Don't look at Li Xiucheng's main force of the Chinese army, which is still one kilometer away from the attack corps of the Jingwu Army, but because the maximum range of the W87 81-mm mortar is 5,700 meters, in fact, Li Xiucheng's 50,000 main forces of the Chinese army are basically all within the range of mortars.

The reason why the opponent was released to one kilometer before firing the cannon was that in addition to the pursuit of accuracy, the main reason was that he didn't want to scare the opponent away early in the morning.

You know, if you blow up five kilometers away, with the rate of fire and power of 81mm mortars, then what else is there to fight in this battle? If the other party saw this situation, there was a good chance that they would have run away in advance, and at such a long distance, their own soldiers would not be able to catch up at all, and their own training attempts would be completely ruined, and they would not be able to destroy the enemy's vital forces.

It is precisely because of these reasons that when the Jingwu Army took the initiative to attack this time, the mortars did not shoot immediately, but stayed in the rear under the protection of two infantry battalions, set up shooting Zhu Yuan in advance, and waited for Li Yongji's order.

Li Yongji's plan was to let his infantry make contact with the opponent first, and then use mortar fire to block the opponent's follow-up support, so that he could kill and injure the enemy to the greatest extent, and at the same time, after the distance was close, it would also be conducive to his next tactical move.

In this way, the artillery was behind, the infantry was in front, and the cavalry was in the center, and the entire attack corps of the Jingwu Army began to line up in a neat line again, slowly walking towards Li Xiucheng's line under the rhythm of "Hunting March".

Although the walking speed was still the same as before, the difference was that the victory in the previous battle was too easy, which made everyone's morale high and self-confidence bursting, and the expressions on the faces of the soldiers of the elite army were obviously more relaxed.

Seeing that the infantry of the Jingwu Army had already attacked, but the damned and terrible artillery of the other side did not continue to fire, Li Xiucheng made another mistake when he was worried, that is, he suspected that the artillery of the Jingwu Army had run out of shells.

He knew very well the previous situation, that is, although the two armies were two miles apart, the other side's artillery could still hit fiercely, and he hurriedly launched a charge in order not to be bombed again, but suffered a shameful defeat.

However, although the bombardment of that kind of artillery was very terrifying, the density of the bombardment was quite large, and Li Xiucheng immediately thought that this was definitely a foreigner's heavy artillery, and it was a lot of heavy artillery.

Since it is a foreigner's heavy artillery, it must be inconvenient to move, and with such a terrifying explosion power, the shells must be equally heavy, and the price must be expensive. Thinking about it this way, even if there are a lot of heavy artillery ambushes in this elite army in advance, the number of shells will definitely not be very large. After all, this is a land battle, not on a foreigner's warship, relying on people to carry horses, how many shells of heavy artillery can be pulled?

It was precisely in consideration of these, coupled with the fact that the other party actually stopped firing artillery, so Li Xiucheng suspected that the other party must have run out of shells in the round of artillery battle just now, so he took the initiative to attack at this time, the purpose must be to scare himself and scare himself away.

The more you think about it, the more likely it becomes, and if you retreat like this, it will be a complete failure, and as for now, there may be a chance to turn the tables around.

Although he thought so, Li Xiucheng was very cautious and would not put anything on this conjecture, so he quickly made preparations.

First of all, he ordered the soldiers and horses on the front line to be stationed on the spot, and transferred 5,000 men to the front line to replenish the frontal sniper force, so that the forward defending corps had a strength of 15,000 men.

Secondly, his own battalion and the main force quietly retreated, distancing themselves from the front-line sniper corps.

In this way, it is equivalent to dividing his troops into two groups, the front and the back, and the purpose of his doing this is to attack and retreat.

To put it simply, if the soldiers of the Jingwu Army can't break through the sniper troops in front and confirm that the other side really doesn't have heavy artillery shells, then the main force in the rear can become a new force, press up at the last moment, and win the game in one fell swoop!

If the soldiers of the Jingwu Army are very strong, and the cannonballs are not finished, and the 15,000 people in front are defeated in one go, then the corps in the rear of their own will also have a room for retreat and buffer. You must know that it is 15,000 people after all, you are catching them one by one, and you will be tired and half dead, and when the Jingwu army is entangled with the troops in front, he will pat his ass and lead the troops away.

Even if the Jingwu army was too violent, and after beating his own forward, he rushed over again, but the distance behind him was not long or short, it was about 200 meters, and a charge could meet each other in short quarters.

At that time, the opponent's strength has been exhausted, and he can rely on 40,000 soldiers and horses to fight with the opponent closely, and the victory or defeat is especially known.

What's more, there is still a team of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses on each wing of the Jingwu Army, and the reason why they didn't do it before was because the battle in front ended too quickly, and they didn't have time to react, as for not moving now, it was just cautious. But if the other party really attacks the Chinese army in his rear, everyone sticks together, I believe that Chen Kunshu and Lu Shunde will never sit idly by.

In this way, the infantry of the Jingwu Army, with a total of more than 7,000 people, formed one phalanx after another in a dense formation, like a rectangular grid, and walked forward unhurriedly under the rhythm of the march, and Li Xiucheng also used this time to quickly adjust the formation, just waiting for the opponent to attack by himself.

When the two sides approached to a distance of 300 meters, the Jingwu army finally stopped one after another, and then in a dense two-stage formation of half-squatting in the first row and standing in the second row, they raised their guns and aimed at the Taiping soldiers in front.

At a distance of 300 meters, if you look at a person with the naked eye, then this person is less than the size of a fist, in this era, at least in the eyes of the Taiping army, even if the other party has a foreign gun, it is absolutely impossible to shoot accurately at this distance.

What the? What did you say about the previous situation? At that time, the Taiping army attacked in too haste, who had time to care about the range of these riflemen?

As for the troops who participated in the attack at that time, because of the heavy casualties, many people had a broken heart, and after retreating, they either cried and screamed vigorously, or their heads were blank, and basically no one could explain what was happening in front of them, so in order to prevent shaking the morale of the army, they had already retreated to the rear, which made Li Xiucheng and other commanders of the Taiping Army unable to get much useful information from the previous battles.

In this way, they can only guess from experience. In their opinion, they all felt that the casualties of the previous attack were the credit of the opponent's heavy artillery (mortars) and small artillery (grenadiers), and did not count the opponent's musketeers.

On the contrary, at that time, the musketeers of the Jingwu Army raised their guns to shoot from a distance, and Li Xiucheng and others thought that it was the other party's lack of training, so they shot at such a distance. The previous Qing army also had this problem, that is, the guns were released from a distance, which had almost no effect on the Taiping army, and could only give themselves courage, so the Taiping army was no stranger to this and did not feel strange.

However, just when they were still despising the other party's cowardice in their hearts, they discovered an amazing scene, that is, the infantry on their own front line, after the other party fired, they actually fell down one by one!

Before Li Xiucheng and the others could figure it out, there was another volley of Sharps rifles, and the front of the Taiping army fell again.

At this moment, everyone understands that the opponent's musket can shoot so far, more than 200 steps, that is, 300 meters away, it can shoot accurately, and the power is so strong, and the rate of fire is so fast!

When the third platoon of guns rang out, the Taiping Army front in front finally collapsed uncontrollably and began to flee to the rear, and seeing the other side fleeing, the infantry of the Jingwu Army quickly put away their guns and began to continue to walk forward to the accompaniment of the march.

This is not Li Yongji's order, after all, this kind of on-the-spot command is the responsibility of the platoon-level commander of each squad.

If it was before, they would definitely not have put away their guns so quickly, but continued to fight a few rounds of courage, but after the previous victory with zero casualties, the Jingwu army was full of an optimistic confidence from top to bottom, and they only thought about killing the enemy, and no longer thought about anything else, which made the tactical action table so compact.

In this way, the pressure on the Taiping army increased, not to mention that the front had collapsed and fled, and the back was still trembling and not running, seeing that the other party continued to press over so quickly, and the legs and feet began to tremble, but they were also elite, and they did not run immediately, but after seeing that the other party began to stop and raise their guns, they finally turned around and fled uncontrollably.

In this way, the 15,000-man sniper regiment placed in front of Li Xiucheng completely collapsed under several rounds of guns from the other side.

After discovering that the other party began to collapse completely, this time because the distance was closer, so there was no need to wait for Li Yongji to give an order, and the cavalry troops that followed closely between the gaps in the infantry phalanx attacked decisively, and the three cavalry regiments with a total of 3,000 cavalry rushed out from the three cavalry lines at the same time, brandishing their sabers, and rushing towards the Taiping army with a roar!

After the cavalry began to charge, the infantry who were still moving forward unhurriedly and slowly were also inspired and stimulated by the cavalry charge, almost unanimously roaring, no longer caring about the formation, holding on to the ** rifle, while continuing to shout and kill, while quickly following the cavalry and charging forward!

Seeing that the troops had automatically launched a full-scale charge, Li Yongji, in order to prevent accidents, also asked his artillery to immediately fire artillery to bombard the second wave of Li Xiucheng, that is, the troops he placed in the rear, in case of accidents.

What the? What about the troops of Shunde and Chen Kunshu on both wings? There is no need to worry about this, because according to the detection of the reconnaissance balloon, after the two troops found that Li Xiucheng's Chinese army troops had collapsed, they had already begun to retreat automatically, neither attacking the flank and rear of the infantry group, nor attacking the ** soldier position, it seemed that they were either preserving their strength or being frightened.

Therefore, in Li Yongji's opinion, the harder Li Xiucheng was beaten at this time, the more these two troops would not dare to come over, and even if they came, they would not be afraid.

If these two teams dare to come over and fight the infantry in front, it will definitely not be pleasing under the infantry brigade with high morale; If they hit the artillery positions in the rear, the two infantry battalions were equipped with a lot of 56 submachine guns, which were used as machine guns, and these two partial divisions had no cavalry, and they were three miles away from the artillery positions, and by the time they ran over, it would be too late.

Upon hearing Li Yongji's order, the artillery unit immediately fired a rapid fire, firing 23 rounds a minute, and firing more than 1,200 shells within a minute.

As a result, this explosion blew up Li Xiucheng's rear troops, and even Li Xiucheng himself was injured.

Li Xiucheng himself was not hit by shrapnel, but his mount was blinded by shrapnel, and he jumped up in fright, overturning the unprepared Li Xiucheng, and accidentally fell to his head, fortunately, it had just rained, the ground was relatively soft, and he did not break his head, but the impact made him have a concussion, and he fainted all of a sudden.

Seeing this, his guards hurriedly snatched him away, and then found that Li Xiucheng was unconscious, and he didn't care about anything else, he was helped by a soldier to get on the horse, and then escorted the horse away.

In this extremely chaotic situation, the loss of Li Xiucheng's command, especially the Chinese army commander Qi also retreated, and the morale of the Taiping army that was still left behind was greatly reduced, coupled with the rout tide in front and the enemy cavalry that came after him, the result was that Li Xiucheng's large army finally suffered a chain reaction of defeat and a complete collapse of the whole army.

After seeing the collapse of the enemy's entire army, Li Yongji asked the artillery to stop bombarding Li Xiucheng's Chinese army, so as not to hurt his own people, but did not let the artillery stop the shelling, but divided into two, shelling Lu Shunde and Chen Kunshu's troops respectively.

You must know that although they are also slowly retreating, because they have not encountered a substantial attack and their strength is still there, the retreat speed is still very slow, which can be regarded as orderly, and it seems that they are still looking for opportunities.

There are still more than 20,000 of them, which is a variable on this battlefield, and no one knows if the two of them will change their minds and suddenly come over to take advantage of the fire to rob.

Therefore, to give the other party an artillery bombardment is to give the other party a warning, telling the other party that I still have strength, don't come and provoke me.

The shelling worked, and after the mortar fire on both sides, the speed of retreat quickly accelerated, and it was no longer the same as before.

At this moment, the cavalry that rushed in front of them suddenly split into three, one of which continued to charge Li Xiucheng's Chinese army, completely piercing through, and the other two rushed towards Lu Shunde and Chen Kunshu's troops respectively.

Through the communicator, Li Yongji knew that the cavalry that rushed to Lu Shunde was led by Jiang Feng, the cavalry that rushed to Chen Kunshu was Jiang Hai, and as for the cavalry that was still in Li Xiucheng's army, it was Jiang Yun, all of whom were Jiang brothers.

It turned out that the three cavalry regiments were indeed hot in their brains after launching the charge, but after charging and killing for a while, after hearing an explosion in the rear, they quickly discovered the situation on the two wings because they were riding tall horses and had a better line of sight, so they used the communicator to communicate a little, and quickly set a plan to divide the troops into three routes.

In this way, the boss Jiang Yun continued to lead the First Cavalry Regiment to attack Li Xiucheng's Chinese army, not giving the other party time to rest and recuperate, and giving the rear infantry a chance, while Jiang Hai and Jiang Feng each led a regiment of cavalry to chase and kill Lu Shunde and Chen Kunshu's troops to avoid accidents.

According to their original plan, Jiang Feng and Jiang Hai's troops should have taken the route of dragoons, that is, after arriving in front of these two troops, they dismounted and shot.

However, perhaps it was Li Xiucheng's defeat that shook the morale of the army, or the previous mortar bombardment caused chaos, or it may be that the galloping momentum of a thousand horses of Quartma was too heavy, and as a result, after the Jiang Hai and Jiangfeng brothers led their troops to rush over, the two troops also collapsed, and before the other cavalry approached, they fled backwards in a swarm.

Seeing this situation, Jiang Hai and Jiang Feng were not polite, and no longer played any dismount and step shooting, but drew out the saber, quickly whipped the horse, and rushed forward with a roar.

In this way, the two new armies, each with more than 10,000 people, were actually crushed by two cavalry armies of no more than 1,000 people each, like chasing ducks.

At this point, there is no suspense in the battle, this battle ended with the comprehensive victory of the Jingwu Army and the comprehensive defeat of the Taiping Army, the only thing to worry about is how much you can get after this battle.