The artillery bombardment by the Eight Banners and Han troops ended quickly.

Realizing that shelling alone was ineffective, he stopped wasting ammunition.

"Attack!" Xia Longshan raised his hand and pressed forward, marking two thousand Guan Ning's troops to advance.

The two thousand Guan Ning troops were divided into ten front and rear teams. The first team was composed of swordsmen, responsible for pushing the sidecars to provide cover for the entire infantry formation. The next four teams were composed of musketeers, and the next five teams were all spearmen.

Compared with the 17th year of Chongzhen, the proportion of firearms in Guan Ning's army has also increased significantly.

However, the firearms equipped by Guan Ning's army were matchlock guns that were eliminated from the Eight Banners and Han Army, not flintlock guns.

"Ho! Ho! Ho..." Guan Ningjun shouted a neat chant as he moved forward. He soon came within a thousand steps of the Ming Army's gun platform. From this distance, it became no longer safe.

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Because he could be bombarded at any time, Xia Longshan's heart immediately rose.

The Ming army was just a bunch of native chickens and dogs, but the Hongyi cannons should not be underestimated. The sidecars of the Guan Ning army could block the lead bullets of bird cannons, but they could not block the iron bullets of the cannons!

An iron bullet from the Hongyi cannon can easily smash the sidecar. If the remaining force is not exhausted, it can even beat the limbs of Guan Ning's army hiding behind the sidecar to pieces.

It is impossible for a flesh-and-blood body to bear steel.

Sure enough, just as Xia Longshan was thinking about it, a scream ripped through the air.

Immediately afterwards, there was a dull bang bang sound of artillery shells hitting the ground, but no shells ever hit the guard panel of Guan Ningjun's sidecar. It was strange, what was going on?

At this moment, Xia Longshan poked his head slightly from behind the guard board and looked forward.

Seeing this, Xia Longshan almost laughed out loud. The performance of the Ming army's artillery was really inferior.

Looking at the length of the barrel, it is clearly a Hongyi cannon, but its range is less than 800 steps. In comparison, the Hongyi cannon built under the supervision of Tang Ruowang has increased its range to more than 1,500 steps.

The Ming Dynasty was so rotten to the core that it couldn't even make qualified guns.

Poor craftsmen have to contribute their own money to build guns and cannons for the imperial court. How can they make them well?

"Keep the formation and follow closely!" Xia Longshan felt relieved, raised his sword and shouted, "Don't be afraid, Minggou's cannon is just a pile of scrap metal. If it doesn't take a few shots, it will blow up and be scrapped.

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"Ho! Ho ho!" Two thousand Guan Ning troops shouted rhythmically and walked forward slowly.

Soon, Guan Ning's army's array came within 800 steps of the Ming army's gun platform.

Finally, a cannon hit the ground and ricocheted, hitting a sidecar.

There was only a crunching sound, and the thick wooden planks on the front of the side van instantly fell apart. Guan Ningjun, who was hiding behind the side van, was instantly hit and his limbs were broken, and he died tragically on the spot.

However, only one was killed, and not all of them were beaten to pieces.

"Don't panic, hold on tight." Xia Longshan raised his sword high and roared loudly.

"Trust me, most people will be fine. This thing just looks scary."

As a veteran, Xia Longshan knows better than anyone else that although the penetrating power of the red cannon is terrifying, its accuracy is extremely poor and it can only hit one point, so its lethality is actually not great.

"Of course, if you are really lucky and get a shot,"

"Congratulations, you have been released and can go underground to reunite with your eighteen generations of ancestors."

Hearing Xia Longshan's words, Guan Ningjun nearby laughed. Although Guan Ningjun in the distance couldn't hear clearly what Xia Longshan was talking about, when he saw others laughing, he laughed too, and the laughter shook the sky.

When Wu Sangui saw this scene, he just nodded silently.

The Guan Ning Army is still the same Guan Ning Army.

Heroes of the world!

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Dorgon, who was above the well, also saw this scene.

"The Guan Ning Army is still the familiar Guan Ning Army." Dorgon said quietly, "The reason why they performed poorly in the Hetao is not because their combat effectiveness has declined, but because they have resentment in their hearts."

Hong Chengchou then advised: "Master, I also think that it is too hasty to reorganize the Guan Ning Army and the Datong Army into the Green Camp. We can treat strong troops like the Guan Ning Army and the Datong Army differently. After all, at this stage, we have the Qing Dynasty."

Our number one enemy is Nan Ming. Before Nan Ming is destroyed, we should not engage in internal strife."

"I disagree with this matter." Fan Wencheng raised a rare objection.

"If we cannot take this opportunity to eliminate the hidden dangers of the Guan Ning Army and the Datong Army, it will definitely become bigger over time, and by then it will be even more difficult to solve."

"Even if there is some internal friction, it will still be better than Guan Ning's army, and the Datong army will fall to Nanming."

Ning Wan and I also support Fan Wencheng: "If Wu Sangui and Jiang Xiang continue to retain the independent power to lead the Guan Ning Army and the Datong Army, this possibility exists."

"This is absolutely impossible." Hong Chengchou said flatly.

"Wu Sangui and Jiang Xiang don't know what fate happened to Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Gao Jie. Huang Degong made such great achievements on the Xuzhou battlefield, but he was also dismissed from military power by Chongzhen. So as long as these two people still have ambitions, they will

They will never betray the Qing Dynasty, they absolutely will not."

"Okay, three gentlemen, please stop arguing."

Dorgon said solemnly: "No matter whether Wu Sangui and Jiang Xiang have ambitions or not, and no matter whether they will rebel, the adaptation of Green Camp is already a fact, and it is impossible to change it back. However, the Tenth Battalion adapted from Guan Ning Army can still

It can be put under the command of Wu Sangui, and the fifth battalion reorganized from the Datong Army can also be put under the command of Jiang Xiang."

Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan will not say anything more.

This can be regarded as a compromise solution. Neither party may be satisfied, but both parties can barely accept it.

Fulin looked at Dorgon's not-so-broad back and thought to himself, is this the compromise that E Niang said? Don't always think about perfection in life and work. You have to compromise when it's time to compromise.

When the best results cannot be achieved, unsatisfactory results are acceptable.

Thinking of this, Fulin nodded secretly, I have learned something, and it is really the right thing to follow me this time.

If he still stayed in the Forbidden City, I'm afraid he would never learn the art of controlling people like this.

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Two thousand Guan Ning's troops had already approached within 500 steps.

This distance has already entered the firing range of the Tiger Crouching Cannon.

Xia Longshan felt even more nervous. Although the range of the Crouching Tiger Cannon was far less than that of the Red Cannon, and the destructive power of the shells was even worse than that of the Red Cannon, the lethality of the Crouching Tiger Cannon to infantry was far greater than that of the Red Cannon.

Because the Crouching Tiger Cannon can eject hundreds of lead pellets at a time, which is equivalent to firing a hundred blunderbuss at the same time.

Without the protection of sidecars, the Ming army only needed a dozen squatting tiger cannons to kill their two thousand Guan Ning troops.

"Crack!" Another sidecar was hit by a Ming army artillery shell and shattered on the spot. A long string of six or seven Guan Ning troops following the sidecar also had their limbs shattered in an instant.

"Close closer, move closer to the center, and protect the integrity of the formation!"

Xia Longshan immediately signaled the sidecars on both sides to move closer to the center to fill the gap.

Although this would cause the entire formation to become crowded, it was still better than losing the protection of the sidecar and being directly exposed to the muzzle of Ming army firearms, especially the Tiger Crouching Cannon.

So far, ten sidecars have been destroyed.

The Guan Ning Army that followed later also suffered fifty or sixty casualties.

But these casualties are nothing to two thousand people.

The mood of the officers and soldiers of Guan Ning's army was also very stable and there was no chaos at all.

"Ho! Roar!" The uniform chants were louder each time.

What Xia Longshan was most worried about did not happen. The Ming army did not use the Crouching Tiger Cannon to bombard them. Even the sound of the Hongyi Cannon slowly became sparse.

It's probably because the barrel quality was so poor that it exploded.

Xia Longshan immediately urged Guan Ningjun to speed up.

Soon, two thousand Guanning troops advanced to the edge of the slope protection and were forced to stop.

Because there was a trench more than ten feet deep going forward, and Guan Ning's army did not dare to push the sidecar into the trench rashly and attack across the ditch before they knew what was going on at the bottom of the trench.

However, it doesn't matter even if you don't cross the trench.

Because Guan Ning's army is now also equipped with a large number of cannons.

Even across a trench, the Ming army on the opposite side could be suppressed.

"Musketeers, come forward, light the match rope!" Xia Longshan raised his sword.

The second group of nearly two hundred musketeers climbed onto the sidecar.

Xia Longshan also climbed onto the sidecar and looked forward through the guardrail of the sidecar. He saw that the trench was about thirty paces wide, and opposite was the fence of the Ming army's gun platform.

Xia Longshan immediately drew his sword and roared: "First team, raise the gun!"

The nearly two hundred musketeers in the first team raised their blunderbuss and aimed their guns at the wooden fence of the blunderbuss platform opposite.

Suddenly, a large number of Ming soldiers appeared from behind the wooden fence on the opposite side, wearing cotton armor, hats and face shields.

"Who are you trying to scare by pretending to be a ghost?" Xia Longshan smiled and shouted loudly: "Let's go!"

Nearly two hundred musketeers decisively pulled the trigger of the snake rod, and with the sound of "bang bang bang", hundreds of lead bullets hit the wooden fence on the opposite side and the Ming army, making a crackling sound.

Many Ming soldiers fell back in response, but soon another Ming army took their place.
To be continued...