And more importantly, because of the inertia of the charge, the charge of the Ming soldiers will not stop in a short time, even if the soldiers in front do not want to rush up, but there will be people behind him pushing him forward, and then he will die tragically under the spears of the spearmen of the Datang New Army.

At this time, there was also a small amount of force value, and the heavy armor sword and shield hands of the Ming army wearing heavy armor passed through the spear array, and then tried to fight hand-to-hand.

For a time, there were also a lot of casualties in the array of the Datang New Army!

But at this time, the heavy-armored sword and shield bearers of the Datang New Army also came up, and against these heavy-armored soldiers of the Ming army, some of them were directly abandoned by the close-up heavy-armored spearmen, and then drew out their waist knives, raised their shields and turned into heavy-armored sword and shield bearers to participate in the fight!

For a time, the first line of contact between the two sides was a large number of casualties!

And a large number of casualties shook the morale of the two sides for the first time!

At this time, the competition is no longer about the formation of the soldiers on both sides, martial arts, etc., but the morale of the two sides!

The officers of the Datang New Army kept urging, and whenever a soldier in the front row fell, they would let the soldiers in the back row go up, always maintaining a dense formation in front of them, and constantly inflicting casualties on the Ming army.

This tactic, in fact, is very similar to the line combat of musketeers, in that after the front row is killed and wounded, the rear row is replaced, and the firepower of the first row is always maintained.

After all, the Datang New Army is a whole, and attaches great importance to the musketeers, and the spearmen's combat is actually coordinated with the musketeers, so the spearmen's queue training and some tactics are actually similar to those of the musketeers.

Not to mention the spearmen, even if it is the cavalry training of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty, it is the training content of the musketeers that is referenced.

So many times, when you see the spearmen, cavalry and musketeers of the Tang New Army fighting, almost all of them are carved out of the same mold.

The Datang New Army has always maintained a queue in the front row, but this is not the case with the Ming Army on the opposite side.

When the brave soldiers who rushed to the front were killed and wounded, the guards in the back row could still stand up in front of them, but those young and strong people were different!

Looking at the spears in front of him, many of them still had blood on their heads, and in front of his feet were lying the corpses of friendly soldiers, these ordinary young men and men who had not undergone any training did not have the courage to rush forward with tattered waist knives and spears.

They were afraid, but some of them would be pushed up by those behind and killed by the spears on the opposite side.

This situation could have continued for tens of seconds, but only a minute later, those young men looked at the corpses and wounded lying in front of them, and turned from being afraid to turning and running away.

When someone in front of you turns to run away, it will lead the people who are already behind to flee.

When this kind of thing happened, the next thing was logical, like every rout of the Ming army, first dozens of people, then hundreds, and then the collapse of the entire front!

When those elite soldiers who were still fighting hard found that even those ordinary guards had begun to turn around and flee, they could only retreat helplessly, otherwise, they would die very miserably.

Looking at the Ming army that came like a tide, but retreated like a tide in a short period of two minutes, the major battalion commander of the reserve battalion snorted coldly: "Pigs are stronger than them!" ”

And Song Tianbiao in the distance was also relieved to see that the reserve battalion had successfully repelled the attack of the Ming army, since the reserve battalion had successfully blocked the attack of the Ming army, then next, he could attack the rear of the Ming army with confidence.

There are countless Ming army baggage waiting for you!

Xinglongwei commanded the 5,000-strong army led by Lord Shen of Tongzhi to attack a phalanx of 500 people of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and it was also a pure cold weapon, and the infantry phalanx without a large number of sharp firearms was defeated miserably, this matter was naturally not only seen by Song Tianbiao, but also by Zhu Zhihai, who was commanding and arranging the army to enter the city.

I saw that his face was black, and his mouth squirmed several times to speak, but he didn't say it, so it is conceivable that once he said it, it would definitely not be a good word!

Several senior generals of the Ming army next to them were also shocked and helpless, damn, what's going on, 5,000 people, even if there are 4,000 young and strong people in it, even if most of the 1,000 guards in it are old and young, but no matter what, it's 5,000 people!

Even if it is five thousand pigs, it will not be defeated so quickly, how long has it been, and there are only a few pseudo-Tang thieves in front of it, only five hundred, and it is still a pure cold weapon infantry phalanx without firearms, which can be defeated so cleanly.

But shock is shock, and they have nothing to do about this situation!

In the end, I could only look at Zhu Zhihai one by one!

At this time, Zhu Zhihai took a few deep breaths in a row and said: "Xinglongwei is already unreliable, after this break, you have to come by yourself, more than 1,000 people of the pseudo-Tang thief army have gone straight to our army's baggage troops, we must stop them, otherwise, even if our army enters the city smoothly, it will be out of food in a few days!" ”

Immediately, he turned his attention to the Ming army generals beside him, and then spoke: "Lord Zhao, Lord Wang, Lord Lin, you each lead the headquarters and cover the back of the baggage!" ”

Zhu Zhihai didn't wait for them to answer, but continued: "The safety of the baggage is the safety of the army, and you should know the severity!" ”

Although the three people who were named said to be embarrassed, looking at Zhu Zhihai's extremely firm expression, and thinking of the bloody head of the Xinglongwei Commander not long ago, they immediately didn't dare to say anything else, but said one after another: "The lower official obeys the order!" ”

After these three generals went down one after another, they each led their headquarters to turn around, and then went to cover the baggage troops and intercept the attack of more than 1,000 pseudo-Tang thieves led by Song Tianbiao.

Seeing that there were Ming soldiers rushing over in front of him, and there were still a lot of soldiers and horses, including not only two large groups of infantry phalanxes, but also a cavalry, Song Tianbiao decisively ordered a retreat: "The whole army stopped, turned back, and walked in unison!" ”

Because the Ming army that turned around was quite numerous, with more than 3,000 infantry and 500 cavalry!

And the key thing is that these Ming troops are all regular troops of the Ming Dynasty, many of them are still wearing heavy armor, this glance knows that it is the regular guard army of the Ming army, and the cavalry should be the cavalry directly under Zhu Zhihai's Fubiao, and at a glance you know that it is not easy to mess with.

His Song Tianbiao's task was only to contain and delay the time of the Ming army, if the Ming army did not send men and horses to meet the battle, then he would naturally attack the baggage of the Ming army.

But if the Ming army sends the main force to intercept him, then he will definitely choose to avoid the front for the time being!

Anyway, almost half an hour has passed, and if you calculate the time, the 10th Infantry Battalion and the 7th Infantry Regiment should be almost there, and there is no need for him to fight hard.

The Ming army sent the main force to turn around and intercept, which can be regarded as a safe cover for the continuation of the baggage troops, but in this way, it is inevitable to delay the overall entry time of the Ming army into the city!

Seeing that the troops led by Song Tianbiao took the initiative to retreat, the more than 3,000 infantry of the Ming army turned around and also consciously stopped, anyway, the distance was so far that they couldn't catch up, as long as these pseudo-Tang thieves didn't kill them, they naturally wouldn't waste their physical strength stupidly to pursue.

It was the cavalry that tried to chase and kill, but at this time, Song Tianbiao decisively ordered the troops to list the four corners of the phalanx!

As soon as he looked at this phalanx, the cavalry generals of the Ming army who led the team knew that they would rush forward rashly, and they were afraid that they would die very miserably!

The light cavalry charged the enemy's extremely tight infantry phalanx, which was self-defeating!

If they didn't know the combat effectiveness of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army, they would probably rush over to fight, but since they knew that the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army could fight, they would naturally not be stupid.

However, although these cavalry did not rush over, they were hovering more than two hundred meters away, trying to find the weak point of the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

For a while, the two sides held on to each other like this, and time passed bit by bit!

As time passed, the generals on both sides smiled in unison!

The generals of the Ming army thought that it would be smooth to enter the city, and it would not take long to be able to enter the city completely, and they would be able to carry all their baggage smoothly.

And Song Tianbiao smiled, that was because the 10th Infantry Battalion and the 7th Infantry Regiment were about to arrive at the battlefield, and the commander of the 2nd Brigade just now, Fang Xitong, had already sent a herald to convey the latest order.

Fang Xitong said that he was about to personally lead the 10th Infantry Battalion and the 7th Infantry Regiment into the battlefield from the east!

It didn't take long for them to be able to climb through the low hills and appear in the sight of the armies of both sides!

Song Tianbiao didn't wait long, two quarters of an hour later, he saw rows of figures on the eastern hill, first dozens of cavalry quickly swept by, and then groups of infantry entered the battlefield in columns!

The people who saw the arrival of reinforcements were not only Song Tianbiao, but also Zhu Zhihai!

When Zhu Zhihai just heard the scout cavalry say that there were a large number of pseudo-Tang thief army and friendly troops in the east, and what was even more strange was that those friendly troops seemed to be coming towards him with the pseudo-Tang thief army, with a total number of no less than 4,000 people, he just looked up and saw a small number of cavalry of the new Tang army from the hills and hills in the east, and then a large number of infantry!

And among these infantrymen, only a small part of them are wearing the weird military uniforms of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and more are wearing the Ming army's own military uniforms!

Seeing this scene, even if it was the composure that he had practiced for many years for the official, it didn't work, he just gasped and said, "What's going on?" ”