After Zhao Dashan slashed to death the spearmen of the Ming army in front of him, he dragged the stainless steel long knife that was still stained with blood on it, and then aimed at a Ming army sword shield hand in front of him and slashed it.

The Ming saber shield hand in front of him was just a light armor sword and shield hand, and he was not wearing heavy armor, but he didn't dare to resist Zhao Dashan's powerful knife, and the angle of the shield in his left hand was not right, he needed to turn around before he could use the shield to block, so he did not hesitate to raise the long knife in his hand to block!

In an instant, the two long knives collided together, and then burst out a little fire, but after the two sides closed their knives, the Ming army's light armor sword and shield hand found that there was already a huge gap in the waist knife in his hand, and then looked closely at the steel knife in the hands of the pseudo-Tang thief army opposite and his enemy, but it was still intact.

This thief's knife is so sharp!

This Ming saber and shield hand made such an exclamation, it is very normal, among the many knives equipped by the Datang New Army, the knife of the heavy armor sword and shield hand is made of stainless steel, not only expensive, but also thick and sharp, and this Ming saber and shield hand's own knife is just an iron knife, only a layer of steel is wrapped on the blade!

The knives equipped in batches in the Datang New Army, the knives of ordinary infantry, whether they are knives of heavy infantry or light armor knives, or simply knives of soldiers in auxiliary troops, are actually the same style, all of which are the standard waist knives of the Ming Army.

The Ming Army's waist knife in this period is a knife created by combining the characteristics of the Japanese knife and the traditional knife of the Central Plains, which is characterized by a larger arc of the blade than the traditional knife and a smaller width, which is very similar to the Japanese knife in appearance.

However, unlike the Japanese knife, the thickness of the blade of the Ming army's waist knife is basically the same as the blade, so it is more suitable for chopping, while the thickness of the blade is thinner than the blade, which is more suitable for stabbing.

So although the two are similar in appearance, they are actually two completely different styles of knives, and they also represent different fighting styles.

Later generations also called the Ming army's waist knife Qi's saber, but in fact, it can't be said that, because this knife was actually equipped with the Ming army on a large scale before the Qi army, and the Qi army was only the most famous of the many Ming armies equipped with this kind of knife.

And it is worth noting that in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the Ming army was equipped with a large number of Japanese swords imported directly from Japan.

Although the waist knives equipped by various arms of the Datang New Army are similar in style, there are also big differences in the quality of the waist knives equipped by different arms.

The waist knives used by the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers and the heavy armor spearmen are the best, and they are basically steel knives made of stainless steel, and the price is expensive!

This is because the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers and the heavy armor spearmen are all heavy armored infantry units, and the armor on their bodies is worth dozens of taels of silver, so naturally they will not spare a few taels of silver for a knife!

At the same time, the main combat method of these heavy armored infantry units is hand-to-hand combat, even if they are heavy armored spearmen, they enter the melee stage after the charge, and they mainly rely on swords and shields to fight, so the requirements for knives are quite high.

Iron knives used by ordinary infantry or knives that are only covered with steel on the blade will appear in the nicks or even cracks after a few uses.

The knives of the heavy infantry are steel knives, and the waist knives used by ordinary infantry are worse, such as light armor spearmen, archers and even light armor knives and shields, gunners, etc., their waist knives are not the main combat equipment, but a self-defense weapon when they are forced to do so, and the number of these ordinary infantry is huge, so for the sake of cost control, the waist knives equipped to them are only wrapped in steel at the edge of the knife, and even many people are equipped with pure iron knives captured directly from the Ming army.

As for the command knives of infantry and artillery officers, they are also a variant of the standard waist knife, but they are more sophisticated, basically steel knives, and at the same time, there is a characteristic that the blade is generally light and thin, not as thick and heavy as the waist knife of ordinary infantry equipment, and the length of the blade is slightly less.

This kind of command knife is not easy to use when used in actual combat, mainly because it is more beautiful in appearance, and at the same time, it also has a characteristic that it is relatively lightweight.

And it's actually very important not to get tired of holding it, because the officers are holding the command knife from beginning to end, and holding the command knife high for a long time will also be very tiring!

Zhao Dashan is a heavy-armored sword and shield soldier, and the armor on their bodies is basically the best in the whole army.

This knife cut a gap in the ladle iron waist knife in the hands of the Ming soldiers, which is not a difficult task, but this is actually not very useful, and the knife with the gap can also cut people to death, and the threat has not weakened in the slightest.

Therefore, Zhao Dashan did not dare to be careless at all, relying on the heavy armor on his body, he raised the round shield in his hand, took two steps forward, and tried to use the shield to directly hit the Ming saber shield hand opposite.

At this time, the Ming saber and shield hand on the opposite side was also a handy, that is, it was cut up, Zhao Dashan used the round shield in his hand to swing the menacing knife, although the knife after swinging was still scratched on his left shoulder, but the threat was not great, just left a knife mark on the armor.

However, the next moment, the long steel knife in his hand slashed through the opponent's neck!

The long tip of the knife did not encounter the slightest obstacle, and directly slashed through the neck of the Ming saber and shield soldier on the opposite side, and in an instant, the blood was spraying high!

After watching the Ming soldier in front of him fall, Zhao Dashan did not pause, because he had already seen two Ming soldiers rushing up.

Even if he was wearing heavy armor, it was still an unwise choice to fight one against two, so he chose to temporarily avoid and at the same time approached a comrade a few meters away!

After reuniting with his comrades, he and his comrades fought together to continue their fight until the last moment, and at this last moment, either he was killed or injured and unable to fight again, or the victory and defeat were divided, the enemy army broke and fled, or his own side ordered to retreat.

And until then, he needs to fight all the time!

The heavy armor sword and shield soldiers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty rushed into their array, and it was impossible for the generals of the Ming army to be so seriously threatened that they could not see it, but at such a critical juncture, it was not easy to draw troops to eliminate the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers of this pseudo-Tang thief army.

First of all, the puppet Tang thief army in front of them had already launched a front attack, and their musketeers, under the cover of the spearmen, were already close to the last thirty or forty meters, and this distance was basically the last distance for the puppet Tang thief army to launch a full-scale charge.

According to the experience gained from many battles between the Ming army and the puppet Tang thief army, the musketeers of the puppet Tang thief army will always launch a bayonet charge directly after firing the last volley within the last twenty or thirty meters distance.

Of course, the main force of the charge was not the musketeers, but the pikemen, but the bayonets of the musketeers were still a great support for the spearmen.

Not to mention, in the last round of salvos, it is often possible to cause a large number of Ming casualties, and it is not unheard of for an entire front row of Ming troops to fall in the salvo.

Under such circumstances, the Ming army officers on the front line did not dare to mobilize the soldiers in the front row to encircle those heavy infantry without authorization.

The only way to do this is to draw troops from the rear, but there are not so many troops in the rear, and there is a lack of hoplites!

The people who rushed in were all heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, and the ability to fight hand-to-hand combat in close combat was the strongest among all the arms at present, and if you wanted to annihilate them in the melee, the only thing that could be used was actually the same heavy armor units, especially the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers.

Just like in ancient and modern wars, the best type of troops used to fight against cavalry is also cavalry, in the melee against heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, the best use is still heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, and other light armor units are basically charged for the head.

However, are heavy armor units so easy to find?

How can it be!

A suit of armor costs dozens of taels of silver, and the quality of the soldiers of the heavily armored sword and shield soldiers is also relatively high, and the treatment reflected is relatively high.

On the side of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, because a large number of armor and cotton armor of the Ming army were captured, a large amount of cotton and iron armor could be obtained after simple modifications, so it was able to match the armor of the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers and heavy armor spearmen.

However, the total number of these hoplites was actually only about seven or eight hundred!

Heavy armor units, whether for the Ming army or for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, are expensive elite units, not to say that they can be transferred if they want to be tens or hundreds, there are not many Ming troops in total!

Besides, the current development of the situation on the battlefield is not that they do not have enough time to deal with it slowly, at this time, the first step corps and the Chinese army commando team have already launched a comprehensive charge against the more than 4,000 Ming troops in front of them from the south and southwest directions.

After the musketeers fired a volley, they all took their muskets with bayonets in their hands and followed the pace of the spearmen to launch the final bayonet charge!

As the backbone of hand-to-hand combat, the spearmen, especially the heavily armored spearmen in the front row, they advanced steadily and slowly, and every time they took a step forward, many Ming soldiers on the opposite side involuntarily took a step back, for no other reason, the dense spear forest in front of them was really terrible.

If you don't retreat, you will be stabbed into a hornet's nest by the spear of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

At this time, you can also find that in fact, the spearmen of the infantry phalanx, especially the heavily armored spearmen, their task is not to kill many enemies, they are to use the dense spear forest to constantly press the enemy troops on the opposite side, forcing them to retreat, so that their defense line is shaken.

When the enemy's defense line is shaken, then it is not far from collapse, and after the enemy army is completely defeated, that is the time to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops.

In the face of such a dense spear forest, there were not too many accidents on the side of the Ming army, and the soldiers of the Ming army in the front row began to retreat step by step, but they were blocked by the people behind, and in the end, chaos inevitably occurred.

The enemy is still in chaos, so it can basically be judged that their defense line has begun to waver, and it is already too late to completely collapse.

Seeing this scene, a thousand households of the Ming army on the front line couldn't help but say with despair on their faces: "It's over, it's all over!" ”