In Xiao Xuan's original impression, the main force of the coalition with Wallenstein as the core was also the main force of the Holy Roman Empire that had dealt with Gustav and other Protestant coalition forces. This, combined with the rest of the Polish elite, was a force that was not weak. Even if the army wants to annihilate the opponent after the division, it will have to take a lot of risks, and I am afraid that it will have to suffer more than four digits of casualties to be possible.

However, after dawn, the counterattack force led by Xiao Xuan and the outflanking and intercepting troops led by Zhou Dayong who came quickly completed their return to the division in almost a quarter of an hour, and the climax of the battle began to end when the sky was dark and bright. All that remains is for the main forces of the volunteer forces and the main forces of the revolutionary army to thoroughly clean up the battlefield in case any important figures escape.

Subsequently, the army once again launched an attack on the city of Warsaw at the fastest speed, this time because of the participation of a lot of decent medium and heavy artillery and even the elite main force of the Polish army was lost in the previous battle, although there was still some resistance near the Warsaw palace in the city, but the attack of nearly 100,000 people did not encounter any twists and turns after all. In the direct fire of hundreds of medium and heavy artillery pieces and the skillful attack of the officers and soldiers of the volunteer troops, the recalcitrant Polish palace finally turned into a ruin where there was no longer too fierce resistance.

"What about the casualties and losses of the team? What about a rough estimate of the seizures in terms of horses and even artillery ammunition? Shortly after the end of the battle, Xiao Xuan asked. There always seemed to be something strange about this battle.

"In the immediate vicinity of Warsaw, there were still some casualties in the battle, with more than 170 killed and more than 540 wounded, of which the pure losses were probably close to 500. The ammunition consumed in these many battles near Warsaw is not small, and the preliminary rough estimate is that the scale of gunpowder is more than 300,000 catties and ammunition is about 1.5 million catties. However, the seizure is also rich, although the number of gunpowder seized is slightly less, excluding only about 210,000 catties that have not had time to spot check, but the quality of gunpowder is quite good, almost all of them are the top level of gunpowder in our army's standards in the past, and most of the lead bullets fired should not be a problem to complete the recovery within one day, of course, more importantly, there are about 30,000 horses that can barely be tamed at the moment in this battle. Although our army could not achieve three or four horses with one person like the regular cavalry of Jianzhou or the cavalry of the Liao State at that time, it also barely achieved one person and two horses, and many of them were medium-sized horses of decent quality... ”

"The casualties and losses are not all thousands?" The news he got from the staff officer made Xiao Xuan somewhat shocked, but he quickly fell into deep thought.

"After cleaning the battlefield during the day, the volunteers will continue to advance in the early hours of the morning after resting at night. The armies of the revolutionary army have just completed their long march and march, so they can rest for a while, but it is better not to exceed three days. Now our army must take advantage of the enemy's military strength and tactical response system to complete the transformation to give the enemy's living forces the maximum annihilating blow, and not let the enemy really react... Xiao Xuan made such a decision after only a moment of thought.

Obviously, the resistance encountered during the attack on Europe, and the combat effectiveness of the European army in this era, was largely lower than Xiao Xuan's original expectations, but he was relieved after seeing some random inspection reports of prisoners of war. Seventeenth-century Europe was largely similar to China in the Song and Ming dynasties, and to a large extent did not yet have the same national consciousness as it did during the Seven Years' War or the Napoleonic Wars. Fighting for survival or money or pressure from superiors is still the main motive for Western armies in this era. Moreover, compared with the East, although the European armies of this era had great advantages in gunnery and even firearms and gunpowder, they also had many disadvantages. Since the Renaissance, many parts of Europe have been reclaimed, and the lives of the people have largely been much better than they were in the fourteenth or fifteenth centuries. It can even be said that compared with the late Ming Dynasty of the same period, life is obviously better. Although it was not without poverty, there is no doubt that the relatively more affluent economic life than in the East affected the morale of most troops, which made the European armies of this era inherently in a period of relative vulnerability, with uneven quality of troops. And that's not the most important thing. The Catholics from the Holy Roman Empire were also more often less experienced than the powers on the Great Plains of Eastern Europe, such as Poland or Russia. Many of the captured Catholic Coalition officers even thought that a large-scale assault on the main station in this era would undoubtedly be an act of disadvantage. As a result, there is often more division between elite troops and garrison troops.

At this time, Zhou Dayong also said with some optimism: "Even if as the king said, the essence of Europe in the real sense is in Western Europe, only Spain, the Netherlands, and even France and Britain have seven or eight hundred thousand troops that can be put into battle, not including the navy, it seems that compared with those opponents encountered in the southward war in China, it does not seem to be much stronger." Moreover, compared with the complex terrain and often facing either severe cold or hot summer, the geographical conditions of the main battle are obviously much lighter... ”

Xiao Xuan still advised: "It is precisely because of this that our army must not be careless, and must inflict heavy losses on the enemy's main group as quickly as possible. Moreover, in the future battles, the most important goal is not only to annihilate the enemy's living forces with lightning speed, but also to weaken the opponent's artisan base and military industrial potential as soon as possible, and to capture those important military industrial towns with a large number of decent craftsmen... ”

In the military discussion, Xiao Xuan also changed the previous battle plan of concentrating forces with annihilation as the core demand, and put forward the concept of multi-way blitzkrieg. One of the reasons is that although entering a relatively densely populated area, if the main force of nearly 100,000 or so is gathered for the attack in the case of one person and two medium-sized horses, the marching speed is relatively fast, and it still takes a certain amount of energy to raise manpower and material resources, but if it is divided into a campaign group of 20,000 people or even an army, it seems to be completely different. The whole army can not only march quickly in areas rich in human population and agriculture to reduce some trouble, but also obviously improve the suddenness of the army. If this opportunity is not taken to decisively weaken the enemy's army, it is clear that the whole army will be in great danger.

(End of chapter)