If you look closely at the battle between the two sides above and below the city wall, you will find that although there are people on both sides who fall and scream, it is clear that the Ming army has more people who have fallen!

Reason, easy!

The new army of the Tang Dynasty is condescending, and it also has a city wall as protection!

And the Ming army under the city has no cover at all, and the only thing that can be used as cover is the body of the comrade-in-arms, and at the same time he prayed in his heart: Hit the comrades in front of me, don't come to fight me.

In addition to the geographical advantages, there is also a very important point that most of the spearmen fighting in the front row of the Datang New Army are heavily armored spearmen in armor.

The equipment can be said to be excellent, and the spearmen of the Ming army who fought with them were all ordinary guards, they did not have heavy armor, as a cold weapon unit, the armor rate of the Ming army was not low, but most of their armor was in the middle and low-level officers and officers' personal soldiers, as for ordinary soldiers, don't expect to be able to wear armor worth dozens of taels of silver.

However, most of the armor in the new army of the Tang Dynasty was used intensively, except for a small number of heavily armored sword and shield soldiers, most of the armor was assigned to the heavy armor spearmen, and because of the capture of many armors of the Ming army, although the armor was still in short supply, it was more or less enough.

Ordinary unarmored spearmen of the Ming army fought against the spearmen of the new army of the Tang Dynasty who were condescending and wearing heavy armor, and it would be hellish if they could get the benefits.

But it's a pity that there aren't many heavily armored spearmen in the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

Now the spearmen in the new army of the Tang Dynasty are actually divided into two kinds, one is the heavy-armored spearmen located in the first row of the array, they are fully armored and holding spears, their task is very simple, when defending the battle, holding spears to block the enemy's charge, the number of these heavy-armored spearmen will not be very large, a spear team is subordinate to six platoons, only one row is heavy-armored spearmen, and the rest are light-armored spearmen.

Light-armored spearmen, who wear leather armor or simply cotton armor, have some defense against long-range bows and arrows, but against stabbing weapons, such as enemy spears, then the defense is quite low.

However, there is no way to have low defense, because the armor on the heavily armored spearmen is too expensive, and the cost of a piece of armor alone costs twenty or thirty taels of silver, Li Xuan can't let the whole army of spearmen use armor at all, and can only give the most dangerous and elite spearmen in the front row with heavy armor, and most of the spearmen are light armor.

These spearmen are also equipped with a waist knife, which is used to fight when spears cannot be used.

Therefore, to a certain extent, in fact, the spearmen of the Datang New Army can incarnate into sword and shield hands in minutes, and the heavy armor spearmen can incarnate into heavy armor sword and shield hands when they put down their spears. When a lightly armored spearman puts down his spear, he can transform into a light-armored sword and shield bearer.

Of course, even if they become sword and shield bearers temporarily, the combat effectiveness of these spearmen cannot be compared with professional sword and shield fighters, because the daily training focus of the two is different, and sword and shield fighters still pay more attention to the personal ability of soldiers, especially combat ability.

As for the spearmen, they are more focused on collective action, and it is only through uniform movements that they can maintain a dense phalanx of spears.

It can only be used as a spearman for emergencies and as a sword and shield hand.

And now, many of the spearmen of the new army of the Tang Dynasty at the head of the city have become sword and shield players, because some of the Ming troops rushed to the city.

Naturally, the attacking Ming army could not only have spearmen and artillerymen, but in fact, more sword and shield soldiers were the main force, most of them were unarmoured, only holding an iron knife, and cannon fodder without even a shield.

But as a standard Ming army guard force, they naturally have elite!

That is a force composed of middle and low-level officers, as well as the generals' personal soldiers and family members, and the number of these people will not be very large, even if it is a Ming army of more than 2,000 people, there are only about 100 people.

And the combat effectiveness of these 100 or so people is, to put it mildly, more than the other 2,000 people.

These Ming soldiers who can rush to the head of the city in the first time are naturally all heavy-armored sword and shield bearers, and they should be the personal soldiers of the Ming generals, family members and the like, such as those ordinary guards who are still crowded outside the city wall, which can be said to be completely different.

When they rushed over, the spearmen who were resisting in front of them also threw down their spears at the first time, and then picked up their shields and swords to meet them.

Otherwise, let these elite heavy armor swords and shields of the Ming army who rushed to the head of the city tear through the defense line and establish a solid position at the head of the city, then the consequences are unimaginable.

Therefore, although their own troops also have specialized heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, many heavy armored spearmen also threw down their spears at the first time, and then met the enemy with shields and waist swords.

On the tower of the city gate, Wang Chaofeng, the commander of the Fifth Infantry Battalion, who had been quietly observing the development of the battle, did not look panicked because the enemy army had rushed to the city.

In fact, although a small number of people in the Ming army have rushed to the city, it does not have much impact on the huge battlefield!

The current development of the battle situation is still under his control!

As an officer of the Imperial Academy from the Guards, Wang Chaofeng was promoted from captain to battalion commander last month, although the speed of promotion cannot be compared with Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing, and Fang Xitong, but it is not slow.

Now there are only a dozen regular infantry battalions in the Datang New Army Battalion, and as the battalion commander of these dozen regular infantry battalions, Wang Chaofeng can be said to have surpassed a large group of colleagues and become one of the senior officers in the Datang New Army.

In this way, he naturally has the ability, otherwise he would not have been promoted to battalion commander by Li Xuan.

He patrolled the entire battlefield, and after half a moment said to the herald behind him: "Grenade ready!" ”

Before reinforcing the Brass Guard, he had brought about fifty grenades from the regimental headquarters to strengthen the melee firepower, although his fifth infantry battalion did not have a regular grenadier unit, but the grenades could be thrown out after ignition, and it was not necessary to say that they had to be grenadiers to use them.

Of course, it is certain that ordinary soldiers use grenades and do not throw them far enough, and they are prone to accidents.

In the defensive operations in the previous few days, he had endured not using this batch of grenades, because the first few attacks of the Ming army were tentative attacks, although they also approached the city wall several times and climbed to the top of the city, but the follow-up attacks of the Ming army were weak and were soon repulsed.

But now, Wang Chaofeng has already seen that the Ming army has obviously not left any hands, but launched a general attack.

More than 2,000 Ming troops attacked, if this is not done well, it is really possible for them to break through the Tonggu Acropolis.

Therefore, he also decided not to keep his hand anymore.

These fifty grenades were a great gift he prepared for the Ming army outside the city!

After Wang Chaofeng's order was passed down, most of the musketeers in the city picked up grenades and prepared to light them and throw them down.

At the same time, on a small dirt slope outside the city, Qiu Yu, the chief general of the Ming army, who was in command of the servant, also smiled at the haze of the previous few days!

The fight was really embarrassing a few days ago, but after getting follow-up reinforcements today, he just decided that he couldn't wait any longer and wanted to fight a general attack.

The army in the rear is already about to enter the Liping Mansion, and as the forward general, he was blocked by this small copper drum guard in front of him for three days, and the adults above were already very dissatisfied with themselves, and today they arrived with reinforcements with a letter from his top boss, all commanding the envoys.

Although the letter did not explicitly express his dissatisfaction, he also expressed concern about his delay in conquering the Bronze Drum Guard, and even vaguely expressed a meaning, that is, if Qiu Yu could not take the Bronze Drum Guard, then wait for two more days, and he would come in person and lead the army to conquer the Bronze Drum Guard.

As a general, but also as an official, Qiu Yu knew that he couldn't wait any longer, and if he waited any longer, he was afraid that the official hat would not be guaranteed.

That's why he launched a general attack on the day the reinforcements arrived, and he didn't believe it, he had more than 2,000 people, and there were more than 100 elites, several bowl-mouth cannons, and the remaining 2,000 people were also regular troops, not young and strong people who were temporarily brought in.

This can't defeat hundreds of pseudo-Tang thief army?

How can it be?

When pigs fly!

"Pass the order, let the sons and daughters work harder, and the official will spend the night in the bronze drum guard tonight!" As he spoke, he waved his hand, looking high-spirited, which made people think of Su Jiakang back then, when he was chasing the pseudo-Tang prince Li Xuan, he was also so awesome.

With Qiu Yu's order, and the generals of the Ming army commanding the front line also issued slogans or promises or the like, what to behead the first-level reward of ten taels of silver, behead the pseudo-Tang small leader first-level official promotion to one level, behead a member of the pseudo-Tang big leader, and the official promotion to the third level and so on.

As for the Ming army in the attack, it was as if it had been beaten, and its morale had risen a lot, at first there were only two or three hundred people rushing to the bottom of the city, but now, at least five or six hundred people rushed under the city wall.

And watching more and more Ming troops rushing under the city wall, especially in some of the dense places where the Ming army is dense, it is even more crowded, at this time, even the soldiers of the Datang New Army can hit people with their eyes closed even though they shoot down.

And at this time, dozens of musketeers also lit the grenades in their hands!

The musketeers of these temporary part-time grenadiers played this grenade for the first time, and many of them were quite nervous, because they all knew that what they were holding in their hands was a real bomb, and if they didn't throw it out in time, or if it simply had an accident because of quality problems, and exploded directly in their hands, not only would their bones be gone, but even their comrades around them would have to be killed and injured.

Although the grenades of the Datang New Army were filled with black powder, the explosive power of black powder was incomparable with various explosives in later generations, but after increasing the weight, the lethality was still good.

After all, before the late 19th century, the shells of the armies of various countries were filled with black powder.

Picric acid and TNT shells were not widespread until the late nineteenth century or even the early twentieth century.

So, don't underestimate the explosive power of black powder, if the amount is enough, the power of the explosion is just right.

With the officer's order, dozens of musketeers also threw out the grenades at the same time, although the distance was not far, but there was no need to throw too far, in fact, they just threw it directly under the city, the Ming army under the city wall was dense, and there were a lot of people.

After dozens of black dots fell, at first these Ming troops didn't know what was going on, but in the next moment, a dense explosion sounded under the city wall.

When this dense explosion sounded, Qiu Yu's mouth in the distance was half open, and his expression was sluggish!

There is one word to describe this expression, which is called: jaw drop!