Fang Yuanxin once again looked back at the messy Luoan Army transport force position, and frowned: There is something strange about this Luoan Army transport force.
His attack went so smoothly, but he even lost more than fifty cavalry.
The proportion of offensive losses actually reached ten percent.
This is not normal!
This shouldn't be the case!
When Fang Yuanxin looked serious, Lin Ziran across from him also had a sad face!
The Guang'an cavalry launched a charge, then rushed into the car formation to fight, and then evacuated. It only took a few minutes. However, in these few minutes, civilian husbands and some soldiers who had no time to hide in the car formation suffered heavy casualties.
Even the patrol battalion soldiers in the vehicle formation suffered many casualties.
Even though there was no detailed inventory, Lin Ziran knew just by looking at the situation outside that at least a hundred civilians had been killed or injured, and many carriages had been set on fire by the opponent's torches.
Even though our patrol battalion soldiers had carriages as support, they still suffered more than ten casualties.
Hao Ren's side is probably similar.
This loss was quite large. More than a third of the civilians alone were killed, and a very important point was that a large number of draft horses were also killed, injured or ran away.
When the Guang'an cavalry rushed over, they not only targeted people, but draft horses were also within their attack range. Many Guang'an cavalry would chop down the draft horses of Luo An's army pulling the baggage.
In addition, more than 20 vehicles were set on fire by torches thrown by them.
The only thing that pleased Lin Ziran was that at the beginning, his side relied on the range advantage of the musket to kill twenty or thirty of the opponent's men on the way to charge.
During the melee, our side and Hao Ren used the carriage as a cover and killed at least 20 more enemy cavalry on horseback with clear targets through random gunfire.
Altogether, it is estimated that more than fifty cavalrymen from the other side were left behind!
Most importantly, they didn't collapse!
Thanks to Lin Ziran, he did not wait for a large formation at the beginning, nor did he rush to form a hollow square formation in the open space. Instead, he relied on more than thirty carriages as a defense on the spot, and then carried out resistance.
Avoiding direct impact from enemy cavalry.
Otherwise, it would have collapsed long ago.
It's good that it didn't crash.
Seeing that the Guang'an rebel cavalry was hundreds of meters away, Hao Ren started moving again. He sent some people to extinguish the fire on the burned carriage, and at the same time organized people to urgently move the carriage, trying to get closer to Lin Ziran.
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Seeing this, Lin Ziran also ordered: "Everyone move, put out the fire, and then connect the carriage in front with the baggage train!"
The defensive power of two small formations is not as good as that of a complete large formation.
What Lin Ziran and Hao Ren were doing at this moment was to seize the time to set up defenses after the enemy launched the first attack but before the second attack started.
In the next few minutes, the Guang'an cavalry did not launch a second attack, but directly dismounted and rested behind a gentle slope a few hundred meters away.
Fang Yuanxin was unwilling to leave directly. Although the battle just now had some results, it was far from what he expected.
But he did not dare to attack rashly for a while, because the losses in the raid just now were a bit heavy. He originally thought that the loss of more than ten or twenty people would be overwhelming, but he did not expect that he lost more than fifty people, twice as much as the direct loss.
More.
After careful consideration of these inexplicable extra losses, he found that they were all lost on the charge, while the losses in the melee were still within the estimate.
As an experienced cavalryman, he quickly guessed it.
The opponent's gun is weird!
But he didn't know what the strange thing was, so he didn't dare to launch a second attack in a hurry.
Anyway, the transport team is right next to it and can't run away. I still have time before the opponent's reinforcements arrive.
Fang Yuanxin did not rush to attack, which gave Lin Ziran and the others precious buffer time. They merged the two vehicle formations together, and then gathered the skirmishers and civilians outside.
And arrange the cars more tightly.
As for the carriages that were set on fire, half of them could not be saved, while some had to extinguish the fire and save the materials on them.
The wounded soldiers who were injured in the battle were also gathered one by one.
Hao Ren is far better at these tasks than Lin Ziran, and he arranges them in an orderly manner.
For this reason, Lin Ziran did not interfere in these affairs. He only took a few major officers such as Luo Mazi and Lao Zhen to continuously patrol the vehicle formation, and began to let the soldiers use shovels to dig fortifications on the spot.
Try to dig out a parapet in the shortest possible time.
After all, the opponent's cavalry shows no sign of leaving and is very likely to launch a second attack. They must defend in advance.
And the situation was exactly as Lin Ziran expected. Not long after, Luo Mazi shouted: "They fired!"
Lin Ziran took a look and saw that these cavalrymen had actually pulled out several light cavalry cannons. They probably knew that they had artillery to counterattack, so they actually built an artillery position on a gentle slope, and placed it on this artillery position.
Fire.
The smoothbore cannons in this world have made great progress after hundreds of years of development.
If it is a smoothbore gun produced by a large arsenal with excellent technology, its range and power are quite good. The five-pound field gun manufactured by the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau equipped by Lin Ziran's artillery platoon can fire solid shells, and its effective range can reach eight
About one hundred meters to one thousand meters.
If it is the nine-pound field gun manufactured by the larger Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, the effective range when firing solid shells can reach between 900 meters and 1,200 meters.
This data far exceeds the range of a musket, and even a rifled rifle cannot match it.
The artillery used by the Guang'an cavalry on the opposite side should be the five-pound cavalry cannon. This cavalry cannon is relatively lightweight, but it is a little less powerful, but its range is good.
They were shelling directly from a thousand meters away.
Lin Ziran immediately said: "Artillery platoon, counterattack!"
Then he shouted again: "Hurry, if you don't want to die, dig fortifications quickly!"
As soon as he said this, it happened that a solid artillery shell fired by Guang'an people hit a carriage next to Luo Mazi, smashing the carriage to pieces.
Luo Mazi was so frightened that he quickly started digging with his shovel!
While digging his mouth, he murmured: "I, Luo Mazi, have traveled all over the country and traveled all over the world for more than ten years. I can't die, I can't die!"
Lin Ziran also saw Luo Mazi's movements and even heard his murmurs, but he did not mean to ridicule him. Instead, he felt that his reaction now was much better than before.
In the past, he only knew how to run away!
Now, at least I know how to dig a hole to hide myself!
This is already considered a huge progress.
Not to mention Luo Mazi, Lin Ziran himself jumped down into a newly dug trench to avoid the shelling.
I'm afraid that the opponent's artillery is not aiming at me, but the artillery shells themselves don't have eyesight.
The accuracy of the smoothbore cannon was so bad, maybe the artillerymen were aiming at Luo Mazi, and it was Lin Ziran who was hit in the end.
Therefore, staying in the trench is the best way to go!
It wasn't just him. When Hao Ren saw the cannon fired from the opposite side, he glanced around and discovered the small section of trench where Lin Ziran was hiding.
Immediately he trotted over: "Brother Lin, give me a squeeze!"
Without waiting for Lin Ziran to respond, he climbed down directly. After coming down, he grinned at Lin Ziran: "Thank you!"