While the attacking team was clearing the battlefield with bayonets while destroying the enemy's artillery with over-standard charges and live ammunition that had been completely crushed, the vanguard of the 1st Company of the Volunteer Battalion once again encountered a large force of elite infantry under the heavy shield of the enemy cavalry.

According to some information and information learned before, Yuan Keli also made the most-for-tat arrangement at this time, and the elite family and cavalry of more than 1,000 scales were all invested at that time. Because according to the descriptions of some of the officers who fled, these enemy soldiers fought with firearms with calm and bravery, and they were able to throw bombs and shoot in an orderly manner in the fierce confrontation, and they were also very brave in hand-to-hand combat. However, it is obviously inferior in hand-to-hand combat skills, and when facing your own elite infantry in foot combat, especially when a lot of firepower has been consumed before, it is possible to fall into passivity.

Therefore, after paying a lot of cannon fodder as the price of attracting enemy firepower, when I saw that the elite of the enemy army who rushed over began to fight hand-to-hand with bayonets only, the elite of the Ming army, who were fully armed to the head and began to wear armor, also rushed over at this time, and the sword and shield hands cooperated with the elite archers, trying to completely reverse the situation on the battlefield at a small price.

However, at this time, those strong enemies who had obviously fought with bayonets before, and did not seem to have time to reload their ammunition, opened fierce fire again at a very close range of less than a zhang or more than a few steps, and the powerful projectiles at such a distance, the individual shield armor equipped by the elite of the Ming army seemed to be difficult to effectively resist, and there were groups of people who kept falling down under the bombardment of firearms.

What is even more frightening is that these people have often already fired or restarted hand-to-hand combat, and once again they can easily fire again in hand-to-hand combat when they encounter their own elite who have been reinforced from behind.

After two rounds of extremely close range of fire, the bayonet impact made the elite of the more than 1,000 Ming troops, who had suffered hundreds of casualties, unable to resist the fierce offensive and began to break and flee.

In order to prevent possible accidents, the volunteer battalion, which had emptied all the ammunition in the flintlock pistol, did not continue to attack, but was brave and did not forget to be ready to deal with sudden changes at any time. This is also the fundamental difference between the revolutionary army, which mainly comes from Shandong, and some "fierce armies on the heights of martial virtues," and its combat effectiveness comes from the calmness of forgetting the danger of personal sacrifice to the greatest extent, rather than the ferocity of a desperate gamble.

However, when the team attacked again, they no longer encountered the same resistance as before. Under the fire of flintlock muskets that fired at close range, and the blows of bayonets and axes that followed by bombs, even the elite-looking enemy armoured soldiers quickly collapsed.

Obviously, although the Ming army that was engaged in defensive operations throughout the street had as many as 20,000 men and stretched for several miles, the most elite forces among these main forces, including the warlords and gunners, were relatively densely gathered in the direction of facing the main threat.

In this way, after repelling many resistances, the attack of the entire team of more than 1,000 people became orderly and powerful again. The continuous fire, which continued to fire forward like firecrackers, once again easily repelled the strong enemy who had come up along the streets to resist the sharp attack of the volunteer battalion, and the subsequent bayonet attack once again turned into a one-sided killing.

As the fierce battle unconsciously continued on the long street, the dark sky gradually turned dark blue, and the light of dawn also reflected from the direction of the Forbidden City and even the three seas of the West Garden.

The Hongyi artillery array, which had been rumbling and preparing for artillery fire before, also suddenly stopped firing at this time, because more and more routs brought by an unexpected strong force also completely shook the morale of the firearms battalion at this time, and it was only because there were many Ming army elite cavalry guards near this very important heavy firearms battalion that they were not completely shaken at this time. However, as the continuous sound of guns approached, fierce battles soon began on the Ming artillery camp positions.

Sensing that the largest array of troops in the west of the city was in danger of being shaken in the face of this incredible offensive, Yuan Keli was preparing to launch a surprise attack on the west of the city at this time, and once again withdrew at least three battalions of the main barracks, and once again put about 16,700 people, equivalent to a total army, into the battle.

Zuo Liangyu, who was in charge of the command, felt at the beginning that after the previous battle, the fierce enemy with only one or two thousand troops at best must have become the end of the strong crossbow, and under the siege of at least ten times the strength of his own side, it was very likely that he would make his first contribution, but when he personally led the team to start a fierce battle with the strong opponent, he found that this was not the case at all.

The previous devastating battle seemed to have made this strong force adapt to the battlefield, and it was very confident that after capturing and capturing eighteen Hongyi cannons, it had no intention of further attacking, but relying on the enemy's previous temporary position and the Ming army, which was gradually gathering, very confidently launched a defensive shooting and confrontation.

Although the firepower of the team led by Xiao Xuan does not seem to be very strong, even if the combat rate of fire is a little larger, it is not more powerful than the firepower of the firearm team of a combat battalion, but the hitting efficiency on the battlefield far exceeds that of ordinary opponents, even if the besieging Ming army has a strength advantage of several times to ten times, it can still not fall behind in defensive operations.

It was only when the light gradually cleared up and it became easier to count the number of people that Xiao Xuan suddenly found out. Under this bloody battle, the casualties of the entire team have also reached an astonishing level. The officers and men of the 1st Company of the Volunteer Battalion, which had good armor and a shield hand in front and were responsible for protection, suffered as many as 60 percent casualties in the offensive battle, nearly 90 people, including about 20 wounded people who seemed to have hope of recovery, and only about 80 people were able to fight. The losses of about 1,500 troops who participated in the entire battle were also not small, including some wounded, there were still only about 1,000 people left at this time, less than 1,100 people, although the entire team had continuously defeated the enemy's main force of 37,800 men in the previous battle, and the enemy troops killed were estimated to be far more than 10,000 people, but under the condition that the Ming army mobilized a lot of artillery fire to participate in the blockade, the losses in the night offensive battle were still huge.

(End of chapter)