The grenades of the Datang New Army have been in service for several months and have been used in several large-scale battles.

Therefore, some of the Ming troops who had fought with the Datang New Army also knew about grenades and called them 'flowering bombs', and were deeply impressed by the flowering bombs of the Datang New Army.

However, this impression is only limited to the Ming army that has fought with the Datang New Army and has endured grenade bombardment, not that every Ming army knows the grenades of the Datang New Army and is deeply impressed.

And the key point is that almost all the Ming troops that have encountered the grenadiers of the Datang New Army have been annihilated.

The two large-scale use of grenadier units by the Tang New Army were in the two Lanjiang Battles, and it was Song Zhiwen's troops who fought against them, but this Ming army had already been defeated, and there were not many remnants left, most of them were killed and wounded or taken prisoner.

Now Qiu Yu, the Ming army that went south from northern Guizhou, is fighting with the Datang New Army for the first time, although he has also heard of the sharp firearms of the Datang New Army, and he has also heard the word blossom bomb from a few words.

But let's be honest, it's impossible to really feel the feeling of being thrown on the head by a piece of grenade without experiencing it yourself.

Dozens or hundreds of grenades were thrown into the dense crowd and then exploded almost at the same time, far more than one could have imagined.

One or two grenades were still in the crowd, killing or wounding more than a dozen or twenty people, although it was quite scary, but for an army, especially an army that numbered hundreds or even thousands, it was actually nothing.

Its deterrent power is not even as good as a salvo of a hundred muskets!

When the musket team of the Datang New Army fired a salvo at medium and close range, the enemy on the opposite side often fell in rows, and when a salvo fired, the front row of the enemy army on the opposite side often fell in unison.

Or the shooting of artillery, a solid ball shell fired by an 800-pound artillery, if it accurately hits the enemy's infantry phalanx, regardless of whether the opponent is an elite in thick armor or cannon fodder without armor, this cannon can plow out a flesh and blood channel in the past, and everywhere it goes, flesh and blood are flying, and the soldiers in it will die when they touch it, and even give you the opportunity to be disabled.

And the scattered bullets are also very lethal, even those bowl guns of the Ming army, if they are fired at a distance of twenty or thirty paces, this cannon will be sprayed out, and the enemy on the opposite side will have to fall a large piece.

So even the wars of the sixteenth century were actually very brutal, and there were many weapons with great lethality.

In contrast, a simple grenade is actually only powerful, and a single grenade can kill and injure more than 10 people if it rises to the sky.

But the key thing is that the grenades of the Datang New Army in recent years are not thrown one or two, but thrown out at one time, with dozens of them, and hundreds or even hundreds.

A grenadier can carry four grenades in a battle, and a grenadier team with 100 soldiers can throw 100 grenades in this round, and in just one minute, they can throw all the grenades on their body.

This is equivalent to a grenadier team that can throw at least 400 grenades in just one minute.

What would the scene look like with four hundred grenades exploding in unison?

The soldiers in Song Zhiwen's department, who have been annihilated, can tell you what kind of scene it is: hell on earth!

When the grenade explodes intensively, most of the soldiers in it will be killed and injured immediately, and the lucky ones who survive will also be stunned by the sound wave, and the pungent smoke raised after the explosion will rise around, making you unable to see the people and things around you.

The only thing you can see is a corpse that was fine a few seconds ago, but now it is a corpse, or a comrade with missing arms and legs, covered in blood, and screaming.

That scene is enough to make a person never forget it for the rest of his life!

Units that endure a dense grenade explosion will suffer heavy casualties in the process of explosion, and it is possible to have hundreds or even thousands of people, depending on how many grenades are thrown and how dense the enemy formation is.

But inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy is only one of the effects of the grenade, and for an army of tens of thousands of people, in fact, hundreds of casualties are uncomfortable, but they are nothing.

And the real collapse of the enemy army is that the casualties caused by the explosion of the grenade will deal a heavy blow to the morale of the enemy army.

Although the soldiers in the army are under the order, they will be more afraid of death and injury than ordinary people, but they are still kind, as long as they are people, most of them are afraid of death, which is almost the same whether it is elite or cannon fodder.

Hundreds or even thousands of people were killed or wounded in just one minute, and the same number of troops were killed or wounded after several days of fighting.

Song Zhiwen's original troops were attacked several times by the grenadiers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, and almost every time they ended in complete collapse.

And now, the usual scene happened to the Ming army under the command of Qiu Yu, the commander of the Ming army.

When the 5th Infantry Battalion of the Tang New Army threw grenades, although they could only throw so many grenades because they only had 50 grenades, these 50 grenades were thrown in the crowd of hundreds of Ming troops outside the city wall.

The results are just as impressive!

In just a few moments, dozens of holes appeared in the crowd of the Ming army under the city, and each of these holes represented the fall of at least several Ming troops!

Because in the dense crowd, the fallen talent will make the dense crowd appear one hollow after another.

Dozens of hollows, at least representing the deaths and injuries of these hundreds of people!

This figure is almost an astronomical figure for a Ming army of at least 2,000 people, and among the more than 2,000 people, there are only five or six hundred people who actually rushed under the city wall.

You must know that don't look at the lively fighting between the two sides before, shooting and firing, but in fact, there were only dozens of casualties in the Ming army.

Even if the two sides were in close arms, the Ming army's wall-to-wall troops engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the heavy infantry of the Datang New Army at the head of the city, and under the hand-to-hand combat, the casualties on both sides increased rapidly, so that the small city was full of dead and wounded on both sides, so that the latecomers could not find a foothold.

However, even so, the number of casualties on both sides will not be too large!

Why?

Because the city wall of the fierce battle between the two sides is only a small section, not even ten meters wide, and the soldiers on both sides are heavy armored units, to be honest, it is really not easy to rely on the waist knife in the hand to kill and injure the enemy's heavy infantry.

They even slashed each other dozens of times, but they didn't think anything was wrong with each other, and only left a little knife mark on the armor.

So don't look at the fierce fight between the two sides before, but in the first moment, the casualties on both sides are very limited!

But now, it's different!

In a short instant, the Ming army suffered more than 100 casualties at once, and the huge momentum caused by the explosion of the grenade also greatly affected the morale of the army.

The combination of these circumstances and the complete collapse of morale is certain.

No army has ever been able to survive such a violent explosion and not collapse with heavy casualties, not even if it were replaced by a modern army of later generations.

Although the armies of later generations will need to withstand more powerful artillery attacks, they will definitely not be bombed by stupid people.

This kind of crowding and bombing can only appear in the era of the transition from cold weapons to hot weapons!

The attacking Ming army collapsed without incident, and they used it like a tide, and then after just a few minutes, it receded like a tide.

It's just that there were five or six hundred people when they came, but less than half of them were able to retreat in the end!

Some of them were killed and wounded in the previous battle, and they were killed and injured by grenades, and the last part was shot by the musketeers and archers of the Tang New Army when they turned around and fled, and some of them were Ming soldiers who had no chance to escape.

Especially those Ming hoplites who climbed the city walls!

They are engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Datang New Army, how can it be so easy to turn around and run away, if they are slightly distracted, they will be stabbed by the soldiers of the Datang New Army on the opposite side!

So to the end, dozens of Ming soldiers who climbed the city wall had been killed and wounded in the previous battle, and less than ten of the more than 40 follow-up people managed to escape, and the rest could only fight hard, and finally were killed by more and more soldiers of the Datang New Army, or surrendered on their own initiative.

The Ming army was defeated and retreated, and Qiu Yu's expression in the rear was still stunned!

He could barely believe his eyes, what was going on with that dense explosion? What's going on with the films?

Originally, he thought that the handcuffs and artillery of the puppet Tang thief army were powerful enough, but he didn't expect that the puppet Tang thief army would have this kind of firearm that would explode and explode intensively.

At this time, a general of the Ming army beside Qiu Yu also recovered from his state of surprise, but he still couldn't believe the scene he saw: "This, the flowering bomb, this is the flowering bullet of the pseudo-Tang thief army!" ”

"Blossom Bomb!" When Qiu Yu said this, he almost gritted his teeth, and now he finally remembered that he had received a piece of information about the puppet Tang thief army from his boss some time ago.

It is rumored that this information has failed several times on the Lanjiang River, although Song Zhiwen, the bastard who led to the puppet Tang Dynasty thief army, recorded it orally, and there is a lot of information about the puppet Tang thief army, from the official system to the main leader of the thief army, and then to the number of the thief army, troops, arms, weapons, etc.

This piece of information can be regarded as the most detailed information that the Ming Dynasty can obtain at present.

Qiu Yu had also seen this information and read it carefully, but the focus of his attention was on who the general of the puppet Tang Thief Army was, what his personality characteristics were, and how he prepared weapons.

From this, he knew that the firearms of the pseudo-Tang thief army were very sharp, and he knew that there was such a thing as a flowering bullet.

But even so, he didn't expect that the firearms of the pseudo-Tang thief army would be so sharp in this place, especially this flowering bomb was terrifying!