Although the target of the new musketeers of the Tang Dynasty was only the gun emplacements on the bow of the ship and those gunners.

But in reality, their bullets covered the entire ship, and even the rafts next to it were enveloped, so that they caused more results than expected.

It's not that they would have hit more enemies, but because the bullet hit rate of the musket was so small, and the dispersion area was too large, they did shoot at the guns at the bow of the ship, but in fact, the deviation of the bullets was too large, and it was normal to hit a few meters or even more than ten meters.

But this also has benefits, that is, it hit a lot of Ming soldiers who were not the original target, and the ferry boat was the only few ships of the Ming army, and there were a few Ming generals wearing armor on them.

More than 100 bullets swept through like a torrential rain, not to mention the bow gun position in the eye of the storm, and there were several more blood holes on the bodies of several Ming gunners in an instant, and at least half of the Ming army behind the artillery also fell, many of them were Ming generals wearing iron armor, and for a while, there was blood on this ferry.

The two rafts around them were also brushed together, and several people fell.

This round of 100 gun volleys fired at a distance of about 60 meters hit at least 30 Ming troops, almost scrapped an entire ferry, and incidentally destroyed several surrounding rafts.

Blood flowed on ferries and rafts, and then flowed into the river, making the clear river water red, showing a strange enchantment, and the rippling river water seemed to turn into a bloody mouth, swallowing one Ming soldier after another.

With the shooting of the musket, the artillery on Xie Ziwei's side finally fired a second shot.

The power of the shotgun is far greater than that of the solid bullet at medium and close range, and at a distance of less than 100 meters, when the gun fires the shotshot, it is equivalent to spraying a large number of iron nails, iron slag, etc., and its coverage can reach tens of meters.

It's a real possibility to reimburse an infantry company with one shot.

This cannon Xie Ziwei was not so unlucky to hit the empty river, but on the river with two rafts.

The shield on the raft used to resist lead bullets was as fragile as paper paste in the face of artillery fire, and it was useless at all, and after a shot, one of the rafts was completely unable to move, and a soldier holding a shield in front of him was covered in blood, and the whole person was already silent.

The Ming soldiers behind him were all knocked down, more than a dozen people, more than half died on the spot, the rest were also injured, and many struggled to fall off the raft.

Even the raft itself may have been hit by shrapnel at several critical junctions, and the raft gradually fell apart into a separate tree trunk.

Although the other raft next to it was not all hit, it also suffered heavy casualties, and at least half of the people were reimbursed by this gun.

Seeing this scene, the corners of Xie Ziwei's mouth on the fort finally showed a smile!

The previous scatter bomb did not cause the slightest casualty to the Ming army, which put him under a lot of pressure.

The rate of fire of the artillery was very slow, especially when the Ming army was getting closer and closer, and his artillery did not have much time to intercept the enemy army in the future.

In this short period of time, every shot is precious!

Kill as many Ming troops as possible who are crossing the river, so as to reduce the pressure on the infantry after they land.

That's right, the battle has developed to the present, and most people can see that it is impossible to intercept the Ming army on the river and prevent them from landing ashore.

Because the Ming army was already less than thirty meters from the shore.

At a distance of thirty meters, it is difficult for the soldiers of the Datang New Army to completely defeat each other with medium and long-range firepower!

So what they have to do now is to kill and injure the Ming army as much as possible before the Ming army lands.

However, even if the Ming army is about to go ashore, this is also expected by many senior generals of the Datang New Army.

What they had to do was to block the enemy from crossing the river, which was different from blocking the Ming army from going ashore.

And Li Xuan never expected to be able to defeat the Ming army by relying only on musketeers, archers, and a mere artillery when the Ming army crossed the river.

After all, the Ming army has 3,000 people!

The rate of fire of their muskets and artillery was also limited, and the damage that could be inflicted on the Ming army in the process of crossing the river was also limited, not to mention that most of the Ming army's casualties at this time were cannon fodder.

This also means that the core backbone of the Ming army has not been hit hard!

In this regard, Li Xuan also has a complete set of coping plans!

War is never an option, and after option A, there will always be option B, option C, and even options D, F, and more.

As a commander-in-chief, when making a battle plan, there is always a backup plan and a backup plan for the backup plan.

Seeing that the Ming army was almost on the shore, Li Xuan said to the herald: "Order, implement the first three plan!" ”

When the herald heard this, he immediately waved the flag in his hand, and he naturally waved the flag not for the sake of looking good, but to convey the flag.

In this era when there is no radio communication, the most efficient and effective means to achieve command on the battlefield is to command through the flag.

The location of the hill where Li Xuan is located is naturally the place where the officers of the Tang New Army pay the most attention to in normal battles, and even the heralds around the officers on the front line will always pay attention to Li Xuan's side from beginning to end in normal battles, so as to receive orders from Li Xuan as soon as possible.

After the herald soldiers beside Huang Xueren saw the banner of the heralds beside Li Xuan on the mountain, they immediately said to Huang Xueren beside him: "My lord, Your Majesty has issued an order to implement the first three plans!" ”

Huang Xueren nodded after hearing this, and muttered, "It's time too!" ”

Immediately, he shouted: "The musketeers continue to keep the fire suppressed, and the spearmen are ready to engage."

Immediately, he said to dozens of other strong spearmen beside him: "Prepare to drop bombs!" ”

The dozens of strong spearmen around him belonged to the Third Spear Team, but in addition to one spear by their side, there were several big iron bumps in front of them!

The lumps look like cannonballs, but they're not that big, and they have a flot!

This is the first weapon to appear in the new army of the Tang Dynasty: grenades!

Li Xuan ordered those craftsmen to make it in the first half of the year, and this thing is not difficult to make, but there has been no batch equipment in the Datang New Army, why? Because there was a shortage of gunpowder in the Datang New Army, the musket team and artillery lacked enough gunpowder, and they couldn't spare much gunpowder to make this grenade.

However, in order to deal with the Ming army's crossing of the river, Li Xuan temporarily asked the craftsmen in Xikou Village to rush to work a batch of grenades and pop them out, not many, only a hundred.

These grenades are different from the grenades of later generations, these grenades are just a thin layer of iron cans filled with gunpowder and iron nails and iron pieces, especially heavy weight, so it takes a very strong soldier to be able to throw a distance of twenty or thirty meters.

The detonation is by the fuse rope, that is to say, it is lit and then thrown out, and if it is thrown late, it will be you who will die.

These grenades were equipped by the 3rd Spear Team of the 1st Infantry Battalion, which had a relatively good physical fitness, and in order to make the 3rd Spear Team gather enough strong soldiers, Li Xuan also specially transferred some strong spearmen from several other spear teams to join the 3rd Spear Team to replace the soldiers.

In this way, the Third Spear Team was able to gather more than forty soldiers who could throw grenades, and Li Xuan naturally wanted to build this Third Spear Team into a grenadier unit that could hold spears in close combat and at the same time be able to throw bombs.

By the time the spears were completely replaced with muskets, these grenadiers would become a professional grenadier unit that used muskets and also threw bombs.

At that time, Li Xuan will build them into the most elite infantry in this era!

Li Xuan's ideal grenadier should be strong, disciplined, courageous, and dare to sacrifice.

Not only did the grenadiers have to fight with muskets like the line infantry, but they also had to throw bombs when they got closer.

If they aren't strong enough, they won't be able to throw bombs, so this class has quite high requirements for height and physical fitness.

If they are not brave enough, then they will not dare to brave the enemy's fire to advance to a distance of twenty or thirty meters to drop bombs, the biggest role of grenadiers is not to defend, but to attack, if the enemy is also grenadiers, then both sides are throwing bombs at each other.

At most, the line infantry lined up to shoot them, but the grenadiers lined up to throw bombs, and when the bombs thrown by the enemy exploded around them, they also needed to keep their composure and throw the bombs, which required the courage and sacrifice of the soldiers and the discipline of the soldiers.

If they are not disciplined enough, they will drop bombs earlier or later, the former will be picked up and thrown back by the enemy, and the latter will kill themselves and their comrades. If it is to drop a bomb at a distance that is too far away, then it is even more useless, not even the enemy can be blown up, it is useless for a long time.

Therefore, an elite grenadier unit must have all four of them: physical fitness, courage, sacrifice, and discipline.

This is also why in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the grenadier unit has always been the elite unit of the armies of various countries, even if the grenadier unit has disappeared on the battlefield due to weapon innovation and tactical changes, but the title of grenadier has been retained, and has gradually become synonymous with the elite infantry in the armies of Western countries.

Of course, the third spear team in the new army of the Tang Dynasty is not a grenadier, not because they are equipped with spears, not because of their physical fitness, but because their courage, sacrifice and even discipline cannot keep up.

When fighting defensively, there is a difference between hiding behind the breastwork and throwing bombs at a distance of twenty or thirty meters from the enemy in the face of enemy fire.

However, even if there are many unbearable ones, when the Ming army comes ashore, they will have to bear the baptism of primitive grenades in the hands of the third spear team.

Huang Xueren couldn't help but be excited when he thought that after waiting for his dozens of grenades to be thrown out, they might set off a cloud of flesh and blood in the crowd of the Ming army!