Nearly a hundred grenadiers who were running at a small pace stopped, then all raised their muskets, aiming at a Ming army on the left side of the gap!
At the same time, among the hundreds of Ming army they were targeting, more than ten Ming army archers each took out their arrows and put them on the bow strings, and then bent the bow strings towards the group of pseudo-Tang thieves opposite!
"aim!"
"shooting!"
At the same time, from the Ming army team opposite them, a Ming army general shouted: "Fire arrows!"
Almost at the same moment, many soldiers from both teams fell down!
After the intensive and crisp gunfire, the captain did not pause at all, and did not even glance at the grenadier who fell on the ground. He pointed his command knife forward: "Bayonet charge!"
After shouting, he directly turned over and dismounted, then rushed forward with his grenadiers holding the command knife!
"Kill!"
"The Grenadiers are invincible!"
"Long live the Tang Dynasty!"
In this battle, this grenadier team did not even use their best skill of throwing bombs. Instead, like the musketeers, they got close to fire a volley and then directly launched a charge.
This is because they shoot from the bottom up, so it is easy to shoot, but it is almost impossible to throw a grenade twenty or thirty meters away, and there is a city wall six or seven meters high.
So they simply gave up dropping bombs and launched the simplest and most direct bayonet charge!
Of course, as a captain of the 'Grenadiers', the most elite unit of the Tang Dynasty, Han You didn't just stupidly lead his men to die, but led a group of unarmored grenadiers.
Rush up and engage in a close-range melee.
He wanted to lead the grenadiers to continue to support, cover the charge of the heavy armored infantry in the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, and drop bombs at the appropriate time to open a gap for the Liuzhou Independent Regiment's assault.
Before the grenadiers launched their charge, the soldiers from the three battalions of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment had actually charged forward one after another. They had completely abandoned their previous complete formation and were running as fast as possible.
Then he climbed up to the ruins where the dust had not completely disappeared.
Fighting on the ruins of such a city wall, it is naturally impossible to maintain a tight formation. The next battle will be mainly a close-quarters melee where the two sides are entangled.
And this is also the fighting method that the Liuzhou Independent Regiment is best at!
The Liuzhou Independent Regiment, which is composed of elite standing soldiers provided by the major chieftains in Guangxi, is already a regular army of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, but its combat mode and even ethos are still completely different from other regular armies.
It is neither equipped with muskets nor artillery.
This has always been a purely cold-weapon unit, but it is a formidable cold-weapon unit because the armor coverage rate of this unit has reached 100%!
The heavy-armored spearmen, heavy-armored sword-and-shield soldiers in this unit are almost all heavy armor, and even some strong soldiers will wear double armor, which is a set of Tang Dynasty-style cotton iron armor.
The outer layer will also be covered with a set of chain mail or scale armor.
Not only do musket projectiles and shrapnel have a certain level of defense, but their defense against cold weapons is even better!
Even the archers and the auxiliary light armored swordsmen, shield soldiers, and spearmen wore relatively lightweight leather armor or cotton armor.
In fact, according to the idea of Lieutenant Colonel Mei Shenjian, the new leader of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, it is best for the Liuzhou Independent Regiment under his command to be all heavily armored. However, armor is a scarce resource. Whether it is self-made or captured, the quantity is relatively small.
Moreover, almost every army in the Tang Dynasty's royal division had a great demand for armor.
Because both the regular army and the garrison have two types of arms: heavy armored spearmen and heavy armored sword and shieldmen.
Armor is a scarce material second only to guns, and it is impossible to meet the needs of all troops. Therefore, even the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, a heavily armored and cold-weapon unit that specializes in close combat, cannot have one piece of heavy armor.
At most, it is only one-third equipped.
However, even so, the combat effectiveness of this unit cannot be underestimated.
The sophisticated equipment, coupled with the fearlessness of the soldiers themselves, and the abundant and excellent food supply in the regular army of the Tang Dynasty King's Division, made their physical fitness far beyond that of ordinary soldiers. The combination of these
Together, it is enough for this unit to exert its huge combat effectiveness in close-range melees.
When the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment climbed up the ruins one after another, Captain Han You also followed with the grenadiers!
After climbing up the ruins with the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the Ming army reinforcements arriving quickly not far away!
The most feared thing about this kind of charge is that the enemy will be blocked under the ruins in time. In this way, when climbing the ruins, not only will you be unable to exert your own combat effectiveness due to inconvenience in movement, but you will also be attacked by the enemy from a high position.
During the last battle of Wuzhou, when the 3rd garrison brigade rushed into the gap, it was because it was a step too slow and was intercepted by the Ming army before climbing up the ruins. In the end, the two sides continued to fight on the ruins, which led to
Intense casualties.
But today, God seems to be on the side of the Tang Dynasty King. They climbed up the ruins first, and now, they will be the ones to resist the enemy's counterattack from a high position.
Seeing that the enemy's reinforcements were less than tens of meters away, the forward troops had already begun to climb the ruins, and the archers in the rear were also bending their bows and shooting arrows at their own troops!
Captain Han You decisively ordered: "Grenadiers, prepare grenades!"
In this condescending close range, nothing is more lethal than grenades, and grenades can also effectively kill enemy heavy armored infantry!
When giving the order, he turned his head and glanced at the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, a friendly force next to him.
The archers from the Liuzhou Independent Regiment also followed and began to bend their bows and set arrows for free shooting.
However, many bows and arrows fell on the front line of the Ming Army, but they did not have the desired effect, because most of the Ming Army soldiers on the opposite front row were heavily armored soldiers, and they had good defense capabilities against bows and arrows.
The bows and arrows commonly equipped in the royal divisions of the Tang Dynasty were ordinary bows and arrows, and heavy arrows specially used to break armor were rarely equipped, because the task of breaking armor was basically left to the musketeers.
At this time, if the Liuzhou Independent Regiment was fighting with ordinary musketeers, they would probably shoot at close range in a hurry. However, if they shoot like this, the rate of fire will be too slow and they will not be able to intercept the enemy. In the end, the enemy will
Will rush up and engage in hand-to-hand combat with his side.
But today, it was the grenadiers who accompanied the Liuzhou Independent Regiment in battle!
Strictly speaking, the grenadiers are a musketeer unit, because they are also equipped with muskets, and their daily training is based on line tactics. But what makes them different from ordinary musketeers is that they are also equipped with grenades!
They were able to leapfrog many arms in the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty in one fell swoop and become the most elite troops in the Royal Division of the Tang Dynasty because they also needed grenades for combat.
In order to throw grenades, they need to have extraordinary physical fitness and courage beyond ordinary soldiers, and these two in turn make them truly elite infantry.
Look at the subordinates already taking out grenades!
"ignition!"
"bomb!"
Following Captain Han You's order, the grenadiers threw dozens of grenades. These grenades were thrown downwards and landed further than when thrown on flat ground or upwards. Most of them fell into the ground.
Among the heavy armored infantry formations of the Ming Army under the ruins, some even flew a full distance of more than thirty meters due to excessive force. They passed over these heavily armored Ming Army soldiers and fell into the archers in the back row of the Ming Army.
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As the explosions continued to sound densely, the people trapped in the Ming army's camp were immediately turned upside down by the bombs. The screams followed by the explosions continued to sound, reaching the ears of every nearby enemy and our soldiers.
Amidst the dense explosions, the charging momentum of the heavy armored infantry rushing into the front row of the Ming army's camp seemed to be interrupted. Dozens of casualties suddenly appeared, making these confident heavy armored infantry
They were all in a daze.
You must know that the soldiers in the trap camp who rush at the front are all soldiers wearing heavy armor, and these heavy armor soldiers can also be said to be the core elite force in the trap camp.
Almost everyone was carefully selected and received treatment that ordinary Ming army soldiers did not have. Each of these soldiers was a direct descendant of the Ming army general.
The puppet Tang rebels, who were usually full of confidence and believed that they would be able to kill them once they rushed forward, called their father and mother, causing the whole army to collapse.
But what I didn't expect was that before it even hit the ruins, it would suffer such heavy losses!
Don't think that these dozens of people are not important in this battle of Guangzhou. On the contrary, they are very important.
Although both sides participated in the Battle of Guangzhou with tens of thousands of troops, there were actually not many such heavily armored elite forces, whether in the Ming army camp or the Tang camp.
For example, in the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, the number of heavy armored infantry rushing to the top of the city is actually only two to three hundred. The Ming army's trapped camp below the city originally had so many heavy armored infantry, but now they have lost several of them.
With ten people, it can be said that the momentum of the charge was suddenly disrupted.
But the Ming army under the city was obviously unwilling to be beaten passively, and they wanted to charge forward!
"Where is our musketry battalion? Why haven't they come up yet?"
"Damn it, don't just stand there and wait for death, quickly use your bows and arrows to fight back and hit their musketeers!"
Following the order from the Ming army general, some of the Ming army archers trapped in the camp turned their bows and arrows, and then fired with a rain of arrows in the direction of the grenadiers at the top of the city.
A rain of arrows came towards the face, and the grenadiers suffered a lot of casualties in an instant. They had no armor to resist the bows and arrows!
Immediately, Han You shouted: "Get back, quickly, use the reverse slope to protect yourself, and continue throwing grenades!"