Seeing the scene in front of him that was different from what he had expected, Wang Zhitan was also hesitant. His intuition told him that he had to retreat at this time, otherwise he would continue to move forward and wait until the firecrackers of the puppet Tang rebels came over. Such a close distance
But it caused a lot of casualties.
The Pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side did not fire because they had no ammunition or collapsed. Even at night, Wang Zhitan could clearly see the musketeers of the Pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side through the countless torches held by both sides.
After the last shot, it has been reloaded.
And they have already raised their guns. All they need to do to shoot is to pull the trigger!
However, these Puppet Tang thief soldiers were reluctant to fire. In this case, even though Wang Zhitan couldn't understand why the Puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side did this, he knew that if his soldiers continued to move forward, he would wait until
If the opponent fires at a distance of sixty or seventy meters or even closer, they will definitely suffer a large number of casualties.
Reason told him that it was time for the forward soldiers to retreat at this time!
This is just an attack like a drill. You can't kill or injure too many people in vain. And even if you really want to fight, you can't fight like this!
If there was really going to be a fight, Wang Zhitan would rush forward with thousands of men instead of just sending a hundred or two hundred men to conduct a tentative attack like now, which would only increase casualties.
But reason also told him that if he dared to order a retreat at this time, Su Jiakang would never let him go.
Su Jiakang is not a fool. He retreated several times before. After all, the puppet Tang rebel army fired a round of volleys. Now the puppet Tang rebel army retreated without firing a shot. They encountered the grumpy commander-in-chief.
Officials dared to kill generals directly in front of the battle line.
Wang Zhitan didn't want to die, let alone be beheaded on the spot by the furious Su Jiakang, so even if his hundreds of households turned to look at him, he pretended not to see it.
At this time, he was very similar to Su Jiakang. In order to save his own life, he directly gave up the lives of his subordinates.
Wang Zhitan did not give the order, and the Ming army forward fell into a state of hesitation!
The deputy Qianhu who was leading the army could neither advance nor retreat. He stopped involuntarily as he walked.
His vanguard general stopped, and the middle and low-level officers and ordinary soldiers under his command even stopped!
They didn't want to charge forward either. Ordinary guardsmen knew that the guns of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army were extremely sharp. Of course, they wouldn't rush forward foolishly if they could not charge at them.
As a result, a very strange scene appeared on the battlefield. The attacking Ming army forwards stopped about eighty meters away from the formation of the new army of the Tang Dynasty. What was also strange was that these Ming troops had clearly entered the Tang Dynasty.
The new army musketeers even entered the shooting range of the archers, but they did not fire or shoot arrows.
But this situation was quickly broken by the soldiers sent by Su Jiakang to supervise the battle. The leader, a strong military attache wearing a hundred official robes, rode forward with fifty soldiers on horseback. He waved his hand
The long sword said loudly: "My lord has an order. If you retreat without permission, behead. If you are too timid to fight, behead!"
Hearing the words from the rear, Deputy Qianhu, the leader of the Ming army's vanguard, gritted his teeth, and then loudly said: "Keep moving forward!"
Now they cannot retreat. Wang Zhitan did not give the order to retreat, and Su Jiakang strictly ordered not to retreat. If he ordered the retreat at this time, he would be the first to die.
And like Wang Zhitan and Su Jiakang, he didn't want to die!
So only those ordinary soldiers will die!
The stopped Ming army forward moved again. Although the soldiers were extremely frightened and unwilling to step forward and walked very slowly, they still started walking step by step.
At this time, in the new army of the Tang Dynasty opposite, Wang Shanxu nodded slightly towards Fang Dongquan, who was commanding the archers not far away, and then raised his command sword again.
When the Ming army stepped into the eighty-meter cordon, Wang Shanxu shouted loudly: "Aim!"
When the Ming army continued to advance and reached about seventy-five meters, Wang Shanxu ordered the shooting without hesitation.
After a round of volleys of gunfire, the Ming army on the opposite side did not have any accidents. A dozen front row soldiers fell down in unison, and these soldiers rushing in the front were basically soldiers wearing armor, even if they were wearing
It was inferior iron armor or cotton armor, but it was still much stronger than most of the Ming soldiers who only wore single clothes.
As for these low-quality iron armor and cotton armor, if they were at a distance of about a hundred meters, they could barely block the musket bullets of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, but at a distance of more than 70 meters, they could not stop them at all.
The fire muskets of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were medium-caliber muskets. Although they were not as powerful as the 20mm Spanish heavy muskets, they were much more powerful than the Japanese iron cannons of the same era or the shotguns that had not yet been imitated and equipped by the Ming army.
At a distance of more than seventy meters, those well-made steel plate armors can be penetrated, let alone these inferior iron armors or cotton armors.
Therefore, there is no doubt that none of the Ming soldiers who were knocked down survived. They were all seriously injured, and some of them died on the spot.
The moment the Ming soldiers in the front row fell, the already panicked Ming soldiers became even more panicked. And it wasn't just the soldiers who were panicking, the leading deputy Qianhu and the two hundred households were also frightened.
On the battlefield, the bullets of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army do not recognize people. If they continue to charge forward, the probability of being killed or injured is not small.
After the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty fired the first round of volley, the archers under Fang Dongquan also started shooting!
Although there were not many archers and the number of arrows they shot was not large, thanks to the rapid shooting, the arrows were inserted into the Ming army's array like rain.
Even if these arrows are too far away and have serious insufficient power, they will not cause much damage if they hit some iron armor or even cotton armor. However, this Ming army is not an elite soldier. Everyone wears armor, and only a few people are protected by armor.
, most of them are still wearing ordinary clothes.
Facing these bows and arrows, these unarmored units had no resistance.
After several waves of arrows, these Ming army forwards finally couldn't hold on any longer. Without waiting for the gold from the rear or the order from the leading deputy Qianhu and Baihu to retreat, the ordinary soldiers began to turn around and flee spontaneously.
But watching them turn around and run away, Su Jiakang from behind said: "Send the order, anyone who retreats without authorization will be killed!"
Soon, Su Jiakang's soldiers formed a formation waving their swords and guns, and at the same time shouted: "Anyone who retreats without authorization will be killed!"
Looking at the swords and guns of their own team in front, the fleeing vanguard soldiers of the Ming army stopped again, and then looked around blankly in the middle of the battlefield. If they continued to escape, they would die in the hands of the puppet Tang rebels.
It's in our own hands.
Wang Zhitan looked helpless at the chaotic scene in front of him. He had expected this scene when he did not order the forwards to retreat a few minutes ago!
He turned around and looked at Su Jiakang. Su Jiakang still looked confident and energetic. He gritted his teeth and made up his mind! 10