Ao Bai was worried about the arrival of the pursuing army in the enemy's rear, and in front, Wang Yuqun and Tong Dawei looked at the sky that had gradually brightened and nodded to each other.

In the sound of bells, the attacking artillery units quickly retreated, the chasers and lancers quickly broke away from contact with the enemy, withdrew from the enemy's front camp, and the scout cavalry and dragoons who pinned down the enemy quickly retreated to the front of the front army camp, where the dragoons lined up in a cavalry line with a width of two miles, blocked the front of the wrong retreat, and raised their arquebuses.

The troops retreated in an orderly manner, and the infantry quickly transferred all the enemy's supplies in the front camp to the camps of the 19th Field Brigade and the 5th Cavalry Brigade of the Huaxia Army in the rear by wheelbarrows and the enemy's carts.

The artillery covered each other, the small artillery retreated first, the artillery continued to bombard the enemy's Manchu camp and the Mongol camp, and then the artillery sound became smaller and less, and the battalion of six guns, three guns retreated first, and the three guns continued to fire, and the enemy was still confused and ran around, but the enemy did not pursue due to Aobai's order.

When the three cannons had finished retreating, they had run out of two miles and re-erected, and when they were ready to cover the retreat of the other artillery, the remaining three cannons were quickly put away, and then they were put on carts and retreated.

It was quite orderly, organized, unhurried, but extremely fast, and the military quality of the Huaxia Army was vividly reflected.

Ao Bai had already lined up with a full battalion except for the town, and they lined up in the middle of the two battalions one mile behind them, observing the enemy's retreat through binoculars.

Seeing this situation, he couldn't help but sigh, the enemy is too strong, he has already preliminarily understood his opponent, the 19th Field Brigade of the Huaxia Army, although it is a field brigade that was formed later, but it has been two years, compared to the 23rd Field Brigade of the enemy, the 24th Field Brigade has only been successfully organized this year, or the 23rd Field Brigade formed by the surrendered Taixi prisoners, and the 24th Field Brigade that he had just heard from the prisoners. This 19th Field Brigade is already the elite unit of the Huaxia Army.

In the face of such an army, in such a situation, the enemy's army was approaching from behind, and had reached the gorge thirty miles away, and he did not dare to move at all when he attacked his front army in the second half of the night, and completely destroyed his own front army, and suppressed the two full battalions of his own army and the Mongol camp in the middle of the night.

Morale must have dropped again because of this defeat, and if he had missed the slightest, his army would have collapsed.

When he got to the doorstep, he didn't want to.

I could only watch the enemy retreat.

At dawn, the enemy finally retreated, and the wounded and captured Qing troops and rescued prisoners were evacuated by the Huaxia army.

Casualties were also reported in two camps, with the Mongol battalion suffering 300 casualties, and the trenches and fences in front of the camps, many of the horses blocking the advance of the horses were blown up, and the tents in the camps were destroyed.

The full camp was breached, with five hundred casualties, and the camp on one side was destroyed with many defensive facilities, so that the two camps did not suffer much damage.

This loss is still within the range of what he can accept.

The scout cavalry in the rear lost a hundred people, and the remaining scout cavalry had been compressed into the camp and did not dare to go out.

The enemy's scout cavalry had reached the outskirts of the camp and recklessly scouted the movements of their own army.

You may be in danger of being surrounded.

The enemy's dragoons slowly retreated.

The camp of the front army was recaptured by the Mongol cavalry and the Han flag cavalry, which had retreated last night.

It's just an empty camp.

Casualties and losses were reported.

Last night, 1,000 Mongolian cavalry and 1,500 Han flag cavalry were killed or wounded, and the wounded and prisoners in the camp were obtained by the Huaxia army, and even the grain and grass and some war horses were also taken away by the Huaxia army.

Just when Ao Bai frowned, thinking about how to defeat the enemy in front of him and retreat quickly, Suo Etu returned to the camp of the army from the side path with eight hundred cavalry in embarrassment.

Seeing Suo Etu, although Ao Bai was mentally prepared, he was still a little annoyed, and the 16,000 troops were lost.

As soon as Suo Etu came back, he knelt in front of Aobai, "The last general is incompetent, after a day and a night of fierce fighting, he failed to stop the Huaxia army, please punish him." ”

According to the previous Aobai, it was light to cut Suo Etu, but he was also defeated with an army of more than 100,000, lost nearly 100,000 troops, and was also the general of the defeated army, how could he have the confidence to deal with Suo Etu, not to mention that he was the son of the minister of the court, didn't he look at the face of the monk and the face of the Buddha, so he said coldly: "I will give you a chance to make meritorious contributions, I will give you another 5,000 Mongolian cavalry, 1,400 Han army banner soldiers, 5,000 full battalion cavalry, you take the soldiers and horses of your headquarters, and immediately attack the pass where the enemy is stuck at the intersection. At noon, it was necessary to take the enemy's pass and open the way to the north. ”

Suo Etu didn't expect to be let go so easily, and after a moment, his smart brain immediately turned around, and then quickly took this order and took his personal guards out of the Chinese army camp in Aobai.

Ao Bai began to worry again, obviously, his hope of escape was slim, he had already seen the power of the infantry and artillery of the Huaxia Army, and even more saw the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Huaxia Army with muskets.

He didn't think that with his more than 20,000 troops, he could break through the enemy's nearly 20,000 troops, and the terrain alone would make all the cavalry sit on the wax.

Am I going to give up the superiority of the cavalry and let the Manchurians attack the hilly and mountainous passes held by the enemy with bows and arrows?

It's not impossible, the Manchu people are brave, now they have only entered the customs for more than ten years, many Manchus still retain the brave tradition outside the customs, Dolgon also often uses a variety of rewards to motivate the Manchus to maintain this brave tradition, most of the Manchus are not very old, the second generation of Manchus or many people perform better, there is a vigorous upward trend of the blue out of the blue and better than the blue, the Qing Dynasty is in full swing, and will maintain this momentum, until the three god-like emperors pass, the Manchus will fall.

Perhaps influenced by the tactics of Chinese weapons, many Manchus also began to doubt whether this kind of bravery was useful, and most of the Han people agreed or pleaded with the use of firearms, their physical fitness was not as good as that of the Manchus, and their fighting spirit and blood were not as good as the Manchus, and they liked to be opportunistic, and the Manchus still had a certain market for comprehensive firearms, but Dolgon was a Manchu elite, and he was also a traditional Manchu, and he still liked to let the Manchus maintain the courage of the Manchus through the practice of martial arts and the art of riding and archery.

Therefore, even though Hong Chengchou vigorously promoted firearms and established a new army, in the Manchu court, the opinion of bows and arrows and cold weapons prevailed.

Ao Bai was on the battlefield, and he also wanted to maintain this bravery and tradition of the Manchus, but he was now afraid of the firearms of the Huaxia army, so he was not confident now.

Over the battlefield, Zhang Qiang saw the situation of the Ao Bai Army through the eyes of the war eagle, and couldn't help sighing, although the Manchus were brave, but in the face of the general trend, they still lagged behind.

He hurriedly urged the 24th Field Brigade to march as soon as possible to catch up with Xiao Fei, and he wanted to surround Aobai in the Jedi and completely control this Manchu dragon.

So that his next arrangement can be successful.

(End of chapter)