If he rashly launched a charge, Gao Degong was worried that his cavalry battalion, which cost the superintendent Zhang Huangyan and a lot of manpower and material resources of the Ming Dynasty government, was afraid that most of the medicine would be lost in this land.

If he can leave the 20,000 Hong Dynasty troops at the cost of 10,000 cavalry, he will admit that he has a high merit, at least the sacrifice of all of them is worth it.

But it is clear that only their 10,000 cavalry want to eat this rout of the Hong Dynasty, but it is impossible to succeed.

He also needed infantry support from the rear.

The hearts of the soldiers of the Hong Dynasty are really ruthless! Even if they were defeated and fled, they didn't seem to think about how much benefit they could get from their opponents.

Sun Chuanting ordered the garrison at that time, and after seeing that he could not eat the main force of the Hong Dynasty, he turned to capture the position of the Hong Dynasty army with all his might, but what he fancied was the large amount of supplies that could not be carried away when the Hong Dynasty army fled.

Other materials such as food naturally did not look at Sun Chuanting and them, but what they coveted was the more than 30 artillery pieces that the Hong Dynasty army gave Xiangcheng a heavy blow.

On weekdays, the number of artillery captured by the Ming Dynasty army from the audience of the Hong Dynasty army was extremely rare, and the vast majority of them were still used to be abandoned by the initiative, but it also brought many technological breakthroughs in imitation artillery to the skilled craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty government.

At least because of the captured Hong Dynasty artillery, the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty's Ordnance Department, lured by the huge financial interests of the government, energetically helped the Ming Dynasty get rid of the fact of relying on Westerners in the technology of cannon casting.

Moreover, if these more than 30 high-powered artillery pieces are in hand, it will also be of great help to Sun Chuanting's counteroffensive on the eastern front, such as attacking cities such as Xuzhou, but it will be able to reduce a large number of losses when attacking the city.

It has always been the Hong Dynasty army that used artillery to destroy and break the Ming Dynasty's military fortifications, and the generals of the Ming Dynasty army have long hoped to see their army be able to return the Hong Dynasty people to their heads for siege tactics, so that they can taste the taste of being covered by artillery fire.

However, when the Hong Dynasty army broke through the siege, although they could not carry these bulky ordnance that would slow down their retreat on the position, they also did not think about letting the Ming Dynasty army, the enemy, obtain their own weapons to turn the muzzle against themselves.

After the Hong Dynasty army broke through, the resistance on their original position would be weakened a lot, and it was true, after the armies from all sides broke into the original impregnable Hong Dynasty army position, the resistance encountered was inaudible, until in the center of the position, when a cannon could be seen scattered on the ground from a distance, the Ming Dynasty army once again encountered a bullet rain counterattack.

No one could have imagined that after the main force of the Hong Dynasty army broke through, the Hong Dynasty people would actually leave behind a dead defender in the center of this battlefield where it was no longer possible to break through, and strongly counterattack any enemy who dared to approach their position.

In the eyes of all the Ming soldiers present, this is just the dying struggle of a group of dead people, and even many generals are still happy in their hearts, at this time, behind these hundreds of gunshots, there are hundreds of corpses of Hong Dynasty soldiers, which are all their future qualifications, all military merits!

At this time, the generals of the Ming Dynasty army, everyone urged the soldiers under their command, rushed up to grab this group of military merits into their own hands, at this time they no longer care about the loss of their army soldiers, but if they can get one more head from this group of defeated troops, then when they receive the merits after the war, they can also have one more honor, and even be promoted to one level.

Even Sun Chuanting and Zhang Huangyan were happy with the hundreds of Hongchao soldiers remaining in the center of the position, and at the same time, they were also happy to see the rare posture of the soldiers under their command fighting bravely to kill the enemy.

Being able to kill a bunch of soldiers of the Hong Dynasty army will weaken the strength of the opponent's army by one more point, which is also a good thing no matter how you look at it.

However, with the center of the position, the sound of the Hong Dynasty army's counterattack became more and more sparse, and the Ming Dynasty soldiers rushed into the opponent's position more and more, and a huge explosion roared from the center of the battlefield where the battle was being fought to all corners of the original position of the Hong Dynasty army.

The sound of the explosion not only completely detonated Sun Chuanting's expectations, but even made them tremble and be as cold as ice.

When the smoke and dust on the position of the Hong Dynasty army cleared, what greeted Sun Chuanting and them was the purgatory on earth that had changed beyond recognition and was no longer familiar with the scene.

Everywhere there were craters and craters blown up by the explosives planted in the ground by the Hong Dynasty army, as well as crooked and broken corpses, and even the sound of countless iron cannons that had changed shape but were still heavy.

The number of Ming Dynasty troops who rushed into the battlefield was not less than 10,000 people, and the number of troops that were reorganized after the explosion was over, this tragic explosion caused at least 5,000 Ming Dynasty soldiers to die.

You can't blame Sun Chuanting, a famous marshal, for not being cautious enough, it's really that the knowledge of explosives in this era is too shallow, and there are basically no traps who are willing to use a large amount of rare gunpowder to artificially create an explosion that lasts for more than ten minutes.

If Kong Youde didn't know that he couldn't take away a large amount of supplies, he would not have been willing to use these tons of gunpowder so untechnically.

You must know that this is the ammunition prepared by the Third Army for a long time for a month or two, and without this batch of ammunition, the Third Army's own hoarding of materials in Xuzhou can only last for one campaign, and after it is used up, it has to wait for the Hong Dynasty Ministry of Industry to transfer it from the rear.

Of course, the biggest impact of this explosion was not that Sun Chuanting's wishful thinking failed, and most of the more than 30 artillery pieces could not be used, but the psychological impact of the Ming Dynasty army officers and soldiers from top to bottom by this explosion like a curse.

A victory that was supposed to boost the morale of the soldiers, but in the end, in this long explosion, most of the joy brought by the victory was washed away, and many soldiers who escaped death collapsed on the spot, like a fool and a madman, in the barracks or weeping bitterly, or mad and wailing, so that the other soldiers saw it, and felt concerned.

Under such circumstances, the Ming Dynasty army was still able to free up its hands and continue to pursue the defeated army of the Hong Dynasty, but the actual number was not as large as Kong Youde and them thought, and their morale was not very high.

This is also an important reason why Gao Degong did not dare to act rashly and launched a charge to delay the third army of Hong Chaokong Youde.