The Guards and Brave Guards only made a brief pause when they retreated some distance, while continuing to suppress the enemy who tried to clean up the battlefield with various firearms, and on the other hand, sheltering the wounded and simply regrouping the ranks with heavy casualties.

While the two rounds of confrontation killed and wounded thousands of enemies, the Guards Battalion and the Brave Guards Battalion also suffered casualties of about 2,500 people, of which nearly 800 were killed or wounded. The only thing to be thankful for is that because the Jianzhou Army did not break through the vehicle formation after all, it brought a large number of hand-to-hand combat casualties, so the casualties of officers and soldiers were mainly arrow wounds. The iron armor collected from the Imperial Horse Prison and even the border army could not stop the heavy arrows fired by the Jianzhou army when it approached, but it did reduce the proportion of dead or crippled people. Although the injuries caused by many arrows after penetrating the armor were not light, and many heavy arrows could even break the bones of the lower limbs that lacked protection in the armor system of the Ming army, there were always hundreds of lightly wounded and hundreds of wounded who looked like they had hope of recovery.

Because most of them are projectile kills rather than melee hand-to-hand kills, the officers and soldiers who have undergone a year of modernization training seem to be barely able to withstand it.

The high consumption of ammunition, coupled with the fact that the burden of possible casualties in the fierce battle had been prepared, so that the combat attrition of up to 2,000 men was still capable of continuing the offensive and maneuvering, excluding minor injuries.

"How many more big and small enemies are there?" Xiao Xuan asked. It is clear from previous actual combat that this is not a general-purpose weapon. However, under the circumstance that the officers and men's melee combat ability is not reliable, this is an important guarantee for relying on the vehicle formation to contain the opponent's close combat and fully develop their own firepower.

"There are more than 1,000 enemies left in 50 catties, and more than 2,000 poles and thunders in 12 catties. The guns and artillery are about half blown up, but there is still a lot of ammunition left, when necessary... A pro-soldier said to Xiao Xuan.

Hearing this, Xiao Xuan's confidence was also quite sufficient. As long as no enemy reinforcements continue to arrive, Xiao Xuan believes that a quarter of the casualty losses should not be far away even for the main force of Jianzhou, which is comparable to the modern army. Xiao Xuan did not believe that the entire Jianzhou army, including those auxiliaries other than those in armor, would be determined to fight against the casualties and losses of infantry below the company level of the Soviet Red Army in World War II. This is especially true if the armor and weapons cannot be recovered after the casualties and losses.

"Prepare to go!" As the order was given, the song "Song of the Komsomolists", which had a different tune from the "Song of the Defenders of Moscow", sounded, symbolizing that the entire army would attack according to the predetermined plan.

First, the rear team began to advance, and the flanks began to expand over a greater distance, preparing to engulf the battlefield with the most enemy casualties from two directions. There is no doubt that the armor of the officers and soldiers who died in battle and even wounded in Jianzhou is far better in quality and comprehensiveness than the armor obtained from the Imperial Horse Prison and the border army. If 3,000 sets of full armor can be captured in this battle, considering that many of the Jianzhou troops are chain mail jackets wrapped in iron cotton armor, which are actually 6,000 armor, then at least the armor demand in the expansion of the army will be settled.

Hun Tai Ji Hei, who was not bad in combat, had already judged Xiao Xuan's thoughts and intentions when Xiao Xuan was making initial corrections to the team and desperately using firearms to contain his own side, rescue the wounded, and clean up the battlefield.

Since the army was raised in Liaodong, the Jianzhou army has of course suffered certain losses, especially in many cases, after a year's campaign, there are not many generals and officers and soldiers who have lost. However, there are almost no real defeats in which the armor is discarded and the armor is more than four figures, and the battle is not controlled. Therefore, without much discussion and coordination, all the generals of the Eight Banners who participated in the battle understood that although the casualties and losses of the army were already very serious, they must not allow the defeat worthy of the name of losing their armor to happen. Hun Taiji, who had a lot of combat experience, of course, also quickly made targeted arrangements. The large army, which was barely able to fight, with about 15,000 wounded, including 7,000 armor, relied on the strength advantage it still possessed, and concentrated its forces on the left flank, which had already borne a large burden of casualties and losses, to launch an all-out attack, which shook the formation of this forbidden brigade of the Son of Heaven.

If the opponent continues to use 10,000 enemies to defend itself with firearms, then use the method of rapid and continuous impact in a loose formation to consume the opponent's firepower resources. After countless actual battles, many Eight Banner generals and officers began to understand a true meaning of tactics: in the face of an opponent who projected strong and heavy firearms, they should disperse their forces and continuously attack to consume the opponent's firepower to achieve victory. In the face of an opponent who is outstanding in hand-to-hand combat, he controls the opponent's formation with his equally good hand-to-hand combat strength and ability to concentrate elites, and breaks it with projection power composed of firearms and heavy arrows.

In this way, the sound of continuous explosions once again evolved from the hollow phalanx of the entire army to the flat formation close to the horizontal formation, and the right flank continued to sound one after another. After paying hundreds of casualties, the right wing of the entire smoke-filled large array took advantage of the direction where the smoke moved with the air, and the elite in armor carrying ladders began to charge at the fastest speed, and seemed to completely break through the right flank of the entire horizontal formation for a while.

But at this time, the courage brought about by the more than years of modernization training and the effect of peacetime drills finally began to be reflected. Regardless of the risk of accidental injury, the artillery team began to concentrate the firepower of at least half or so of hundreds of guns in Bian Hollow Zhenzhong, and launched a fierce bombardment on the elite of Jianzhou, which had achieved a breakthrough on the right flank. At a distance of about 200 paces, there was still a good deterrent under the fierce fire of three or two bombs, but the vast majority of the Manchu elite in the front of about 20 paces had just rushed through the smoke and fell to the ground under the fierce firepower.

In hand-to-hand combat, a small number of Jianzhou elites who attacked the formation still brought a lot of casualties and danger to the entire right flank. However, after a year of training, although the melee combat ability of most officers and soldiers is still very different from that of the elite of Jianzhou, it is not a situation where the three of them are not sure of winning the advantage when they fight together.

The continuous attacks on the entire right flank also affected the advance of the entire army a lot, and at this time, Xiao Xuan did not hesitate to let the entire front team move forward after completely repelling a round of enemy attacks, and re-wrapped the battlefield where the enemy left the most corpses before.

The shield cart rolled forward with a violent explosion, and a succession of projectiles began to sweep across the column of the Jianzhou army concentrated on the right flank. At this point in the battle, the firepower of the entire Guards and Brave Guards still did not seem to be fundamentally weakened. But after continuing to suffer casualties of about 2,000 armor. Together with the cumulative losses of nearly forty percent of the previous battles, the main force of the Jianzhou Army finally had some wavering and fear, and the continuous offensive began to loosen.

(End of chapter)