Although Song Xiangtang and other generals of the Chinese Army often let the Auxiliary Defense Army rush up as cannon fodder, and also arrange things like the supervision of the supervision team, but under normal times, the Royal Army of the Chinese Army will still arrange a lot of firepower cover for the Auxiliary Defense Army, after all, even if it is cannon fodder, it is good cannon fodder after rushing up.

This allowed the assistant defense army to rush forward and die under the enemy's firepower, just to consume some enemy bullets and shells, and Song Xiangtang asked himself if he could do it.

Just when Song Xiangtang sighed, in front of the third town of the Qing army, those green battalions and regimental exercises who turned around and fled were also stunned by the platoon guns in the third town, what was going on, how could they shoot, how could they shoot?

Several Qing army generals of the green battalion guerrillas and garrisons rode out, shouting one by one: "What are you doing here, you can't shoot, get out of the way!" ”

But the officers of the third town all received strict orders from Du Xing'a, and they would get out of the way, and they all firmly carried out Du Xing'a's order: keep shooting!

At the same time, someone shouted: "Death to those who retreat!" ”

"Keep rushing up, rush up to survive!"

The nearly 10,000 green battalions and regimental training that had just collapsed were completely chaotic, and they did not dare to rush or retreat, and in the face of the forced drive of the soldiers of the third town who gradually moved forward, they had to turn around again, and then rushed towards the position of the Chinese army.

Under the two-way muzzle fire of the Chinese Army and the Qing Army's New Army, the fate of these more than 10,000 green battalions and regimental training was destined to be extremely tragic.

Whether they rushed forward in desperation or fled backwards in fear, they would be subjected to a massive volley of shots. In the end, a green battalion guerrilla about forty years old was in tears. shouted that the injustice of heaven killed himself.

How desperate it must be for a middle-level and high-ranking general of the Qing army to draw a sword and kill himself in front of the battle!

Song Xiangtang can't know, and Du Xing'a doesn't care!

This also caused a very rare scene in the history of war. An army of more than 10,000 men was caught between the enemy and its own allies, and then annihilated in despair.

"Their sacrifice was worth it, don't you?" Du Xing'a in the rear did not have the slightest sadness or sadness at this moment, on the contrary, his face showed a trace of excitement.

Because at this moment, the new Qing army in front of them, that is, the third town, had followed the corpses of those green battalions and broke through to a place less than 100 meters away from the Chinese army's position.

And more importantly, this third town was not killed by any infantry fire from the Chinese army, except for some losses due to artillery bombardment. This allows them to maintain a full formation and rush forward with their troops.

Less than 100 meters, this distance is nothing, and it only takes more than ten seconds to run with all your might, although the speed of soldiers in actual combat cannot be as fast as athletes, but it does not take long.

When watching nearly 10,000 Qing soldiers in light blue uniforms running in their direction, the officers of the Chinese Army in command at the front also reacted in time.

When the soldiers of the third town of the Qing army rushed through a distance of about fifty meters, the Chinese troops opposite them also fired the final volley, and immediately afterwards, the officers of the Chinese army could be heard shouting about bayonets and preparing for hand-to-hand combat.

And it is very noteworthy that these soldiers of the third town of the Qing army were subjected to the first volley of the Chinese army after reaching fifty meters. Despite heavy losses, they continued to advance to a distance of about twenty-five meters.

Then they played the first and final salvo of their battle against the Chinese army inside the breastwork!

At such a close distance, it doesn't matter if it's a smoothbore gun or a rifled gun. All were able to achieve quite ideal hit rates, and the same was true of the Qing army's salvo, although most of the bullets hit the chest wall. However, some bullets still hit the Chinese soldiers who were exposed outside the breastwork, above the shoulders and even in the head.

And after playing this round of volleys. Those Qing soldiers also rushed up with rifles with bayonets!

A few seconds later, tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides were stabbing each other through a breastwork!

Occasionally, you can see soldiers shooting!

In this trench defense-style battle. Of course, if the Qing army is willing to shoot at the Chinese army outside the breastwork, Song Xiangtang will definitely applaud, but Du Xing'a is not stupid, so naturally he will not be stupid to let the soldiers line up in the unobstructed open space and shoot at the Chinese army hiding behind the breastwork.

After all, the troops under his command are not equipped with rear-loading rifles, so they can't lie down and reload and shoot, if they want to shoot at each other, they can only line up in a tight formation, and then stand upright and reload and shoot, so that they can play counter-shooting with the enemy hiding behind the breastwork, isn't this looking for death?

If it is replaced by the Sixth Army under Shi Qingxuan, then the combat method is completely different, the Sixth Army will lie down in time during the advance, and then continue to reload and shoot, and use the dense fire of the rear-loading rifle to suppress the enemy behind the breastprint or trench Some soldiers continue to advance, and the other part of the soldiers will provide fire cover, so that after alternate advances, they can rush forward smoothly.

But the current Qing army can't do this, they can only use the simplest and most effective method, that is, after approaching, they hit the first time, and at the same time, they rushed directly after the last round of salvo to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

As a result, there was a strange scene on the right flank of the battlefield, that is, the soldiers on both sides were separated by a breastwork, and then fought with bayonets, in order to be able to make the bayonets on the rifles in their hands hit the enemy, many soldiers held their rifles high and stabbed forward.

Such hand-to-hand combat is very different from traditional bayonet fighting!

While the soldiers on both sides were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, there were many Chinese artillerymen pushing four-pounder infantry guns at both ends, and then directly shelled the Qing troops on the outside of the breastwork in a horizontal shelling.

Every shot shot can make a large number of Qing soldiers fall!

The shelling from both sides obviously caused a lot of losses to the Qing soldiers who were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and although the third town was already a new army unit in the Qing army, it would still be shaken by the sharp rise in casualties in a short period of time!

The predecessor of the third town was the training unit under the personal command of Du Xing'a, which was also considered an old unit in the new army of the Qing army, but there were still a lot of recruits among them, and there was still a big gap in training compared with the first division of the Chinese army.

The First Division of the Chinese Army, although the weapons they used were still the 1851 Mini rifles, not as good as the 1856 Linde rifles, and even less than the 1858 rear-loading rifles, but the First Division was the earliest divisional unit in the Chinese Army, and the subordinate infantry regiments were all old units in the Yu Shengjun era, and many soldiers were veterans of several years of war.

In terms of training and combat experience, they can be regarded as the best troops in the Chinese army, even if they are inferior in strength, but they still cause a lot of casualties to the Qing army that rushed up.

Time passed bit by bit, and the battle continued, with soldiers on both sides killed and wounded every minute and every second!

After waiting for five or six minutes, the Chinese soldiers who were stabbing the Qing army across the chest wall found that the Qing army on the opposite side had taken the initiative to retreat!

Some of the officers looked up in other directions at this time, only to find that at least a thousand friendly troops on the right had already walked out of the breastwork, and then listed the completed horizontal column that was firing at the Qing troops in front of them.

The Qing army, which was flanked, finally couldn't withstand the heavy casualties, and then quickly retreated like a tide!

At this time, on the opposite hill, when Du Xing'a saw that the third town that he had finally rushed to was repulsed, his face became extremely dark, and after a while, he sighed deeply: "Mingjin withdraws his troops!" ”

This morning's attack was a failure, and there was little point in continuing to let the Third Town fight, and in the absence of being able to break through the enemy's defenses, and at the same time being flanked by the Chinese army from all sides, it no longer made any sense to continue the assault except to inflict more casualties on oneself.

With the order to retreat from Duxing'a, the third town, which had been fighting hard for a long time, also retreated as quickly as the tide, and at the same time, the other Qing troops who had launched a companion attack on the front and left flank gradually broke away and returned to the starting position.

The battle between the two sides lasted only about an hour at most, and after half an hour of fighting, there were many corpses and wounded on the battlefield.

In this battle, the losses of the Qing army were heavy, but the vast majority of the losses were cannon fodder from the green battalion and regimental training, and the main force, that is, those of the new army, was actually slightly larger than the loss of the third town, and the basic losses of the other troops were not large, and the losses of the new army were estimated to be nearly 1,000 people.

The losses of the Chinese army, which had just repelled the Qing army's attack, were not large, and the troops fighting on the right flank lost about two or three hundred men, and the other fronts lost one or two hundred, adding up to about five or six hundred at most.

However, those green battalions and regimental exercises suffered a lot of casualties, at least 5,000 casualties.

Moreover, it is worth noting that some of the Green Battalions and regimental training, which accounted for the majority of casualties, were actually shot and killed by the Qing army's New Army units themselves, and several rounds of platoon guns were fired just to drive the Green Battalion and regimental training forward to continue the attack, and the Qing army's new army shot and killed more than 1,000 Green Battalions and regimental training.

The others were all killed and wounded by the Chinese army as targets, and of course, it is not excluded that many green battalion and regimental training soldiers took the initiative to lie down and pretend to be dead in order to survive.

After the retreat of the new army from the Qing army, many of the soldiers of the Green Battalion, who were regarded as corpses or wounded, got up from the ground in one go, and then turned around and ran back, and it can be seen that there are not a few people who pretend to be dead.

After watching his own troops retreat, Du Xing'a looked at the Chinese army's defense line, which was almost no different from before the war, and fell into thought, this time the attack was repulsed, so what should I do next? (To be continued......)