The battle that broke out at the No. 2 ferry port lasted about six hours from the beginning of the Ming army's crossing of the river in the middle of last night to more than eight o'clock in the morning.

But these six hours, strictly speaking, most of the time the two sides were in the stage of preparation, the Ming army had to cross the river, and after crossing the river, they had to rest.

On the side of the Datang New Army, it was necessary to transfer troops and dispatch generals, adjust the strength according to the situation of the entire Second Lanjiang Campaign, and finally took the No. 2 ferry as the main battlefield, and sent an elite main force of more than 800 people to meet the more than 2,000 Ming troops who crossed the river from the No. 2 ferry.

However, although the time for the two sides to deploy troops and prepare for this is a long time, the time required for the two sides to really fight is not very long.

This frontal charge decisive battle of the main forces of the two sides began to approach each other and organize formations from more than seven o'clock in the morning, and finally slowly approached a distance of about 300 meters, and this process took about an hour, which is not a short time.

However, if it is said that from the time the Ming army's forward phalanx launched the charge, until the collapse of the Ming army, this time is only a quarter of an hour.

Yes, a battle, even if it is a large-scale battle involving thousands of people, once it enters the stage of hand-to-hand combat, it will not take long to determine the victory or defeat.

It takes time to prepare for the war!

Yet even in the space of a quarter of an hour, both sides left hundreds of corpses and wounded in the wilderness.

When the Ming army collapsed, Hao Bonian personally commanded the troops to launch a half-hour pursuit, and some Ming generals tried several times to regroup the collapsed Ming soldiers to block the pursuit of the new Tang army, but they were all re-defeated by the new Tang army that followed and killed.

In the end, you can only go all the way to the south and keep fleeing!

After half an hour of pursuit, Hao Bonian finally ordered the troops to be withdrawn!

If he continued to pursue, most of the Ming troops who had already broken and fled would also be finished, and in the end they would either be killed, wounded, and captured or turned into unorganized stragglers.

However, Hao Bonian has another important task, that is, to lead the army back to the Lanjiang ferry for reinforcements!

The Lanjiang Ferry is seriously understaffed, and the elite main forces in the Datang New Army have been brought out by themselves, although there are still two or three thousand troops left on His Majesty's side, their combat effectiveness cannot be compared with the First Infantry Battalion and the First Mixed Battalion.

Hao Bonian, who was worried that there would be an accident on the side of the Lanjiang Ferry, led the army to pursue for half an hour, and did not even clean up the battlefield, and directly led the main force to return to the Lanjiang Ferry.

Only more than 50 intact soldiers and more than 100 wounded soldiers were left on the side of the No. 2 ferry crossing, guarding more than 300 prisoners and simply cleaning the battlefield.

True, they also took more than six hundred prisoners.

Although there are no detailed statistics of this battle, the approximate casualty data of the enemy and the enemy have been sorted out at the first time.

In this battle, the new army of the Tang Dynasty completely defeated more than 2,500 people of the Ming army who crossed the river from the No. 2 ferry, killed about 400 people, and captured more than 600. It is worth noting that the number of kills includes serious injuries, because the seriously wounded basically can't survive, and there is no difference between them and killing, and at the same time, the prisoners also include a large number of wounded of the Ming army, because many of the wounded cannot be withdrawn from the battlefield in the first time, and if the injuries are not very serious, they will become prisoners of war of the Datang New Army.

The remaining more than 1,000 Ming troops naturally fled, but at most four or five hundred people fled in an organized manner, and the remaining four or five hundred people ran away in the process of being pursued, and it was quite difficult for the Ming army to retract them.

As for the captured weapons, there are naturally a lot of them, needless to say all kinds of cold weapons, there are a lot of those bowl-mouth cannons, all of them have been captured, but these bowl-mouth cannons have a short range and small power, and when they fought before, the gunners of the Ming army were originally half-way monks, and they collapsed without a few shots at all by the grenadiers' grenades and muskets, and the artillery was killed and wounded, and those bowl-mouth cannons naturally went unnoticed, and they became the trophies of the Datang New Army after the war

It's just that these bowl-mouth guns are a little disdainful of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, not to mention that they can't look down on them, the border army of the Ming army and the army in the coastal areas have looked down on these old antiques, and today's Ming army can be called the main force of the border army and some coastal armies, the main artillery has been redressed into a Franc machine gun, and the bowl-mouth cannon has been reduced to auxiliary combat power.

There were many kills and prisoners, and there were a lot of loot, but the casualties of the Datang New Army themselves were not small.

There were more than 80 soldiers killed in battle, including many officers.

A considerable part of these casualties occurred among the musketeers, because the battle had just broken out, and the two sides were not in hand-to-hand combat, and the bows and arrows of the Ming army's forward phalanx were mainly projectile at the musketeers, and the musketeers had no armor to defend, so the casualties were not small.

Even the officers of the 1st Musket Team under the 4th Infantry Battalion were killed on the spot, thus becoming the highest-ranking officer killed since the start of the Datang New Army.

In addition, the casualties of the grenadiers were not small, with more than 10 dead and wounded, which was more than 30 percent for a half grenadier unit with only more than 50 people participating in the battle, which was a very large number, but they did not collapse, and after throwing grenades, they also participated in hand-to-hand combat with other troops.

As soon as the battle was over, it was time to reinforce the Lanjiang ferry with the main force.

The performance of the grenadiers in this battle made Hao Bonian pay more attention to the grenadiers.

This value is not only the power of their grenades, but also their courage to go forward!

There were so many troops in the Datang New Army, but there was no unit that could continue to attack after suffering a casualty rate of more than 30 percent.

More than 80 people were killed, and more than 100 wounded, some of these wounded were seriously wounded, these people had no choice, if they wanted to survive, they could only see if God gave them face, as for those who were lightly wounded, as long as they took good care of them and did not let the wounds be infected, then the chances of surviving were still relatively large, after all, most of their wounds were caused by cold weapons, and they would not be so troublesome with gunshot wounds.

When these lightly wounded people return to the army after recovering from their injuries, they are elite veterans again!

The total loss of more than 200 people was also a big blow to Hao Bonian's temporary army, but the victory in the battle boosted their morale, so they were able to maintain a relatively high morale and return to the Lanjiang ferry for reinforcements.

When Hao Bonian returned to the Lanjiang Ferry with a force of less than 600 people, a brutal battle broke out on the Lanjiang Ferry.

As expected, the Ming army at the Lanjiang Ferry was not idle, but began to cross the river early in the morning, which also announced the official start of the battle on the Lanjiang Ferry.

In the morning, when the Ming army began to assemble on the beach on the other side of the river, Xie Ziwei's artillery team began to get busy, and continued to fire artillery on the other side of the river, killing and injuring the enemy's vital forces while blocking the enemy's crossing of the river, so as to buy more time for his side.

However, relying on six artillery pieces alone naturally could not stop the determination of the Ming army of up to six or seven thousand men to cross the river, and after they were ready, they soon climbed on various means of crossing the river and began to cross the river.

However, although they had already boarded the boat and even almost arrived at the shore, the first wave of Ming troops who landed was not much, only more than 2,000 people, and the remaining 4,000 people, including Song Zhiwen himself, were still floating on the river.

After more than 2,000 people went ashore, it was natural that there was a fierce battle with the Datang New Army defending the beachhead, and the result was not the slightest accident, under the blow of the Datang New Army's fierce muskets, artillery, and grenades, the landing of more than 2,000 Ming troops soon collapsed, leaving countless corpses on the river beach and then trying to return to the boats on the river.

But Song Zhiwen gave an order at this time, driving these Ming troops not to retreat and continue to attack!

In this way, the fate of the first wave of Ming troops who crossed the river will definitely not be too good, but why did the Ming army do this?

Song Zhiwen said to his subordinates: "The puppet Tang thief army relies on only the sharpness of firearms, and the ammunition of firearms is limited, let these young people go up to rush a wave, and the ammunition of these puppet Tang thief army will be almost consumed!" ”

Hearing Song Zhiwen's understatement, the civil and military officials beside him all broke out in a cold sweat behind their backs, this person is so vicious.

In order to consume the ammunition of the puppet Tang thief army, he directly sent more than 2,000 people out, even if more than 2,000 people are some young and strong, they don't have any combat effectiveness at all, but they are more than 2,000 lives.

The generals who led the army are very heartfelt, and they don't regard the lives of soldiers as their lives for the sake of victory, but these civilian officials are even more vicious than the generals.

However, Song Zhiwen's tactics are indeed effective, although the two thousand young men are not very good at their own combat effectiveness, but Song Zhiwen did not treat them badly, there are many giant shields and even shield vehicles, and even some of the ships moored on the shore are equipped with bowl cannons and more archers are still giving them a lot of support.

Therefore, although it was still impossible to break through the position, it also caused a lot of trouble to the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and the musketeers shot out a lot of ammunition, and even half of the grenadiers threw out a round of grenades.

Otherwise, there is a real possibility that they will rush up.

It's just that the consumption of ammunition is nothing, the key is that the casualties are not small, there are a lot of archers with bows and arrows, they continue to shoot arrows towards the defensive positions of the Datang New Army, and they use projectiles, which leads to a lot of soldiers on the side of the Datang New Army who are injured by the rain of arrows.

In addition, the more than 20 bowl-mouth cannons of the Ming army were also a great threat, causing a lot of casualties to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Now, Li Xuan was frowning and thinking about how to deal with the Ming army's bowl cannon and a large number of archers!

If you let the Ming army's bowl cannons and archers fight down, your own casualties will be too great!

When the time comes, Lanjiang is in danger!

Datang is in danger!