If the plum rain doesn't come, it will be impossible to hold it back as soon as it comes. It will be laid all night, until the next day, and it still has no intention of stopping. Moreover, it will be neither too big nor too small. Although it can be wet all over the body, it will not make people unable to open their eyes. Therefore, it is not impossible to fight at all.

Shang Yi threw a telescope rain and put it in front of him. He watched the Qing soldiers who were gradually approaching his defense in the rain. The rain poured on his armor and formed several delicate passages, and fell to the ground of the command platform. Although it was the Little Ice Age, by mid-May, the temperature could rise to about twenty-five degrees, and even if he was soaked all over, he would not feel cold. Therefore, the soldiers of the Shang army, including Shang Yi, were basically not wearing straw raincoats, and were all wet in the rain.

However, Shi Kefa, who was beside him, was a little nervous at this time. Looking at the soldiers who were ready to fight, he looked at the dense rain in the distance, wading against mud and water, and approaching him, and couldn't help but ask: "Ziheng, how about it, can you stop the Qing army?"

Shang Yi turned his head to look at Shi Kefa and smiled and said, "Don't worry, the Qing barbarians thought we could not use guns and cannons on rainy days, so they attacked while the rain. Today we will let the Qing barbarians know how powerful we are."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a series of explosions, and in the Qing army's formation, countless streams of mud and water soared into the sky, while the Qing soldiers were blown up to the point of falling, and countless people fell into the mud and water.

But Shi Kefa looked around and found that the artillery of the Qi family army did not fire. He couldn't help but be very surprised, saying, "Yiheng, what kind of firearm is this? Why didn't the artillery fire be fired, but the Qing Lu were still bombed?"

Shang Yi smiled and said, "This is called a landmine. It is buried underground and can explode when the enemy steps on it. It was said that Qi Wuyi used it when he was guarding Jizhou. Today, it was also called the Qing barbarians to compensate for their suffering."

Because Cheng Jin successfully used mines to block the precedent of reinforcements in Yizhen's Battle, proving that landmines are indeed easy to use, Shang Yi certainly had no reason not to use mines on the battlefield guarding Yangzhou. This time, a total of 300 mines were buried in front of the position, which were divided into three mine array defense lines, with one hundred mines on each line, with twenty-five mines as a chain. Moreover, the shell of each mine was painted to protect against rain. Now the Qing army was stepping on the first mine array.

However, the number of landmines is limited after all, and the attack on the Qing army is mainly psychological, and the actual killing power is not great. At this time, Shang Yi immediately ordered that the artillery fire at 600 steps away.

Because there are artillery sheds to block the rain and use fixed-mounted gunpowder, they are all wrapped in oil paper, so the artillery will basically not be affected much. The artillery fires and bombards one after another, some are direct and some are slanted. At this time, the Qing army had advanced to a distance of 600 steps, and most of the artillery can reach the range. Explosions continued to occur in the Qing army's array, mud and water mixed with blood, splashing everywhere, causing a large number of casualties to the Qing army.

It turned out that the artillery positions of the merchant army were arranged in three rows. Although each cannon is now equipped with a cannon shed to block the rain, in this way, only the first row of cannons can open fire and bombard. Therefore, only more than 80 of the more than 220 cannons can open fire and bombard, so the firepower effect is also severely dismantled.

Duoduo and Hong Chengchou could not see the situation of the Merchant Army's positions, and the Merchant Army's use of landmines was much beyond their expectations. But now it can be heard that the power of the Merchant Army's artillery has been weakened by most of the time compared to yesterday, which shows that the rain still has considerable restrictions on the use of the Merchant Army's firearms, and the lethality of landmines is also limited. Therefore, this is indeed a good opportunity to attack, and we continue to order and urge the Qing army to advance.

Although this was just a tentative attack, Duoduo invested a lot of troops. The Qing army attacking this team took two Manzhou Jiala as the core, with a total of more than 10,000 people. They must have a smooth attack and can also be turned into actual attacks. At the same time, Duoduo also ordered to organize a second batch of attacking troops, preparing to take turns to launch an uninterrupted attack on the positions of the merchant army when the firearms of the merchant army were limited. Anyway, the Qing army had enough troops and could afford it.

In such a battle, the first batch of attacking troops were destined to be the most tragic. The Qing army braved the rain and artillery fire, rushed towards the position of the merchant army in the mud. On the way, after two landmines bombings, countless soldiers fell in the mud, blood mixed with mud and water, flowing infinitely on the earth, and then approached the position of the merchant army. At this time, the loss of people and horses reached nearly 3,000. But at this moment, the continuous sound of musket shooting of the merchant army also sounded.

Although Duoduo and Hong Chengchou heard it very clearly, not only did they look at each other, but they could understand that they could set up a shed for the cannon and block the rain. But it was beyond their expectations that it was impossible to set up a shed for every musket soldier. Moreover, whether it was Duoduo or Hong Chengchou, the concept of muskets was still stuck in the era of combroach guns, which was afraid of rain and wind. Even if there was a shed, it was difficult to use it.

Of course they didn't know that the merchant army's muskets had long bid farewell to the old-fashioned mesh guns, but used fire hats with irrigated mercury as fire, and were not afraid of rain at all. Thunder and mercury and fire hats were in another time and space, but what only appeared in the early 19th century brought an epoch-making revolution to the technological development of muskets. It not only provided a stable shooting success rate for muskets, but also was one of the necessary conditions for the development of the former bullet-filled muskets to the rear bullet-filled muskets, which made the muskets become the main weapon on the battlefield.

Yu Shangyi's big butterfly flapped his wings, causing the production of thunder mercury and fire hat to be almost two hundred years ahead of schedule. Although it has not yet developed to a post-bucket-filled musket, it is far beyond the level of this era. It is just that when fighting in the rain, the black gunpowder will still be affected by water and moisture, and will still bring a 20% or 30% silence rate to musket shooting, but this effect is also quite impressive.

Moreover, the Qing army's ability to move was also greatly limited in the rain. Therefore, although the merchant army only had a normal firepower level of 60% or 70%, it still caused the Qing army to suffer. Bullets that were denser than raindrops were scattered towards the Qing army, and countless casualties were immediately killed and injured, almost falling one after another. Before they could rush to the front of the position, most of the remaining troops had to retreat in the end. However, when the 10,000 soldiers who fought returned to the Qing army formation, there were only more than 3,000 left.

The failure of the first offensive did not affect Duoduo's determination, and he did not expect to open the defense line of the Merchant Army in one attack. Moreover, from the attack just now, he saw that fighting in the rain did have a great impact on the firearms of the Merchant Army. Therefore, he should take advantage of this opportunity to attack the defense line of the Merchant Army. So Duoduo also ordered the second group of men to attack immediately.

The second batch of Qing army was composed of 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 infantry. Duoduo's plan was to take advantage of the decline of the firepower of the merchant army, first tear open the defense line of the merchant army at the speed of the cavalry, and then the infantry followed to expand the results of the battle.

After Duoduo's order, five thousand cavalrymen activate their war horses and jumped out of the formation, approaching the position of the merchant army again. Behind the cavalry, ten thousand infantrymen also dispatched horses and fought out together.

Shang Yi also saw it very clearly on the command table of the position and immediately ordered all artillery to be replaced with shotguns, and after the Qing cavalry approached, they would open fire and bombard it. At the same time, all the organ guns were also ready.

At this time, the cavalry and infantry of the Qing army gradually distanced themselves, from jogging to jogging, and then turning into jogging, with horses flying hooves flying, and then splattering on the ground, mud and blood mixed with water, splashing everywhere. The first batch of attacking troops were not completely unreaped, at least the defense lines of the merchant army's three mine formations were cleaned and the losses of the cavalry were reduced.

However, it is very dangerous for war horses to run quickly on the muddy ground, because horse hooves are very easy to slip, and there are countless corpses lying on the battlefield now. War horses need to constantly jump and change directions to avoid these obstacles. Therefore, during the process of advancing, war horses are constantly falling because of slipping and tripping under their hooves. Moreover, the closer they are to the position of the merchant army, the more war horses fall. Often, one war horse will trip two or three war horses behind. As a result, before the merchant army launches a strike, the Qing army's own losses exceed 100 cavalry.

However, even though they knew the danger, the cavalry of the Qing army tried their best to urge the horses to run quickly, because everyone knew that only by rushing through the battlefield as soon as possible could they break through the defense line of the merchant army. Otherwise, when the merchant army's firepower was fully opened, it would be terrible. Therefore, the entire battlefield was filled with the sound of horse hooves striking water.

But at this moment, the artillery of the merchant army opened fire together, and the entire battlefield resounded in a blink of an eye. In the Qing army's cavalry formation, almost all the cavalry rushing in the front row fell to the ground and died. For a moment, people shouted and neighed, and blood was flying. A large number of Qing soldiers and horses fell into the mud and blood on the battlefield. Almost in the blink of an eye, hundreds of Qing soldiers died almost in the blink of an eye.

After one round of attacks, each artillery had to reload ammunition, and the muskets replaced the artillery and launched a new round of attacks on the Qing army. At this time, the cavalry of the Qing army also urged to start a horse and ran at full speed. Everyone had only one idea, to rush through this distance as soon as possible, break into the position of the merchant army, and never stop until death.

After all, the firepower of the Merchant Army has been greatly reduced. Under the desperate charge of the Qing cavalry, although they paid more than a thousand casualties, they were getting closer and closer to the Merchant Army's position. The cavalry in the front row had already penetrated within thirty steps. If it was Jingtian, they could use bows and arrows to fight back at the Merchant Army. However, this distance was only in the blink of an eye, so many cavalry raised their swords and guns, waiting for the moment to rush into the Merchant Army's position.

The infantry following behind the cavalry also began to advance in small steps, preparing to follow the road where the cavalry could avoid and completely conquer the positions of the merchant army.
Chapter completed!