As the rafts of the Ming army gradually approached the shore, many units of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were already ready, waiting for the Ming army to come ashore and inflict intensive killings.
The spearmen had already placed their spears on the parapet, preparing to stop any Ming soldiers who dared to approach.
Many archers even stopped shooting to conserve their energy for intensive rapid shooting.
The sword and shield soldiers led by Chen Tufu and Cai Erhu stood behind the musketeers and spearmen. Their role in this defensive battle was not to attack the enemy's array, but to block the gap. If a certain section of the breastwork was destroyed by the Ming army,
After the breakthrough, they must rush forward as soon as possible and drive the Ming army out through close combat.
The only ones still maintaining the rhythm were Xie Ziwei's artillery and the musketeers of each team.
They still maintained a fixed frequency of shooting, killing and injuring enemy soldiers as much as possible, and this kind of damage would reach a peak after the Ming army landed.
When the Ming army was on the river, their rafts were not densely packed in rows, and each raft had a thick shield at the front. As a result, the effect of musket strikes at medium and long distances was not obvious enough.
But after they landed, if they wanted to make a breakthrough and tear through the defense line of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, they had to charge in the densest formation.
When the enemy's formation becomes denser, it means that the hit rate of the musketeers can be greatly improved.
At a distance of thirty meters, if a volley of guns were fired, I can't say that the bullets were missed, but the hit rate of 50% was still achievable.
And another very critical point is that at this distance, even if the Ming army had thick shields as a means of protection, it would not be of much use.
When the Ming army reached a distance of thirty meters, nothing in their hands could stop the bullets fired by the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
When the hit rate increases significantly and the Ming army has no effective defense means, what will happen?
This will happen like every time the new army of the Tang Dynasty defeated the Ming army!
After one round of volleys, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties. After a few more rounds of volleys, the Ming army collapsed. Even if the Ming army bravely rushed over without collapsing, they could not resist the bayonets of the spearmen and musketeers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
The closer the Ming army gets, the closer they are to death!
However, these are the ideal situations envisioned by Li Xuan. He doesn't know whether it will evolve like this, nor does the Ming army on the opposite side know.
Therefore, the Ming army still fought according to their own plan. After the rafts docked under fire, the Ming army soldiers on the rafts were driven off the rafts and waded ashore.
First there was one ship, then three ships, then five ships, then twenty ships, then fifty ships.
In less than half a minute, dozens of rafts docked one after another. The Ming soldiers on them jumped off the rafts, waded into the water and staggered onto the river beach.
The leading Ming army generals in armor waved their sabers and shouted, trying to organize the Ming army soldiers who had landed and launch an attack.
One of the deputy chiefs of a thousand households was extremely tough, and the sword in his hand was so big that it was scary. He shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Quick, please form a formation quickly, and then kill them!"
"As long as I..." But before he could finish his words, another burst of white smoke erupted from the parapet of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty opposite, and a crisp snapping sound resounded on the river beach. At the same time, he fell down directly.
If you look closely, half of his head is gone, and red and white stuff is flowing out of half of his head, which makes a Ming army soldier next to him unable to help but vomit after seeing it.
Along with this deputy Qianhu fell, dozens of other Ming army soldiers!
As soon as the Ming army docked, the guns of the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were already aimed at them. Before they could form a formation, the officers of each musketeer had already ordered the shooting.
Gunsmoke and bullets seem to be the main theme in this area of only 30 meters of river beach!
The dozens of fallen Ming soldiers were like a stone thrown into the calm river, which filled the hearts of these first wave of Ming soldiers who landed on the river with fear.
When they were crossing the river before, although they could see the musketeers of the puppet Tang rebel army on the other side of the river firing, to be honest, the casualties suffered by the Ming army at that time were limited.
But when they came ashore, they found that the muskets of the puppet Tang rebels were much sharper than they imagined!
In just one salvo, the first wave of Ming troops who landed had at least fifty or sixty casualties!
If you have never seen it with your own eyes, you will never know how amazing the scene is when fifty or sixty people are ejaculated at the same time.
So later, when the archers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty began to fire intensively and rapidly, and countless arrows fell from the sky, causing greater casualties to these Ming troops, they were still in the shock of the round of volleys of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
But this kind of shock was only for the person involved. The first wave of Ming army soldiers who landed ashore was quite large. Although there were only dozens of people, some Ming army soldiers had already taken advantage of the firepower of the new Tang Dynasty army to rush forward. Some Ming army archers also began to bend their bows and nock arrows, shooting arrows at the new Tang army behind the parapet.
The soldiers of the Ming Army who rushed up were marching on the soft river beach, and their speed could not be increased at all. Some people fell down one after another along the way. But when the remaining people rushed to the front of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, they found that in front of them was a wave of The parapet is more than two meters high, even higher than their height.
Some of them angrily chopped down the parapet with their long knives, some stabbed upward with their spears, and some even wanted to rush up and climb directly over the parapet.
But their efforts were in vain. Under the constant stabbing of the spearmen of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, they all turned into corpses in a short time.
On the contrary, the archers of the Ming Army played a greater role. Although most of the arrows they shot were blocked by the parapet, the new army of the Tang Dynasty could not completely hide behind the parapet when fighting. They always had to expose part of their body. Especially those who come to fight on their own.
After all, what they relied on was not a city wall, but a temporary breastwork defense, which could not provide them with all-round protection.
This also caused the new army of the Tang Dynasty to begin to suffer casualties one after another!
As the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty fell one by one, the Ming army continued to land. Xie Ziwei on the fort was also anxious, urging the cannon maker at the rear who temporarily acted as the gunner: "Quick, aim!"
After the craftsmen took aim, Xie Ziwei didn't waste a second and directly ordered the gun to fire!
Boom! As another loud noise sounded on the river beach position, Xie Ziwei's artillery once again sprayed out countless iron nails and iron beads, only a few dozen meters away, and the opponent was densely crowded on the river beach, so that this person The cannon's shotgun power was brought to its fullest.
One shot passed, and a large area of the Ming army's front row fell down in unison. At least twenty or thirty meters fell under this shot.
As for the arrows shot by the archer team, they are still falling from the sky. The archers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty no longer care about their physical strength. They use the fastest speed to pick up the arrows stuck in the ground and shoot them out. They even
There is no need to aim, you just need to shoot at the river beach and the arrow in front of you.
Because the Ming army was densely packed everywhere on the river beach, not to mention crowded, but the density was already so high that even an arrow with your eyes closed could hit the enemy.
The dense Ming army also means that most of the Ming army has boarded the river beach, and then they will advance towards the parapet.
At that time, it will be the most intense time for the battle between the two sides!
Although Li Xuan on the top of the mountain looked relaxed at this time, he did not dare to blink and kept staring at the battlefield.
He knew very well that the next few minutes would determine the life and death of both sides. Either the Ming army would break through its defense line, or it would cause a large number of casualties to the Ming army, forcing the Ming army to completely collapse in front of the formation. The victory or defeat would be decided in the next few minutes.
At a certain moment, they will be completely separated.
It's just that we've reached such a critical moment, why doesn't Huang Xueren use grenades?
Doesn't he know that he has used up all the gunpowder in his inventory for these grenades? Doesn't he know how much damage these more than a hundred grenades can cause after being thrown into the dense crowd of the Ming army and exploded?
Effective?
Doesn't he know that in the A-3 blocking plan, these more than a hundred grenades play an irreplaceable role?
Huang Xueren, what is he doing?
It would be too late if he didn't use grenades. Did he want to delay the military plane?
Li Xuan frowned slightly and said to the ordering soldier: "Ask the First Infantry Battalion why they haven't implemented the A-3 plan yet!"
At the same time, Huang Xueren looked so excited that he didn't even bother to wipe the blood of a soldier on his face.
The messenger next to him already reminded him with an urgent look on his face: "Your Majesty asked why the Plan A and III have not been implemented yet!"
Huang Xueren looked back at the top of the mountain at this time, and there stood his emperor, the master of the Tang Dynasty: Li Xuan!
He immediately said: "Reply to Your Majesty, the time has not come yet, please postpone the implementation!"
After seeing Huang Xueren's reply, Li Xuan frowned even more tightly, but Zeng Ziwen on the side was a little anxious: "Your Majesty, it's too late if you don't use it anymore. Now that all the Ming troops have landed, they have already begun to charge in formation.
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Li Xuan looked towards Huang Xueren. Huang Xueren stood behind the parapet with dozens of grenadiers, but they did not make any bomb-dropping action.
Li Xuan took a deep breath: "Wait!"
He vaguely guessed what Huang Xueren wanted to do. Since Huang Xueren, a commander on the front line, felt that the time had not come yet, he had no intention of continuing to intervene.
After all, he was watching the battle from a few hundred meters behind. Although he could see the overall situation, some details on the battlefield were still difficult to detect. What's more, if he couldn't stop the Ming army this time, Li Xuan
At worst, he just patted his butt and escaped with his guards.
And he, Huang Xueren, will definitely die in the hands of the Ming army!
And does Huang Xueren want to die? Li Xuan doesn’t think so!
Li Xuan's "wait" did not last long. Just a minute later, when the Ming army had already launched a charge from the beach, rushing from 30 meters to 20 meters, Huang Xueren pulled out his knife, raised it and shouted: "Light the fire."
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In an instant, more than forty grenadiers ignited the grenades in their hands, and the fuses shone with a strange and dangerous light.
Then Huang Xueren slashed the waist knife in his hand, and at the same time shouted: "Drop the bomb!"
In an instant, more than forty black spots flew out from the parapet and landed among the dense crowd of Ming troops twenty meters away.
Immediately afterwards, bursts of rumbling and loud noises sounded in the Ming army's array!
In an instant, with a loud rumble, the entire river beach seemed to have stopped. There were no shouts, no groans, only dead silence!