For the Datang New Army, in fact, the consumption of ammunition is not a big problem!

Although Datang's materials are in short supply, in the past few months, Li Xuan has almost turned the entire Zhengtai County upside down, and the gold, silver, fine and soft and other valuable things that have been scavenged have been replaced with various strategic materials.

Among them, sulfur, saltpeter and other materials are the key acquisition objects, so they do not hesitate to raise prices, attracting businessmen like Old Man Sun to transport these materials at the risk of being caught by the Ming army and exterminating their families to earn high profits.

Such a purchase of various materials at any cost also allowed the Datang New Army to get ammunition for a large-scale battle, although it was still not much.

And these ammunition are basically hoarded at the Lanjiang Ferry!

Therefore, Song Zhiwen wants to use these cannon fodder to consume the ammunition of the Datang New Army, I have to say that this idea is very beautiful, but the reality is very cruel, even if they send all six or seven thousand people, it is impossible to consume the ammunition of the Datang New Army.

But having enough ammunition doesn't mean that the Datang New Army will be in trouble!

This trouble is the continued casualties of personnel!

Although the new army of the Tang Dynasty has not been idle here for several months, a large number of fortifications have been built, and the defensive ability of these fortifications is also quite good, as long as the soldiers hide behind the breastwork and cling closely, as long as they are not too unlucky, they will generally not be shot by the bows and arrows thrown by the Ming army, and as for the direct scattered bullets fired by the Ming army's bowl cannon, there is no threat.

But the soldiers of the Datang New Army can't hide behind the breastwork all the time, when the cannon fodder of the Ming army rushes up, they have to stand up and fight!

In order to shoot better, they should at least expose their shoulders above the height to fire, so that they are exposing their bodies.

At this time, even if the Ming army's archers and bowl guns did not have a high hit rate, but they could not stand up to their large numbers, thousands of archers and more than 20 bowl guns covered the chest wall that was only a few hundred meters away, and the density of the firepower was still quite large.

In this way, as the battle lasted for a long time, the casualties of the Datang New Army slowly increased.

The second infantry battalion and the third infantry battalion can only be regarded as recruit troops, and the garrison battalion is a captured unit of the Ming army.

At about eight o'clock in the morning, Li Xuan even dropped the baggage battalion to the front line to participate in defensive operations, which shows that today's battle is still very stressful for the Datang New Army at the Lanjiang Ferry.

The Ming army's bowl cannons and archers must be eliminated, otherwise even if this battle is won, your own casualties will be too great.

For this reason, Li Xuan once again ordered the artillery team to exert its due power and find a way to deal with the Ming army's artillery as soon as possible.

But now Xie Ziwei is also quite helpless!

In order to suppress and even eliminate the Ming army's bowl cannons placed on the penetration, Xie Ziwei's artillery has always been aimed at the ships by the river.

According to common sense, the distance between the two sides is only 50 meters, and if you hit it with scattered bullets, you can reimburse an artillery group of the Ming army if you hit it accurately.

But the Ming army is not stupid, although their bowl cannon is placed in the bow of the ship, but in front of the new army of the Tang Dynasty to get a small artillery battery to resist direct fire.

It is not accurate to say that it is a fort, they just piled up a lot of thick planks and sandbags in the bow of the ship, leaving only a shooting hole in the middle.

These defenses are not strong enough, but they are enough to withstand scattered bullets and bullets.

This is just as the Ming army's own bowl cannon could not threaten the artillery position of the Tang New Army with the fort as a cover, and the artillery of the Tang New Army could not threaten the Ming army's bowl mouth artillery.

This made Xie Ziwei quite helpless!

At this time, Butcher Chen walked up to Xie Ziwei and said, "Why don't we change to solid bullets and knock out their artillery first?" ”

Hearing this, Xie Ziwei also pondered, when the enemy rushed to a close distance of dozens of meters, he used scattered bullets, which was the basic artillery combat skills that Xie Ziwei learned from Li Xuan.

At a distance of tens of meters, the coverage of the scattered shells is large, and this cannon can kill and injure many enemy troops.

But this time, it obviously didn't work, and the Ming army learned wisely, and piled up defensive sandbags and thick planks in front of the bowl cannon.

Immediately, Xie Ziwei turned his head and asked a gun commander behind him: "At this distance, can you accurately hit with a solid bullet?" ”

The gun commander did not hesitate at all, and immediately said: "If you shoot a few more shots, you will definitely be able to hit!" ”

This is only a distance of tens of meters, not hundreds of meters, even if it is the original artillery equipped by the Datang New Army, its hit rate is quite impressive.

Immediately, Xie Ziwei said: "Change to solid bullets, and destroy their artillery positions first!" ”

When Xie Ziwei was about to change the solid bullets to hit the Ming army's bow gun position, Li Xuan on the other side also asked the musketeers and archers to shift the target to those Ming archers on the ship.

These Ming archers are just as annoying as their artillery!

As for the cannon fodder of the Ming army that is still advancing on the river beach, let's not use the musket team and the archer team to solve it first, so what if they rush over, there are countless spearmen of the Tang New Army waiting for them, no matter how bad they are, there are grenades from the grenadier team.

It is almost impossible to rely on this cannon fodder, who has already been killed and wounded, has no morale, and is forced to launch an attack, to break through his own breastwork defenses.

When Li Xuan changed his tactics and shifted his main target from the cannon fodder Ming army on the river beach to the Ming army archers who were still on the boat.

Suddenly, the situation on the battlefield has changed!

Each round of gunfire killed and wounded a large number of Ming archers, and these musketeers only exposed their positions above their shoulders during the aiming and firing phases, and immediately retracted their bodies to reload.

In this way, it also effectively avoided the counterattack of the Ming army!

Seeing this scene, Song Zhiwen also frowned slightly, this cannon fodder tactic doesn't seem to work!

The firearms of these pseudo-Tang thieves are still so sharp, and they can't see the depletion of ammunition at all.

Also, I've been fighting here for so long, calculating the time, the main force to cross the river from the other two ferries should have arrived, why haven't you come yet?

Could it be that something happened to the main forces that detoured from these two places?

If this is the case, then the situation is not very good, he Song Zhiwen never thought that he would be able to tear through the beachhead defense of the puppet Tang thief army by relying on these guards and young soldiers, he was counting on the main force crossing the river from both sides to attack the back of the puppet Tang thief army.

Especially the main force that crossed the river from the No. 2 ferry, that was his high hopes.

But whatever you are afraid of comes, and it didn't take long for someone to report that another pseudo-Tang thief army came from the south.

Pseudo-Tang thief army? Or from there, isn't this the side where your main force crossed the river?

These pseudo-Tang thief armies were not annihilated by their own main recruiting force, but came here?

At this time, Song Zhiwen had a very bad guess: Could it be ...... Could it be that the main force of recruitment to cross the river on the south side has been completed?

Thinking of this, he couldn't stand on his feet for a while, and muttered: "It's over, it's all over!" ”