The battle ended so quickly, with such a large casualty ratio, which no one had expected before, because before that, everyone had expected that it would be a long and vicious battle.

Of course, in all fairness, although the Taiping army had just suffered a complete defeat, compared to its own strength base of 50,000 or 60,000, 1,800 dead and wounded was not a wounded man, and the previous battle could only be said to be a tentative attack at best.

However, the cruel fact that the opponent was completely defeated and the opponent suffered zero casualties was enough to deal a fatal blow to the morale of the other side.

In other words, this incredible result has a great psychological impact on both sides, but one is a positive impact and the other is a negative impact.

For Li Yongji's side, it is naturally a frontal impact.

In the past, although Li Yongji has always had confidence in his own side, Li Xiucheng is a famous general in the world after all, and he has more troops than himself.

In view of this, he originally thought that this would be a brutal war of attrition with the density of firepower against the density of the sea of people, so he divided an attack corps composed of pure soldiers, and equipped the attack corps with a lot of five or six submachine guns as machine guns, and issued a lot of bazookas, just to improve the firepower density of his side, but who knows that these weapons of mass destruction have not been used, only mortars, Sharps rifles and a grenadier can completely defeat the opponent.

This made Li Yongji re-understand the principle of war in this era, that is, in the face of the ancient army, not only the firepower and the number of people, but also the morale, usually the latter is the key to victory or defeat.

Morale is actually a person's emotional mentality, and the higher the morale, the stronger the will to fight. After all, people are not machines, they have seven emotions and six desires, and when they do things, they will always be affected by these positive or negative emotions.

An army with high morale and strong positive feelings can often offset the influence of negative emotions such as fear, which makes the movement of this army smoother, and it can more effectively complete the prescribed tactical actions and give full play to its combat effectiveness; And an army with low morale, the negative feelings are stronger than the positive feelings, as long as the slightest defeat is necessary, it will completely collapse, it will not be able to complete the tactical actions required by the commander, and it will not be able to exert its combat effectiveness at all.

Why were there so many examples of winning more with less in ancient times? In the final analysis, it is just that the side with a large number of people is demoralized and cannot fully exert its combat effectiveness.

If we carefully analyze the so-called war and put aside those emotional things, we will find that it is actually a number game that is larger than the size.

In this numerical game, the material basis of troops, weapons and equipment is the base of combat effectiveness, and morale or combat consciousness is the percentage of combat power output, and the higher the morale, the higher the percentage of combat power output.

If one side has more people and good weapons, but the morale is low, then the total combat power output will be low, which is naturally lower than the troops with few people and poor weapons, but the morale is high, and the total combat power output is higher.

For example, now, from the perspective of combat effectiveness, the elite army occupies an absolute advantage in weapons and equipment, and the firepower is stronger, but the Taiping army occupies an absolute advantage in numbers.

However, the elite army is more organized and has a stronger firepower output, and this firepower is especially hard to deal with the enemy's morale.

Although in the previous defense, the Jingwu army itself also made a lot of mistakes, such as mortar bombardment, because of the factor that the artillery was too nervous, the rate of fire of the artillery was too fast, and the artillery fire was too concentrated, although a terrifying firepower network was formed, but it only hit a small area, wasting a lot of firepower, and did not fully exert the power of the shells, causing maximum damage to the opponent.

If the artillerymen had a better psychological element, and could carry out accurate shelling little by little in strict accordance with the requirements of the drill code, then I am afraid the results would have been better.

As for the mistakes made by the riflemen, according to Li Yongji's opinion, the accuracy and rate of fire of the soldiers of the Jingwu Army at the beginning of the musket shooting were not as good as half of the level of ordinary training.

However, the absolute superiority in firepower offset some of the Jingwu Army's own minor mistakes, and finally formed a situation in which their own side won completely.

After the end of this short and fierce battle, the morale of the Taiping army was naturally low, so the morale of the elite army was completely mobilized, in disguise, it was equivalent to the percentage of their own combat effectiveness output was greatly enhanced, and the other side was greatly weakened.

I don't know who started first, but the Jingwu army suddenly began to cheer collectively, and the morale suddenly rose.

The morale of the elite army has risen, the self-confidence is higher, the actions are faster and more effective, and the combat power that can be exerted is naturally greater, which is equivalent to increasing the weight of victory.

On the other hand, the result of this battle had a negative impact on Li Xiucheng's side, and the consequences were even greater.

He didn't know the specific information of the Jingwu Army before, he only knew that this was a regiment training township soldiers, and there were quite a few of them, one or two hundred thousand.

According to Li Xiucheng's previous experience, the combat effectiveness of the regimental training was slightly stronger than that of the regular army of the Qing army, especially after the number reached more than 10,000 people, it was already a big threat, which is why he knew that the city of Suzhou had fallen, but he was not busy entering the city, but mobilized the whole army to fight the elite army.

However, although he paid some attention, he paid limited attention, and only wanted to concentrate on a quick battle, but he didn't expect to run into the iron plate, and he didn't know that the Jingwu Army was such a strange monster, and he suffered such heavy losses.

The 3,000 infantry who assaulted Li Yongji before were already the elite of Li Xiucheng's elite, and it can be said that everyone is a warrior who is not afraid of death and has rich combat experience.

From Li Xiucheng's point of view, his 3,000 people were not unjustly defeated.

In order to prevent the artillery bombardment of the Jingwu Army, he deliberately let this elite army be a skirmish-style assault, not expecting to really win by relying on the skirmisher assault in one fell swoop, but just hoped to disrupt the rhythm of the Jingwu Army, so that the Jingwu Army could no longer fire the cannon safely and steadily, so as to open up the way for the cavalry behind.

Who knows, even if he let people scatter the assault, he still can't rush in front of the elite army, and he can't disrupt the rhythm of the opponent's attack, the other party doesn't seem to be afraid of his own frontal attack like a sea of mountains at all, and he is not frightened by the indomitable charging momentum at all.

This made Li Xiucheng realize that with the density of firepower of the elite army, any frontal charge was looking for death, even if it was a cavalry in his hands, a frontal charge might not be pleased.

Li Xiucheng is different from Li Yongji, he has rich combat experience, he has been leading troops in battles before, and he attaches great importance to morale.

He knew very well that against a powerful force like the Jingwu Army, a frontal charge of a swarm would not work, and it was impossible for the soldiers to rush without fear of life and death, once the forward was defeated, the people behind would be afraid, which would cause a chain reaction and make the entire army collapse.

The first attack on the Jiangnan camp is the best example. At that time, when the Qing army was fighting, there were still more than 100,000 Qing troops in the Jiangnan camp, but when the battle was really engaged, the Qing army only lost two or three thousand people in front, and it collapsed completely.

In the face of the demoralized Qing soldiers, the Taiping army did not need to be afraid of anything at all, they just needed to keep pursuing.

Conversely, the same is true for the Taiping army itself, if they blindly threw all their strength into a frontal charge, the result is likely to be a complete defeat, not just a partial defeat as before.

This made Li Xiucheng feel a headache, he felt that if he wanted to deal with a powerful force like the Jingwu Army, it was not advisable to attack head-on, and it was not easy to use pure defense, it was best to use a wide range of mobile operations to drag down the opponent, but it was difficult to say whether this move could be successful, after all, the opponent's mobility did not look bad.

After thinking about it, Li Xiucheng felt that if he wanted to defeat the other party, it seemed that the only way to expand the contact area and engage in a wide range of interspersed encirclement was to do so.

That is to say, in order to deal with this powerful firepower force, it is necessary to use its numerical superiority to surround this force in all directions, first knock out the opponent's logistics, and then besiege it on all sides, and once the other side attacks, it will retreat itself.

This is the same as when the Qing army dealt with the Taiping army, if they couldn't fight head-on, they would never leave, never fight, and never withdraw, just stick together, looking for fighters in motion.

But that is the ideal state, even Li Xiucheng himself feels that it is difficult, after all, he can't retreat now, and everything will be closed as soon as he retreats. Therefore, he must fight head-on, and he must quickly annihilate this strange force in a short time, otherwise the good situation may be ruined.

In this way, you can only use your numerical advantage to expand the battlefield, divide into more attack groups, fully surround this army, and then launch a large-scale crowd charge, attack at the same time in all directions, and use multiple attacks and a large number of casualties in exchange for the opportunity to fight in close combat, so that there may be a little possibility of victory.

You know, one side of the attack, may be easy to produce a chain of collapse, but the multi-faceted and multi-point attack reduces this chain reaction, but also distracts the opponent's energy, increases the difficulty of the opponent's defense, as long as the opponent is not careful, they have a force that can rush over and fight with the opponent in close combat, they have a chance.

However, this must have enough morale, and now that his morale has been lost, he has lost the opportunity for a decisive battle, so Li Xiucheng plans to temporarily retreat first, and then find an opportunity to fight a decisive battle after regrouping.

However, the morale was high and the self-confidence of the elite army refused to give him a chance to retire in peace. When Li Yongji Tong Guò scouted the balloon and found that Li Xiucheng's troops actually had the intention of retreating, he decisively ordered the whole army to press on and began to take the initiative to attack.

Last time, strictly speaking, the Taiping army attacked and the Jingwu army defended, but this time, it was replaced by the Jingwu army attacking, and the Taiping army defended.

Last time, it was the Taiping Army that was full of confidence, and the Jingwu Army was worried, but this time, it was replaced by the Jingwu Army full of confidence, and the Taiping Army was afraid.

The offensive and defensive momentum has changed! The dawn of total victory is at hand!