A scout who was observing said loudly: "The enemy has entered a hundred steps!"

Wu Zheng shouted: "Dog, why are you still standing there? Fire a fire!"

The smiles on the soldiers' faces that had not yet dissipated were instantly hard. How could the general change his face?

However, the mortar (tiger squat cannon) that was blocked by them began to play today's gorgeous music.

Wu Zheng is too yin, too ruthless.

This musketeer did not carry field artillery, not that he had no equipment, but that he was inconvenient to carry marching.

So, in Karkhun's view, this is just a simple musketeer.

If the musket cannot be shot, then you can only get beaten.

Unfortunately, Karkhun didn't understand, to be precise, he probably didn't know.

Just think about what you encountered when you were ambushed halfway, and you should think about how could the army in front of you not have the power to fight back except for the gun?

Therefore, Wu Zheng went against the rules, and he was tempting the Qing army to penetrate into his firepower coverage.

In fact, the longest range of the mortar has reached 900 meters, and the effective range is also around 500 meters. In summary, it is nearly 400 steps.

Musketeers could have long been able to shell the Qing army who were surrounded, but if they were shelled, the Qing army would retreat.

This kind of shell is not lethal. Once a flowering shell is hit directly, it will kill and injure two or three people.

Killing hundreds of people after a round of artillery attacks is of little significance to the battle, but it will arouse the enemy's alertness.

In order to kill and damage the enemy as much as possible, Wu Zheng thought of this strategy to lure the enemy into depth.

Put it in and cut it in half. From a distance of one hundred steps to five hundred steps, it can accommodate two or three thousand enemies and cut it at five hundred steps. Then these two or three thousand enemies will become an isolated army in a short time.

The strength of the four thousand musketeers is enough to annihilate these two or three thousand Qing soldiers in the time of artillery fire.

A small cannon is not very powerful, even worse than the grenade launcher of later generations. But now, Wu Zheng has equipped the small cannon to the level of the team, so this number cannot be underestimated.

A musketeer of four thousand people was full of four hundred small cannons. For people of this era, it was a natural disaster.

The fact was just as Wu Zheng expected, the Qing army's offensive formation was cut off by dense artillery fire.

The Qing soldiers who were bombarded were like out-of-control flies and were running around.

The Qing army formation surrounded by the west and north was engraved in a vacuum zone about thirty steps wide.

In this vacuum area, the two and three thousand Qing soldiers on Wu Zheng's side were already stunned. They hesitated whether to continue attacking or retreat.

But the problem is that there is no way to advance and there is no way to retreat. No one dares to escape back into the thick smoke.

At this time, the musketeers started.

The musketeer, who had already scabbed the bayonet, shouted "Crash" and launched a charge towards the enemy.

The Qing soldiers who were forced to the point of death became "tenifiable" and rushed towards the musketeers together.

When people reach this desperate situation, many people are not afraid of death, but this kind of fear of death can only last for a short period of time. Once they are crushed by their strength, "not afraid of death" will disappear instantly and collapse.

They are going through this process of crushing strength.

When both sides approached within fifty steps, the musketeers began to throw wooden grenades.

Too bullying!

They finally mustered up the courage to come to the decisive battle, but the Ming army was cheating.

Hit someone with a bullet.

I guess all the Qing soldiers who were not killed by the bomb would think so.

After a round of grenade explosion, the Qing soldiers no longer had the courage to rush. They threw away their equipment and surrendered on the ground.

The artillery fire in the rear began to extend forward and gradually stopped.

This kind of "mortar" is improved based on the tiger squat cannon. It is not a direct cannon, but a curved cannon. It is easy to control the distance of the range of the elevation angle.

The thick smoke and loud noise of the shell explosion blocked Karkhun's vision.

He could not see what was happening in those hundreds of steps.

It is also impossible to respond effectively.

When the charger carried the muskets with bayonets, rushed out the smoke and rushed towards the Qing soldiers behind, the Qing soldiers collapsed uncontrollably.

In the west and north directions are Karkhun's left and right central troops.

The collapse of these two Qing troops made this massive siege battle completely a joke.

In the dark night, the Qing army was fleeing all over the mountains. Kaer Chuhun reacted very quickly. He didn't even have time to retreat from the side troops who were still entangled with Jiang Quanyi's troops, so he led the remaining troops to retreat northward.

It is indeed a pity that the Qing army had 40,000 troops formed a formation five miles away. This distance was not reachable by infantry and small cannons.

I could only watch the Qing army retreating under my nose, but could not pursue it, because in this pursuit, the advantage of the musketeers' weapons would be lost. In the darkness, people with a large number of people would definitely have the advantage.

In order not to increase casualties, Wu Zheng chose not to chase.

This decision made Wu Zheng lose the opportunity to wipe out Karkhun's troops, which was just a blessing or a disaster. At present, it was too early.

In fact, Kaer Chuhun was still under the attack of the Hangzhou guards under Chi Erhan's army. In this situation, because there was no means of instant contact, Wu Zheng did not know that Chi Erhan had been biting the back of the Qing army.

The defensive battle in Taixing City finally turned into a counterattack battle.

The Northern Expedition Army ended with a great victory.

Outside the city, more than 6,200 enemies were annihilated, including more than 2,000 prisoners, more than 300 war horses, and countless supplies.

The Song'an tribe in the city killed more than 700 people and captured nearly 4,000 people, including Beizi Shangshan, the Qing Dynasty.

The two added together, and inside and outside Taixing City, annihilated about 12,000 enemies.

The Wu Zheng's troops and Jiang Quanyi's remnants met, which gave Taixing City a more than 10,000 troops.

The Qing army of Kaerchuhun's troops encountered two battles within one day, with casualties and fleeing combined, and nearly half of the troops were damaged.

The problem is that he is in a situation where he is being attacked by the north and the south.

If Dorgon could know the situation of the battle, he would definitely order the troops of Karkhun to advance west, because to the west is Jiangdu, the city is high and the walls are thick, and there are thousands of defenders.

It can be defended, repaired, or attacked, and it can also deter Zhenjiang Prefecture on the other side of the river to restrain Wu Zheng's troops from being unable to reinforce Yingtian Prefecture.

But the problem is that Karchuhun is not Dorgon. What he is worried about now is that within one day, he will lose his troops and lose his generals and has not completed the task assigned by Dorgon.

In addition, he was arrogant and had not yet discovered that it was Wu Zheng who was fighting with him today.

Therefore, Kaerchuhun made the decision to gather the defeated troops, and after temporary reorganization, he advanced eastward and headed to Rugao.

Kaerchuhun's intention was that there were 10,000 Qing troops in Tongzhou to use it, and it could also gather troops to advance westward and redeem their sins.

But Kaer Chuhun didn't know that the ten thousand Qing troops in Tongzhou had already disappeared under the attack of the new naval guns of the Jinshan Guard and the Wusong Navy. The Qing army commander Beiletunqi was captured alive.
Chapter completed!