Everything on the battlefield naturally will not be carried out according to Li Chunjing's plan, Li Chunjing wants to take advantage of the range advantage of the musket to continue to strike at the Ming army that is still in formation, in order to kill and injure the Ming army and suppress their morale.

This tactic has obviously achieved certain results, after the Ming army was subjected to many rounds of volley shooting, although because of the distance, the casualties suffered by each round of shooting were not large, but they were beaten all the time, and the cumulative casualties were still not small.

After several rounds of guns, dozens of people had fallen in the Ming army's array, and the screams continued to sound in the Ming army's array.

But obviously, it is impossible for these Ming troops to endure passive beatings all the time, when the leading Qianhu shouted a few words, soon a deputy Qianhu ran out, and it didn't take long for a group of archers to rush out of the array of Ming sabers, shields, and spearmen in front.

As soon as he saw these archers, Li Chunjing knew that they were trying to fight back, but limited to the effective range and power of the bows and arrows, as well as the quality of the archers of the Ming army, they had to get closer, at least at least eighty meters away, in order to be able to cause effective damage to the puppet Tang thief army.

And the Ming army did exactly that, and about a hundred of their archers tried to rush up and shoot at close range.

However, at this time, the officer of the 2nd Mixed Battalion Musket Team raised his hand, and the shooting of the musketeer team immediately stopped, and at the same time the officer shouted: "Volley ready!" ”

Suddenly, the hundred musketeers of the musketeer team suddenly changed their formation, the first row of soldiers knelt, the second row of soldiers bent down, and the third row of soldiers stood, thus forming a standard three-row salvo formation.

To be honest, this three-row salvo formation is actually not suitable for arquebuses, because the arquebus using arquebuses is in battle, and there is a lit arquebus on this arquebus, in order to avoid the appearance of the arquebus holding the arquebus in the hand of another soldier when loading ammunition is close to him, and then there is an oolong that ignites the gunpowder, so the musketeers using the arquebus need to keep a certain distance when fighting.

Therefore, in the arquebus era, when the musketeers fought in line, in order to maintain the density of firepower, they often used a formation of six platoons.

If you use a flintlock pistol, you can stand shoulder to shoulder and load, which can shorten the distance between soldiers, and the number of soldiers in each row can be doubled on the same 100-meter line!

Therefore, while maintaining the same density of firepower, musketeers with flintlock muskets will use three-row formations, or even two-row formations.

Of course, if you don't care about the density of firepower, you can use a three-row formation with an arquebus, and play the so-called three-stage shooting, and whether you will be beaten by the enemy depends on who your opponent is.

However, this problem only occurs during the loading process, and after the reloading, the arquebus will be re-clamped to the fire door, so there is no need to worry about the soldier holding the arquebus in his hand and igniting the gunpowder of another soldier.

Once reloaded, you can have the soldiers in the back row come forward to fill the air attack, allowing a whole squad of six platoons of soldiers to fire at the same time.

However, after firing, it is impossible to continue reloading, and at this time either a bayonet charge is launched, or the soldiers in the back three rows retreat to reload.

And in most cases, after completing the three rows of salvos, the Datang New Army directly launched a bayonet charge!

The Datang New Army has always emphasized salvo fire and bayonet charge, and the tactics of multi-row rotation before this are actually more of an appetizer, and most of the battles in which the musketeers of the Datang New Army participate are to use the last close-range salvo to crush the enemy and annihilate the enemy with bayonet charges.

And this time, no less!

When the archers on the opposite side rushed up, Li Chunjing decisively and quickly ordered the muskets to list the salvo formation!

He couldn't let these archers rush up to a distance of seventy or eighty meters or even closer, and he had to take advantage of the range and power of the muskets to completely crush these archers in one fell swoop!

How to fight their big collapse, it's very simple, as long as this round of salvo causes enough damage, it will be difficult for the archers on the opposite side not to collapse!

At the same time, he had already ordered the other troops in the 2nd Mixed Battalion to start the operation as well!

About twenty meters of archers also began to shoot arrows, providing long-range fire support to the musketeers.

But it's the spearmen who are more important!

They're already moving forward from the middle, yes, that's right, they're on the offensive!

The front row of these spearmen is full of heavily armored spearmen in armor!

They relied on the armor to defend them, and they were not afraid of the arrows at all!

Moreover, these front-row armored spearmen will also create the illusion that their entire squad of spearmen are heavily armored spearmen, and more than a hundred heavy spearmen, to be honest, can easily sweep the same number, or even several times the number of light infantry.

Although the musketeers of the puppet Tang thief army sounded very sharp, and they did cause a lot of damage to the Ming army just now, these heavily armed spearmen of the puppet Tang thief army in front of them looked even more terrifying.

The archers had only been aiming to return fire at the musketeers, but when they spotted a group of heavily armored spearmen charging towards them, they were still standing.

Many people are starting to shoot their bows and arrows at these spearmen!

At this time, the generals of the Ming army obviously didn't care whether they had formed a formation or not, and soon urged the army to step forward and prepare for battle.

However, at this time, the salvo of the 1st Musketeers of the 2nd Mixed Battalion was finally fired!

It was a far more dense burst of gunfire than the multiple rows of rounds in front of it, a salvo of hundreds of muskets and a volley of twenty muskets, which was a very different concept.

Coupled with the fact that the distance between the two sides has been shortened from the previous 100 meters to about 70 meters, the hit rate of this round of salvos is quite impressive.

Seeing that his comrades-in-arms fell down in unison, and the heavily armed spearmen of the pseudo-Tang thief army were almost rushing up, these archers dared to stay in place and continue to shoot arrows, and they all abandoned their bows and arrows.

Don't think that archers throwing their bows and arrows in the face of an enemy charge are a crashing rhythm, but it's not, it's a normal tactical choice.

Ancient archers fought in the face of the enemy's charge, often only three shots at the enemy, and when they were thirty paces away, they would abandon their bows and arrows and replace them with swords or other melee weapons to prepare for battle, and then incarnate as light infantry and continue to fight the enemy in close combat.

Well, of course, this is a theoretical situation, and those who can do this are usually the elite of the ancient army, and these Ming archers can still line up to meet the enemy in the face of the onslaught of hoplites?

Are you kidding?

They threw down their bows and arrows, turned around and ran!