The battle ahead was in full swing, and the Celestial Shadow over there organized more than 1,000 troops, a field army dissatisfied with a cavalry company, half a militia ordinary brigade of dozens of cavalry that could still fight, a militia ordinary brigade of more than 900 people, a militia elite brigade of dissatisfied infantry company, and an artillery company of the elite brigade of dozens of people, with four six-pounder guns, walked for a full two hours before coming out of the mountains and coming to the plains, on the way gathered the soldiers of the militia company stationed in the villages where the two hundred militia ordinary brigades were slaughtered, and soldiers of the fifty or sixty militia self-defense units.

The total strength of the army has also reached more than 1,500 people, which is close to the strength of a squadron of an ordinary militia brigade.

The strength of the squadron of the ordinary militia brigade is 2,500 people, and the strength of the militia elite squadron is 3,000 people.

The militia brigades were mostly infantry, with a small number of cavalry and artillery, and the weapons used were all weapons and equipment that had a certain gap with the garrison brigades.

However, the vast majority of the militia units of the Huaxia Army have already got rid of the backward equipment of the arquebus, and some of them have no way to expand out, but there are not enough elite weapons, so they can only find some weapons in stock to transport to equip them, so there are still some remaining Jingai 2 arquebuses in the inventory, which have become the main weapons and equipment of the ordinary brigade of the Huaxia Army militia.

Of course, some ordinary militia brigades also use front-loading flintlock pistols, which are just flintlock pistol equipment that has been developed a long time ago, and although there are not many of these stocks, there are quite a few of them, especially after searching a lot of local stocks some time ago, and then transporting them to the militia and militia brigades composed of the rapidly expanding local villagers.

In fact, some militias in the stable interior of Southeast Asia have long been replaced with better and more stable front-loading flintlock pistols, and because the war is too eager, there is no way to equip them with better flintlock pistols, so they can only be equipped with stock arquebuses and simple flintlock pistols.

As for the most advanced flintlock pistol, it is still rear-loaded, rifled flintlock pistols can only be equipped with guards divisions, and the equipment of the field army is only equipped with the equipment of the first ten brigades, and after the later reorganization into divisions, some of the reorganized units are only reloaded with flintlock pistols with three bullets, the kind that is troublesome to operate, and the troops supplemented by the field army brigade or the garrison unit and the militia elite unit are replaced with single-shot front-loading flintlock guns.

It is only a little more advanced than the weapons of the militia elite brigade, and some minor changes are just a few small changes, but this is also more than ten layers more advanced than the enemy's weapons, why do you say that, because the development of firearms in the Huaxia Army is very rapid, compared with the development of computers and mobile phone chips under the so-called Moore's Law in later generations, and a batch of guns can be produced with a change in one detail.

Therefore, there are many levels of guns and equipment in the Huaxia Army, which also causes the logistics chaos of the troops, or the burden on the logistics troops increases, otherwise there are ordinary militia brigades, but also militia elite brigades, and the support of the people is needed to transport those ammunition and weapons.

Marching to the periphery of the ferry in Phoenix Town, the men and horses are hiding in a natural river bed on the bank of the river, and then Tianying took his guards to climb a small hill to check the distance, in the dark, a team of soldiers and horses are scattered towards Phoenix Town, he knows that this must be Wan Douni's way to explain the field army battalion commander here, send troops with great fanfare, and secretly transfer the soldiers and horses back.

At this time, the fire dragons in the distance were rapidly surrounding Phoenix Town, and the number of torches was no less than 10,000.

The men and horses in front had already exchanged fire with the Chinese army militia in a village close to the town outside the town.

The fierce gunfire and fire can see that the enemy is coming prepared this time, and the enemy's firepower is not bad at all, and you can even see the fire fired from the artillery.

The village is not big, there are dozens of households, there are about 100 houses, all are mud houses, surrounded by trees and vegetable fields, the enemy has a lot of soldiers and horses, and it is about to surround the village, and the militia in the village quickly withdraws from the village while resisting, and runs back while running, and is well-trained.

Soon the enemy crossed the village and forced the militia into a small forest, nearly a thousand people surrounded it, those militia held the forest to the death, the enemy had to send out a horse team, only to rush into the forest, the exchange of fire was less than ten minutes, the gunfire in the forest disappeared, the enemy ran out of the forest, apparently the militia was eliminated.

On the other side, about a mile or so from the town, there was also a burst of fire, several houses were set on fire, and the sound of arquebuses firing was incessant, and even the explosion of artillery fire came from somewhere.

The enemy was repulsed once or twice, and then pressed on all sides again, and for half an hour there was an exchange of fire, and that side was also destroyed, and the enemy obviously suffered a lot of losses, and the militia brigade where it was eliminated retreated, and in the light of the torches, it could be seen that the enemy carried out a lot of corpses.

The enemy's forces were very strong, and even if there was an exchange of fire on that side, there were still many soldiers and horses running towards the town.

There were two roads directly opposite the town, one towards this side and the other towards that side, and there was nothing to obstruct them, but now many trenches were dug on the road, and a lot of horses were put on the road, and a temporary breastwall was built near the town, and the enemy attacked the trenches, and was repulsed twice, and then the enemy began to storm the city with artillery.

Torches began to appear on the banks of the river and on the roadside, on the hills, and halfway up the mountainside, and even on the top of the hill, five or six miles from here, and about ten miles from the town.

The enemy's forces flowed around the town like mercury.

Fire points were constantly being lit around the town, and many muskets began to resist the enemy invasion.

The enemy attacked those points of fire with muskets and artillery, and the brigade went at once, then retreated like a tide, and then bombarded those points with artillery, most of which were two or three hundred meters away from the town.

The battle was fierce, and even though it was still five or six miles away from the town, you could still see the bullets flying around like swarms of fireflies, and it looked beautiful in the night sky.

Tianying was a little worried, Wan Douni's strategy was only to break the enemy's plan to attack the west, but it did not reverse the contrast between the enemy's and our forces, it seems that the enemy's strength is very strong, at least more than 10,000 people, if you add the enemy besieging Ruicheng, the enemy's strength is afraid that there are not as many as 30,000 people.

At present, the strength of the troops here is only two militia brigades as the main force, and their field army is only two battalions of regular army here, although they are temporary regiment commanders, but the actual strength of the troops they bring is only the scale of the battalion, and the strength of the temporary regiment is only about 1,000 people, less than one regiment of the Huaxia Army.

"Come on, order the infantry company to build fortifications here relying on the terrain, let them be quiet, don't make a big noise, send people back to reconnoiter the way to see if there are any of our people coming, if there are any of our people coming, if there are any, intercept them for me, bring them here, send a militia infantry company to build a reverse fortification one mile behind, so as not to be surrounded and attacked by the enemy from Ruicheng."

Since the enemy is attacking from the east to the west, the enemy will definitely move his forces to this side when he sees that he can't defeat Ruicheng, and Skyshadow feels that he should block the enemy's reinforcements here.

Then he sent cavalry scouts to Ruicheng for help, even if Phoenix Town used Wan Douni's strategy, because the disparity in strength was too great, it was estimated that it would not be able to resist the enemy's attack.

Wan Douni must have sent a signal to the corps to ask for help, but when the reinforcements will arrive, I don't know, and now I can only wait for help.

(End of chapter)