The commander of the reserve battalion dared to say this, and he certainly had his confidence!
Although the Ming army on the opposite side was large in number, there were actually only a thousand regular troops, and the remaining four thousand were just young men. And having fought against the Ming army many times, he knew deeply that the combat effectiveness of these young men was not as good as that of pigs!
At least if four thousand pigs start running in one direction, without any accident, they will never look back. If they stand in front of them, they will most likely be trampled to death alive.
Even if these four thousand pigs escaped, it would be very difficult to kill or catch them!
Don’t you see, even if our party is extremely great, has unparalleled combat power, has broken through the limits of the universe, and is invincible in all known or unknown dimensions of mankind, when the pigs in the pigpen run away, the whole class or even the army will have to be mobilized.
The whole platoon and even the whole company are going to the mountains and streets to look for him immediately!
The scene of the people's soldiers dispatching a large number of soldiers and horses to catch pigs can be called a classic scene of many tragic battles throughout the ages. Its cruelty is no less tragic than the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Normandy landing, and the Battle of Shangganling!
That scene was so tragic! It made people cry!
It can be concluded from this that the fighting power of pigs is actually not weak!
In particular, they have a characteristic that almost all armies in the world, from ancient times to the present, do not have: they never know what surrender is!
How many years have passed since they died miserably at the hands of humans, and how many pigs have been served on the dining table? That’s simply too many to count!
but!
but!!
but!!!
No pig has ever surrendered, ever!
Facing the butcher's knife, they all fought until the last moment of their lives, and no pig ever gave in!
So in history, some people said that even if they herd 50,000 pigs, they would not be able to catch them all in three days. This is simply nonsense. They want to catch them all in three days, but if you give them three months, they will not be able to catch them all!
From this perspective, saying that the combat effectiveness of the Ming troops in front of us is not as good as pigs is not actually an insult, but it actually elevates these Ming troops!
Because these Ming troops will surrender!
During the battle between the New Army of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Army, especially the consecutive victories in the recent large-scale battles, the generals of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty felt a little dizzy.
While he thought highly of himself, he also despised the Ming army.
In the eyes of many officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, especially the middle-level officers, the regular guards of the Ming Army were just like that. With the same strength, the officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were not afraid of these Ming Guards at all, even the Ming Army.
Their troops were twice or even three times theirs, and they dared to fight in a direct field battle.
The only opponents they paid some attention to were the recruited soldiers who worked hard for their wages. The recruits under Song Zhiwen still left a deep impression on the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Those recruited soldiers would not be the same as the guards soldiers.
Even if the entire army collapses after encountering a slight setback, they still have some fighting capacity. This can be seen from the fact that both Song Zhiwen and Zhu Zhihai regarded recruiting soldiers as the core force of the army.
As for the young and strong civilian men who were temporarily recruited by the Ming army, they had no fighting ability at all. It would be difficult to fight a smooth battle, let alone a tough battle.
The five thousand Ming troops in front of him, in the mind of the major and battalion commander, were actually directly ignored by him. The enemy he wanted to fight was only a thousand guardsmen.
With his five hundred troops fighting twice the number of guardsmen, he felt that he was still confident!
So even though the Ming troops in front of him had begun to fight back with bows and arrows, and his own soldiers had begun to suffer casualties, he still didn't frown and was still confident!
After all, the current casualties are controllable. After all, just like the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the Ming army actually does not have many archers!
This archer is not a cabbage. Generally, only the regular Ming army is equipped with it. In other words, only the guards in Xinglong Guard have dozens of professional archers. In addition, there are also some people in Qingzhuang.
They are people who are hunters or people who know archery for other reasons, but the total number will not be too many.
This led to the fact that the total of five thousand Ming troops only had about a hundred archers, which was actually about the same number as the number of archers in the reserve battalion of the third regiment.
As for the average quality of archers, no one should despise anyone, because most of the archers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty were prisoners of the Ming army. The archers of both sides can be regarded as having the same origin. From the initial quality of the soldiers
No one is better than anyone else.
Of course, in the later period, the new army of the Tang Dynasty would strengthen the training of these soldiers who were captured by the Ming army, and the military laws were extremely strict. Their combat effectiveness was relatively higher than before, but the improvement was limited.
Similar to the archers, there are cavalry. Most of the cavalry of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were captured by the Ming Army. However, later they deeply felt the greatness of the Tang Dynasty and the greatness of the eternal sage Li Xuan, so they did not hesitate.
He hesitantly abandoned the Pseudo-Ming, and then joined the big family of the Tang Dynasty, and contributed his meager strength to the great cause of overthrowing the Pseudo-Ming.
Well, they naturally wouldn't say that if they had not chosen to surrender, the new army of the Tang Dynasty would have directly killed them, and once they surrendered to the thieves, there would be no way out.
So far, I have never heard of anyone who surrendered to the Ming army and was still alive!
Regarding the rebels, the Ming Dynasty King has held an unswerving attitude for hundreds of years: kill, kill, kill! Use the most iron-blooded and ruthless means to kill him without leaving a trace!
Ordinary rebels are like this, let alone former soldiers of the Ming Army who betrayed the past!
This is a rebellion. The first offender is to kill the Nine Tribes. Well, this is talking about Li Xuan. The main accomplices are Liu Bagou, Zeng Ziwen, Fang Dongquan and the others. The Nine Tribes may not be able to be punished, but it is still easy to kill the three Tribes.
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As for the ordinary officials and officers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, they would probably also end up being executed.
Ordinary soldiers would not be able to raid homes or the like. After all, the workload would be too much and the Ming Dynasty would not be able to kill them. But the soldiers themselves would definitely kill each one they caught. It is rare to say that they would leave one alive after they were caught.
life situation.
Even after suppressing the puppet Tang rebel army, all the people and families in Xingquan Prefecture and Liping Prefecture who had been involved with the puppet Tang rebel army in the past could not escape the punishment of the imperial court. It is not known how many people there will be.
A whole family was raided and executed, and we don’t know how many men and women were beheaded, and women and children were sold into slavery. We don’t know how many people will be exiled for three thousand miles.
In short, when it comes to the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, whether it is Li Xuan, Liu Bagou, ordinary officers, or even soldiers or even some people and families who are related to the Tang Dynasty, they all cannot afford to fail.
There is no turning back for everyone!
Either sweep the world and replace it with enlightenment, or die and die...
Those Ming troops who surrendered had no third way to go. They couldn't even surrender again and return to the Ming army!
This is also the reason why many officers and soldiers of the Ming Army who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, especially middle and low-level officers, fought harder than some of the officers trained by the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Because at this time, they were no longer working for the Tang Dynasty.
In order to be loyal to Li Xuan, they just want to survive!
The archers from both sides continued to shoot at each other, and although they would cause some casualties to both sides, the contest between the archers could not determine the outcome of the two. What could determine the outcome for them was the subsequent hand-to-hand combat.
Because the charge of the Ming army had already started, it would not stop just because the archers fired arrows. In fact, they could not stop either.
It is easy to make a pig run, but it is not so easy to make a pig stop.
In fact, when the distance between the two sides shortened to about fifty meters, the battle situation was no longer controllable by the Ming army generals.
Fifty meters, thirty meters. When the front row soldiers of the Ming Army rushed within thirty meters, the archers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty began to retreat collectively.
The swordsmen and shieldmen behind the archers will come forward to cover these archers, and will also be responsible for killing the Ming soldiers who pass through the spearmen's array.
At the same time, the retreating archers continued to shoot arrows with their bows!
The spearmen of the three spearmen teams began to pick up their spears at the officer's command and pointed their spears forward!
At this time, the chaotic queue of the Ming army on the opposite side also issued various slogans. Naturally, those at the front were the bravest and most effective soldiers in the Ming army. They were usually regular guardsmen.
The core of these guardsmen are some middle and low-level officers and their servants!
These Ming army generals also knew very well that they could not expect to use their young men to rush to the front, because then these young men would collapse directly before they could get close.
The only way is to let the elite regular army open a gap in the front, and let the young and strong people in the rear follow up to fight a smooth battle.
The Ming army quickly crossed the short distance of thirty meters, and then collided with the spearmen array of the reserve battalion of the Third Infantry Regiment of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty!
The moment the two sides collided, if you look down from the sky, you will see that the Ming army was like a torrent, directly hitting the array of the reserve battalion of the third regiment, and then dissipating like waves in the reserve battalion of the third infantry regiment of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.
In front of the array!
At this moment, there were many casualties among soldiers on both sides!
But overall, it was the Ming army that suffered more casualties, and much more!
The reason here is very simple. The spearmen of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty in the front row are all heavily armored spearmen. They wear heavy armor and their protection ability against cold weapons is still good.
As for the soldiers of the Ming Army opposite, there are actually not many wearing armor. Most of them are middle and low-level officers and their soldiers. Ordinary soldiers basically do not have heavy armor to wear. A few soldiers will have a cotton armor, but more
Soldiers don’t even have cotton armor!
So when the hand-to-hand combat between the two sides took place, a large number of Ming soldiers without armor suffered heavy casualties!