Let Hao Bonian make the decision to give the order to attack, on the one hand, the forward troops of the First Army in the rear have finally arrived on the battlefield, and on the other hand, it is also because Lu Yuzhi's cavalry troops have successfully defeated the cavalry of the Ming army!

Although it is said that Lu Yuzhi's cavalry unit also lost hundreds of people in the hedge, for the first cavalry detachment of more than 800 cavalry, although the loss of hundreds of cavalry is not small, it still has the strength to fight.

On the other hand, the cavalry of the Ming army only had more than 200 cavalry, so their disadvantage in strength was even more obvious.

If the Ming cavalry dares to fight again, there will be no chance!

In today's battle, Hao Bonian did not adopt even the slightest risky strategy, but fought steadily!

What came out was a dignified and upright conspiracy, but it was enough to make the Ming army on the opposite side feel difficult to deal with!

After the cavalry of the two sides was over, Lu Yuzhi sent two hundred cavalry to continue the pursuit and expel the remaining Ming cavalry from the battlefield, while he himself continued to lead the remaining five hundred cavalry to make a tentative attack!

Even if they knew that Lu Yuzhi's cavalry was just a tentative attack, but the generals of the Ming army on the opposite side did not dare to relax at all, because only when they were well guarded, Lu Yuzhi's cavalry would be a temptation, if they were not prepared, or if they were not prepared in time, then this kind of temptation would become a real cavalry charge at any time!

Although the number of 500 cavalry is nothing for the huge phalanx of more than 20,000 infantry, no one can ignore the role of these 500 cavalry, as long as this cavalry is eyeing from the side, the infantry phalanx of the Ming army must respond accordingly.

And in this way, even a phalanx of at least thousands of Ming infantry that can contain several times is enough to make the frontal attack of the Tang infantry more relaxed.

On the side, there are thief cavalry eyeing each other, and on the front, there are a large number of thief infantry slowly pressing up!

Although the current formation of the Hengyang Ming Army is still tight, and there has not been much turmoil, but if you look closely, you can indeed find that many people's hands and feet have begun to tremble!

Because they all know that this time, they are surrounded, not only in front of a large number of enemy forces, but also on one side of the enemy cavalry, and in the rear there are thousands of thieves in the infantry phalanx is pressing!

Under the front and back attacks, what they can do now is to hold together, there is no other choice at all!

Not to mention ordinary soldiers, even those high-ranking civilian generals, their faces are not very good-looking, although these civilian generals are not professional generals, but the civilian officials who can join the army have read the military books more or less, and the history of the creation of the new army is not a day or two, but more than two years.

In the past two years, even if they haven't had much contact with martial arts before, they have learned a lot now.

They are well aware of the situation they are facing!

Escape?

There's no escape!

The only chance to survive is to fight one last time, and win this decisive battle so that you can turn the corner.

Even they didn't have much hope of winning, but they still didn't want to give up the last chance!

But even if it was to defend in formation, but with Lu Yuzhi's cavalry frequently detouring, it attracted the attention of a large number of infantry on his side, which made the infantry phalanx facing head-on a little insufficient!

Hao Bonian's troops continued to advance, from hundreds of meters to three hundred meters, and then two hundred meters, at this time, the Tang infantrymen who were familiar with the range of shotguns stopped at the command of the officers!

The officers of the musketeers began to have the infantry reload their ammunition, light the arquebus, and make the final preparations for the battle!

At the same time, Wang Chaohong of the forward unit of the First Army also led the troops to press up from the rear, but the more than 3,000 people in the forward force of the First Army were not due west, but circled a semicircle, circled to the southwest, and then pressed towards the southwest corner of the Ming army's phalanx.

The purpose of this is naturally to force the Ming army to change formations!

Even if the Ming army knows that it is very dangerous to change formations now, they can't just watch the thief army kill from their southwest flank!

When both sides are maneuvering and changing formations, the gap in the quality of the soldiers on both sides is also reflected!

Maneuvering and changing formations, especially the maneuvering and changing formations of an entire phalanx, is an extremely test of the comprehensive quality of the troops, not to mention the rest, just the physical fitness of the soldiers is a great test!

Those unarmored light infantry are not bad, but for those heavy infantry wearing heavy armor, whether it is heavy armor spearmen or heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, they are wearing dozens of pounds of armor, which is fine if you stand in place, but if you run in small steps, this is not an easy task.

What made the soldiers of the Ming army vomit blood even more was that after Wang Chaohong's forward troops maneuvered once, and then returned to the west, the Ming army array opposite them also had to change formations.

This is a competition of soldiers' physical fitness and discipline and other comprehensive qualities!

And once the Ming army can't keep up with the continuous maneuver of the Datang Forward, then it will be the time for the Datang Advance Force to launch the final attack!

After changing the formation back and forth a few times, the gap in the comprehensive quality of the two sides has been perfectly reflected!

The vanguard led by Wang Chaohong still maintained a complete formation, and when the pace of the soldiers was still steady, the phalanx composed of thousands of Ming soldiers opposite them was already in turmoil, and the pace of many heavily armored soldiers slowed down!

Wang Chaohong, who saw this scene, already knew that the time had come to launch the final attack!

But he still didn't attack at the first time, but asked the heralds under his command to communicate with Hao Bonian in front of him to ask for instructions!

Hao Bonian's reply came quickly, and Hao Bonian directly approved the offensive plan of the forward troops and asked them to try to launch a tentative attack!

After receiving the order, Wang Chaohong immediately ordered the troops to continue to press!

The more than a dozen shotguns in the army were first pushed forward quickly by many soldiers, and the infantry in the rear began to stride forward in a standard line formation!

Two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters, when this distance was reached, the scattered guns of the forward troops were the first to fire, and when these not big artillery sounds spread throughout the battlefield, it also announced the arrival of the final general attack!

After the phalanx that was already obviously chaotic on the side of the Ming army was hit, its front row fell in an instant!

Then the soldiers of the Ming army also hurriedly launched a bowl cannon to counterattack!

After a round of artillery bombardment from both sides, the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Corps, the main force of the forward force, began to stride forward with muskets and spears!

One hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters, and after entering a distance of eighty meters, they did not continue to move forward, but stopped!

The musketeers in the musketeers picked up their guns and fired a standard round!

Soon, the Ming army also released a burst of white smoke, and they also counterattacked with musketeers!

But at this time, the Ming musketeers who counterattacked found that their musket counterattack was not effective!

And after Wang Chaohong saw this scene, he smiled: "These plate armors are still somewhat useful!" ”

The First Infantry Corps, as an infantry regiment that has completed the reorganization, is equipped with a large number of plate armor, and the plate armor of the Tang Army, in addition to defending against cold weapons, is also used to defend against medium and long-distance small and medium-caliber muskets.

Although within 50 meters, your plate armor will still be pierced by 13 mm or 14 mm muskets, but beyond this distance, the defense against muskets is still good.

As for the bow and arrow, it is even more impossible to penetrate the plate armor that is eighty meters away and generally has a thickness of four millimeters!

What's even more interesting is that in addition to the spear units of the First Infantry Corps, even some of the musketeers are equipped with cuirasses!

This was not the case in any other unit of the First Army, with the exception of the First Infantry Corps!

So at a distance of 80 meters, the first corps almost had the advantage!

The Ming army on the opposite side also quickly discovered that something was wrong, and soon, their front was advancing forward, but when they began to advance, Hao Bonian on the front saw this scene, but ordered the troops to launch the final general attack!

The many infantry in front of them carried their loaded muskets and moved forward step by step!

One hundred and fifty meters, shotguns on both sides opened fire!

A hundred meters, the arquebuses of the Ming army also fired!

Eighty meters, sixty meters, the arquebuses of the Ming army are getting more and more accurate, almost every moment there are soldiers of the Tang Army falling, and after entering the distance of fifty meters, even those heavily armored spearmen wearing plate armor are unable to resist the bullets and begin to fall down one after another!

But they are still advancing, and what surprises and even frightens the soldiers of the Ming army is that the black army on the opposite side has not fired a single shot from beginning to end!

At this time, many soldiers of the Ming army who had fought with the puppet Tang thief army had already vaguely guessed what these puppet Tang thief army wanted to do!

They wanted to rush up and fire at a distance of thirty meters!

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty fell one after another under the bullets, arrows and even shells of the Ming army, but it seemed that it did not affect the other generals and soldiers at all, they still advanced steadily, the comrades in the front row fell, and the people in the back row will consciously make up for it, and always let the number of people in the front row be full!

As they continued to advance, the soldiers of the Ming army seemed even more panicked, many musketeers saw that the enemy was already close at hand, and they all made mistakes when loading, some forgot to take out the whole strip, and some were filled with excessive gunpowder or several bullets, and then pulled the trigger to let the fire rope ignite the gunpowder and fire!

Naturally, the end was not very good, and the explosion was proper.

When the line of the Tang Army advanced to only thirty meters away from the Ming army, the firepower of the Ming army was even weaker than before!

At this time, the officers of the Tang Army, who only listened to the front, raised their command knives in unison!

"Salvo ready!"

"Aim"

"Shoot!"