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Just when the volunteer battalion led by Xiao Xuan had just effectively completed its assembly in the night battle, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves came under the cover of night. When more than 300 elite cavalrymen of the Ming army saw that their opponents seemed to have some strange firearms with thorns, but there were no decent long weapons, they also put away their three-eyed guns, took off the cavalry spears behind their backs and started to attack.

This time, the volunteer battalion that had just completed the assault operation and consumed all the pre-loaded firearms projectiles would have been able to lay the foundation for the assault operation if it had been so effective before, relying only on firearms, and laying the foundation for the assault operation, and it would inevitably usher in some brutal hand-to-hand combat, especially the steel shield shield bearers composed of the first company of the main soldier who was responsible for the hand-to-hand combat at the front and the second company in front of the main soldier. When the 3rd Company drew out some of its men to weaken the enemy's offensive momentum with a small number of grenades, it also had to reload the firearms of the 2nd and 3rd Companies equipped with firearms as quickly as possible, and only by re-exerting their ability to use firepower could the situation of the battle that had fallen into passivity at this time be completely reversed.

Before that, however, fierce and brutal hand-to-hand combat began. Many officers and men of the first and second companies were stabbed one after another by the enemy cavalry commanders under the glow of the rockets. Although many of them were covered by excellent armor, some were injured as a result. The weapon was obviously not as long as the opponent's spear, and the company could only use its bayonet to stab the blade into the incoming enemy's horse.

The only thing to be thankful for is that at a great cost, although the bayonet with good workmanship suffers in terms of attack range, the ease of killing and the after-effect of cold weapons in actual combat are obviously stronger than ordinary cold weapons.

However, when many elite cavalry of the Ming army began to dismount and fight on foot after the initial cavalry impact was frustrated, the thin front of the volunteer battalion quickly became dangerous. Even a year or two of professional martial arts practice or a few years of half-hearted melee cold weapon training can make a soldier's hand-to-hand combat ability significantly different from that of a soldier who has only been trained in hand-to-hand combat for a few days. This is also the result of the fact that the Chinese army may have suffered obvious losses in the firearms confrontation from the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression to the Korean War, but it is also the result of the opponent's firepower superiority and its own lack of ammunition.

If a unit with excellent fighting will can have a tenfold advantage over an army of the level of a mediocre power in modern times, then a semi-professional trainer with two knives may have a one-on-one advantage coefficient of punches, feet, or melee weapons dozens or nearly a hundred times.

The number of elite horsemen who dismounted did not have a clear superiority in strength like the previous enemy army, and their courage was not necessarily outstanding, but with the advantage of the length of their weapons and skills, they frequently retreated in a tight line composed of four or five hundred troops, and many people began to be wounded in places other than their armor.

If it weren't for the opponents attacking in the battles near the streets and alleys who could not besiege them on all sides because of the limited terrain, I am afraid that the volunteer battalion that had just won a great victory would soon be in a desperate situation. Seeing that the battle situation was very dangerous, Xiao Xuan had no choice but to order the officers and soldiers of the Third Company, who had just completed a round of firearm loading, to start firing with firearms, and at the same time throw a final round of grenades to buy time to reload more gunpowder. The elite of the teaching brigade who was responsible for the personal guard beside Xiao Xuan also rushed to the front line at this time to assist the regular soldiers of the first and second companies to attack.

The sound of firecrackers and explosions, and even the addition of a very small number of elite soldiers who knew martial arts, still saved the danger encountered by the entire volunteer battalion in a short time, and when more than half of the 20 elite members of the teaching brigade, which were not very large, were killed and wounded in the bloody battle, and it was not even enough to maintain the battle line along the streets and alleys, the sound of fierce firearms fire sounded not far from the shoulders of the officers and men of the first company at a very close distance. In the continuous firearms of the rear of the third company, the cavalry and horse corps, which had gathered more and more enemy troops, were finally routed.

Just as the shouts of battle and the sound of gunfire had just stopped, the sound of a large group of men and horses accompanied by many vehicles marching, and a noisy shout came from a nearby street. Seeing this situation, Xiao Xuan understood that the team that had exhausted all the ammunition and grenades to be fired with bayonets alone could not easily defeat another regular barracks with a strength of several thousand people in this situation. The team had to be ordered to hide in an alley as fast as possible, and with the help of the glimmer of light illuminated by the firerope they carried with them, they could re-prepare for the reloading of the firebolt ammunition, so that the whole team could gain a new initiative.

Just when the procession of more than 400 people had just crowded into a strip that was no more than a man wide and no more than a dozen feet deep, and the courtyard and all the houses of a half-closed prostitute house in the depths of the alley could barely be filled with people, the vanguard of the infantry of the main barracks quickly rounded the street and found this alley full of soldiers.

At this time, Xiao Xuan, who was not far from the entrance of the alley, together with some elite soldiers of the teaching brigade around him, continued to shoot with bows and arrows under the cover of the steel shield hand to at least expel these rangers in the direction of the street entrance, but soon the team faced a greater crisis, and the light artillery and artillery wagons of the Ming army under the cover of the shield hand began to be piled up, and they launched close shots along the direction of a certain inclination angle from the alley mouth at a distance of no more than ten steps.

Compared with the regular field artillery of the war era, the fire threat fired by these second or third general light guns is a level smaller, but it is also not something that a better individual shield armor can effectively resist. Under the continuous fire of multiple loaded ammunition artillery trucks, people were constantly knocked down or killed by the seven-pound heavy bullets of the bow and crossbow speed level reflected near the entrance of the alley, and more than ten shells that penetrated into the crowd made at least twenty or thirty soldiers crippled, that is, with the desperate cover of the elite of the teaching brigade and the soldiers of the volunteer battalion, Xiao Xuan, who was originally close to the entrance of the alley, was lucky to avoid the ending of either death or disability.

All of this that the whole team encountered seems to show that with such an impromptu response and reaction, the opponent encountered by an estimated team of thousands of people will not be mediocre. I'm afraid that in the entire Liaodong Army or Shaanxi Army, it can also be regarded as a relatively warlike team.

At this moment, the elite archers under the cover of the shield bearers were transferred at this time, and many torches were thrown around the roofs near the alley and into the alley. The whole team seems to be back in a desperate situation.

Fortunately, in just a few minutes, the third and second companies were reloaded with firearms. Whether it can effectively turn defeat into victory is still unpredictable.