Li Kun watched his artillery units being suppressed and suffered heavy losses, and even the infantry that rushed up were subjected to intensive artillery bombardment on the way, so forget it.

The opponent's artillery unit is not bad, and there are solid batteries to rely on, so it is normal to be at a disadvantage in this kind of offensive operation.

However, when he saw that an infantry battalion of his side was rushing at the front, which had not yet entered the range of three hundred meters, it was intercepted by the fierce infantry fire of the opponent and suffered heavy losses.

Finally, I couldn't help it.

This battle can't be fought.

It will be difficult and hurried to attack the fortified battle, and there will be a lot of casualties, and he is mentally prepared for this.

But what made him unacceptable was that the opponent's artillery surpassed him in range and accuracy, not to mention that even the opponent's infantry was very weird.

The gun was fired from a distance of 400 meters, and at more than 300 meters, it had already inflicted heavy casualties on its own infantry ranks.

This is absolutely not normal!

Even if the opponent used a large number of rifled guns, it would not be possible for the infantry to fight in turn.

The rifled rifles used by the hunters take several minutes to be reloaded, not to mention that the opposing infantry did not change their guns at all, but reloaded directly, and the reloading speed was almost no different from that of flintlock muskets.

The infantry battalion that rushed to the forefront collapsed!

Immediately after that, the second infantry battalion also suffered heavy losses!

At this time, he finally couldn't bear it, and according to this, when his soldiers rushed to one of their trench defenses, it was estimated that there would be thousands of dead and wounded.

As for wanting to climb to the top of the city, I'm afraid that the more than 10,000 infantry will not be able to do it.

The troops he brought with him totaled only 20,000 men, of which several thousand were cavalry, artillery, and baggage soldiers, and the combat infantry was actually just over 10,000.

This battle can't be fought!

Li Kun clenched his fists, although he was unwilling, he still gritted his teeth and said: "Order, the whole army retreats!" ”

"Prepare the cavalry units for a counterattack by the opposing cavalry!"

It is impossible to continue fighting, and the casualties are too great, which is completely not in his interests.

Maybe the other two commanders in the Guang'an army would like him to be bleeding on the front line of Nanguang City, but he himself will definitely not be so stupid.

When he was stationed in Chongguang City, it was because of the heavy casualties that he gave up the retreat of Chongguang City, which finally took half a year to recover his strength, and he was absolutely unwilling to let his troops be meaninglessly consumed under Nanguang City.

These are his soldiers!

His dependence!

Without these soldiers, he wouldn't be a fart in Guang'an County.

Li Kun ordered a retreat, and the infantry who were attacking in front were also relieved at this time, and they ran as soon as they turned around.

This attack was different from every battle they had fought before, and it was normal for them to be shelled, but as soon as they rushed into about 400 meters, they were intercepted by the enemy's infantry fire.

The rifle fire fired by the opponent from the first line of defense and the second line of defense at the head of the city was almost as accurate as the fire fired within 100 meters.

Many of the infantry formations were not killed or wounded by artillery, but after entering the 400 meters, they were heavily killed by the opposing infantry fire.

And their artillery units have always been suppressed, and they can't give them much support.

This kind of battle, when it comes to fighting, it feels very aggrieved.

Therefore, when the order to retreat was given, many people breathed a sigh of relief, and they all turned around and ran.

Seeing that the Guang'an army had retreated, Luo Mazi immediately said: "Thanks to your wisdom, you can repel the Guang'an thief army!" ”

Lin Ziran smiled: "It's all the result of everyone's concerted efforts!" ”

Even Wu Guanlin stepped forward and said: "There is no adult in this battle, and it will definitely not be won so cleanly!" ”

Lin Ziran was still smiling and silent!

Naturally, he wouldn't say that Lao Tzu is so awesome!

That's too embarrassing, he Lin Ziran is a decent person, and he will definitely not do such a thing, even if he thinks so in his heart, but he will definitely not show it.

The Guang'an people retreated, Li Kun counted the troops and found that the casualties were really not small, the artillery killed and wounded two or three hundred, and many of the dead and wounded were members of the bone ** group, and the artillery losses were not much, they were all iron lumps, unless they were directly hit by shells, it was difficult to damage.

And the losses of the front-line infantry are not small, adding up to nearly a thousand people.

Combined with the continuous artillery casualties in the past few days, the losses before and after this are more than a thousand.

And the loss of the other party is estimated to be about 100 people.

The casualty ratio was too high, and if he continued to fight, his second army would have to be crippled.

"Do a good job of dealing with the aftermath, and give an order to the Ninth Brigade in the rear not to delay, and as soon as the Third Army comes up, it will immediately set off for the south to join us. In addition, if we send people to recruit troops nearby, we need to replenish our troops in the shortest possible time! ”

Li Kun said to a group of frustrated or angry subordinates under his hands: "This Nanguang City, don't care about him first, let's go south first!" ”

A young secretary said: "If we don't fight Nanguangcheng, how can we go south?" ”

Someone else tentatively said: "Detour from Pinkan County? ”

Li Kun nodded and said: "This Nanguang City is a bit weird, we don't need to fight with them, let's leave it to the Third Army!" ”

"The scout cavalry has already returned, except for the hundreds of local militia groups in the defense line of Nanguang City in the west, there is no one else stationed at all, this Lin Ziran has completely abandoned the defense line on the west bank!"

"Let's cross the river directly and go south from the western line!"

"When the time comes, leave some troops to garrison the defense line on the west bank, and leave a few more gunboats, and I am not afraid that Lin Ziran will cross the river to cut off our supply line!"

Hearing Li Kun's words, the group of people below all nodded in unison.

"This Nanguang City is indeed a bit weird, although I don't know what happened to Lin Ziran's supplementary brigade, but our direct attack on such a fortress must have suffered heavy casualties, there is no need to be familiar with them!"

"That's it, it's better to leave a third army to deal with it, their third army used the excuse that there was a shortage of supplies some time ago, and they have been dragging their feet and refusing to go south first, isn't it just so that we can help them take the lead in the front!"

"Their Third Army wants to be beautiful, we are fighting to the death in front, and they are getting benefits out of thin air in the back, how can there be such a good thing!"

"That is, we bypass this Nanguang City and go directly south from Pingdan County on the west bank of the Luo River, this Nanguang City is left to their Third Army, and their Third Army has always said that it is stronger than us, so let them gnaw the hard bone of Nanguang City!"

Everyone spoke, which made Li Kun quite satisfied!

The military heart is available!

Immediately, he said: "Then everyone go back and prepare for it, and tomorrow we will detour to Pingdan County." ”

Li Kun made a decision, and the second army's actions were also extremely fast, and a large-scale retreat began on the same day, and by the next day it had disappeared.

In a few days, in Chongguang City, Du Zhikuan, the commander of the Third Army of Guang'an, who had just arrived in Chongguang City with his army, looked at the military newspaper in his hand, but snorted coldly: "He Li Kun is shrewd, he detoured Pingdan County by himself, but he wanted to leave us the hard bones of Nanguang City!" ”

The adjutant beside him said: "I heard that Nanguang City is not easy to fight, if we really go to fight, I'm afraid the loss will be small." ”

Du Zhikuan said with a cold face: "Beat a fart, he Li Kun doesn't beat, why let Lao Tzu fight!" ”

The adjutant said again: "Then what should we do?" ”

Du Zhikuan said: "Leave a brigade outside Nanguang City to guard the retreat, and the main force will bypass Pingdan County!" ”

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