The Ming army continued to advance, even if the remaining bowl-mouth cannons in the battalion's artillery team were fired, the Ming army's forwards still did not stop their pace!
Even though the musketeers and grenadiers in the three main infantry battalions of the Third Infantry Regiment fired a total of 700 muskets, the Ming army on the opposite side still did not stop. Instead, it entered the sixty or seventy
After a distance of 300 meters, I started to use archers to counterattack...
However, although the Ming army continued to advance, the casualties were gradually increasing!
And the casualties are getting bigger and bigger as they get closer!
But at this time, Chang Pingchang, the forward general of the Ming Army, finally issued the order to launch a full-scale charge, and the Ming Army soldiers began to rush forward like a tide!
After watching the Ming army launch its final charge, what seemed strange was that the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty on the front line stopped shooting under the order of the officer!
"Stop shooting and reload!"
"Quick, quick, people in the back row, get up quickly!"
"Prepare for salvo!"
The officers of the musketry team were riding horses, constantly passing by their formations, and shouting loudly. At this time, after a long period of continuous firing, the line formation of the Datang New Army was already filled with thick white smoke.
The smell of gunpowder smoke filled every corner.
At this time, many soldiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty on the front line could not actually see the soldiers of the Ming Army who were launching the final charge only thirty or forty meters ahead.
Because the smoke blocks their sight!
Only the officers on horseback could still clearly see every move of the Ming army on the opposite side!
And this is the most important, or even the only reason why the officers of the Musketeers need to ride on horseback to command operations!
Because they were standing on the ground, it was difficult for them to see clearly the actions of the enemy on the opposite side through the smoke!
The Ming army was getting closer and closer. An officer of the musketeers had already drawn out his command knife and rode back to the rear of his line. In front of him, the musketeers had changed from the previous six rows to three rows.
, all the musketeers have finished loading and raised their muskets, and these muskets, without exception, have been equipped with bayonets.
"preparation!"
"aim!"
When the charge soldiers in the front row of the Ming army broke through the 30-meter cordon, the captain of the musketeer suddenly waved his command knife and shouted at the same time: "Shoot!"
In an instant, dense and clear gunfire sounded almost across the entire front. Six musketeers plus a grenadier team, although not enough, there were about 600 muskets firing at almost the same time!
After the gunfire, the front row of the Ming army charging across the street seemed to have stopped for an instant, and a large area fell down in unison.
In an instant, the soldiers and even officers of the Ming army on the opposite side felt as if they were being beaten!
But this is not played yet!
Therefore, at this time, the grenadiers who fired the last round of volley had already put their muskets on their backs and picked up grenades in their hands under the command of the officer!
"preparation"
"ignition!"
"bomb!"
In an instant, nearly a hundred grenades flew into the dense Ming army formation more than 20 meters away!
What followed was a series of dense explosions!
One hundred grenades were thrown out at the same time and then exploded. This round of explosion alone caused more casualties than the previous volley of musketeers!
However, the grenadiers are not done throwing grenades yet!
The grenadier officers still gave orders expressionlessly: "Prepare, light fire, and drop bombs!"
Just seven or eight seconds later, another black grenade flew into the Ming army's array!
At this time, the smoke caused by the explosion of the first round of grenades in the Ming army array has not yet dissipated!
The soldiers of the Ming army who were within the range of the grenade explosion were immediately killed and injured, while the surviving soldiers seemed to feel that they were in a hell on earth.
The intensive explosions and continuous death seem to never stop, and it seems that I will die in the next second!
In just twenty seconds, after the grenadiers threw the second round of grenades, the Ming infantry phalanx of about a thousand people at the forefront completely collapsed!
We can't blame them, because at this time, the front row of the infantry phalanx is basically dead. There are only more than 800 people left in the phalanx of 1,000 people!
The casualty rate has almost reached 20%. If they don't collapse at this time, then they are not ordinary Ming army guards, but the most elite Ming army.
When casualties reach 20%, not many traditional cold weapon troops can still launch a charge!
However, the defeat of the Ming Army's forward phalanx did not allow the New Army of the Tang Dynasty to stop its planned battle plan!
At this time, the spearmen in the middle of the formation began to advance quickly under the command of the officers, and the heavy-armored spearmen in the front row finally made their own voices heard in this battle!
They trotted, with steady steps, and then rushed towards the Ming army's forward troops on the opposite side, which had been clearly defeated!
Due to the width of the battle line, when the new army of the Tang Dynasty launched a frontal charge, they actually only charged against the approximately 2,000 Ming troops directly in front.
After these Ming troops experienced artillery, musket volleys, and grenade fire, they had already suffered heavy casualties, and their morale had reached its lowest point!
At this time, it was really difficult for them to face the melee charge of the spearmen and musketeers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
So they were defeated cleanly without any surprise or hesitation!
However, when they were defeated, Chang Pingchang shouted with a red face: "The left wing is charged, the right wing is charged! All of them are charged by me!"
The troops attacking from the front would suffer relatively heavy casualties. This was within his expectation, so he very wisely put the two thousand friendly troops who were reinforcing him in the central army.
His own headquarters was placed on the two wings, and more than 2,000 troops of his headquarters were concentrated on the left wing. As for the right wing, they were just for containment.
Now that the friendly forces of the Chinese army have collapsed, but his own troops are still in good condition, what is needed now is to rush forward and give the Puppet Tang thief bureau a heavy left blow while the Puppet Tang thief army is fighting with the Chinese army. Uppercut.
Suddenly, two thousand Ming troops on the left wing also rushed forward!
Song Tianbiao on the opposite side had naturally discovered the actions of the Ming army on the opposite side a long time ago!
The order was immediately given: "Ninth Infantry Battalion, reserve battalion turn to face the enemy!"
The charge was initiated by the two infantry battalions directly in front, the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Battalion. The 9th Infantry Battalion, located behind these two infantry battalions, had only opened fire and archery before, and had not participated in hand-to-hand combat. charge!
As for the preparation camp at the back, they didn’t even release their bows and arrows, and they still stayed in place!
The formations of the 9th Infantry Battalion and the Reserve Battalion remain intact, and this change of formation is actually a turn of the entire infantry battalion. The entire phalanx acts like one person, and there is no such thing as a separation of soldiers.
formation, and then reorganize the queue. If they do that, they don't need the Ming army to fight, they themselves will have to be in chaos first.
As the soldiers trotted and changed formations, the left-wing Ming army also rushed forward!
The ensuing battle was almost the same as the previous scene. The new army of the Tang Dynasty used artillery, muskets, and bows to form a multi-level interception firepower, causing these charging Ming troops to suffer heavy casualties on the way forward.
When he saw that his own troops had already suffered heavy casualties before they rushed forward, Chang Pingchang at the rear could no longer calm down.
Just now he saw the friendly troops of the Chinese Army suffering heavy casualties. To be honest, it did not shock him much. It was not his own soldiers who died, so naturally he would not be heartbroken.
But now, when it was his turn to cause a large number of casualties to his troops, his face became extremely ugly.
Damn, these pseudo-Tang thieves are so sharp!
At this time, an officer directly under his command could not help but step forward and said: "Sir, if this continues, there will probably be heavy casualties!"
Immediately, another person also said: "They are all the children of Longliwei's military family. If the casualties are too large, how can we have the face to explain to the elders of Longliwei's hometown!"
And an old Qianhu said in an extremely excited tone: "Sir, we can't fight anymore... fight again... fight again... but just..."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly opened his eyes and looked forward, and then shouted: "My son!" Then he fainted and fell to the ground!
But in the direction he was looking before he fell to the ground, he saw a Ming army man named Baihu, who was only about twenty years old and riding a horse, being hit by shrapnel. The shrapnel hit him directly in the face. The shot fired by this shotgun
The shrapnel overturned half of his face with such huge force that the young Baihu couldn't even struggle. He fell directly from the horse and became motionless. The red and white thing quickly
It just flows to the land under his head!
The establishment of the Ming Army's garrison determined that the soldiers led by the generals of the garrison were all soldiers of the garrison and the garrison, and whether they were officers or soldiers, they were hereditary for hundreds of years, and the whole family farmed in the garrison.
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So they said that the soldiers who participated in the battle were all the children of the guard. That is not wrong!
Of course, they don't care about the life and death of the serf guards, but among the people present, there are few nephews, relatives and friends in the army. Those small flags, general flags, hundreds of households and other middle and lower-level officers on the front line, but
Most of them are related to them. If there are heavy casualties, there will be no way to explain to relatives and friends, let alone to myself!
Chang Pingchang frowned at this time. While listening to his subordinates, he continued to look to the right wing!
At this time, the puppet Tang rebel army had already divided out about a thousand people to fight against its left wing troops, and had already completed its formation. Its formation was as dense as that of the Chinese army's rebel army. You could tell at a glance that it was not someone to be trifled with!
At this time, his troops were still fifty or sixty meters away from the rebels, and they had already suffered at least a hundred casualties!
If we continue to charge forward, I am afraid that like the two thousand Chinese troops before, we will be hit by intensive volleys and explosive shells from the puppet Tang rebels. By then, the number of casualties will be hundreds.
And the total number of troops in my headquarters is only 2,800!
Damn it, we can’t keep fighting like this!
Anyway, I still have the governor's 30,000-strong army behind me. No matter how good this pseudo-Tang bandit army is in front of me, it can't change the world. There is no need for me to waste the lives of many of my own soldiers in a desperate fight!
After taking a deep breath, he said: "Let's let go of the puppet Tang thief army first, retreat for a while to rest, and then we can take down this group of puppet Tang thief army in one go!"