It was precisely because he realized that the flanks were the most vulnerable to attack when the army was advancing in separate ways, so it was the First Division of the Volunteer Left Army led by Xiao Xuan directly who followed the advance on the southern front.

In the middle of summer, the grasslands were lush with vegetation, and when the enemy army was attacking, it was the time when the army was about to set up camp at dusk but had not effectively established a defensive camp. Obviously: knowing that this force is not small, the advantage of troops is only about three times, and the Chahar Mongols, who are also called the absolute superiority of the force, do not have the determination to eat these 7,000 men, but only intend to at least be able to solve most of the horses in the entire army through a powerful attack, and when a considerable proportion of the men and horses lose the power of the cavalry in this kind of raid and harassment, the opponent's fighters will appear.

At this time, the Chahar people also seemed to know very well that they could easily sweep away the remaining forces in Liaodong in a very short period of time, and the remaining forces could not be good.

Therefore, when the attack was launched, the 20,000-strong or so troops did not take it lightly, but surrounded them from all directions in a fairly scattered formation with a certain depth. However, those Mongols did not expect that the opponent's strength was only one-third of their own, but in the face of a surprise attack, they dared to take the initiative to spread to a radius of about one mile to form a thin large array of only about three layers, so they launched a concentrated attack from all directions without hesitation, and gradually concentrated the elite all the way in it.

"Since those arrogant Han people are looking for death without a car shield and artillery, we have to fulfill them!" The encirclement that stretched for miles was soon formed. A dense rain of arrows began to be hurled like locusts from a distance of a hundred paces. The cavalry archer in the southernmost direction suddenly approached, and the rare armored cavalry that covered the rear launched a rapid assault.

Obviously, in the case that the opponent does not have any decent long weapons, let alone a shield, and attempts to use firearms and infantry against him, the assault cavalry is the best way to defeat the opponent.

However, just as the attacking enemy cavalry approached to a distance of no more than fifty paces, the team of sharpshooters in the back row launched a series of arrows, and in just ten seconds or so, they launched three rounds of arrows with a strong bow of about one stone, two or three buckets.

Although most of the officers and soldiers lacked the foundation of training since childhood, not many of them could effectively use the tiger power and strong bow with more than five birds with one stone, but they had reached a very high level under the training of the team in terms of psychological literacy, accuracy of archery, and effective and fast salvo shooting of the team at any cost. Therefore, in just a short period of time, the three consecutive frontal shots of about one mile caused the heavy cavalry that rushed to the close range to suffer a devastating blow, at least a thousand heavy cavalry fell off their horses one after another, and seven or eight hundred people were killed or wounded by arrows. The iron armor that looked decent seemed to play no role at all in front of the excellent one-stone two-bucket bow, and it was easily penetrated.

Immediately afterwards, the whole team did not hesitate to push forward and launch a counterattack. The firepower of the thin formation was effectively deployed, and only a row or so of archers actually shot down the elite main force of the Mongolian army on the southern flank one after another like sweeping leaves. The hundreds of joules of power and poison often had the same after-effect as a musket pellet when it hit a horse. After the battle on the southern flank began, the teams in other directions also quickly ran forward to launch a counterattack, and continued to unfurl their arrows and open fire.

In this way, with just an electrocuted counterattack, the strength of six or seven thousand men put into battle swept away more than half of the Mongol main force besieging the 20,000 Chahar troops that were coming to attack in the blink of an eye. Obviously, at this point, the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides is obviously not something that can be described by a level difference. Taking advantage of the fact that the remnants of the enemy army were just beginning to retreat, most of the troops of each division retreated and mounted their horses as quickly as possible, and launched a pursuit and counteroffensive with horses.

Because many horses without armor were injured in the previous accurate rain of arrows and even light shotgun fire, although the Chahar people obviously have an advantage in equestrian skills and even the quality of the horses themselves, there are still many spare horses that are interacted with by the team led by Xiao Xuan, and some of the Chahar people who were injured or did not have time to get on the horse were injured or destroyed, and only four or five thousand remnants of the soldiers were lucky to escape from the battlefield desperately because they were used as reserves and warlords at the beginning.

It was just an instant, and it was roughly calculated that the confrontation that didn't even have a stick of incense for these Mongols to suffer such heavy losses was something that Xiao Xuan didn't expect before. Although the shortcomings of the First Division of the Volunteer Left Army in cavalry archery and cavalry mobility caused many remnants of the enemy to escape, such a devastating battle still brought great excitement to many people as a good start in the expeditionary operation.

"It seems that our army is still a little too conservative, we should adopt more proactive tactics and prepare enough cavalry in advance, and this battle may be able to completely annihilate the opponent... The commander of the First Division of the Volunteer Army said with some regret.

Xiao Xuan, who had reminisced about it, also began to realize that perhaps since the establishment of the Volunteer Army, the enemy's combat effectiveness was generally too weak, and even he subconsciously formed the habit of relying too much on the strong combat effectiveness of the grassroots and unwilling to work active reconnaissance and command. Perhaps such a habit is nothing in the face of a weak hand like the Chahar Mongols, but when they are really faced with a large number of strong enemies in the future, if they do not give full play to their superiority in reconnaissance and command and grasp the initiative in battle, they will undoubtedly have to pay too much price. The meaning of the volunteer army is not just an elite soldier. If the consumption is too heavy, it will obviously have a considerable impact on local governance at the grassroots level in the future.

The team didn't spend much effort chasing down those thousands of remnants of the enemy, and those remnants of the enemy let out a rumor, which might make the future march a lot less troublesome. After all, the various forces on the grassland were not the focus of this expedition, and Xiao Xuan was not willing to waste too much experience on these opponents who might not be able to pose a threat to the Central Plains.

The army continued to march in a step-by-step manner, only to exclude more forces from forward reconnaissance, in order to seize more initiative in the event of a possible confronting of fighters.