The advance speed of the Datang New Army is not fast, they line up in a tight formation step by step, but although they are not fast, the pace is very steady, and the formation is also very close.

And this dense formation of the Datang New Army gave those two or three hundred Ming troops who were already in chaos even greater fear!

Whether it is the ancient era of cold weapons or the modern era of muskets, the army must maintain a dense formation during battle, so as to increase the density of firepower or improve the impact power.

When the two armies are fighting, if one side is very scattered, but the other side is very close, then the battle can already be predicted at the beginning, not to say 100%, but there is an eighty or ninety percent chance that the side with a scattered formation will lose.

Unless it is said that the disparity between the forces of the two sides is too great, or there are special circumstances such as an ambush.

Now, the Ming army is in a state of chaos, and the new army of the Tang Dynasty is attacking in a dense formation, which will give great panic to the Ming army in chaos.

Especially the Ming army forward, which had collapsed and was in the process of fleeing before, is now even more collapsed, and the few soldiers who ran slowly behind even lost the confidence to escape, put down their weapons with desperate faces, and then knelt on the ground, still shouting in their mouths: "Spare your life!" Spare your life! ”

The armies of the two sides have not yet formally fought in short arms, but there are people on the side of the Ming army who have surrendered one after another, even if the number of surrenderers is not large, but after this situation appeared, it brought a greater morale blow to the Ming army.

These Ming troops were originally forced to chase for a day and a night, and they were already exhausted, and no one in the whole army wanted to fight this battle except Su Jiakang.

The morale of such a Ming army was already extremely low, but now there was a sudden chaos, and the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side also launched a counterattack, in this case, the only trace of their fighting spirit was completely gone.

Not only those forwards who had been routed and plunged into chaos, but even the other Ming troops were ready to move, thinking about how to escape so that they could run faster than their comrades.

This kind of thinking finally rose to the extreme when the queue of the Datang New Army marched to a distance of only twenty or thirty meters away from them, especially when the musket team of the Datang New Army stopped and raised their guns to aim.

I don't know who shouted: Run!

In the next moment, the Ming army, which was still barely holding on to the queue, also completely collapsed, and the soldiers turned and ran backwards in unison, rushing into the night like the previous forwards who had turned into a flood that broke the embankment.

However, no matter how fast they escaped, they couldn't be faster than the bullets of the musketeers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and with Wang Danxu's second shot, pieces of bullets were spilled out.

Wang Danxu didn't even wait to see how many enemy soldiers he had knocked down by the shot just now, he directly pointed the command knife in his hand and shouted: "Bayonet charge!" ”

In the next moment, these musketeers rushed forward with muskets that had already been loaded with bayonets, and on either side of them were the main force of the charge: more than a hundred spearmen!

As for Butcher Chen, the other main force of hand-to-hand combat led by them was killed from the right flank, with Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu, two fierce generals wearing double armor, and went straight to the flank of the Ming army.

At this time, not only musketeers, spearmen, and sword and shield soldiers launched hand-to-hand charges, but even more than forty archers followed behind the musketeers with bows and arrows on their backs and waist knives in their hands to kill the fish that slipped through the net.

The more than 300 bandits in Huangzhu Mountain once again fully proved what they are best at: fighting a good fight!

In the face of the defeated Ming army, they launched a hand-to-hand charge with high morale like a tiger descending from the mountain, without the slightest timidity in the face of a strong enemy.

In the array of the Ming army, Su Jiakang looked at the army that had completely collapsed, and a look of fury appeared on his face: "Damn, all deserve to die!" ”

He's ruthless!

He complained!

If it weren't for Wang Zhisi's cowardice and messing around, and making several so-called tentative attacks, but launching an all-army attack at the beginning, it would have evolved into what it is now.

The official is going to behead him!

When Su Jiakang was angry, Luo Mazi beside him said in a panicked tone: "My lord, we should go, otherwise, otherwise those pseudo-Tang thieves will be killed!" ”

Su Jiakang gritted his teeth at this time and nodded: "Let's go!" ”

Then he directly pulled out the horse's head and joined the fleeing army with his relatives.

Before leaving, he didn't forget to look back at the pseudo-Tang thief army behind him, and under the light of the torches, he once again saw Li Xuan who was riding on a horse and wearing strange clothes.

muttered: "The official will come back!" ”

After a while, Li Xuan looked at the many corpses of the Ming army on the ground and the wounded who made screams, and couldn't help but sigh: "This battle is inexplicable!" ”

The Ming army came inexplicably, the chaos was inexplicable, and the defeat was even more inexplicable!

When facing the Ming army, Li Xuan didn't think that it would cause such heavy losses to the Ming army, his initial idea was just to block the Ming army for an hour or two, leaving time for the baggage team to retreat, as long as the baggage team went away, then he would not hesitate to retreat with people.

Anyway, they didn't have the drag of the baggage team, and the speed of retreat would be very fast, and they were not afraid that the Ming army would catch up.

But what he didn't expect was that not long after this first start of fighting, these Ming troops only sent a few waves of one hundred and two hundred forwards to test the attack, and then collapsed on their own!

The conscience of heaven and earth, at first, Li Xuan didn't expect that the Ming army would collapse so quickly!

It's just that now he looked at the corpses and wounded all over the ground, and regretted it for a while, this time he didn't beat the Ming army too hard, this charge and the follow-up pursuit, not only killed and wounded at least two hundred Ming troops, this is not counting, but they also captured at least one prisoner.

In other words, even if the Ming generals at the back were able to gather all the fleeing routs, they would have lost at least more than 400 people, accounting for more than one-third of the fighting force.

This battle is also the greatest result in the previous battles between the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, not to mention the killing and capture of 400 Ming troops, just the captured armor and weapons and other trophies are piled up in several piles.

Among them, there are at least thirty pairs of extremely valuable iron armor, dozens of pairs of cotton armor, and hundreds of weapons such as bows and arrows, swords, etc.

With such a big result, Fang Dongquan and Wang Danxu were all happily leading the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, but Li Xuan looked at the entire battlefield without showing a smile.

He was worried that after the Ming army suffered this crushing defeat, it would ask for help from above, which would cause the Ming court to shake, and then thousands or even tens of thousands of Ming troops would swarm from all directions.

The more he thought about it, the more worried he became, what would he do if a large number of Ming troops came over? 7110