Yuan Chonghuan, on the west bank of the Sancha River, had long been informed by Li Changshan that Du Wenhuan’s Second Army was stepping up the construction of a floating bridge in the river.
The No. 3 Great Tent lost two Niu Lus at once. The army was extremely unstable and was continuously besieged by the Ming Army. They had focused all their energy on the Ming Army outside the Great Tent, and even two appeared on the Sancha River. None of the giant ships knew.
These two giant ships are actually just medium-sized ships of the North Sea Fleet. They are two "Fu Chuan"-class warships of the Ming army, but to the Jurchen who has never seen a large ship, they are two giants.
The North Sea Fleet also has larger "Guangzhou Ship" class warships, but the warships have to enter the Sancha River. The big warships are extremely inconvenient to turn around. Therefore, Wei Xin sent only two lucky ships.
Guangzhou Shipbuilding and Fu Shipbuilding were not specialized warships. When they were designed, they were all merchant ships. When Zhu Youjian formed the North Sea Fleet, Daming had no professional warships or a professional military shipyard at all, so the North Sea Fleet’s The battleships were all modified with merchant ships.
After the Fu ship was converted into a battleship, although its displacement was large, the hull was too short. The entire ship could only be loaded with eight naval guns, four on each side.
The two blessed ships drove into the Sancha River one after the other. They quickly found the location of the Jurchen No. 3 tent, because Li Changshan's First Marine Division was under siege.
The gunner on the battleship kept calculating the distance.
The Jurchen soldiers on the shore did not find these two battleships at all. Of course, they did, and there was nothing to do. The battleship would not dock, and the Jurchens had no weapons to hit the battleship.
"Boom... Long..."
The four naval guns on the first battleship fired almost at the same time, the hull shook violently, and the right side of the ship was almost close to the surface of the water.
Four blooming bullets whizzed and flew towards the Jurchen's No. 3 tent.
Because when launching, the hull will shake violently, and the accuracy of the naval gun is far inferior to that of the land gun. Only one of the four blooming shells falls within the big tent.
The naval gun also has an advantage. It is fixed on the battleship and does not have transportation problems. Therefore, the caliber is very large, and the shots fired are more powerful than land guns.
Although only one flowering bomb hit the target, both the tent and the soldiers near the landing point were lifted up in the air. When they fell heavily to the ground, everything fell apart.
The Jurchen soldiers had never seen such a powerful bomb bomb, and the soldiers were dumbfounded for a while.
The Ming army did not take the opportunity to attack, and the accuracy of the naval guns was not high. If they attacked rashly, the Ming army would inevitably suffer casualties in front of the bullets.
The second battleship also fired four blooming bombs. The Jurchen’s big tent was too big. Although it was just testing the water, there was still a blooming bomb that fell on the edge of the big tent, razing all the fences in this area to the ground.
The starboard guns of the two battleships fired two more rounds. Sixteen shots were fired. Ten of them hit the big tent. There was a mess in the big tent, and several large holes were blown into the ground.
The battleship fell over the bow and got closer. This time, the two battleships fired with port guns and three rounds of artillery fire. There were more than a dozen bombshells, which hit the No. 3 tent.
The two battleships shook their sails, said hello to Li Changshan, and then sailed into the sea unscathed and sailed away unscathed.
The remaining Jurchen soldiers in the big tent were all dizzy. They shook their ropes, picked up the white cloth from the tent and covered them on their bodies, hoping that the white cloth could block the bombs in vain.
The battleship left, and Li Changshan launched a more violent attack on the big tent. The Ming army began to get closer to the big tent from the gap in the fence. Li Changshan was ready to take advantage of the moment when the Jurchen was confused and quickly take down the No. 3 big tent.
The Jurchen soldiers were really born soldiers. As soon as the Ming army approached, they immediately woke up. All their bows and arrows were aimed at the gaps in the fence. Some soldiers still hid in the tents to shoot, real cold arrows.
The Ming army's offensive was temporarily blocked, but Li Changshan was not in a hurry. With a breakthrough, the Ming army would take the No. 3 account and clear the obstacles for Yuan Chonghuan's 100,000 army.
"Da da da… "
There was a faint sound of horseshoes from the northeast, Li Changshan frowned and looked into the distance. A group of cavalry was rushing in from a distance.
"Will it be a female cavalry?"
The cavalry was too far away to see the banner, and Li Changshan couldn't help it. He was worried that the Jurchen soldiers were coming, so he first established a defensive position in the front right, with three rows of soldiers, each row of 300.
The sound of the horse's hoof was getting closer, and the cavalry was gradually seen, and it was indeed the leather armor of the Jurchen.
It turned out that when the Ming Army’s naval guns bombarded the No. 3 tent, they also spread the message of the Ming Army’s offensive to Yaozhou. There were only two hundred Jurchen soldiers stationed in Yaozhou. They and the 100 soldiers in Gaizhou city happened to be the same. It is a complete record of cattle.
Although there are few defenders in Yaozhou, Sanchahe is the most important line of defense for the Jurchens. They can’t help but save. The Jurchen soldiers in the city handed over the important task of defending the city to the two Han soldiers in the city. They all came. Reinforce the No. 3 big account, and at the same time, they also sent a message to Dorgon stationed in Haizhou, Haizhou is only a hundred miles away from Yaozhou, and it takes almost half a day to go back and forth.
Li Changshan’s First Marine Division, with one enemy and two, shouldn’t be a big problem. These two groups of Jurchen soldiers have a small number of soldiers, especially the No. 3 tent, which has been messed up by naval guns. Close up.
But the two hundred cavalrymen who had just arrived from Yaozhou were extremely ferocious. Although they were not many in number, the speed of the cavalrymen had been increased to the maximum. They were like a mudslide rolling down from the top of a mountain, rushing towards the Ming army.
Seeing the Jurchen reinforcements, the Jurchen soldiers in the No. 3 tent, suddenly became energetic. They were scattered around every corner. The soldiers who were unable to shoot arrows seemed to have drunk duck blood. They burst into anger, and the Ming army burst into the tent, gradually Forced to go out, the No. 3 account was in equilibrium for a while.
"Bang, bang, bang..."
The Ming Army’s position was temporarily established. When soldiers were attacked on their backs and stomachs, there would be changes in their hearts. In any case, they could not form a salvo.
Although the scattered flintlocks contained the Jurchen cavalry's offensive, there were still a small number of soldiers, breaking through the 100-step death line, and quickly approaching the Ming army gunmen.
The gunmen could only focus on flintlocks, with the same goal, aiming at the Jurchen cavalry who had rushed to the center line of the eighty steps. These cavalry soon fell off their horses, but the Jurchen soldiers a hundred paces away passed the death again. line.
When the gunmen adjusted the muzzle again, the Jurchen had already fired their arrows.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
The neat arrows, faster than the wind, rushed towards the Ming army's position, and several arrows that shot particularly far had penetrated into the gunner's body.
The Ming army became more and more chaotic. Not only did the wounded soldiers quit the battle, the uninjured soldiers began to avoid the Jurchen’s bows and arrows, and the defensive position was about to collapse.
Li Changshan was furious. With only two hundred cavalry soldiers, he was about to break through the battlefield. He personally supervised the battle: "If you avoid the arrows of the Jurchen, you will kill without mercy! If you retreat again, you will kill without mercy!"
The gunmen flinched. Under the intimidation of the soldiers of the supervising team, they finally stopped retreating, but they still couldn't form a salvo. The sporadic Jurchen soldiers had already breached the 60-step cordon.
Li Changshan's sweat was dripping from his cheeks. He kept calling, but the soldiers became more flustered. Not only did the reloading speed be slow, but the hit rate was also greatly reduced.
Fortunately, there are only two hundred Jurchen soldiers.
"Bang, bang..."
All the Jurchen soldiers fell, and the flintlocks were still firing.
Li Changshan's face was so gloomy that it was under a layer of frost. Up to now, the No. 3 tent has not been taken down, and nearly 200 Jurchen cavalry broke the ground!
"It's you, hurry up, give these Jurchen soldiers a fatal blow!"
"Da da da da da da..."
The dense sound of horseshoes, like the Jurchen drums, hit the heart of every gunner heavily.
"Could it be that the main force of the Jurchen cavalry is coming?" Li Changshan looked towards the source of the horseshoe sound. To the east, along the direction of the sun, there were countless black shadows, connected to one side, as if suddenly emerging from the horizon.
"Master..." Hou Wenxing followed Li Changshan, and he had been staring at the dark shadow line to the east.
"Wenxing, we have no choice but to escape. We are infantry. In front of the cavalry, we only have to be slaughtered." Li Changshan scanned his soldiers, and a cloud of haze quickly rose in his heart.
"Master, give an order!" Hou Wenxing knew that the First Brigade had not participated in today's battle because of its incomplete organization. Now, it is time for the First Brigade to attack.
"Wenxing, are you sure?"
"Master, how long does it take to hold on?"
Li Changshan looked behind him. The 2nd and 3rd Divisions of the Marines didn’t even have any shadows. It seems that we can’t count on them today. do not know."
"Yes, Master." Hou Wenxing hesitated for a while, "The First Marine Brigade will never disappoint the Master."
"Okay," Li Changshan stretched out his thumb, "Wenxing, you go to arm the defense first, I will put more effort first, first tidy up the No. 3 big tent, so as not to get the enemy.
"Yes, Master." Hou Wenxing saluted Li Changshan and turned to the group of soldiers. "Brothers, the Jurchen soldiers are here, are you afraid?"
The soldiers were silent, only a few soldiers shook their necks slightly.
"Brothers, to be honest, I'm also afraid," Hou Wenxing couldn't bear to look at their gazes, "but, what can be done if we are afraid? If we run away, can a two-legged man run over a four-legged horse?"
The faces of the soldiers are even more desperate. These soldiers who have never fought against the wind can't wait to grow two wings immediately, like a goshawk, flying into the sky, or like a mouse, it is good to find a cave.
"Brothers," Hou Wenxing's voice suddenly increased by an octave: "Daming has gone through untold hardships since the formation of the new army, but has never lost a battle, let alone a deserted soldier. You guys, you are willing to be the first. Are you a broken soldier and the first deserter? Are you willing to let the First Marine Division never look up?"
"No, no!" The soldiers finally had a little response.
"Answer loudly, are you willing?"
"No!"
This time, the voices of the soldiers were much more tidy and louder, just like an intangible increase in confidence.
"The Jurchens are coming. Now, it’s time for us to contribute to the country. If anyone dies in battle, your wife, children, and parents will get a high amount of pension. They will have nothing to worry about for the rest of their lives. If we live From now on, we will be the heroes of Daming, and Daming’s prosperity will have our contribution. Now, are you still afraid? Are you afraid?"
"No... afraid!"
"Okay, now you have a good list of three teams. You must shoot volleys. Only volleys can stop the Jurchen cavalry." At the moment of life and death, Hou Wenxing always felt that one sentence was missing, and finally remembered: "Brothers, no matter what Whenever, I will be by your side!"