Seeing the smoke rising from the opponent's position, Dorgon smiled. No wonder he and Fan Wencheng spent three days researching and finally came up with such an idea.

Looking at it now, this is a great idea. Li Xiao's army relies on artillery shells like raindrops to show off their ferocity. Now that the artillery is mute, let's see what you can do with Ben Beile.

Li Xiao shook off the dust on his body. Fortunately, the command post was six to seven hundred meters away from the artillery position. Otherwise, the command post would have been taken away. He took off his hat and kept beating it on his thigh.

"Oh! These days, swordsmen are so smart, and they can also engage in artillery battles. Let people go and see how your artillery positions are doing." Li Xiao sighed. There is no need to blame Yuan Chonghuan harshly at this time. After all,

They had never experienced this kind of battle. They had always heard that the lessons learned on the battlefield were all gained with blood. Now that I think about it, it's damn true.

"Come back! Do you know that the Tatars will not fight again? You are the commander, and this is your position. Continue to command the battle, and so many of your staff are just for show?" Li Xiao summoned Yuan Chonghuan back,

If the Jurchen Tatars continue to fight at this time, the results will be truly brilliant.

"No!" Yuan Chonghuan gritted his teeth. He never expected that the enemy would be so cunning.

But thinking about it, I should still be glad that Li Xiao left the rocket launcher in Jinzhou. Otherwise, he would have ordered the rocket launcher to cover it just now. When the rocket launcher was launched, the smoke rising was incomparable with the mortar. That target was better than the mortar.

There are obviously more artillery positions.

Fan Wencheng fired three rows of guns, and the Mongolian cavalry lay down with corpses on the ground. The riding crop in Geritu's hand whipped the horse's buttocks hard, and the bullets flew "swish" and "swish" from the ears. Now Geritu is gone.

He was so happy just now, but now he just wants to leave this damn battlefield. Damn it, if the Jurchens don't play with bows, arrows and sabers, when will they play with firecrackers like the Han people? Damn it, firecrackers are so powerful.

Damn it, I will ask Li Xiao for some firecrackers this time to show off.

The horse's butt was almost beaten to pieces, and finally the fatal reminder could no longer be heard in his ears. He ran back to the Montenegro position and took stock. This time, a total of 793 people were lost in the attack. Two fucking thousand Mongolians.

The man rushed out, but only 60% came back.

"The enemy's artillery has been destroyed. Attack immediately without giving them time to breathe." Dorgon was ready to strike while the iron was hot and immediately capture the Black Mountain position in front.

"Hey!" Fan Wencheng's eyes were full of excitement. He was full of frustration the last time Li Guanzhen was defeated. After going back, he carefully recalled the entire battle. Except for the failure of the attack on Li Guanzhen, everything else was impeccable. Even the attack

He almost succeeded in Li Guan Town. If the Ming cavalry had not arrived at the most critical moment, he would have been able to stand in Li Guan Town.

This first attack on Montenegro was an opportunity to show his face. Dorgon was determined to ensure that he was promoted to the banner commander of the Han army. He wanted to use the blood of the Ming army to prove that Dorgon's vision was right.

"Woo...!" The horn sounded, and the Han Eight Banners who were hiding in the forest rushed out like ants. Smoke and dust billowed in the distance, and the cavalry and infantry with two white flags began to rush towards the battlefield.

Carriages were running very fast, delivering boxes of ammunition to the artillery positions in the woods.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "...!"

The artillery bombarded the main Montenegrin position non-stop, and there were not many mortar shells left. Now they could only rely on the Hongyi cannon to support the scene. Kuiyi discovered that as long as the muzzle elevation angle was increased, the shells would hit farther. And after the shells hit the ground

, because of the angle, it can hit the top of the fortification, and if you are lucky, you can also hit the enemy behind the fortification.

Watching the artillery shells exploding one after another on his own position, Li Xiao spat out saliva full of earthy smell. Are people so smart these days? Tactics are developing so fast that he is almost

A little uncomfortable.

It seems that last year, I could still use cannons to beat people to pieces. Now it is the Eight Banners soldiers' turn to use cannons to beat me!

Damn it, the tides are turning, and this damn thing must be turning too fast. How did these idiots who only know how to fight on horseback evolve so fast?

The situation of the shelling of the artillery position was very miserable. Those bastards still did not comply with the regulations set by Li Xiao. In order to facilitate the acquisition of artillery shells, the artillery shell accumulation point was only a dozen meters away from the artillery position. As a result, when the artillery shells exploded, the mortar position was completely destroyed.

was swallowed up.

Rubbing his forehead, Li Xiao didn't care about the loss of dozens of mortars. That thing was just an iron cylinder, it was nothing.

But those gunners were fed by cannonballs, in other words, they were fed by money. Just because they did not follow his own orders, they were wiped out in an instant. Engineers and civilians were rescuing them, but Li Xiao felt that he could not dig out a few people.

Even if they were dug out, they probably wouldn't be alive.

"Commander...!" Half of Yuan Chonghuan's face was blackened. "It's too dangerous here, you'd better go down. I promise to defend Black Mountain!"

"I said you are the commander, you take command. But this does not include me. My soldiers will face a difficult battle. At this time, you want me to abandon my soldiers and run to the rear? Military morale

Do you want more?" Li Xiao glanced at Yuan Chonghuan and continued to look through the telescope.

Yuan Chonghuan swallowed, froze for a moment and ran back to continue commanding the troops to enter the position.

Li Xiao does not intend to interfere with Yuan Chonghuan today. Mortarmen are fed by cannonballs, and commanders are fed by human lives. Training a gunner only costs money, but training commanders sometimes requires sacrificing human lives. In the future, the team will be bigger

Now, the battlefield is vast. It is impossible for Li Xiao to visit every battlefield in person, so the role of generals becomes prominent.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the Han army flag began to approach the Black Mountain position.

Cao Wenzhao spat and held a single-shot rifle in his hand. Cao Wenzhao liked this thing. Although it took one bullet to fire one shot, it was much more convenient than the firecracker loaded in the front. Copper

Just insert the shelled bullet into the barrel of the gun, close the bolt and pull the trigger.

"Listen to me, bring him close and hit him. If I don't order him, who the hell will shoot him? I'll give him a big scar." The whole camp was reminded of Cao Wenzhao's broken gong voice.

"Push those things up!" Cao Wenzhao ordered, and his guard squad worked in groups of two and used poles to lift four half-meter-diameter cast iron balls into the trench.

"Hehe! Have a taste of my old Cao's power!" Cao Wenzhao laughed ferociously, looking at the densely packed Han army flag soldiers below who were lined up in neat formations.

"Light it up, let it go!" Following Cao Wenzhao's order, the soldiers in the guard squad immediately lit the fuse. The iron ball rolled down the slope, just slowly at first. As the potential energy increased, sparks appeared.

The iron ball is rolling faster and faster.

"Dang!" The iron ball hit a stone, and because of the great potential energy, the iron ball actually flew up.

The Han military flags, which were standing neatly, howled and dispersed.

A big iron ball with a diameter of half a meter. If this thing were to hit an iron ball, even an Arhat would have to drink a pot of it. Let alone a living person of flesh and blood!

"Poof!" The flying big iron ball smashed into the soil. Although it continued to roll under the action of potential energy, the speed was much slower.

Seeing the flying sparks, the Han flag soldiers wanted to run like crazy. But... it was too late!

"Boom!" The large iron ball with a diameter of half a meter exploded all of a sudden, and countless shrapnel and marbles scattered in all directions. A square formation of a hundred people was swallowed up in an instant.

The explosion was so powerful that even Cao Wenzhao was surprised. The reason why he got so many big iron balls was because he often used rolling wood and rocks when he was defending the city. Now that we have gunpowder, it is natural to have stuffed iron balls.

Rolling wood and stone.

Originally I just thought that it could kill a few people even if it couldn't kill them. But the explosive power of this thing was too damn big. A hundred-man team disappeared in front of his eyes. Either they had been blown to pieces or they were covered in risk.

Covered in blood, he kept rolling and howling on the ground.

If you can stand up in one piece, it means that there is smoke rising from the ancestral grave.

Four big iron balls were smashed down, and the two centurions just disappeared. Fan Wencheng's eyelids jumped when he saw the big iron balls with stuffing, they were so simple and crude, but the effect was surprisingly scary.

"Order Kui Yi, bombard that area with artillery." Dorgon put down his binoculars and pointed with his riding crop. The messenger with the flag behind him ran into the forest!

Without firing a shot, Cao Wenzhao was still having fun. The shells roared and hit the position. Some soldiers were stupid and didn't know how to avoid the shells. When they saw the shells falling outside the trenches, they didn't know how to squat inside the trenches.

As a result, the shell exploded. Although they were not hit by shrapnel, the impact of the explosion caused them to vomit blood. Several idiots who were close were directly shocked to death.

"Damn it, squat down in the trenches." The broken gong's voice sounded again, but Cao Wenzhao's loud voice was completely drowned out by the explosion of the shells, and even he himself could not hear his own roar.

Some soldiers were stunned by the explosion, dropped their guns and ran back.

"Don't run!" A cannonball exploded nearby, and the airwaves choked Cao Wenzhao's next words.

His chest felt so tight that his eyesight turned dark. Cao Wenzhao had to squat down and hold on to the wooden supports of the trench. It took him a while to recover.

Looking up, none of the escaping soldiers could stand. They were all torn to pieces by shrapnel, and their tattered clothes, hands and feet were everywhere. The intestines were hung five or six steps away from Cao Wenzhao.

"Company commander, the Tatars are coming up." The ordering soldier took Cao Wenzhao's arm and shouted loudly.

Cao Wenzhao could only see his mouth opening and closing, but could not hear what he was saying. The ordering soldier pulled Cao Wenzhao's arm tightly and pointed at the two Han army flag centurions below who were starting to climb the mountain again.

Under the cover of artillery fire, the two centurions had climbed halfway up the mountain. They were only more than a hundred meters away from the position.

"What are you doing standing still? Why don't you hold fire?" Cao Wenzhao roared, but he still couldn't hear his roar. The orderer was speechless. What you just shouted, if you shoot without your order, you will be beheaded.

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"Bang!" Cao Wenzhao fired a shot, and crackling gunfire sounded immediately on the battlefield.

Cao Wenzhao fired his guns, and the Han army flag opposite also began to fire. However, the people on Cao Wenzhao's side were hiding in the trenches and fired their guns. Moreover, when loading bullets, they did not have to put the barrels up and use rods to fire them.

Fight inside the barrel.
Chapter completed!