This Qing army, their "luck" is really good.

Because they turned out to be the first batch of "clinical" test subjects of this batch of large-caliber artillery.

At this time, if the Qing army was scattered, no, the Qing army was really scattered, their ranks were messy, stretching for more than ten miles.

But this doesn't mean that the Qing army has left the official road.

It is precisely because the Qing army is pursuing, who will go down the official road and pursue the muddy fields if their brains are broken?

Although the team is scattered, everyone is still on the official road.

The official road is too easy to calibrate the shooting elements, because its target is obvious, and it is a dead thing.

The sound of "rumbling" large-caliber artillery came from more than 10 miles away, and after the 16-pound shells burst out of the muzzle, they crossed the sky with a screaming sound.

The rapid-fire cannon of the "tom tom" fired a flowering shell, and as soon as it exploded, it was a large area.

And the sound of "bang bang" tiger squatting cannon, that is a rainstorm, although the raindrops are small, but it is dense.

It was a one-sided massacre, and the soldiers on both sides did not make contact at all at all.

The official road pavement, which was more than ten miles long and originally compacted and hard, was ploughed over again in just a column of incense, like a farmer reclaiming a field.

After the battle, the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army who were cleaning the battlefield stepped on it as if they were stepping on powder, and one foot was an inch-deep footprint.

It was a victory that cost a lot of ammunition.

If only in terms of the cost of ammunition, Jiang Quanyi has to be punished heavily.

In this battle, more than 100 heavy artillery shells, more than 300 rapid-fire shells, and more than 1,000 tiger squat artillery shells were defeated.

And how many Qing troops really killed and wounded?

All combined, there are less than 2,000 people.

When the Qing army went out of the city, it was indeed 4,000 people, but after half a day, it was more than 30% of the people who fell behind.

In addition, after the shelling, those who reacted quickly, or were lucky enough to approach both sides of the road, escaped with their lives.

In other words, an average of one shell kills and injures an enemy.

What a luxury!

But Jiang Quanyi did it, and what he wanted most was that except for non-combat injuries such as those who ran out of strength and twisted their feet, there were no casualties in his subordinates.

No casualties are a complete victory.

A complete victory is a model!

……。

The official road from Ningxiang to Xinghua is full of people running.

The escape is incomplete, the chase is hysterical, there is no way, who called these all military exploits? Who made the enemy and the enemy grow only one pair of legs?

But this scene is so familiar.

Half a day ago, it was the same scene, but in the opposite direction.

The roles of the chase are also reversed.

Jiang Quanyi is a ruthless man, he does not accept wounded soldiers and prisoners, whether it is a Manchurian or a Han who has surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, as long as he is injured, it is a knife.

In his words, keep the waste of manpower and the waste of food?

He only left no injured prisoners, because he knew very well that what King Wu lacked most was not silver, but people, labor.

In particular, this kind of unpaid labor can be said to be more and more merrier.

This point is not only clear to Jiang Quanyi, but also to the officers and men of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

Therefore, once the Qing army collapsed, the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army rushed up, spread their feet, and captured prisoners all over the ground.

Just grabbed and grabbed it, and the Northern Expeditionary Army marched down to Xinghua City again.

Jiang Quanyi grinned, fighting such a battle made him seem capable.

……。

Wu Zheng went to Taixing.

In his words, the command moved forward.

But in fact, Wu Zheng didn't think about this, but constraints.

Wu Zheng knew very well in his heart that if this kind of army separated by generations and similar troops still lost, it would really have to be killed with a piece of tofu.

If you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are!

This battle would never have happened.

The General's Mansion did not make any preparations for war, and even the production of the military workshop was still six hours a day, with two shifts.

But Wu Zheng couldn't swallow this breath.

Playing intrigue and trickery, the Han people are the ancestors of the Manchurians.

When the princes of the Central Plains were crisscrossing each other, the Manchurians were afraid that they had just evolved into adults, right?

There's no reason to be set up by Dolgon, and you don't have a reaction, right?

That's too sorry for Dorgon's "good intentions".

Since Dorgon wants to win by surprise, he might as well have a match.

With your own shortcomings, attack the other's strengths, and show the true colors of heroes!

The battle has already begun, but Wu Zheng has no bottom in his heart.

Because the Treasury of the Financial Secretary has no bottom.

Wu Zheng could only come, and the purpose of coming was not to move the headquarters forward, as he said, but to restrain his subordinates...... Don't fight and overthink!

South of the Yellow River, it doesn't matter.

But once the Yellow River was crossed, the advantage of the musketeers would be restrained by the cavalry.

On the plains, the cavalry, especially the rangers, came and went without a trace, and could crisscross at will, so that the musketeers could not even find their way.

And artillery is used in field warfare, there must be a premise, people are willing to fight you head-on, and fight positional warfare.

Otherwise, how can you come and go as calmly as others?

Of course, the musketeers can also finish off the cavalry, that is, crush the cavalry by numbers.

If there are 1,000 cavalrymen, then use 3,000, 5,000, or even 10,000 people against them, and no matter which direction the enemy cavalry comes from, they will have several times the muzzle of their guns pointed at them.

It sounds like a stupid idea, but it works really well.

The cost of training a cavalryman is far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

War horses in the north are cheap, but that is in the north, and a horse in the south of the Yangtze River will cost 30 or 50 taels of silver, and a good war horse will cost more than 100 taels.

Cavalry must also be equipped with armor, swords, guns, bows and crossbows, even if it is a light horse, it must always have leather armor.

In total, to train a cavalry in Jiangnan, the equipment will cost nearly two hundred taels.

But now the cost of a musket has been controlled at 15 or 6 taels, like the two satchels on the left and right sides of the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, each with 30 rounds of ammunition (paper shell preloaded), plus two sets of changing military uniforms, not even armor is required, at best it is only more than 20 taels of silver.

Let's talk about people, yes, the northern Manchus don't need training, they are born cavalry, but how many people are there in the Manchus?

It is also forbidden to train Han people and form the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. It is a Han people, and they need to choose talented ones, and most of them need training, and this training cannot be on the battlefield at all for a year.

But the musketeers were up to three months, and they held a gun the same, and if they were hit, they would die.

In other words, in terms of the cost of formation alone, one cavalry can withstand the cost of ten musketeers.

The cavalry battalion originally formed by Wu Zheng, once the battle was damaged too much, he didn't want to build it again, not because Wu Zheng didn't like cavalry, but because he was forced by reality, in fact, every man likes cavalry!

Wu Zheng must spend his financial resources on the blade.

That is to win quality by quantity, and the musketeers were originally a model of winning quality by quantity and refinement by fuzziness.

can be made from scratch, which also takes time, and what Wu Zheng lacks most is not silver, nor labor, but ...... Time.