Liuzhou in the middle of the Ming Dynasty is not very good, but it is not much worse, if it is good, it must not be as good as Wuzhou Mansion, not to mention that it is comparable to the prefectures and counties in the prosperous land south of the Yangtze River.

But if you want to say that he is bad, in fact, he is not bad, at least it is much better than the two places of Liping Mansion and Xingquan Mansion!

First of all, because of the existence of the Liujiang River, the two banks of the Liujiang River are traditionally impacted plain terrain, although the plains on both sides of the Liujiang River are very small, but they can also grow food, at least it is not a problem to feed the people on both sides of the river.

Secondly, because of the existence of the Liujiang River, inland waterway shipping is relatively convenient and has great development potential, especially for the army of the Tang Dynasty, which is more dependent on logistics supply, the Liujiang River, a tributary of the Xijiang River, is even more important.

In order for a large army to launch a long-distance war, it is not practical to rely solely on the people to transport ammunition and other supplies, and it is necessary to have convenient transportation.

If it is modern times, then it is a railway, and before the existence of railways, the navigation of rivers was extremely important.

Based on these reasons, for Liuzhou, the Tang Dynasty is bound to win, take a step back, the Tang Dynasty can not defeat Guilin and other Guangxi counties, but must take Liuzhou.

If Liuzhou is not conquered, there will be no way to continue to march eastward, let alone conquer Wuzhou and finally march to Zhaoqing and Guangzhou in Guangdong.

And to conquer Liuzhou, it is necessary to pull out the nails of Rongxian, the northern gate of Liuzhou.

And this is also the reason why Hao Bonian sent the Second Infantry Regiment south to Rong County before he took Huaiyuan County!

But I'm afraid Hao Bonian didn't expect that the Second Infantry Regiment would meet the Ming army who took the initiative to launch a field charge against them outside Rongxian County.

According to the previous examples, because of the fear of the firearms of the Tang Army, even if the Ming army had not fought with the Tang Army, most of them would be more cautious.

It's a pity that he didn't underestimate the field ability of the Tang Army, but he still underestimated the ability of the Tang Dynasty Division's ability to attack fortifications, or overestimated the ability of the army under his command to defend the city.

However, not every Ming army will be as cautious as them, for example, the three thousand Ming army in front of them is obviously different from the many Ming armies that the Tang Dynasty has encountered in the past!

As soon as the Second Infantry Regiment arrived in Rongxian, they took the initiative to go out of the city to fight.

Maybe they don't know how strong the field combat ability of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the other side is, maybe they know, but they still think that they can defeat these pseudo-Tang thief army in front of them!

Whatever the reason, they rushed out, and with a fearless courage!

The officers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment who looked opposite were shocked!

Even the Ming troops in the garrison battalion who fought with the Second Infantry Regiment couldn't understand why these Ming troops in front of them had such strong self-confidence!

Haven't they heard that our Tang Dynasty Division's field combat ability is the strongest?

The three thousand Ming troops on the opposite side were getting closer and closer, and they lined up in a crowded and chaotic formation, rushing towards the array of the Second Infantry Regiment of the Tang Army like a tide!

Although Li Chunjing didn't understand their charge, but this was a great thing for him, if the three thousand Ming troops were cowering in the city, his second infantry regiment would have to take a lot of trouble if he wanted to capture Rongxian.

Since they took the initiative to go out of the city to face the battle, they took this opportunity to completely defeat them, and then easily captured Rongxian County and completed the combat mission assigned by Hao Bonian.

After Li Chunjing arranged for the troops to face the battle, he did not interfere too much in the command of the troops, but stayed on the hill with several staff officers under his command to observe the changes on the entire battlefield.

At this time, the officers of the battalion artillery team belonging to the 2nd Infantry Regiment had already drawn their command knives!

"The whole team is ready!"

"Aim!"

When the 3,000 Ming troops on the opposite side rushed through a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, the captain of the battalion artillery team decisively commanded his command knife: "Open the artillery!" ”

As soon as his order was given, six 150-pound battalion guns spewed out gunpowder smoke and flames almost at the same time.

The establishment of the shotgun in the effective range is extremely powerful, especially when the enemy is still lined up in a dense array, and the lethality is even greater!

After the six shotguns were fired, the tide formed by the 3,000 Ming army seemed to pause for a few seconds, and the Ming soldiers in the front row fell down in a large area in unison and neatly.

However, the fallen soldiers in the front row were quickly annihilated, because the Ming soldiers in the back row stepped past their soldiers and continued to rush forward!

The Ming soldiers in the back row who continued to charge may not know what is going on, maybe they know, but they don't care.

Looking at the 3,000 Ming troops in front of them, although there were many casualties in the first round of artillery bombardment, they still continued to charge without the slightest pause.

Li Chunjing, who was watching the battle from the rear, frowned slightly!

These Ming troops are not the same as the Ming troops they have encountered in the past!

I'm afraid this battle is not as simple as I expected, and I must be cautious!

Immediately, he said: "Order the grenadiers to be ready for battle!" ”

"Isn't it too early to send out the grenadiers?" A captain staff officer next to him said: "The grenadiers are the elite of our army, and there is only one team of grenadiers in our army, so I am afraid that we will suffer unnecessary casualties if we go out now!" ”

Li Chunjing said: "These Ming troops in front are not normal, they are different from the guards and recruits we have encountered in the past, they must be treated carefully, and they must use the most powerful firepower and the strongest lineup to disintegrate their first wave of offensive!" ”

He still didn't say a word, he was worried that if he couldn't completely defeat these strange Ming troops on the opposite side in the first wave of attacks, if he entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat, he was afraid that he would capsize in the gutter!

After Li Chunjing gave the order, the grenadier team in front, which was originally located behind the three main battalions, also began to line up and gradually enter the battlefield, and prepared to fight the Ming army that rushed up in the first time!

Rumble! Rumble!

The artillery in the battalion artillery team has begun to fire freely, but not as loudly as it did when the first salvo began!

And given the pathetic rate of fire of artillery in this era, it is unlikely that it will be able to fire quickly in a short time!

The artillery continues to fire and suppress!

And the infantry phalanx at the forefront was also ready for battle

The heavy-armored spearmen of the Tang Army in the front row have experienced this kind of charge against the enemy many times, maybe some of the new recruits who have just been added will be timid, but some veterans are holding their spears steadily, waiting for the enemy to rush up, and then stabbing them one by one with their spears.

As for whether these Ming troops on the opposite side will break through their array?

This is unlikely!

Because this can be seen from the formation of the Ming army on the opposite side!

Their formation, although it looked like a huge phalanx of infantry, was in fact not uniform at all, but was a small group of six or seven people, and then several small teams converged.

The soldiers in the front row were spearmen, in the center were sword and shield men, crossbows, and archers, and at the end were soldiers with short knives to separate the enemy's heads.

In other words, when they rush up, the only people who can really participate in hand-to-hand combat are two or three spearmen!

And these Ming soldiers in the front row are not wearing armor either!

This tactic and formation may be more useful in some small-scale battles, especially in battles against the Japanese or exterminating other bandits, but if it is a line formation against the modern army, it is basically looking for death!

Because the soldiers in the line formation are all soldiers, and the formation is tight, what will be the result of such a fight? A Ming soldier on the opposite side may face a siege of three or four Tang Army soldiers at the same time.

The modern army is based on formation and military discipline to eat, firearms are still secondary, the traditional ancient army and the modern army play phalanx hedging, whether it is cavalry or infantry, it is basically an act of looking for death.

At this time, the Ming army had already crossed a distance of 100 meters, and at this time, the three infantry battalions and the 700 muskets in the grenadier team also began to fire in turn!

After a distance of seventy or eighty meters, the archers in the reserve camp also began to bend their bows and shoot arrows!

Of course, the Ming army in the charge also began to bend the bow and shoot arrows to counterattack, but its counterattack strength was relatively poor, and it was not even as strong as the counterattack of the Ming army that Li Chunjing had encountered in the past!

After these Ming troops rushed to a distance of about forty meters, although they were still charging, in fact, the casualties were already very heavy, out of 3,000 people, it is conservatively estimated that nearly 400 people fell on the way to the charge!

Most of these Ming soldiers already had a hesitant and puzzled expression on their faces, but they still rushed towards the phalanx of the Second Infantry Regiment of the Tang Army.

At this time, the musketeers of the three main infantry battalions ordered in unison: "Stop firing, reload, prepare for a salvo!" ”

Soon, the musketeers of the Tang Army changed from the previous six columns to three columns, and the formation was even tighter, and the gap between the soldiers could not even allow the musketeers to reload for the second time!

And the officers on the spear team also shouted the password: "All of them, prepare to charge!" ”

When the Datang Army is fighting hand-to-hand combat, especially in hand-to-hand combat in this kind of field decisive battle, it will generally not have a fixed defense, but will launch a countercharge in the final stage, that is, after the musketeers have finished firing and the grenadiers have finished throwing bombs!

The grenadier officer had already shouted the command to ignite, and within a few seconds, he was shouting: "Drop the bomb!" ".

In the next instant, hundreds of grenades were thrown in unison!

The grenades crossed a short distance of thirty meters and landed in unison in the front row array of the Ming army on the opposite side!

When hundreds of grenades exploded in their own soldiers, killing and wounding countless people in an instant, Cen Xiong, the leader of the Ming army, finally issued a sentence that many Ming army generals who fought against the Tang Army would say: "How is this possible?" ”