Seeing the casualties of the troops ahead increasing, Hao Bainian remained unmoved because the current casualties were still within expectations.
The current casualties of the army are mainly concentrated among the chieftain soldiers and the third garrison brigade, because Hao Bainian used these two troops as cannon fodder when arranging tactics.
In particular, the 3rd garrison brigade that launched the accompanying attack had mediocre equipment and only a handful of people had armor. However, they were large in number, with more than 4,000 people launching the charge. This was a huge problem for the Ming army on top of the city.
It was a huge threat, so it withstood the largest counterattack force of the Ming army.
This also resulted in relatively large casualties for the Third Guard Brigade!
However, this still did not move Hao Bainian. While he calmly looked at the casualties of the troops on the front line, he also watched his own long-range firepower suppress the Ming army at the top of the city.
If the Ming army wanted to counterattack, they would definitely have to return to the top of the city. The archers would still have to bend their bows and shoot arrows, and the artillerymen would still have to push the cannons out from the battlements.
And this gave the artillerymen, musketeers, and archers of the Tang Dynasty's royal division an excellent opportunity to kill!
Just when the Ming army's counterattack caused certain casualties to its own charging infantry, the Ming army on top of the city also suffered a lot of casualties in a short period of time.
For a time, both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the Ming army's casualties on the city walls were even more heavy. Some of the Ming soldiers who dared to fight back on the city walls were killed and injured in large numbers, and there were even gaps in the defense of some city walls.
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At this time, Hao Bainian said: "It's time for the commandos to attack!"
During the fierce battle between the armies of both sides, the commandos from the Tang Dynasty King's Division had already passed through the zigzag trenches and moved through the tunnels to ambush them in the trenches only twenty meters away from the city wall.
Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu had already seen the attack order from Hao Bainian. He then raised his head and looked forward and left and right. When he saw that his friendly troops had completely attracted the attention of the Ming army, so did his long-range firepower troops.
After suppressing the enemy troops at the head of the city, he decisively drew his command sword and pointed it forward, and then shouted loudly: "Commando team, attack!"
When Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu shouted loudly, the messenger behind him also blew the horn of charge!
The horn sounded rapidly and continuously, even outside Liuzhou City with the roar of guns and cannons, it was extremely harsh!
After officers at all levels in the commando team heard the horn sound, they each took out their command knives, then waved their command knives and shouted: "Charge!"
"Kill, the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty will be invincible." This is the slogan shouted by the infantry officer of the regular army of the Tang Dynasty Army!
"The grenadiers will fight to the death!" This is the slogan shouted by the grenadier officers!
"Rush up, kill them all and get the reward!" This is the slogan shouted by the generals of the Tusi soldiers!
More than 500 people howled and jumped out of the trenches one after another. Under the leadership of officers at all levels, they charged towards the city wall more than 20 meters away!
At this time, their city wall was only more than 20 meters long, and the Ming army on top of the city was suppressed by their own artillery. There were also Liuzhou chieftain soldiers and their own ordinary infantry to attract the enemy's firepower, and there were garrison troops from other directions to contain the Ming Dynasty.
The strength of the army.
As long as they rush over, climb up the city wall and stand firm to allow the friendly forces to follow, Liuzhou City will be within easy reach!
And they will also be the first to achieve success in this battle, and getting promoted and making a fortune is a matter of course!
At this time, the fastest charging members of the commando team were not the regular soldiers who belonged to the 1st Infantry Brigade, but dozens of soldiers drawn from the Tusi soldiers!
The chieftain soldiers are known for their bravery and fearlessness, and these elite soldiers selected from the soldiers are all ruthless characters who do not take their own lives seriously.
In addition, they were also wearing heavy armor temporarily supported by the Tang Army, and they were holding waist knives made of fine steel. Even the shields in their hands were of high quality. This equipment made those soldiers Their confidence has greatly increased.
They didn't even try to avoid the arrows or the shrapnel of artillery shells from the Ming army's counterattack at the top of the city, and rushed towards the top of the city screaming!
Relatively speaking, the soldiers drawn from the 1st Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Garrison Brigade are much more low-key. Due to daily training habits, the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Brigade will abide by certain rules even when charging. formation and strictly obey the orders of the officers.
The soldiers of the 3rd garrison brigade were more timid and followed behind!
However, no matter what, the charge of more than 500 people instantly attracted the attention of both the enemy and ourselves.
This is because these more than five hundred people are really special. The grenadiers, archers, and light armor, sword and shield soldiers are all pretty good, and no one attaches too much importance to them, but more than half of them, reaching more than two hundred people The heavy armored sword and shield soldiers blinded the Ming generals and ordinary soldiers on the city wall.
These are more than two hundred sword and shield soldiers wearing heavy armor. Once they are allowed to rush to the top of the city, it will be a massacre for the Ming army on the top of the city!
These days, whether in the Imperial Division of the Tang Dynasty or in the Ming army, the number of heavy armored infantry is relatively small. However, like the Imperial Division of the Tang Dynasty, they can gather more than 200 people on a wall of only twenty or thirty meters. Heavy armored infantry, this kind of thing would be impossible to happen even to the Ming army's border troops.
This does not mean that there are not so many armored men in the frontier army, but that it is difficult for them to gather these armored men.
The heavily armored soldiers in various units of the Ming Army were basically the personal soldiers of high-ranking generals and middle- and low-level officers.
If you want to gather them together and launch a charge, this is simply impossible!
How can you possibly gather all the middle and low-level officers in the army? They still have to command ordinary soldiers.
How do you gather the personal soldiers of high-ranking generals? Those are the personal soldiers of other generals, the kind that they won't hand over even if they are killed.
Therefore, in so many battles between the Ming Army and the Tang Army, we often saw a lot of armored men in the Ming Army, but we never saw them gathering armored men on a large scale, reaching hundreds or even Thousands of people.
However, such limitations did not exist in the Imperial Army of the Tang Dynasty. The troops all directly belonged to the emperor, and those heavy armored infantry were just an ordinary branch of the military. They were not personal soldiers of the generals, let alone middle- and low-level officers.
In fact, in the Tang Dynasty King's Division, except for the officers in the sword, shield and spear troops, the officers of other arms did not wear armor!
So you will often see the musketeer officers of the Tang Dynasty army wearing only civilian uniforms, holding command knives, leading the musketeers under their command, and this officer is still riding a horse at the forefront!
Armor, are you kidding me? They put on such heavy armor and they still rode on horseback to command the battle. The southwest horses under their crotches could not support the weight of a knight wearing heavy armor.
However, now, the puppet Tang rebel army has sent a heavily armored unit to charge against a small section of its city wall. This is not bad, but it must be intercepted, otherwise, everyone will die when they charge forward!
Therefore, there was no need for orders from the senior generals. Many middle and low-level officers of the Ming Army had already asked their archers and gunners to change their targets and intercept and shoot at the commandos of the puppet Tang rebel army charging from the city.
But can they stop it?
Impossible!
The commando team launched an intensive charge. There was only a city wall of twenty to thirty meters in front of them. And even if the nearby city walls of dozens of meters were added to it, the Ming army only had a few hundred people. How many of these Ming soldiers were there?
Are they archers? How many cannons are there?
Not much at all!
Not to mention, more than half of the pseudo-Tang rebels charging below were wearing heavy armor. Unless the Ming army's arrows hit weak points such as facades, they would not be able to cause any damage to these heavy armored infantry.
Those bowl-mouth cannons are quite powerful, but bowl-mouth cannons are also artillery, so don’t count on their rate of fire!
The rate of fire of the Datang Royal Division's own battalion artillery and heavy artillery was not very good, and the Ming army's bowl-mouth cannons were naturally not very good either. After firing several rounds and causing some casualties to the Datang Royal Division's commando,
Just started to reload in a hurry.
But at this time, the commando of the Tang Dynasty King's Division had already rushed to the city wall. At this time, there was no need for the officers to give orders. The archers began to shoot at the top of the city to suppress the enemy troops, while the grenadiers all moved towards the city wall.
A grenade was thrown from the top of the city.
The city wall was only five or six meters long. The grenadiers were all strong soldiers in the Tang Army. It was easy to throw grenades onto the city wall.
As grenades were thrown onto the city and exploded one after another, the counterattack firepower of the Ming army on the city was instantly weakened.
At this time, long ladders with iron hooks on the top were also erected on the city wall one after another!
As soon as the long ladder was placed, the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers couldn't wait to climb up the long ladder!
Their climbing movements are basically the same. They hold a shield above their heads in one hand to prevent the Ming soldiers on top of the city from pouring hot water, hot oil, etc., they bite the back of the steel knife directly in their mouths, and they grab the long ladder with the other hand.
, his legs climbed up quickly on the long ladder.
Of course, there are also very confident people who don't bother to use shields to block their heads. They just hold long knives. They don't bother to use the shields, but just carry them on their backs, and then climb up quickly!
Although when they climbed up, some people fell from time to time due to the concentration of Ming troops, but most of the armored sword and shield soldiers successfully climbed up.
After they climbed to the top of the city, although the Ming army organized infantry to resist desperately and wanted to drive them off the city, how could these ordinary light infantry of the Ming army be the opponent of the heavy armored infantry.
If they want to kill these heavy armored infantrymen of the Tang Army who have boarded the city, they have to pay the price of seven, eight or even ten people to succeed!
However, there were more than 200 heavy armored infantrymen of the Tang Dynasty who boarded the city, while the Ming army on this section of the city wall only had a total of 400 or 500 people.
In less than a minute, some of the four to five hundred Ming troops had already fallen into a pool of blood, while more ran away, either towards the sides of the city wall, or simply jumped off the city wall.
When Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Xu led the grenadiers to the top of the city, at a glance, they were all corpses and wounded!