding a three-zhang long spear, the so-called spear is actually a bamboo pole, and an iron spear is tied to the front.

"Up! Above! The Cantonese army, wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets, waved steel knives and urged the 6,000 cannon fodder soldiers adapted from Xiangyong prisoners to attack the mountain.

Zhang Wen chose to use the binoculars, and through the smoke of gunpowder, the opponent's defense line on the hillside suddenly came into view. I saw that the deer and the wooden stakes on the hillside had staggered and fell to the ground; Trenches were also shelled, and some of the trenches were blown into floating soil, but most of the trenches were still intact, and the Qing army hid in the trenches and waited for the Ming army to approach; The hillside is also covered with low walls of mud, wooden fences and stones, which are not as high as chest-high.

The auxiliaries, composed of Xiangyong prisoners, approached the Qing army position step by step. When he was still 300 steps away from the Qing army's position, Zhang Wenxuan heard a burst of artillery sound on the mountain, and the white smoke spread from the Qing army's position on the mountain.

In an instant, the cannonballs fell into the crowd of Xiangyong, several cannonballs smashed into the front of the knife player formation, the wooden shield could not block the solid cannonball head-on impact, was hit by the cannonball, the shield turned into scattered sawdust, the Hunan warriors behind the shield were broken, and some people's entire heads were broken. Several shells fell into the crowd of Xiangyong, smashing over more than 50 people at once, and the crowd screamed in a miserable manner.

Immediately afterwards, another round of shells fell into the crowd of Xiang Yong, the shield shattered, and dozens of Xiang Yong fell in a pool of blood and struggled, letting out heart-rending screams.

Two of the shells smashed into the crowd of spearmen behind, the shells bounced on the ground, and the downed Xiangyong all flew with flesh and blood, the bamboo pole spear was broken into several pieces, and the cannonballs bounced irregularly, pulling out two blood lines.

The pace of Xiang Yong's attack was smashed by the Qing army's artillery shells, and the attack formation was stagnant.

"Up! Above! The Overseers behind them waved their steel knives and roared hoarsely.

Perhaps it was because they saw the death of their relatives and friends who grew up together since childhood, and the Xiangyong were aroused by hatred.

"Kill the dog!" One Xiang Yong suddenly took the lead and shouted.

"Kill the dog!" Six thousand Xiangyong roared in unison, and the roar shook the sky. The Xiangyong launched a frantic attack and swooped down on the hill desperately. Although it was a rapid impact and the formation was a little messy, it generally maintained its shape, and the spears formed a forest of spears; The shield in front of it was like a moving wall, pressing up the hill where the Qing army was stationed.

The Qing gunners on the hill nervously cleaned the chambers and loaded gunpowder and shells. With the exception of the Franc cannon, the other guns did not fire a second round of shells so quickly.

At this moment, the Ming artillery also opened fire, and rows of shells smashed down on the Qing artillery positions. Although the number of rifled guns is very small, most of them are smoothbore guns, but there are not many of them! An overwhelming number of shells smashed into the positions of the Qing army, and there were always shells hitting the target.

A loaded general cannon was hit by a twelve-pound solid cannonball fired by the Ming army, the gun carriage was shattered, and the cannon body weighing more than 600 catties was hit by the cannonball, and rolled in mid-air, and the two Qing gunners who were loading the cannonballs were smashed to the bone by the rotating cannon body, and were planted on the ground with the cannon.

Rows of shells smashed down on the head and face, and the Qing army's batteries were beaten into a burst of dirt and stones, and at least six cannons were destroyed by the Ming army.

The Qing army's Franc cannon was aimed at the Ming army that was pressing up, and the muzzle of the cannon spewed fire. The number of Franc cannons was not large, and a round of shells fired by eight Franc machines, eight solid shells pierced into the crowd of Hunan warriors, forcibly pulling out eight blood lines, and swept over more than 60 Hunan warrior soldiers.

Just as the Fran machine gun was firing, several rifled artillery shells fired by the Ming army smashed into the Qing army's Fran machine gun array, and a burst of iron filings and pieces of flesh and blood were immediately raised.