Dominate the Country

ps: There will be a third update in the evening.

When the Chen family army arrived in Yancheng, Chen Ming immediately ordered the artillery battalion to set up the thunder cannon and fired several shots at the top of the city. The southern gate tower of Yancheng collapsed. There was a lot of howling in Yancheng County, but the Chen family army did not attack the county because the main force of the Qing army had also arrived.

Chen Ming, who had gathered all the musketeers in his hands, tried to press the Qing soldiers with the musket battalion as the center. Ford was not to be outdone. He was very dissatisfied with the defeat of Chenzhou Camp. He thought it would greatly affect the morale of the army. Now the Chen family army dared to provoke with only six or seven hundred firearms soldiers. If Ford had endured it, wouldn’t the morale of the team continue to fall?

The Qing army was "rich and powerful". The Yunyang Town musketeers under Ma Wenjie were the first to meet them. Once they attacked, they were twice as many as the Chen family army. Ma Wenjie and his officers from Yunyang Town had some unspeakable calculations in their hearts at this time. The result made Ma Wenjie "dismayed"!

The two sides exchanged fire for only half a quarter of an hour, and the musketeers of Yunyang Town were in chaos after the volleys of fire. They could not hold on.

The Qing army and the Chen army were all arranged in five rows, and they tried their best to maintain the continuity of the shooting speed. In half a quarter of an hour, the Chen army fired eight rounds of volleys, which was much lower than their firing speed on the training ground. But the Qing army on the opposite side performed even worse. They only fired four rounds in half a quarter of an hour, almost one round every two minutes.

If we only talk about the amount of bombs thrown, the advantage of the Qing army in manpower can make up for their disadvantage in speed. But war is not calculated in this way. The Qing army and the Chen army are not European lobster soldiers, Gallic roosters and Prussian soldiers. The total number of lead bullets fired by both sides is roughly the same, but the lethality of each other is seriously different.

Thirty or forty soldiers of the Chen family army fell, and the Qing soldiers' muskets killed them again at a distance of twenty feet. And what about the Qing soldiers themselves? In the eight rounds of continuous thunderbolt-like volleys of the Chen family army, there were probably two hundred of the 1,300 or 1,400 Qing army musket soldiers who fell.

But this battle ended here. It was getting dark, the sun was setting, and the Qing army's artillery had already set up cannons in the back. Chen Ming ordered the troops to withdraw. The first day of the meeting day of the battle between the two sides of Yancheng was over.

Lying in the tent at night, Chen Ming did not think about the gunfight at dusk, nor did he think about how to fight tomorrow. His hands were tightly covering his chest, and his mind was full of that precious "heart palpitations".

He vaguely remembered that when he fought Baoning at Fenghuangtai, he also felt a palpitation after Chen Erbao led his men to kill on the decisive day and night. But he didn't take it to heart at the time, because Chen Ming had already noticed Baoning's strategy of luring the enemy and arrogant soldiers. He just thought it was a psychological reaction under mental tension.

But this time... it was too magical, too magical.

Chen Ming stared at the tent above his head: "Is this my special ability? Is this a benefit after crossing?" In the first few days of Chen Ming's crossing, he also hoped to have a system or something, and a golden thigh. But no, nothing. Even his memory has not been enhanced. His physical strength is also natural.

I didn't expect this to be a surprise, but why did this ability not show anything when he was almost kidnapped, and when the Chen family was "robbed" again and again, but it came out now? Or is this thing only related to war? And it has certain limitations.

Chen Ming thought about it over and over again that night, but he couldn't figure it out, and couldn't figure it out. When he got up the next day, his eyes were a little dark, but he was in good spirits. Bug, this is a very useful and useful golden finger.

The leaders of the Chen family army were all very energetic, even Chen Erbao had a bright look in his eyes, and his eyes were full of revenge. The cavalry camp arrived in time, and Chen Erbao's camp did not suffer a serious blow, but after the battle yesterday, the vanguard camp also lost hundreds of people, including the dead and wounded.

Chen Ming did not blame Chen Erbao for this. The reason why the vanguard camp was divided by the Qing army cannot be entirely attributed to the Qing army's cavalry raid. That was just one of many reasons. A large part of it should be attributed to Chen Erbao. He was too arrogant and wanted to completely defeat the Chenzhou camp and the Chenzhou militia. He spread the troops at hand too much, and did not leave a reserve team that could fight and carry.

But no matter how many mistakes he made, it could not shake Chen Erbao's position. Even Chen Ming had to do his best to maintain this position.

Yancheng, which is Luohe in later generations, is where the Shahe River made a big turn, changing from an east-west direction to a north-south direction. It flowed north for dozens of miles before slowly turning northeast-southwest, flowing into Xihua in Chenzhou Prefecture, and then quickly turning northwest-southeast, winding through the entire Chenzhou.

The rear of the Qing army was stationed on the bank of the Shahe River, guarding the stone bridge that retreated to the east bank of the Shahe River. The end point of the tail was Gaoqiao Town, where the two armies in the southeast met. The Qing army on the west bank of the Shahe River spread all the way to Yancheng, and a number of decent camps had been built overnight.

"Boom, boom..."

Chen Ming certainly would not allow the Qing army to build and reinforce the camps. The three-jin and two-jin cannons carried by the army began to bombard a Qing army camp in front. The Qing army also fought back with the artillery carried by the army. Although the Qing army's artillery, except for the Weiyuan General Cannon, rarely matched or even suppressed the three-jin cannon and two-jin cannon in performance, how many Weiyuan General Cannons could Guide Town and Yunyang Town have after emptying their pockets?

The most important thing is that the camp now under the bombardment of Chen's army is only one of the dozen camps of the Qing army. The Qing army has 50 artillery pieces, which are deployed in different locations and distributed to different numbers in each camp. The Qing army camp in front of them has to deal with more than half of the artillery power of Chen's army.

Ford, Ronghua, and Ma Wenjie all know that the camp in front will not last long. They are not "shocked" because the camp was originally used as a shield. And while the Qing army was fiercely attacked by Chen's army, they also sent troops from the other side of Shahe to the rear of Chen's army.

It is very likely to attack Wuyang in one go.

Chen Ming's shortcomings in military literacy are obvious. In the deployment of Wuyang and the area south of Shahe, Chen's army is obviously not as well prepared as the Qing army. But this is also related to Chen Ming's plan. He himself has never thought of suppressing the Qing army in an all-round way. What Chen Ming has to do is just to defeat the main force of the Qing army in front of him.

The main force of the Qing army was defeated. Those Qing soldiers and militiamen who infiltrated behind Chen's army were just a minor problem and a rootless duckweed.

"Fight, keep fighting. No matter what happens behind, let's first destroy the Qing army in front of us. It's no big deal if Wuyang County is lost." Even if the Qing army divided its troops to bypass the flank of Chen's army and pretended to attack across the river, Chen Ming ignored it. All he had in his eyes was a series of offensive battles.

The cannons bombarded the Qing army's artillery positions, and the iron bullets that deviated from the target, whether far or near, were enough for the Qing soldiers in front of them. The flying thunder cannons bombarded the breast wall guards outside the Qing army camp, and the sword and spear soldiers followed suit...