Although only three five-pound guns were fired, the loud noise of the guns was still earth-shattering, and enough to spread across this small plain, which was only a few kilometers wide.

This small plain, which is only a few kilometers wide and has a few low hills tens of meters high, can be regarded as the place where the two sides coincidentally chose to fight.

Because this place is not far from the city of Chenzhou, and the terrain is relatively open, at the same time, the previous provisional Fourth Regiment was stationed in a village not far behind this small plain.

If the defenders of Chenzhou want to take the initiative to attack and attack the supply line of the First Infantry Division or even surround the First Infantry Division from the rear, they must first defeat the Provisional Fourth Regiment, otherwise, even if they can bypass it, but the Provisional Fourth Regiment will be able to catch up, and then continue to attack the Ming army attacking from the Chenzhou side, like a ferocious wolf constantly biting the Ming army.

It may not be possible to completely annihilate the Ming army at one time, but the broken troops of the Ming army will definitely be eaten in a steady stream, unless they stop to meet the battle, but in this way, the time is too rushed, and they are equivalent to being entangled, unable to go to cut off the supply line of the 1st Infantry Division.

In this way, it is better to simply defeat the provisional fourth regiment at the beginning of the city, taking advantage of the best state in the next few days.

And this kind of situation is also what the Provisional Fourth Regiment is happy to encounter, after all, this small plain and even the battlefield they have predetermined and chosen in advance are very familiar with the surrounding terrain.

The deployment of troops is much easier, and there is no need to worry about being ambushed or something.

The fact that both sides chose this place to fight is also an important symbol of the self-confidence of both sides.

The total number of Ming troops on the opposite side is as high as more than 13,000 people, even if they are all guards, but in their opinion, the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side is only more than 3,000 people, and they have more than four times the strength of their own side, even if they bite hard, they can gnaw away these puppet Tang thief army.

And if even the partial division of the puppet Tang thief army with more than 3,000 people in front of him and no firearms can be taken, how can he talk about surround the main force of the puppet Tang thief army, Hao Bonian's department!

That's the main force of more than 10,000 people, and the combat effectiveness is off the charts, if the difference in combat effectiveness is too big, I'm afraid that even if you send 50,000 or 60,000 people to besiege it, I'm afraid you won't be able to beat it!

Therefore, the Chenzhou Ming Army, which has a full four-fold advantage in strength, fearlessly chose to take the initiative!

As for the provisional formation of the Fourth Regiment, it is indeed the same as what the Ming army observed, there are not many firearms, and its combat effectiveness cannot match the box strength of the main force

There are only 200 musketeers in the whole regiment, which are organized into two musket teams, and there are about 100 grenadiers in a team, so the strength of this musket is naturally not too much, but they have strengthened the bow and arrow firepower to supplement, so the number of archers in the provisional army is also relatively large.

There were more than 600 archers in a whole provisional regiment.

Such a provisional regiment is actually a mixed regiment between the musket regiment and the spear regiment, and is also equipped with some auxiliary units, and has independent combat capabilities.

Of course, the combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of a regular mixed regiment.

There are three musket battalions in regular mixed regiments, in addition to all kinds of subsidiary troops, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of pure musket regiments, but then again, if it is a musket regiment, there is basically no possibility of fighting alone, and they are generally under the leadership of the division headquarters, serving as division-level combat missions, and there will be other musket regiments, spear regiments and troops directly under the division headquarters to cooperate in the operation.

Even if they are sent out to fight alone, they can still get the cooperation of the troops directly under the division headquarters, and the first step corps is a typical example, with the cooperation of a baggage battalion, a cavalry battalion, two artillery teams and other forces directly under the division headquarters, so that a regimental-level battle group formed is stronger than a simple mixed regiment.

However, even in the Tang Army system, the weakest combat effectiveness of a regiment-level battle group troops, the provisional regiment still has the ability to fight independently, and the combat effectiveness is not comparable to the previous kind of garrison army, the soldiers of the fourth regiment, whether it is musketeers or spearmen, etc., are strictly trained soldiers, and many of them are soldiers with rich combat experience.

In addition to the different equipment, purely in terms of the quality of the soldiers, in fact, the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment are not much worse than those of the other infantry divisions, except that they are a little worse than the elite veterans in the First Infantry Division.

The elite soldiers, plus even if the cold weapon troops occupy the majority, but the quality of their cold weapons is far better than the Ming army on the other side, and the equipment rate of the armor is much more than that of the Ming army.

The total number of armored soldiers of the Wan Ming Army on the opposite side is actually about the same as the armored soldiers of the provisional fourth regiment with only more than 3,000 people!

And this is also where the courage of them dares to intercept more than 10,000 Ming troops with a force of more than 3,000 people!

The three guns of the artillery team continued to fire, although the number of artillery was small, but after each shell was fired, it was basically able to inflict heavy casualties on the ranks of the Ming army.

This is not because of how powerful the gunners of the Tang army are, but because the number of Ming troops on the opposite side is too much, and the queue is very close.

Of course, whether they can hit the target they are aiming at: the artillery unit of the Ming army, that is another matter.

The continuous artillery bombardment, although the casualties caused to the Ming army were not many at the beginning, but after the continuation, the casualties of the Ming army continued to increase, the formation of the Ming army is a typical thick queue in the cold weapon troops, and the soldiers in each phalanx almost have more than a dozen rows in front and back, and this makes them suffer extraordinarily large casualties when they bear the shelling!

In this era, the best way to reduce the casualties of solid shelling is to increase the width and reduce the depth, and this is why the modern army has changed from more than ten columns to six columns, and then to three columns.

Because of the thick depth, often the enemy came down with a burst of heavy shelling, and the entire phalanx had to collapse.

Limited by the small number of artillery, the artillery of the Fourth Artillery Corps was naturally unable to defeat the phalanx of the Ming army, but it still caused a lot of casualties to them, and in addition, it also dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Ming army.

Hundreds of meters away, they were already under constant shelling, and almost every shell took away as few or dozens of dead and wounded.

Even if these casualties are nothing to a huge team of more than 10,000 people, this kind of situation where they can't fight back just by being beaten is still unbearable for the soldiers.

"Strictly order all departments to continue to advance, rest assured, there are only three artillery pieces of the Tang thief, and if they die, hundreds of people will be killed and injured, all of them will be stabilized by the official, and those who retreat will be beheaded immediately!" In the Ming army formation, a senior military general shouted loudly!

The other generals of the Ming army also saw that although the shelling sound of the puppet Tang thief army sounded loud, the number was too small, and it could not actually bring much actual losses to their own side, so they all stabilized the troops and urged the soldiers to speed up.

Seeing that the Ming army was still advancing while suffering from the shelling, and it had also increased its speed, Gu Shizhong showed a contemptuous smile on the corner of his mouth, the tactics and even the formation and even the equipment of these Ming army's guards were the same as before, they had been fighting with their own Tang Dynasty division for so long, and they had not grown at all, and in the face of their own pre-constructed positions and artillery fire, they still advanced in the same old formation, and then tried to rush over to fight hand-to-hand combat!

At the beginning, when the Tang Dynasty Wangshi fought the guards in Guizhou, the Ming army fought like this, and later went south to Liangguang, and the Ming army still fought like this, and there was no novelty at all.

And against such a Ming army, the Tang Army is already experienced, and at a long distance it will first use the solid bullets of field artillery, and at medium distances it will be replaced with scattered bullets, and the camp artillery will also fire at a distance of one hundred and fifty meters!

Then they will shoot with muskets, bows and arrows at a distance of 100 meters!

After thirty meters, the final salvo is often fired, after which grenades are thrown, and then it is time to launch a spear and bayonet charge!

By that time, basically the enemy army has been half crippled, the morale has collapsed, and a big victory is in hand!

However, there are not many troops in his own country today, so Gu Shizhong has added some new routines to some old routines, such as planting the arsenal of the Ministry of Industry in front of him to produce them in large quantities and equip them with mines belonging to various troops!

Affected by the excellent effect of grenades in actual combat, the Tang Army is now very interested in all weapons that can explode, and this grenade that can be fired with artillery will naturally not be able to be made for a while.

But it's still okay to follow the example of a grenade and get a mine!

Of course, these mines are not tactile fuses, but still use old flots!

These mines are usually used in defensive operations, planted in a predetermined location and camouflaged, and then ignited with a fuse line more than 100 meters long, because these mines are more troublesome to lay and ignite, so the size and weight of the mines are relatively large, and strive to load more gunpowder so that one mine can reimburse a group of enemy troops.

And after seeing the enemy troops entering a distance of 300 meters with artillery fire, Gu Shizhong said: "What are you waiting for, light the fire and blow them up into the sky!" ”

With Gu Shizhong's order, the soldiers who were originally hidden outside quickly lit the fuse rope, and the fuse rope spread a distance of hundreds of meters before they came to the feet of the Ming army, and many Ming soldiers could still see that the fuse rope that emitted fire was approaching quickly, but they didn't know what it was for a while.

But their instincts tell them that this thing is not a good thing!

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