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Chapter 1252 Advancement

The biggest advantage of the falconet cannon is its fast firing rate. It's not just fast, but extremely fast. Even firing four shots rapidly will not take more than a stick of incense.

At the moment when the last shot was fired, Tang Xiancheng, deputy commander of the Tengshe Camp, shouted loudly: "Pass the order, raise the shield, advance 300 steps, and establish a defense line."

Captain Gao Chengshan immediately ordered the infantry on the right to raise their shields and move forward. They marched forward quickly in neat steps.

At the same time, Captain Li Youcai also ordered all the charioteers to immediately fire their artillery and continue to advance behind the infantry. They had to establish an artillery position 270 steps ahead.

Although four artillery shells had been fired just now, they could only cover about half of the artillery positions of the Chuang Army. However, with the power of nearly three thousand artillery shells fired at the same time, the Chuang Army soldiers were scared away, clearing the obstacles for their own artillery positions to move forward.

While most of the rebel army was retreating, Tang Xiancheng's troops quickly advanced another 300 steps without encountering any obstacles.

Following Tang Xiancheng's loud shout, the infantry on the right formed a shield formation again, and muskets were placed on the shield formation at the same time, quickly establishing a new line of defense.

Li Youcai's charioteers also repeated the previous operation, using shovels to quickly build new gun positions, and moved forward another three hundred steps. This time, the Portuguese cannons could cover all the artillery positions of the Chuang army.

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Because the troops deployed in the front were retreating, the scene was too chaotic, and Yan Mingda had not yet found Zhang Nai who had retreated.

Meanwhile, Lu Zhen and Fang Zhengxian had just finished organizing their troops and were leading their soldiers to replace Xiao Yunshan and establish a new line of defense to prevent their camp from being breached by the Yongyi Army at a critical moment.

Because the Yongyi Army had always been a coward in the critical moment and had never made any offensive moves, it was completely suppressed by Zhang Nai's Firearm Battalion. It even gave up three lines of defense in succession and retreated directly to the last line of defense of the camp wall.

This gave the soldiers of the Chuang Army an illusion. They all thought that the so-called Yongyi Army was nothing more than this. Even if they were slightly stronger than Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong, they were only able to hold their ground by relying on a strong camp.

Therefore, their preparations were a little relaxed. Except for Xiao Yunshan's troops who went into battle, the rest were not in a state of combat readiness. It would take some time to hastily assemble them at this moment.

Tong Shoushan naturally saw all of this, but he turned a blind eye to it. He was caught between Li Zicheng, the King of Rebellion, and Zhang Cheng, the Earl of Yongning, and was in a very difficult situation.

Therefore, when the attack is going smoothly, they will naturally relax a little. How could he bring up such a small matter as the people below become a little lax when they see that the battle is going well?

Once the attack fails, Tong Shoushan can no longer be lax and perfunctory. Naturally, he must be more proactive, strengthen the defense and not allow any mistakes, and make all preparations for a counterattack.

This is the case with him now. At least for now, all his arrangements seem to be positive and prudent, and there is nothing wrong with them.

But the reaction of the Yongyi Army on the opposite side was indeed too quick, even to the point of being unexpected. Not only did Tong Shoushan and the leaders of the Shanzi Camp not expect it, even the commander of the Firearm Camp, the confidant of Prince Chuang, and the young general Zhang Nai did not expect it.

Not long after the first round of artillery fire from the opposite side, the equally fierce second round of artillery fire began.

Although the number of cannonballs fired was half of the previous time, to the eyes and ears of the leaders and soldiers of the Shanzi Camp, it was exactly the same as the previous time. Two hundred steps in front of the Shanzi Camp, nearly 1,500 iron cannonballs fell like huge hailstones, bouncing on the ground.

Several cannonballs even landed outside the camp gate, and two cannonballs landed inside the camp. In addition, countless cannonballs bounced all the way and hit the camp wall with dull sounds.

Both leaders Lu Zhen and Fang Zhengxian were secretly thankful that they didn't have time to pull up the troops in their camp, otherwise they would have been blown to pieces by the artillery fire!

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Compared to the explosive situation on the Western Front, the battlefield north of the Great Juncture seemed much calmer.

The battle between cavalry and infantry is naturally not as powerful as the simultaneous firing of thousands of cannons, but the brutality of the battlefield is even more intense than that of the Western Front. This is the real battle on the battlefield and the characteristic of the era of cold weapon confrontation.

Today it was Bai Minghe's turn to attack Daguandai again. Seeing that there was only a trench left in front of the government army's camp, Bai Minghe became a little anxious and sent all his troops forward today.

This is really true. The Chuang army really rarely has the drawbacks that the Ming army has, such as withholding wages and food, draining the soldiers' blood, escaping and betraying teammates, preserving strength without fighting, etc. These are almost never seen in the Chuang army.

The saying that King Chuang was very strict in disciplining his army is also well verified here. It is also one of the reasons why the imperial court could never eradicate him despite repeated suppressions. It is also a manifestation of the vigor and vitality of an emerging military force!

Of course, in today's world, it is not only the King of Rebellion's army that is like this. The Eight Banners Cavalry of the Jianzhou Jurchen Tatars is also a powerful army of the time. They are also in a vigorous and rising period and are a powerful force that cannot be ignored.

  It was these two powerful armies of the time that ruthlessly strangled the declining behemoth - the Ming Empire!

However, in the gap between the Chuang Army, the Jianzhou Tartars and the Ming Empire, an armed force is gradually rising, and has become a powerful force that all parties dare not underestimate.

He is the Yongyi Army under the command of Earl Yongning!

As for the rest, such as the Liaodong Iron Cavalry, Zuo Liangyu, He Renlong, and even Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and the Ge Zuo Wuying, although they were also a force that could not be ignored, they were all on the decline and not the vibrant new forces.

Precisely because King Chuang's army was a rising new force, even when it came to Bai Minghe's turn to attack, Xie Junyou was unwilling to sit idly by. He also gathered his men behind to watch the enemy and plunder the enemy for Bai Minghe.

Bai Minghe still used the old routine, driving the servants and hungry people to fill the trenches in front, while his soldiers pushed shield carts and followed closely behind, slowly approaching the last line of trench defense.

After all, they had more people and more power, and soon advanced to the last trench. After several fierce battles, the defending government troops retreated again, losing the last line of defense of the trench and the low wall one after another.

Bai Minghe happily commanded his soldiers to continue to intensify the offensive against the North Camp, striving to break through the government army camp at a critical juncture in one fell swoop, so as to commend everyone in front of General Liu.

At this moment, seeing the government troops in front retreating in panic, Bai Minghe's heart was filled with joy!