When the "elite" main force of the rebels in the Fushan area began to face defeat under the blow of the core strength of the volunteer army, the situation of the war took a sharp turn. Without the pressure of frontal resistance, the elite cavalry and horses can close to the distance and spread their arrows, instead of using projectiles as the main way to kill as before, and when the majority of the enemy's first line chooses to turn their backs to their side, it means that the interference pressure caused by confrontation is abandoned, and archery can become more accurate.

Although the average number of arrows carried by the elite main force of the volunteer army at this time was not too much because of the small number of troops, it also became extremely accurate at very close distances, and about two or three arrows, including repeated killing, could cause a attrition loss of an enemy soldier.

The rout gradually turned into a hunt, and many officers and soldiers after shooting their bows and arrows began to try to harvest the scattered enemy troops with their swords, and when the enemy troops were not too large, but small and improvised to form a spear formation, they used the shock brought by black powder grenades to break up the opponents.

For a strong army in the true sense of the word, the black powder grenade may not be able to seriously injure people even if the armored soldiers fall to their feet, and the effect of killing and injuring people may not be great, but the effect of deterring and gathering people in fear in a short period of time has become a magic weapon to ensure victory.

Of course, because the strength of the army was too thin, at least 10,000 of the 30,000 enemy soldiers gathered still escaped by scattering and fleeing, but in the end, as many as 17,800 prisoners and corpses remained on the battlefield.

Of course, Cai Lin understands that such a result may still not be able to really affect the failure before the party, but the probability of saving himself from being convicted has become greatly increased.

The third expedition team battle group in the Shanxi Raiders that Cai Lin was in charge of was not a representative of the ten expeditionary teams sent abroad, but only one of them that was not very favorable and encountered the most serious threat.

The main force of the rebel army, which was gradually defeated and gathered from the east and even the Central Plains, gradually divided into three groups, one to the Liaodong Korean area, that is, the place once controlled by the Manchus, and the other to the northwest, and finally gradually fell into a desperate situation under the pressure of the third and fourth crusade teams, as well as many auxiliary militia troops of the Military Management Council, and even the rebel team that surrendered anyway.

The largest rebel army retreated to Sichuan and Shu, although in the process of successive defeats, but perhaps because of too many troops, there are still many forces scattered through a lot of difficult remote roads finally gathered, and in Chengdu formed a strategic group of 150,000 barely decent troops, in the Guiyang area gradually gathered 70,000 troops, there are still a lot of forces in this situation to flee south to Burma, Tianzhu and other places.

Although the remnants of the enemy who were forced to retreat into the Chengdu area still had a fairly large number of troops at this time, because it was difficult to hold the various communication arteries in Sichuan under the new situation, at least the more than 100,000 elite main forces led by the 60,000 core troops of the five crusade teams also strategically formed a situation of encirclement of Chengdu, and it was only a matter of time to take Chengdu under the technical environment and conditions at this time.

However, perhaps because it was not the main point, the 70,000 remnants of the enemy gathered in the Guiyang area had hoarded a lot of food because they had relied on the support of the local rebel forces in advance, and many important roads were inconvenient for the army to encircle and suppress at the fastest speed, so only the two armies of the revolutionary army and the 25,000 men and horses with the seventh and eighth crusade teams as the core approached the city of Guiyang, and they did not carry siege artillery or even too much gunpowder and ammunition, which seemed to make the encirclement itself not consolidated.

At this time, a number of leaders of the rebel army guarding Guiyang also launched a temporary military discussion. Some people feel that they should take this opportunity to break through and at least annihilate one of the strong enemies whose strength is not very strong, some people advocate luring the enemy to carry out a counteroffensive deep into the city, and adopt the method that was once taken in the defense of Beijing, and some people advocate that they should choose another furnace not to fight a decisive battle with an opponent outside the city and only seek to break through the siege, and of course there are also people who advocate relying on Guiyang City for a period of defense.

In the end, it was still the opinion that the core elite main force was concentrated, and the idea of choosing to eat the revolutionary army outside the city that was not strong first and taking the opportunity to break through prevailed. At this time, the remnants of the enemy in Guiyang City did not know that there had been a battle in Shanxi that shocked many people, and in the previous engagements, the more impressive thing about the expedition team was the artillery fire that accompanied the team. In the past, the tens of thousands of troops that were often gathered in many battles were often routed under the fierce bombardment when the sea did not approach the effective range of the bow and arrow firearms, which also made the remnants of the enemy in Guiyang not accurately understand the strength of the main force of the volunteer troops, believing that even if those people had a tenfold advantage in combat power when the artillery fire was difficult to effectively play, it was still easy to be broken by dozens of times the number of troops.

In this way, it was the first night after the siege of the city, relying on the main force of the volunteer troops under the city of Guiyang, which did not have enough troops to build a tight blockade line in all directions, many officers and soldiers at the head of the city began to secretly descend from the city wall and assembled as fast as possible, gathering a total of 30,000 armored soldiers, and preparing to make a gap in the defense line in charge of the ordinary revolutionary army combat regiment, which originally did not seem to be the main force of the volunteer troops, with a fierce attack.

But I don't know that for a force that is not very tightly organized, there is often no shortage of defectors and whistleblowers when the overall situation of the country has fallen into a passive state, especially under the influence of the effect of huge rewards in the hero's outer city.

When the main rebel force that had gathered had just finished assembling, it encountered 1,500 fairly elite shooters of the 7th Detachment in the dark night. Because it was a decisive battle in the breakout, the main combat performance of the rebels in these lower cities was much stronger than that of the opponents in Shanxi, although the casualties were serious under the strange and accurate arrow rain in the dark night, but they still desperately paid about five or six thousand casualties, and the losses were approached to a very close distance, and it was at this time that the auxiliary troops mainly mobilized by the heroes outside the city also began to start face-to-face hand-to-hand combat and confrontation with the rebel strong enemy for the first time, and the firelight that had been prepared on the front line was also lit up after the team retreated a little, in this case, the originally precarious front also became stable in an instant. However, when the battle situation is at this point, there is little suspense about the subsequent reversal.

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