Accompanied by the rumbling sound of cannons, dense iron balls were shot at the Qing army. Due to the decrease in the number of artillery and the sparse formation of the Qing army, the shooting of solid artillery shells did not cause much damage.

This made the Qing soldiers become fanatical and think they have found the right way to fight! Especially those Qing cavalrymen who were responsible for attacking inland gunboats, they even waved torches, as if they were arrogant!

But they were soon taught a lesson! When they approached, when dense chain bullets and shotguns were sprayed out of the gun mouth, the Qing cavalry were knocked to the ground in pieces! But the Qing soldiers still felt that they had a chance and were still charging forward!

Since the entire landing site is at the bottom of a river berth, the Qing cavalry on both wings are the first to approach the gunboats on both sides.

Just when they felt that they were finally approaching the gunboat and could shoot rockets at a loss, the short-barrel cannons on the two turrets at the head and tail of the gunboat also joined the shooting industry!

This kind of artillery is specially used to clean the opponent's deck at close range! The short and thick gun barrel is filled with a large number of shotguns! If you shoot it out in one shot, the overwhelming shot can sieve all moving objects within two hundred steps in front of the artillery!

But even so, a small number of Qing cavalry broke through the fire net and shot rockets at the gunboat from afar! Then they were shot with muskets by the sailors on the ship! As for the rockets they shot, they were even more useless!

The rocket's power is too weak and it falls directly into the water. Although some are shot on the side of the ship, the power of a single rocket is not enough to ignite the side of the ship, and it is extinguished as it burns itself!

As for the rockets shot on the deck, they did not play any role! The well-trained sailors were already on high alert. As soon as the rocket landed, a bucket of water would be poured over immediately! The hard sail, which was most likely to be ignited by the rocket, had been put away because of the stopping of the ship, and there was no shooting target at all! Therefore, the Qing army's rocket offensive became a meaningless joke!

The Qing cavalry did not get any good results when they rushed to the landing ground! Although they did not suffer much loss under the bombardment of solid shells, they were hit by the Fran machine cannon, resulting in heavy casualties!

In order to win the landing, the number of Fran cannons brought by the soldiers was crazy! This lightweight and easy-to-move cannon was transported by the soldiers, and there were as many as hundreds!

These cannons have a gun group every other step in front of the positions of the musket soldiers! The shotguns they fired were almost airtight! Cooperating with the lead bullets fired by the musket soldiers, they almost completely blocked the front of the formation! Although soldiers occasionally fell down by arrows, the number of casualties and injuries was simply not worth mentioning compared to the number of casualties and injuries of the Qing army!

The entire battle was followed by the sound of cannons, and the remaining Qing army fled in a hurry, and it took only more than a moment. 20,000 Qing cavalry left nearly 8,000 casualties and left in a hurry!

Looking at their backs leaving, the soldiers began to cheer loudly! Even the sailors on the boat couldn't help but stand on the side of the boat and shouted loudly!

However, the soldiers' happiness did not last long. Soon, officers came to organize them to leave the beachhead and move towards depth. However, the direction of their advance was very strange. They did not go directly to the northeast to the direction of Daling River Fort. Instead, they penetrated directly to the north!

This made the Qing soldiers who were cut off the rear feel very strange, but they had no time to think about this problem at this time. Instead, they felt glad that the other party did not chase after him! But what they didn't know was that something even more terrifying was happening behind them!

On the south side of Daling River, further north of Xiaoling River, a river bay area, a relatively large military fortress, or a relatively small city was built here. His name is Daling River Fort. There are about 20,000 Qing troops stationed here.

There are two camps on the left and right wings of Daling River Fort. They are firmly surrounded by Daling River Fort, because there is a wide pontoon bridge on the river. This is the passage for Daling River Fort to transport and support, and it is also the passage for them to retreat after a large number of killing and injuring the Ming army.

In their opinion, it was easy to guard the floating bridge between Daling River Fort and two camps. But all this seemed like a joke to Liu Pei. He had already prepared a way to deal with them!

Just in the morning, when Shandong soldiers started building a floating bridge on the Xiaoling River, the Qing soldiers on the top of the city were patrolling boredly.

Logic. Suddenly, a soldier saw a fleet of ships appearing from the downstream of the river beside the river, heading towards them.

The first soldier in the fleet pulled the people around him and said, "Look, there is a fleet coming over there, and I can't count how many ships there are. But it looks quite a lot!"

His companion also looked into the distance with his hand in a pergola, and after a moment he said, "There are indeed many ships! Could it be that the ships collected from behind are coming to deliver food?"

The sharp-eyed sentry said, "Didn't we just received a batch of food yesterday? Why are there so many ships coming? Or should we report to them and ask them to send someone to check and see where the fleet came from?"

Another sentry said, "I don't want to go if I want to go! How can there be other people's fleets in our territory?"

The two of them sneered for a while, and finally one of them walked down the watchtower to report the situation. The news was valued by the above, and a team of cavalry ran along the river yan.

At this time, the fleet had already sailed very close, so the cavalry quickly approached the target. Because he did not see any flags or signs on the ship, nor did he see weapons. So he took people to the shore with confidence and boldness and shouted: "Where did your fleet come from? Who are you? Stop the ship quickly!"

A boat quickly approached the shore, and a figure appeared on the side of the boat. The man shouted loudly in Chinese: "I don't understand what you said!"

The Qing cavalry was furious when he heard this! In his opinion, it was a humiliation that a Han man could talk to him in such a frivolous tone!

But he didn't notice that the Han man in front of him did not shaved his hair. He subconsciously thought that this man was a slave in the Qing Dynasty, so he immediately cursed in Chinese: "Die slave, hurry up and tell me where did you come from?"

The man on the side of the boat smiled and said, "Show you the things you see, you will know where the uncle came from!"
Chapter completed!