Bailiyan began to regret not bringing the mortar and the unconscionable cannon, although the mortar has a fast rate of fire, the impact charge of the mortar is ** charge, only simply wrapped in oil wax paper, and connected to the firing chamber, so the sealing is not good, and it is very susceptible to moisture. At the same time, the muzzle of the gun is facing the sky, and a large amount of water accumulates in the barrel under the pouring rain, which is very susceptible to moisture and even explosive when firing, which is very unsafe.

And the conscienceless cannon is even naked, the barrel is heavy, the size is huge, and the transfer is extremely inconvenient, Bailiyan did not plan to enter the battle when crossing the river, but he didn't expect that he would be very passive.

The 3,000 rope hat guns and flat hand cannons of the guards were in a group of formations, totaling four groups of nearly 12,000 people, breaking through the grenade blockade of the Xian army, sneaking to within 70 steps, and taking turns to shoot at the Xian army, and the lethality was very good.

At the same time, thousands of guards braved the rain of bullets and huge casualties, all the way to the front of the Xianjun formation more than ten steps, after the guards in the formation of a drum and trumpet, the guards' rope hat guns and flat hand artillery fire exhausted and alternately withdrew to the formation, at this time has touched the Xianjun array of the vanguard suddenly rising:

"Soldiers, kill me!"

"Kill ......"

The guards jumped up in unison, the Xian army in the front row was loading, and he was caught off guard and killed a person on his back, and when the guards fought with the Xian army, Du Ruixun decisively ordered again:

"Press it up!"

"No."

A drum and trumpet suddenly rose, and more than 10,000 people in the front of the guard army launched a charge to the northwest defense line of the Xian army, and at the same time, the cavalry on the left flank of the formation launched three waves of offensives, and three thousand knights jumped out and flew to the right flank of the Xian army.

About ten minutes passed, Du Ruixun's protector Wang Xie urged Malay to report:

"General Du, the firearms of the Xian army are really powerful, and the 12,000 rope hat guns and flat hand cannons sent out, only more than 7,000 people have returned. Someone saw that Chu Lie, the right governor, had been killed in battle, and Gao Kan, the left governor, was seriously wounded. ”

Du Ruixun was shocked when he heard the news:

"Only more than 7,000 people have returned!"

Wang Xie nodded with difficulty and said:

"Yes, according to the report from the Metropolitan Governor of Matun on the left flank, more than half of the two groups of 5,000 light cavalry that had previously entered the Xian army were annihilated by the Xian army, but they still did not break through the defense line of the Xian army, so they had to invest 3,000 people again."

It took only four quarters of an hour from the firing of the rope hat gun to the return of the gun, and the battle loss rate of two-fifths of the 12,000 men was several times more than the casualties caused by any half-hour battle with cold weapons, and they were indirect casualties without contact.

"It's unbelievable, but someone can see what kind of weapons the Xian army uses, and it can be so powerful!"

"It is reported that the weapons of the Xian army can constantly breathe fire, which is similar to the rope hat gun, but it has spear stabs, which is very powerful."

Du Ruixun tried his best to outline the appearance of the weapons used by the Xianjun army in his mind, but his heart suddenly sank at this moment:

"In this way, the Xian troops who landed this time are equipped with such weapons, so they dare to cross the river rashly."

"Yes."

Wang Xie affirmed that Du Ruixun felt bad:

"It's too bad for this, the Xian army crossed the river with only 50,000 people, and our army attacked it with several times the strength, and more than 10,000 casualties were killed and wounded in less than an hour.

"General Du, if you withdraw now, the brothers who died before will die in vain!"

"Yes, I have worked hard to fight in the Xian army formation, if I withdraw at this time, how can I be willing."

After finishing speaking, Du Ruixun took out his binoculars and looked at the two armies in front of the battle, the Xian army maintained the battle line even now, the sound of guns and explosions was endless, and the guards and soldiers fell in a pool of blood in response.

Du Ruixun saw the pain in his eyes, he gritted his teeth and said:

"This is the elite of the Xian army, and it must be annihilated at any cost in order to stop the Xian army from crossing the river. The Huwei River Army was ordered to march forcibly to the west side of the Xian Army within an hour, otherwise it would be severely punished. ”

"No!"

Du Ruixun decided to make a desperate bet, he judged that the Xian army crossing the river was all the elite of the Xian country, and the reason was very simple, it was somewhat crooked and blind.

It borrowed from the production scale of the guards' rope cap guns and peace hand cannons, and it was expected that although the equipment of the Xian army was excellent, the technology must be very complicated, so the output would not be too high, and the Xian army tried to rely on the sophisticated equipment to make up for the disadvantage of the lack of troops to land and cross the river.

On this basis, Du Ruixun determined that the 50,000 Xian troops who crossed the river were the main force of the Xian State equipped with firearms, and only by eating the 50,000 troops at any cost could the momentum of the Xian army crossing the river be curbed. Compared with losing Dekang and letting the Xian army cross the river, tens of thousands of more people died is nothing at all.

To say that his judgment is half right, the Xianjun army has distributed a total of more than 60,000 guns as of July, and 50,000 are in Hukou Bay, but the production capacity is much stronger than Du Ruixun imagined.

At this time, the front of the guards pressed towards the Xian army, and the right flank of the defense line was broken open by the cavalry.

Around the end of the day, the two armies were in full contact and large-scale white-knuckle battles were inevitable, and the Xian army began to use grenades to drive out the guards outside the line, and the guards grenadiers also used earth grenades and crossbows to try to break through the line with earthen grenades and crossbows under the cover of their own infantry.

At the same time, the overlord artillery that fired sporadically caused a lot of casualties to the Xian army, and also killed the guards who attacked the defense line, and the defense line was once torn open more than six gaps, but it was soon filled by the reserves of the Xian army.

"Deputy marshal, the Huwei River Guard has reached the front of the Western Front three hundred paces and is forming a formation to press our army."

Wei Qi said quickly, Bai Liyan turned his head to look at the west side, and it could be seen that the guards were moving back and forth frequently.

"There are at least 70,000 guards pressed over from the Huwei River, and if we draw troops from the Western Front just now, I am afraid that it will be dangerous at this time. The order was sent to General Xue Sheng and ordered him to lead his troops to retreat to the second line of defense. ”

"No!"

After Wei Qi left, Bai Liyan and the herald soldiers around him said:

"Order all battalions, gather men and horses, transfer the wounded, and withdraw to the second line of defense in an orderly manner."

"No!"

The battalions of the northwest defense line have been crippled, and the loss of troops is extremely great, and it is necessary to draw troops from the inner line to fill the first line if they continue to hold on, so that the strength of the second line of defense will be much thinner, and once the first line is broken through and begins to break up, the strength of the second line of defense is too thin, and it may not be able to gather the rout and reorganize the front.

If the troops are drawn from Xue Sheng's western front, the guards of Huweihe will press up again, the frontal width of the western front is too long, once the gap is torn open, the entire defense line will be cut in half, and the western front is very likely to be defeated by the guards before the northwest front, and the exit at this time is even worse.

However, the defense width of the first line is much greater than that of the second line, and the shrinking of troops to reduce the width of the front line is conducive to concentrating forces for defense. However, the disadvantage is that the guards have more people, and the width of their battle line and the strength of their troops will be larger, making it easier to carry out encirclement. However, the two wings of Hukou Bay are high and the middle tidal flat is low, and the Sishui River is behind it, so the guards cannot complete the encirclement on both wings.

After weighing the pros and cons, Bailiyan decided to seize the gap between the retreat of the guards and retreat to the second line.

Around four o'clock, the first line was all abandoned, and the Xian army successively withdrew to the second line to re-arm. Bai Liyan took out the disabled formation and transferred it to the reserves, filled in the reserves, and re-formed the third line of defense after the second line of defense, but the key forces were still placed on the second line.

Taking advantage of the gap between the regrouping of the guards, Bailiyan went to the quartermaster station, the Xian army's munitions and supplies were at the quartermaster station, and in the first half of the night, the ammunition consumption was huge, and in the second half of the night, more stray bullets still needed to be consumed, and he needed an accurate data to facilitate the deployment of troops.

"How many grenades were taken by the armies before that, and how many are left now?"

"Deputy Marshal Qiqi, before you came, the various armies took away a total of more than 15,600 grenades, including 7,400 explosive bombs, 5,200 flares, 3,000 incendiary bombs, and more than 44,000 rounds left in the stockpile."

The quartermaster elaborated, and Bai Liyan was taken aback:

"So much!"

"This is the collection record, deputy marshal, please take a look."

Bai Liyan took the list and looked at it carefully, and it could be seen that the most knocked out were explosive and anti-personnel bombs and flares, but it was too outrageous to knock out so many in the middle of the night.

In the new army, each hundred-man squad was equipped with a grenade launcher, and the 50,000 people were equipped with about 500 grenade launchers, and each person was issued with five rounds of explosive bombs, incendiary bombs, and flares, a total of 15 rounds of ammunition, and more than 15,600 rounds were taken, which means that no one fired more than 40 grenades.

If the power of 10,000 explosive anti-personnel grenades is counted, the guards should have been blown up long ago, and why the Xian army suffered such huge casualties, judging from the current point of view, it is simply a blind fight.

Of course, the situation is very complicated, there is the tension of the first battle, the obstruction of the night vision, the mud caused by the mud flats and heavy rain, which causes the impact fuse to fall into the mud and fail, so after loading, it is just to be released into the sky, regardless of whether it hits or not, some may simply be frightened and fired indiscriminately, and at the same time, the heavy rain at night also interferes with the observation and use effect.

With the loading and firing speed of the grenade launcher, as long as the ammunition tube is sufficient, it is not a problem to load and fire five or six rounds in a minute. Bailiyan even suspected that within half an hour of the start of the battle, the ammunition carried by the grenade launchers had been exhausted.

In addition to grenades, rifle ammunition took 120,000 rounds, and shotguns took 200,000 rounds, which means that the northwestern defense line totaled more than 10,000 people, and each person lost more than 30 rounds of ammunition. Considering the heavy rain failures and nervous operational errors, as well as the accidental wear and tear and loss of ammunition due to casualties, it would be nice to have half of the effective shots that were actually fired here. But at this rate, 50,000 people will definitely not last for three days.

While thinking about it, Wei Qi hurriedly reported:

"Deputy Marshal, the Huwei River Guards have launched an attack on me, and the Guards have used bed crossbows."

"Got it, what's the situation at the ambulance station, and how many casualties were there in the first half of the night?"

"Back to Deputy Marshal, up to now, the ambulance station has collected more than 4,200 wounded and killed in battle, more than 1,600 people killed in battle, more than 700 seriously injured, and other missing and unrecovered ones are unknown for the time being."

"Damn, it's only the first half of the night, and more than 4,200 people have been killed and wounded, and if it drags on until dawn, it will have to be doubled."

At this time, Wei Qi said:

"According to visual observations, the guards have left no less than 20,000 dead and wounded in front of our formation, and with an exchange rate of one to five, our army has already won."

"So what, as long as the guards die 150,000 people, they can annihilate our army, and they can't complete the landing, even if our army destroys the enemy several times, what's the use."

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