As the officers shouted orders, hundreds of soldiers of the third battalion stopped in unison. The spearmen in the center of the queue began to further organize their formation. During their previous advance, they were moving and continuing to
The casualties suffered will inevitably lead to a slight loosening of the formation.
Now, they have to take advantage of the last moment to organize their formation.
The archers in the back row seize the opportunity to throw out the last round of arrows, because they know that even in a few seconds, they will have no chance to release arrows, because by that time, their own army will launch a full-scale attack.
When the army charges, the two sides are fighting together. It is impossible for them to have a chance to fire arrows. At that time, they will also change to their sabers, pick up a smaller shield than the sword and shield soldiers, and launch a charge with the troops in front.
Of course, the main force of the charge will not be them, not even the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, but the spearmen and musketeers in the front!
The musketeers on both sides of the formation all raised their muskets and took aim!
At this time, the Folangji people on the opposite side also noticed something was wrong. They fired several rounds of shots. Although they caused some casualties to the Tang army on the opposite side, they were still far away from completely defeating them. However, at this time,
However, the opponent had already rushed to a distance of thirty meters and was preparing to shoot at him.
They seemed to be able to feel the God of Death raising the sickle in front of them, and the next moment he would swing the huge sickle down and then slash at them!
Even though these Folangji soldiers are modern troops who have received strict training, they still inevitably waver under such circumstances. Many of the Folangji musketeers' hands began to tremble when they were loading, and some of them began to shake.
He looked left and right, his expression full of panic.
It didn't take long before the officers of the Tang Army on the opposite side shouted out the latest command!
"shooting!"
After the shooting order was given, the musketeers all pulled the triggers. The lit match was caught by the firing mechanism and hit the gunpowder pool. The sparks instantly ignited the gunpowder inside, and then!
Intensive gunfire rang out, and a burst of white smoke floated from the wing arrays of the third battalion. At the same time, a large piece of the Franco robots on the opposite side fell down in unison!
A close range salvo of thirty meters is enough to offset the shortcomings of the matchlock guns of this era which have a low hit rate, and the bullets fired are enough to cause tragic casualties to the enemy!
When a large number of the Fo Lang robots on the opposite side fell down, the officers of the third battalion had already loudly shouted the latest order: "Charge the entire army!"
After a 30-meter salvo, a bayonet charge was launched. This was a tactic consistently used by the musketeers of the Tang Army. The Ming army had already suffered from this tactic before, and now, it was Fo Lang's turn again.
Robot.
The musketeers rushed forward with their rifles already equipped with bayonets. At the same time, the spearmen in the center of the array also rushed forward, and even rushed forward a little further.
After the salvo, the main force in the hand-to-hand combat was actually no longer the musketeers, but the spearmen holding four-and-a-half-meter-long spears, especially the first two rows of heavily armored spearmen.
, and is the backbone of hand-to-hand combat.
Seeing the hundreds of people on the opposite side rushing over with overwhelming momentum, the frightened Folangji people who had just suffered heavy casualties in the salvo became even more panicked!
Although they are still holding on and not retreating for the time being, in fact they have lost morale and the morale of the army is in chaos!
More importantly, the previous salvo had killed most of their front row soldiers, which also caused loopholes in their formation.
In this kind of close-range charge and hand-to-hand combat, it is crucial whether the formations of both sides can be maintained. Once the formations are messed up, collapse will be far away.
At this time, although many Fulang robot musketeers who had completed loading fired back, and successfully hit many Datang Army soldiers who were charging, these sporadic bullets did not block the front at all.
A torrent of hundreds of people!
The next moment, the arrays of both sides collided fiercely!
At this time, all the musketeers of the Folangji people on the opposite side have lost their effect. Why?
Because their matchlock guns were not equipped with bayonets!
Mounting bayonets on muskets was definitely the first initiative of the Tang Dynasty, and in the Tang Dynasty, bayonets on muskets had been developed for two generations. The plug-in bayonets used in the early days have long been abandoned and should be used instead.
Canned bayonet.
The French musketeers without bayonets were naturally unable to play any role in this kind of close-range hand-to-hand combat. They could only retreat and let their own spearmen and swordsmen come forward to fight.
However, this also led to the further widening of the military strength gap between the two sides. The Francois originally had only about a hundred regular troops, and then added two hundred temporarily mobilized sailors, of which the musketeers accounted for about half.
Excluding the casualties they suffered from bows, arrows, and musket fire in the early stage, that is to say, there are only a hundred or so Franco soldiers currently fighting against the Tang Army.
But what they had to face were more than 180 spearmen, nearly 150 musketeers, nearly a hundred heavy armored swordsmen and shield bearers at the rear, and countless archers who were part-time job.
Armor and shield bearer.
This disparity in military strength meant that they had no power to fight back against the Tang Army's charge!
The two sides engaged in battle for only more than ten seconds, and the Folangji who dared to resist in person had already suffered dozens of casualties!
There is no way, with spears and muskets with bayonets, it is so simple to kill the enemy, just step forward and stab him, but it will not be like in the movies and TV shows, where the two sides have to go back and forth, entangled for a long time!
In the first moment of contact between the two sides, there will basically be a large number of casualties, and then, this will be true for both the Fo Langji people and the Tang Army.
And next, it’s time to compare the strength of both sides’ troops!
After the soldiers in the first row were killed or wounded, the second row was on top, and the second row was also killed or wounded, and the third row and even the fourth row were on top!
On the Tang Army's side, the strength of the troops was the standard six platoons. As for the Folangji, they also maintained a full six platoons. However, one thing was that their troops were too small and they were in a situation of being besieged.
In other words, they not only need to resist the enemies on the front, but also the enemies on the flanks!
And this caused them to suffer heavy losses in a short period of time!
With heavy losses, there was only one thing they could do, and that was to escape!
The hand-to-hand combat between the two sides lasted for less than half a minute, just half a minute. The Folangji people on the opposite side completely collapsed and ran away. However, the escaped Folangji people were no better than the Ming army in getting there. They still called "Daddy".
Calling mother, oh, no, they call God, they will also drop their weapons and run away in a panic.
"Follow us!" The leading captains waved their blood-stained command knives. They stood up with their feet on the stirrups, waved their command knives forward, and shouted loudly: "Kill all these barbarians.
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"Charge, don't stop!"
"Long live the Tang Dynasty!"
The officers shouted various slogans and orders, leading the troops to continue charging forward!
At this time, facing the completely defeated and fleeing Franco soldiers, an officer ordered some light-armored spearmen to throw away the spears that were in the way, then picked up their sabers and continued to move forward, chasing the fastest firemen.
Gunner's pace!
At this time, the advantages of the musketeers were also reflected. Even with bayonets added, the muskets in their hands were only more than two meters long. Carrying them to pursue did not affect their movements, but the spearmen could not carry them for four meters.
A five-meter-long spear was launched in pursuit.
At the same time, those heavily armored units cannot run very fast because they have armor that weighs dozens of kilograms. Therefore, the main force responsible for the pursuit has become the musketeers.
This pursuit battle lasted for half an hour. The whole process not only killed the infantry of the Folangji people to pieces, but also captured the Folanji people effortlessly.
At the artillery position, many artillery pieces, shells, and powder barrels were seized.
When the infantry of the Folangji defeated the Tigers, their artillery in the rear also retreated immediately!
If you don't leave at this time, could you be stupidly waiting for the enemy to come and kill you?
Subsequently, they chased these Franco robots all the way to the small dock on the seaside. However, at this time, the Franco robot's naval guns also began to show their power. Many naval guns opened fire, forcing the pursuing soldiers of the third battalion to stop.
The pace of pursuit!
Dai Liliang looked at the armed merchant ships of the Fletchers in front, and then looked at the hundreds of Fletchers who had been defeated and were escaping onto the ship in a panic, and there were also many Fletchers who were carrying goods on the dock.
, trying to move all the goods in the dock warehouse onto the ship, and immediately said: "Bring up all the artillery for me, especially the heavy artillery we just captured, set up the artillery and kill them!"
These Folan robots want to rely on naval gun cover and then organize a retreat, and they still want to take the goods with them. How can such a good thing happen?
Soon, the 3rd Battalion's own artillery and the captured artillery of more than a dozen Franco robots were pulled over, and then they were hurriedly clamped on the beach, aimed at the dock, and started shelling.
Why didn't they fire on the Franco's ships?
Are you kidding me? There are more than a dozen ships of these Folangji. There are at least hundreds of cannons on them, and most of them are robes. There are quite a few twelve or eighteen pounds. They are heavier than the heavy artillery of the entire Tang Dynasty navy.
There are many!
Dai Liliang did not have the courage to use more than 20 small and medium-caliber artillery pieces to attack hundreds of other people's artillery pieces on the beach, and they were medium and large-caliber artillery pieces!
That's not brave, that's stupid!
Shelling the pier, this is his goal!
After a burst of shelling on the dock, the Francois finally realized that staying at the dock meant waiting for death, so they had to abandon all kinds of supplies on the shore and flee in a panic!
But at this time, looking at the Franco robot fleet that was escaping in despair, Dai Liliang smiled at the corner of his mouth, because he had already seen a fleet appearing in the outer sea through a single-channel telescope!
A fleet with a red dragon and a sword flag!
That is exactly the fleet of the Tang Dynasty Navy!
I just want to escape at this time. It's too late. I have to ask the Tang Dynasty Navy first if they agree!