Within only five or six seconds, almost the entire formation of the fourth mixed regiment stopped instantly, and then the soldiers began to urgently organize their formation!
At this time, if there are Ming cavalry who look forward and are familiar with the tactics of the Tang Army, they will find that although the infantry of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army in front of them are in a panic, their formations are standard. Six lines, based on infantry battalions!
The enemy's cavalry charge is imminent, and every second now is extremely precious. At this time, the Datang Army's rigorous training in the past has finally shown its value!
Although the enemy cavalry was already in sight and was launching its final charge, the soldiers of the Tang Army seemed to have not seen it. They followed the officers' orders and began to line up on their own!
The officers were on horseback, giving orders step by step to organize their formation and prepare for battle!
As for the soldiers, although many of them were already panicking, at this time, the long and rigorous training made them react almost instinctively, even if their minds kept saying: There was a sound of escaping, but their footsteps involuntarily stopped following the officer's order, and then began to organize their formation, and their movements were quite fast.
Some of the musketeers who had finished lining up had already raised and lit the match ropes. As for the muskets in their hands, they had already been loaded in advance. However, when they lit the match ropes, many of their hands were shaking. , In fact, if they were not allowed to load the ammunition in advance, they might not even be able to load the ammunition now!
Because time did not allow them to formulate a four-cornered square formation specifically designed to restrain cavalry, they could only use the six-row linear square formation that they were best at and most familiar with to face the enemy.
The spearmen also organized their formation and raised their spears!
Those tired and panting heavy-armored spearmen can finally take a break. Now they only need to hold the spears in their hands, and other things are beyond their control.
While the formations in several infantry battalions were a little flustered, the grenadiers in the fourth mixed regiment had a completely different reaction!
If those ordinary infantrymen would be nervous and scared when faced with this kind of battle situation, and even want to run away, they would just line up to face the enemy due to the instinct formed by strict military laws and harsh training in the past.
Then the grenadiers in the Fourth Mixed Grenadier Group held their heads high and were the first unit in the army to complete the formation!
There were more than a hundred people, and no one showed any fear. Even the two officers in the Grenadier Corps were riding on their horses with relaxed expressions, and issued orders in a leisurely manner!
Seeing this scene, Gu Shizhong from the rear couldn't help but sigh, if the infantry under his command were all grenadiers, this battle would be much easier to fight.
But he also knew that his idea was destined to be impossible to realize.
The grenadiers in the Army of the Tang Dynasty were the most elite arms. Although there were only a small number of grenadiers in each regiment-level unit, their combat effectiveness was the highest in the entire army!
The grenadier's combat effectiveness is not because of their good equipment. In fact, the muskets they use are exactly the same as those used by ordinary musketeers. Their signature equipment, grenades, is not only equipped by these grenadiers. , ordinary troops will also equip it and use it in defensive operations.
Even the breastplates they recently equipped are actually not unique to them. Many troops are equipped with breastplates or even full body armor and half body armor.
The grenadiers of the Tang Army were so powerful in combat, not because of their equipment, but because of the quality of their personnel!
Nowadays, grenadiers select soldiers from veterans of each unit. The first criterion is that they must have been in the army for more than one year or participated in more than two battles.
There are many people in the Tang Army who can meet this condition, but the physical fitness and courage conditions are enough to defeat most of them.
Only soldiers with a height of over 1.7 meters and strong physical fitness can be qualified for selection. After the selection meeting, their performance will be judged, especially if their courage performance is slightly worse, they will be dismissed immediately.
Because the grenadiers need the strongest and bravest soldiers, as for combat skills, they can be trained slowly!
In many battles, the grenadiers have been able to easily defeat more with less, and they have a strong fighting will. When the casualty rate reaches more than 30%, they can still maintain high fighting spirit to launch attacks!
Even if the casualty rate exceeds 50%, the grenadiers can still maintain a certain combat effectiveness.
When the casualty rate reaches 30%, ordinary troops will have long lost their offensive combat effectiveness. After the casualty rate reaches 50%, even defensive operations will collapse.
Therefore, in the Army of the Tang Dynasty, superior generals often used grenadiers as their final trump card, resulting in grenadiers always appearing on the cruelest and most difficult battlefields!
And now, Gu Shizhong also regards the grenadiers as his final trump card. He hopes that these grenadiers can play the most critical role in this battle and buy time for the main force to adjust its formation!
The grenadiers have already formed up behind the main force. At this time, the Ming Army's forward cavalry, which has already increased the speed of its war horses, is less than 200 meters away from the formation of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 4th Mixed Regiment!
The leading Ming cavalrymen saw the puppet Tang rebels lining up in front. A young Baihu looked puzzled, then urged his horses to approach Zhao Qianhu who was in front and said loudly: "Sir, the puppet Tang rebels in front of us are here."
The bandit army is a little weird, they stopped and lined up!"
The middle-aged Zhao Qianhu didn't take it seriously: "If someone wants to kill you, can you not resist?"
"These pseudo-Tang bandits in front of us are just struggling to their death. After we rush in and disrupt their formation, it's not up to us to decide what we want to do!"
Immediately, Zhao Qianhu said: "Also, young man, hasn't anyone told you that you are not allowed to shake the morale of the army in battle?"
After hearing this, the young Baihu still wanted to say something, but he had to retreat, and then continued to follow Zhao Qianhu in front on his horse!
At this time, Zhao Qianhu had already raised a cavalry spear in his hand and shouted: "Charge!"
As Zhao Qianhu took the lead and launched the charge, several cavalry messengers behind him also blew their horns. Immediately afterwards, more than a hundred Ming Army cavalry behind him began the final charge!
At the same time, Wang Bianyi from behind saw the cavalry in front charging, and immediately frowned again!
Although the distance was still more than 300 meters, he felt that the reaction of the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side was a bit abnormal. It was not like the behavior of an army that was defeated in battle.
The normal situation should be like this: after our own cavalry catches up, the enemy begins to flee in a panic, and then our own cavalry slowly pursues and kills them from behind. This pursuit also kills the fleeing Puppet Tang in front.
The bandits were all killed.
But now, the puppet Tang bandit army at the front stopped. Although the formation was a bit flustered, their movements were too fast. It had only been a short time before they had already begun to form their formation.
What's more important is that they formed their formation before their own cavalry charged.
In his impression, there were infantrymen in the supervision over there, and it was impossible for them to form a leisurely formation when faced with a cavalry charge!
And just when he was doubting, the Ming cavalry in front had already charged forward. The few cavalry who could shoot arrows on horseback even bent their bows and shot arrows directly, even though the power of the mounted bow was weaker than that of the infantry bow.
, but at such a close distance, it is still quite powerful!
At the same time, the puppet Tang bandit army on the opposite side also began to fire out bursts of intensive gunfire!
But someone on the side said: "Sir, look, General Zhao has already rushed in!"
When this person spoke, he still showed excitement on his face!
Sure enough, when Wang Bianyi looked ahead, he saw more than a hundred cavalrymen from Zhao Qianhu charging at high speed. They did not try to force their way through the group directly in front of them, which they could tell at a glance was the well-prepared Puppet Tang rebel army.
The infantry phalanx instead went around and inserted directly between the queues of the two pseudo-Tang rebels!
"Come in, rush in so easily?" Wang Bianyi was a little confused. Although some of the forward cavalry were hit by the muskets of the puppet Tang rebels and fell down, they successfully rushed in.
"Sir, the puppet Tang thief army has been broken through. Let's rush forward and annihilate the main force of the thief army in this battle!" someone next to him said.
Wang Bianyi no longer hesitated at this time, and immediately ordered: "Come forward and separate the puppet Tang rebels!"
Immediately, the main cavalry of the Ming army, which was more than 200 meters away from the infantry array of the puppet Tang rebels, also made a final high-speed sprint!
At the same time, in the formation of the fourth mixed regiment, there was no panic or even collapse as expected by the Ming army cavalry generals!
Especially Zhao Qianhu, who was at the forefront. When he led more than a hundred cavalry under his command to rush in through the gap between the infantry squares of the two puppet Tang rebels, preparing to circle and attack their flanks, he discovered that they were in front of them.
There happened to be a group of infantry of the Pseudo-Tang rebel army with only a hundred people.
Since you have already rushed in, there is absolutely no reason to exit.
In fact, the Ming cavalry that rushed in at high speed could no longer stop at this time!
Now they must either bite the bullet and continue charging, or start to turn!
Zhao Qianhu, on the other hand, chose to continue to charge forward, because the people in front of him were just more than a hundred infantrymen of the puppet Tang rebel army, and he did not think that his more than a hundred cavalry could not charge through.
The forwards of the Ming army continued to charge forward, and the target was the grenadiers!
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