This one was considered by Gao Changgong to be an evenly matched decisive battle between him and Xiao Yao, and from the time Xiao Yao fired a grenade with a bronze cannon and shelled the artillery positions of the Qi army, it was already a doomed one-sided massacre!

Therefore, the battle lasted less than an hour, and the more than 20,000 Qi troops brought by Gao Changgong to Xiao County had already been completely defeated! In addition to those cavalry and officers who could ride horses, there were also a small number of fast infantry, who could successfully escape from the range of the Xiao County battlefield by taking advantage of the fact that the cavalry of the forward brigade could not pursue them, and the remaining more than 10,000 Qi soldiers were being ruthlessly slaughtered by the soldiers of the forward brigade!

Because of Xiao Yao's order not to leave prisoners of war, He Fu was commanding his musket battalion soldiers to shoot like shooting training against the Qi infantry who were responsible for blocking the pursuit of the cavalry and deliberately sent them to death there! The Qi infantry kept falling, and their defensive formations were shrinking, but none of them retreated, still standing there and holding their camp, which shows how faithfully they carried out Gao Changgong's orders! And they are all looking forward to the opposing unit that uses muskets to shoot at a long distance, like the previous troops with cold weapons, to charge at them, and then they can engage in hand-to-hand combat with them!

But the members of the musket team were like executioners, cold-blooded and ruthless to shoot at this group of motionless targets, because they were also absolutely loyal to the orders of their commander!

And Huang Yuanwen was also leading his cavalry battalion to frantically slaughter the group of Qi artillery who didn't have time to escape! The soldiers of the cavalry battalion rode war horses, killed people in the crowd, cut down people when they saw them, and after many soldiers were cut to the ground, they were trampled into flesh by the horses' hooves, and the blood and snow were mixed together, and the scene was extremely bloody!

When Gao Changgong took his guards to collect the cavalry that was routed by the Gatling machine gun and were scurrying around, Wei Xiangyuan also took his guards and a group of Qi artillery who broke out of the encirclement of Huang Wenyuan's cavalry camp in time, plus some remnants of cavalry collected from the way, a total of more than 500 people, caught up with Gao Changgong's large army.

Seeing that Wei Xiangyuan only chased after him with such a few people, and he didn't bring a single artillery, Gao Changgong knew that his artillery unit had been completely annihilated by Xiao Yao!

"Lord Wang, my subordinates are incompetent and can't bring out the artillery troops and those firearms! The purpose of Xiao Yao's battle is our artillery unit, so they don't have any entanglement with our infantry, nor do they chase the scattered cavalry, and even those of us who rushed out of their encirclement, they don't chase and kill, they keep surrounding the artillery unit, and then slowly rush to kill, so that we can't bring the artillery out at all! Wei Xiangyuan said with a look of shame.

"What about Zhang Dabao? He didn't rush out either? Gao Changgong glanced at the remnants of the army brought back by Wei Xiangyuan, and did not find Zhang Dabao's figure.

"At that time, we were already surrounded by Xiao Yao's cavalry battalion, and we were all ready to use ceramic bombs to die with them, but they used muskets and small bombs to deal with us from a long distance, and they didn't fight us in close combat at all, so we could only use all the ceramic bombs to blow up a way out, and then we struggled to break out of the encirclement! But the scene was so chaotic at that time, we couldn't care about Zhang Dabao's waste at all! Moreover, Xiao Yao in this battle, as soon as he started fighting, he directly attacked the artillery troops, in addition to destroying our artillery, there was another purpose to capture Zhang Dabao alive! After all, he is a traitor to Xiao Yao's forward brigade, and Xiao Yao must hate him to the core, so Zhang Dabao probably can't escape! Wei Xiangyuan said expressionlessly, because in his heart, even if Zhang Dabao was killed, it was not worth any regret from him at all!

"Xiao Yao is really a treacherous person who has revenge! But now that our artillery unit is gone, Zhang Dabao, as the commander of this army, should also live and die with his subordinates! Gao Changgong doesn't have any pity, after all, Zhang Dabao is just a chess piece in his eyes, and all his knowledge about firearms, Gao Changgong has already learned, Zhang Dabao is no longer so important whether he is dead or alive, maybe even if Zhang Dabao comes back alive, Gao Changgong will let him carry the black cauldron of this defeat, pursue his crime of dereliction of duty, and deal with him by military law!

Then Gao Changgong looked at the Xiao County position behind him, and could vaguely hear the sound of slashing and wailing from there, and said with a sad and indignant face: "This Xiao Yao is really hateful!" His purpose today is not only to defeat us, but also to slaughter our soldiers! There's nothing we can do about it! ”

"Lord Wang, we still have nearly three thousand cavalry in our hands now, or we will specifically avoid Xiao Yao's artillery battalion, and then lead the cavalry to fight to the death with their cavalry! With our Qi Kingdom's mighty cavalry, we believe that we will definitely be able to defeat this cavalry battalion of theirs! Wei Xiangyuan said fiercely, he has always had a vicious anger in his chest that he can't swallow, because today they didn't even fight directly with the opponent, they have been completely defeated, so that these cold weapon soldiers who are used to fighting hand-to-hand with the enemy and relying on martial arts and courage to defeat the enemy feel very aggrieved, and they have no skills but no use!

"Their morale is high, and even if we kill them a thousand, we will lose eight hundred! And even if we win their cavalry battalion, what can we do, in today's battle, we still lost! So now we should maintain our strength, and then we can have the opportunity to fight back, if we are happy for a while, and fight all these family foundations, what is the point, when the time comes, we can only watch Chen Guo's army encroach on our Daqi territory one by one, but we don't have enough troops to resist, it is better to directly hand over Huaibei to Chen Guo now! Gao Changgong scolded loudly.

"I know you're all feeling very aggrieved, but we can't be blinded by anger and continue to make those senseless sacrifices! Today we have lost a lot of soldiers, we can't let them die here in vain, our current retreat is not because we are greedy for life and afraid of death, but because we want to defeat Xiao Yao and avenge these lost soldiers! Withdraw, let's rush to Xiapi County as soon as possible, and then concentrate all our forces and find a way to deal with Xiao Yao together! Gao Changgong raised his arms and said, mobilizing and cheering for this army that had been beaten by Xiao Yao and had no fighting spirit!

"Yes! We have to live to avenge these dead brothers! Evacuate, we will rush to Xiapi County as soon as possible! Wei Xiangyuan was also a little sobered up by Gao Changgong's angry scolding, and immediately responded to Gao Changgong's words.

"Live and avenge your brothers!" With the encouragement of the god of war in their hearts, these remnants of the defeated generals also recovered a little fighting spirit, and shouted in unison, and then followed Gao Changgong to gallop away in the direction of Xia Pi County.