After Zhao Dashan hacked to death the Ming Army spearman in front of him, he dragged his stainless steel sword still stained with blood forward, then aimed at the Ming Army sword shield hand in front of him and struck it.
The Ming Saber Shieldman in front of him is just a light armor swordsman. He is not wearing heavy armor. He does not dare to resist Zhao Dashan's powerful and heavy sword. The angle of the shield held in his left hand is also wrong. He needs to turn around and back.
Only then could he block with his shield, so he raised the long knife in his hand to block without hesitation!
In an instant, the two long knives collided together, and then burst out a little bit of fire. However, after both sides put away their knives, the Ming army's light armored sword shield wielder found that a huge sword had appeared on the waist knife in his hand.
If you look closely at the gap in the hand of the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side, you will see that it is still intact.
This thief's knife is so sharp!
It is normal for the Ming Army Swordsman and Shieldman to sigh like this. Among the many knives equipped by the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the swords of the Heavy Armor Swordsman and Shieldman are all made of fine steel. They are not only expensive to make, but also thick.
It is extremely sharp, and the Ming Army Sword Shieldman's own sword is just an iron sword, with only a layer of steel covering the blade!
The knives equipped in batches in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the knives of ordinary infantry, whether they are heavy armored infantry knives or light armored knives, or simply the knives of soldiers in the auxiliary troops, are actually the same style and are the standard of the Ming army.
Waist knife.
The standard waist knives of the Ming army during this period were knives made by combining the characteristics of Japanese knives and traditional Central Plains knives. The characteristic is that the blade has a larger arc and smaller width than traditional knives. It is very similar to Japanese knives in appearance.
However, unlike the Japanese sword, the thickness of the blade of the Ming army waist sword is basically the same as the blade, so it is more suitable for chopping, while the thickness of the Japanese sword is thinner than the blade, which is more suitable for stabbing.
Therefore, although the two have similar appearances, they are actually two completely different styles of knives, and they also represent different fighting styles.
Later generations also called the Ming Army's waist sword the Qi's Saber, but in fact it cannot be said that, because this sword was actually equipped on a large scale with the Ming Army before the Qi Jiajun, and the Qi Jiajun was only the most famous among the many Ming armies equipped with this kind of knife.
Just one.
And one thing worth noting is that during the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army was actually equipped with a large number of Japanese swords imported directly from Japan.
Although the waist knives equipped by the various arms of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty are similar in style, there are also relatively large differences in quality between the waist knives equipped by different arms.
The waist knives used by heavy armored sword and shield soldiers and heavy armored spear soldiers are the best. They are basically made of fine steel and are expensive!
This is because the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers and the heavy armored spearmen are both heavy armored infantry units. The armor on their bodies is worth dozens of taels of silver. Naturally, they will not begrudge a few taels of silver for their swords!
At the same time, the main combat method of these heavy armored infantry units is close combat. Even the heavy armored spearmen, when they enter the melee stage after charging, they mainly rely on swords and shields to fight, so the requirements for knives are quite high.
Ordinary iron knives used by infantry or knives that only have steel on the blade will develop chips or even cracks after only a few uses.
The knives of heavy armored infantry are steel knives, while the waist knives used by ordinary infantry are inferior, such as light armored spearmen, archers and even light armored sword and shield bearers, gunners, etc. Their waist knives are not the main part of combat.
equipment, but a self-defense weapon as a last resort. At the same time, the number of these ordinary infantrymen is huge. Therefore, for the sake of cost control, the waist knives equipped with them are only covered with steel on the edge. Many of them are even equipped directly from the Ming Dynasty.
A pure iron knife captured by the army.
As for the infantry and artillery officers' command knives, they are also a variant of the standard waist knife, but they are more sophisticatedly made. They are basically steel knives. At the same time, one feature is that the blades are generally thin and light, and are not as thick as the waist knives equipped by ordinary infantry.
The length is also slightly longer.
This kind of command knife is actually not easy to use when used in actual combat. The main reason is that it is more beautiful in appearance, and another feature is that it is relatively light in weight.
It is actually very important not to feel tired while holding it, because officers hold the command knife to command from beginning to end. Holding the command knife high for a long time will be very tiring, right?
Zhao Dashan is a heavy armor sword and shield soldier. Their armor and waist sword are basically the best in the entire army.
This knife cut a gap in the steel-clad iron-waisted sword in the hands of the Ming army soldiers. It was not a difficult task, but it was actually of little use. A knife with a gap could also kill people, and the threat was not weakened at all.
Therefore, Zhao Dashan did not dare to be careless at all. Relying on his heavy armor, he raised the round shield in his hand, stepped forward fiercely, and tried to use the shield to directly hit the Ming saber shield hand opposite him.
At this time, the Ming army sword shield wielder on the opposite side also slashed him with a sword. Zhao Dashan swung the round shield in his hand and swung the menacing sword away, although the sword after swinging away still scratched his left shoulder.
, but the threat was not great, it just left a knife mark on the armor.
However, the next moment, the stainless steel sword in his hand slashed across the opponent's neck!
The long tip of the sword did not encounter any obstruction, and directly scratched the neck of the Ming army sword and shield soldier on the opposite side. In an instant, blood spurted out!
After watching the Ming Army soldier fall in front of him, Zhao Dashan did not pause, because he had already seen two Ming Army soldiers rushing up.
Even though he was wearing heavy armor, it was still unwise to fight one against two, so he chose to temporarily avoid it and at the same time approached a comrade a few meters away!
After reuniting with his comrades, he and his comrades fought together and continued their fight until the last moment. At this last moment, either he himself was killed or injured and could no longer fight, or the victory was decided and the enemy army fled or his own side ordered a retreat.
But before that, he needs to keep fighting!
The heavy armored sword and shield soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty rushed into their own formation. It was impossible for the generals of the Ming Army not to see such a serious threat. However, at this critical moment, they wanted to mobilize their troops to defeat this puppet Tang thief army.
It is not easy to destroy the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers.
First of all, the Puppet Tang rebel army in front of them has launched a front attack. Under the cover of the spearmen, their musketeers have approached to the last thirty or forty meters, and this distance is basically the Puppet Tang rebel army.
The final distance to launch a full-scale charge.
According to the experience gained from many battles between the Ming army and the Puppet Tang thief army, the musketeers of the Puppet Tang thief army will always fire the last round of volley within the last twenty or thirty meters, that is, they will directly
Launch a bayonet charge.
Of course, the main force of the charge was actually not the musketeers, but the spearmen, but the bayonets of the musketeers could still provide great support to the spearmen.
Not to mention, the last round of volleys often resulted in a large number of Ming army casualties. It was not unheard of for an entire front row of Ming soldiers to fall in a volley.
Under such circumstances, the Ming army officers on the front line simply did not dare to mobilize the soldiers in the front row to surround the heavy armored infantry.
The only option is to mobilize troops from the rear. However, there are not so many troops at the rear, and there is a lack of heavy armored infantry!
Those who rushed in were all heavy-armored sword and shield soldiers. Their ability to engage in close-range melee combat was the most powerful among all the units currently. If you want to annihilate them in the melee, the only ones available are actually heavy-armored units.
, especially the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers.
Just like in ancient and modern wars, the best unit used to fight against cavalry is cavalry. When fighting heavy armored sword and shield soldiers in melee, the best type to use is heavy armored sword and shield soldiers. Other light armor units can basically be sent up.
The portion of the head was collected.
However, are heavily armored units so easy to find?
How can it be!
A suit of armor costs dozens of taels of silver, and the quality of the soldiers in the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers is relatively high, which reflects the relatively high treatment.
On the side of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, because they captured a large amount of Ming army armor and cotton armor, they could obtain a large amount of cotton armor after simple modifications, so they could equip the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers and heavy armored spearmen with armor.
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However, the total number of these heavy armored infantry is actually only about seven or eight hundred!
Heavy armored units are expensive and elite units for both the Ming Army and the New Army of the Tang Dynasty. It doesn't mean that they can be transferred if they want dozens or even hundreds. The Ming Army doesn't have many in total!
Besides, the current development of the situation on the battlefield no longer gave them enough time to deal with it slowly. At this time, the First Infantry Regiment and the Chinese Army Commando were already attacking the four enemies facing them from the south and southwest.
More than a thousand Ming troops launched a full-scale charge.
After the musketeers fired their volleys, they all held their muskets with bayonets, followed the pace of the spearmen, and launched the final bayonet charge!
As the backbone of hand-to-hand combat, the spearmen, especially the heavy armored spearmen in the front row, advance slowly and steadily. Every time they take a step forward, many Ming soldiers on the opposite side involuntarily take a step back. For no other reason than in front of them.
This dense forest of spears is really terrifying.
If you don't retreat, you will be dug into a hornet's nest by the spears of the puppet Tang traitor army!
And at this time, you can also find that in fact, the spearmen of the infantry phalanx, especially the heavy armored spearmen, their task is not to kill many enemies, they are to use the dense forest of spears to continuously attack
It pressed the enemy troops on the opposite side, forcing them to retreat, so that their defense line was shaken.
When the enemy's defense line is shaken, collapse is not far away. After the enemy's army is completely defeated, that's when the enemy's effective strength will be killed in large numbers.
Facing such a dense forest of spears, there were not many surprises on the Ming army side. The Ming army soldiers in the front row began to retreat step by step, but they were blocked by the people behind them. In the end, chaos inevitably occurred.
The enemy is still in chaos, so it can basically be judged that their defense line has begun to waver, and they are very close to complete collapse.
When a member of the Ming army on the front line saw this scene, he couldn't help but look desperate and said: "It's over, everything is over!"