Looking closely at the artillery positions of the Ming army, its gunners were already suffering heavy casualties, and the remaining survivors either ran to the rear, or simply lay on the ground, hiding behind artillery trucks and other covers, and did not dare to move.

After seeing that most of the artillery of the Ming army had been muted, Hao Bonian, who was commanding the battle on the front line, finally breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately said: "Without these artillery, it will be easy to fight down next!" ”

Li Xuan, who was watching the battle from the rear, saw that the artillery unit of the Ming army had been completely suppressed, and he also nodded slightly, and he was quite satisfied with the performance of the artillery unit.

Whether it was the ten cannons of the artillery battalion or the battalion guns assigned to the infantry regiment, they all played their due tactical value, and caused a large number of casualties to them in the process of advancing the artillery units of the Ming army, completely suppressing the artillery of the Ming army.

I didn't live up to his hard work!

There is no waste of these artillery and a large amount of ammunition built by the Tang Dynasty.

You must know that in order to build this artillery unit, the Tang Dynasty has paid too much, if it is calculated according to the cost, the cost of the artillery unit is enough for the new army of the Tang Dynasty to establish a cavalry of 1,000 people, or even thousands of infantry.

But today's performance of the artillery units has fully rewarded these efforts!

The Ming army did not have artillery units to help, so the follow-up infantry units of their own side could also be obtained

And with the shortening of the distance between the two sides, the archers on both sides have also entered the battlefield, but the archers on the side of the Datang New Army are obviously inferior to the Ming army in terms of quantity and quality.

There were quite a lot of archers in the Ming army, and the total number could almost reach more than a thousand!

And to be honest, the quality is also much better than the archers on the side of the Datang New Army!

Most of the archers of the Ming army are guards, and although the guards are scum, the archers in the guards are all trained from childhood, and the basic archery skills are there.

When the archers of the Ming army bent their bows forward to shoot arrows, a large number of casualties inevitably appeared on the side of the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

The arrows in the sky seemed to be overwhelming and fell towards the phalanx of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and it was good to land on the phalanx of spearmen, because the front row of spearmen were all heavily armored spearmen, and these long-distance throwing bows and arrows were not strong against them.

Even ordinary spearmen, many of them are wearing cotton armor or armor, and no matter how bad they are, they still have shields in their hands.

However, the musketeers were obviously not protected enough against these bows and arrows, because the musketeers were typical light infantry.

Without armor and no shields, it is inevitable that there will be a large number of heavy casualties in the face of the enemy's dense bow and arrow covering fire.

In comparison, the hundreds of archers on the side of the new army of the Tang Dynasty are obviously a little weak, although they also struggle to bend their bows and shoot arrows to give their own long-range fire support, and have also achieved certain results, but on the whole, they are not as effective as the archers on the side of the Ming army.

However, although watching the soldiers of the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side fall one after another under the blows of their own archers, they couldn't see the formation of the puppet Tang thief army chaotic, and what made many Ming generals in front of them even more frightened and even frightened was that after the soldiers in the front row of these puppet Tang thieves fell, the soldiers in the back row would consciously step forward to fill the position, and they would not even look at the comrades who were lying on the ground screaming, just stepped forward like a wooden man, and then mechanically loaded, aimed, and shot!

It's as if it wasn't his comrades who fell, or even people!

And this item, the official Datang New Army pays the most attention to, and at the same time is the most proud point, that is, in the training process, it attaches great importance to battlefield discipline, and strives to completely wear out the humanity of the soldiers, so that they can become a group of mechanical soldiers who command and obey orders.

Let obedience become the instinct of soldiers, and use strict battlefield discipline to dispel their fear of death and injury!

Of course, there will be a limit to this ability to bear casualties, for today's Datang New Army, if the casualty rate exceeds 10%, it will greatly affect the morale of the troops, but they can still continue to fight.

However, if it reaches 20 percent or even 30 percent, no matter how strict the battlefield discipline is, it will not be able to eliminate the instinctive fear of the soldiers, and finally lead to a collapse.

Although the casualties seem to be very heavy now, if you look at the whole force, the overall casualty figure is also limited.

This can be seen from Hao Bonian's watching his soldiers fall down without even blinking his eyes, and now the casualty rate of the troops is still within the tolerance range of the Datang New Army.

But on the side of the Ming army, can they withstand the same, or even greater, casualties?

Hao Bonian doesn't think so!

The new army of the Tang Dynasty suffered heavy casualties under the cover fire of the Ming archers, but the situation faced by the Ming army on the opposite side was even worse!

When the artillery of the new army of the Tang Dynasty completely suppressed the artillery of the Ming army, it was already aimed at the phalanx of archers of the Ming army, and when each artillery was fired, it could harvest the lives of a large number of Ming soldiers!

In particular, the ten heavy guns in the artillery battalion even tried to replace them with solid shells at this time.

Because the Ming army's archer phalanx is very dense, and the depth is relatively large, if you use scattered bullets, you can only hit the Ming archers in the front row, but if you use solid bullets, every solid ball cannonball can plow out a bloody ** channel, and the cannonballs are absolutely bloody where they pass.

When solid-ball shells were rampaging through the phalanx of Ming archers, they were more lethal than simple shots.

In addition to the ten heavy guns of the artillery battalion, Hao Bonian's direct command, as well as other battalion guns in each infantry regiment, also continued to fire at these Ming archers, and the scattered bullets they fired were also very powerful.

The casualties of one of these shots at close range are comparable to the casualties of a salvo from a musketeer!

In addition to the artillery fire, the musketeers continued to shoot back stubbornly while suffering from bow and arrow blows!

For maximum counterattacks, musket units have already begun to fire freely in pursuit of maximum rate of fire!

The archers also continue to bend their bows and shoot arrows!

Even the spearmen and shield bearers took the initiative to attack in order to provide support to the musketeers!

They continued to advance rapidly, constantly approaching, causing great pressure on the Ming army!

Because the bows and arrows fired by the archers of the Ming army caused very few casualties to these heavily armored soldiers.

The soldiers in the front row of these hand-to-hand combat units are all wearing heavy armor, and the heavy armor on their bodies can effectively reduce the casualties caused to them by arrows.

Moreover, the rapid charge of the dense spearmen, and the bright spear forests also gave the Ming army archers phalanx and even other ordinary infantry phalanxes great pressure!

In the face of such a dense forest of spears, and these spearmen were still wearing heavy armor, it seemed absolutely difficult to deal with, how much psychological pressure these Ming soldiers were under can be imagined.

Of course, they didn't know that the spearmen of the Datang New Army they saw were only heavily armored in the front row, and the spearmen in the back row were all lightly armoured.

In their eyes, the many spearmen and sword and shield bearers who rushed forward were all heavily armoured!

They didn't have time to think about how the puppet Tang thief army could have such heavy armor, they only believed the fact that they were seeing it, these puppet Tang thief armies were all wearing heavy armor.

And these pseudo-Tang thieves in heavy armor, in their opinion, are even more terrifying than the musketeers and gunners of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

No wonder Song Zhiwen's tens of thousands of troops were defeated at the hands of these pseudo-Tang thief troops, and no wonder the three thousand forward troops in the Tonggu Acropolis were besieged in the Tonggu Acropolis.

These pseudo-Tang thief army has such a heavy armored army, the world is so big, you can't go there!

Of course, there will also be people who look at the 'heavy armor' troops of this pseudo-Tang thief army with a rational eye.

Thousands of people in heavy armor? Just kidding, a quarter or even a fifth of them are wearing heavy armor, and these pseudo-Tang thief troops in front of them will definitely not exceed five hundred soldiers wearing armor!

But even these five hundred heavily armored soldiers, when acting as the vanguard and the ordinary spearmen and sword and shield hands in the rear launched a charge, their momentum was still irresistible!

At this time, the archers who bent their bows and arrows in front of them dared to stay where they were and continue to shoot arrows, and they all hurriedly retreated, and the next battle was not something they could participate in, it was a battle of their own hand-to-hand soldiers.

But if you count the number of these Ming archers at this time, then you will find that it is at least a quarter less than before the war.

It is not an exaggeration to say that the retreat is a collapse!

After seeing the enemy's archers retreating, the front-line generals of the Datang New Army in the rear, especially the battalion commanders who actually commanded the operation, issued the same order: each musket team adopts progressive shooting, and catches up with the pace of the spear, sword and shield phalanx while firing!

Behind this order, it means that at the end of the day, the musketeers will launch a bayonet charge and participate in hand-to-hand combat with spearmen, sword and shield bearers!

And the bayonet charge is the best way for the musketeers of the Datang New Army to fight!

In all the battles, the musketeers of the Datang New Army actually relied on bayonet charges to win in the end, and there are actually very, very few examples of victory by relying purely on musket shooting.

The two infantry battalions of the First Infantry Corps of the front line of the Datang New Army, all of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, and the Sixth Infantry Battalion of the Second Infantry Regiment launched a counterattack at almost the same time.

At the same time, the 5th Infantry Battalion also launched a bayonet counter-charge against Qiu Yu's department!

For a while, the two sides on the entire front are about to enter the bloodiest and most brutal stage of hand-to-hand combat!

And at this time, the cavalry of the Ming army finally moved!

More than 1,500 cavalry of the Ming army trotted around the left flank from the rear, and it seemed that the direction was towards the left flank of the Datang New Army, that is, the first infantry battalion of the First Infantry Battalion of the First Infantry Corps!

Seeing this scene, Hao Bonian personally ordered the artillery team of his subordinate battalion to stop firing the artillery, and then turned the muzzle of the cannon, loaded, and prepared to deal with the Ming cavalry.

Xie Ziwei of the artillery battalion also ordered to stop firing to support the infantry on the front line, but shouted for the artillerymen to quickly turn the muzzle of the guns and launch an artillery attack on the Ming cavalry that was trotting.

At the same time, Li Xuan, who was sitting in the rear of the Chinese army, also raised the gold-plated dragon pattern long sword in his hand, and at the same time said lightly: "The personal guard battalion and the cavalry battalion are ready to meet the enemy!" ”