Three hundred and seventieth chapters shocked the chin
If you look closely at the battle between the two sides on the city wall, you will find that although people on both sides fell and screamed, it is obvious that more people fell in the Ming army!
The reason is simple!
The new army of the Tang Dynasty was condescending and had city walls as protection!
The Ming army below the city had no obstruction at all, and the only thing that could be used as a cover was the bodies of comrades. At the same time, I prayed in my heart: Hit my comrades in front, but don't hit me.
In addition to the geographical advantage, another very important point is that most of the spearmen fighting in the front row of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty are heavily armored spearmen.
The equipment can be said to be extremely sophisticated, and the spearmen of the Ming Army who fought with them were all ordinary guards. They did not have heavy armor. As a cold weapon unit, the Ming Army's armor coverage rate was not low.
However, most of their armors are for middle- and low-level officers and their personal soldiers. As for ordinary soldiers, don't expect to wear armor worth dozens of taels of silver.
However, most of the armor in the new army of the Tang Dynasty was used intensively. Except for a small number of heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, most of the armor was assigned to heavy armor spearmen. And because many Ming army armors were captured, although the armor was still
It's in short supply, but some is enough.
The ordinary unarmored spearmen of the Ming Army fought against the condescending spearmen of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who were also wearing heavy armor. It would be damned if they could get some benefits.
But it is a pity that there are not many heavy armored spearmen in the new army of the Tang Dynasty!
Nowadays, there are actually two types of spearmen in the new army of the Tang Dynasty. One is the heavily armored spearmen located in the first row of the array. They are fully armored and hold spears. Their tasks are very simple. During defensive operations,
, holding spears to block the enemy's charge. There will not be many of these heavy-armored spearmen. There are six platoons under a spear team, only one row is heavy-armored spearmen, and the rest are light-armored spearmen.
hand.
Lightly armored spearmen, who wear leather armor or simply pure cotton armor, have some defense against medium and long-range bows and arrows, but their defense against stabbing weapons, such as enemy spears, is quite low.
However, there is nothing to be done about the low defense, because the armor worn by the heavy armored spearmen is too expensive. The cost of a suit of armor alone is twenty or thirty taels of silver. Li Xuan simply cannot let all the spearmen in the army use it.
Armor can only be equipped with heavy armor for the most dangerous and elite spearmen in the front row. Most spearmen have light armor.
At the same time, these spearmen will also be equipped with a waist knife, which is used for fighting in situations where spears cannot be used.
Therefore, to a certain extent, in fact, the spearmen of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty can transform into sword and shield bearers in minutes. The heavy armor spearmen can transform into heavy armor sword and shield bearers when they put down their spears. The light armor spearmen can transform into heavy armor sword and shield bearers when they put down their spears.
With a spear, you can transform into a lightly armored sword and shield bearer.
Of course, even if they temporarily become sword and shield wielders, the combat effectiveness of these spear wielders cannot be compared with that of professional sword and shield wielders, because the focus of daily training between the two is different, and the sword and shield wielders have different personal abilities for soldiers.
, especially the fighting ability is still more important.
As for the spearmen, they pay more attention to collective action. Only through uniform movements can they maintain a dense phalanx of spears.
It can only be used as a temporary emergency use of the spear hand and as a sword and shield hand.
Now, many of the spearmen of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty at the top of the city have turned into sword and shield men, because some Ming troops rushed to the top of the city.
Naturally, the incoming Ming army could not only have spearmen and artillery. In fact, more sword and shield soldiers were the main force. Most of them were unarmored, holding only an iron sword and even a shield.
cannon fodder.
But as a standard Ming army guard force, they naturally have elites!
That is the troops composed of middle and low-level officers, as well as the generals' personal soldiers and servants. The number of these people will not be very large. Even in this Ming army of more than 2,000 people, there are only about a hundred people.
And the combat effectiveness of these hundreds of people, to put it bluntly, is greater than the other two thousand people.
These Ming soldiers who were able to rush to the top of the city in the first time were naturally all heavy armored sword and shield bearers, and they should be the personal soldiers and servants of the Ming army generals, such as those ordinary people who were still crowded outside the city walls.
The Guardsmen can be said to be completely different.
When they rushed over, the spearmen who were resisting immediately dropped their spears, then picked up their shields and sabers to meet them.
Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable if the Ming army's elite heavy-armored swordsmen and shieldmen who rushed to the city were allowed to tear through the defense line and establish a solid city head position.
Therefore, although our own troops also have specialized heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, many heavy armored spearmen immediately dropped their spears and then used shields and sabers to face the enemy.
Upstairs at the city gate, the battalion commander of the 5th Infantry Battalion, Wang Chaofeng, who had been quietly observing the development of the battle, did not look panicked just because the enemy troops had rushed to the top of the city.
In fact, although a few people from the Ming army have already rushed to the top of the city, they have little impact on such a huge battlefield!
The current development of the war situation is still within his control!
As an Imperial Academy officer from the Guards, Wang Chaofeng was promoted from captain to battalion commander last month. Although this promotion speed cannot be compared with Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, and Fang Xitong, it is not too slow.
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Nowadays, there are only a dozen regular infantry battalions in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. As the battalion commander of these dozen regular infantry battalions, Wang Chaofeng can be said to have surpassed a large group of colleagues and became one of the senior officers in the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
He certainly has abilities like this, otherwise he wouldn't have been promoted to battalion commander by Li Xuan.
He patrolled the entire battlefield, and after a moment he said to the messenger behind him: "Get ready for grenades!"
Before reinforcing the Tonggu Guards, he asked for about fifty grenades from the regiment headquarters to strengthen the close combat firepower. Although his fifth infantry battalion did not have a regular grenadier unit, grenades can ignite
Just throw it out, and it doesn't need to be a grenadier to use it.
Of course, when ordinary soldiers use grenades, they cannot throw them far enough, and accidents are easy to occur.
In the previous few days of defensive operations, he had been reluctant to use this batch of grenades. That was because the first few attacks of the Ming army were tentative attacks, although they also approached the city wall several times and boarded a low-rise.
At the top of the city, the Ming army's follow-up attacks were weak and they were quickly repelled.
But now, Wang Chaofeng has seen that the Ming army obviously did not hold back and launched a general attack.
More than 2,000 Ming troops attacked. If they didn't do well, they might really break through the Tonggu Acropolis.
Therefore, he decided not to hold back anymore.
These fifty grenades were a big gift he prepared for the Ming army outside the city!
As Wang Chaofeng's order was passed on, most of the musketeers on the city picked up grenades, preparing to light them and throw them down.
At the same time, on a small slope outside the city, Qiu Yu, the chief general of the Ming army, also commanded Qiu Yu, who had also changed from the gloom of the previous few days and smiled!
The fight in the past few days was really frustrating, but after receiving follow-up reinforcements today, he decided that he could not wait any longer and launched a general attack.
The army at the rear was about to enter Liping Mansion, but as a forward general, he was blocked by the small Bronze Drum Guard in front of him for three days. The adults above were already very dissatisfied with him. Today, there were also reinforcements arriving with him.
A letter from his immediate superior, the Commander-in-Chief.
Although the letter did not express dissatisfaction, it also expressed concern about his delay in conquering the Tonggu Guard, and even vaguely expressed the idea that if Qiu Yu could not capture the Tonggu Guard, then he would wait for two days.
He will come in person and lead his army to conquer Tongguwei.
As a general, and even more so an official, Qiu Yu knew that he could no longer wait. If he waited any longer, he might lose his official title.
That's why he launched a general offensive on the day the reinforcements arrived. He didn't believe it. He had more than 2,000 people, and there were more than 100 elites, and several cannons. The other 2,000 people were also regular troops, not temporary troops.
The young and strong people brought here are civilian husbands.
This can't defeat just a few hundred puppet Tang traitor troops?
How can it be?
Absolutely impossible!
"Send the order and tell the men to work harder. I'm going to spend the night in the Tonggu Guard tonight!" As he said this, he waved his hand and looked high-spirited, which made people think of him.
Back then, Su Jiakang was also so awesome when he was hunting down Li Xuan, the pseudo-Tang prince.
Following Qiu Yu's order, the Ming army generals commanding from the front also issued slogans or promises, such as beheading the first-level leader and being rewarded with ten taels of silver, beheading the small leader of the puppet Tang Dynasty and getting promoted to the next level, and beheading the leader of the puppet Tang Dynasty.
He said things like becoming a member of the project and being promoted to the third level without any money.
As for the attacking Ming army, it was as if they had been beaten to death, and their morale had increased a lot. At first, there were only two or three hundred people rushing to the city head, but now, at least five or six hundred people rushed to the top of the city.
We arrived at the city wall.
And looking at more and more Ming troops rushing to the city wall, especially in some places where the Ming troops are densely packed, the crowds are even more crowded. At this time, even if the soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty fired a shot, they could hit them with their eyes closed.
middle man.
At this moment, dozens of musketeers also lit the grenades in their hands!
These temporary part-time grenadier musketeers played with this grenade for the first time. Many of them were quite nervous, because they all knew that what they were holding was a real bomb. If they failed to throw it out in time, or simply
An accident occurred due to quality issues. If it exploded directly in your own hands, not only would your body be wiped out, but a large number of your comrades around you would also be killed or injured.
Although the grenades of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were all filled with black powder, the explosive power of black powder was incomparable to various explosives of later generations, but after increasing the weight, the lethality was still impressive.
After all, before the late 19th century, the gunpowder in the artillery shells of armies of various countries was black powder.
Picric acid and TNT shells were not popular until the late nineteenth century and even the early twentieth century.
Therefore, don't underestimate the explosive power of black powder. If the weight is enough, the explosive power will be just right.
Following the officer's order, dozens of musketeers also threw grenades at the same time. Although the distance was not far, there was no need to throw them too far. In fact, they could just throw them directly under the city wall.
The army was densely packed, and there were a lot of people crowded together.
After dozens of black spots fell, these Ming troops didn't know what was going on at first, but the next moment, dense explosions sounded under the city wall.
When this intensive explosion sounded, Qiu Yu in the distance opened his mouth half-open and looked dull!
There is a word to describe this expression: jaw dropped!