The cavalry team composed of the green battalion and the Han army banner of the Qing army, in the firepower of the Huaxia army, fought horses and advanced, paid huge casualties, and crashed into the musketeer team in the forefront of the Huaxia army.

Just like the Southern Ming army once used, the cold weapon troops who had already run forward quickly took over the outer defense line, and used spears and shields to form a shell to protect the arquebusier's circular defense, and some teams that had no time to form a circular phalanx, after paying a large number of casualties, fought separately, in groups of three or five, with bayonets, forming a small circular formation at the front of the position, facing the enemy's cavalry, fearless, brave fighting.

After all, the cavalry assault of the Qing army was small, and after paying huge casualties, the cavalry of the Qing army that could rush to the front line was not much, about a few hundred people, when they fought with the first phalanx of the front, the second phalanx quickly let go of the soldiers of the first phalanx who escaped, and then the formation was closed, and they quickly rushed forward, using bayonets to fight out the stragglers who came from the enemy's assault, and established a defensive line in front of the first phalanx.

Cut off the return route of the Han flag cavalry.

The artillery in the rear quickly adjusted the angle, forming a blocking for the cavalry that was assaulting behind the enemy, and the enemy's cavalry could not follow up at all, forming a breakthrough.

After all, this is the Huaxia Army, not the Nanming Army, even if the Huaxia Army is a militia unit, the hand-to-hand combat ability is also very powerful, under the strict discipline of the Huaxia Army, anyone is step-by-step and not afraid of life and death rushed forward, filling the gap, so that the phalanx quickly restored its combat effectiveness.

On the other side, Zhu Ge quickly adjusted his deployment, sending pikemen, sword and shield soldiers, and archers behind the arquebusiers to block the surprise attack of the Qing cavalry on this side.

In this way, they were not as good as the Green Battalion and the Han Banner Cavalry, who had no way to retreat, and they were constantly knocked off their horses, and the scattered bullets fired from the six-pounder cannon made them fall in pieces, and the arquebus soldiers sensed the danger, and increased the speed of their fire, forcing out their potential, and the reloading speed was faster, and the fire was more intensive.

Besides, rushing to a distance of thirty meters, the archers of the Huaxia Army behind can be projected from a distance, they are just standing ten meters behind the arquebusier, this distance, forty meters, good hands direct shots, bad hands throw, in the enemy's dense cavalry team, even if you can't kill the enemy, you can make the enemy injured, or lose combat effectiveness and fall off the horse.

The Chinese army, the Han army flag and the cavalry of the Qing army rushed to a distance of fifty meters, the Han army flag cavalry continued to charge, the Qing army cavalry quickly dismounted to form a phalanx, and then used a heavy bow to hang the arquebusier, the Chinese army arquebusier of the Chinese army paid a certain amount of casualties, and the enemy fired.

The enemy's bow and arrow are messy, and the arquebuses of the Huaxia army are lined up in a row, and the salvo is fired in a hundred queues, so that although it is inferior to the Qing army in speed and accuracy, the effect of killing and injuring the enemy at one time is very powerful, and the shock to the enemy's mind is far more shocking than the heavy bow of the Qing army to the Huaxia arquebusier.

No one thought that after a year, the Huaxia Army had the first large-scale collision with the Qing army, and the Qing army could actually use the cold weapon unit and the new arquebus unit to beat the Huaxia army a little panicked, and suffered such heavy losses.

This was not expected by Zhang Qiang, but fortunately, the heavy losses in the front did not affect Xiao Fei of the Chinese army in the rear, Xiao Fei was still calmly dispatching the army.

The artillery continued to retreat, three of the six guns opened fire, three continued to retreat, looking for high ground to re-establish artillery positions, some of the artillery moved to the high ground in front of the center, and then used indirect firing teams to form a blocking fire behind the enemy.

The twelve-pounder artillery is a long-range fire at the enemy's rear that has not been launched, and at a distance of 1,500 meters, the twelve-pounder artillery may not be able to hit a person, a cannon, or a small phalanx of several hundred people, but it is still very fierce to hit a wide frontal queue of 50,000 people.

The heavy artillery that was divided focused on taking care of the enemy's artillery positions, where it caused a lot of losses to the forward soldiers of the Huaxia Army, and the Qing army used cannon fodder soldiers, and they would not pity their own people on the front line and bombed indiscriminately.

The Huaxia Army invested cold weapons troops to attack the enemy's cavalry and the dismounted infantry of the Qing army, and after an hour of fighting, the 30,000 high-grade cannon fodder troops sent by the Qing army were finally repulsed.

The cavalry fled, the infantry was pursued, surrounded, annihilated, the arquebus ranks were reorganized, the militia followed, and the corpses and wounded were quickly transported to the rear to settle down.

The battle lasted for three hours, from morning to mid-afternoon, and the Qing army returned with a great defeat, with more than 15,000 of the 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers killed, about 10,000 wounded and lying on the battlefield unable to walk, about 8,000 who were lightly wounded and captured, about 4,000 missing, about 3,000 who fled, and more than 40,000 troops evaporated.

Only 16,700 troops escaped.

The cannon fodder troops of the Qing army were basically wiped out, the primary cannon fodder died completely, the intermediate cannon fodder green battalion and the Han army flag cavalry, the Han army flag soldiers, and the new army soldiers, most of them were killed or captured, or fled, and very few fled back, and the senior cannon fodder, the Qing army cavalry and the Qing army infantry were less than half annihilated, less than half were captured, and most of them fled back.

On the side of the Huaxia Army, 4,000 people were killed, 4,000 were seriously wounded, and 2,000 were lightly wounded, basically beating a guards brigade.

It was the arquebusiers of the front line who were killed, the cold-armed units that followed up behind to block the enemy's cavalry were seriously wounded, and the artillerymen and part of the cavalry were lightly wounded.

This time the battle was basically fought by half a catty, and Zhang Qiang knew that Ao Bai really deserved to be the first warrior of the Qing Dynasty, and the combat effectiveness of the troops under his command should not be underestimated.

After the loss of nearly half of the troops, Ao Bai quickly withdrew, although he still retained more than 40,000 of his own original troops, more than 10,000 troops who fled back, but he did not like to fight, quickly dropped those cannon fodder, and withdrew to the county seat with his own men.

The Huaxia army suffered heavy losses, and did not dare to pursue rashly, cleaned up the battlefield, transferred the wounded, and then withdrew to a county town behind the army, and attacked after resting.

In this battle, Xiao Fei did not invest in the cavalry units of the Chinese army and the two super field brigades, but only used cold weapons troops and arquebus troops and artillery brigades to fight, and fought out the enemy's cannon fodder troops.

Zhang Qiang had already known the situation on the battlefield, but he still pretended not to know, he couldn't tell Xiao Fei that I had a fantasy war eagle beyond your knowledge system watching the battlefield for me in mid-air.

(End of chapter)