The four consecutive rounds of dense shotgun almost wiped out the Qing soldiers who entered the range of naval guns, forcing them to retreat! This attack was repelled like this! But the Marines still did not take it lightly. They believed that the Qing army would not give up the attack so in vain!

As expected, the Qing army quickly rebuilt a simple fort in the distance, began to bombard the beachhead positions with artillery, and at the same time began to organize soldiers to conduct tentative attacks.

Since the Qing army's artillery range was far higher than that of naval guns, the Marines on the position were in an embarrassing situation where they could not fight back when they were beaten! Fortunately, the chest wall they built was very effective, and the Qing army only had solid shells, so the casualties caused by their artillery bombardment were minimal!

The Qing soldiers attacked under the cover of artillery were hit by double attacks from naval cannons, portable cannons, and muskets. The attack distance was not even comparable to the last time! Finally, they tried twice and retreated and never launched an attack again.

Taking this opportunity, Shandong soldiers seized the time to transport the soldiers to the other side of the river. During the whole process, the Qing army not only did not launch any attack, but instead transported the artillery back to the camp. Several of them were killed by the gunners, but the artillery itself was dragged away.

Liu Peitunming was surprised to see the Qing army's performance. But this did not affect their efforts to transport soldiers and build pontoon bridges!

With the efforts of the soldiers of the navy and the army, more than 4,000 musketeers, more than 200 carrying cannons and ten cannons were quickly gathered on the opposite river beach! And three layers of defensive positions were also built to firmly protect the landing site! Now it seems that the entire landing site is already solid!

Then Shandong soldiers seized the time to expand their landing, and even Wu Yizhou landed in person and stood with the Marines! During the entire reinforcement process, the Qing army launched seven or eight more attacks, and were all repelled without any surprises!

However, Wu Yizhou said in his report to Liu Pei: "The Qing army's offensive will is not firm. The officers in recent times are not as fierce as the first two attacks! In my opinion, these attacks are more like a perfunctory attack! Maybe something happened to the Qing army, but we don't know!"

Liu Pei has seen Wu Yi

After Zhou's report, he discussed it with the staff, but he did not come to any special conclusion. Finally, Liu Pei could only say: "No matter if he has a thousand tricks, I have certain rules. As long as our pontoon bridge is opened and the troops and artillery can land, even if they have any conspiracies, we can flatten it in one fell swoop! So continue to act according to our plan!"

With the efforts of the engineers, the laying of the pontoon bridge became faster and longer. Finally, in the evening, four pontoon bridges were connected one after another! A large number of soldiers rushed along the pontoon bridge to the north bank of the Daling River. Heavy weapons such as artillery were also gradually transporting.

By midnight, Liu Pei also followed the soldiers to the north bank of Daling River! He stomped his feet hard, felt the softness of the land, and said to the people around him: "Last time we stopped at Daling River because we were eager to solve domestic problems. Now the country has calmed down, so we will not look back this time and will destroy the Qing Dynasty in one fell swoop!"

The officers around him followed him and shouted: "Destroy the Qing Dynasty! Destroy the Qing Dynasty!"

As the sound spread, the soldiers also shouted loudly! The cheers became louder and louder, and as the evening breeze spread far away! However, even so, the Qing army camp in the distance was still silent, and only some of the raids were on guard outside the camp.

The next day, Liu Pei sent someone to attack the Qing army camp in the distance. However, after two rounds of artillery fire, the opponent's camp was silent! Liu Pei ordered the artillery to stop shooting in confusion and said, "Send someone to investigate! I guess these Qing soldiers might have run away long ago!"

Yang Jingfa said: "It is possible! According to the investigation by the Intelligence Bureau, the base camp of the Qing army's Daling River defense line is in Guangning in front. If these Qing troops retreat, they must first retreat to Guangning, and then cross the Liaohe River to return to Chenyang."

Liu Pei said indifferently: "It doesn't matter, they can't escape anyway!"

Sure enough, not long after, the reconnaissance soldiers ran back happily and reported: "Master, the camp ahead is empty and there are no enemies! All the Qing troops escaped!"

Liu Pei asked: "How is the situation in the camp?"

The soldier said regretfully: "It was cleaned up very clean, nothing left."

Liu Pei nodded and said, "I understand. I sent some people into the camp to search, while the others crossed the Qing army camp and headed straight for Guangning. They also had to leave a group of people to guard the bridgehead of the pontoon bridge."

After Liu Pei arranged all this, the army had already set off. But not long after the army marched, someone reported that there were Qing troops stationed in Guangning City. This surprised Liu Pei! He really didn't expect that there were Qing troops staying here. So he simply led the army straight to Guangning to see who was so brave?

When Liu Pei arrived, Guangning City was surrounded. When Liu Pei saw that it was getting late, he ordered everyone to set up camp and then called the officers from the Intelligence Bureau to inquire about the situation.

The officer of the Intelligence Bureau said: "Guangning was completely closed more than ten days ago. Until now, no news has been sent back by the people inside. I don't know what changes are going on inside."

Liu Pei said: "Then let's talk about what I knew before."

The officer immediately took out a document from his bag and opened it and said, "Originally, the garrison in Guangning City was named Tudenan, who belonged to Zhenglan Banner. He had two thousand defenders under his command. After we left the pass, the garrison increased to five thousand, and the artillery increased by eight gates. In addition, two thousand cavalry were added. But for some reason, fourteen days ago, Guangning City was suddenly closed, and Tudenan himself was transferred back to Shenyang. No news has been heard since then. According to other circumstances, there may be six thousand defenders and 15 guns in the city! As for the number of other firearms unknown."

After hearing this, Liu Pei said, "It sounds like Guangning City is a very difficult tough guy to crack?"

Fan Hualong said viciously: "There is no hard bone or hard bone! The general handed over Guangning City to the last general, and the last general guaranteed to break the city in three days!"
Chapter completed!