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Chapter 478: For the sake of glory and wealth, rush!

At this time, Butcher Chen couldn't hold it anymore and personally commanded an 800-pound artillery to bombard the Ming army. He kept shouting: "Fire fast, fast, fast, fire for me!"

Other artillery units of the Datang King Division, such as the two artillery battalions that stayed with the infantry on the front line and provided direct front-line artillery support for the infantry, and the third artillery unit that belonged to the second artillery battalion, were also doing this.

In the final battle preparations, each artillery has been loaded in advance, and the gunners have also set up to shoot at Zhu Yuan. They are waiting for the Ming army to enter the effective range of 150 meters. By that time, they will be the first

He opened fire at the right time and fired shotguns, causing massive damage to the Ming army's effective forces.

If these Ming troops want to rush out and fight the infantry, they must first withstand their intensive bombardment!

The Ming army moved, and the Tang army responded quickly. Hao Bainian in the rear smiled and chatted with his subordinates.

Hao Bainian in the rear looked relaxed and full of confidence. Not only him, but others also looked excited and confident when they saw the Ming army taking the initiative!

After Hao Bainian finished his relaxed words, he also changed his expression to a serious expression and formally ordered: "Command, the First Infantry Regiment, the Second Infantry Regiment, and the Fifth Guard Regiment are ready to meet the enemy!"

"Instruct the 2nd Cavalry Battalion to prepare for attack!"

"Instruct each artillery team to kill and injure the enemy as quickly as possible!"

"I am ordering the whole army to defeat the enemy in one battle for the sake of Your Majesty, for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, and for the sake of glory and wealth!"

Fang Dongquan on the side also looked excited and said: "The show is finally about to begin!"

Although he had no right to command this battle and was just watching a show from beginning to end, being on such a large-scale battlefield, just participating in it was enough for him to be extremely excited.

As a bandit leader, he has always liked such large-scale scenes, otherwise he would not have been unwilling to push it forward, but would have continued to stay in the main force.

As soon as Hao Bainian's order was issued, several flag soldiers around him began to signal his orders to the various units. At the same time, the messengers also rode fast horses and rushed to the units to deliver the orders as soon as possible!

Because in the last battle of Rongxian, there was an error when the flag soldiers were transmitting orders, which caused extremely bad effects. Afterwards, the battalion commander of the 2nd Cavalry Battalion, Major Lu Yuzhi, wrote a note himself and sent it to Li Xuan.

Now the Army of the Tang Dynasty has urgently improved the order transmission process. It stipulates that for the transmission of orders on the battlefield and the issuance of important orders, if possible, dual transmission by messengers and flag soldiers should be used as much as possible. At the same time, when passing through flags, there must be

Two semaphore soldiers convey the same command at the same time.

At the same time, after receiving the order, the subordinate troops must confirm with the superior whether the order is correct. At the same time, there are strict requirements that every officer must understand the flag language!

On the front line, Li Chunjing, wearing a dark blue school officer's uniform, was riding on a horse, listening to the report of the flag soldiers beside him: "The general sent an order, the 1st Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Regiment, and 5th Garrison Regiment are ready to meet the enemy!"

"Instruct the 2nd Cavalry Battalion to prepare for attack!"

"Instruct each artillery team to kill and injure the enemy as quickly as possible!"

Li Chunjing immediately said: "Confirm whether the order is correct!"

Soon, the ordering soldier beside him repeated the order through flag language, and Hao Bainian behind him watched Li Chunjing's flag language soldier repeat the order with his own eyes, and immediately nodded and said: "Confirm!"

Immediately the messenger next to him waved a flag to confirm the order!

Li Chunjing immediately said: "Reply, the Second Infantry Regiment obeys the order!"

The same situation also happened in the First Infantry Regiment. Colonel Chen Keqiao also said: "Reply, the First Infantry Regiment obeys the order!"

Lu Yuzhi of the Second Cavalry Battalion also nodded and said: "Reply: This battalion will choose the opportunity to attack!"

After the orders were issued and confirmed, the Tang army on the front line finally moved!

The first to move was the First Infantry Regiment of the Chinese Army!

As the most powerful unit in combat effectiveness, the First Infantry Regiment deservedly recognized its position as the core of the Chinese army and launched attacks as the core pillar of the entire army!

The infantrymen of the infantry regiment began to step forward in unison!

This time, the phalanx of the First Infantry Regiment was different from the previous phalanx in which each battalion fought alone. Its three main infantry battalions were arranged in a Z-shaped formation.

The First Infantry Battalion is located directly in front, and the spearmen of the two teams of this First Infantry Battalion are located directly in front, forming a dense phalanx of spears!

Behind the spear phalanx, there are two teams of musketeers from the first infantry battalion, arranged in vertical formations facing both sides!

On the left and right sides of the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Battalion are the spear phalanx of the 2nd Infantry Battalion. On one side of the spear phalanx are the musketeers of the two teams of the battalion.

On the other side of the musketeers of the 1st Infantry Battalion is the spear phalanx of the 3rd Infantry Battalion. On the other side of the musketeers of the 3rd Infantry Battalion, the musketeers of the two teams of the battalion are also concentrated.

In this way, the spearmen and musketeers of the three main infantry battalions formed a square formation that was dense and covered with cross-fire coverage.

Behind these three main battalions are two reserve battalions, whose archers are in the front row, just behind the musketeers of the first infantry battalion, and can provide bow and arrow ejection coverage to the left and right, the front and even the rear.

The spearmen and sword and shield soldiers of the reserve battalion can cover the sides and rear of this phalanx.

Not only has the formation of the First Infantry Regiment changed from the past, but the square formation of the Second Infantry Regiment has also changed. This formation for whole regiment combat was developed by Hao Bainian, and today it is the first time it has been put into actual combat.

As for the fifth garrison regiment, which cooperates with the two main infantry regiments, it is arrayed on the right wing. Their formation is relatively simple. It is a traditional dense rectangular infantry square formation, with archers in front and spearmen in front.

After that, the Swordsman and Shieldman were at the back again.

Directly behind the battlefield is the Second Cavalry Battalion. They will choose their own moment to launch an attack, bypassing the enemy's flanks or simply charging from behind!

The First Infantry Regiment began to move forward, but the Second Infantry Regiment did not move, and the Fifth Guards Regiment did not move either!

Even the 1st Infantry Regiment only advanced about twenty meters and then stopped. Officers at all levels on horseback kept shouting for the soldiers to maintain their formation!

At this time, the Ming army had already rushed out of the camp!

At this time, the shotguns of the three armies of the Tang Army finally started firing. Although the sound of these artillery shots was not as loud as the heavy artillery, the killing effect at this distance was quite obvious.

Every shot fired can cause a lot of damage to the front row soldiers of the Ming army!

However, people in the Ming army array were also pushing small-caliber bowl-mouth cannons forward one after another. However, their small-caliber bowl-mouth cannons had a very short range. If they wanted to effectively kill the soldiers of the Tang Army, they would have to continue to attack them.

It's within a hundred meters or even seventy or eighty meters away.

The charging speed of the Ming army was not very fast, and this was actually not normal, because at medium and long distances they could only be passively beaten. Since they wanted to charge forward, the faster the better.

However, the charging speed of these Ming troops was not very fast. The soldiers of the Tang Army, especially the middle and senior officers, could not understand that the charging speed of these Ming troops was a bit slow. Could it be that they went out to fight without having enough to eat today?

It shouldn't be. Even the Ming army, whose food supply level was not very good, knew that they couldn't starve their soldiers when the war was approaching.

Could it be that they have a deeper plan?

Li Chunjing and Chen Keqiao on the front line were a little worried about this, but they probably couldn't figure it out even if they tried hard. These Ming troops who attacked had never thought of fighting to the death with the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side.

Many senior generals of the Ming Army have already secretly ordered their close subordinates: "Be smart when you charge, and you will be foolish enough to charge at the front. Otherwise, you will not be able to run even if the retreat order is given!"

And there was not just one Ming general who was so smart, but most of them!

As a result, these Ming soldiers wanted to let others rush ahead and follow slowly behind, so that they could run away as soon as the order to retreat was given.

Not to mention these ordinary soldiers, even the generals gathered their own soldiers around them one by one, waiting to escape as soon as the retreat order was given.

Therefore, among the charging Ming army, those at the front were actually some ordinary guard soldiers and soldiers, and there was no core combat strength of most Ming army: the personal soldiers of the generals!

These elite forces of the Ming army are staying with their generals at the back!

Since the Ming army was not charging very fast, this also meant that the artillery of the Tang army had more time to carry out shelling!

The continuous bombardment caused the charging Ming army to fall one after another!

And when these Ming troops finally reached a distance of 100 meters, the musketeers in the Tang Army's infantry square finally fired their first round of volleys!

When the crisp and dense gunfire rang out on the battlefield, although it didn't sound as scary as artillery fire, it was quite lethal.

With so many muskets shooting together, even if a single musket has a low hit rate, the target on the opposite side is so obvious, so the hit rate is indirectly improved.

The advancing Ming soldiers continued to fall down!

Casualties continue to increase!

However, the Ming army would not always be passively beaten. After entering within a hundred meters, the Ming army's archers finally began to bend their bows and shoot arrows. Almost seven or eight hundred archers fired their bows and arrows into the sky, and then

Curve falls!

But these Ming soldiers didn't have much chance to bend their bows and shoot arrows, because the musketeers of the Tang Army had already pointed their muskets at them and fired.

At the same time, nearly a thousand archers from the Tang Army also began to bend their bows and shoot arrows!

Yes, you read that right, there were more archers in the army of the Tang Dynasty going south than in the eight thousand Ming army in front of us!


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