The annihilation of more than 8,000 elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army was not a big deal in the eyes of the Southern Song court. The officials in the court had no idea about the cavalry of the Beiwei Army. At most, they thought they were just a relatively elite cavalry.

However, even if the Southern Song Dynasty lacked horses and cavalry, only more than 8,000 people, how much impact could it have on the Sichuan defense line, which had gathered nearly 200,000 troops?

Yes, when the Southern Song Dynasty was calculating the army, it also included the local garrison troops recruited by Sichuan, that is, troops similar to the Northern Ming Militia Regiment.

It is already the conscience of the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty court without counting the civilians who are only responsible for transportation...

After all, it is difficult for them to distinguish the real difference between Yue's army and local garrison troops.

Everyone is also equipped with big swords, spears, and the Yue Family Army is nothing more than some of the elite troops.

It is difficult for officials who have never been on the battlefield to understand how big the gap is between a veteran and a new recruit on the battlefield!

It's like the battle of the earthen castle offensive and defensive battles that are being carried out every day. Even if the Shazhou Army's morale continues to decline due to the increasing casualties, it can still rely on the advantage of artillery to cause a large number of casualties to the guard Yue family army. It takes only a few days to win a earthen castle on one line.

You know, the Ming army attacked on multiple lines at the same time!

After completely covering the battlefield, Richard even had the escort team of the logistics transportation routes transferred to the meat grinders thrown into the front line, and the troops became more sufficient, and the offensives on multiple lines could naturally be maintained.

In addition, after the Beiwei Army's elite cavalry was completely destroyed, the entire battlefield vision was covered by Richard's cavalry. Richard could always form a huge military advantage in some areas, making the guard Yue family army exhausted and unable to make effective defense.

As a result, the Yue family army fought repeatedly and suffered repeated defeats on the front line, and fought repeatedly...

With continuous failures, the morale of the Yue family army inevitably began to decline!

As morale becomes lower, the number of surrendered troops in the battle will naturally increase.

Richard did not have any special treatment for these surrendered soldiers. All the middle and senior officers with great influence were taken to the uninhabited area west of the Pamir Mountains in the Western Regions. Those who volunteered to join the army and rushed into the Shazhou Army as cannon fodder. Those who did not want to join the army would follow the officers to go west of the Pamir Mountains to endure hardships!

Perhaps it was the tragic tragedy on the battlefield that made the Yue family's prisoners yearn for a peaceful life. Although the number of surrendered troops increased, more people would rather go to the uninhabited area west of the Pamir Mountains in the Western Regions to endure hardships and farm!

Even though Richard's people had already told the pain of the collective farm farming model west of the Pamir Mountains in detail, they still could not stop the will of these people who were afraid of the battlefield and were afraid of death...

However, there is really a shortage of people west of the Pamir Mountains, especially young men. Richard naturally would not make things difficult for these good young people who are willing to endure hardships, and they all satisfy their wishes and escort them to the Western Regions.

This kind of battle lasted only a month, and Yue Fei could no longer sit still because the front army that was in front had been completely destroyed!

The huge casualties almost made the front army lose their combat effectiveness!

As for the soldiers selected and supplemented from Sichuan local garrison troops, their combat effectiveness was simply ineffective compared with the veterans of the Yue family army. Most of them became prisoners of war from the Ming army, and many of them even changed into military uniforms and joined the battle of the fort offensive and defensive battle!

Yue Fei was extremely depressed in this battle. It would be fine if the vision of the battlefield was covered. All the soldiers of the former Song army were killed and injured in bloody battles!

The real main force of the Ming army was completely ruined except for being defeated by the elite cavalry of the Beiwei Army!

Richard's real consumption was just a pile of shells and gunpowder!

It's still cheap solid shells, and even shrapnel shots are useless!

Because it's not necessary at all!

The crushing brought by technology gradually forced Yue Fei to a dead end. He knew that if he continued to consume this, the Yue family army would enter a vicious cycle.

Continuous failures will not only reduce the number of veterans of the Yue family army, but also send a large number of prisoners to the Ming army. Then these prisoners will be dispersed and organized into the Shazhou Army to continue attacking the earthen castle, thereby creating more victories and prisoners!

After such a cycle, Yue Fei found that the Ming army suffered not much loss in terms of military strength, except for tens of thousands of artillery shells...

In fact, this kind of offensive and defensive war did not have much advantage on the Yue family army. The Ming army's artillery evened the advantages of the land-level castle on the Sichuan defense line. Although the Ming army's attacking party suffered many casualties, the Shazhou army, which was like cannon fodder, was not distressed!

Therefore, the defense team loses the defensive battle. The longer the time it takes, the weaker the Yue family army will become until it is to be tortured to death by the opponent!

I can't expect the Ming army's artillery shells to be completely wiped out...

The detailed works of the Southern Song Dynasty have sent back accurate information. The Beiming had an active ordnance production base in the northwest region, and all the shells and gunpowder were transported out from there!

The minerals in the northwest region are enough to ensure the stable production capacity of this ordnance production base!

After all, the front line really has 30 cavalry cannons. Even if it is used every day, how many solid bullets can be fired?

In early January 14, the counterattack battle carefully arranged by Yue Fei started!

First of all, more than 20,000 were composed of Sichuan local garrison troops, but the troops wearing Yue Family Army uniforms and wearing Yue Family Army flag rushed out of a earthen fortress and rushed into the rear of the Ming army's defense line!

Naturally, Richard, who had mastered the entire battlefield vision, got the news immediately.

The scouts could not tell whether the more than 20,000 Yue Family Army was authentic or not, so Richard also thought that the other party was the real Yue Family Army.

After all, there are weak soldiers in the Yue family's army (supplementary local garrison troops).

So, Richard ordered the Shazhou army to stop the attack and drew more than 30,000 people from the Shazhou army, and used the lancers as the supervision team to escort the Yue family army.

Now, after consumption and replenishment, the total number of Shazhou Army has dropped sharply to more than 50,000. After more than 30,000 were drawn, the ongoing offensive naturally stopped and retreated to the already captured earthen castle defense line.

The earthen castles have naturally been demolished, and it is useless for Richard to ask these earthen castles. If the Yue family army dares to attack from the front, Richard will directly attack in the wild!

Facing the Yue family army, Richard was not afraid at all. It was Yue Fei who was afraid of field battles!

If Yue Fei dares to fight decisively in the wild, both sides will not have to return to the tug-of-war and consume, and will continue to bleed the army...

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