Several Ming soldiers in the distance looked at the almost invulnerable heavy armored infantry of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army, and then looked at the bodies of the five Ming soldiers lying on the ground. Although they had not turned around to escape, their footsteps were involuntarily moving towards them.
Back off!
The heavy armored infantry of the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of me is a monster. Just now, he survived the siege of eight or nine of them. Not only did he kill five of them, he was directly responsible for defending this small section.
Most of the Ming army's squad at the city wall were killed or wounded.
However, these Ming soldiers were doing better. Next to them, several other Ming soldiers had already begun to run away!
Zhou Chang, who climbed to the top of the city, could see at a glance that not all of the Ming soldiers in front of him were good at fighting. The Ming soldiers who dared to come forward and fight with him just now were all recruited soldiers, and they were
Among the recruited soldiers were sword and shield soldiers, spear soldiers, and the remaining few were musketeers. As for the surrounding Ming army soldiers, one could tell by looking at the tattered uniforms on their bodies that they must be soldiers of the local guard.
Those Ming soldiers retreated involuntarily, and several simply dropped their weapons and ran away. However, Zhou Chang did not take the initiative to pursue him, but stayed where he was. He needed to cover more comrades.
Climb to the top of the city!
In just a few seconds, another comrade, also wearing full plate armor, climbed up the city wall via a ladder!
With the second, there will be a third.
Soon, through this small gap, more than ten assault battalion soldiers rushed to the top of the city, including not only heavy armored infantry, but also grenadiers!
When the Grenadier lieutenant wearing breastplate climbed to the top of the city, these dozen people immediately began to advance forward!
At this time, the Ming army also reacted. From a distance, they could see the city head not far away. There was a group of Ming army sword and shield soldiers also wearing heavy armor. Under the cover of a group of musketeers and spearmen,
Rushed over directly!
The Grenadier Second Lieutenant leading the team looked at the Ming soldiers rushing over and immediately said: "Free to drop bombs!"
Soon, several grenadiers all threw the grenades in their hands!
"charge!"
Although the Grenadier Second Lieutenant was only a Grenadier officer, he was taking the lead at this time, leading this mixed team to kill!
At this time, the muskets had basically lost their effect, because the distance between the two sides was too close. Before the several Ming Army musketeers on the opposite side had time to fire, they were rushed to the front by the Tang Army soldiers on the opposite side. Immediately afterwards, these few
Ten people were fighting together!
At this time, the plate armor equipped by the Tang Army once again demonstrated its powerful defensive capabilities!
Although plate armor has no defensive effect when faced with artillery, even the bowl-mouth cannons of the Ming army can easily penetrate plate armor, and medium and close range musket fire can also penetrate these plate armor.
But in this kind of melee, both sides had no artillery at all, and the muskets turned into fire sticks. The grenadiers in the Tang Army directly took up the muskets with bayonets and transformed into spearmen.
In this kind of melee that relies solely on cold weapons to kill, the role of plate armor is fully demonstrated!
The soldiers of the Ming army found that their spears or knives could not cut through the armor of the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side!
A small-scale melee only lasted for just over twenty seconds, but the reinforcements from the Ming Army squad, which consisted of more than thirty people, already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the remaining people naturally ran away screaming.
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The casualties were so heavy that even if they were the new army under supervision, the elite of the Ming army would not be able to hold on!
And more importantly, taking advantage of these twenty seconds, more assault battalion soldiers rushed to the top of the city!
Soon, there were more than a hundred soldiers from the assault battalion on top of the city, and they firmly controlled a section of the city that was about fifty meters wide!
At this time, more soldiers of the Tang Army were climbing up through the ladders!
Further away, a large number of infantry from the Fifth Infantry Division had already launched a charge, and a large number of infantry began to rush towards the gap!
Five minutes later, except for those who were killed and wounded on the way, all the remaining soldiers of the assault battalion had boarded the city and were fighting against the Ming army's continuous counterattack!
At this time, the soldiers of the 16th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Infantry Division also began to board the city!
At this time, no one was paying attention to the battle outside the city wall. Even the shelling had stopped. Everyone on both sides was looking at the city wall, which was only a hundred meters wide.
At both ends of this section of the city wall, a large number of Ming soldiers were driven by their superior officers and continuously launched counterattacks, trying to drive down these puppet Tang rebel soldiers who had just climbed onto the city wall.
The soldiers of the assault battalion resisted desperately, and from time to time soldiers from the 5th Infantry Division climbed to the top of the city and joined the battle!
Grenades sounded from time to time, and blood spurted out from time to time to dye the sky red!
The screams continued without stopping!
Outside the city, Li Chunjing looked at the fierce battle on the top of the city with a smile on his face, and then nodded and said: "Let the fourth mixed regiment and the fifth mixed regiment not launch a strong attack, prepare to intercept the Ming army's breakout!"
At this time, the battle situation was very obvious. His army had already boarded the city. When hundreds of heavy armored infantry boarded the city, even if the Ming army fought desperately, they would never be able to defeat themselves.
The army drove down the city.
He won this battle!
What he has to do now is to wipe out all the Ming troops in the city. He is not willing to let these Ming troops escape and then run back to Fuzhou or Nanchang, causing trouble in his subsequent offensive.
Especially the supervisors and border troops in the city must all stay!
The battle situation was as he expected. After the southern city wall was lost, the civil and military officials in the city also knew that Luling City was completely doomed. If they did not want to die, they must break out and leave immediately.
While some Ming troops were still making their final resistance, Ming troops on other walls were already leaving the city through the city gates one after another.
Outside the East City Gate, the fourth mixed group had given up on attacking the city, and instead formed an entire formation, blocking it several hundred meters away from the East City Gate!
More and more Ming troops came out of the city gate. When these Ming troops saw the puppet Tang rebels waiting in formation outside the city, they did not dare to rush out immediately!
As a result, more and more Ming troops gathered outside the city gate. When the number of Ming troops outside the city gate reached more than 3,000, they finally rushed out!
Gu Shizhong looked at Ming Jun who was finally willing to rush out, with a sneer on his lips!
"court death!"
When the Ming army began to charge and break through, the artillery battalion of the Fourth Mixed Regiment also opened fire. This artillery battalion was equipped with twenty-four artillery pieces. The power of the artillery bombardment was not small. After the solid bullets flew out, they plowed a path on the ground.
Another bloody canal!
Under the bombardment, the charging Ming army quickly lost the courage to continue charging, so they seemed to be swarming back and trying to escape!
At this time, a large number of troops came out of the city gate in neat formation, which was completely different from the chaotic Ming army before!
When Gu Shizhong saw these Ming troops, he couldn't help but show a cautious expression.
Because he saw that many of the soldiers in this army were carrying muskets!
"This is a fake Ming Supervisor!" Immediately, someone nearby whispered to Gu Shizhong: "It is said that this is Zhang Yue's new army trained in imitation of my Wang Shi. It is equipped with a large number of guns and cannons, and its tactics are comparable to our army!"
Gu Shizhong said: "Humph, learn from us? I want to see how much they have learned!"
If they think that just by being equipped with guns and standing in a row and shooting volleys of guns, they can be like us, then they are wrong!"
The Army of the Tang Dynasty is not easy to learn. The combat effectiveness of the Army of the Tang Dynasty is formed from many aspects. Although guns and artillery are one of the main factors, it is only one of them. The combat effectiveness of the Army of the Tang Dynasty comes from frequent training and
Practical combat experience, extremely strict discipline, and high morale!
Immediately Gu Shizhong said: "I want these fake Ming governors to see how the real army fights!"
"Send the order, change the formation, six-column formation, the artillery unit is ready to fire rapidly to intercept fire!"
After Gu Shizhong gave the order to change the formation, the artillery unit of the Fourth Mixed Regiment began to stop shelling. They did not waste artillery shells and energy on the Ming Army Guardsmen who had fled, but were ready to give a big gift to the Ming Army Supervisors on the opposite side!
The infantrymen began to run and formed a long line formation!
Still with the battalion-level troops as the core, three infantry battalions are arrayed in parallel at the front, about tens of meters apart from each other, while the two infantry battalions are at the rear, just filling the space between the three infantry battalions in the first row.
of the gap.
There were about a thousand people in the Ming Army Supervisor on the opposite side. Their formation was neat, and they quickly drove the more than three thousand Ming Army Guardsmen to charge!
A total of more than five thousand Ming troops launched a charge against the formation of the fourth mixed regiment. They couldn't do it without charging, because if they didn't charge out, they would have only two endings: death in battle or capture!
These two results were unacceptable to the generals of the Ming army, so although they knew that it would be difficult to overcome the interception of the puppet Tang bandit army in front of them, they still wanted to give it a try.
What if it succeeds?
The desire for survival made the Ming army generals drive the soldiers forward, and then they ran and charged!
After they rushed up, the artillery battalion of the fourth mixed regiment opened fire again!
The artillery shells caused a large number of casualties to the Ming army, but they still did not stop and continued to charge!
The shelling failed to stop these Ming troops!
Even when they entered a distance of 100 meters, the volley fire of the fourth mixed regiment caused heavy casualties to them, but it still failed to stop their charge!
When they rushed to a distance of thirty meters, the Tang Dynasty Musketeers officers on the front line directed the troops to fire the last round of volleys. Then they all raised their command knives and shouted: "Fire bayonets and charge!"
The next moment, the soldiers of the fourth mixed regiment on the entire front launched a countercharge with their spears and bayonets attached to their muskets!
Then, there was no more, because after they launched a counterattack, the Ming army completely collapsed!