Lord Shen looked light-hearted, which made a group of generals under his hands, such as thousands of households and hundreds of households, admire and admire, and he deserved to be valued by the governor and entrusted with the important task of leading the 5,000 army after the break!

With such composure, how could anyone else have!

However, at this time, there was another human: "Now that the thief army has divided its troops, can our army try to launch an attack, so as to live up to the attention of the governor!" ”

When Lord Shen heard this, he immediately nodded slightly, and looked at the eyes of the person who spoke with love, this person has brains and ideas, and he is worthy of being a good official of the court and the people!

Those thieves who divided their troops to bypass with the intention of attacking the baggage troops of the large army were not easy to provoke at first glance, but they were a thousand or hundreds of people, and they must not be able to provoke them.

However, the five hundred people in front of him seem to be able to fight a dozen, after all, it seems that the five hundred pseudo-Tang thief army in front of them do not seem to be equipped with firearms, and they are all holding the same sword and long contradiction cards as themselves and others, so there is no need to worry too much about the sharp firearms of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

Besides, it can't do anything, you have to behave, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to Zhu Zhihai who killed a thousand knives, and immediately he said: "Since the thief army has divided its troops and advanced, our army should seize the opportunity to attack it!" ”

Hearing this, those Ming army generals were a little nervous, because this surnamed Shen didn't say everything, who knows if he wants to lead his troops to attack the main force of the puppet Tang thief army of more than 1,000 people, or to fight the 500 partial divisions left.

If Lord Shen said next that he would immediately send troops to intercept the more than 1,000 people of the pseudo-Tang thief army who were advancing backwards, I am afraid it would be inappropriate!

But the next words of Lord Shen reassured them a lot, and some of the previous worries were in vain, because Lord Shen said: "Order, the whole army marches and defeats the enemy in front of them!" ”

What is the enemy in person? Naturally, it's the five hundred pseudo-Tang thieves in front!

This time, their confidence came up again, they didn't dare to fight when more than 2,000 pseudo-Tang thief troops gathered together, and they still didn't dare to fight the main force of the 1,000 and hundreds of pseudo-Tang thief troops that had been transferred to the rear of the Tang Dynasty!

But if you just beat the five hundred pseudo-Tang thief army in front of you, there are still some of them, and even if you can't beat them, you can protect yourself!

There are more than 5,000 people on their side, and there are only 500 of the puppet Tang thief army, and they have not seen firearms such as firearms on these puppet Tang thief armies.

This battle seems to be fought!

Well, you can fight, maybe you can get a battle merit or something!

As for the 1,000-year-old, pseudo-Tang thief army with guns and cannons, whoever likes to fight will go, anyway, we won't go!

After Lord Shen passed the order, the generals of the Ming army under him suddenly looked excited, looking like the world is so big, who else is it, and someone immediately came out and said: "Lord Qiyu, the lower officials are willing to lead the people of the headquarters to act as the forward!" ”

"Lord Qiyu, the lower official is willing to lead two thousand young and strong to serve as the Chinese army!"

"My lord, give me 2,000 elite soldiers, and the subordinate will definitely break through the flank of the thief army for the lord and break the thief army!"

Seeing these subordinates bravely asking for battle, Lord Shen nodded with a smile: The military heart is available!

It was not hypocritical immediately, and soon made arrangements: "Lord Song, you lead the headquarters and the young and strong one thousand, for the left wing of the army!" ”

"Master Li, you lead the headquarters and the young and strong one thousand as the right wing of the army!"

"This official personally led the remaining soldiers and horses of the headquarters and two thousand young and strong as the Chinese army!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, this battle is related to the honor and disgrace of our Xinglongwei, the safety of the imperial court, and the lives of millions of people in Liping Mansion, Xingquan Mansion and even the surrounding prefectures and counties.

"When the thief army in front of you is defeated, this official will personally ask the governor for the merits of you!"

What Lord Shen said was righteousness, which made everyone's blood boil when they heard it, and then looking at the demeanor of these people, people who didn't know thought that they were going to launch a strong attack on thousands or even tens of thousands of elite enemies!

Just looking at their demeanor at this moment and listening to what they are saying, it is absolutely impossible to guess that what they are going to attack is only a 500-person pseudo-Tang thief army, and it is also a pseudo-Tang thief army without firearms and equipment!

After Lord Shen's order was conveyed, the five thousand Ming army began to move!

Five thousand people moved, and their momentum was immense, and the sound of footsteps and shouts seemed to change the color of the surrounding heaven and earth!

The officers of the Ming army at all levels shouted and ran around on horseback, intending to make the guards and young men of the headquarters walk more neatly.

However, their efforts do not seem to have achieved too obvious results, those guards who are individually organized are okay, although they seem to be old and young, weak and weak, and scum in combat effectiveness, but they have also undergone military training, at least this formation is barely visible.

But when those young men move, there is no formation at all!

These young men seemed to be walking in their own backyard, with ethereal steps and strange whereabouts, sometimes three people walking side by side, sometimes dozens of groups, and some people talked as they walked, and they didn't know what they were talking about.

Rusty or cracked iron knives and rusty spears in their hands rarely have a torn shield.

As for the armor, I'm sorry, there isn't much expensive equipment in the regular army of the Ming army, so naturally it is impossible to equip these young people.

Just as the 5,000 Ming troops on the opposite side moved, in the reserve camp of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, a major on horseback, about 30 years old, with a somewhat slender and thin body, had an expressionless face, as if the 5,000 Ming troops in his sight did not exist.

In front of him, the soldiers of the reserve battalion had already finished their formation, and their formation was not quite the same as that of the regular infantry battalion, because they were troops with pure cold weapons, and there were no musketeers.

So their formation is not quite the same, basically three teams of spearmen stand in front in a dense formation, there are six columns in total!

However, the three teams are not connected to each other, but there is a certain amount of air attack, and in these two air attacks, there are about 100 archers standing, and behind the archers, there are about 100 sword and shield soldiers!

Among the 100 sword and shield soldiers, half of the sword and shield soldiers were heavy armor sword and shield soldiers wearing heavy armor!

Among the three teams of spearmen, the spearmen in the first row are also wearing heavy armor!

A reserve battalion, like the regular infantry battalion, had five squads, three of which were spearmen, one for archers, and one for swords and shields.

In this way, a reserve battalion force that can be armed with the best by the Datang New Army at this stage has been formed!

Although these reserve battalions have just been established, they have such complete equipment, especially bows and arrows and armor, because these equipment are basically captured from the Ming army.

In the battlefield of the Battle of Tongguwei, the Datang New Army captured hundreds of armors and shields, and there were even more cold weapons such as bows and arrows, waist knives, and spears.

Therefore, the current Datang New Army is actually not very short of all kinds of cold weapons.

The five reserve battalions that were first assigned to the main battalions were given priority in the supply of armor, bows and arrows and other weapons they needed, and after the reserve battalion selected the weapons, it was the turn of the garrison battalion composed of Ming prisoners.

The reserve battalion of the third regiment faced the battle in a tight formation, and the battalion commander of the reserve battalion, who was also a scholar, but repeatedly missed, and finally surrendered to the thief in anger, looked at the chaotic formation of the Ming army on the opposite side, and the expressionless company finally showed a smile.

This is a sneer!

This major battalion commander had also been the captain of the main battalion before, and had served as the captain of the spear team, and this man looked like a gentleman, but he was an officer who led his spearmen in hand-to-hand combat several times, and even rode on horseback and slashed enemy soldiers with a command knife.

Seeing that the Ming army was almost coming, he finally issued the first order: "The whole battalion is ready!" ”

Although it was said that the reserve camp had already made the most complete preparations, he still made preparations according to the tradition of the officers of the Datang New Army.

At this time, the Ming army has already begun to run, and as soon as these Ming troops run, the formation that was barely a little bit was instantly disappeared without a trace, at this time, if you look down from the sky, you will find that these 5,000 people are like a flock of sheep, running all over the mountains, free and unrestrained.

And directly in front of this flock of sheep was a dense, stone-like reserve camp of the 3rd Regiment!

In the reserve camp, the captain of the archers, holding his command knife aloft in his hand, shouted at the same time: "Archers obey orders!" ”

"Prepare for the projectile!"

"Ready, put!"

With the order issued, the hundred archers instantly released their bowstrings, and then the hundred bows and arrows flew into the sky at forty-five degrees, and then crossed the sky, forming a wave of arrow rain in the sky, flying to the head of the Ming army and then falling!

After the first round of volleys, the commander of the archers did not uniformly give the order to release the arrows, but decisively said: "Free fire!" ”

At this time, the archers began to fire their arrows at their own pace, but it is worth noting that the archers' fire did not really need to be aimed, they only needed to shoot roughly in front of them.

Precision has never been the pursuit of archers, physical strength and endurance are!

So you will see that the ancient army has relatively low requirements for the accuracy of the archers, and they never require the archers to be able to accurately hit the bullseye from tens of meters away.

As long as you hit the bull's-eye within 10 meters, and hit a target the size of a person (non-bull's-eye) within 20 or 30 meters, then it is considered a qualification.

However, a truly good archer requires great physical strength and endurance, requiring a short period of time to burst out of extreme strength to continuously bend the bow and shoot arrows.

The word "three shots" in front of the enemy actually puts a great deal of demand on the archer, because it means that the bow needs to be drawn continuously to shoot arrows in a short period of time.

After three shots, the archers will often temporarily retreat to the rear of their spearmen and shield bearers to continue their free throwing, which requires higher physical strength and endurance.

The job of the archers now is to shoot more arrows as quickly as possible before the Ming army rushes to thirty meters!

Just when the archers of the reserve battalion released their arrows, some of the archers in the Ming army also stopped the pace of the charge, and then bent their bows and arrows after standing in place!

After the archers of the Ming army bent their bows and shot arrows, casualties began to appear on the side of the inevitable reserve battalion!

But in the face of his own casualties, the major battalion commander of the reserve battalion was still expressionless and listened to the herald next to him talking about the order from Song Tianbiao!

After hearing this, he looked back at the Ming army in front of him who was charging towards him, and said: "Reply: My reserve camp is as stable as Mount Tai, don't worry, commander!" ”