Sun Chuanting guessed that the Qing army had heard that the New Army's steel cannons had a very far range of ten miles per shot, so they were afraid that they would not be able to hit the New Army, so they fired their artillery at the maximum range.

Moreover, the Qing army definitely did not have an officer who uniformly commanded the cavalry, infantry, and artillery operations. In short, they all fought in their own way. The artillerymen only focused on firing their artillery, no matter where the shells went. The cavalry did not pay attention to the nearby infantry and artillery and let them go. As for the infantry,

They just lined up to watch the show and did nothing else.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting adjusted his strategy. Since it was difficult to fight the Jianlu soldiers who were too fast to run, he would attack the artillery and artillery that could not move that fast. Especially, he actually robbed the new army's powerful steel cannon!

Sun Chuanting's strategy soon saw results on the actual battlefield. After several No. 2 Armstrong steel cannons and other red cannons and artillery were accurately knocked out by the New Army's artillery, Jierhalang was heartbroken and quickly sent the army away from the New Army.

Stay away, stay further away!

However, when Jierhalang's army was about to arrive outside Jiangyin City in four or five days, Hong Chengchou asked Sun Chuanting to once again engage in a head-on battle with Jierhalang's army, Li Dingguo's new army, and Shi Lang's troops brought by sea.

The new army and the latest firearms will assist Sun Chuanting's new army when necessary.

When Sun Chuanting's New Army infantry square opened and launched its artillery, the Qing Army's musketeers and cavalry dispersed in a flurry. On the flank of the New Army, Shanggan's cavalry suddenly rushed out.

These Jianlu cavalry did not directly attack the New Army formations, but rushed into the joint between the New Army formations. These cavalry did not dismount and fire muskets, but rode on horseback and used bows and arrows to shoot left and right.

Run around in circles at the junction of the array.

This put the New Army in crisis and was unable to fight back, because most bullets could not hit the Qing cavalry, but could easily penetrate into the New Army formation on the opposite side. This was very dangerous. Fortunately, the arrows fired by the Qing army still had some impact.

Many of them were flying around, so the new army didn't collapse all at once.

At this moment, the New Army cavalry regiment led by Li Dingguo suddenly arrived and immediately launched a counterattack. Seeing this, the Qing army's horse archers turned their horses and ran away, not daring to fight.

On the way to escape, they also encountered Li Dingguo's other two cavalry regiments and attacked, and the Qing army was almost surrounded.

At that time, a cavalryman from the cavalry regiment under Li Dingguo commented on the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry: "These Jianlu cavalry are very flexible and difficult to catch, but once caught, they will not cause much harm." In this way, the attack of the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry ended.

Already.

However, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and Li Dingguo mentioned in their letters to Gu Heng that the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry were actually defeated with spears by the New Army cavalry led by Li Dingguo and his men.

Before the cavalry decisive battle, which was only a hundred miles away from Jiangyin City, the New Army cavalry trained by Sun Chuanting was actually attracted by a Mongolian cavalry team and was led far away, which was the New Army 04 Cavalry Regiment.

The horses of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry were short, but they ran not slowly. When the 04 Cavalry Regiment wanted to give up the pursuit, the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry turned around and attacked the new army cavalry with tens of thousands of bows and arrows.

When the New Army cavalry turned their horses and charged again, the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry fled in a flurry. It seemed that their horse power was exhausted and the distance was very close. If the New Army cavalry persisted, they would be able to smash the Mongolian cavalry.

In this way, the New Army's infantry phalanx lost the protection of the cavalry.

If the New Army cavalry led by Li Dingguo hadn't arrived in time and stabbed the Jianlu cavalry with spears, the 04th Cavalry Regiment would have been destroyed.

Hong Chengchou said in the letter that the New Army had suffered more than 20,000 casualties in the battle with the Jianlu troops led by Jierhalang, and the Jianlu troops had suffered about 100,000 casualties.

Hong Chengchou also said that after the New Army destroyed dozens of Qing artillery and artillery pieces, almost half of the Qing artillery was gone. However, Jierhalang's 200,000 troops will arrive outside Jiangyin in two days

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After Gu Heng saw these letters, he said to Gong Dingzi and Meng Xianzhou: "It's time to completely relieve Jiangyin City from the siege!"

At the same time, Gu Heng wrote several more letters and asked Meng Xianzhou to send people to Gu Yanwu and Hong Chengchou.

On the second day, at dawn, Gu Yanwu and others suddenly launched a final general attack on Boluo, Kong Youde, Liu Liangzuo and others in Jiangyin City!

Bolo and others were already short of food, but they were just holding on, eagerly looking forward to the arrival of Jilhalang's army.

Originally, Bolo had received the news that Jilharang's army would arrive in the next two days, so Bolo and others did not expect to be suddenly attacked at this time, and they were attacked from both front and back!

After many attacks on Jiangyin City and the surrounding areas by Gu Yanwu, Zhang Mingzhen, Ma Xianglin and others, Bolo and others only had more than 70,000 people left.

Bolo first asked the cavalry to fight quickly, followed by the infantry. However, after the Jianlu soldiers saw the cavalry's disastrous defeat in the battle against the new army, these Jianlu infantry neither charged nor retreated. They didn't know what they wanted to do. They probably wanted to wait until the new army evacuated.

It is very dangerous to take advantage of the victory and pursue it.
Chapter completed!