The soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment were panting and running, and the 6th Company, on the far right, was almost a few hundred meters across, and they were about to turn in whole formation, and then fire interceptive fire at the enemy cavalry, which had broken away from the baggage regiment and began to charge at the 1st Infantry Corps.

And because the third company was located in the middle of the array, the distance they ran by turning was only a few tens of meters, so when the soldiers of the sixth company were still running, they had already completed the turn, and then began to shoot asymptoctolate under the order of the company commander.

In order to pursue higher hit accuracy, Lin Anfei did not hesitate to order his troops to risk approaching the enemy cavalry in front!

Although the Mini rifle was not theoretically capable of firing at a distance of about 500 yards, the range and accuracy of the shooting were several times higher than that of the old smoothbore rifles.

However, the accuracy of the hit is relatively speaking, at a distance of about 500 yards, although the infantry of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County can shoot, and in actual combat, they have also fired volleys at this distance many times, but the accuracy of hitting is still not optimistic.

In order to achieve higher accuracy, it is necessary to get closer, preferably at a distance of about 300 yards or even 200 yards.

Immediately following the 3rd Company to complete the formation and fire was the 4th Company, both of whom were in the middle of the 2nd Infantry Regiment array.

With the combined firepower of the two companies, the cavalry of Dong Yanghong's department, which was hundreds of meters away, inevitably suffered certain casualties!

And the 3rd and 4th companies were accompanied by the 2nd Artillery Company!

Seeing that the enemy cavalry had turned and headed towards the First Infantry Corps, the Second Artillery Company also quickly turned its guns, then loaded a new round of dispersion and fired at the dense Taiping cavalry array!

As the Second Infantry Regiment and the Second Artillery Company intercepted and fired at Dong Yanghong's cavalry one after another, the cavalry of the Taiping Army began to suffer a large number of casualties.

Dong Yanghong watched the cavalry brothers in the rear keep falling, and when he looked at the Qing Demon First Steps Corps that was still more than 400 meters away in front of him, he knew that he had made a mistake, and it was a fatal mistake.

He originally thought that with his quick mobility ability, he would be able to arrive before the enemy army reacted and attack the first step of the Qing Demon from behind, but now it seems that his expectations are still too optimistic.

Not to mention the fire interception of the enemy infantry on the left, not to mention the bombardment of enemy artillery from the rear, just the hollow phalanx of the first step of the Qing Demon First Infantry Corps in front that has gradually taken shape is not so easy to gnaw.

Dong Yanghong has fought many times with the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, and he knows a lot about some of the tactics and advantages and disadvantages of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, and he knows that the hollow phalanx of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion seems to be thin, but it has great restraint for his own cavalry.

Unless the war horse is blindfolded, the war horse will not rush forward at all, but will choose to bypass, and once it bypasses, then it will also represent the death of its own cavalry.

Before going into battle, in order to prevent his own horses from being bombarded by enemy artillery and panic, he ordered the cavalry to plug the ears of the war horses, but the battle must not blindfold the war horses.

Perhaps, I should have retreated at the beginning!

But now that he is ready to fly, he has to send, even if he suffers the above casualties, he has to rush over with his cavalry, so that he can rescue Lin Chengting's main force of the Chinese army, so that he can have a chance to turn the tables!

Dong Yanghong's cavalry continued to attack, while some of the infantry of the Second Infantry Regiment had already fired gradually, some were still running and changing formations, and the soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment were also running and changing formations.

Shi Langyi looked at his own troops who had finally changed into a hollow phalanx, and he did not hesitate to order the soldiers in the rear row of the enemy cavalry to reload and fire!

And as the infantry in the rear row of the First Infantry Corps also fired at Dong Yanghong's cavalry, this means that Dong Yanghong's cavalry has been attacked by fire from three sides.

Dong Yanghong looked at the Qing Demon Hollow Phalanx hundreds of meters away, revealing a look of grief and indignation: "Withdraw!" ”

He knew that it was impossible to change the tide of the battle if he continued to charge, and it was possible to put all his remaining cavalry into it!

Seeing that the cavalry of the Taiping Army began to turn to the right and then retreat in the direction of the east, Lin Zhe, who had been nervously watching the occupation, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This time, the onslaught of the enemy cavalry is finally over!

With the withdrawal of Dong Yanghong's cavalry, Lin Chengting on the other side was also full of hatred, he did not complain that Dong Yanghong retreated halfway, he had been watching the battle from beginning to end, he knew that this time Dong Yanghong's cavalry impact had played very well, and suddenly bypassed the interception of the six hundred Qing Demon Infantry from the front of the formation, but defeated the interception of more than 300 infantry of the enemy, and was also subjected to the repeated impact of the Qing Demon Cavalry, defeated the Qing Demon Cavalry, and finally launched an attack towards the Qing Demon First Infantry Corps.

This is already an extraordinary performance for a not very professional mounted infantry, but the Qing Demon Firearms on the opposite side are too sharp, and more than 800 cavalry have rushed to the present, and there are less than 500 left.

After his own cavalry took the initiative to retreat, Lin Chengting also had to give up his plan to counterattack!

"Let's go!" Lin Chengting knew that there was no way to continue to fight today's battle, if he continued to stay and fight with them, sooner or later he would be wiped out by the Qing Demon on the opposite side, and now he can go as much as he wants!

"Look, they're running away!" Shi Qingxuan's face was full of excitement, the enemy's cavalry and infantry took the initiative to retreat, and this battle was already a victory for the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County!

However, Lin Zhe on the side did not have any excitement on his face, today's battle was a very big blow to him, originally he thought that this time the pursuit battle was nine out of ten, and the early development was indeed the case, but he didn't expect the impact of the enemy cavalry to bring him so much trouble.

The baggage regiment was defeated, and he spent a lot of effort to establish, and the personal guard, which only had more than 50 cavalry in total, was also completely disabled, and there were only less than ten remnants left, and now even Wang Luyun did not know whether he was alive or dead.

In addition, the 1st and 2nd Infantry Corps inevitably suffered some casualties, and the 2nd Infantry Regiment was better, but the 1st Infantry Regiment was always at the forefront against the counteroffensive of thousands of infantry and artillery of the Taiping Army.

Those Taiping infantry are nothing, but the more than ten artillery pieces of the Taiping Army have brought them a lot of casualties!

With Dong Yanghong's retreat, Lin Chengting also chose to take the initiative to retreat, and although the first corps also pursued in time, but the troops were too small, and they were also worried that the enemy cavalry in the east would attack again, so they didn't dare to chase too far, but despite this, they also killed and injured hundreds of enemy soldiers in the process of pursuit.

And Lin Chengting's retreat was not so easy to retreat, the completion of the retreat in the middle and late stages became a rout, and all the more than ten artillery pieces in front of the formation were lost, in fact, it was precisely because of their rout that those soldiers threw away something that could be thrown away and ran away with their lives, which made the first step of the pursuit in the back failed to achieve much results.

If Lin Chengting's troops had retreated in a large-scale organized manner, it was estimated that they would all be caught up and then routed again.

After the sound of artillery and gunfire on both sides slowly stopped, what remained on the battlefield were countless corpses and wounded soldiers!

The wounded soldiers on both sides were in pain, and the horses that had lost their masters roamed around, leaving countless swords and guns on the battlefield.

"Pass my order, rest on the spot, clean up the battlefield, and gather the troops!" As the victor, Lin Zhe did not need to leave in a hurry with his troops, and the retreating enemy cavalry was definitely not far away, and he didn't want to leave in a hurry and be attacked by the enemy cavalry again.

Moreover, in this battle, the Yuyao County Yongying suffered the largest casualties since the founding of the army, and the baggage regiment and the personal guards were almost completely wiped out, plus a small number of casualties in the First Infantry Corps, the Second Infantry Regiment, and the First Artillery Company, which brought at least 300 or even more casualties to the Yuyao County Yongying Battalion.

Although most of the casualties were the soldiers of the baggage regiment, but the casualties of the pro-guard team made Lin Zhe very heartbroken, you must know that the difficulty and cost of forming cavalry in northern Zhejiang are quite high, he finally managed to get out more than 50 cavalry, and today's battle is all lost in it, how can this not make him heartache.

In the afternoon, as after every battle, Bi Yutong walked into Lin Zhe's tent with a battle report.

At this time, in the camp tent, not only Lin Zhe was there, but also other senior officers of the Yongying Camp in Yuyao County.

There are Shi Langyi, commander of the First Infantry Corps, Lin Anfei, commander of the Second Infantry Regiment, Fu Linyang, commander of the Second Artillery Company, Shi Qingxuan, assistant director of the Supervision and Training Office, Lin Zhe's private military adviser, and Hunter William, the actual chief of staff of the Yuyao County Yongying.

However, unlike previous post-war meetings, not only were a few of these people wounded, but a few were missing.

Among them, the commander of the first artillery company, Bing Qusong, a student of the second phase of the camp school, had a bandage on his arm, and his right hand was injured by the artillery fire of the Taiping Army, and Xu Yanqing, deputy commander of the First Infantry Corps and commander of the first company, also had a bandage on his head.

And the missing people are Wang Luyun, the captain of the personal guards, who led the personal guards to attack the Taiping cavalry three times, and was finally exhausted by the Taiping army and dropped off the horse, with many injuries all over his body, and he was still unconscious after being seriously injured, and it is difficult to say whether he can survive it.

In addition, Fei Qunyang, the commander of the First Baggage Regiment, was also seriously injured in the abdomen, and is currently staying in the Military Medical Bureau with Wang Luyun for treatment.

Another senior officer of the Baggage Regiment, that is, Ling Ganxuan, the deputy commander of the Baggage Regiment and the commander of the first company, was unfortunately killed on the spot in the onslaught of the Taiping cavalry.

became the first middle and senior officer to die in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County.

After sitting down, Bi Yutong coughed lightly, and then began to say: "My lord, colleagues, now the casualty figures of the enemy and me have come out!" ”