When Captain Han You led the grenadiers to gradually climb to the top of the ruins, the heavy armored infantry of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment that were originally on the top of the ruins had already retreated one after another.
Because if the Ming Army's musketeers stepped forward and fired, it would be impossible for these heavy armored infantry to block the medium and close range of bullets. In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, they chose to retreat.
The heavy armored infantry retreated to the reverse slope to avoid casualties, but the grenadiers jumped over them and returned to the top of the ruins. Next, it will be the grenadiers' moment!
Even in the Ming army on the other side of the ruins, their ordinary infantrymen retreated to both sides, leaving the battlefield to the musketeers of the Dubiao Musket Battalion.
For the Ming army, the next battle belongs to the musketeers!
When the Ming Army's musketeers gradually stepped forward, and the Tang Army's grenadiers stepped forward simultaneously, these two armies, which can be regarded as representing the most advanced combat capabilities of the contemporary era, gradually approached.
And their next battle will be bloody and cruel, because the tactics of both sides are so similar. The grenadiers of the Tang Army are also a type of musketeers, and when the musketeers of the Tang Army fight, their patterns are almost the same.
It's fixed, that is to form a line to shoot!
The musketry battalion organized and trained by Wang Yue originally imitated the training methods of the puppet Tang thief army. Whether it was equipment, organization, or fighting methods, they were naturally imitated by the Tang army.
Therefore, the combat modes of the two will be exactly the same, at least on the surface it will look like this.
Their battle mode is to form a neat and dense formation, raise their guns and shoot at the enemy. In this process, they will be hard-pressed to withstand the enemy's various counterattacks, whether it is shelling, bow and arrow shooting, or musketry.
When shooting, you must not waver, let alone retreat. Even lying down to dodge is not allowed.
When the teacher Tang Jun and the student Fusui Ying of the Ming Army fought in the same mode, their fighting mode was what later generations would often call "queuing up to be shot."
In the battle mode of queuing to kill, the winner will depend on which side can withstand more casualties, whose soldiers are more well-trained and fire more bullets.
In the history of human wars, there has never been a way of fighting where lining up to be shot looks so stupid. People who don’t know what’s going on will shout: Are they all fools? Why don’t they disperse? Why don’t they lie down to avoid bullets?
And cannonballs?
But this seemingly silly way of fighting is actually the most efficient way of fighting in this era, or in other words, the most efficient way of killing.
When they think they are smart and lie down or spread out, they are not far away from collapse, because they can't reload the muzzle-loading rifle when they lie down, and they can't form dense firepower when they spread out.
When the enemy lined up in a neat formation, fired row after row, and finally launched a bayonet charge, these lying or scattered armies had only one final result: collapse!
After Han You led the grenadiers to the top of the ruins, the Ming Army musketeers who were about 80 meters away on the other side of the ruins suddenly became nervous. The leading Ming Army general shouted loudly: "Shoot."
, shoot quickly!”
As he shouted loudly, some of the more than 300 musketeers of the Ming Army pulled their triggers and fired. However, only the nearly 100 musketeers in the front row fired, and those in the back naturally had no chance to fire.
As the Ming Army's musketeers preemptively fired the first round of fire, the Tang Army's grenadiers inevitably fell seven or eight people. There was no way, the hit rate of shooting from a hundred meters away was very low. These The soldiers of the Ming Army were able to hit seven or eight grenadiers of the Tang Army at more than eighty meters, which was considered qualified.
However, although casualties began to appear, the entire grenadier line remained motionless. The grenadiers were sorting out their formation while making final reloading or various preparations!
Captain Han You was already standing on a huge ruined boulder at this time, as if he didn't see the arrows and bullets flying towards his own camp, and gave the order calmly and calmly!
"Musketeers directly ahead, a hundred distance away!"
"First row ready!"
"aim!"
"shooting!"
After the order to fire was given, dozens of grenadiers in the first row pulled the triggers. After the crisp gunfire, a burst of white smoke rose from the queue. At the same time, in the queue of Ming Army musketeers on the opposite side, , more than ten people fell directly!
Although the strength of the grenadiers is smaller than that of the Ming Army's musketeers, the Tang Army's grenadiers are the elite of the musketeers. Many veterans have been in the army for more than one year, have frequent live-fire training, and have rich practical experience. This shooting technique is naturally better.
When fighting in line, the accuracy of soldiers' shooting is not only related to their skills, but also has a great relationship with their mentality. The bullets fired by an extremely calm grenadier are definitely better than those fired by one whose hands are shaking. The bullets fired by the gunners are more accurate.
Captain Han You did not even look at the casualties of the Ming soldiers on the opposite side, and continued to shout the command:
"Second row ready!"
But before he could shout out the next command, sporadic gunshots continued to ring out from the Ming army on the opposite side, but he was directly hit in the arm by a Ming army bullet and was hit hard. He rolled directly to the end, throwing the command knife in his hand to the other side. The severe pain made him let out a muffled scream, and the orderlies around him immediately stepped forward to check on his condition!
However, the fall of Han You still did not stop this grenadier unit from fighting!
The captain of the 2nd Grenadier Corps took over the command almost immediately. He raised his command knife high and continued to shout: "Aim for the second row!"
"shooting!"
There was another burst of white smoke, and in the crisp sound of gunfire, another seven or eight people of the Ming army on the opposite side fell.
"Third row ready!
"aim!"
"shooting!"
These more than a hundred grenadiers used the most familiar and classic three-row rotation of the musketeers of the Tang Dynasty King's Division to target the people who were only more than 80 meters away, and they also crossed the insurmountable ruins of the city wall. The Ming army's muskets conducted the most efficient killing competition in this era.
The generals of the Ming army on the opposite side watched their soldiers continue to fall, but not many of the musketeers of the puppet Tang rebel army fell on the opposite side. It was not known what happened there.
Our side's musketry skills were so poor that even if the two sides were to fire at each other at a distance of more than 80 meters, even if the number of people was twice as large, they would not be able to gain any advantage. Instead, they would suffer even more casualties.
Immediately he shouted loudly: Go up, go up and shoot!
Since the marksmanship is not good, it is natural to shoot from the front!
But if the distance is farther, although the hit rate of hitting the enemy is not high, the casualties suffered by one's own side are also small. Now the Ming army continues to advance, and the casualties are increasing rapidly.
When they came forward fifty meters away, before they could even start shooting as a team, the grenadiers had already fired two rows of continuous fire.
Almost all the musketeers in the front row of the Ming army fell down. More than half of the soldiers in the front row fell. Looking at the total strength of the Ming army, only more than thirty people fell. It's just a human being, which is nothing to this musketeer unit of four to five hundred people. However, such heavy casualties in which a large number of people fell in an instant completely overwhelmed the front row of Ming Army musketeers. courage.
The surviving Ming Army musketeers were able to reload at first, but the painful groans of their comrades who fell at their feet continued to reach their ears, and many of them even had their bodies stained with the blood of their comrades. At this time, they Their hands and feet were trembling, and they made continuous mistakes in loading. Sometimes they poured too much gunpowder, or inserted multiple lead bullets in succession. Some soldiers even forgot to take out the connecting rod after completing the loading, so they just lit the match and fired. , the result is obvious, it must have exploded!
These were still the musketeers in the front row, and when the musketeers in the back row saw their comrades in the front row falling down, they felt even more horrified, because at this time, the next bullet from the puppet Tang rebel army hit, But it will hit him, because there are no comrades in front of him who can help him block the bullet.
The approaching distance and the large number of casualties instantly caused the musketry battalion, which originally seemed to be quite good, to be in turmoil. Several mid-level officers of the Ming Army on the front line could not even stop them from firing in an orderly manner. They could only let the soldiers Instinct free fire.
However, looking back at the grenadiers of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army on the ruins, although many people fell down in their queue, the queue of more than 180 people was actually less than 140 people. The exchange of fire had already cost them more than forty people, and the lines were almost filled with dead and wounded!
But their formation is still tight. After the comrades in the front row are injured or killed, the grenadiers in the back row will immediately step forward to replenish their positions, stand next to the dead and wounded, load and shoot, and always maintain the entire line. The firepower of the queue.
In this kind of combat effectiveness competition of casualty tolerance, the grenadiers finally demonstrated the qualities they should have!
Even though the casualties were not small, these grenadiers were like robots, reloading, replenishing their positions, firing, and other tactical actions as if they were instinctive.
Several officers of the grenadiers did not even bother to look at the bullets that kept flying near them. They still held their command knives high and kept repeating the command "prepare, aim, shoot".
The grenadier's battle, in which they ignored the enemy's casualties and even ignored their own casualties, left the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment in the rear stunned.
Damn, is this still a human being?
The soldiers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment were surprised, while the generals of the Ming Army Musket Battalion opposite were frightened and even despaired!