Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 280 Shelling the Qing Army Camp
Seeing that the new army was approaching constantly, while Oboi was still not in a hurry, Hauge seemed to have thought of something.

"Bastard, tell Oboi quickly, don't let the new army get too close to my camp, their artillery fires from a very long distance, be careful with their artillery, don't concentrate too much..."

After the order was passed to Aobai, he also realized a problem of his negligence, and immediately gave an order to speed up the march with a growl.

Tang Ning, on the other hand, commanded the army to advance according to her own pace, but kept an eye on the distance between the Qing army and her.

When the Qing army was only about ten miles away from his own side, he immediately ordered the whole army to stop and began to build defensive positions.

Rejecting horses were placed at the front of the position, followed by various chariots, which were also the supplies of the Qing army in Shengjing City. Many weapons were not effective, and they were all seized by the new army.

This time Tangning didn't set up a few hollow squares, but directly set up a large square.

Surrounded by horses, chariots, etc., and then arranged in echelons according to the type of arms.

The reason for this is that the accompanying army is mainly white soldiers and wolf soldiers, and they are mainly cold weapons.

The real new army only had a few thousand people. Although many of them were musketeers, Tangning didn't dare to easily use a few thousand people to fight against tens of thousands of cavalry. The difference was too great.

In front of both sides of the formation, artillery positions are arranged.

In addition to more than [-] red cannons, the most conspicuous ones are the four German howitzers.

There are two 105mm and 150mm guns each. When the positions are arranged, all the gun positions are also in place, and the gunners also adjust the shooting elements according to the position of the target.

"Boom..." The two 150mm howitzers fired first, and the ground trembled. Even the soldiers who had seen it were still terrified, but their faces showed excitement.

The cannonball crossed the space distance and rushed towards the target quickly, passing over the heads of Aobai and others who were leading the team to approach the formation of the new army, and disappeared in a flash.

"What is that?" Many cavalrymen who saw this scene were shocked.

Aobai's heart trembled slightly, as if he had a bad premonition, but as a vanguard officer, he could only continue to charge forward.

In the camp of the Qing army more than 20 miles away from the formation of the new army, Hauge was like an ant on a hot nest, and his heart was very irritable.

Reason told him that he should leave the camp as soon as possible, but pride and self-esteem told him that it would be a great shame to leave the camp as soon as the camp was set up.

Until the two loud bangs before and after the bang came from a distance, his heart was icy cold, he had no more luck, no so-called self-esteem, and roared and ordered: "Withdraw, withdraw, quickly withdraw..."

The guards immediately rushed into the camp to protect Hauge, and another group of guards grabbed Hauge's mount immediately.

After rushing out of the tent, Hauge looked up and saw two dense gunpowder smoke still rising in two directions less than two miles away, and a large number of soldiers were terrified away from the location of the explosion.

The entire camp suddenly became chaotic and became noisy. The officers shouted loudly to gather their troops, and many soldiers were preparing to evacuate with supplies...

"Your Highness, retreat quickly, this is just a test shot, the enemy's next shot will come again at any time..." the soldiers shouted in front of Hauge.

Hauge ordered with a ferocious expression: "Send the order, the personnel will evacuate as soon as possible, if the supplies cannot be taken away, discard them..."

It was very difficult for Hauge to issue this order, because in order to speed up the march, he did not carry a lot of supplies and consumed a lot along the way.

Now there are only less than five days of rations left. If a large amount of supplies are lost, tens of thousands of people may go hungry next time, and the consequences will be extremely serious.

But what's the use of collecting more food if there are no more people?

If it doesn't work, I can only escape first, and then force some grain from the nearby farmers and herdsmen, and if it doesn't work, I will just loot it.

Even if it is one of your own who is robbed, it is definitely more important for soldiers to survive than ordinary people.

"Boom..." The second round of two shells arrived quickly and exploded at a distance of less than one mile.

Haoge saw the flames soaring into the sky with his own eyes, and the thick gunpowder smoke burst into the sky, filling the whole world, and the earth was trembling crazily, as if a god had descended into the world.

Before, he had only heard about the supernatural power of the new army's artillery, but now he saw it with his own eyes and felt it with his own eyes. The rumors were really not exaggerated at all. This is simply the power of Tianwei.

The once invincible Prince Su felt nothing but despair.

The new army has such magical soldiers, and they are still occupying Shengjing City to wait for work, and Wu Sangui's Guanning Iron Cavalry is watching, how can their tens of thousands of tired soldiers fight against it?
Not to mention taking the initiative to attack Shengjing City, even if it is within [-] miles of the new army camp, it is not very safe.

With such a magic soldier in hand, before he leads the army to reach the front of the new army, he is afraid that he will be blown into ashes by this magic soldier.

Hauge was pushed onto the horse by the soldiers with an almost numb expression, and then fled the camp in a hurry.

Sitting on the horseback, he looked at the camp behind from time to time. The flames had already blown away, and the soldiers were running around like headless chickens. Many people jumped on their horses in a hurry, and then rushed out of the camp desperately.

The scouts who were observing the effect of the bombardment immediately reported the news to the rear through the radio. Tangning heard all kinds of news coming, and after a quarter of an hour of the bombardment, he immediately ordered: "Stop the bombardment, order Wu Sangui's troops to attack immediately, and send people first Destroy enemy supplies..."

The order was conveyed quickly, and Wu Sangui was also waiting for the shelling to stop.

Although Hauge drew [-] troops to monitor the Guanning Army from the beginning, after the new army bombarded, this team also quickly withdrew under Hauge's order, and it was no longer possible to stay in place to contain the Guanning Army. any meaning.

If the new army turns its guns to shell them again, the consequences will be very serious.

Wu Sangui didn't care about the relatively complete enemy army, and directly led the army towards the dilapidated enemy camp, shooting and killing all the soldiers and wounded who hadn't escaped in time.

There is no time to collect materials now, so all the Guan Ning troops set fires everywhere, setting fire to all the materials and tents left behind by the Qing army's hasty evacuation.

Not long after, the camp of the Qing army, which had just been put in place for a short time, was burned under the shelling of the new army and the arson of the Guanning army, and the fire stretched for several miles.

The soldiers of the Qing army who had already escaped from the camp showed grief and indignation when they saw the flames of the camp behind them soaring into the sky.

Hauge led the remnants of the army and ran for nearly ten miles at a stretch, and then stopped. Reason told him to clean up the mess as soon as possible and stabilize the morale of the army.

Hauge, who forced himself to calm down, already understood that although the new army's artillery was very powerful, they were few in number, probably only two, but the firing speed was much faster than the red cannon.

If the new army is just two such powerful cannons, it should try to spread out the troops and set up camps in different places, instead of gathering in one big camp.

In that case, the loss wouldn't be so huge, but it's too late to say anything now, there shouldn't be a fluke in the first place, and you should have given up your self-esteem and pride long ago.

Hauge tried his best to stabilize the morale of the army, and at the same time gathered the team, and then divided them into teams of about [-] people, keeping a certain distance between each other.

He didn't withdraw any more, but quickly dispatched a large number of scouts, he wanted to know the situation of Oboi's team as soon as possible.

The reason why he didn't send someone to notify Oboi to evacuate immediately was that he still hoped that Oboi would gain something.

Otherwise, the battle he personally commanded by Prince Su would have suffered an ugly defeat.

(End of this chapter)