On the wilderness, thousands of people on both sides slowly approached, and the Datang New Army did not continue to advance because of the small number of troops, but also because the Ming army took the initiative to attack, but the whole army stopped, and then listed the standard field formation.

Hundreds of spearmen were in the middle of the army, and the tight formation was listed in six columns, while the spearmen in the front row and even the second row were all heavily armored spearmen wearing armor, and they would be the core of the defense and even the attack.

On the two wings of the spearmen, there were two teams of musketeers scattered in each!

These musketeers also arranged a formation as thick as six columns!

This formed a huge rectangular phalanx hundreds of meters long!

Behind this huge phalanx were other troops, including half a squad of about fifty grenadiers, dozens of sword and shield men, archers, and Hao Bonian himself.

The Ming army on the opposite side also listed a tight formation, and the Ming army, like the Datang New Army and even all the armies of this era, relied heavily on tight formations when fighting.

Whether it is in the era of cold weapons or in modern times, whether or not an army can operate in a tight and neat formation has always been the main criterion for judging whether a unit is qualified.

Because only a close formation can defend or attack, and once the formation collapses, it is often the criterion for defeat.

The solitary fighting of skirmishers, the fighting between small units, has never been the mainstream on the battlefield.

And a phalanx of about 600 people at the forefront of the Ming army was obviously very conspicuous, because the soldiers in the front row of these phalanxes were carrying a huge shield.

These shields were a man's height enough to cover the soldiers themselves with shields, as well as the soldiers behind them.

The shield-wielding soldiers lined up in front of them, forming a wall of shields that were cut into motion.

On either side, there are a number of wheelbarrows, also covered with large, thick shields, which are more defensive than the giant shields held by the giant shield soldiers.

And these two weapons are the sharp weapons used by the Ming army to fight against the new weapons of the Tang Dynasty, and they are also one of their main confidence in winning this battle.

Behind these shields and wagons were a neat row of bowl-mouth cannons carried by the soldiers, and behind the bowl-mouth cannons were a large number of heavily armored sword-and-shield and spearmen.

Further behind, there were at least two hundred archers.

It is a multi-class composite phalanx, with the Giant Shield and Shield Cart in the front row, followed by Artillery, Heavy Melee Units, and Archers.

Seeing this phalanx, even Hao Bonian couldn't help frowning.

However, what relieved him was that there was only one such phalanx, and the remaining phalanxes were all ordinary spearmen or sword and shield hands.

However, if you allow this phalanx to advance to your own array, the opponent will inflict a lot of damage on your own side by using bowl cannons and bows and arrows.

In this case, I am afraid that I will have to change my previous defensive strategy.

The musketeers and spearmen of the new army of the Tang Dynasty were never used for defense, but for attack!

Once the huge phalanx of 800 people attacked, it was enough to crush several times the enemy.

The speed of the Ming army's advance is not fast, it can even be called slow, but the other party's Datang New Army also has no idea of advancing, just waiting for the Ming army to arrive!

Seeing that the distance between the two sides had been shortened by a hundred meters, Hao Bonian still did not give the order for the musketeers to shoot!

Because it is useless to shoot, the Datang New Army has tested the shields of these puppet thieves with live ammunition before, and their defensive capabilities are not bad, and their own muskets from a hundred meters away cannot pose a threat to them at all.

Eighty meters old, Hao Bonian still didn't give an order!

He's still waiting!

Seventy meters is over, and Hao Bonian at this time finally ordered: "Aim!" ”

However, the Ming army continued to advance, and at this time, in fact, the archers on both sides had already begun to shoot arrows by throwing arrows.

The throwing bows and arrows began to cause casualties to the soldiers on both sides, but the number of archers on both sides was not too large, and the archers on both sides were not elite, the archers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty were not good, but the archers in the Ming army were only trained for three months, these archers shot at a distance of seventy meters, and they were still located in the rear of the two formations, and this distance had to be extended by more than ten or twenty meters, almost reaching a distance of eighty or ninety meters.

The accuracy and power of a bow and arrow at such a distance are quite poor!

Although there were casualties, they didn't cause confusion in the formations of both sides!

Sixty meters, at this time, Hao Bonian has already let the grenadiers out of the ranks!

The best way to deal with these Ming troops dressed in turtle shells is naturally to use grenadiers' grenades, those shields can block bullets, but absolutely cannot block grenades.

What's more, the enemy's shield, after entering a distance of more than fifty meters, could not even stop the bullets of the musket!

When the grenadiers came out, they raised their muskets along with the musketeers and waited for the final order to shoot!

The Ming army continued to advance, and it didn't take long for them to advance a few more meters, and after entering a distance of about fifty meters, the generals of the Ming army in the rear were already starting to get excited, at this distance, even if they added the distance of almost twenty meters separated by their own soldiers in front, their two hundred archers could be regarded as entering an effective range of about seventy meters, and at this time the archers could already exert their real power.

However, before they could be happy, they saw that the pseudo-Tang thieves on the opposite side shot in unison!

The familiar sound of gunfire appeared on the field, and at the same time as the white smoke rose, countless bullets began to hit the shields of the Ming army.

However, the shields they had high hopes for were made by bullets one by one, and then killed the shield-wielding soldiers behind the shields, and after these shield-wielding soldiers were hit, they naturally could not maintain their shields.

As a result, you can see that in front of the array of the Ming army, dozens of soldiers with shields fell almost at the same time, exposing the gunners behind the shields!

At this time, the generals of the Ming army in the rear also knew that the time for the real decisive battle had come, and they all gave crazy orders to let the troops in the rear rush forward.

More than 2,000 Ming troops launched a charge at the same time, and during the run, they didn't even care about the formation, which made people even have an illusion, as if this wilderness was full of Ming soldiers.

However, Hao Bonian ignored the Ming soldiers who rushed up in the rear, and he still only had the five or six hundred Ming army forward phalanx in front of him.

The musketeers continued to shoot, and the archers in the back row also kept shooting arrows, so that the soldiers of the Ming army continued to fall, and the Ming army continued to advance while suffering casualties, and the Ming archers were also constantly shooting arrows, and brought casualties to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

The heavily armored spearmen in the front row were fine, they were protected by armor, and the bows and arrows could not hurt them, but the musketeers and the spearmen in the rear began to suffer heavy casualties.

After seeing that his soldiers had suffered a lot of casualties, Hao Bonian decisively ordered: "The whole army attacks!" ”

The rumbling drums sounded, and the spearmen of the Chinese army of the Datang New Army moved, holding spears in their hands, and continued to step forward with steady steps!

And the musketeers also fired the last volley after the Ming army rushed to a distance of about thirty meters, and then rushed out with the muskets that had already been loaded with bayonets!

However, it was not these musketeers or spearmen who were the first to strike, but a grenadier team of only fifty men, who even carried their muskets on their backs at this time, each with a grenade in their hands, and they were still in a complete formation, ignoring the fact that their comrades were constantly being shot by the bows and arrows of the Ming army.

The deputy officer who led the team held his waist knife high and shouted: "Ignition!" ”

This was followed by another shout: "Drop the bomb!" ”

In an instant, dozens of black grenades fell into the Ming army's array, not only making the only remaining shield soldiers and shield carts blown up, but even the artillerymen behind the shield who were preparing to load the ammunition and fire the bowl cannon were also killed and wounded.

Even most of the grenades landed not on the front row of the Ming army's shield soldiers, but near the artillery where the bowl guns in the rear were located.

As soon as this bomb was thrown, it was not one round, but several rounds in a row, and when the grenadiers of the Datang New Army were fighting, in addition to the standard guns and ammunition, they carried a total of four grenades.

This means that they are able to throw four grenades in a short period of time!

Dozens of people threw together, which meant that one or two hundred grenades would fall into the phalanx of the Ming army and explode in just ten or twenty seconds.

Even if these grenades are only filled with black powder, the power of the explosion is also not to be underestimated, especially in the dense array of people, the explosion of a grenade is enough to harvest the lives of four or five or even seven or eight Ming soldiers around.

The generals of the Ming army in the rear watched the phalanx acting as the vanguard set off more than 100 bursts of explosion smoke and dust in a short period of time, and they all looked like ashes.

How can there be so many flowering bullets of these pseudo-Tang thief army, more than the last time at the Lanjiang ferry, and doesn't it mean that the flowering bombs of the pseudo-Tang thief army are all on the side of the Lanjiang ferry? How can there be so many here?

After more than 100 rounds of explosions, the spearmen and musketeers of the Datang New Army also rushed into the array of the Ming army's forward in the smoke of gunpowder.

After watching the hundreds of spearmen of the puppet Tang thief army rush into the Ming army's forward array in a sweeping attitude, the Ming army's deputy Qianhu, who commanded the archers in the Ming army's forward array, involuntarily muttered: "It's over!" ”

At this time, the shield soldiers and gunners of the forward array of the Ming army, as well as those sword and shield men and spearmen, were either killed or wounded in the previous battle, or were greatly frightened, and they could not organize to intercept the bayonet charge of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

Once the melee allies in front of them fail to block the puppet Tang thief army, then their more than 200 archers will not have to be completely crushed into slag!

At the same time, the middle-aged general of the Ming army in the rear also took a deep breath: Now, it is time to decide the victory or defeat, and the herald orders that the whole army dares to retreat without authorization will be killed! ”

Then, he looked back at the soldiers and subordinate generals behind him: "Gentlemen, follow me to kill thieves!" ”

In other words, he just rushed out first!