In addition to the northern army, Huang Taiji also arranged a southern army, with Geng Zhongming's Han Hong Banner and Du Du's Yellow Banner as the main force, supplemented by some Han Lan Banner and Zhengbai Banner, Du Du as the commander, bypassed Songshan Fort and attacked Xingshan Fort from Wangshan and Anzishan.

The total force of this army is nearly 30,000, but the number of cavalry is not large, mainly infantry. Of course, the proportion of firearms among these infantry is quite high. Not only are there a large number of musketeers, but the number of cannons is no longer a small number. It is specially used to deal with the fortifications built by the Tiance Army on the south side of Xingshan Fort, as well as several defensive strongholds such as Anzishan and Wangshan.

In this way, as long as the two armies break through the flank defense line of the Tiance Army, they can threaten the Tiance Army that is attacking Changling Mountain. Even if they cannot be annihilated, at least their plan to attack Changling Mountain will fail and severely damage their troops.

On the Tiance Army, all the artillery preparations were ready, and all the artillery positions were ready to go. With just one order, hundreds of shells could be poured over the enemy's heads.

"The test shot begins!"

Chen Quan, the second battalion commander, shouted loudly, then came to a Yunfei cannon in person, held a torch in hand, and lit the lead.

"boom!"

As the roar sounded, a white smoke burst out from the muzzle, and in front of the smoke, a flowering bullet weighing nearly five kilograms roared out of the cannon chamber and flew towards the Tartar defense line on Changling.

This cannon fire attracted everyone's attention, including the Tartars on the first line of defense.

A line of defense of the Tartars was arranged at Changling as a frontier position to resist the Tiance Army. Not only did it dig a large number of trenches, but it also built a seven or eight-foot-high stone wall with stones in front. However, many behind the stone walls were created than outside. The Tartars and Korean soldiers could poke their upper bodies out and shoot arrows outwards.

Seeing the shells fly to their positions, these Korean soldiers hurriedly pulled them off the stone wall, and some of them simply jumped into the trench behind to avoid being hit by the shells.

However, Niu Lu Zhang Jingse Duli was unmoved. He had never fought with the Tiance Army, so he had no fear of the Tiance Army. He had not seen the artillery of the Ming army before, but it was just a huge momentum, but it was not that easy to hit the enemy.

Sedali disdained the timid Korean soldiers. Some of these Korean soldiers were originally subjugated, while the rest were newly surrendered Korean soldiers in the second half of this year.

In May this year, the Tiance Army defeated the pro-Jin faction under Li's command in North Korea and supported the formerly abolished Guanghai Jun Li Hui to succeed the throne. Li Hui was also very aware of being a good dog. Although in the early stage, for political stability, he did not clean up the remaining pro-Jin faction, as the Tiance Army won consecutive victories on the Japanese battlefield, Li Hui was able to let go of his hands and feet.

Therefore, those civil and military officials who participated in the coup, deposed Li Hui, and at the same time, tended to surrender to the Later Jin Dynasty, were washed one by one, and the court was completely devastated by the sinking vessels. Jin Shangxian and other officials of the Ming Dynasty were controlled by ministers.

But Li Hui's cleaning was naturally impossible to start at the same time. Some pro-Gold generals who were far away in Hamkyung, Huanghai and Ping'an Road felt that the danger was coming, directly pulled the army and surrendered to Huang Taiji, hoping to preserve their glory and wealth.

In addition, when Jin Liu fled north with his remaining soldiers, some of the troops of the Tiance Army and the troops controlled by Li Hui went to hunt them down. Although they successfully captured Jin Liu and others alive, they were in the North Korean territory and were still allowed to run away by a small number of pro-Jin ministers, including the Shushu of the Sin of the Sin, the Right Counselor Li Yuan and others.

The Korean army in the Later Jin Dynasty had a total of about 20,000 people. Chen Mingshi also asked Huang Taiji to establish the four Korean flags with this part of the troops, but Huang Taiji did not agree and continued to make them similar servants.

Therefore, these Korean soldiers are naturally despised. As an ordinary flagist, Sedali became a Niulu Zhangjing by relying on his military achievements, so he naturally despises these cowardly people.

But he smiled and found that the Korean soldiers looked at the sky in horror. When he turned around, he suddenly discovered that something black was flying towards him and rapidly expanded in his vision.

The agile Sedali instinctively lowered his high head. At this moment, the shells fired by Shen Quan personally wiped his rat-tail and abandoned them.

However, before Sedori could be thankful, a loud bang came from his side, and the air waves generated by the explosion directly overturned Sedori to the ground.

The shell landed more than ten feet away from him and did not kill him on the spot.

However, when he finally struggled to get up, shook his dizzy head and raised his head again, he was frightened to find that there were more shells flying towards him.

Chen Quan hit the Tartars' defense line as soon as he fired, greatly encouraging the morale of the artillery camp. Then all the artillery positions opened up with full fire, so the scene that Sedali saw was the scene.

The continued artillery attacks of the Tiance Army were definitely a painful experience for the Jin army, which was on the first line of defense.

Screaming sounds kept coming from my ears, and waves of shells flew over, and it was impossible to tell whether the enemy shells were in front of me, behind me, or front, back and left, and there was no time to dodge any action.

If you are dealing with the ordinary Ming army, you will hide behind the chest wall made of stones and as long as you don’t show your head, you will basically not suffer any fatal injuries, but it will be different when facing the shelling of the Tiance Army.

The Tiance Army not only used solid shells, but also a large number of flowering shells. Although the flowering shells are not difficult to explode the stone wall now, once they fall behind the stone wall, it will be a tragic scene.

If it is a solid shell, it will simply continue to roll forward, which will have no effect on the people under the stone wall. However, when the flowering shell explodes, its range of killing is a large area. Even if it is not killed, the loud noise will be unbearable.

The artillery fire did not last long. Even the Yunfei cannon with superior performance took time to cool down, so after nearly two incense sticks, the sound of the artillery fire finally calmed down.

When the smoke of gunpowder has dissipated, the effect of this round of artillery can be seen. Looking around, many stone walls have collapsed in the places ravaged by artillery fire. Taking advantage of the ceasefire of the Tiance army, the Tartar flagists drove Baoyi and the Korean soldiers to repair the gap, gathered the bodies, and carried the undead wounded behind the second line of defense to treat.

These Baoyi and the Korean soldiers were worried, very afraid that the Tiance army would suddenly open fire, but the flag-teacher behind them was eyeing them, so they did not dare to neglect them.

But almost everyone aims to the southwest when they have the chance to see the movements of the enemy, so as to prevent the enemy's artillery fire from sounding again.

After working so nervously for a while, they finally relaxed a little. However, at this moment, a huge roar came again, and there was a harsh roar.

The shells arrived as scheduled. This time, the soldiers of the artillery battalion were particularly careful and deliberately cut the leads of the flowering bullets a little short. In this way, these flowering bullets would explode in the air before they landed, causing a larger range of damage, and the effect would be immediate.

This round of attack came too suddenly. Not only were these Baoyi and the Koreans, but many of them didn't have time to hide behind the stone wall. The flowering bullets exploded in the air overturned the enemies one by one, directly causing these Baoyi and the Korean soldiers to repair the gap to suffer heavy losses.

As the Yunfei Cannon's shells accurately landed on the first line of defense, it had become a mess, with people fleeing wildly everywhere, especially those Korean soldiers, who were completely disorganized.

They themselves are a group of traitors who cannot go home. Their status in the Later Jin Dynasty was only higher than those Baoyun slaves. At this time, they did not realize that they would die for the Later Jin Dynasty. They were just to make a living, so they naturally did not want to fight for the Later Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, no matter how the flag officers or the direct officers scolded them, they could not stop them from escaping. Even these flag officers and officers were led to escape, but the second line of defense behind blocked their way, and did not give them a chance to retreat at all. They forced them back to defend with cold swords.

At this time, the artillery of the Tiance Army was still firing leisurely, and the shells were constantly on the first line of defense. On Changling Mountain, Dai Shan looked at all this with anger.

Looking at the heavy losses of the troops on your side at the foot of the mountain, Dai Shan looked at Wang Zi Deng with a very bad attitude. "Prince Deng, the artillery of Confucius is raging, and my warriors of Dajin are under attack. Should your artillery be activated?"

Zu Zerun also echoed sarcastically, "I heard that when the Confucius thieves led the rebels to attack the city of Dengzhou, they still couldn't attack the city gate. It was Confucius who sent envoys into the city to persuade Geng Ezhen. Finally, they opened the city gate with Wang Jiala and let the Confucius thieves enter the city, so that Confucius thieves could be the biggest. Now Wang Jiala is afraid that he is thinking about his old love and is unwilling to open the fire!"

Before Zu Zerun surrendered, he was from the Guanning Army faction, while Wang Zideng came with Geng Zhongming, that is, from the Dongjiang Town faction. The conflict between the two military towns was not small at all, so even if they surrendered to the Tartars, there were often verbal disputes between the two sides.

Of course, Zu Zerun also had a purpose. He had long been envious of these large-caliber red-clothed cannons. Unfortunately, the craftsmen and elite gunners were all in Geng Zhongming's army. Huang Taiji gave the cannons first to the Han Hongqi. His Han Huangqi was only assigned to some Folang machines, and there were only two red-clothed cannons, so he had been trying to exclude the Han Hongqi people and tried to get their cannons into his hands.

Wang Zideng had long been used to such sarcasm, but it was hard to say that he had no connection with the Tiance Army. At that time, Dengzhou City seemed harmonious, but in fact it was divided into three factions. He was from Geng Zhongming, and he could only be considered an ally with Kong Youde, and even more so with the Tiance Army.

The reason why he has not fired his artillery until now is that he is loyal to the Later Jin Dynasty. Since he has defected to the Dajin Dynasty, he will die for the Dajin Dynasty and gain wealth.

Listening to Zu Zerun and others' jokes, Wang Zideng didn't even look at them, and explained to Dai Shan, "Master Beile, it's not that the slave doesn't want to fire, but now the fire is fired.

"Master Beile, I saw that Wang Zideng was just a thief who was inseparable from the Confucius thief and was unwilling to fire at the Confucius thief. If you continue to fight like this, the thief army will definitely be more powerful, and our army will be overwhelmed. Once the Confucius thief infantry rushed up, our army would be unable to resist."

Although Dai Shan wanted to fight back at this moment, as a veteran on the battlefield, he naturally understood that what Wang Zideng said was right. Fired the cannon at this time would only waste ammunition.

"Prince Deng is right. It is not time to fire the artillery at this time. Wait until the bandit army enters the first line of defense and fire it again, which will severely damage the enemy."

Zu Zerun said unwillingly, "But, Master Beile, if the thief army continues to be so large, the first line of defense may not last long!"

Dai Shan said calmly, "It's okay. Even if the first line of defense is destroyed, there are more lines of defense behind it. It can completely waste the thief army in this Changling Mountain. If they continue to shell out like this, they can still consume their ammunition, which will be more beneficial to our army at that time!"

As he said this, Dai Shan still ordered two Niu Lu to go to the first line of defense to stabilize the front and prevent the frightened Korean soldiers and the robbers from running around and disrupting the morale of the army.

This round of artillery lasted almost two incense sticks, and the effect was more significant than the first round of artillery.

The two consecutive rounds, which combined for about half an hour, had a very significant effect, especially the surprise of the second round of attacks, which directly caused the Tartars exposed to the artillery fire to suffer heavy losses.

Behind the Tiance Army's position, Cheng Xikong was evaluating the effect of these two shellings. As the commander-in-chief of attacking the mountain, he needed to use this to determine whether the next round of shelling was needed.

When they saw that the Tartars were already bombed, they stopped shelling and did not come out to repair the gap. It was time to launch an attack.

Immediately afterwards, Cheng Xikong announced that the general attack began.

As the sound of intense horns rang out, the soldiers who had been resting for more than half an hour began to move again.

There were eight battalions in total, and two artillery battalions provided early fire strikes, as well as fire support after the attack began, and suppression of enemy artillery fire. All six infantry battalions were put into the attack, leaving no reserves at all.

In order to reduce the casualties caused by the Tartar artillery, the attacking troops did not adopt the traditional array, but adopted a formation similar to the scattered soldiers in later generations. However, it was different. The distance between each soldier was about two meters away from each other, but it still maintained a relatively neat formation, which was nothing more than expanding the original formation.

In this way, the six infantry battalions cannot be fully expanded, and they can only configure the first three and the last three.

However, even so, the attack strength is sufficient. In addition, they also carry a large number of equipment, such as side vans, which can carry the Buying's own Folang machine, swarm, etc., and can solve nearby targets that the rear artillery battalion cannot hit.
Chapter completed!