The Ming army is still advancing, even if the remaining few bowl guns in the battalion artillery team have been fired, the Ming army forwards still have not stopped their pace!

Even if the musketeers and grenadiers of the three main infantry battalions of the 3rd Infantry Regiment fired a total of 700 muskets, the Ming troops on the opposite side still did not stop, but began to counterattack with archers after entering a distance of sixty or seventy meters.

However, although the Ming army is still advancing, the casualties are gradually increasing!

And this casualty is getting bigger and bigger as they get closer!

However, at this time, the forward general of the Ming army, Chang Pingchang, finally issued an order to launch a charge of the whole army, and the soldiers of the Ming army began to rush up like a tide!

After watching the Ming army launch the final charge, what made people feel strange was that the musketeers of the Datang New Army at the forefront stopped shooting under the orders of the officers!

"Stop shooting, reload!"

"Quick, quick, people in the back row get up!"

"Salvo ready!"

The officers of the musket team rode on their horses, constantly passing over their arrays, and shouted loudly at the same time, at this time, after a long period of continuous firing, the line formation of the Datang New Army was already filled with rich white smoke, and the rich smell of gunpowder smoke filled every corner.

At this time, many soldiers of the Tang New Army on the front line could not actually see the soldiers of the Ming Army who were only thirty or forty meters away in front of them and were launching the final charge.

Because the smoke obscures their view!

Only the officers on the horses could still see every move of the Ming army on the opposite side!

And this is the most important, if not the only reason, why the officers of the musket team need to ride on horseback to command the battle!

Because standing on the ground, it is difficult for them to see through the smoke of gunpowder the movements of the enemy troops on the opposite side!

The Ming army was getting closer and closer, and the officer of a musketeer team had already drawn his command knife and rode back to the rear of his line, and in front of him, the musketeers had changed from the previous six rows to three, and all the musketeers had been loaded and raised their muskets, and these muskets were all loaded with bayonets without exception.

"Ready!"

"Aim!"

When the charging soldiers in the front row of the Ming army rushed through the 30-meter cordon, the captain of the musket team waved his command knife violently, and at the same time shouted: "Shoot!" ”

In an instant, a dense and crisp sound of gunfire rang out almost on the entire front, and six musketeers plus a grenadier team, although less than the amount, also about six hundred muskets fired a salvo at almost the same time!

After the gunshots, the front row of the Ming army that was charging on the opposite side seemed to have stopped in an instant, and a large number of them fell together.

In an instant, it made the soldiers and even officers of the Ming Army on the opposite side feel stunned!

However this is not yet played!

So at this time, the grenadiers who fired the last salvo were already under the command of the officer, put their muskets on their backs, and at the same time picked up grenades in their hands!

"Prepare"

"Ignition!"

"Bomb dropping!"

In an instant, nearly 100 grenades flew into the dense Ming army formation more than 20 meters away!

This was followed by a continuous stream of dense explosions!

A hundred grenades were thrown at the same time, and then exploded, and the explosion of this round alone caused more casualties than the previous volley of musketeers!

However, the grenadiers' throwing grenades are not over yet!

The grenadier officers still gave the order with a blank face: "Ready, ignite, drop!" ”

Only seven or eight seconds later, another black grenade flew towards the Ming army's array!

At this time, the smoke generated by the explosion of the first round of grenades in the Ming army's array has not yet dissipated!

The soldiers of the Ming army who were within the range of the grenade explosion were the first to die and wounded, while the soldiers who survived felt as if they were in a hell on earth.

The dense explosion, the continuous death does not seem to stop, and it seems that he will die in the next second!

In just twenty seconds, when the grenadiers threw the second round of grenades, a phalanx of Ming infantry of about 1,000 people at the forefront completely collapsed!

This can't be blamed on them, because at this time, the front row of soldiers in this infantry phalanx is basically dead, a phalanx of 1,000 people, and there are only more than 800 people left!

The casualty rate has reached almost 20 percent, and if they don't collapse at this time, then they are not ordinary Ming army guards, but the most elite Ming army.

With casualties reaching 20 percent, there are not many traditional cold-weapon troops that can still charge!

However, the rout of the forward phalanx of the Ming army did not make the Datang New Army stop its scheduled battle plan!

At this time, the spearmen in the middle of the formation had already begun to advance rapidly under the orders of the officers, and the heavily armored spearmen in the front row finally made their own voices in this combat battle!

They trotted with steady steps, and then rushed towards the forward troops of the Ming army, which were already obviously defeated, with spears up to four and a half meters long!

Based on the width of the battle line, when the Datang New Army launched a frontal charge, it was actually only charging at about 2,000 Ming troops directly ahead.

And these Ming troops, after the fire projection of artillery, musket salvos, and grenades, have already suffered heavy casualties, and their morale has fallen to the lowest point!

At this time, it was really difficult for them to face the hand-to-hand charge of the spearmen and musketeers of the Datang New Army.

So they were without any surprises and hesitation, a clean rout!

However, when they were defeated, Chang Pingchang shouted with a red face: "The left wing rushes up, the right wing rushes up!" Rush up to Lao Tzu! ”

The troops attacking head-on would suffer relatively large casualties, which he had expected, so he was very clever to put the 2,000 friendly troops reinforced to him in the middle army.

His own headquarters was placed on the two flanks, and he concentrated more than 2,000 troops on the left flank, while the right flank was only contained.

Now the friendly forces of the Chinese army have collapsed, but his headquarters troops are all fine, and what he needs now is to rush forward and give the pseudo-Tang thief bureau a heavy left hook while the puppet Tang thief army is fighting with the Chinese army.

Suddenly, the two thousand Ming troops on the left flank also rushed up!

Song Tianbiao on the opposite side naturally discovered the actions of the Ming army on the opposite side a long time ago!

The order was immediately given: "The 9th Infantry Battalion and the Reserve Battalion turn to meet the enemy!" ”

The two infantry battalions directly in front of the charge, the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Battalion, were the first to charge, and the 9th Infantry Battalion, which was located behind these two infantry battalions, had only fired guns and archery before, and had not participated in hand-to-hand charges!

As for the reserve camp at the back, they didn't even put their bows and arrows, and they stayed where they were!

The Ninth Infantry Battalion and the Reserve Battalion, their formation is still intact, and this kind of phalanx change is actually a whole infantry battalion turning, the whole phalanx is acting like a person, it will not be said that the soldiers will break out of the formation, and then reorganize the queue.

As the soldiers trotted to change formations, the Ming army on the left also rushed up!

The next battle was almost the same as the previous scene, the new army of the Tang Dynasty composed of multi-level interception firepower with artillery, muskets, bows and arrows, so that the Ming army in these charges suffered heavy casualties on the way forward.

When he saw that his headquarters had not yet rushed up, he had already suffered heavy casualties, and Chang Pingchang in the rear finally couldn't calm down.

Just now I saw the heavy casualties of the friendly troops of the Chinese army, to be honest, it didn't give him much shock, and it wasn't his own soldiers and horses who died, so he naturally wouldn't be heartbroken.

But now, when it was his turn to start to suffer a large number of casualties, his face was extremely ugly.

Damn, these pseudo-Tang thieves are so sharp!

At this time, a direct officer under his command couldn't help but step forward and said, "My lord, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid there will be heavy casualties!" ”

Immediately, another person also said: "They are all the children of my Long Liwei's military family, if this death or injury is too great, what face will we have to explain to Long Liwei's hometown father and elder at that time!" ”

And there was an old Qianhu who said in an excited tone: "My lord, you can't fight anymore...... Hit ...... again Hit ...... again But it's ......."

Before he had finished speaking, he suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked ahead, and then shouted, "My son! After that, he fainted and fell to the ground!

And the direction he looked before he fell to the ground was to see a Ming army Baihu who was only about twenty years old, riding on a horse, was hit by shrapnel, and the shrapnel hit him directly in the face, and the shrapnel fired by this shotgun overturned half of his face with great power, so that this young Baihu didn't even struggle, just fell off the horse, and then didn't move, and the red and white things soon flowed to the ground under his head!

The Ming Army's guard was formulated, and it was decided that the soldiers led by the generals of the guard were all soldiers of the institute and the guard, and whether they were officers or soldiers, they were all hereditary for a hundred years, and the family farmed in the guard.

So they say that the soldiers who participated in the battle in front of them were all children of the guardhouse, and that is not wrong!

Of course, they didn't care about the lives and deaths of those serf guards, but among the people present, who didn't have a few relatives and friends in the army, and most of the middle and lower-level officers on the front line, such as the small flags, general flags, and hundreds of households, were related to them, and if there were heavy casualties, there would be no way to explain to their relatives and friends, let alone themselves!

Chang Pingchang's thick eyebrows furrowed at this time, while listening to the words of his subordinates, he also continued to look at the right wing!

At this time, the puppet Tang thief army had already divided about 1,000 people to meet its own left wing troops, and it had already completed the formation, and its formation was as dense as the formation of the Chinese army thief army, and it was not easy to mess with at a glance!

At this time, his troops were still fifty or sixty meters away from the thief army, and they were already at least a hundred dead and wounded!

If this continues to rush forward, I am afraid that it will be hit by the dense salvo and flowering shells of the puppet Tang thief army, just like the previous 2,000 Chinese troops, and the casualties will be hundreds at will.

And there are only a total of 2,800 soldiers and horses in his headquarters!

Damn, you can't keep fighting like this!

Anyway, there is still an army of 30,000 in the rear of the governor, no matter what happens to this pseudo-Tang thief army in front of him, it will not be able to turn the sky, and there is no need for him to spend the lives of many soldiers and horses of his headquarters to fight to the death!

After taking a deep breath, he said: "Let's let go of the pseudo-Tang thief army first, retreat back for a little rest, and then take down this group of pseudo-Tang thief army in one go!" ”