Over there, Hong Chengchou was already issuing military orders.
Let the attacking Eight Banners Han troops immediately evacuate from the unprotected second gun platform and enter the peripheral trenches on the north and south sides of the gun platform and the east side of the gun platform to stand by.
As a result, the Ming army's red cannons could no longer hit the Eight Banners Han army hiding under the horizon.
At this time, Hou Fangyu also reacted: "Hong Butang, do you think our Qing soldiers still have a chance?"
"Of course there is a chance." Hong Chengchou said, "Yan Yingyuan's trick of playing hard to get was indeed very good. The whole department was fooled by him to applause, but he also made a fatal mistake."
"Hong Butang is saying that Yan Yingyuan has done too much?" Hou Fangyu asked.
"Yes, he has indulged too much." Hong Chengchou said, "If Yan Yingyuan only gives us the first stage of the gun platform, and then places the red cannon on the second stage of the gun platform, we may not be able to use him very well.
Method."
"It is not easy to seize the triple gun platform on the east bank of the canal at least once."
"But now Yan Yingyuan directly gives up the two-fold blunderbuss, but he is seeking his own death."
After saying this for a moment, he continued: "Don't our Qing soldiers have red cannons? As long as our Qing soldiers' red cannons can overwhelm the Ming army's red cannons, they can easily destroy the Ming army's third cannon."
By then all the Ming Army's triple gun towers on the east bank of the canal will have been lost, so that our Qing soldiers will be able to maintain a stalemate with the Ming Army across the canal."
The two armies were facing each other across the river, which meant that the Ming army's food route had been cut off by the Qing army.
"Use the red cannon to attack?" Hou Fangyu's eyes showed a hint of excitement, "Who has more cannons?"
"Yes, who has more cannons?" Hong Chengchou said ferociously, "If I read it correctly just now, the number of red cannons of the Ming army should be around a hundred, but our Qing army has a full five hundred
"Red-coat cannons! If we use five red-coated cannons against one, and use the red-coated cannons to engage in close-range bombardment, how can we, the Qing soldiers, not be victorious?" Lan
"There is a problem." Hou Fangyu frowned and said, "The Ming army planed out the first level in advance, and the second level gun platform faced the west wall and slope protection. If our Qing army placed the red cannon on the first level gun platform,
, because there is a protective wall and slope protection on the east side of the second gun platform in the middle, so there is no way to hit the Ming army."
"So only by placing the cannon on the second stage can we hit the Ming army."
"Then a new question comes, how to place the red cannon on the second level gun platform?"
Having said this, he paused and said: "After all, the entire platform of the second-level musket platform was exposed to the muzzle of the Ming army's red cannon, without any obstruction in the middle. It didn't even wait for us to pull up the red cannon."
It was blown to pieces."
"Who said we must pull the red cannon to the second stage? Wouldn't that be courting death?"
Hong Chengchou said suddenly: "Our Qing soldiers don't even need to place the red cannon on the first stage of the gun platform. Instead, they only need to place the red cannon outside the slope protection of the first stage of the gun platform, and then let Lian Yong dig it."
If we remove the protective wall and slope protection on the east side of the two turrets, won't the red cannon's firing range be cleared? Can't we hit the third turret?"
Hong Chengchou immediately issued the order, and Lian Yong was immediately transferred to do the soil work.
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Seeing that the situation had reached a stalemate, Jieyuancai became anxious again.
"Brother Jianheng, Jiannu has hid in the trench of the second gun platform. Our field artillery and mountain artillery can no longer hit them. Only the infantry can still hit them, but the lethality is also very limited. What can I do?
Is that good?" Xie Yuancai said, "Should we organize a counterattack to drive the Jiannu out of the ditch of the second gun platform?"
"Hey, what kind of counterattack should we organize?" Yan Yingyuan said, "Doesn't that mean we have to attack the enemy again?"
"Then what should we do? Should we just wait like this?" Jie Yuancai said, "What should we do if the slaves also bring the red cannon?"
Yan Yingyuan chuckled and said, "Brother Xingdou, you've said it all. I'm waiting for Jian Nu to pull up their red cannon, hehe." Lan.
"Huh?" Jie Yuancai was stunned when he heard this.
Could it be that this is actually a trap?
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Taking advantage of the confrontation between the two armies, the green soldiers quietly dragged the red cannon up.
After dragging it to the slope protection of the first turret, the green battalion soldiers drove iron drills into the ground to fix the gun mount.
While Green Camp was fixing the gun mounts, Lian Yong was also excavating the slope protection and wall protection of the first and second level gun platforms.
Amidst the ping-pong-pong exchanges between the two armies, time quickly came to Zichu, and the battle had lasted for two hours.
Except for the more than 2,000 casualties suffered by the Qing army at the beginning of the attack, there were not many casualties in the subsequent battles, because the distance between the two musket platforms was a full 150 steps, which was beyond the range of the Ming army's flintlocks.
The effective shooting range, plus it was night time, so the hit rate was even more unguaranteed. Whether or not the target would hit after firing could only be left to chance.
However, Lian Yong has already leveled the slope protection and walls of the two gun platforms.
The green battalion soldiers have also loaded a total of two hundred red cannons.
Hong Chengchou finally decided to invest only two hundred red cannons.
One is because of the limited width of the battlefield, and the second is because of caution.
Hong Da hurriedly climbed onto the command nest vehicle and reported with one hand on the ground: "Sir, all two hundred red cannons have been pulled outside the first turret on the east bank. The first turret and the second turret
The eastern retaining wall and slope protection have also been basically dug out, leaving only a thin layer of retaining wall on the east side of the second gun platform."
Of course, this thin protective wall was left to block the sight of the Ming army.
With this thin protective wall, the Ming army could not see the red cannons of the Qing soldiers.
"Yes." Hong Chengchou nodded and asked, "Is the red cannon equipped with hundreds of bullets?"
"Sir, the solid iron bullets and the hundreds of bullets are ready." Hong Da said respectfully.
"Okay, very good!" Hong Chengchou shouted immediately, "Give me the order, the Green Battalion immediately began to launch artillery bombardment against the Ming army. Note that after destroying the protective wall of the third level gun platform, the solid iron bullets were replaced with hundreds of bullets to kill a large number of Ming soldiers."
Army, when the Ming army fails, the Han army of the Eight Banners will take advantage of the situation to launch an attack and seize the gun platform on the east bank in one fell swoop!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "嗻!" Hong Da agreed loudly and asked the servant to put out the signal light.
The servants guarding the nest car quickly hung up the three-color signal lights.
At the same time that the servants hung up the three-color signal lantern, Hong Da also flew off the nest car.
The three-color signal light can only convey simple commands, such as asking the Green Battalion to launch an artillery attack.
But more complex military orders, such as destroying the protective wall of the Ming army's gun platform and then changing the solid iron bullets to reloading hundreds of bullets, or waiting for the Ming army to be exhausted before allowing the Eight Banners and Han troops to take advantage of the situation to attack, required oral instructions.
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Yan Yingyuan has been asking Guo Zisheng to monitor the surroundings through telescopes.
Because Jiannu's communication system could not be as efficient as that of the Ming army, especially at night, the simplest communication could only be carried out through signal lights.
Eight Imperial College students were holding monocular telescopes to monitor one direction each.
At a certain moment, an Imperial Academy member suddenly shouted: "Yan Geijian, there is a signal light in the northwest!"
Yan Yingyuan hurriedly raised the telescope and pointed the field of view to the northwest. Soon, three colors of signal lights appeared in the field of view of the telescope: The Green Battalion was about to fire!
The Secret Investigation Division has long figured out the meaning of the various arrangements of Jiannu's signal lights.
So Yan Yingyuan could tell at a glance that the signal light was ordering the Green Battalion to fire.
"Order!" Yan Yingyuan immediately issued the order, "Each artillery battalion immediately dragged all field artillery and mountain artillery away from the gun platform, and each infantry battalion immediately entered the trenches on both sides of the gun platform and stood by!"
More than a dozen imperial disciples rushed in all directions to convey Yan Yingyuan's military orders.
Immediately afterwards, the Ming army's artillery and infantry on the third cannon platform began to move.
The artillerymen were busy taking out the fixed iron drills, while the infantry quickly entered the trenches to hide.
However, before the artillerymen could fully pull out the iron drill, and before all the infantry entered the trench, the roaring sound of artillery suddenly sounded outside the first heavy gun platform on the opposite side.
Immediately afterwards, there was a muffled sound from the guard wall of the third turret.
Listening to this sound, you can tell that it is the sound made by solid iron bullets hitting the parapet.
Thanks to the very narrow gaps between the battlements of the protective walls, it was difficult for artillery shells to penetrate through the gaps, so the field artillery and mountain artillery that had no time to evacuate did not suffer losses.
"It's broken!" Jie Yuancai's expression suddenly changed.
"Gou Jiannu really dug away the retaining walls and slope protection of the two gun platforms in front!"
However, Yan Yingyuan was not surprised but overjoyed, and said with a ferocious smile: "Hong Chengchou, Hong Chengchou, there is a way to heaven but you don't take it, and there is no door to hell and you just barged in, so don't blame me, Mr. Yan, for being rude."
After a pause, Yan Yingyuan shouted again: "Pass my general's order to detonate the Tianzi mine array!"
The dozen or so students behind Yan Yingyuan shouted at the same time: "Yan has given me an order to detonate the Tianzi Mine Array!"
After receiving the order, more than a dozen Imperial College students lit the fuse at the same time. The burning fuse quickly retracted into the ground and quickly extended forward through the pipes buried in advance.
The Tianzi mine array prepared by Yan Yingyuan for Jiannu contained five thousand improved mines!
To ensure that the Tianzi Mine Array would be detonated, Yan Yingyuan prepared more than a dozen sets of fuses.
As long as one set of fuses successfully burns to the target location, the mine array can be detonated.
After about five or six minutes, a large amount of dazzling red light suddenly bloomed on the Jiannu artillery position in front, and then the red cannons were overturned to the ground.
The green battalion soldiers guarding the red-coated cannon were also blown up and staggered, their flesh and blood being mutilated.
There were even gunpowder barrels stacked next to the red cannon that were detonated, causing a fatal explosion.
The strong light emitted when the gunpowder exploded, and the red light after the serial mine array was detonated, complemented each other, almost lighting up the entire night sky red, and then the huge explosion sound spread violently.
Yan Yingyuan, Xie Yuancai and the late Guo Zisheng became deaf in an instant.
The whole world became dead silent and no sound could be heard anymore.
Yan Yingyuan smiled proudly, Jiannu's red cannon was finished.
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