The nearly 100 grenadiers who were originally running in small steps stopped their pace, and then they all picked up the muskets in their hands and aimed at the Ming army on the left side of the gap!

At the same time, among the hundreds of Ming troops they were targeting, more than ten Ming archers also drew their arrows and put them on the bowstring, and then bent the bowstring towards the group of pseudo-Tang thieves on the opposite side!

"Aim!"

"Shoot!"

At the same time, in the ranks of the Ming army opposite them, there was also a general of the army shouting: "Release the arrow!" ”

Almost at the same moment, the teams on both sides were all in unison, and many soldiers fell!

After the dense and crisp sound of gunfire, the captain did not pause in the slightest, did not even glance at the grenadier who fell to the ground, and pointed forward with his command knife held high: "Bayonet charge!" ”

After shouting, he directly turned over and dismounted, and then rushed forward with his command knife and his grenadiers!

"Kill!"

"The grenadiers are invincible!"

"Long live Datang!"

In this battle, the grenadiers did not even use their best bomb throwing, but directly like the musketeers, they approached the salvo and then charged directly.

This is because they are fighting from the bottom up, and it is easy to shoot, but it is almost impossible to throw a grenade twenty or thirty meters away, and there is a wall six or seven meters high.

So they simply abandoned the bomb throwing, but launched the simplest and most direct bayonet charge!

Of course, as a captain captain of the most elite type of 'grenadiers' in the Tang Dynasty's division, Han You didn't want to stupidly take his men to death, and rushed forward with a group of unarmed grenadiers for a close-range melee.

He wanted to continue to support the grenadiers with his grenadiers, and cover the charge of the heavy infantry in the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, and drop bombs at the right time to open a gap for the assault of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment.

Before the grenadiers charged, in fact, the soldiers of the three battalions of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment had already rushed forward one after another, and they had completely abandoned the previous complete formation, running as fast as they could, and then climbing up to the ruins where the dust had not completely disappeared.

Fighting on the ruins of such a city wall, it is naturally impossible to maintain any tight formation, and the next battle will be dominated by melee melee in which the two sides are entangled.

And this is also the best way of fighting for the Liuzhou Independent Regiment!

The Liuzhou Independent Regiment, a unit composed of elite standing soldiers provided by the major Tusi in Guangxi, although it is already the regular army of the Tang Dynasty's division, its combat mode and even atmosphere are still completely different from other regular armies, they are not equipped with muskets, nor are they equipped with artillery.

This has always been a pure cold weapon unit, but it is a formidable cold weapon force, because the armor rate of this army has reached 100 percent!

The heavy-armored spearmen, heavy-armored sword and shield soldiers in this army are almost all heavily armored, and even some of the strong soldiers will wear double armor, which is a set of Datang cotton and iron armor, and the outer layer will be covered with a set of chain mail or scale armor.

Not only the projectiles and scattered shrapnel of muskets have a certain defensive power, but the defensive power of cold weapons is even more excellent!

Even the archers, as well as the auxiliary light armor sword and shield soldiers, and spearmen, wore relatively light leather or cotton armor.

In fact, according to the idea of Lieutenant Colonel Mei Shenjian, the new head of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, the Liuzhou Independent Regiment under his command had better be all heavily armoured, but armor is a scarce resource, whether it is self-made or captured, the number is relatively small, and almost every unit in the Tang Dynasty has a great demand for armor.

Because whether it is a regular army or a garrison army, there are two types of troops: heavy armor spearmen and heavy armor sword and shield men.

Armor is a scarce material second only to guns and artillery, and it is impossible to meet the needs of all troops, so even the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, a heavy armored cold weapon unit that specializes in hand-to-hand combat, cannot have a heavy armor per person, at most one-third of it is equipped.

However, even so, the combat effectiveness of this unit should not be underestimated.

The sophisticated equipment coupled with the fierce and fearless characteristics of the soldiers themselves, and then the abundant and excellent food supply in the regular army of the Tang Dynasty Division, made their physical fitness far surpass that of ordinary soldiers here, and these combined are enough to make this unit exert huge combat effectiveness in close combat.

When the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment climbed up the ruins one after another, Captain Han You also followed with the grenadiers!

After following the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment to climb up the ruins, he was greatly relieved to see the reinforcements of the Ming army that were rapidly approaching not far away!

The most fearful thing about this kind of charge is to be blocked under the ruins by the enemy in time, so that when climbing the ruins, not only will you not be able to exert your own combat effectiveness because of inconvenience, but you will also be hit by the enemy's condescending blows.

In the last Battle of Wuzhou, when the Third Garrison Brigade hit the gap, it was because it was a step slower and had not yet climbed the ruins, it was intercepted by the Ming army, and in the end, the two sides continued to fight on the ruins, which led to intensive casualties.

And today, God seems to be on the side of the Tang Dynasty, they climbed the ruins first, and now, it will be them who will condescendingly resist the enemy's counterattack.

Seeing that the enemy's reinforcements were already less than a few tens of meters, its forward troops had already begun to climb the ruins, and the archers in the rear were also bending their bows and shooting arrows at their own troops!

Captain Han You decisively ordered: "Grenadier, grenade ready!" ”

At such a condescending close-range, there is nothing more lethal than a grenade, and a grenade is also effective in killing enemy hoplites!

When he gave the order, he also turned his head to look at the friendly unit Liuzhou Independent Regiment next to him.

The archers in the Liuzhou Independent Regiment also followed, and they had already begun to bend their bows and arrows for free shooting.

However, many bows and arrows fell on the forward queue of the Ming army, but they did not have the effect they should have, because most of the front rows of Ming soldiers on the opposite side were heavily armored soldiers, and they had good defensive capabilities against bows and arrows.

The bows and arrows commonly equipped in the Tang Dynasty are ordinary bows and arrows, and they are rarely equipped with heavy arrows specially used to break armor, because the task of armor breaking is basically handed over to musketeers.

At this time, if the Liuzhou Independent Regiment was accompanied by an ordinary musketeer unit, I am afraid that they would rush to shoot at close range, but if they shot like this, it would be impossible to intercept the enemy because the rate of fire was too slow, and finally the enemy would rush up and engage in hand-to-hand combat with their own side.

But today, the Liuzhou Independent Regiment is accompanied by grenadier units!

Strictly speaking, the grenadiers are a musket unit, because they are also equipped with muskets, and their daily training is mainly based on line tactics, but unlike ordinary musketeers, they are also armed with grenades!

They were able to leapfrog many of the troops in the Tang Dynasty Division in one fell swoop, thus becoming the most elite troops in the Tang Dynasty Division, because they would also need grenades to fight.

In order to throw grenades, they need to have extraordinary physique and courage beyond the average soldier, which in turn makes them truly elite infantry.

Look at the subordinates who have already taken out the grenades!

"Ignition!"

"Bomb dropping!"

With the order of Captain Han You, the grenadiers threw out dozens of grenades, these grenades were thrown downward, and the landing point was farther than when they were thrown on flat ground or thrown upwards, most of them fell into the Ming army's heavy infantry queue under the ruins, and even some flew out of a distance of more than 30 meters because of excessive force, crossed these heavy armor Ming soldiers, and fell into the archers in the back row of the Ming army.

As the sound of explosions continued to sound intensively, the Ming army was suddenly bombed on their backs, and the screams continued to sound after the explosion, reaching the ears of every soldier on both sides of the enemy.

In the dense explosion, the charging momentum of the heavy infantry in the front row of the Ming army's trapped camp seemed to be interrupted, and dozens of casualties suddenly appeared, making these confident heavy infantry a little stunned.

You must know that these trapped camp soldiers who rushed to the front are all heavily armored soldiers, and these heavily armored soldiers can also be said to be the core elite force in this trapped camp.

Almost every one of them was carefully selected, and they were treated like ordinary Ming soldiers, and each of these soldiers was the descendant of the Ming army generals.

On weekdays, they are full of self-confidence, thinking that once they rush forward, they will definitely be able to kill the pseudo-Tang thief army shouting father and mother, and the whole army collapses.

But what I didn't expect was that this hadn't rushed to the ruins yet, but it had suffered such heavy losses!

Don't think that these dozens of people are not important in this battle of Guangzhou, on the contrary, they are important.

Although the number of troops participating in the battle of Guangzhou on both sides was as high as tens of thousands, there were not many such heavy-armored elite forces, whether in the Ming army camp or in the Tang camp.

For example, in the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, the heavy armored infantry that is now rushing to the head of the city is actually only two or three hundred people, and the Ming army under the city originally had so many heavy infantry in the camp, but now dozens of people have been lost all of a sudden, and it can be said that the momentum of the charge has been disrupted all of a sudden.

But the Ming army under the city was obviously unwilling to be beaten so passively, and they still wanted to rush forward!

"What about our musket battalion, why haven't they come up yet!"

"Damn, don't stand still and wait to die, fight back with a bow and arrow, and hit their musketeers!"

With the order of the Ming general, some of the archers of the Ming army in the trapped camp turned their bows and arrows, and then shot at the direction of the grenadiers at the head of the city.

The rain of arrows rushed in, and in an instant, the grenadiers suffered a lot of casualties, and they had no armor to defend against bows and arrows!

Immediately, Han You shouted: "Retreat, quickly, use the anticline to protect yourself, and continue to throw grenades!" ”