Seeing the defeated former army, Song Yingchang couldn't understand very much, in the previous battle, the Ming army blocked the sharp firearms of the People's Army through the chariot, and the two armies successfully met each other in close combat, and the melee battle should obviously be the advantage of the Ming army, there are so many new recruits in the enemy, the Ming army should easily defeat the enemy in close combat, how can it be the reverse that the Ming army was defeated.

Song Yingchang didn't have time to continue thinking about it, he had to make a decision immediately, if the rout of the front army led to the rout of the entire army, then the matter would be serious.

"General Chang, General Sun, quickly lead the troops to support the front army." Song Yingchang quickly ordered.

"The last general commands!" Chang Gao and Sun Hongyun said together.

Chang Gao and Sun Hongyun each commanded a battalion of about 3,000 people, and these two battalions can be said to be the second elite Ming army in Song Yingchang's hands, which can be called the elite of the elite.

Now Song Yingchang can only hope that these 6,000 elite Ming troops can withstand the enemy and save the Ming army's defeat.

"Kill! Kill! ”

On the battlefield, the People's Army had already rushed to the position where the Ming army had placed its chariots, and hundreds of soldiers of the vanguard troops rushed over the chariots to the Ming troops who had fled in front.

Behind the first troops, there are grenadier soldiers holding grenades, once there is a hard bone that is difficult for the first troops to gnaw down in a short time, the soldiers of the grenadier unit behind will light a few grenades and throw them over to help the first troops break the enemy, the soldiers of the first troops have a shield in their hands, and then retreat a few meters slightly, it is almost difficult to be hurt by grenades.

With the rout of the front army, the collapse of the Ming army's array is expanding rapidly, maybe the Ming soldiers behind don't know what is happening in front of them, but when they see that the people in front have fled back, there is a high probability that they will think that the Ming army is defeated, and they will also turn around and flee.

One fled and the other chased, and in a short period of time, thousands of Ming troops had been killed or captured by the People's Army.

At this time, the 6,000 elite Ming troops led by Chang Gao and Sun Hongyun went upstream, rushed towards the People's Army, and saw the Ming army deserters who rushed into the array, and directly slashed them.

Under the killing of their own people, the fleeing Ming soldiers and soldiers got out of the way and ran to both sides, and behind the 6,000 elite Ming troops, Song Yingchang also prepared several Ming troops to block these deserters, and the only way for them to stop the deserters on the battlefield was to kill.

What is the difference between an ordinary Ming army and an elite Ming army?

Compared with the ordinary Ming army, the elite Ming army has better military discipline, the order line is static, there are more tall and strong people, and there are more people wearing armor, and the spirit of the elite Ming army is not comparable to the ordinary Ming army.

In this way, two elite Ming armies with a total of more than 6,000 men appeared in front of the People's Army, and the officers could see at a glance that the Ming army in front of them was stronger than the Ming army they had just defeated.

In the face of the elite Ming army, the soldiers of the Xiandeng unit only hesitated, and then rushed forward with their broadswords and axes, because they thought of the comrades of the grenadier unit behind them, and with the support of the grenadier unit, no enemy would be their opponent.

"Kill!"

The soldiers of the first landing unit rushed forward, and just when the first landing force was still a few meters away from the elite Ming army, hundreds of grenades flew out from behind the first landing troops, and the next moment they landed in the elite Ming army column and exploded violently.

"It doesn't matter if you are an elite Ming army or an ordinary Ming army, in front of a grenade, it's all the same!"

Looking at the tragic situation in front of them, many soldiers of the vanguard army rushed forward with a laugh with such thoughts, as if they had slashed and killed ordinary Ming soldiers before, and they were also stabbing the elite Ming army one by one.

However, the elite Ming army is very different from the ordinary Ming army in terms of fighting will, the elite Ming army returns to normal faster than the ordinary Ming army, and is engaged in the fight with the people's army, and the casualties of the people's army's first troops are also increasing.

But this situation only lasted for a short time, and soon, another wave of grenades exploded in the elite Ming army column, blowing up a vacuum area where no one was standing, killing and wounding thousands of Ming soldiers.

At this time, Chang Gao and Sun Hongyun had already understood why the front army was defeated, looking at the grenades that exploded after constantly falling into the Ming army's array, and looking at the subordinates who kept falling, their hearts were dripping blood.

Chang Gao and Sun Hongyun glanced at each other, and gave orders to their subordinates to retreat, and if they continued to fight like this, even if the six thousand Ming troops died here, it would be impossible to defeat the enemy, so they could only retreat.

At the same time as issuing the retreat order, the two also sent their subordinates to inform Song Yingchang that "thieves are invincible".

After more than 2,500 casualties, the elite Ming army in front of them began to retreat, Chang Gao and Sun Hongyun left nearly 1,000 people who were fighting with the People's Army, and the remaining Ming troops retreated one after another.

Compared with the ordinary Ming army, which can easily turn into a rout as soon as it retreats, the retreating elite Ming army is more orderly, and a new formation is rapidly forming, guarding against the people's army behind and the Ming army in front.

When the advance troops killed nearly a thousand Ming troops in front of them, the enemy was already more than fifteen meters away, and the soldiers of the advance troops who continued to fight on the battlefield were exhausted, and it was difficult to continue fighting.

There are too many recruits in the cold weapon unit, and the melee strength is weak, and they can't afford to pursue and kill the enemy, and the grenadiers carried by the grenadiers are also about the same, and the native grenades are relatively heavy, and the grenadiers can't carry too much at a time.

Without grenades, the KPA's melee strength was greatly reduced, and giving up the pursuit of the Ming army became the best option.

Just as the Xiandeng troops were about to continue the pursuit, the gong sounded, and Ming Jin withdrew his troops.

Seeing from afar that the enemy did not continue to pursue, Song Yingchang breathed a sigh of relief, he did not expect that this battle would be fought so fiercely, the front army was easily defeated by the enemy, he sent two battalions with a total of 6,000 elite Ming troops to resist the enemy, after more than 3,000 casualties, he had to take the initiative to retreat, and if he did not retreat, he would all stay there.

The enemy is too strong, the strong Song Yingchang can't believe it, he knows that the enemy has sharp firearms, and he has always been on guard against the enemy's firearms, but he didn't expect to be tortured and killed by the enemy in close combat, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, and the elite also suffered a lot of casualties.

After this battle, Song Yingchang had deep doubts about the Ming army's defeat of the People's Army.

Not only Song Yingchang, but other generals in the Ming army were convinced that this battle would defeat the People's Army before the battle, but they were completely disconfident by the battle that had just passed, and they could not imagine that so many new recruits of the enemy would actually defeat the Ming army in close combat.

The thing that exploded in the array of the Ming army impressed many Ming soldiers, and also made Song Yingchang and the generals curious about the "hidden weapon", they wanted to know what this secret weapon was, it could bring such damage to the Ming army, if the Ming army also had this secret weapon, it would not be defeated by the enemy.