It's a pity that even if they found out, they dodged, but in such an open area, they couldn't hide at all!

And there are so many grenades they face, these grenades are not just the grenades thrown by the grenadiers of the First Infantry Corps, but the grenades thrown by a large number of ordinary musketeers!

There were at least hundreds of grenades thrown out in this round, and the explosion of hundreds of grenades instantly killed and injured hundreds of people in the front row of the Ming army.

And that's not all, because the low wall is constantly flying out wave after wave of grenades!

Attacked by such a fierce grenade, Rao is this army is the most elite commander in the Ming army, and it is inevitable that it will collapse!

They were able to carry the fierce artillery bombardment of the pseudo-Tang thief army and even the musket shooting, even if they fell behind in the shooting, they did not retreat, but took the initiative to launch the final charge, but this round of grenade attacks made this Ming army training army lose the last trace of courage to fight!

They collapsed!

Amid the explosions and screams, countless Ming soldiers turned around and ran backwards!

Seeing that the third wave of his own attack was also defeated, this made Cheng Hongan, the former commander of the army of the Governor, pale, pale, but although his face was quite unsightly, he also knew that these training troops had done their best.

The three waves of attacks before and after were just training troops in the places under his command, and it was normal for them to lose because they couldn't bear the casualties, but what he didn't expect was that the total number of troops in the third wave of training was no less than 7,000 people, and they were defeated so cleanly.

Originally, he thought that even if he couldn't take it down directly, he would be able to break through the first line of defense of the thief army, but he didn't expect that the flowering bullet of the pseudo-Tang thief army was so sharp, and there were so many of them, it turned out to be that his local training army suffered heavy casualties in an instant, and finally led to collapse.

Flowering bullets, he knows, even the troops under his command are equipped!

After all, the grenade of the Tang Army is not a high-tech thing, but it is just an iron shell filled with gunpowder, and then ignited and thrown with a fire rope.

However, these flowering bombs need too much gunpowder, and this year's gunpowder is an extremely expensive thing, although Zhang Yue looted the southern provinces quickly, but it is not easy to raise an army of so many people, although the grenade is easy to use, but there is not so much gunpowder for him to waste.

Moreover, the New Army also knows that their teacher, only the so-called grenadiers in the Tang Army are equipped with these grenades, so the New Army only selected a small number of musketeers to be equipped with grenades.

And the generals of the new army guessed well, it is true that only grenadiers will always have grenades in the Tang Army, but at critical moments, especially in defensive operations, the Tang Army likes to directly let ordinary infantry also use grenades!

It is used to strengthen the defense during defensive battles!

Being able to do this is naturally related to the fact that the Tang Dynasty has obtained the outlet of Guangdong, which has a great relationship with the opening of Guangdong, especially after the opening of Guangzhou and Lianzhou, strategic materials such as sulfur and saltpeter can almost be purchased openly, as long as there is enough money, then large-scale procurement can be made.

At the same time, the gunpowder manufacturing equipment developed in the young military camp also greatly reduced the production cost of gunpowder, and at the same time greatly increased the output!

Nowadays, the machinery used in the Tang Dynasty to produce gunpowder has reduced the production cost by at least half compared with the previous manual production, and the output has also doubled.

Otherwise, it would not be able to meet the increasing consumption of gunpowder in the Tang Dynasty.

The current Tang Dynasty, the army and navy, the demand for gunpowder is increasing day by day, if there is no technological improvement to increase production and reduce costs, even if the Tang Dynasty has a channel to import raw materials, but it can't afford it!

It's a pity that the current Ming army is still in a situation where it can't afford to use it!

They have a lot of guns, but the technology and production of gunpowder have not been able to keep up, resulting in an extreme shortage of gunpowder, so although they also know that grenades are a good thing, they can only be equipped in small batches, as for more, it is unlikely.

Wang Chaohong's forward troops, this time to intercept the operation, but it was expected that there would be an extremely brutal battle, otherwise Hao Bonian would not have sent the only first step corps under his command that had completed the reorganization.

Therefore, the supply of all kinds of ammunition and materials is also over-supplied!

There were as many as 8,000 grenades carried by Wang Chaohong's department, basically each infantry carried two on his waist, so many grenades were enough for those Ming soldiers to drink.

It took Cheng Hongan a lot of time to re-contain and sort out the training army in the place where the rout had retreated!

Fortunately, they took the initiative to attack and fight, and their main force, the new army, did not move, and they lined up in the rear to guard against it! Therefore, the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side can only rely on the geographical advantage to defend and dare not attack, if they dare to leave the turtle shell and take the initiative to counterattack, then Cheng Hongan does not mind bombarding the side with artillery first, and then let the new army under his command go up to fight a dignified line battle!

Relying on several times his own troops, he is sure to win the battle!

However, the pseudo-Tang thief army can't come out!

But this also gave him a plan to calmly contain the rout!

After re-containing the rout, Cheng Hongan found that the three attacks before and after had caused his side to lose no less than 3,000 people!

Although the losses were all local training, it was enough to make his heart ache!

Now there are only two kinds of troops under Zhang Yue's command, one is the subordinate superintendent, and the other is the training army formed by local recruitment, among which the superintendent is needless to say, which cost Zhang Yue countless efforts and military expenses.

However, even if it is a local training army, it is not comparable to the guards of the past!

The difference between the two is actually only the difference between the lineage and the collateral lineage, but the establishment and tactics are actually relatively unified, but the equipment and treatment of the superintendent are better than those of the army.

Although the three attacks failed, but the battle is to this extent, and you can't give up halfway!

After all, the current Cheng Hongan can't go down the river, and it is also difficult to quickly break away from the enemy's cavalry entanglement, except to fight hard, he has no good choice.

After the failure of the three attacks in the morning, Cheng Hongan did not rush to launch the fourth attack, but let the soldiers bury the pot to cook, and after eating a lunch, he rested for two hours before launching the fourth attack.

And this time in the offensive, Cheng Hongan is no longer the same as before, simply using local training to train the army.

The three fiascos before and after have already caused the morale of those who are training to plummet, and if they are forced to go alone, I am afraid they will mutiny!

So this time, Cheng Hongan sent the most elite new army under his command, a total of more than 5,000 people in two guards to supervise the new army, and at the same time, more than 3,000 carefully selected training troops in good condition.

And he didn't let those training soldiers walk in front as cannon fodder, he always had to take care of the ideas of the training generals, the first three times just let the training army attack, it was already a great resentment for the training generals, and now if the training army is still used as cannon fodder, and the superintendent follows behind, I'm afraid that he will have to mutiny before he fights.

Although he Cheng Hongan is the commander of the former army of the overseer, he is also the commander of these training troops, although he can't treat everyone equally, but it's not good to favor too much!

So this time, the two guards of the new army are in charge of the left flank and the middle lane, and the training army is in charge of the right flank, ready to attack from three roads at the same time!

When Cheng Hongan launched the fourth offensive, the artillery of both sides was once again intensive, and the field artillery of the Ming army desperately wanted to suppress the artillery position of the Tang army, but the artillery position of the Tang army wanted to inflict greater casualties on the Ming infantry who were attacking!

Under the flying shells, the casualties began to appear in a dense manner again!

When these Ming soldiers rushed forward, they would find that their front was full of corpses, those were the corpses of the Ming army training troops that had fallen in the previous three waves of attacks!

In fact, many of them were not directly killed at the beginning, but were only injured, but when the two sides fought, it was impossible for the Ming army to send people to treat them, and it was even more impossible for the Tang army to brave the Ming army's artillery fire to come out to treat these wounded soldiers of the Ming army.

Therefore, many wounded soldiers of the Ming army died in the end because of the deterioration of their wounds and excessive blood loss!

Only a few lucky ones who were slightly injured and were able to move finally returned to the Ming army's array.

Now, when they saw the position of more than 2,000 corpses, and many of these corpses were still broken hands and legs, and their bodies were not complete, many Ming soldiers with poor psychological quality could vomit on the spot.

This is also in winter, the temperature is low, and if it is a very hot summer, I am afraid that there will be a foul smell.

However, despite this, they were still under the leadership of Ming army officers at all levels, slowly approaching, and at this time, they also changed their tactics, in order to avoid suffering too many artillery casualties in the process of advancing, they were relatively scattered, and instead of advancing slowly in a phalanx like before, they began to trot!

Although there will inevitably be chaos in this formation, more than 8,000 people are just besieging a mountain, and they can't care about any formation, and being able to rush up in hand-to-hand combat is their goal!

Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred and fifty meters!

They had finally rushed to this distance, and with a little more effort, they would be able to rush through a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, and then break through the first line of defense of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army!