The new army of the Tang Dynasty was not advancing very fast. They moved forward step by step in a tight formation. However, although they were not walking fast, their pace was very steady and their formation was also very tight.
The dense formation of the new army of the Tang Dynasty gave even greater fear to the two to three hundred Ming troops who were already in chaos!
Whether it is the ancient cold weapon era or the modern musket era, the army must maintain a dense formation during combat, so as to increase the density of firepower or increase the impact.
When two armies are fighting, if one side's formation is very scattered, but the other side's formation is very tight, then the outcome of the battle can already be predicted at the beginning, not to say 100%, but 80 to 90% of the time.
The probability is that the side with a scattered formation will lose.
Unless there is a huge disparity in military strength between the two sides, or there is some special situation such as an ambush.
Nowadays, the Ming army is in a state of chaos, but the new army of the Tang Dynasty is arranging a dense formation to attack. This will cause great panic to the Ming army in chaos.
Especially the forwards of the Ming army, who had already collapsed before and were fleeing, were even more collapsed now. A few soldiers who were running slowly behind even lost the confidence to escape, put down their weapons with despair on their faces, and then knelt on the ground.
He kept shouting: "Spare my life! Spare my life!"
The armies of both sides have not yet formally engaged in hand-to-hand combat, but people on the Ming army's side have surrendered one after another. Even if the number of surrenders is not large, the occurrence of this situation has brought a greater morale blow to the Ming army.
These Ming troops had been forced to chase for a day and a night, and they were already exhausted. Except for Su Jiakang, no one in the army wanted to fight this battle.
The morale of the Ming army was already extremely low, but now there was a sudden chaos, and the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side also launched a counterattack. In this case, their only trace of fighting spirit completely disappeared.
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Not only the forwards who had been defeated and fell into chaos, but also the other Ming troops were ready to move, each and every one of them thinking about how to escape in order to run faster than their comrades.
This thought finally reached its climax when the formation of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty marched only twenty or thirty meters away from them, especially when the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty stopped and raised their guns to take aim.
I don’t know who shouted: Run away!
The next moment, those Ming troops who were still barely maintaining their formation completely collapsed. The soldiers all turned around and ran back, turning into a flood that burst into the night like the previous vanguards.
However, no matter how fast they ran away, they could not run faster than the bullets of the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. As Wang Shanxu fired again, pieces of bullets were sprayed out.
Wang Shanxu didn't even wait to see how many enemy troops had been knocked down by the shooting just now. He pointed the command knife in his hand and shouted: "Bayonet charge!"
The next moment, these musketeers rushed forward with their muskets already equipped with bayonets, and on both sides of them were the main force of the charge: more than a hundred spearmen!
As for the other main melee force led by Chen Tufu and others, they came out from the right wing, using Chen Tufu and Cai Erhu, two fierce men in double armor, as arrows to penetrate the flank of the Ming army.
At this time, not only the musketeers, spearmen, and sword and shield soldiers launched a hand-to-hand charge, but more than forty archers also followed the musketeers with their bows and arrows on their backs, holding swords in their hands.
Kill the fish that slip through the net.
The more than three hundred bandits in Huangzhushan once again fully proved what they are best at: fighting with the wind!
Facing the defeated Ming army, they were like tigers descending from the mountain. They launched a hand-to-hand charge with extremely high morale, showing no trace of their previous timidity in facing a powerful enemy.
In the Ming army array, Su Jiakang looked at the army that had completely collapsed, with a look of rage on his face: "Damn it, damn it!"
He is cruel!
He complained!
If Wang Zhitan and the others had not been cowardly and reckless, conducting several so-called test attacks, but had launched a full-army attack from the beginning, the situation would have turned into what it is now.
I'm going to kill him!
When Su Jiakang was angry, Luo Mazi beside him said in a panic: "Sir, we should leave, otherwise, those pseudo-Tang thieves will come and kill us!"
Su Jiakang gritted his teeth and nodded: "Let's go!"
Then he turned his horse's head and joined the fleeing army with his personal followers.
Before leaving, he did not forget to look back at the pseudo-Tang rebel army behind him. Under the light of the torch, he once again saw Li Xuan, who was riding a horse and wearing strange clothes.
He murmured: "I will come back!"
After a while, Li Xuan looked at the numerous Ming army corpses and the wounded screaming on the ground, and couldn't help but sigh: "This battle was fought inexplicably!"
The arrival of the Ming army was inexplicable, the chaos was inexplicable, and the defeat was even more inexplicable!
When facing the Ming army, Li Xuan did not expect to cause such heavy losses to the Ming army. His initial idea was to hold off the Ming army for an hour or two and give the baggage train time to retreat. As long as the baggage train left,
If it is far away, then he will lead the people to retreat without hesitation.
Anyway, since they are not encumbered by the baggage train, they will retreat very quickly, and they are not afraid that the Ming army will catch up.
But what he didn't expect was that not long after the battle started, the Ming army just sent a few waves of 1200 forwards to test the attack, and then collapsed on their own!
In the conscience of heaven and earth, Li Xuan did not expect that the Ming army would collapse so quickly at first!
But now he looked at the corpses and wounded on the ground, and for a moment he regretted whether he had beaten the Ming army too hard this time. This charge and subsequent pursuit not only killed the Ming army who had killed at least 200 people.
, that’s not all, and they also captured at least one person prisoner.
In other words, even if the Ming generals at the back were able to collect all the fleeing troops, they would have lost at least more than 400 people, accounting for more than one-third of the troops deployed.
This battle was also the one in which the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty achieved the greatest results in all the previous battles. Not only did they kill and capture 400 Ming troops, but there were also piles of armor, weapons and other trophies captured.
Among them, there are at least thirty pairs of extremely precious iron armors, dozens of cotton armors, and hundreds of bows, arrows, swords and other weapons.
After achieving such great results, Fang Dongquan and Wang Shanxu happily led their soldiers to clean up the battlefield, but Li Xuan never smiled when he looked at the entire battlefield.
He was worried that after this disastrous defeat, the Ming army would ask for help from above, which would cause the Ming court to be shaken. Thousands or even tens of thousands of Ming troops would then swarm in from all directions.
The more he thought about it, the more worried he became. What would he do if a large number of Ming troops came to kill him? 89