This battle that broke out at No. 2 Ferry lasted for about six hours in total, from the time when the Ming army crossed the river at midnight yesterday to around eight o'clock in the morning now.
But strictly speaking, during these six hours, both sides were in the preparation stage for most of the time. The Ming army had to cross the river and rest after crossing the river.
On the other side, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty had to mobilize troops and generals, adjust their forces according to the situation of the entire Second Battle of Lanjiang, and finally used the No. 2 Ferry as the main battlefield, and dispatched more than 800 elite main forces to fight against the slaves.
More than two thousand Ming troops crossed the river at Ferry No. 2.
However, although the preparation time for both sides to mobilize their troops and generals is long, it does not take much time for the two sides to actually fight.
In this frontal charge and decisive battle between the main forces of both sides, they began to approach each other and organize their formations at around 7 o'clock in the morning, and finally slowly approached to a distance of about three hundred meters. This process took about an hour, which was not too short.
However, if we count from the time when the forward phalanx of the Ming army launched the charge, to the time when the Ming army collapsed, it only lasted a quarter of an hour.
Yes, a battle, even a large-scale battle involving thousands of people, once it enters the stage of close combat, it will not take long to determine the winner.
What takes time is the preparation before the battle!
However, even in this short quarter of an hour, both sides left hundreds of corpses and wounded people in this wilderness.
When the Ming army collapsed, Hao Bainian personally commanded the troops and launched a half-hour pursuit. Some Ming army generals tried several times to regroup the collapsed Ming army soldiers to block the pursuit of the new Tang Dynasty army, but they were all followed.
The new army of the Tang Dynasty was defeated again.
In the end, they had no choice but to flee all the way to the south!
After chasing for half an hour, Hao Bainian finally gave the order to withdraw his troops!
If he continued to chase, most of the Ming troops who had fled would also be finished. In the end, they would either be killed, wounded and captured or become disorganized stragglers.
However, Hao Bainian still has another important task, which is to lead his army back to Lanjiang Ferry for reinforcements!
There is a serious shortage of troops at the Lanjiang Ferry, and the elite main force of the Tang Dynasty's new army has been brought out by himself. Although the remaining troops on your Majesty's side still number two to three thousand, their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the First Infantry Battalion.
, comparable to the first mixed camp.
Worried about something unexpected happening at the Lanjiang Ferry, Hao Bainian led his troops in pursuit for half an hour. He didn't even clean up the battlefield, but just led the main force back to the Lanjiang Ferry.
Only more than 50 intact soldiers and more than 100 wounded soldiers were left at Ferry 2 to guard more than 300 prisoners and simply clean the battlefield.
Yes, they also captured more than 600 prisoners.
Although there are no detailed statistics for this battle, the approximate casualties between the enemy and ourselves have been compiled as soon as possible.
In this battle, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty completely defeated more than 2,500 people of the Ming Army who crossed the river from the No. 2 Ferry, killing about 400 people and capturing more than 600 prisoners. It is worth noting that the number of kills includes serious injuries.
Because the severely wounded basically cannot survive, it is no different from being killed. At the same time, the prisoners also include a large number of wounded in the Ming army, because many wounded cannot be evacuated from the battlefield immediately. If the injuries are not very serious, they will become a big problem.
Prisoners of war of Tang Xinjun.
The remaining more than a thousand Ming troops naturally fled, but at most four or five hundred people escaped in an organized manner. The remaining four or five hundred people ran around while being pursued. It was quite difficult for the Ming troops to gather them up.
As for the captured weapons, there are naturally a lot of them. Needless to say, all kinds of cold weapons. There are quite a few bowl-mouth cannons, and they have all been captured. However, these bowl-mouth cannons have a short range and low power. During the previous battle, the Ming army added
The artillerymen of the artillery were originally half-baked, and they were beaten to pieces by the grenadier's grenades and muskets without even firing a few shots. The artillerymen were all killed and injured, so naturally no one paid attention to those bowl-mouth cannons. After the war, they became
The spoils of the new army of the Tang Dynasty
It's just that these bowl-mouth cannons are somewhat looked down upon by the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention that they look down upon them. The border troops of the Ming Army and the troops in coastal areas no longer look down on these old antiques. Today's Ming Army can be regarded as the main force.
The main artillery of the frontier armies and some coastal armies has been replaced by Folang machine guns, and the bowl-mouth cannons have been reduced to auxiliary combat capabilities.
There were many casualties, many prisoners, and a lot of loot captured, but the casualties of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were not small.
There were more than eighty soldiers believed to have been killed, including many officers.
A considerable part of these casualties occurred among the musketeers, because when the battle just broke out and the two sides were not engaged in hand-to-hand combat, the bows and arrows of the Ming army's forward phalanx were mainly thrown towards the musketeers, and the musketeers
There was no armor to defend against, so casualties were high.
Even the officers of the First Musketeers of the Fourth Infantry Battalion were killed on the spot, thus becoming the highest-ranking officer to be killed in action since the new army of the Tang Dynasty was launched.
In addition, the casualties of the grenadiers were not small, with more than ten people killed and injured. For half of the grenadiers with only about fifty people participating in the battle, the casualty rate reached more than 30%. This figure
It was very big, but they did not collapse. After throwing the grenades, they participated in hand-to-hand combat with other troops.
As soon as the battle was over, they accompanied the main force to quickly reinforce the Lanjiang Ferry.
The performance of the grenadiers in this battle made Hao Bainian value the grenadiers even more.
This respect is not only for their powerful power when using grenades, but also for their fearless courage!
There were so many troops in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, but no one could continue to launch attacks after suffering a casualty rate of more than 30%.
More than 80 people were killed, and there were more than 100 wounded. Some of these wounded were seriously injured. These people had no choice. If they wanted to survive, they had to wait and see if God would give them face. As for those who were lightly wounded, as long as they did
If you take good care of the wound and prevent it from being infected, the chance of survival is still relatively high. After all, their wounds are mostly caused by cold weapons and will not be as troublesome as gunshot wounds.
When these lightly wounded soldiers recover from their injuries and return to the army, they will become elite veterans again!
The total loss of more than 200 people was a big blow to Hao Bainian's temporary force. However, the victory in the battle boosted their morale, so they were able to maintain a relatively high morale and return to Lanjiang Ferry for reinforcements.
Just when Hao Bainian quickly returned to the Lanjiang Ferry with a force of less than 600 men, a brutal battle broke out at the Lanjiang Ferry.
As expected, the Ming army at Lanjiang Ferry did not sit idle, but began to cross the river early in the morning, which also announced that the battle at Lanjiang Ferry had officially begun.
When the Ming army began to gather on the beach on the other side of the river in the morning, Xie Ziwei's artillery team started to get busy. They continued to fire on the other side of the river, killing the enemy's effective forces and at the same time hindering the enemy's crossing the river, so as to win for their own side.
more time.
However, relying on six artillery pieces alone was naturally unable to stop the determination of the six to seven thousand Ming army to cross the river. After they were well prepared, they quickly climbed on various river crossing tools and began to cross the river.
However, although they had already boarded the ship and had almost reached the shore, the first wave of Ming troops who landed were not many, only more than 2,000 people. The remaining 4,000 people, including Song Zhiwen himself, were still
It's floating on the river.
After more than two thousand people landed, they naturally had a fierce battle with the New Tang Dynasty Army defending the beach. The result was no surprise at all. Under the heavy fire of muskets, artillery and grenades from the New Tang Dynasty Army, the more than two thousand Ming Dynasty troops landed.
It soon collapsed, leaving countless bodies on the river beach before trying to get back to the boat on the river.
But Song Zhiwen gave the order at this time to drive these Ming troops not to retreat and to continue the attack!
As a result, the fate of this first wave of Ming troops crossing the river will definitely not be good, but why do the Ming troops still do this?
Song Zhiwen said to his subordinates: "The puppet army of the Tang Dynasty only relies on sharp firearms, and the ammunition of the firearms is limited. Let these young men rush forward and charge, and the ammunition of the puppet army of the Tang Dynasty will be almost exhausted."
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Hearing Song Zhiwen's understatement, the civil and military officials around him broke out in cold sweat. This man had such a vicious heart.
In order to consume the ammunition of the puppet Tang thief army, he directly sent more than 2,000 people out. Even though these 2,000 people were young and strong, they were not considered to have any combat effectiveness at all, but they were more than 2,000 people anyway.
A life.
The military generals who lead the army are all very kind-hearted and do not regard the lives of soldiers as life in order to win, but these civilian officials are even more vicious than the military generals.
However, Song Zhiwen's tactics were indeed effective. Although these two thousand young men were not very good at fighting, Song Zhiwen did not treat them badly. There were many huge shields and even shield cars, even some parked on the shore.
The cannons installed on the ships and more archers are still giving them a lot of support.
Therefore, although the battle still failed to break through the position, it also caused a lot of trouble for the new army of the Tang Dynasty. The musketeers fired a lot of ammunition, and even half of the grenadier team threw out a lot of ammunition.
Wheel grenade.
Otherwise, there is a real possibility that they will rush up to us.
But the consumption of ammunition is nothing. The key is that the casualties are not small. There are many archers with bows and arrows. They continuously shoot arrows at the defensive position of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and they use projectiles. This leads to
On the New Army side of the Tang Dynasty, many soldiers were injured by arrows.
In addition, the more than 20 bowl-mouth cannons of the Ming Army were also a great threat, causing considerable casualties to the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
Now, Li Xuan is frowning and thinking about how to deal with the Ming army's cannons and a large number of archers!
If the Ming army's cannons and archers continue to fight, our casualties will be too great!