Of course, Xiao Xuan did not want the volunteer battalion to become an army that was known for its brute courage and did not pay attention to combat skills. Historically, because the level of the army in the Republic of China era was limited, there were only a very few teams that could seriously summarize tactics in battle and have both skillful and brave battles in actual combat. In this era, it is obvious that the level of most combat objects is lower, so Xiao Xuan bluntly preached before going to war again: "Victory is not the whole purpose of our army, the development and growth can really be used as the backbone force to achieve the Datong society, and people who have faith and reliability like us are the fundamental purpose." If at the end of the war, too many people have lost their faith because of the experience of nine deaths and a lifetime, or the team has not been able to effectively use the litmus test of the battlefield to really develop and grow, but has been constantly consumed in the battle, then there will be the original intention of establishing the Cosmos Society... Okay, last night's question summary, are you ready after noon? ”

"Ready! In last night's engagement, many of the battles were devastating and crushing the enemy, but there were two problems that obviously caused too many casualties."

"Yes, some of the enemy's melee elites have caused too much trouble in white-knuckle combat; Moreover, when attacking along the streets, the casualties encountered when blocked by artillery arrays were too great. Thankfully, in the previous battles, the enemy's elite melee and artillery formations were scattered, and if these two difficulties were piled up, God knows how much trouble it would be."

"Have you ever thought about it, especially from the enemy's point of view? If again a powerful artillery array is encountered, plus the enemy's marksmen, melee combatants, etc., are gathered together, and even relatively rudimentary and complete fortifications are built, how can they be broken in the smallest way? After every battle, use your brain extensively. You are all people who are familiar with pinyin, and you must be able to write. Therefore, it is best to have an effective summary every group and an effective communication with the whole group. Of course, time is pressing, so let's try to attack this time according to the method that some of the officers of the teaching brigade have come up with! That is, use the prepared hammer to open the doors on both sides of the ordinary streets, and do not be afraid to bring harassment and destruction to the people in the city, and our army will find a way to compensate reasonably. For those heavy brick walls that can't be smashed by a hammer, you may be able to effectively destroy them with the prepared 10,000-enemy heavyweight black powder explosive pack. The officers and men of the teaching brigade will fight with you. As for dealing with a strong enemy in close combat, you should have summed it up in detail in last night's battle: don't try to fight hand-to-hand with a tough hand who dares to fight, if you must do so, in the future you should at least cooperate in small groups to deal with the opponent, and at the same time, try to solve the problem with a gun gun fired at close range if there is no problem with the ammunition to be fired... ”

When the night the entire volunteer battalion of more than 1,000 people was thrown into battle again. After careful preparation, the breakthrough of street fighting seems to be very different from before. With the hammer of the most powerful warriors selected, temporary passages were quickly opened in many of the not very strong alleys of the capital, and many of the fortified houses were not too much of an obstacle by means of ladders prepared for street fighting.

Under the containment of the frontal assault of the volunteer death squad of the teaching brigade, the officers and men of the first company of the volunteer battalion quickly threw themselves into the attack, and with 500 flintlock guns loaded with projectiles, and hundreds of three-tael guns, they quickly killed and wounded more than 200 opponents defending from the front line in a very short period of time after the hand-to-hand combat of the side-firing fire and even the grenade offensive, and completely defeated the enemy's entire artillery and elite infantry mixed team of more than 1,000 people. When the enemy horse team rushed in from behind, the enemy was greeted by a joint attack from the volunteer battalion to the death squad of the teaching brigade.

In this way, the entire teaching brigade cooperated with friendly forces to completely defeat more than 1,000 relatively elite enemy troops at the cost of only two minor injuries, and began to crush a regular barracks at the corner of the enemy's street.

Subsequently, with the assistance of very athletic teenagers, specially selected from the brigades of the Guards and the Brave Guards, the whole team approached another street junction battle site with light equipment and as fast as possible. It was also the method of cooperating with the opponent to carry out a wall-piercing attack by bypassing the front of the street, and only the whole battalion used single-digit casualties, and most of them were minor injuries, which laid the foundation for victory or defeat on an important battlefield.

When the volunteer battalion successively cooperated with the death squad of the teaching brigade to break through the Ming army's barricades in three locations and attack the fourth place, a fierce grenade battle broke out with the prepared opponent for the surrounding construction weapons, and the casualties of the attacking team increased significantly. However, when the huge explosions that rang out one after another fundamentally damaged many buildings in the streets on both sides, and gave the two or three thousand elite soldiers from the death squad of the teaching brigade to the officers and men of the volunteer battalion who had thrown themselves into the attack a broader offensive channel and were able to bypass the opponent's artillery defense, the barricades that had seemed to be difficult to penetrate before were once again broken through.

Unlike the French cities of the 19th century, the sturdy dwellings of large families in the capital, where the gap between the rich and the poor was so great, that most of the brick walls did not seem to be as strong as they might have been, making it difficult for the barricade tactics once popular in Europe to be replicated elsewhere.

After the main force of the teaching brigade of five or six thousand people, plus the volunteer battalion that was put into battle, a total of seven or eight thousand elite soldiers quickly repelled the poor quality of combat effectiveness, and then tens of thousands of rabble in the west of the city. The entire Ming army front that attacked the capital first quickly collapsed on the western front, where the fortifications were relatively weak.

Of course, Xiao Xuan did not intend to let the momentum of the offensive collapse at this time, and the fierce counterattack came to an end when the torrent of the night continued to attack outside the entire Xizhi Gate and re-established a consolidated position for several miles on the entire western head of the city and on the earthen slopes.

Towards the wee hours of the morning, the enemy forces along the direction of the city launched several fierce attacks, so that the troops that had just gained a foothold in the west of the city fell into the defense, but when more and more militia officers and soldiers reinforced the city and brought in a lot of artillery captured that night, the tide of the battle in the whole city of Beijing quietly reversed at this time.

(End of chapter)