Bolo thought that the cavalry division did not have artillery, but the cavalry division had twenty mortars specially reinforced by Liu Zhaoji, and this Bolo did not know.

But Lou Ting was not ready to use mortars to hit the cavalry of the Qing army, not that he was reluctant, but there were not many mortar shells, Liu Zhaoji had already handed over all the shells to Lou Ting, but there were only more than 300 shells, and Lou Ting had to use these more than 300 shells to meet the artillery of the Qing army.

"I don't think the general of the Wehrmacht knows how to fight at all, how can he face the Qing cavalry on this terrain? How is this different from looking for death? Zhao Yinxuan, who was watching the battle on the city wall, looked at the formation of the Wehrmacht and shook his head incessantly.

"Yes, we still expect them to be able to relieve the siege of Guilin, and now it seems that they are unable to protect themselves, so how can they break the siege?" Hu Yiqing continued beside him.

Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang were also extremely worried, but neither of them dared to say it, just staring at the battle outside the city.

Seeing the rifles in the Wehrmacht formation, Bolo was actually very worried, he knew that the Wehrmacht's rifles were extremely lethal, and if they wanted to break through this kind of phalanx, without artillery support, the Qing cavalry would have to pay great casualties.

Calling the cavalry commander who led the attack in front of him again, Bolo repeated his explanation.

The cavalry commander returned to the front and rear of the formation, and the Qing cavalry began to run, and the archers were at the front.

The terrain of the gentle slope down made the Qing cavalry speed extremely fast, and soon it was less than half a mile away from the phalanx of the cavalry division, while the riflemen of the opposite cavalry division still carried the rifles on their shoulders and did not raise them.

It was only 300 meters away, and with a sharp whistle on the position of the cavalry division, the riflemen quickly raised their rifles in their hands and made a posture of standing and aiming their guns.

Bolo watched the uniform movements of the riflemen of the cavalry division, and felt more and more in his heart that it was impossible to rely on the cavalry to inflict heavy casualties on the Wehrmacht.

When the cavalry of the Qing army was about 200 meters away from the phalanx, the leading cavalry suddenly galloped to the side with a horse's head, and the cavalry behind also pulled the reins, and the charging cavalry immediately separated to the left and right, and outflanked the cavalry division's phalanx.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Qing army changed the direction of attack, a short and sharp whistle sounded in the phalanx of the cavalry division.

Just when the Qing soldiers were only more than a hundred meters away from the phalanx, the phalanx of the cavalry division had already turned into a circular formation.

The galloping cavalry kicked up a large cloud of dust, and Bolo could no longer see the phalanx on the opposite side clearly, and the Ming army on the city wall could not see it at all, which made them even more worried.

The cavalry was getting closer, and quite a few of them began to draw their bows and arrows on their horses, and some archers had even fired arrows that clanged on the shields of the outermost shieldholders of the circle.

Lou Ting stared at the Qing cavalry running at the front, silently estimating the distance in his heart.

Sixty meters, fifty meters, Lou Ting did not give the order to fire, and some riflemen began to fall with arrows in the circle, and soon someone stepped forward to carry them down, and the riflemen inside quickly stepped forward to fill the gap.

Thirty meters later, Lou Ting shouted loudly: "Fire!" ”

Another short and sharp whistle sounded, and with the sound of popping beans, a large amount of gunpowder smoke rose from the sky above the circle, and the cavalry of the Qing army fell off their horses like dumplings.

However, Lou Ting's intention to kill and injure a large number of Qing cavalry here did not materialize, and Bolo's caution saved a large number of Qing cavalry.

Just as the cavalry at the front fell from their horses, the cavalry behind began to turn their horses and run to the sides, although the riflemen continued to fire after the fleeing cavalry, but the cavalry fell less and less.

Bolo used the lives of more than 200 cavalry to verify that this formation of the Wehrmacht could not be broken through by cavalry alone, and the firepower of the Wehrmacht was so dense and the range was beyond Bolo's imagination, and Bolo understood why the Wehrmacht dared to come to the rescue of Guilin with 10,000 horses.

The position of the cavalry of the Qing brigade soon sounded with the sound of gold, and the cavalry that fled from both sides gradually returned to the queue.

Just when Lou Ting ordered the cavalry division to set up an offensive formation and start advancing, Bolo led the cavalry but retreated.

The cavalry of the Qing army gradually moved away, and Lou Ting's cavalry division got on his horse again, and the cavalry on the horse still held a loaded rifle in his hand, and continued to march towards Guilin City.

When the cavalry division arrived outside the south gate of Guilin City, the Qing soldiers did not come forward to intercept it, and the cavalry division smoothly approached the city wall.

Bolo was also observing the movement of the cavalry division from a distance, his plan was very clear, he waited for the cavalry division to enter the city of Guilin and immediately withdrew, with these firearms of the Wehrmacht to defend the city, it was impossible to capture Guilin. But the possibility of the cavalry division of 10,000 horses wanting to defeat the hundreds of thousands of Qing soldiers led by him is not too great, and Bolo feels that the initiative is still in his own hands.

However, the cavalry division did not enter the city of Guilin, and Lou Ting ordered the troops to dismount a mile away from the city wall, and the cavalry division began to prepare to camp outside the city.

The south gate of Guilin City had already been opened, and Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang led a group of Ming army generals to welcome them.

Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang were extremely excited, they all knew that Guilin City was now preserved.

When the Qing cavalry charged the cavalry division just now, they all felt that the reinforcements were almost finished, and when they saw the Qing soldiers fleeing from the dust to both sides, they felt that they really didn't know enough about the Wehrmacht.

Qu Shiyun's request to invite the cavalry division to enter the city for defense was directly rejected by Lou Ting, and he clearly told the civil and military officials of the Ming army that the cavalry division was camped outside the city, and if it was convenient in Guilin City, it would be enough to transport some wood for the cavalry division to build the camp.

Just when Lou Ting and Wang Zecheng were dealing with the civil and military officials of the Ming army who came out of Guilin City, scouts rushed over from behind to report that the Qing soldiers had not retreated, and that a large group of Qing soldiers and infantry troops were coming here, and a lot of artillery was being transported in this direction.

Zhao Yingxuan and Hu Yiqing also heard the scout's report, their faces changed a little, the two glanced at each other, stepped forward to Lou Ting, Qu Shiyun and others and said that they were going back to the city to organize the defense, and after speaking, they hurriedly got on their horses and ran back to Guilin City.

"I'm afraid they'll run away, so we'll have to save a lot of effort now!" Lou Ting didn't care about the escape of the two, but said excitedly to Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang.

There were more than 25,000 Qing soldiers preparing to attack the cavalry division, and there were fifty or sixty artillery pieces of various kinds accompanied by these infantry, but the scouts did not find the red-coated cannon, that thing was too bulky, and Boluo's army did not carry it, and if there were, Guilin City would not be able to hold out today.

Lou Ting invited Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang and others to return to the city, but they were also rejected by the two, and they also brought hundreds of personal soldiers, hoping to help the cavalry division outside the city.

Lou Ting saw that the two were reluctant to return to the city, so he didn't care about them anymore and began to deploy the upcoming battle with Wang Zecheng.

Just as the cavalry division gradually unfolded the battle formation, the south gate was opened again, and nearly ten thousand Ming troops came out of the city.

There was no general above the rank of deputy general in these Ming troops, they were all low-level generals and soldiers who spontaneously asked to go out of the city to help in the war.

Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang were also extremely happy to see so many Ming troops leaving the city, and both of them greeted the Ming army out of the city.

The cavalry division moved extremely quickly, and five thousand riflemen, under the command of officers of all ranks, quickly formed an offensive battle formation.

Lou Ting held up the binoculars and looked at the Qing soldiers who were slowly approaching on the opposite side, and saw a large number of Qing soldiers pushing and pulling artillery to stop more than a mile away from the cavalry division and began to set up artillery.

Seeing that there were a lot of artillery pieces in the Qing army, Lou Ting was a little worried that the shield could not be prevented, and he knew that it was time to use mortars.

With Lou Ting's order, twenty mortars attached to the cavalry division were quickly deployed in front of the Ming army led by Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang.

The Ming soldiers were curious to see the gunners quickly erecting mortars, looking at the black barrels, which looked like artillery, but the muzzles of the guns pointed to the sky, even Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang were surprised, how could the artillery of the Wehrmacht hit the sky?

A commander stretched out his arm and gave a thumbs up to quickly gesture towards the artillery position of the Qing soldiers, and then issued a series of orders that even Qu Shiyun and Zhang Tongchang could not understand, and the gunners also adjusted the mortars very quickly.

Only one shell was tested, and the first salvo of twenty mortars began, and soon clouds of black smoke rose from the Qing artillery positions, and on the mortar positions, except for stirring up some dust, there was no gunpowder smoke.

Just after the second round of mortar salvo fire, the small phalanxes of the cavalry division had begun to maneuver to the front, Qu Shiyun saw that the rear of the cavalry division had two more phalanxes, each with about 1,500 people, and after the two phalanxes were assembled, they quickly formed three teams and ran towards the left and right sides of the Qing soldiers.

The sudden blow of the mortar completely disrupted the deployment of the Qing troops, and before the Qing artillery could set up the artillery, the gunners were almost blown up.

The cavalry division's attack on the small phalanx was extremely fast, and when it was less than half a mile away from the Qing Army's men and horses, the mortar position was still firing continuously.

Qu Shiyun's worries were completely unnecessary, the mortars had already adjusted to shoot Zhu Yuan, and the shells began to fly towards the Qing soldiers' brigade.

The attack on the small phalanx soon reached the artillery position of the Qing soldiers, and by this time, the artillery of the Qing soldiers did not even fire a single shell, and the extremely fast movements of the cavalry division greatly reduced the casualties.

Seeing that the artillery was wiped out without firing, and the opponent's shells began to fall on their heads, the Qing army's brigade had begun to have some commotion, and under the pressure of the generals' bullets, it was finally stabilized, and the cavalry division was only less than two hundred meters away from them at this time.

Finally approached, as the commanders of each phalanx blew the brass whistles in their mouths, the gunfire began to sound in succession, and the Qing soldiers began to fall in pieces.

Most of the Qing soldiers also lit the arquebuses in their hands, and the archers also shot their bows and arrows, which clanged on the shields in front of the small phalanx, and occasionally the soldiers of the cavalry division fell, but the pace of the various phalanxes did not stop.

Qu Shiyun saw that the soldiers of the cavalry division were moving forward quickly, and they were still loading ammunition, and their movements were not slow at all, and he was speechless, he didn't know that this kind of loading during the march was specially emphasized by Luo Jian, and the troops also spent a lot of effort to train.

Bolo was also closely watching the battle in front of him, and seeing that the artillery had been destroyed, knowing that the battle could not be won, Bolo quickly gave the order to retreat.

The circuitous teams on the left and right sides of the cavalry division only left seven or eight thousand Qing soldiers, but most of the Qing soldiers still fled back, which made Lou Ting a little regretful.

The surrounded Qing soldiers held out for less than five minutes before surrendering, and before the cavalry division could begin to clean up the battlefield, the scouts ran over to report to Lou Ting that the Qing troops had begun to withdraw from Guilin.