The three troops in the city did not have any vigilance, and the posture of you coming to fight me was just like the wish of the three hidden troops of the Tiger and Leopard Army.

When they walked into the trap without any vigilance, a division of three musketeers had already surrounded them.

It is almost impossible to quietly wipe out the 15,000 elites of the new army of the imperial court out of the city without using artillery, just like yesterday's battle.

Therefore, in these three battles, the three divisions directly put all the artillery they could use on the battlefield. And the purpose of this is one, to eliminate the new army of the imperial court that has fallen into their trap in the shortest possible time.

Therefore, when the 5,000 Imperial Court walked into the trap carefully prepared for them by the Haw Par Army, the first thing they saw was not the Haw Par Army musketeers, the first attack they encountered, nor the lethal lead bullets fired from the muskets.

Even the shadow of the Tiger and Par Army was not seen, and hundreds of flowering shells of various calibers appeared above their heads with a screaming sound.

In the face of the sudden artillery attack, thousands of soldiers of the new army of the imperial court, who were unprepared, did not have time to react at all, and the whistling flowering shells smashed on the official road and exploded.

As a fireball mixed with a large amount of black smoke rose from the official road, the official road that gathered densely packed with the new army of the imperial court was directly blown out of a no-man's land.

As far as the eye can see, there are at least 500 people in the marching column of the new imperial army that stretches for several miles, and they are directly lost in this round of artillery attack.

However, these recruits are veterans of a year-long training.

The sudden blow startled them and caused them very heavy casualties.

However, they were still before the second round of flowering bombs landed. Leave the official road quickly. Spread out.

So. The second round of flowering shells was so powerful that it only caused them one or two hundred casualties.

However, even so, under the protection of the personal guards, the commander-in-chief of the new army, who did not suffer any damage, was still frightened by the sudden blow in front of him and did not speak for a long time.

When he reacted from the shock and quickly glanced at the tragic situation on the battlefield. The whole person was like an angry lion, scolding loudly: "Dog's day...... This is not a Haw Par Army guerrilla at all...... It is impossible for the Haw Par Army guerrillas to be armed with so many artillery. This is the elite of the Haw Par Army. The Haw Par Army has already slaughtered outside Nanjing......"

A few people hurried over to General Qian, and directly agreed: "General, only the elite of the Tiger and Par Army will be equipped with so many artillery...... We have been fooled, and the Haw Par Army here must be trying to lure us out of Nanjing City, and destroy us here, weakening the defense of Nanjing City...... It must be so......"

When several other thousand presidents opened their mouths to echo and agree, a thousand general managers with a face full of gunsmoke, who had just escaped the catastrophe in the artillery attack, subconsciously asked: "General, since you already know the purpose of the Tiger and Leopard Army. So what do we do next...... Just after the artillery strike, our losses have already reached seven or eight hundred. A decision must be made now, otherwise the losses will become even greater......"

"Break through and return to the city......" the general replied without thinking.

"Our opponents are too powerful, and we are not equipped with artillery, they are not their opponents at all...... If we don't break through and return to Nanjing, all of us will have to explain that we are here......" General Chuanben ordered to assemble troops immediately and prepare for a breakthrough...... You can break through as much as you can......"

Breakthrough...... It is indeed the best choice for the commander-in-chief of the new army now.

However, what he didn't expect was that when he was attacked by the first round of flowering shells, the musketeers of a regiment of the Haw Par Army had completely blocked their breakthrough and retreat.

What's more, on the battlefield that stretched for several miles, the new army of the imperial court had just begun to assemble, and a dozen or so flowering bombs smashed at them, directly blowing up the hundreds of people they had worked so hard to assemble.

Even if they are lucky enough to gather hundreds of people and want to break out. More than 2,000 muskets of a musket regiment have been raised in front of them by the Haw Par Army......

Under the constant onslaught of hundreds of buckshot rounds after rounds, their breakout did nothing but leave behind one corpse after another.

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer soldiers left on the battlefield, and the hope of breaking through and returning to Nanjing City is becoming more and more slim. On the faces of the commanders of the new army, they could not see the towering of half an hour ago.

At this moment, the general soldier has only one thought and wish in his heart, that is, to escape from the battlefield, return to Nanjing City, and report what happened to his immediate boss, the military department Shangshu.

After some difficult and painful hesitation, the general soldier had to make a decision...... Disperse for breakouts.

Only by scattering to break through the siege, on the battlefield, only one or two thousand people remaining, including themselves, will they have the opportunity to escape from the battlefield and return to Nanjing City.

After all, the battlefield is so large, no matter how many troops the Tiger and Leopard Army has, it is impossible to surround the battlefield of Nuoda.

Since there are loopholes in the encirclement around the battlefield, then you have a chance to break through.

The general soldier was not wrong in his idea, one division of the Tiger and Par Army, excluding the two regiments at the head and the tail, there was only one regiment of musketeers moving around the battlefield and surrounding them.

And the musketeers of a regiment, no matter how capable they are, cannot guarantee that there are no loopholes around the battlefield.

However, even if there were one or two thousand people left in the new army, and there were dozens or hundreds of successful breakthroughs, it would be impossible for him to return to Nanjing.

Because, the cavalry of a regiment of the 1st Cavalry Division of the Tiger and Leopard Army was already less than five miles away from the city gate, forming a very tight blockade line. As long as the breakthrough troops of the new army dare to come, they will not be able to avoid the end of the entire army.

Therefore, even if they fled the battlefield, there was no way to return to Nanjing City......

Of course, for these cases, the commander-in-chief of the Forces nouvelles did not know.

In the eyes of the commander-in-chief of the New Army, the scattered breakthrough has become his only hope to escape from the battlefield and continue to live.

Therefore, the commander-in-chief of the new army, who made the decision, did not think about it for too long, and gave the order to disperse and break through.

Faced with this situation, the two musket regiments that had stopped the head and tail immediately began to attack the remnants of the new army, narrowing the encirclement, compressing their living space, and reducing their possibility of breaking through.

The final result was that more than 200 people, including the 5,000 imperial court new army, successfully broke through the siege, and all the others were wiped out by the tiger and leopard army.

Even so, the general soldiers and more than 100 personal guards did not escape the fate of being pursued by the cavalry division and finally becoming prisoners......

Therefore, of the more than 5,000 new troops of the imperial court, in the end, less than 100 people fled the battlefield and became a rout. (To be continued......)