Chapter 274: Bloody Battle—Dead Silence River Beach
Just when the raft of the Ming army gradually approached the shore, many units of the new army of the Tang Dynasty were already ready, waiting for the Ming army to give intensive killing and wounding after coming ashore.
The spearmen had already set their spears on the breastwork, ready to stop any Ming soldiers who dared to approach.
Even many archers stopped shooting in order to conserve their stamina and wait for intensive rapid fire.
The sword and shield soldiers led by Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu stood behind the musketeers and spearmen, and their role in this defensive battle was not to impact the enemy's array, but to plug the gap, if a certain section of the chest wall was broken through by the Ming army, they had to go up as soon as possible and drive the Ming army out through hand-to-hand combat.
Only Xie Ziwei's artillerymen and the musketeers of each team were still maintaining the rhythm.
They still kept shooting at a fixed frequency, killing and wounding as many enemy soldiers as possible, and this kind of killing would form a peak after the Ming army landed on the shore.
When the Ming army was on the river, their rafts were not densely packed in rows, and each raft had a thick shield at the front, which made the musket strike effect at medium and long distances not obvious enough.
But after they came ashore, if they wanted to make a breakthrough and tear through the defense line of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, they had to charge in the densest formation.
And when the enemy's formation is dense, it means that the hit rate of the musketeers can be greatly improved.
At a distance of 30 meters, a round of guns came through, and I dare not say that there were no missed shots, but the 50 percent hit rate was still achievable.
And the key point is that at this distance, even if the Ming army has a heavy shield as a means of protection, it will not play a role.
When the Ming army rushed to a distance of thirty meters, there was nothing in their hands that could stop the bullets fired by the musketeers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
What happens when the hit rate is greatly improved, and when the Ming army has no effective means of defense?
This will be the case of the new army of the Tang Dynasty defeating the Ming army in the past!
After a round of guns, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, and after a few more rounds of guns, the Ming army collapsed, even if the Ming army did not collapse and rushed bravely, but it could not resist the bayonets of the spearmen and musketeers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
The closer the Ming army gets, the closer they are to death!
However, these are the ideal situations that Li Xuan envisioned, and he didn't know if it would evolve like this, let alone the Ming army on the other side.
Therefore, the Ming army still fought according to their own plan, and after those rafts braved the fire and landed on the shore, the Ming soldiers on the rafts were driven down the raft and waded ashore.
First one, then three, then five, then twenty, fifty.
Almost in less than half a minute, dozens of rafts docked one after another, and the Ming soldiers on it jumped directly off the raft and staggered onto the river beach.
The leaders of the Ming army in armor waved their waist knives and shouted, trying to organize the Ming soldiers who had already landed on the shore and then attack.
One of the deputy Qianhu chiefs was extremely strong, and a ring-headed knife in his hand was so big that it was terrifying, and he shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Quick, give Lao Tzu a quick formation, and then kill it!" ”
"As long as I ......" But before he finished speaking, a puff of white smoke rose from the chest wall of the Datang New Army opposite, and a crisp popping sound sounded on the river beach, and at the same time, he was directly planted.
Looking closely, half of his head was gone, and red and white things flowed out of half of his head, so that a Ming soldier next to him couldn't help but vomit when he saw it.
Along with the fall of this deputy Qianhu, there were dozens of other Ming soldiers!
As soon as the Ming army landed, the muzzles of the musket teams of the Datang New Army were already aimed at them, and before they could form a formation, the officers of the musket teams had already ordered to shoot.
Gunsmoke and bullets, as if this area is only 30 meters of the main theme of the river beach!
The dozens of Ming soldiers who fell were like a stone thrown into the calm river, which made the hearts of these Ming soldiers who landed in the first wave of fear.
When they were still crossing the river before, although they could also see the puppet Tang thief musketeers on the other side of the river shooting, to be honest, the casualties suffered by the Ming army at that time were limited.
But when they came ashore, they found that the muskets of the pseudo-Tang thief army were much sharper than they thought!
In just one volley, the first wave of Ming troops who landed on the shore were at least fifty or sixty killed or wounded!
If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you'll never know how amazing it can be when fifty or sixty people are shot at the same time.
So much so that later, when the archers of the Datang New Army began to fire intensively and rapidly, countless arrows fell from the sky, bringing greater casualties to these Ming troops, they were still in the shock of the round of Datang New Army's platoon of guns just now.
But this kind of shock, just for the parties, the first wave of Ming soldiers who landed on the shore was quite a lot, although they were put into the dozens, but some of the Ming soldiers had already taken advantage of the gap in the firepower of the new army of the Tang Dynasty to rush up, and some of the archers of the Ming army also began to bend their bows and shoot arrows at the new army of the Tang Dynasty behind the breastwork.
The soldiers of the Ming army who rushed up marched on the soft river beach, and their speed was not fast at all, and some people fell down one after another on the way, and when the rest of the people rushed to the front of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, they found that in front of them was a breastwork wall that was more than two meters high, and even more than their height.
Some of them angrily slashed the breastwall with the long knives in their hands, some stabbed upwards with the spears in their hands, and some even wanted to rush up and climb over the breastwork directly.
But their efforts were all in vain, and it didn't take long for them to become corpses under the continuous stabbing of the dense spears of the spearmen of the Tang New Army.
However, those archers of the Ming army played a greater role, although most of the arrows they shot were blocked by the breastwork, but the Tang New Army could not completely hide behind the breastwork when fighting, and always had to expose part of their bodies, especially the ones who fought themselves.
After all, they did not rely on the city wall, but only a temporary section of breast wall fortifications, and it was impossible to provide them with all-round protection.
In this way, the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to suffer casualties one after another!
As the soldiers of the Datang New Army fell, but the Ming army continued to land on the shore, Xie Ziwei on the fort was also anxious, urging the artillery-making craftsmen who temporarily acted as gunners in the rear: "Quick, aim!" ”
After the craftsmen took aim, Xie Ziwei did not delay for a second, and directly ordered the cannon to fire!
Rumble! As another loud bang sounded on the river beach position, Xie Ziwei's artillery once again spewed out countless iron nails and iron beads, a distance of only tens of meters, and the other party was densely crowded on the river beach, so that the power of this artillery shot was brought into full play.
After a cannon, the front row of the Ming army fell in unison, and at least twenty or thirty meters fell under this cannon.
As for the arrows shot by the archers, they continue to fall from the sky, and the archers of the Datang New Army no longer care about their physical strength, they use the fastest speed to pump up the arrows inserted in the ground, and then shoot out, they don't even need to aim, they just need to shoot at the river beach and arrows in front.
Because the river beach is densely packed with Ming troops, not to mention crowded, but the density is already so large that you can shoot arrows with your eyes closed to the point that you can shoot to the enemy.
The dense Ming army also means that most of the Ming army has already landed on the river beach, and then they will advance towards the breastwork.
At that time, it will be the time when the battle between the two sides is the most intense!
Although Li Xuan on the mountain had a relaxed look on his face at this time, he didn't dare to blink his eyes and kept staring at the battlefield
He knew very well that the next few minutes were going to decide the life and death of both sides, either the Ming army broke through their own defense line, or their own side inflicted a large number of casualties on the Ming army, forcing the Ming army to completely collapse in front of the battle, and the victory or defeat would be completely separated in a certain moment in the next few minutes.
It's just that it's come to such a critical moment, why hasn't Huang Xueren used the grenade yet?
Didn't he know that he had used up all the gunpowder in his stock for these grenades, and didn't he know how effective these more than 100 grenades could be after they exploded in the dense crowd of the Ming army?
Didn't he know that in the Jiasan blocking plan, these more than 100 grenades had an irreplaceable role?
Huang Xueren, what is he doing?
It's too late to use grenades anymore, is he going to delay military aircraft?
Li Xuan frowned slightly and then said to the herald: "Ask the 1st Infantry Battalion, why haven't you implemented the Jia3 plan yet!" ”
At the same time, Huang Xueren was now excited, and he didn't even bother to wipe the blood of his own soldiers standing on his face.
The herald beside him was already anxious to remind him: "Your Majesty asks, why hasn't the Jiasan plan been implemented yet!" ”
Huang Xueren glanced back at the top of the mountain at this time, where his emperor, the master of the Tang Dynasty, was standing: Li Xuan!
Immediately, he said: "Reply to Your Majesty, the time has not yet come, please postpone the implementation!" ”
After seeing Huang Xueren's reply, Li Xuan's eyebrows furrowed even tighter, but Zeng Ziwen on the side was a little anxious: "Your Majesty, it's too late if you don't need it anymore, now that the Ming army has all landed on the shore, they have begun to charge in formation!" ”
Li Xuan looked towards Huang Xueren, who was standing behind the breastwork with dozens of grenadiers, but they didn't make any bomb throwing.
Li Xuan took a deep breath: "Wait! ”
He vaguely guessed what Huang Xueren wanted to do, and since Huang Xueren, the commander who was on the front line, felt that the time had not come, then he did not plan to continue to meddle.
After all, no matter what, he was watching the battle from a rear of several hundred meters, and although he could see the overall situation, it was still difficult to detect the details on some of the battlefields. What's more, if he can't stop the Ming army this time, he, Li Xuan, will pat his ass and flee directly with the guards.
And he, Huang Xueren, is 100% going to die in the hands of the Ming army!
And does Huang Xueren want to die? Li Xuan doesn't think so!
Li Xuan's 'waiting' didn't last long, just a minute later, when the Ming army had already launched a charge from the beach, rushing from thirty meters to twenty meters, Huang Xueren drew his knife and raised it and shouted: "Ignite!" ”
In an instant, more than forty grenadiers ignited the grenades in their hands, and the flotine rope flashed with a strange and dangerous light.
Then Huang Xueren slashed the waist knife in his hand, and shouted at the same time: "Drop the bomb!" ”
In an instant, more than forty black dots flew out of the breastwork wall and landed in the dense crowd of Ming troops twenty meters away.
Immediately after, a rumbling sound sounded in the array of the Ming army!
In an instant, with a loud rumbling sound, the whole river beach seemed to be still, there was no shouting, no moaning, only dead silence!