Shuo Lei finally chose to retreat.

If he continued to fight, his 3,000 cavalry would have died, and more importantly, the losses of the Jingnan army were far smaller than his......

"Li Jinbu suffered two hundred casualties, and the guard brigade suffered only fifty casualties.

Except for the first wave of attempts to storm the formation, after that, the enemy troops wandered around the perimeter, trying to attack us with bows and arrows, but they did not dare to enter within twenty zhang to be bulleted, and the arrows from a distance had little power. Although the guard brigade does not wear iron armor, the military uniforms on their bodies are also lined with raw silk, and those arrows can't even shoot through this when they are far away, and even if they are shot through, they will be flesh wounds at most. ”

Yang Huan, who was called by Yang Dudu to serve as the chief of staff, reported the results of the battle.

Guard brigades include marines and even cavalry brigades, which, although they do not wear iron armor, are not without protection at all.

Military uniforms are lined with multiple layers of raw silk.

This thing is not expensive in Jiangnan, a pound of raw silk is less than a penny of silver, this is still after the decline in the production of silk in Jiangnan in recent years, when it is cheap, it is spit silk or soil silk, that is, the raw silk that has just been reeled out is only four cents of silver, and the colored silk thread manufactured after various processes has gone through various processes, and a catty is only eight dollars of silver. And there are countless high-level weavers in Nanjing, whose skills are amazing, so they use raw silk to weave to the densest, and then make a few more layers to make a military uniform lining similar to Yang Dudu's soft armor......

That's a cavalry bow.

It wasn't a divine arm bow, it was originally a soft bow at the level of five or six buckets.

"Where's the catch?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Six hundred enemy corpses."

Yang Huan said.

"No prisoners?"

Yang Xin asked.

"Nope!"

Yang Huan said with certainty.

"I love the results!"

Yang Xin said with satisfaction.

As he spoke, he raised his head and looked into the distance, the vast plains of Huaibei spread out in his sight, and he could faintly see the dust stirred up by the cavalry, it was obvious that the defeated Mongol cavalry was still wandering around, and the number should have increased by this time. These are Lu Xiangsheng's vanguards, the four Mongolian coalition troops headed by King Shunyi, originally totaled 15,000 people, but the water and soil were reduced by 2,000, and there are still 13,000, which is already considered to be Lu Xiangsheng's good care.

The main thing, of course, is that summer has just arrived.

These light cavalry had been stationed in the area of Mengcheng before, maintaining a flank threat to the war zone, and they were all one man and two horses, and their task was to attack and harass the Jingnan army to the north.

The fiasco of the Shuo base did not allow them to retreat.

They will continue to attack.

And Lu Xiangsheng personally led the main force of the four cavalry armies to the south from Xuzhou, and it is estimated that he should have arrived in Suzhou at this time, which is the real decisive force.

Of course, they can't go south from Suzhou at the moment.

Because they had to wait for the infantry, or wait for their artillery, and Sun Yuanhua, who was transporting their artillery, was blocked in Xuyi, so Lu Xiangsheng would not go south from Suzhou for a short time, and it was impossible for him to rely on those cavalry without cannons to fight a decisive battle with the Jingnan army.

This is no longer the time when cavalry decided the battlefield.

You can't fight without artillery.

In this way, before the Jingnan army arrived in Guzhen, it was basically the attack of these Mongolian cavalry, but Lu Xiangsheng was likely to block it in Guzhen.

The Jingnan army must seize Guzhen.

This town will be the main battleground next.

And the other main battlefield is Xuyi......

Xuyi.

A big war is about to begin.

Sun Yuanhua landed in the area of Sishan Lake, but if he wanted to attack Xiangshan Fort, he had to bypass Dajianshan, which was blocking in front of him.

This hill is blocked in the north of Xiangshan, but it is much shorter than Xiangshan, not only can it not be used as an artillery position to bombard Xiangshan, but it prevents him from digging a trench from the north to advance, so he can only bypass and attack from the east, especially to attack Qi Dashan, which is higher than Xiangshan, and then condescendingly bombard Xiangshan.

Of course, first of all, he had to win the Second Army of the Jingnan Army stationed in Xuyi.

"This is the Liaodong Army?"

Xu An, a musketeer in the first battalion of the third brigade of the second army of the Jingnan Army, looked at the opposite side and whispered to his good friend Yu Qi beside him unexpectedly.

Both of them were originally Pukou military households.

In the same way, they were also familiar with what the officials and soldiers of the imperial court were like.

But at this moment, the infantry lined up in front of them was beyond their imagination, and half a mile in front of them, chariots were forming a continuous shield wall, and the muzzles of the guns in the middle of the shield wall were faintly visible. Although the flowering bullets were constantly falling in the sky, these soldiers from the Liaodong battlefield were not affected at all, and still silently completed their formation combination in the flames of the explosion.

"This is much stronger than in the past, and it should have been defeated long ago at this time!"

Xu An said.

"It doesn't matter if he is strong or weak, for the sake of the land that our family has just divided, even the king of heaven will eat us first."

Yu Qi said.

"Forward!"

The battalion commander in front shouted.

Xu An and the others hurriedly shut up, and walked forward with neat steps amid the shouts of the officers.

They had been training for more than half a year, although they did not have any actual combat experience, but the change of formation had long been very clear, and they quickly stood on the left flank of the spear phalanx with muskets on their shoulders. The four of them are close together, and this is a team, leaving enough space between the side and the other team to pass easily, which is used to go backwards during the round, but that is only a backup tactic.

The standard tactic is to go all the way to the front and shoot the enemy in the face.

Then charge with bayonets.

Arquebuses also had bayonets.

The new arquebus weighed a little more than seven pounds, eight dollars of gunpowder, and the weight of the bullet was also eight dollars.

However, the former is actually less than eight dollars, and even the bullets and gunpowder are packed in an oiled paper bag, which is more convenient than the bamboo tube in the past, although there are forks to spare, but in fact no one uses them, unless they are specifically requested, the soldiers will not carry them, and the new butt is better to use, and it is enough to put it on the shoulder.

As for accuracy......

Nothing has changed much.

At that moment, flames erupted from the shield wall opposite.

Then a cannonball hit them in front of them, but it was very weak, and it began to roll weakly after a bounce on the ground.

Xu An took a deep breath.

He finally faced the war in earnest......

"Forward!"

The officer's order sounded.

The whole formation began to move forward, and on their left and right flanks, there were soldiers and officers who could not see the end at a glance, this was a huge three-brigade formation, the three brigades were all in a zigzag formation, the three formations were closely connected into a huge line, the three spear phalanxes were headed, followed by the spear and musket phalanxes arranged at intervals, and the two wings were cavalry phalanxes with musket phalanxes, and the whole formation maintained a steady speed and slowly advanced forward.

Opposite them was a wall of chariot shields.

The artillery on the mounds on both flanks continued to bombard, and the shells of the four-and-a-half-pound cannon and the two-pound cannon constantly hit the shield wall and smashed it to pieces.

Similarly, mortar shells are constantly falling in them.

But these infantry who came back from the Liaodong battlefield were obviously not the officers and soldiers who were about to collapse at the touch of a button in the past, they still silently maintained their formation, and at the same time their cannons were constantly returning fire, especially those two-pound short cannons in the middle of the shield wall, constantly firing shells towards this side, and even shells hit soon.

Even if the power of these short-barreled two-pound guns is weak, a single shell hit will cause many casualties.

"Hold steady, Jingnan Army, there is no advance or retreat, for our good life!"

The trainer's roar rang out.

"Jingnan army, there is no retreat, bloody battle to the end!"

Xu An and Yu Qi roared.

Then there was a roar.

Suddenly, a cannonball struck the front, hitting one of the musketeers, who fell in a splatter of flesh, followed by the one behind him.

The splattered blood even fell on Xu An's body.

But no one stayed.

Xu An moved forward silently.

The distance was getting closer, and soon the distance was less than fifty zhang, and a cannon muzzle on the opposite side spewed flames again, but this time it was a shotgun, and the spearmen in front fell several times at once, but still no one stopped, and all the soldiers of the Jingnan Army did not seem to see the muzzle of the flames on the opposite side. And at this time, the turtledove on the shield wall stretched out, and then a series of flames erupted, although the distance was a little far, but there were still bullets hit, and several soldiers of the Jingnan Army fell.

"There is no advance or retreat!"

Xu An roared.

"There is no advance or retreat!"

Countless roars rang out on both sides.

The muzzles and muzzles of the guns on the opposite side continued to spray flames.

The formation of the Jingnan army was like a dead soldier who had committed suicide, facing the muzzle and muzzle of the gun.

The distance is thirty zhang.

The cannon on the opposite side again spewed out a round of shotguns.

A shotgun hit Yu Qi, and although he was blocked by the breastplate, it still knocked him down......

"Go forward, leave me alone!"

He fell to the ground and shouted.

Xu An glanced at him, gritted his teeth and continued to move forward.

Twenty zhang.

"Change formation!"

The roar of the officers rang out.

The original six-column musket formation was reduced to three in the march with the whirring of bullets and shells.

By the time the formation change was completed, they were less than ten feet away from the shield wall, but they still didn't stop, the soldiers behind the shield wall were already panicking, and the gunners were panicking, but it would take a minute for this thing to go faster, and in fact they didn't fight a few rounds in total. The Jingnan army began to advance from 300 meters away, and it only took more than three minutes to walk here, and the artillery fired three rounds was considered fast, but the vast majority of turtledoves did not hit the second round, and in the end, the rate of fire of these things was that.

Fewer hits.

It seems that the Jingnan army was silently beaten very badly, but in fact, there were few casualties at all, less than one-tenth.

In the end, they stopped at Qizhang.

"Ready!"

The roar of the officers rang out.

Xu An, who was in the front row, quickly fell to one knee, his companion behind him bowed forward, and the musketeer at the back stood up straight and aimed.

Upper, middle and lower.

Three floors.

Countless 19-millimeter arquebuses erupted flames from the shield wall at the soldiers who had begun to flee behind them at a distance of twenty meters.

Thirty-gram bullets.

Thirty grams of propellant propulsion.

Three kilojoules of kinetic energy for one millimeter thick wrought iron and five centimeters thick pine.

Instant breakdown......

(Two chapters, I have to keep rushing forward to recover the third watch)

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