Fang Yuanxin once again looked back at the position of the Luo'an Army's transport troops, and frowned: This Luo'an transport team is strange.

His attack went so smoothly that he even lost more than fifty cavalry.

The proportion of offensive losses turned out to be 10 percent.

This is not normal!

It shouldn't be!

When Fang Yuanxin's face was heavy, Lin Ziran on the opposite side also looked gloomy!

The Guang'an cavalry launched a charge, then rushed into the car formation to fight, and then evacuated, it was only about a few minutes before and after, but in these few minutes, it was directly caused by the people and some soldiers who had no time to hide in the car formation suffered heavy casualties.

Even the soldiers of the patrol battalion in the car formation were killed and wounded

Even if there was no detailed inventory, Lin Ziran only looked at the situation outside and knew that at least more than 100 people had been killed and injured, and many carriages were lit by the other party's torches.

Even though the soldiers of their own patrol battalion had carriages as their support, they also killed and wounded more than a dozen people.

Hao Ren's side is estimated to be similar.

This loss was a bit large, more than a third of the people were killed alone, and it was very important that a large number of horses were killed or injured or ran away.

When those Guang'an cavalry rushed over, the target of the attack was not only people, but also the horses, which were also within their attack range, and many Guang'an cavalry would easily slash the horses that Luo Anjun was pulling heavy horses.

In addition, more than 20 vehicles were set on fire by their torches.

The only thing that made Lin Ziran happy was that at the beginning, he relied on the range advantage of the musket to kill twenty or thirty of them on the other side's charge.

In the melee, they relied on the carriage as a cover, and at least killed more than 20 enemy cavalry on horses with obvious targets in the indiscriminate shooting.

This adds up, it is estimated that there are more than fifty cavalry on the other side left!

And most importantly, they didn't crash!

Thanks to Lin Ziran, he didn't wait for the big formation at the beginning, nor did he rashly list the hollow phalanx in the open space, but relied on more than thirty carriages as a defense on the spot, and then resisted.

Avoided direct impact from enemy cavalry.

Otherwise, it would have collapsed a long time ago.

It's good that there are no crashes.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Guang'an rebels was hundreds of meters away, Hao Ren's side moved again, only to see that he sent some people to extinguish the fire on the ignited carriage, and at the same time organized people to urgently move the carriage, trying to get closer to Lin Ziran's side.

Seeing this, Lin Ziran also ordered: "Let's all move, put out the fire, and then connect the carriage in front of you with the baggage team!" ”

The defensive power of two small formations is not as good as a complete large formation.

What Lin Ziran and Hao Ren did at this moment was to seize the time to deploy defenses after the enemy launched the first attack and the second attack had not yet begun.

In the next few minutes, the Guang'an cavalry did not launch a second attack immediately after, but dismounted directly from the back of a gentle slope a few hundred meters away to rest.

Fang Yuanxin was unwilling to leave directly, although the battle just now had some results, it was too different from what he expected.

But he didn't dare to attack rashly for a while, because the loss in the raid just now was a bit big, he originally thought that the loss of a dozen or twenty people would be the sky, but he didn't expect that it would be a loss of more than fifty people, more than doubling directly.

After thinking about these inexplicable losses, he found that they were all lost on the way to the charge, and the losses in the melee were still estimated.

As an experienced old cavalryman, he quickly guessed it.

The other party's guns are quirky!

But he didn't know what was weird, so he didn't dare to launch a second attack in a hurry.

Anyway, the convoy was on the side, and he couldn't run, and he still had time before the other party's reinforcements arrived.

Fang Yuanxin didn't rush to attack, so he gave Lin Ziran their extremely valuable buffer time, they merged the two car formations together, and then gathered the stragglers and people outside.

And put the car array more tightly.

As for the chariots that were set on fire, half of them could not be saved, and some of them were extinguished by extinguishing the fire and saving the supplies on them.

The wounded soldiers who were wounded in the battle were also collected one by one.

Hao Ren is far better at these jobs than Lin Ziran, and the arrangements are well organized.

For this reason, Lin Ziran did not interfere in these affairs, he only took a few major officers such as Luo Mazi and Lao Zhen to constantly inspect the car formation, and began to let the soldiers use shovels to dig fortifications on the spot.

Strive to dig up a breastwork in the shortest possible time.

After all, the opposing cavalry showed no signs of leaving, and it was very likely that a second attack would be launched, and they had to defend in advance.

And the situation was indeed the same as Lin Ziran predicted, and after a while, Luo Mazi shouted: "They opened fire!" ”

Lin Ziran took a look, and saw that these cavalrymen actually pulled out a few light cavalry cannons directly, and probably knew that they had artillery to counterattack, so they even built an artillery position on a gentle slope and fired at this artillery position.

The world's smoothbore guns have come a long way after hundreds of years of development.

If it is a smoothbore gun produced by a large arsenal with excellent technology, the firing range and power are quite good, and the five-kilogram field gun manufactured by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau equipped by Lin Ziran's subordinate artillery platoon can fire solid shells with an effective range of about 800 meters to 1,000 meters.

If it is a nine-pound field gun manufactured by the larger Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, the effective firing range when firing solid shells can reach between 900 meters and 1,200 meters.

This figure far exceeds the range of muskets, not even rifled rifles.

The artillery used by the Guang'an cavalry on the opposite side should be a five-pound cavalry gun, this kind of cavalry cannon is relatively light, that is, the power is a little smaller, but the range is not bad.

They shelled it directly from a kilometer away.

Lin Ziran immediately said: "Artillery platoon, counterattack!" ”

Then he shouted: "Quick, if you don't want to die, hurry up and dig fortifications!" ”

As soon as these words came out, it happened that a solid cannonball fired by a Guang'an person smashed directly on a carriage beside Luo Mazi, directly smashing the carriage to pieces.

Luo Mazi, who was scared, hurriedly waved a shovel and dug it up!

While digging his mouth, he muttered: "I, Luo Mazi, have traveled south and north, crisscrossing the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, but I can't die, I can't die!" ”

Lin Ziran also saw Luo Mazi's movements, and even heard his muttering, but he didn't mock him, but still felt that his reaction was much better now than before.

In the past, he only knew how to escape!

Now, I know how to dig a hole and hide myself!

That's a huge step forward.

Not to mention Luo Mazi, Lin Ziran himself jumped directly into a newly dug trench to avoid shelling.

I'm afraid that the opponent's artillery didn't aim at themselves, but the shells themselves are not long-sighted.

The accuracy of the smoothbore gun is so scummy, maybe the artillery aimed at Luo Mazi, and it was he Lin Ziran who hit in the end.

Therefore, being in the trench is the king!

It's not just him, as soon as Hao Ren saw that the cannon was fired on the other side, his eyes swept away, and he found this small section of trench where Lin Ziran was hiding.

Suddenly trotted over: "Brother Lin, squeeze it!" ”

Without waiting for Lin Ziran to respond, he just climbed down directly, and after coming down, he grinned at Lin Ziran: "Thank you!" ”