When the Polish cavalry began to assemble from the flanks, the cavalry artillery of the first volunteer division made the artillery complete the effective aiming as fast as possible, and fired heavy fire at the beginning of the charge of the Polish army at a distance of a mile.

This was not the first time that the main cavalry of the Polish army, which had often fought in Eastern Europe, had faced the threat of firearms. Therefore, when they saw the white smoke rising in the distance, even the Polish horses did not react much, but when those heavy shrapnel like flying locusts were overwhelming, many Polish cavalry suddenly found that the artillery density of the Easterners was fundamentally different from the army they had to face in the past.

What the Poles didn't know was that the decisive battles between Gustav and Wallenstein in Central Europe were usually only a few dozen to a hundred guns on each side, and the main army of more than 100,000 men was usually only equipped with two or three hundred field guns. In the battle of Songjin in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Qing army captured as many as 1,000 pieces of two general cannons and major general cannons.

Of course, on the other hand, because the quality of firearms is too slight and the gunnery skills are too layman, the preservation of gunpowder and the study of related ammunition are not very good, even if there is a difference in the density of artillery configuration several times, it is not necessarily stronger than the European army in the seventeenth century. However, the gunners of the volunteer troops led by Xiao Xuan are the result of selecting the best of the best in the entire army system, and on average, each artillery squad has people who are very outstanding in ranging and ammunition use experience, which makes the deterrent power of artillery far beyond the understanding of European armies in this era.

Within a mile or so of a minute, the cavalry artillery corps attached to each company fired at least four rounds of fire, relying on a preloaded ammunition. On average, each of the 160 or 70 reinforced companies fired 1,600 rounds of heavy shotgun. In order to ensure that these projectiles were capable of sufficient power at the end, it was to a large extent that the firing of a strong charge at the expense of danger allowed the energy per kilogram of the barrel to reach the level of the end of the war to nearly 1 kilojoule to ensure the accuracy of shooting at a distance of one mile. Subsequently, the gunners appropriately reduced the charge standards in terms of gunpowder filling standards, so that there were not too many explosions or even serious safety accidents in the artillery teams.

The benefits of such overdraft of firepower were also obvious, although the formation of the Polish hussars when attacking was not dense, often only a single column, but under such firepower, they also suffered about 20% casualties and lost about 30% of their horses in a very short time. Except for the five or six thousand main hussars, including more than 20 companies, who still retained a trace of fighting spirit despite suffering such heavy losses, the other Poles in the direction of the main attack were pushed down like a tide.

When the Polish hussar cavalry approached a distance of less than sixty or seventy paces, in order to deter the opponent to the greatest extent, many hussars also began to use their portable firearms to launch a round of musket suppression at this distance. The well-trained Polish elite seemed to be able to shoot the gunpowder-filled guns very accurately even on the back of this galloping horse, and a wave of fire caused about one or two percent of the losses to the opposing personnel. Typically, this minimizes the variability in a decisive assault.

But at this time, the accurate and calm arrows in the volunteer army began to attack one after another, and only two rounds of arrow rain at this distance made more than 1,000 attacking Polish hussars fall off their horses.

In the first attack alone, nearly half of the casualties were encountered, which not only shocked all the Polish elites, but also made those Polish elite horses feel a great danger, and the offensive could not help but pause when they were about twenty or thirty paces away from the army. Of course, the more important reason is that many of the elite Polish men and horses found that at this extremely close distance, the musketeers who had not fired before were calmly raising their guns and pulling the class before people could react.

The continuous sound of guns rang out violently, followed by a series of black powder grenades thrown like hailstones, and even a white-knuckle assault that took advantage of the deterrence and influence brought by black powder grenades.

The Polish hussars were also a very experienced team. In the attack, there is no simultaneous assault on the enemy's line, but there is contact with the opponent's line one after the other, but it is not too far away to test the depth of the opponent. Therefore, after the troops in the direction of the breakthrough in the middle began to suffer heavy blows, the Polish hussars on both flanks quickly made a judgment on the battlefield: this time should retreat and flee as soon as possible. The front of a strong enemy is obviously not something that can be effectively broken through by itself.

However, at this time, the artillery fire of the volunteer troops and even the gunners continued to fire very skillfully, not only in the direction of the main attack of the Polish army. Outside the direction of the main Polish attack, the 200 artillery pieces concentrated on the front within a range of at least four miles began to fire heavily with heavy shotguns. When the Polish army withdrew from the threat, it launched nine rounds of fire in succession, firing hundreds of thousands of heavy shotguns. Including the firepower of the pursuit in other directions, the Polish elite left thousands of casualties on patrol. However, even so, the Poles who fought still had about 1,000 troops left to survive. Together with the surviving strength of the Polish army in other directions, there were as many as 12,000 men.

If the main force of the volunteer forces at this time is only an infantry-based combat group, in this case, it may only be able to give the opponent a "annihilating blow" but cannot really annihilate the opponent. However, Xiao Xuan didn't want any remnants of the enemy to escape, if he couldn't carry out a perfect battle of annihilation, and let the other enemy troops know his combat methods, it would obviously be a big risk for himself in the future. Therefore, without further hesitation, when the enemy army obviously suffered a serious blow and began to plan to retreat and flee, the main officers and men of the volunteer force of about 20,000 people also launched a pursuit operation.

At this time, the advantages of the Polish elite and even the ordinary Polish cavalry in horse quality and even equestrian skills began to be clearly reflected, and it didn't take too much time to leave Xiao Xuan's team behind. However, Xiao Xuan was not in a hurry at this time, which was also expected. Therefore, at the end of the day's pursuit, the general direction of the enemy's main force was confirmed by using hot air balloon reconnaissance, and when night was approaching, the enemy troops who were fleeing were pursued with all their might by overdrawing their horsepower. This seemed to be a bit risky, but Xiao Xuan still thought it was worth taking.

(End of chapter)