Wu Xiang eventually lost the race.

There's no way he's going to win.

A group of heavy cavalry in full armor and carrying various weapons could not outrun the light cavalry, and when he arrived at Guzhen with his men, a cavalry brigade of the Jingnan Army was already in this small city that was actually a patrol department, while another cavalry brigade continued to harass the perimeter.

Three thousand flintlock pikemen.

Although it is a patrol city that is not even as good as the county seat.

But it was not something that a group of cavalry without artillery, and even muskets with short guns, could break through......

Guzhen Bridge.

"Wu Xiang!"

Yang Xin rode his giant elephant and sighed.

The seven-hole stone bridge across the Hun River under his feet led directly to the small city on the opposite bank, and at this moment, the gunsmoke of Guzhen was filled with gunfire, and the dragoons who relied on the city wall to defend were constantly shooting outward. On the three sides of the city wall, there were those half-armored Liaodong iron horsemen climbing the ladder that was hastily dismantled and tied up, climbing up against the bullets above their heads, but then they were beaten and fell to the bottom of the city.

However, these cavalry were very brave, and even then they were still attacking desperately.

Even already climbed the city walls.

It can be seen that Lao Wu is still worthy of recognition in governing the army, and this former historical warlord leader in western Liaoxi still has some real talent at least in letting the soldiers die for him, but this is useless, because these soldiers who rushed to the city wall were immediately stabbed to the ground with bayonets.

These dragoons even had to reinforce the line infantry when necessary, and their flintlock muskets, though slightly shorter, could still be used to stab them.

Basically, they can do what the infantry can do.

It's just horseback riding.

"Let Wu Xiang come to see me!"

Yang Xin said.

An officer beside him immediately hurried forward.

At this time, the Liaodong army besieging the city in the distance also saw Yang Xin.

Although the distance is a little far, the image of him riding a giant elephant in gold armor is still very eye-catching on a bridge, and the soldiers who attacked immediately retreated like a tide, and the officer quickly crossed the river and went directly into Guzhen, and then went out of the city to the Liaodong army, which had begun to form a formation and prepare for defense, and soon returned with Wu Xiang, who was three-quarters of a first-class, and went directly to the bridge.

Wu Xiang hurriedly dismounted and saluted.

"You're very sensible!"

Yang Xin looked at him on the back of the elephant and said.

"Back to the Duke of Yingguo, the last general is just acting on orders, if you want to say that according to the end of the general, how dare you be the enemy of the Duke of Yingguo!"

Wu Xiang said with a smile.

"Then go back and tell Lu Xiangsheng, we don't have to continue to attack each other like this, I will give him half a month to prepare, and a decisive battle in half a month, his whole army will go south, and my whole army will go north, and the battle will be won or lost."

Yang Xin said.

"What about Xuyi?"

Wu Xiang asked cautiously.

It is no problem for their whole army to go south, but if Xuyi is not opened, it will be difficult to transport it from Xuzhou by land.

At this time, Li Zicheng urged the horse forward from behind......

"My lord, Xuyi's Second Army reported that Yu Xuyi defeated the First Army of Sun Yuanhua's New Army, beheaded 8,000 prisoners, and Sun Yuanhua and Mao Yuanyi were only spared."

He said.

"Huh?"

Wu Xiang looked at him in amazement.

"Since you lost the fight, what qualifications do you have to negotiate conditions?"

Yang Xin said unceremoniously.

Wu Xiang was sad for a moment, indeed, if he loses, he is not qualified to talk about conditions, if Sun Yuanhua is still attacking Xuyi at this time, even if he does not fight, he just has an advantage, he can force Yang Xin to agree to let go of the Bianhe water transport channel in Sizhou. But now that Sun Yuanhua has been defeated, what qualifications do you have, 8,000 people were captured, and the army that Sun Yuanhua landed in total was only 10,000 people! This is not only a fiasco, but simply the annihilation of the whole army.

He could only honestly choose to retire.

"How did Xuyi fight and kill eight thousand prisoners?"

Looking at the back of him leaving, Yang Xin also asked Li Zicheng with some doubts.

He was also surprised by this result.

After all, Xuyi's side is just an army.

"Back to the lord, the real enemy killed is only five hundred, plus the wounded are only one thousand two, the rest are all disarmed and surrendered on the battlefield, the person who reported the news said that it was fought when shooting, and after we had a round of paste, the one inside gave up the battle directly. Moreover, many of Sun Yuanhua's subordinates are from the capital, and our people are all the guards who were separated when Chengzu moved the capital, and the rest of the recruits are either those military households in Liaodong who are afraid of the lord, or the poor people in Beizhili and Shandong, all of whom have received the favor of the lord.

They didn't really want to fight the lord.

It's just to eat the food of the imperial court and take it casually on the battlefield.

And it's not just them, it is said that the four armies that Sun Yuanhua brought back from Liaodong are all thinking like this, as for the two new armies of the imperial court, they don't know. ”

Li Zicheng said.

"It's embarrassing!"

Yang Xin said with a smile.

Actually, there is nothing strange about it.

Sun Yuanhua's 40,000 Liaodong infantry developed from the original Beijing New Army, and the current generals and middle-level officers are basically the first batch of 20,000 Beijing Battalion New Army, and this new army Yang Xin also participated in the construction, and even many of his own subordinates were also separated from this new army. It is said that Sun Yingyuan, who is currently commanding a front army on the Eastern Front, is the earliest new army, and he and part of the new army plus Yangjiazhuang households form a marine corps, which is the source of the new army under Yang Xin.

So what is the determination to fight to the end?

It's all one source.

As for the recruitment of troops in Liaodong, not to mention.

As for the two new armies of the imperial court, that is, the Morris Phalanx Army, it is estimated that it is the same, because they are still recruited in the vicinity of Beizhili, and most of them are also from military households, but since they are from Beizhili, it is impossible not to have received the favor of the Yang family. Mrs. Yang is now a living Bodhisattva, although this living Bodhisattva holds the noose of food in her hand and bullies the court from time to time, but she doesn't say anything in the folk image, expecting these Beizhili people who are full of yearning to be the Yang family to fight with the Duke of Yingguo?

Joke!

They prefer to follow Yang Dudu.

In fact, for Lu Xiangsheng, what can really be completely obedient is the Mongolian cavalry plus Zu Dashou, but the premise is that Zu Dashou is really hardworking, and this is also impossible, how can people like Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang really work hard?

In a word......

"The subordinates understand, no matter what tactics they have, whether it is cavalry or infantry, whether it is a musket phalanx or a battalion, we just go to Qizhang and shoot in the face, then there is nothing that cannot be defeated."

Next to him, Li Zicheng said with emotion.

It is said that he already has the consciousness of the British.

In fact, this tactic is currently the most cost-effective.

The result of Xuyi's battle was only more than 600 casualties among the Jingnan army.

A corps of Sun Yuanhua's car battalion had 80 two-pound short-barreled guns, and before the Jingnan army reached the firing distance, it quickly fired four rounds and three rounds slowly, half of which were solid bullets totaling less than 200 pieces, and the hit rate was only one-fifth, killing and wounding more than 100 people, and the other half were shotguns, because they had to penetrate the plate armor, and the artillery was used to bombarding shield vehicles, so they were all two or two shotguns, and they could also be loaded with 16 shotguns.

In total, they fired less than three thousand shotguns.

Then it caused more than 200 casualties in the Jingnan Army, this thing is really ruthless, but the accuracy is ignored.

As for the rest, they were hit by turtledoves, and they fired more than 20 zhang in a total of 3,000 turtledoves, and finally caused 300 casualties in the Jingnan army, and this hit rate was okay, because of the experience of the European flintlock era, 500 line infantry started from 100 yards, and fired two rounds at the enemy, and it was very good that a thousand bullets fired could hit 150.

However, when the Jingnan Army reached Qizhang, the vast majority of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army did not complete the second round of reloading.

The infantry walked in unison for almost a minute, and it was more than 80 meters.

The reloading of the turtledove must have lasted more than a minute, and then a salvo of more than 3,000 arquebuses at close range caused 1,200 casualties in the Liaodong Army......

This tactic may seem tragic, but in fact the exchange ratio is the most cost-effective, which is the result of countless lives tested by the British.

Of course, the key is to be able to reach a distance of seven zhang.

In this way, Yang Xin's army was stationed in Guzhen, and then the materials downstream were transported along the Huhe River, and Sun Yuanhua, who lost an entire army in Xuyi, was unable to open the Bianhe River water transportation in Sizhou, but fortunately, he still had a spare option, and then Sun Yuanhua, who withdrew to Huai'an, went north along the Yellow River, turned into Suishui in Suqian, and continued to move forward in small boat transportation to provide supplies for Lu Xiangsheng in Fuliji.

The volume of this river is not as good as that of the Bianhe.

The main reason is that the Yellow River has burst again and again, and the downstream of Suishui has been seriously silted, but it is still barely usable at this time.

But to Yang Xin's surprise, Lu Xiangsheng rejected his proposal for a decisive battle in half a month.

"Why is he?"

Yang Xin said suspiciously.

At this time, in front of him were already the three cavalry corps led by Lu Xiangsheng, and the two infantry corps of the new army had also arrived at the battlefield, and the Mongolian cavalry on the flank and the Luo Cheng division that reinforced them had also resumed the attack on Linhuai Pass.

And he currently has only three infantry corps in Guzhen, in addition to his direct cavalry brigade and guard brigade.

As for the follow-up main three armies, they were intercepted in the rear by Luo Cheng's troops and the Mongol cavalry who were flanking, and it was obvious that Lu Xiangsheng wanted to break through each of them, blocking his three armies on the one hand, and then concentrating on the three cavalry corps and two infantry corps in Suzhou, and fighting a decisive battle against his three corps that had just arrived in Guzhen with superior forces. After all, the advantage of cavalry lies here, when the infantry is still walking slowly, they can already rely on their speed to complete the interspersed division.

But......

Lu Xiangsheng could have waited a little longer.

Because once Sun Yuanhua's remaining three armies arrived, his advantage was even more obvious.

Now he can only use more than 20,000 points of three cavalry corps plus two infantry corps for a total of 40,000 people to fight a decisive battle with Yang Xin's three armies plus a total of 40,000 troops directly under him, and then he can use eleven armies to fight a decisive battle with Yang Xin's six armies......

"He was afraid, he was afraid that the remaining three armies of Sun Yuanhua would also surrender."

Li Zicheng said.

"There's a good reason for that!"

Yang Xin nodded with satisfaction.

(Two chapters, probably three more will be restored tomorrow)

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