It's a pity that even if they discovered it, they took cover, but in such an open area, they had no way to hide!
Moreover, they faced too many grenades. These grenades were not just grenades thrown by the grenadiers of the First Infantry Regiment, but grenades thrown by a large number of ordinary musketeers!
There were at least hundreds of grenades thrown out in this round. The explosion of hundreds of grenades killed hundreds of people in the front row of the Ming army in an instant.
And this is not over yet, because waves of grenades are flying out of the small wall continuously!
Under such a violent grenade attack, even though this unit was the most elite supervisor in the Ming army, it inevitably collapsed!
They were able to withstand the fierce bombardment and even musket fire of the puppet Tang rebels and charge forward. Even if they were at a disadvantage in the exchange of fire, they did not retreat. Instead, they took the initiative to launch the final charge. However, this round of grenades
The attack caused this Ming army to lose its last bit of fighting courage!
They collapsed!
Amidst the explosions and screams, countless Ming army soldiers turned around and ran back!
Seeing that the third wave of attacks on our side was also defeated, Cheng Hong'an, the former commander of Du Biao's army, turned pale. However, although his face was quite ugly, he also knew that these military exercises had been done to the best of his ability.
The three waves of attacks before and after were just local training troops under his command. It was normal for them to be defeated when they could not bear the casualties. But what he did not expect was that the third wave of training troops, with a total of no less than 7,000 people, was also defeated like this.
Clean and neat.
Originally, he thought that even if he couldn't take it down in one go, he could still break through the first line of defense of the rebel army, but he didn't expect that the explosive ammunition of the puppet Tang rebel army was so sharp, and there were so many of them, that it actually allowed his own army to train.
There were heavy casualties in an instant, and eventually it collapsed.
Explosive bombs, he knew, even the troops under his command were equipped with them!
After all, the Tang Army's grenades are not too high-tech. They are just an iron shell filled with gunpowder, then lit with a match and thrown out.
All can be imitated, so naturally this flower bomb can also be imitated.
However, these explosive bombs require too much gunpowder, and gunpowder these days is extremely expensive. Although Zhang Yue quickly plundered the southern provinces, it is not easy to raise an army of so many people. Hand grenades
Although this kind of thing is easy to use, there is not so much gunpowder that he can waste.
Moreover, the Superintendent New Army also knew that their teacher, in the Tang Army, only the so-called grenadiers were equipped with these grenades, so the Superintendent New Army only selected a few musketeers to be equipped with grenades.
The generals who supervised the new army had a good guess. In the Tang Dynasty Army, only grenadiers were always equipped with grenades. However, at critical moments, especially in defensive operations, the Tang Army liked to directly use ordinary infantrymen.
Also use grenades!
Used to strengthen defense during defensive operations!
Being able to do this is naturally closely related to the Tang Dynasty's acquisition of the Guangdong seaport. After the Guangdong seaport was established, especially after the opening of Guangzhou and Lianzhou ports, strategic materials such as sulfur and saltpeter were almost available.
Purchasing can be opened up. As long as you have enough money, you can purchase on a large scale.
At the same time, the gunpowder manufacturing equipment developed in the Youjun Camp also greatly reduced the production cost of gunpowder and greatly increased the output!
Today, the Tang Dynasty uses machinery to produce gunpowder. The production cost has been reduced by at least half compared to previous manual production, and the output has also increased exponentially.
Otherwise, it would not be able to meet the increasing gunpowder consumption of the Tang Dynasty.
The current demand for gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty, the army and the navy is increasing day by day. If there are no technological improvements to increase production and reduce costs, even if the Tang Dynasty has channels to import raw materials, it cannot afford it.
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It's a pity that the current Ming army is still in a situation where it can't afford it!
They have a lot of guns, but the technology and production of gunpowder have not kept up, resulting in an extreme shortage of gunpowder. So although they also know that grenades are a good thing, they can only be small batches of equipment. As for more,
But it’s unlikely.
Wang Chaohong's forward troops, this interception operation, expected an extremely brutal battle. Otherwise, Hao Bainian would not have sent up the first infantry regiment, the only one under his command that had completed its reorganization.
Therefore, the supplies of various ammunition supplies are also in excess!
Wang Chaohong's troops carried as many as 8,000 grenades, and basically every infantryman carried two on his waist. These many grenades were enough to make the Ming army drink a pot.
It took Cheng Hongan a lot of time to re-contain and reorganize the troops who retreated!
Fortunately, they took the initiative to attack, and their main force, the New Army, had not moved. They were waiting in formation at the rear! Therefore, the puppet Tang rebel army on the opposite side could only rely on the geographical location to defend and did not dare to attack.
, if they dare to leave the turtle shell and take the initiative to counterattack, then Cheng Hongan doesn't mind using artillery to blast one side first, and then let his subordinates, the Superintendent's New Army, go up and fight an upright line battle!
Relying on several times our own strength, we are sure to defeat him!
However, the pseudo-Tang traitor army is unable to come out!
But this also gave him a plan to calmly contain the defeated troops!
After re-containing the defeated troops, Cheng Hongan discovered that these three attacks actually cost his side no less than 3,000 people!
Although the losses were all local training, it was enough to make him heartbroken!
Today, there are only two types of troops under Zhang Yue's command, one is the direct line supervisor, and the other is the training army formed by local recruitment and reorganization. Needless to say, the supervisor among them cost Zhang Yue countless efforts and military expenses.
However, even if it is local military training, it cannot be compared to the former guard soldiers!
The difference between the two is actually just the difference between the direct line and the collateral line, but the organization and tactics are actually relatively unified, except that the equipment and treatment of the supervisor are better than those of the training army.
Although the three attacks failed, the battle cannot be given up halfway!
After all, Cheng Hongan could not go down the river now, and it was also difficult to escape quickly from the entanglement of the enemy's cavalry. He had no other choice but to fight hard.
After the failure of the three attacks in the morning, Cheng Hongan did not rush to launch the fourth attack. Instead, he asked the soldiers to make rice. After having a lunch and resting for two hours, he launched the fourth attack.
In this attack, Cheng Hongan no longer simply used the place to train his troops as before.
The three disastrous defeats have greatly reduced the morale of those training troops. If they are forced to go alone, they will probably mutiny!
So this time, Cheng Hongan sent the most elite troops under his command to supervise the new army. There were two guards and a total of more than 5,000 people to supervise the new army. At the same time, he also carefully selected more than 3,000 soldiers who were in better condition to train the army.
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Moreover, he did not let the training generals go ahead and serve as cannon fodder. He always had to worry about the thoughts of the training generals. The first three times he just asked the training generals to attack, it already made the training generals extremely resentful. Now,
If Lianjun is still used as cannon fodder and Supervisor Biao follows behind, I'm afraid they will mutiny before the fight begins.
Although he, Cheng Hongan, is the commander-in-chief of the former military governor, he is also the commander-in-chief of these training troops. Although he cannot treat everyone equally, he can't be too partial!
So this time, the two guards of Supervisory Biao New Army are responsible for the left wing and the middle, and Lian Jun is responsible for the right wing, preparing to launch an attack from three directions at the same time!
When Cheng Hong'an launched his fourth offensive, the artillery fire from both sides became intensive again. The Ming army's field artillery tried desperately to suppress the Tang army's artillery positions, but the Tang army's artillery positions wanted to give the attacking Ming army
Infantrymen inflict greater casualties!
Under the flying shells, casualties began to appear intensively again!
When these Ming troops rush forward, they will find that their front is covered with corpses. Those are the corpses of Ming troops who fell in the previous three waves of attacks!
Many of them were not directly killed at first, but were only injured. However, when the two sides fought, it was impossible for the Ming army to send people to treat them, and it was even more impossible for the Tang army to brave the Ming army's artillery fire to rescue these Ming soldiers.
Wounded soldiers.
Therefore, many wounded soldiers of the Ming Army died in battle due to worsening wounds and excessive blood loss!
Only a few lucky ones who were slightly injured and could still move finally returned to the Ming army's formation.
Now, when they saw the position paved with more than 2,000 corpses, many of which had broken arms and legs and incomplete bodies, many of the Ming soldiers with poor psychological quality were able to vomit on the spot.
This means that in winter, the temperature is low. If it is a hot summer, I am afraid it will emit bursts of stench.
But despite this, they were still slowly approaching under the leadership of Ming army officers at all levels. At this time, they also changed their tactics. In order to avoid suffering too many shelling casualties during the advance, they were spread out and scattered.
Instead of advancing slowly in a square formation like before, they started to trot!
Although such a formation will inevitably cause chaos, with more than 8,000 people besieging a hilltop, they don't care about the formation. Being able to rush up and fight hand-to-hand is their goal!
Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters!
They have finally reached this distance. As long as they work harder, they can rush through this mere 150 meters and then break into the first line of defense of the puppet Tang rebel army!