Although the previous car shield was damaged, but after the infantry confrontation that came out did not last too long, they finally followed from behind, and the officers and soldiers of the front team who had advanced to a distance of about seventy or eighty paces also retreated behind the cover of the car shield, and the whole army continued to advance after having better protection.

The heavy artillery of Zhu Xieyuan's unit, which rarely showed up during the front-line infantry confrontation, also began to gradually expose the muzzle of the gun sideways at this time, and began to launch a fierce bombardment with live ammunition.

The direct fire power of the bow and arrow in the effective range was indeed much more accurate than at a distance of about one and a half miles, and dozens of heavy guns of more than 1,000 catties opened fire at the same time, knocking over more than 20 shield cars almost immediately, bringing more than 100 casualties to the entire attacking team.

Many archers who opened their bows and arrows were suppressed and influenced, but there were also a very small number of archers who did not feel the crisis of the entire front at this time.

Zhou Huli, who taught the brigade guard battalion, was not the most prominent archer on the training ground in the brigade, and his training results could only be said to be ordinary elites in the teaching brigade archers, who could effectively shoot three buckets with one stone, and the strength of the muscles was largely stronger than the bearing capacity of the bones, which made him unable to use a bow with greater fighting power, but he could shoot with this strong bow with a high rate of fire, and it was also very easy to use. The quasi-head is only at a good level on the training ground, which makes it a lot of discounts.

But when the vehicle formation system of the entire teaching brigade encountered a serious threat from the opponent's heavy artillery, Zhou Huli, who was born in the Taihang Mountains, seemed to regard the threat on the battlefield as nothing, and conscientiously followed the guidance of a middle-aged man who was quite talented in ranging with one of his partners, a fortune-teller who was quite talented in ranging, and fired from the edge of the side of the military formation with a half-projectile and a certain angle from the edge of the side of the military formation, so that more than three or two special heavy arrows were continuously thrown to the position of the enemy's heavy gunners. Thirty heavy arrows were shot in almost two minutes. These heavy arrows, which flew accurately over the shield and into the opponent's artillery array, were resisted by a tortoiseshell-like shield. But the shields and soft armor used by the southern Ming army, which were originally used to resist the projection power of the southwestern ethnic minorities, could not stop the three taels of steel-tipped heavy arrows selected at all, and people were hit one after another.

In this era, because the gunners were often far away from the task of direct combat, especially because many of them were just mercenaries recruited from the West, and in this case, only one or two people in the entire artillery crew were wounded by arrows or one person was seriously wounded or killed in battle, and almost no one dared to fire seriously from the front position.

Xiao Xuan, who was watching the battle, found at least five archers with very outstanding performance, and the officers who reacted below also mobilized the outstanding elite archers at the fastest speed to suppress the enemy's heavy artillery.

At the same time, according to the battle plan drawn up before, when the enemy's heavy artillery and even many firearms were suppressed in the effective range of bows and arrows, the entire army also relied on the remaining vehicle shields and infantry shields to move forward. The defects of projectile firepower brought about by the lack of reliable strong bows of the southern army were also fully reflected at this time.

Just twenty or thirty paces away, when the demolition team carrying the blasting rod had just come out of the formation, a continuous stream of gourd thunder was thrown from Zhu Xieyuan's army formation.

Although the successive violent explosions had little lethal effect on the officers and men of the forward officers and men of the armored teaching brigade, especially when the opponent's gourd mine fragments were not very good, they had a huge impact on the offensive formation in many places. A number of blasting rod mines were also detonated at this time, causing many casualties to the attacking team.

The southern elite, who were not afraid of close combat, took the opportunity to launch counteroffensives in many places under the cover of smoke screens, disintegrating many of the demolition offensives of the Teaching Brigade. It was not until the officers and men of the teaching brigade reacted and began to concentrate their archers on the key direction to break through and suppress the opponent's bombardiers and the melee soldiers who had gathered to prepare for a counterattack, that the demolition team finally achieved several successes, sweeping away several officers and men in the front of the enemy line with violent explosions. It's just that the melee soldiers were suddenly under heavy fire from the rear firearms during the assault.

Unlike previous battles, in which victory or defeat could be decided quickly, this time the offensive combat organization of the 1st and 2nd Teaching Brigades lasted for nearly an hour before finally forcing the enemy's forward team to abandon a lot of inconvenient heavy artillery to retreat, and through the retreat process, gunpowder was ignited in many places, which once again brought a lot of confusion to the attacking Teaching Brigade.

When Xiao Xuan stood safely on a broken chariot of the enemy army and watched the enemy under the cover of the shield hand, the elite of the Ming army, who had paid thousands of casualties, seemed to reline and began to cover each other and retreat towards the ship.

This time the casualty losses were more prominent than those of relying on gunners and archers, and the combat performance was far more prominent than in the previous battle of Qingyuan Nanyuan, and it also completely knocked out the heavy artillery team of the elite Ming army and weakened the opponent's strength to the greatest extent, so it can be said that it won the victory, but the entire teaching of the first brigade and the teaching of the second brigade of more than 10,000 main forces suffered more than 2,000 casualties in the entire operation, and the difference from the previous one was that only more than half of the people were killed and seriously wounded, and to a large extent, it was another fierce bloody battle after the battle of Qingyuan Nanyuan. It seems that many officers and men who were full of self-confidence in the past did not have much relief and joy after the victory.

Of course, Xiao Xuan didn't feel any relief because of this victory. These more than 10,000 elite main forces can almost be regarded as at least more than half of the hole cards in their hands, but in fact, they only won an advantage in the attack against 20,000 elite Ming troops. Although the strength of the Late Ming Dynasty Army is not too many, what is really called a battle? Qin Liangyu's subordinates don't mention it, and the Guangxi wolf soldiers don't mention it, just in the northwest, north, and east of Liao, there are many forces that are really worthy of battle. Even without the participation of Jianzhou, it seems that its own strategic pattern is more pessimistic than imagined.

At this time, Xiao Xuan also thought about whether he needed to return to the north after winning this battle, and whether the capital would be attacked by the rebel border army, the Guanning army, and the Ming army that rushed over from other places. It was only when he counted the seizures and the net profits from the gunpowder seizures that Xiao Xuan made up his mind to continue the attack on the enemy. At the very least, it is necessary to rescue the friendly troops besieged in the Linqing area and deal the maximum blow to the Ming army along the canal north.

(End of chapter)