Master Shen's calm and calm appearance made the generals under his command admire and praise him. He is worthy of being valued by the governor and entrusted with the important task of leading an army of 5,000 to break up the rear.
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How could anyone else have such composure?
However, someone else said at this time: "Now that the bandits have divided their forces, can our army try to launch an attack, so as to live up to the governor's respect?"
When Master Shen heard this, he immediately nodded slightly and looked at the speaker with eyes full of love. This man has brains and ideas, and he is indeed a good official for the court and the people!
Those bandit troops who divided their forces and made a detour with the intention of attacking the army's supply troops were not easy to offend at first glance. They numbered a thousand or several hundred people, and they certainly couldn't afford to offend them.
However, the five hundred people in front of me seem to be able to fight a dozen. After all, it seems that the five hundred pseudo-Tang thieves in front of me are not equipped with firecrackers. They are armed with the same swords and long contradiction cards as myself and others. This fight
Now there is no need to worry too much about the sharp weapons of the puppet Tang rebel army.
Furthermore, it’s not enough to do nothing. You have to show off, otherwise it won’t be easy to explain to Zhu Zhihai, the man who killed a thousand swords. He immediately said: “Since the bandits have divided their forces and advanced, our army should seize the opportunity to attack them!”
Hearing this, the generals of the Ming army became a little nervous, because the man named Shen did not tell the whole story. Who knew whether he wanted to lead his troops to attack the main force of the puppet Tang rebel army of more than a thousand people, or whether he wanted to go there.
Where are the 500 partial troops left behind?
If Mr. Shen then said that he would immediately send troops to intercept the more than a thousand puppet Tang rebels who were advancing backwards, I'm afraid it would be inappropriate!
But what Master Shen said next reassured them a lot. Some of their previous worries were in vain, because Master Shen said: "Send the order, the whole army marches forward, and defeats the enemy in front of you!"
What kind of enemy is the enemy in front of us? Of course it is the five hundred puppet Tang bandits in front!
This time, their confidence increased again. When more than 2,000 puppet Tang thief troops gathered together before, they did not dare to fight, but the main force of the 1,000 to 100 hundreds of puppet Tang thief troops had already moved towards the rear of the Tang Dynasty to attack.
They still dare not fight!
But if we just attack the 500 puppet Tang rebels in front of us, we can still defeat them. Even if we cannot defeat them, we can still protect ourselves!
There are more than 5,000 people on our side, and only 500 in the pseudo-Tang bandit army. Moreover, no firearms such as firecrackers were seen on these pseudo-Tang bandit army.
This battle seems to be fightable!
Well, you can fight, and maybe you can get some military exploits or something!
As for the thousand-year-old pseudo-Tang traitor army armed with guns and cannons, we'll beat whoever wants to, but we won't go anyway!
After Lord Shen handed down the order, all the Ming army generals under his command suddenly became excited, as if the world was so big that no one else could do it. Someone immediately came out and said: "Your Majesty, I am willing to lead my troops to serve as commanders."
forward!"
"Your Majesty, I am willing to lead two thousand young men to serve as the central army!"
"My lord, give me two thousand elite soldiers. I will definitely help you break through the flanks of the bandit army and defeat the bandit army!"
Seeing these subordinates fighting bravely, Mr. Shen nodded with a smile: The military spirit is available!
There was no pretense at the time, and arrangements were quickly made: "Sir Song, you will lead your headquarters and a thousand young men to form the left wing of the army!"
"Master Li, you lead your headquarters and a thousand young men as the right wing of the army!"
"I personally lead the remaining troops and horses of the headquarters and two thousand young men as the central army!"
"Everyone, this battle is about the honor and disgrace of our Xinglong Guard, the safety of the imperial court, and the lives of millions of people in Liping Prefecture, Xingquan Prefecture and even the surrounding prefectures and counties. You must work hard and fight hard!"
"When the bandit army in front of you is defeated, I will personally ask the governor for credit for you!"
What Master Shen said was about great justice, which made everyone's blood boil with excitement. Looking at the demeanor of these people, people who didn't know thought they were going to launch a strong attack on thousands or even tens of thousands of elite enemies!
Just by looking at their demeanor and listening to their words at this moment, one would never guess that what they were going to attack was only a 500-man Puppet Tang thief army, and it was a Puppet Tang thief army without firearms and equipment!
As Master Shen's order was conveyed, the five thousand Ming troops began to move!
Five thousand people moved with great momentum. The sound of footsteps and shouts seemed to make the surrounding world change color!
Officers of the Ming Army at all levels shouted and ran around on horseback, intending to make the guardsmen and young men of their headquarters move more orderly.
However, their efforts did not seem to achieve too obvious results. Those separately organized guard soldiers were okay. Although they looked old, young and weak, with poor combat effectiveness, they had undergone military training to some extent. At least they were in this formation. Still barely watchable.
But when those young men moved, they had no formation at all!
These young and strong people seemed to be walking in their own backyard, with elegant steps and strange movements. Sometimes three people walked together, sometimes in groups of dozens, and some even chatted while walking, and they didn't know what they were talking about.
They hold rusty or cracked iron swords and rusty spears in their hands, and few people have a broken shield.
As for armor, I'm sorry, the regular Ming army doesn't have much expensive equipment, so it's naturally impossible to equip these young men with it.
Just when the 5,000 Ming Army on the opposite side started to move, in the reserve battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, a major, about thirty years old and about 30 years old, with a somewhat slender and thin body, was riding on a horse with an expressionless face, just like the 5,000 Ming Army in his sight. It's the same as not existing.
In front of him, the soldiers of the reserve battalion had already lined up. Their formation was different from that of the regular infantry battalion. This was because they were purely cold-weapons troops and did not have musketeers.
So their formations are also different. Basically, three teams of spearmen stand in front in a dense formation, with a total of six columns!
However, the three teams are not connected to each other, but there is a certain amount of air raids left. In these two air raids, there are about a hundred archers standing. Behind the archers, there are about a hundred sword shields. Soldier!
Among these hundreds of sword and shield soldiers, half of them are heavy armored sword and shield soldiers!
Among the three teams of spearmen, the spearmen in the first row are also wearing heavy armor!
A reserve battalion, like a regular infantry battalion, has five teams, three of which are spear teams, one is an archery team, and one is a sword and shield team.
This formed the best reserve battalion force that the New Army of the Tang Dynasty could equip at this stage!
Although these reserve battalions have just been established, they already have such complete equipment, especially bows and arrows and armor. This is because these equipment are basically captured from the Ming army.
In the battlefield of the Battle of Tongguwei, the New Army of the Tang Dynasty captured hundreds of armors, shields, bows and arrows, waist knives, spears and other cold weapons.
Therefore, the current New Army of the Tang Dynasty is actually not lacking in various cold weapons.
As for the five reserve battalions that were first assigned to the main battalions, the armor, bows and arrows and other weapons they needed were given priority. After the reserve battalions selected their weapons, it was the turn of the garrison battalion composed of Ming army prisoners.
The reserve battalion of the third regiment faced the battle in a tight formation, and the commander of the reserve battalion was also a scholar, but he repeatedly missed, and finally became angrily and turned into a traitor. At this time, he looked at the chaotic formation of the Ming army on the opposite side.
The expressionless Lian finally showed a smile.
This is a sneer!
This major battalion commander was also in the main battalion before, and served as the captain of the spear team. This man looks gentle, but he has led his spearmen to launch hand-to-hand charges several times, and even rode on horseback himself.
An officer slashing enemy soldiers with his command sword.
Seeing that the Ming army was almost here, he finally issued the first order: "The entire battalion is ready!"
Although the reserve battalion had already formed the most complete preparations, he still followed the tradition of the officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty and made preparations.
At this time, the Ming army had already started running, and as soon as these Ming troops started running, the formation that was still barely there disappeared without a trace in an instant. If you look down from the sky at this time, you will find that this
Five thousand people were like a flock of sheep, running freely and unrestrainedly over the mountains and plains.
Directly in front of this group of sheep is a third regiment reserve camp that is extremely dense and as solid as stone!
In the reserve camp, the captain of the archer team raised his command knife high in his hand and shouted at the same time: "Archers, obey orders!"
"Prepare to launch!"
"Prepare, release!"
As the order was given, hundreds of archers instantly released their bow strings, and then hundreds of bows and arrows flew into the sky at a 45-degree angle, and then crossed the sky, forming a wave of arrow rain in the sky, flying into the morning
The military head then falls!
After the first round of volleys, the commander of the archers did not give a unified order to release arrows, but decisively said: "Free fire!"
At this time, the archers began to fire arrows at their own pace, but it is worth noting that the archers did not actually need to aim when firing. They only needed to shoot arrows roughly toward the front.
Accuracy has never been what archers pursue, physical strength and endurance are what they pursue!
So you will see that the ancient army had relatively low requirements for archers' hit accuracy, and never required archers to accurately hit the bull's-eye from dozens of meters away.
As long as you hit the bullseye within ten meters and a human-sized target (not the bullseye) within twenty or thirty meters, you will be considered qualified.
However, a truly outstanding archer requires great physical strength and endurance, and is required to be able to explode to the limit of strength in a short period of time to continuously bend the bow and shoot arrows.
The term "three shots before the enemy" actually puts great demands on archers, because it means that they need to draw the bow and shoot arrows continuously in a short period of time.
After facing the enemy for three rounds, the archers will often retreat temporarily to the rear of their own spearmen and sword and shield men to continue firing freely, which requires higher physical strength and endurance.
What the archers have to do now is to shoot more arrows as quickly as possible before the Ming army rushes to thirty meters!
Just when the archers in the reserve camp were releasing arrows, some archers in the Ming army also stopped charging, then stood still and bent their bows to shoot!
After the archers of the Ming Army bent their bows and fired arrows, the inevitable casualties began to appear in the reserve camp!
But in the face of his own casualties, the major battalion commander of the reserve battalion remained expressionless as he listened to the ordering soldiers around him saying the orders from Song Tianbiao!
After hearing this, he looked back at the Ming army in front of him who was charging towards him, and said: "Reply: My reserve camp is as stable as a mountain, please don't worry, commander!"