In the modern Western armies, there is a satisfactory ratio of infantry to cavalry and artillery, and it is impossible to say that infantry alone can cover all battles.

As for the situation of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, it was also limited by themselves, not that Lin Zhe did not want to build cavalry and artillery forces, but that there was really no such condition.

To build cavalry, you must first have horses? However, in this place in the south of the Yangtze River in Zhejiang, where did he go to find a horse? Even if there are horses, but the training of cavalry is not a matter of one or two days, the cavalry of this year has to wield a saber to play melee charge, every cavalry must go through a long period of training, and it is impossible for Lin Zhe to find or train so many qualified cavalry now.

As for artillery, on the one hand, small-caliber artillery under six pounds is not effective at all for the Yuyao County Yongying Battalion, which is equipped with Mini Infantry guns.

You think, the small cannon has a range of a few hundred meters at most, which is not even as good as the range of the Mini Infantry gun, you must know that the limit range of the Mini Infantry gun can reach 900 yards, and the infantry does not need to enter the range of your artillery, it is enough to kill the artillery with a platoon.

As for medium and large-caliber artillery, it is naturally useful, if there are medium-caliber field artillery and large-caliber siege artillery, then it is very obvious to improve the combat effectiveness of the Yongying battalion in Yuyao County, but he can't buy it!

If he wants to buy artillery, to be honest, he doesn't want a small cannon produced in China at all, and if he wants to import large-caliber artillery from foreigners, on the one hand, it is expensive, maybe a twelve-pound field gun costs only four or five hundred taels of silver in Europe, but in the environment where a large-scale civil war is breaking out in China, the price of artillery quoted by those arms dealers is definitely higher.

Artillery, gun carriages, ammunition trucks, shells, plus the cost of personnel and training, if you form an artillery company, you have to throw at least five or six thousand taels of silver.

Restricted by various factors, this leads to the fact that there is no large-scale cavalry and artillery force in Lin Zhe's Yuyao County Yong Camp at present.

This also leads to the fact that when the Yongying battalion in Yuyao County goes out to fight, it can only rely solely on infantry strength!

Fortunately, there is no cavalry and artillery on the Yongying side of Yuyao County, and the Taiping Army led by Dong Yanghong on the opposite side also has no artillery, and there are not many cavalry, and even now Dong Yanghong does not even have many musketeers and archers in his hands.

There are only a few hundred traditional hand-to-hand infantry armed with swords and spears left, and they are confident in them, whether it is Lin Zhe or Hunter William.

With the drumbeat of the military band, the infantry of the Yong Battalion of Yuyao County carried their rifles and marched forward step by step with steady steps.

Dong Yanghong, who was outside the city and finally gathered the retreating defeated soldiers, was also a little stunned for a while when he saw that the Qing Demon in the city actually went out of the city to play field battles with him.

In his many years of experience of fighting with the Qing Demon, there are many examples of the Qing Demon relying on the city wall to be tenacious, but the number of times he dares to take the initiative to go out of the city and play field battles with himself is definitely only a handful, and every time he has won a big victory.

If it was in the past, Dong Yanghong was definitely overjoyed, and then commanded the troops to pounce over, but after experiencing a tentative attack yesterday and a fiasco an hour ago, he already understood that this Qing Demon in front of him was different from all the Qing Demons he had encountered in the past.

Although this Qing Demon is similar to other Qing Demons in terms of clothing, Dong Yanghong knows that these Qing Demon Firearms he encountered today are sharp.

Do you retreat or rush forward to give it a go?

What if they are only sharp with firearms and poor in hand-to-hand combat?

Dong Yanghong's many years of military and war career, hesitated for the first time!

However, he didn't have to wait long, because the Yongying of Yuyao County, which was approaching on the opposite side, didn't give him much time to hesitate!

Seeing that the Qing Demon on the opposite side was approaching, he decisively ordered dozens of cavalry under his command to make a detour from the right side, preparing to attack the Qing Demon who was advancing in a horizontal formation from the side.

And when Hunter William on the opposite side saw the cavalry of the Taiping Army coming up from the right side, he said in Lin Zhe's ear in time: "The cavalry on the opposite side has come up!" ”

Needless to say, Lin Zhe also saw it!

The order was immediately issued: "The fourth, fifth, and sixth companies on the right flank will change into a phalanx, and the remaining two companies will remain in formation!" ”

As Lin Zhe's order was handed down, the fourth and fifth companies and the sixth company, which were located on the right side of the army, quickly transformed into a hollow phalanx.

The soldiers lined up in a square based on the company, and the soldiers in the front row crouched down and stuck their bayonet rifles diagonally into the ground, while the soldiers themselves turned their heads to look at the ground or their comrades beside them, and did not look at the charging ones anyway

The hollow phalanx is the simplest and most effective way for the musket troops to fight against the cavalry in this era, but it is a pity that in the country of this era, there can be said that there is no general who can understand the most advanced tactics of contemporary times, and this is the case in the Qing army, and even more so in the Taiping army.

To put it bluntly, the war between the Taiping and Qing armies during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period was still completely stuck in the seventeenth century, and it was definitely not much more sophisticated than the tactics of the late Ming Dynasty.

A few people in China have heard of the hollow phalanx, which has become very common and popular in Western military circles, but it is obvious that the Taiping troops on the opposite side, including Dong Yanghong, do not know the restraint of the hollow phalanx against cavalry.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Taiping Army, who rode more than fifty horses, saw that the Yongying Battalion of Yuyao County on the opposite side only put out two small, thin-looking phalanxes, and they all showed hideous smiles, and they thought that when they rushed up, maybe those Qing demons would collapse before they could rush up, and even if they didn't collapse, these cavalry would be able to rely on the impact force to directly break through their fragile phalanx.

It's a pity that when they rode their horses and began to storm these hollow phalanxes, they realized that they were wrong.

When the cavalry on the opposite side just launched a charge, they found that the Qing Demon on the opposite side actually took advantage of the advantage in range to fire again, and opened fire at a distance of more than 500 meters!

The distance of more than 500 meters is actually a small distance for the cavalry charge, but today it is an insurmountable distance for these cavalry of the Taiping Army.

When hundreds of Mini infantry guns fired volleys one after another, and after the dense bullets knocked down one cavalry after another, the cavalry of those Taiping Army had just charged less than 100 meters, and even when they were still 300 meters away from the hollow phalanx in the front row of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, they had already lost more than half of them, and then ......

Then the remaining Taiping cavalry did not wait for the order, they directly pulled out the dock, and did not sweep across, but directly turned around and left!

Lin Zhe in the rear looked at this situation and couldn't help but sigh: It seems that it is superfluous to put down this hollow phalanx, I knew that I would still play a hairy phalanx, directly let the troops turn right, and then hit a few salvos, which was also enough for them to completely collapse on the way to charge.

The ultra-long range of the Mini rifle once again demonstrated its ability to influence contemporary tactics, and even Hunter Wilhelm sighed secretly when he saw this situation, could it be that the tactics that had been used for more than 100 years were becoming obsolete overnight?

Lin Zhe and Hunter William had their own thoughts, and Dong Yanghong, who was on the opposite side, finally sighed deeply after watching his cavalry fall more than halfway, and then said, "Let's go!" ”

Dong Yanghong withdrew his troops, and in the face of the initiative of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, after he sent the cavalry to carry out a tentative roundabout attack, he didn't even have the courage to fight again, but directly led the remaining more than 300 people away.

Dong Yanghong's retreat was resolute and fast, although Lin Zhe at the back had the intention to lead the troops to chase, but at this time, the shortcomings of the training days of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County were exposed, and as soon as the troops were ordered to speed up, the formation of the entire army began to scatter.

Seeing this situation, Lin Zhe, who was cautious, stopped the idea of continuing the pursuit, and instead turned around and went back to the city directly!

Dong Yanghong left, and Lin Zhe led the army back to the city, which also meant that the battle of Changxing, which lasted for two days, came to an end.

Although from the perspective of the whole country, this Battle of Changxing was inconspicuous, and did not even have any strategic impact, compared to the large-scale battles of thousands or even tens of thousands of people in other directions, the Battle of Changxing was pitifully small.

But this was a battle of historical significance for Lin Zhe and for Yongying County in Yuyao County, Lin Zhe and his Yongying County of Yuyao County participated in the war for the first time and stepped onto the stage of the civil war.

At the same time, the victory of the Battle of Changxing also greatly encouraged Lin Zhe and other officers and soldiers of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County.

"After two days of hard fighting, six soldiers were killed and 17 others were wounded. In addition to the sergeants of our battalion, there were 15 young men and 28 wounded in the city, and the above casualties mainly occurred in the battle of the South City Gate this morning! ”

In the afternoon, Bi Yutong, the assistant of the battalion office, came to Lin Zhe with a pamphlet and began to report the battle losses in the past two days.

After hearing the detailed count, Lin Zhe couldn't help but feel comforted, only six people were killed and seventeen were injured in the battle in the past two days, to be honest, this had already surprised him, originally he thought that even if he could block the enemy, at least nearly 100 people would have to be killed and wounded, but he didn't expect the casualties to be so small.

Of course, Lin Zhe directly ignored the young men and people who assisted in defending the city, in Lin Zhe's eyes, those young men and people could not be regarded as soldiers, so there was no need to pay attention to how many of them were killed or wounded.

"What about the enemy's casualties, have you counted them?" Lin Zhe asked, thinking of the casualties with his own troops, he was more concerned about how many enemy dead, judging from the battle situation yesterday and today, Lin Zhe knew that the enemy had at least nearly two hundred casualties, but the detailed number was not clear.

Bi Yutong immediately said with joy on his face: "According to our statistics, our army killed a total of 187 thieves, and captured 38 thieves!" ”

The reason why the Taiping army died in battle was not that there were so many people killed on the spot by the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, but because the Taiping army could not bring the wounded with them when they retreated, and as a result, most of these wounded were also killed, and only a small number of lightly injured or intact people were lucky enough to be taken prisoner

Hearing this accurate number, Lin Zhe thought in his heart, in this case, wouldn't the casualty ratio between the two sides be nearly ten to one, and if it was even more exaggerated to simply say the words of the dead, reaching thirty-one to one, if such a loss comparison was to be said, it would not be shocking.

You must know that in the previous battles between the Taiping army and the Qing army, it was often the Qing army that was defeated, and it was rare to be able to win, and it was never happened to be able to play such a large casualty exchange ratio.

Lin Zhe was very curious, when his good news came to Hangzhou, what would Huang Zonghan's expression be?