Although the policy of dividing troops to attack was determined, out of prudence, the Jingwu army did not send troops from Suzhou at the same time this time, but Wang Sanwu led the troops first, and after arriving in Changshu safely and stationing in the local area to stabilize the position, Li Yongji led the troops to Wuxi again, trying not to give the enemy a chance to take advantage of.

Due to the addition of bicycles, Wang Sanwu's troops arrived in Changshu half a day ahead of Lu Shunde's troops, although they set off three days later than Lu Shunde's troops.

When Lu Shunde led the army to Changshu and found that the red flag of the Jingwu army had appeared on the head of the city two miles away, he immediately wanted to retreat ten miles first, but Wang Sanwu refused to give him this chance to retreat safely.

After discovering that the opposing brigade appeared in his line of sight, Wang Sanwu ignored the persuasion of Zhou Morun, who was often familiar with the county, left an artillery company and a battalion to defend the city gate, and personally led the rest of the brigade out of the city to meet the attack.

Finding that the Jingwu Army took the initiative to attack so quickly, Lu Shunde was startled, and he didn't even have the intention of attacking in formation, so he simply spread his feet and ran away quickly.

This is not because Lu Shunde is timid, but because Lu Shunde's own family knows his own affairs. Don't look at this army of soldiers and horses, which claims to be 50,000, but in fact it is only 20,000, and except for 2,000 veterans who have participated in battles, the rest of the people are all strong men who are temporarily forced, and their role is only to wave flags and shout to scare people.

In other words, his troops and horses were originally to disturb the public and the public, and the purpose was to induce the elite army to divide the troops, and now that the goal has been achieved, it is natural to retreat far away, so as not to get too close to engage in battle again.

Lu Shunde thought it was very good, and felt that if I ran first two miles away, you would definitely not be able to catch up with me, but he ignored the speed of the Jingwu Army, and did not know that after the Jingwu Army was equipped with a bicycle, the mobility and staying power were greatly enhanced, and it was no longer comparable to the original Jingwu Army.

Two miles, that is, a distance of only one kilometer, the Jingwu army, with the cavalry personally led by Wang Sanwu as the vanguard, and the other bicycle infantry as the backbone to follow, took less than a quarter of an hour to catch up.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Sanwu saw that the other party had organized a weak phalanx dominated by pikemen, he just smiled contemptuously, and did not let the cavalry dismount, but only let the cavalry weaken his speed, and waited until the two sides approached a distance of about ten meters, and then controlled the horse with one hand, and took out the ** with the other hand to shoot around.

Seeing Wang Sanwu doing this, the others did the same, and they were also shooting with ** immediately, but the result was just a shot, and this weak spear phalanx collapsed.

It's no wonder that these pikemen collapsed in a row of guns, it's really that this kind of dragoon puts too much pressure on them.

You know, having pikemen line up to block cavalry looks pretty good on the surface, if it's a game, then this belongs to the arms of each other, and the cavalry will definitely be finished, but in reality, it's not like that at all.

Because the coercion of the cavalry is too great, even if it is a direct stunned charge, it is also a very stressful thing for the pikemen, after all, the first two rows must have suffered heavy casualties, so they are not strong-willed people, and they can't stop the cavalry in a safe formation.

This time, there was no way to organize pikemen to line up to meet the attack, because everyone knew that if the opposing cavalry rushed over, everyone did not run, so they hurriedly set up such a defensive line, but who knew that the other party just walked slowly to a distance of ten meters and called them one by one with pistols.

Due to the previous defeat under the city of Suzhou, the firearms and baggage of the guide zhì were all lost, and the only remaining firearms were also taken away by Li Xiucheng, so Lu Shunde's army was a pure cold weapons force.

Such a pure cold army, the weapons are only broadswords and spears, not even bows and arrows, Yan zhòng lacks projection weapons, so in the face of the pistols of the dragon cavalry of the Jingwu Army, he can only be stupidly next to each other, plus the other party still rides a high-headed horse to shoot at close range, and more than sixty percent of the pikemen are recruits, and it is logical that they can't withstand the pressure and collapse instantly.

Finding that the opponent's only defense line had collapsed, Wang Sanwu decisively ordered to put away his pistol, take out his saber, and begin to pursue the battle.

This tactic of chasing and defeating the soldiers, the dragoons of the Jingwu Army have been trained more than once, and they have also fought once, so it can be said that they are familiar with it again.

As for why the pistol is put away and the saber is used, it is not to save bullets, but to avoid accidental injury, because the cavalry is often unable to maintain the formation when pursuing the rout, and at the same time, the accuracy of hitting people with a pistol on a high-speed galloping horse is also very poor, and the efficiency of using a saber is higher than that of a pistol. This is also a rule in the cavalry drill code, which is similar to the return of bullets when the Japanese army fought bayonets in World War II.

Because there are bicycle troops behind, Wang Sanwu is very bold to lead the troops directly interspersed, instead of going around in circles around the periphery, and at the same time he chases and kills, and at the same time makes people shout "those who descend do not kill", he plans to directly encircle and annihilate all the soldiers and horses, leaving no one behind.

And the bicycle unit did not disappoint him, and soon caught up, and after they caught up, they did not stop, and did not even get out of the car to line up to shoot, but directly shouted "those who descend do not kill", and rushed over on bicycles, some of them rode fast, and even directly used the wheels of bicycles to hit people.

Of course, most of the Taiping soldiers chose to surrender on their knees after discovering that the bicycle troops behind them came up, after all, most of them were good citizens who had just been arrested, but they were forcibly shaved their hair, coupled with the intimidation and threat of the Taiping army, they followed because they were afraid, and when the morale collapsed, they were panicked, and then they heard the slogan that those who surrendered do not kill, and immediately knelt.

In this way, the whole battle only lasted for half an hour before it ended, almost none of Lu Shunde's 20,000 soldiers and horses escaped, basically they surrendered voluntarily after seeing that they couldn't escape, and the real casualties were only about 200 people, as for the Jingwu army led by Wang Sanwu itself, it was a zero casualty.

In short, this so-called Battle of Changshu was the first official battle after the establishment of the bicycle unit, and although there were various immatures in the process, the results were equally brilliant.

In this battle, although the number of the Jingwu army was far less than that of the Taiping army, due to the new defeat of the Taiping army, most of them were temporary conscripts with little combat experience, morale was very low, and Yan zhòng lacked firepower output, so compared with the Jingwu army, the combat effectiveness was very different, and defeat was inevitable.

In contrast, Wang Sanwu's decisive attack was just a catalyst for this victory and contributed to this victory, but in the final analysis, the strength of the Jingwu Army was too strong, and in the face of the Taiping Army, it was completely a crushing situation.

Although there is nothing to say about the outcome of this battle, in the whole course of the operation, Wang Sanwu's attack plan with dragoons as the lead and bicycle troops following up brought his own mobility and firepower advantages into full play, and played a beautiful tactical interspersed attack, which opened a precedent for blitzkrieg.

In view of this, later generations of military strategists regarded Wang Sanwu as the pioneer of blitzkrieg, and believed that the initial prototype of the blitzkrieg theory after the Jingwu Army was derived from Wang Sanwu's rapid attack flow of annihilation warfare, and because Wang Sanwu's combat in the future was erratic, he especially liked to play fast attack, so he was also crowned with the title of a blitzkrieg master by the world.