These people were not used to compensate for the losses of the formation, but to increase its firepower.

Li Zhaoji found that there were quite a few vehicles in both formations, ammunition trucks, and water supply trucks, and when facing a large-scale attack of the enemy's cavalry, the hunters could completely stand on these vehicles and shoot, which could increase some firepower.

At this time, there was nothing special about Li Zhaoji's clothing, he was wearing a standard officer's uniform, but he wore a navy tricorne, except that his saber was more ornate, and it was no different from the young officers of the trading company.

Li Zhaoji single-handedly created this cross-era army, many people in the army knew him, many of them even served as his personal attendants, and Li Zhaoji also liked to be with the soldiers when he was nervous, but would not give any orders, but chatted with them or told some jokes.

The officers without exception admired him, and the soldiers had a wild trust in him, and Li Zhaoji's could always make everyone laugh with a little vulgar joke, which was a victory, and seeing the commander's affectionate attitude, the morale was even higher.

Luck Dehun followed Li Zhaoji's side to understand his future monarch as much as possible, but Li Laiheng and Zheng Sen were more concerned about the army that had just made meritorious achievements and defeated the Qing army, which was known as invincible, and the two contacted them as much as possible to understand them.

The Eastern Brigade did not refuse or alienate these friendly forces who fought alongside them, but they also did not take the initiative to say anything.

After the war, the soldiers were very busy, especially the two standing battalions in the guerrilla formation, the soldiers were cleaning up their guns in an all-round way after drinking and eating, and the smoothbore guns would produce a lot of residue every time they were shot, so they often had to clean up the guns after 30 or 40 shots.

Of course, on the battlefield, no soldier would be so discouraged as to remove those moving parts and clean them, but cleaning the chamber and medicine pool is inevitable.

The soldiers were very skilled at this, and they would first pour a large amount of water into the barrel of the gun, and then use the pusher lever to continuously clean it, flushing out the residue inside, and going back and forth several times to roughly clean it. The next step was to dry the inside of the barrel, where the soldiers would wrap a cloth around the ram to absorb most of the water inside, then take out the cartridges, fill the tank with a little gunpowder, and ignite it, and several times in a row, the remaining water vapor in the chamber could be dried with the gas produced by the deflagration gunpowder.

The veterans are very skilled in handling, but there is no shortage of recruits in the Eastern Brigade, or guys with a high level of training but not a lot of actual combat experience. These people don't just have gunpowder residues in their guns.

Although the charge of the Qing cavalry did not achieve any results, the galloping of thousands of horses was indeed terrifying, causing many soldiers to be so nervous that they hurriedly loaded their bullets without even firing their guns. Some people forgot to pull out the ejector lever and lost their sight along with the ejector and had to go to the quartermaster for a backup, while others had to reload the bullet in the chamber of the gun, resulting in the complete invalidity of the firearm.

These bullets have been deformed under the impact of gunpowder and the impact of the ejection lever, and they cannot be removed by ordinary methods, and soldiers are strictly restrained in the army from striking the barrel to avoid the barrel being deformed.

The soldiers had to temporarily replace their guns, while the collected guns were left to the disposal of specialized ordnance maintenance personnel, who used a grappling hook with a spiral iron hook to penetrate deep into the barrel and rotate the hard hook tip into the soft lead bullet, which was then pulled out.

In the largest musket, fourteen bullets were pulled out, which shows that the atmosphere of the battlefield is terrifying, so that the soldiers can no longer control themselves at all.

After Li Zhaoji pacified the soldiers, he found Yang Yandi, he handed Yang Yandi a glass of water, and said: "Yandi, now it seems that all our efforts have not been in vain. ”

"Yes, Commander, you have established a strong army of the first class in the world, the famous Eight Banners of Manchuria, which is not worth mentioning in front of your army." Yang Yandi was also very excited.

After all, in this era, there is no army with pure firearms, let alone an infantry army that can resist the impact of the cavalry of the Qing army, so in the process of establishing the Eastern Brigade, the two are always anxious, but now it has been proved that the military system and training methods of the Eastern Brigade are correct.

Li Zhaoji laughed and said, "Yandi, you and Dahe are the ones who have poured all your heart and soul into this army, and you are also the founders. ”

Yang Yandi is very pleased with Li Zhaoji to say this, as he said, Yang Yandi in the past two years, put all his efforts on training the army, although in the early days, he was reckless and rough, but now, when it comes to the command of the army, the trading company is inferior to him.

But Yang Yandi was obviously not flustered, he said: "Commander, our phalanx is unbreakable, from this it can be judged that we have time to enjoy the glory of victory in the future, and now we should discuss the next move." ”

"Of course, the next step is to create more glory." Li Zhaoji said.

As for the question of whether the firearms phalanx could withstand the impact of the cavalry of the Qing army, before this battle, the Eastern Brigade had no bottom.

Therefore, Li Zhaoji made two plans, one is to forge ahead and the other is to retreat. If you can't stop the cavalry of the Qing army, then you must not stay in this flat wilderness for too long, and it is the king to withdraw to Yulinpu as soon as possible, and then dispatch naval ships to assist in the retreat.

But now it has been proved that the Qing army cannot break through the phalanx, so Li Zhaoji certainly hopes to create more victories and more results, so he must choose an aggressive plan.

"So what's next?" Yang Yandi asked.

Li Zhaoji shook his head slightly: "Now is still not the time for us to take the initiative, the Qing army is a strong army in the world, and Jierharang is not a barbarian who can only rush and fight, they will inevitably make other attempts."

I still think you need to defend and counterattack now, but I also think that you're going to have to play a lot more in your formation. ”

Yang Yandi nodded: "Yes, but I think this is the best ending, my guerrilla will resist the main attack of the Qing army, and you will seize the opportunity to defeat them." ”

Lee said: "It's better to ....... like this. Speaking of this, he suddenly clenched his fists and said firmly: "It will definitely be like this." Yandi, if we can't defeat the enemy, how can we be worthy of this army that we have worked so hard to build? ”

At the ferry.

The Qing army's coats set up several tents, covering a shade, and all the Qing generals gathered here, but everyone's faces were pale, and Zilharang's face was as dead as ashes.

He thought that he had paid enough attention to this strange enemy who suddenly appeared, but he never expected that they were so powerful, so powerful that the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and Manchuria could not even get close to the enemy's front.

No wonder they don't use armor, no wonder they don't use spears and horses, the thunderbolt of firearms, the stormy lead bullet strafing, is the best defense. But this conclusion was obtained in exchange for the lives of a large number of Eight Banner soldiers.

"King Abatai, why are you tampering with this formation......?" The peace of the place was shattered by a general's angry rebuke, and the guy pointed to Abatai's head with red eyes, and scolded him sharply, and he rushed forward, as if he was going to rush up and fight with Abatai.

This is a Jiala Zhangjing of the Zhenghuang Banner, the lowest general who can attend the meeting, usually, this kind of general does not even have the opportunity to speak, let alone call Abatai's name, but now he can't control himself.

Zhang Jing's eldest son and younger brother were all killed in the attack on the right flank, and his eldest son followed him to charge forward, a solid cannonball directly shattered the upper half of the body, and the younger brother retreated with him, and before he could survive the incident, he was hit in the back of the head by a stray bullet.

And all this is because Abatai let the formation press, so that Zilharang misjudged the situation, if Zilharang knew that it was only the Bolo tribe that suffered losses, he would not let the right flank press, but would continue to arrange troops to harass and test the enemy.

A small number of cavalry can also be sure that the enemy's phalanx is strong, but it does not need to kill so many people.

"Well, where is the place for you to speak!" Zilharang scolded angrily and said to the people around him: "Don't fork out yet!" ”

Immediately, the two armor soldiers dragged this armor Lazhangjing and dragged him out directly. Zilharang looked around, let out a long breath, and said, "Below the solid mountain, let's all go out." ”

Many people left the tents, and those who could still stand here were either clan members or Gushan or something, and there were only seven or eight people.

"Now this king asks you first, are you still fighting?" Zilharang looked around and asked directly.

"Hit!" Sony was the first to say: "Prince Zheng, the master ordered us to go south, to exterminate the thieves, at least drive them away, if we don't fight, is it possible that they will leave on their own?" If we can't deal with them, then they will continue to go north to harass, and at that time, how should the Qing Dynasty deal with itself?

How can the army in the pass fight the thieves, our Great Qin will pour everything into the pass, if you can't return victorious, it will be a disaster. ”

Obviously, what Sony said was taking the overall situation into account, and Abatai also said: "Of course we have to fight, who is Dolgon, you all know, now the two white flags are being swept by thieves, if we don't kill all these thieves, even if Dolgon returns victorious, we will not end well." ”

"Bolo, what do you say?" Zilharang looked at Bolo.

Bolo was hanging his arm at this time, he was hit in the arm in the first round of attacks, and he was not injured, but his face was pale but not injured, but he couldn't believe that he had made such a big mistake, and Zilharang was still willing to listen to his own opinion, and chose to believe in himself.

"Hit! The national prestige of the Qing Dynasty cannot be broken, the prestige of the Eight Banners is not disgraced, even if Bolo dies, he cannot allow these thieves to insult my Qing Dynasty! Bolo waved his intact right hand and howled, a far cry from his usual steady image.

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