The two artillery brigades were ready for combat as soon as the enemy launched a second wave of attacks, including gunpowder, shells, leads, stoves, torches, etc. As long as the order was issued, they could immediately open fire and shoot.

Therefore, when Liang Qiu's order reached the two selected squadrons, the two squadrons were decisively busy, allocating the specific attack targets of each cannon, and after aiming, they immediately ordered the fire.

"Boom boom boom..."

"Boom boom boom..."

Two squadrons opened fire one after another, flying towards the enemy's red cannons as if they were not expensive.

But at this distance of more than a mile, it is not easy to hit the enemy's red cannon. Even with the high precision of the Yunfei cannon, it is difficult to do it, but it is also difficult to do the enemy's red cannon.

All, this artillery battle will not have any results in a short period of time. It would be good if one round of fire was fired in one round, and it would be good if it could hit one. For example, the main force of the Tiance Army attacked Changling Mountain. It was an artillery squadron aimed at a Tartar artillery position. Nearly two hundred artillery covered fire, and several rounds of fire only damaged part of the Tartar artillery, and the rest were hidden.

Therefore, the artillery of both sides was flying back and forth, and the shells were flying around the heads of the Han and Mongolian troops attacking the mountain. However, the pressure they faced was indeed much less. It was impossible to knock down the Infantry Camp artillery behind them that it was not affected.

Under the personal leadership of Wei Wanghou, the vanguard troops launched an attack on the second line of defense again, and the projectiles that greeted them were naturally like raindrops. Fortunately, there were archers from the Zhenghuang Banner. Although they were the supervisor team, they naturally would not stand idly by in the face of the continuous blockade of the Tiance Army.

From the first line of defense to the second line of defense, the slope was not large, so although they suffered a lot of losses, they still approached the second earth wall step by step and began to attack the village gate.

Unlike the first earth wall that was completely sealed, the defenders on the first line of defense need to pass when retreating, so some village gates were set up on the second earth wall, which became the primary target of attack for the Han army's vanguards.

Finally, after paying the price of hundreds of people, they finally attacked the second earth wall.

But behind the earth wall, there was still nothing. When the Tiance Army's defensive troops retreated to the third line, they took away all their weapons, wounded, and even their bodies, leaving nothing for them.

After finally crossing the second line of defense, they were stunned by the scene in front of them, and a feeling of powerlessness arose in their hearts. Many people felt that they might be dead here today.

I saw that between the second line of defense and the third line of defense, there were dense trenches everywhere on the slopes ranging from forty to fifty feet, just like the net of trenches in front of the first line of defense.

These trenches are about half a meter wide and the depth is about half a meter. If you jump over, you can still do it. However, the trenches are covered with sharpened wooden stakes. If you accidentally fall down, you will definitely be alive. You also need to avoid the shooting of the Tiance Army above. If you jump over, you will be completely Zhao Si.

Moreover, this is just the third line of defense. How many lines of defense are there behind? How many such trenches are there?

At this time, it is basically impossible to deal with the trench net in front of the first line of defense. It takes a lot of time to transport the soil bags in the rear, and the soil bags prepared in advance have been almost used.

Fortunately, the Tiance Army still left some roads, and there were twelve passages more than ten feet wide between these trenches, which were left for the defenders of the second line of defense when they retreated to the third line of defense, but they had not had time to destroy them.

So, the vanguard soldiers of Wei Wanghou's troops gathered on these twelve passages. The soldiers in the front row held heavy shields and shield chariots pushed up from the bottom of the mountain, moving forward with difficulty.

Although these roads are flat and the slope is not large, the defenders on the third line of defense will not let them walk over smoothly. The Han and Mongolian troops who walked on the passage suffered intensive firepower strikes.

The shield chariot can only withstand the bullets on the front and cannot protect the flank strikes at all. Therefore, the soldiers of the Tiance Army on the earthen walls have used cross-firing methods to not attack the enemies on their front, but to shoot enemy soldiers on two adjacent channels.

After the enemy soldiers rushing into the passage suffered a blow from the side, they could only raise their shields to guard against fire from the flanks, but the effect was very little. The penetration of the broken gun was not comparable to that of the combs. Those shields were difficult to withstand the bullets of the Tiance Army and hit the enemy soldiers behind the shields.

Although it may not be able to completely penetrate the armor worn by the enemy soldiers and cause fatal damage, it is basically impossible to be intact. The severe pain makes them unable to continue to carry the shield. Without the protection of the shield, just a layer of armor cannot stop the bullets fired by the Tiance Army.

When the enemy pushed the shield cart with difficulty and arrived at a position about twenty feet in front of the third line of defense, black cylindrical objects were thrown out from behind the earth wall.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

...

As the explosions sounded one after another, shield chariots and the enemy soldiers behind were overturned and fell into the trench next to them, and then heart-wrenching screams rang out of the trench.

These black cylinders are naturally the head grenades thrown by grenadiers. Four or five grenadiers are arranged behind each passage to throw head grenades specifically on the passage.

Although they could only throw them ten feet apart, they are now on the uphill. Even if they are not thrown on the enemy, they can still roll in front of the enemy along these inclined passages.

The leads of these grenades are set relatively long, so they can roll far along the slope and all the way to the enemy's feet.

The soldiers of the Han army flag did not even react to the grenades thrown by the grenades at first. They watched the smoke rolling to their feet and were still wondering what tricks the enemy was playing. When they smelled the smoke, they immediately felt the danger coming.

But it was too late, and as these grenades exploded, there were suddenly casualties and injuries.

What's even more terrifying is that there are continuous grenades that are thrown down from behind the earth wall. The soldiers in the front row are all killed and injured. The ones behind want to escape back under the instinct drive, but the people behind cannot see clearly the situation ahead and are still pushing forward, so they cannot retreat at all.

So they could only escape to both sides. Some of them were lucky and jumped to the earth wall between the trenches and temporarily saved a life, but they were not lucky and fell directly into the trenches and were pierced by the tip of the wooden suit in the trenches and died.

As the grenades were constantly thrown down, the front lines that were originally piled up little by little with their lives were directly dispersed. On these passages and in the trenches next to them, there were corpses and screaming wounded soldiers everywhere, and the front lines were pushed back to the second earthen wall.

If the four Niulu archers acted as the supervisor team and killed more than a hundred people on the spot, they would probably have retreated all the way back to the mountain.

Azig and Dudu in the rear were always paying attention to the battle situation ahead and considering when to launch an attack.

Seeing Geng Zhongming commanding the Han army and Mongolian army to break through the second line of defense of the Tiance Army and fight extremely hard, the front line was blocked between the second and third line of defense, they knew that it was time for the two yellow flags and Zhengbai flags to take the stage. It would be difficult for the Han army and Mongolian army to go further. If they don't move, there will be a danger of defeat in front of them.

Du Du shouted loudly, "Send the order and the whole army will attack!"

As the horn of the attack sounded, the general attack on the Anzishan defense line began. The eight banner soldiers of the Manchus, with strict military discipline, approached Anzishan first with firm steps.

The Tiance Army had strict military disciplines, but in fact, the Later Jin Army was not bad, much stronger than the ordinary Ming army and even the Guanning army.

Many people think that the Tartars repeatedly gained advantages in field battles with the Ming army, mainly because of personal courage. In fact, this is an illusion. There are many brave generals in the Tartars, but there are also many warriors in the Ming army. Everyone takes soldiers as their profession. The job of this profession is to kill people. How can they gain a foothold in the army if they are not brave?

No matter how weak the army is, even if there are some cowards, they are inevitably brave and brave, and the number will not be too small. For example, in the Guanning army, Zu Dashou's personal soldiers can fight to the end and not take their lives seriously.

The army is not a gangster fighting. The individual's courage can indeed turn the tide in a small-scale melee of several people or dozens of people, but it is not worth mentioning for a war of thousands or even tens of thousands. Even if you can fight ten, your friendly forces will be defeated and dozens of enemies will surround you, can you still be unparalleled?

In fact, in many cases, the Ming army was not inferior to others in fighting the Later Jin army. Instead, one or several of them were cowardly, timid, afraid of death, and abandoned friendly forces, which led to the rapid collapse of the battle situation that could have been maintained. The battle at the farther point was the Battle of Hunhe, and the sold Qi family army and Baigang soldiers fought alone until the last moment. The closer one was, just like the three flags of the Han army in the previous round of attacks, if Ma Yunfei had not been defeated first, Bao Chengxian and Wei Wanghou could have been able to hold on for a while and would not have collapsed so quickly.

Therefore, even though I knew the power of the Tiance Army, I saw with my own eyes that the Han army and the Mongolian army suffered heavy losses and struggled step by step under the attack of the Tiance Army. However, most of the inlaid yellow flags, the ten Niulu of the Zhenghuang flags and the fifteen Niulu of the Zhengbai flags, followed by the flags under the Zhengbai flags without any hesitation.

Seeing the two yellow flags and the Zhengbai flags moving, they rushed towards Anzi Mountain like a tide. Liang Qiu on the top of Anzi Mountain and the artillery positions were all seen. The time that had been waiting for a long time finally came.

Seeing that the third line of defense had steadily blocked the enemy's attack, he ordered the two squadrons that suppressed the enemy's red-clothed cannon to continue firing, and the Tatars' red-clothed cannons could threaten the safety of the defense line behind him. At the same time, the other four squadrons were ready to wait for the enemy to enter a mile range and open their firepower.

My own artillery group endured for so long, just waiting for these Tartar soldiers to rush up, so they let their blood flow into a river under the bombardment of their own artillery group, staying at the foot of Anzi Mountain.

Seeing the Tatar army approaching, two miles, one and a half, one and one and almost half of the Tatars entered a distance, Liang Qiu shouted, "All artillery positions, firepower will be fully opened!"

"Boom boom boom..."

The four artillery squadrons, a total of forty-eight artillery pieces, were all flowering bullets, and they were aimed at the central area where the most densely populated Tartars. Even if they were hit by the wrong end, they could hit the Tartars on the periphery.

After this round of artillery attacks, the results of the battle were quite impressive.

Du Du never expected that the Tiance Army had hidden so many artillery, and Geng Zhongming's red-clothed cannon had already forced out all the enemy's artillery. The twenty cannons on the top of the mountain were the last trump card, so they did not use loose formations.

Looking around, a large area of ​​people fell down in the central area. They were originally crowded, but now they are directly in a large area.

"These cunning Tiance army actually hid so many artillery!" Looking at the unexpected round of artillery attacks, Du Du's eyes were full of tears.

"Scatter, all the formations!"

Azig responded quickly and hurriedly ordered.

At the same time, he was also a little lucky that his fifteen bulls rushed faster, and the artillery fire of the Tiance Army was aiming at the central part of the army. His troops suffered less losses, but if they were not dispersed, it would be easy to attract more artillery fire.

Du Du also understood at this time. Looking at the dense cannons on the top of the mountain, there were probably seventy or eighty cannons, which had never been useful before. Even though Geng Zhongming pulled the red cannons up to bombard the defense line, they only used more than twenty to wait for the warriors of the Eight Banners of Manchu to launch an attack.

Their target has always been the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

But the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. The Han army and the Mongolian army had already attacked the second line of defense. If they led their troops back at this time,

Just like a gambler who lost a lot of money at the gambling table, Du Du thought he still had capital and hope of turning the tables, so the thought of retreating just flashed through his mind. In the end, he decided to continue to attack. As long as he rushed up the hillside, the threat brought by the Tiance army's artillery would be much smaller.

As the most forward, Wei Wanghou was under great psychological pressure. Although Bao Chengxian and Ma Yunfei gave him both the remaining soldiers, they were only more than 4,000. Now, less than half of these more than 4,000 people were there. If Geng Zhongming's troops had not followed and had suffered a lot of damage for his forward, he would have been defeated long ago.

Although he was not sure how many casualties were on his side, the coarse cloth estimated that at least more than 4,000 people had already been.

After the first wave of attack was repelled, he took some small tricks and sent a small number of troops to continue the attack. The Tiance Army's grenades began to be thrown, so he decisively retreated, and repeatedly used two rounds, consuming a lot of the Tiance Army's grenades.

But when he thought that there were not many grenades left in the Tiance Army and launched another attack, he rushed to the middle and a large number of grenades were thrown out, and then the first wave of defeat was repeated, retreating behind the second earth wall before he could stabilize.
Chapter completed!