readx(); Standing on the top of the tower near Shanhaiguan, Fu Yu took a monocular to look at it, this thing is actually made in the Tang Dynasty, but it imitates the Western telescopes of the same era, the shell is some carefully processed metal, and the lenses are not too finely polished, but it is also better than the European telescopes at this time. After the Tang and Qing trade exchanges, someone in the Qing State wrote a letter explaining the important military value of the telescopes produced by the Tang Dynasty, so the Qing court purchased a lot from the Tang Dynasty and equipped them to the officers. Even if the trade between the Tang and Qing dynasties was finally cut off, and many Tang commodities were listed as prohibited or restricted, military telescopes have not been impacted.

Naturally, the military telescopes used by the Tang people themselves were more than a little better than those used in the export of the Qing Dynasty.

Although Fu Yu's skills are low, he is also very conscientious, and he has served as a general in Heilongjiang for many years, which can be said to be conscientious. Even though he was almost at a loss for Shanhaiguan at this time, Fu Yu still came here every day to observe the situation.

Today, when Fu Yu was observing Shanhaiguan, the long-awaited abnormality finally appeared.

"Switch, switch!" Many Qing soldiers who also saw this scene became noisy, and some even geared up, thinking that they could teach the Tang army a good lesson and seize Shanhaiguan.

Fu Yu was taken aback at first, and hurriedly ordered: "The front battalion is quickly arrayed, ready to face the battle, come here, go and send a message to General Fukangan, just say that the Tang army can't hold it anymore, and go out of the customs to seek battle!" ”

Fu Yu felt that this might be a good opportunity, the Tang army who patiently defended the city had a large number of powerful artillery, so that they could not fight a decisive battle with the Tang army in the balance of power, if the Tang army took the initiative to fight, Fu Yu was fully confident that he would rely on the camp built by the Qing army in front of him to carry out a defensive battle, and when the Tang army attacked nothing, Fukangan and Longwu led the army to kill again, and the Tang army was defeated on the side of the camp.

It's just that Fu Yu thought it was very good, and soon he discovered a few unexpected things.

"Those...... What are those things? Fu Yumen slowly drove out of the seven-seven chariot, surprised, he was sure that he didn't have the cattle and horses to lead, and there was no one to push, these big green guys just drove out of the gate by themselves.

There is a Goshha said: "I heard that when Tang Yi attacked the capital, he used a kind of iron cart that could walk on his own, which was invulnerable, and there were Tang Yi soldiers hidden in it, and he fired and injured people with firearms, which was extremely powerful, and Xu was this thing." ”

Fu Yu's heart immediately tightened, he had also heard the rumors of the Tang Dynasty's ironclad chariot, but before he really saw it, Fu Yu always comforted himself psychologically, those who may have been false, and those failed Qing soldiers made up blindly to cover up their incompetence, but now that he saw it with his own eyes, Fu Yu had to feel panic.

"The Tang ironclad chariot is quite strong, ordinary bows and arrows and bird guns can't be attacked, I'm afraid that it will take cannons or catapults to destroy this thing, so it's better for the adults to send a message to Lord Fukangan, let him arrange an artillery array, and when the Tang army attacks, he will be annihilated in one fell swoop." One of Fu Yu's advisors suggested to him.

Fu Yu thought so, but he was also a little worried, he said: "But our camp stands out from the front, and if it is besieged by the Tang people, then I am afraid there will be big trouble." When the time comes, the Tang army will not continue to attack, but will attack our camp first, and the danger will be great! ”

The reason for his words is very clear, but there is no solution, Fu Yu gathered troops at this time, if he left the camp and retreated, it was very likely that before he could fight, the 2,000 men and horses of his battalion would lose their combat effectiveness, running around, and could not reassemble to fight. Moreover, in the process of retreating, it is very likely to be attacked by ironclad chariots with more mobility advantages, so it is better to guard the barracks.

Just when Fu Yu decided to hold the camp by himself and wait for Fukangan's large army to come up to respond, the Tang people made a new choice for him.

A neat but majestic cannon sound was actually dozens of cannons fired at the same time, and dozens of shells were released almost at the same time, and Fu Yu didn't react at all to what was going on before. The shells directly entered the barracks of the Qing army, and the blasting ammunition directly overturned some tents set up by the Qing army and ignited them, and the shock wave knocked down many people. Worst of all, a cannonball hit one of the pillars of the lookout tower where Fu Yu was, and the tower immediately lost its balance and began to fall to one side. Fu Yu screamed and grabbed the deputy on the tower tightly, and slammed into the ground along with the tower. This time it was really unclear, Fu Yu felt that he had been smashed, and he didn't know how many bones he had broken. However, his luck was not entirely bad, and the two Goshkha were beside him when the tower fell, turning into his flesh pads, and they both fell to their deaths instantly.

Of course, Fu Yu at this moment could only stop moaning, his legs and feet were broken, and he couldn't build at all, and the shells in the camp that were originally thought to be safe exploded everywhere, making the soldiers panic, and no one even reacted for a while and ran to the tower to rescue the surviving Fu Yu, some soldiers covered their heads and lay on the ground, and some people ran around in panic, which was more likely to be killed and injured by shells.

And in the base camp of the Qing army in the rear, Fukangan was very excited when he heard that the Tang army was out of the customs to seek battle, but in a moment he heard the sound of artillery, which directly made his face pale.

"The vicious Tang people actually left a cover door, but it was a plot against us. There are 2,000 brothers in the front camp, and there are many auspicious ones! ”

He Longwu also had a frightened expression on his face, he was dressed in cotton armor, but he had no mighty breath, he said: "Master Fu said that the Tang army dispatched an ironclad chariot, and it needs cannons to destroy it, will General Fu concentrate all our cannons to deal with the ironclad chariots of the Tang people." ”

Fukangan nodded and said, "That's right." ”

However, he was not very relieved, most of the artillery of the Qing army was without artillery trucks, and the Qing army pulled the cannons with several animals. In order to fight with these cannons, the cannon wagons had to be hung on the cattle, pulled to the place where they needed to be fought, and then the soldiers would start the battle. The Qing army had little experience in using artillery in the field, so they didn't know about digging trenches and setting up positions.

The Qing army's speed of action was very slow, and before the artillery team of Fukangan could assemble, under the cover of the artillery at the head of the city, the assembly of the mixed brigade of the Tang army had been basically completed. Fukangan knew that there was no battle at this time, and there was only a dead end, so he immediately ordered to send the Eight Banners cavalry to attack the Tang cavalry, and try to avoid a head-on collision with the ironclad chariot. Fukangan asked the cavalry to fight bravely, rush forward under artillery fire, and show the momentum of the Qing army.