Hundreds of bombs fell from the sky, and the airship was pressed very low, no more than three hundred meters above the ground. Clouds of gunpowder smoke and flames rose, and the heavy gunpowder smoke that was originally produced by the shooting, coupled with the gunpowder smoke brought by the bombs, at this time, the Austrian defense line was already billowing smoke, and the vision became extremely blurred.

"Order, speed up. Cheng Liang said that as the war progressed, Cheng Liang felt that he had grasped the pulse of the opponents, unlike the initial time, he was at a loss, and he didn't know how to command the battle.

With the sound of drums and flags, the sergeants holding shields in the front row panted and quickened their pace, their bodies already soaked with sweat. Don't look at the distance of only 200 zhang, training and actual combat are two different things. In the sound of gunfire, watching the comrades around him fall one by one, the blood flowed like a river, the human body will automatically secrete adrenaline, sweat because of nervousness, plus wearing dozens of pounds of equipment, breathable leather armor, and dozens of pounds of heavy shields, sweating is normal.

At this time, the Great Chu Army didn't have time to pay attention to the sweat on his body, compared to those comrades who were bleeding to death, what was a little sweat?

The defensive troops, if they were replaced by the Chu army, would have been in chaos even if they did not collapse at this time. Fortunately, the Austrians are more familiar with gunpowder, and muskets using black powder will emit thick black smoke, and the Austrians have long been accustomed to this situation of obstructed vision.

The commander was armed with a saber and waited for a reply from the herald.

"It's done. ”

"Raise your gun, target ahead. The commander waved his saber.

"Shoot. ”

"Bang bang bang bang......" The guns rang out, and more gunpowder smoke rose, enveloping the Austrians' position in billowing gunsmoke.

"Squat down, reload. The commanding officer continued to give orders.

Soon after the soldiers squatted down, there was the sound of muskets behind them, this was the Austrian troops in the second trench firing, when the line of sight was blocked, the Austrian commander in several rows of trenches, according to the gunfire and time, to judge the situation of friendly troops, which requires a long period of training, otherwise the bullet is likely to hit the back of the friendly army.

The heavy shield does have a certain effect, but the effect is not as good as imagined, the heavy shield made of cast iron is very heavy and looks strong, but it has a weakness, that is, brittleness.

If only one or two bullets were received, it would be fine, but as soon as the number was large, the heavy shield was torn apart, and when the gunfire of the third trench rang out, the Chu army fell to the ground in rows.

The musket seems to be less powerful than the artillery, but in fact it is not, the scattered bullet shoots hundreds of projectiles at a time, while the musket has only one pellet, and the lethality is far greater than that of the scattered bullet.

The Chu army withstood the rain of bullets and rushed into the smoke of gunpowder, but found that not only could not see the enemy, but even his own comrades-in-arms could not see clearly, and only a few people nearby could barely sense their existence.

Seeing thousands of comrades-in-arms, marching hand in hand, will give every soldier enough courage, but when they can't see their comrades-in-arms, or only a few comrades-in-arms, they have a feeling of abandonment, are the comrades-in-arms still there? Is it that the large army has retreated, and only a few of us are charging?

The psychological changes made their footsteps slow down involuntarily, especially those soldiers who had lost their heavy shields, and the leather armor on their bodies could no longer give them a sense of security.

"Shotshots are loaded. ”

"Ring the bell. ”

The crisp bell rang ......, and without the order of the second row commander, the soldier who had just raised his musket withdrew his gun and retreated into the trench.

"Open fire. ”

The metal storm swept across the entire front again, and hundreds of artillery pieces of the Austrians were fired in three echelons. It is also invisible, the Austrians have long been accustomed to this way of fighting, and the Chu army is obviously very uncomfortable, as the comrades around them wail and fall in a pool of blood, the elite Xiangshui Legion soldiers finally couldn't stand it, grabbed the injured comrades, turned around and ran back.

In normal times, this kind of thing is impossible to happen, not to mention that the Xiangshui Legion has been baptized by iron and fire, and it is already an elite, even if a soldier really collapses, the nearby officers will solve the deserter as soon as possible.

Da Chu military regulations, those who rush into battle and retreat without orders will be killed!

But at this time, the front of the Xiangshui Corps was already shrouded in gunsmoke, and the officers couldn't see the soldiers' movements at all, and the soldiers couldn't find their officers.

When they dragged their wounded comrades-in-arms and escaped from the smoke of gunfire, the queue behind them was still advancing, and when they saw these comrades-in-arms, they thought they were sending the wounded down, but today, there were a lot of people sending the wounded......

This made the Xiangshui legion soldiers behind hesitate in their hearts, what happened in front of them, and how big were the casualties?

According to the previous combat calendar of the Xiangshui Army, I am afraid that more than half of the casualties have been killed and wounded in the front, otherwise it is impossible to send so many wounded down. Under normal circumstances, minor and serious injuries will not be sent, minor injuries can continue to fight, and serious injuries are no longer necessary to be treated.

When more soldiers collapsed, the soldiers in the back row could no longer move forward!

"General, the front line is broken. ”

"Well, the herald, retreat. Cheng Liang didn't care about this defeat, after the first battle, he didn't expect to be able to fight in one battle, the Austrians' fighting style was strange, so he couldn't figure out the strength of the Austrians, and he didn't even know how strong the morale and willpower of the Austrians were.

In this charge, he sent out 80,000 men and horses, if it was placed in Liaodong, it would already be a super-large battle, and it could fight against the Austrians, this was just a test swing.

"Count the personnel, and order the scouts to check the casualties of the Austrians. Cheng Liang continued to give orders.

This battle seems to be hot, but in fact, for both sides, the casualties are not as big as imagined, and the battle for most of the hour brought more than 8,700 casualties to Dachu, of which the dead were only more than 2,000.

It sounds like a lot, but considering the outcome of the first battle, the casualties in this battle were nothing at all.

A few hours later, reports from elite scouts and airship units reported that the Austrians had suffered more than 4,000 casualties and more than 1,200 killed.

Among them, about 200 people died in the shooting battalion, most of the other casualties came from the bombardment of airships, and some of them came from the troops on both wings, which accidentally broke into the enemy formation, although these two troops of more than 300 people were all killed, but they also brought almost the same number of casualties to the Austrians.

"Collect the troops, and stop here today. Cheng Liang was extremely satisfied with today's results, not in terms of how many people he lost, nor how many Austrians he killed, he felt that he was slowly going to fight again.

In terms of numbers, the coalition army has a great advantage, even if it is exchanged for two or three, Cheng Liang can afford it, the troops of Dachu and various countries are constantly pouring here, or it will not be long before the total military strength can reach more than one million, and the Austrians he is facing are currently only more than 100,000 people.

That's not the point.

War is never about everyone setting up a military formation, you give me a shot, I will slash you, that's. As the area controlled by the Austrians grows, their combat power is actually shrinking, which is exactly what Cheng Liang intentionally did.

Otherwise, how could hundreds of thousands of troops, plus hundreds of thousands of logistics, and less than 400,000 men and horses, control a range of more than 1,500 miles in a straight line, are you a big Chu?

Lengthening the supply line and making the Austrians full of loopholes, this is part of the strategy, hundreds of thousands of people look at a lot, when the battle line exceeds thousands of miles, on average, within a mile, there are few Austrians.

After lengthening the supply line, it doesn't take too long to conduct a formal interview, a month is enough, and after finding out the truth and reality, Cheng Liang knows how to fight this battle.

Back in the camp, the soldiers can rest, but Cheng Liang cannot, for him, the war has just begun.

"The order, the 2nd and 30,000 troops of the South Commander Legion, from south to north, went straight to the base camp of the Austrians. ”

"The herald, the 6th and 70,000 troops of the Jiuquan Legion advanced from northwest to south, aiming at the base camp of the Austrians. ”

"The second and fourth fleets of the Southern Navy were ordered to blockade the waters near Chunjiang Province. ”

"The herald ordered that the first, third, fifth, and sixth fleets of the Southern Navy send all reconnaissance ships to search for the second batch of landing troops of the Austrians, and after discovering them, they will report back immediately and will not be allowed to engage in battle. ”

"The order is that the Northland Army replenishes the 7th and 80,000 troops, sweeps from north to south, and if it encounters a force of less than 5,000 Austrians, it must be annihilated. ”

"The herald orders that the ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth flying groups of the airship force are ready for battle, and that they are not allowed to fight unless they have my orders. ”

"The herald ordered that at least eight brigades of the first airship would bomb the Odean camp day and night, with the brigade as a unit. ”

"The order, the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth brigades of airships will fly to the rear of the Austrians. ”

Cheng Liang issued dozens of orders in one breath, these were all things he had thought about a long time ago, because he didn't understand the strength of the Aoren, he didn't dare to do it, and now he knows some of the truth of the Aoren, it's time to kill them.

The difficulty of landing operations or enemy landing operations is very high. At this time, there was naturally no such thing as a beachhead bunker, artillery suppression, but how many people could be transported by warships and transport ships?

The Austrians have done their best, and the first batch of landing personnel, the combat unit is only five corps, and the logistics supply, craftsmen, commanders, and other personnel, all combined, do not exceed 400,000 people, and this is already the limit of what the Austrians can do.

And their second batch of landing reinforcements will take at least two and a half months to three months to arrive.

Cheng Liang must hurry up, it has been a month and a half since the Austrians landed, and Cheng Liang's arrangement has also been completed by 90 percent, and then it depends on this final blow.

Renault saw countless military horses from the screen of the God of Wealth, advancing towards the Ordinaries camp from all directions, first nodded, and then shook his head, but it is a pity that Cheng Liang is a general, but he still doesn't understand the use of gunpowder weapons.

Do you want to remind him?

Renault hesitated for a moment, and decided to forget it, is it useful to remind? Not to mention that it takes a lot of time to transmit information, even if it is reminded, it is not something that can be solved by paper letters, and there are high-ranking people in the base camp of the Austrians.