Chapter two hundred and eighteen bayonet charge in despair
In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, there were three very different groups of soldiers, such as swordsmen, archers, cavalry, and middle- and high-level generals. They were all veteran bandits. They were either excellent in martial arts or good at archery and riding.
Wait for someone with skills.
The more than 200 young men assigned to the baggage corps are ordinary young bandits. These ordinary bandits have nothing to say, no special skills, and they are all experienced.
But spearmen and musketeers are newly recruited and trained soldiers. These soldiers have two characteristics, one is youth and the other is honesty!
This also leads to the fact that the soldiers in the musketeers and pike corps are generally younger, especially the soldiers in the musketeers. They are generally young, most of them are fifteen or sixteen years old, and there are very few musketeers over the age of twenty.
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There were even young boys aged thirteen or fourteen among the musketeers. These young boys were not as tall as the muskets he held with bayonets attached.
The spearman was obviously a little surprised that he could kill an enemy so easily, so he was a little stunned. After inserting the spear and pulling it out, he looked at the fallen Ming soldier and was unable to recover.
The next second, he felt a sharp pain. He lowered his head and saw the tip of a knife appearing on his chest at some point: a Ming army-standard steel knife penetrated his chest from the back.
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The steel knife was quickly withdrawn, and the spearman didn't even scream. He collapsed to the ground. His eyes were still open when he fell, and the corners of his mouth were squirming as if he wanted to say something, but all he could do was
Can make a slight hum sound.
Lying on the ground, he opened his eyes and looked at the sky. Half of the sky was blue without any clouds, and the other half was red with the sunset. The blue and red seemed to be swords and blood, intertwining the most gorgeous colors in the sky.
Along with a slight twitch, the blood flowing from his body quickly infected the ground, intertwined with the blood of the Ming soldiers he had killed before, and changed the color of the sky!
"Kill! If you don't want to die, just rush up with me and drive them off the top of the city!" Butcher Chen had just killed a few Ming soldiers who had climbed up to the top of the city, and then led his men towards a section of the city wall not far away.
go.
There are Ming troops ascending to the top of the city again!
At this time, Zeng Ziwen frowned and said on the city gate: "It won't work like this. Although General Chen's sword and shield team is brave, they cannot do it alone. If you want to defend the city, you must rely on spearmen and spearmen."
Musketeers!"
Hearing Zeng Ziwen's words, Li Xuan frowned. Naturally, he could see that his troops who were currently fighting hand-to-hand on the top of the city were at the bottom.
In order to defend the city wall, the spearmen were too scattered and it was difficult to gather together to form a spear phalanx. If the number of spearmen was not enough to form a dense phalanx, then the spears in their hands would not actually be of much use.
As a result, Ming soldiers wearing heavy armor, holding shields and steel knives could easily rush up and kill him with a single blow.
Although the sword and shield soldiers led by Butcher Chen are not weak in combat due to their heavy armor, you have to know that most of the first batch of Ming troops who rushed to the city were also wearing armor and holding shields.
Even in terms of training, the sword and shield soldiers of the Ming army who rushed to the city were better than Butcher Chen's men, and their combat was more organized.
After all, they are regular troops after all, and Butcher Chen's men are just a group of tough bandits with better physical fitness and greater courage.
And when he saw that the sword and shield soldiers led by Butcher Chen were also entangled, Li Xuan quickly thought about his limited military knowledge in his mind in order to break the situation...
In this current situation, it is no longer possible to drive the Ming army off the city wall just by relying on the melee of sword and shield soldiers and spearmen. This can be seen from the increasing number of Ming troops climbing up the city wall. If it continues like this
If so, it won't take long for the entire city wall defense to collapse.
The New Army of the Tang Dynasty is not an elite army that can fight to the end. To put it bluntly, it is just a group of bandits. Its ability to withstand casualties is very limited. Once the casualties are too large and there is no hope of victory, then it will naturally be completely destroyed.
Collapse.
Can't wait any longer!
The next moment, Li Xuan took a deep breath, then took out the long sword from his waist and strode forward, while shouting: "Musketeers, form up!"
The musketeers on the city wall were still reloading at this time, preparing to shoot at more and more Ming soldiers below the city, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that, with the current firing rate of the musketeers being only two rounds per minute, the enemy would not be able to fire after they finished reloading.
They all climbed up the city wall.
Seeing Li Xuan coming over in person and personally ordering the musketeers to line up, Wang Shanxu didn't have time to think about it and immediately gave the order: "Array...arrange..."
Butcher Chen and Fang Dongquan in front were already locked in a bloody battle. In less than half a minute, at least fifty Ming soldiers rushed to the city and established the most basic city position to cover the Ming soldiers in the rear.
A steady stream of people climbed up the city wall via the long ladder.
Wang Zhitan, who was under the city, saw that his soldiers had opened the gap, and ordered the Ming soldiers who were still under the city to climb up towards the gap.
Su Jiakang, who was personally supervising the battle later, smiled when he saw this scene. If this situation continues, it won't be long before he can return to Zhengtai County, and maybe he can have dinner at the county government office!
At the same time, Li Xuan personally ordered the musketeers who were still loading and shooting at the Ming army below the city to quickly stop loading and shooting, and then began to line up on the city wall that was only three meters wide!
"Tighter, closer!" At this time, Li Xuan no longer cared about the majesty of his emperor, and personally directed the soldiers to line up. Now this life and death moment is no longer the time to worry about dignity.
If he couldn't drive the Ming army off the city, he might not survive tonight.
Under Li Xuan's personal order, the half-grown soldiers of the musketeers began to crowd the top of the city and line up, almost shoulder to shoulder, thus forming a tight array of musketeers that was almost airtight.
Li Xuan raised the long sword in his hand and shouted: "Bayonets are ready!"
His messengers acted as sound amplifiers, shouting repeatedly:
"Bayonets ready!"
"Bayonets ready!"
"Bayonets ready!"
Seeing that dozens of musketeers had already lined up urgently and had bayonets fixed, Li Xuan did not hesitate at all, pointing the long sword in his hand at the Ming army in front, and at the same time shouted almost with all his strength: "Charge the whole army!"
"Charge the whole army!"
"charge!"
Seeing Li Xuan in the front who was almost crazy and personally leading the musketeers to launch a bayonet charge, Qian Mengjiu and Zeng Ziwen in the back both looked in disbelief. They couldn't believe that this was what Li Xuan had done.
Because in their impression, their emperor always stayed at the rear of the battlefield. Even though he personally directed so many battles, he had never been to the front line, let alone charged in person.
But now, this young emperor is brandishing the gold-plated sword that is just for decoration, leading dozens of musketeers in a bayonet charge!
They didn't know that Li Xuan was not brave, but a desperate counterattack. The rabbit bit someone when he was anxious.
Anyway, if you lose, you will die. It is better to die on the way to charge!
And who dares to say that his bayonet charge will definitely not be able to drive the Ming army off the city wall? What if the Ming army is driven off the city wall!
Dozens of temporarily assembled musketeers lined up in a tight formation, forming a six-row infantry phalanx, striding forward along the city wall!
Seeing the few soldiers from Huangzhushan along the way, they all involuntarily stepped aside to let them pass.
In the Ming army on the top of the city, a man from Baihu had just killed a Huangzhushan bandit. When he looked up, he saw a barrage of bayonets rushing towards his side. He immediately shouted: "Form up, quickly, form a formation."
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Anyone with a little bit of military knowledge knows that in the face of the enemy's charge, one's own side must also form a formation to fight. Fighting alone will only be wiped out by the enemy.
But it was not an easy task for him to get the Ming soldiers to line up, because once the attackers got to the top of the city, a melee would easily break out for both the attacker and the defender.
There is no way to stop its large-scale concentrated resistance.
But now, Li Xuan gathered the musketeers who were not prepared to participate in melee combat. Regardless of the large number of Ming troops under the city, they formed an array and launched a bayonet charge against the Ming troops on the narrow city wall!
They didn't even plan to load their guns, they just charged forward with muskets with bayonets attached!
Looking at the bright bayonet forest in front, the Ming army hundred households involuntarily took two steps back, but there were other Ming army soldiers behind him blocking his retreat.
He held the steel sword and shield in his hands, trying to block the bayonets that kept approaching!
However, this resistance was in vain, because in the next moment, several bayonets stabbed him at the same time. Although he tried hard to block one of them with his shield, he was still stabbed in the chest by two bayonets.
As soon as the bayonet went in and out, hundreds of households in the Ming army fell into a pool of blood!
Behind the hundreds of Ming soldiers, more Ming soldiers began to retreat involuntarily, and tried to form a tight formation to resist with the weapons in their hands.
But generally speaking, the attacking soldiers who climb the city rarely have spearmen, and most of them are sword and shield soldiers. Although they have armor, steel knives, and are good at martial arts, facing a forest of bayonets,
All this is in vain.
Not to mention, what they faced was not the sword and shield soldiers of Chen Tufu, nor the spear soldiers led by Fang Dongquan, but the musketeers led by Li Xuan himself.
In the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, the musketeers have always been extremely special. Born out of the Guards, they have still maintained the style of the Guards era. Their average age is very young, and even their physical fitness is not as good as other soldiers.
The army, especially the sword and shield soldiers under Butcher Chen, was inferior.
But the reason why they were able to become the core combat force of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and to convince Chen Tutu and others, was not only because the bullets fired by the muskets in their hands were powerful enough and far enough.
But because of their bayonet charges!
Many battles in the past have shown that they are better at bayonet charging than shooting, and they have defeated the enemy several times by relying on bayonets.
Now they launch a bayonet charge again!
This is a desperate bayonet charge. They will either overwhelm the Ming army and drive it completely off the city, or they will be completely defeated and die under the swords and guns of the Ming army! rw