A few Ming soldiers in the distance looked at this almost invulnerable pseudo-Tang thief army heavy infantry, and then looked at the corpses of the five Ming soldiers lying on the ground, although they had not turned around and fled, but their footsteps involuntarily retreated backwards!

The pseudo-Tang thief army heavy armored infantry in front of him was a monster, not to mention that he survived the siege of eight or nine of them just now, and he also killed five of them, directly causing most of the Ming army squad responsible for defending this small section of the city wall to be killed or wounded.

And these Ming soldiers are better, next to them, several other Ming soldiers have already begun to run away!

Zhou Chang, who climbed to the top of the city, could see at a glance that not every one of these Ming soldiers in front of him was a good fighter, and the Ming soldiers who dared to step forward and fight with themselves just now were all recruits, and they were sword and shield soldiers and spearmen among the recruits, and the remaining few people were musketeers, as for the Ming soldiers around, they knew that they must be local guards.

Those Ming soldiers involuntarily retreated, and several people directly threw down their weapons and fled, but Zhou Chang did not take the initiative to pursue, but stayed in place, he needed to cover more comrades to climb the city!

And in a few seconds, another comrade who was also wearing full-body plate armor climbed the city wall through the ladder!

With the second, there will be the third.

Soon, through this small gap, more than a dozen assault battalion fighters had already rushed to the head of the city, not only heavy infantry, but also grenadiers!

As soon as the grenadier ensign in cuirass climbed up to the top of the city, it was these dozen or so men who immediately began to move forward!

At this time, the Ming army also reacted, and from a distance, you could see the head of the city not far away, with a team of Ming saber and shield soldiers who were also wearing heavy armor, under the cover of a group of musketeers and spearmen, they rushed over directly!

The grenadier lieutenant who led the team looked at the Ming soldiers who rushed over, and immediately said: "Throw bombs freely!" ”

Soon, several grenadiers threw grenades in their hands in unison!

"Charge!"

Although the grenadier second lieutenant is only a grenadier officer, at this time he is the first soldier and leads this mixed team to kill!

At this time, the musket had basically lost its effect, because the distance between the two sides was too close, and before the few Ming musketeers on the opposite side had time to shoot, they had already been rushed to the front by the Tang soldiers on the opposite side, and then, these dozens of people were fighting together!

At this time, the plate armor equipped by the Datang Army once again reflects its strong defensive ability!

Although plate armor has no defensive effect in the face of artillery, even those bowl mouth cannons of the Ming army can easily penetrate plate armor, and medium and close range musket shots can also penetrate these plate armor.

But under this kind of melee, there was no artillery on both sides at all, and the muskets became burning sticks, and the grenadiers in the Tang Army directly picked up muskets with bayonets and turned into spearmen.

In this kind of melee that relies solely on cold weapons to kill, the role of plate armor is maximized!

The soldiers of the Ming army found that their spears or long knives could not cut the armor of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side at all!

A skirmish only lasted for more than twenty seconds, but the reinforcements of the Ming army squad, a squad of more than 30 people, had already suffered most of the casualties, and the rest of the people naturally fled with shouts.

The casualties are so heavy, even if they are the new army of the Governor, the elite of the Ming army can't hold it!

And more importantly, taking advantage of these more than 20 seconds, more assault battalion soldiers rushed to the city!

Soon, there were more than 100 soldiers in the assault battalion at the head of the city, and they firmly controlled a section of the city head about fifty meters wide!

At this time, more soldiers of the Datang Army are constantly climbing up through the ladder!

Farther away, a large number of infantry of the 5th Infantry Division had already launched a charge, and a large number of infantry began to rush towards this gap!

Five minutes later, in addition to the dead and wounded on the way, the soldiers of the assault battalion had all climbed to the top of the city, and were fighting against the continuous counterattack of the Ming army!

At this time, the officers and men of the 16th Infantry Regiment of the 5th Infantry Division also began to climb the city!

At this time, no one paid attention to the battle outside the city walls, and even the shelling stopped, and the eyes of everyone on both sides were fixed on the city wall, which was only 100 meters wide.

At both ends of this section of the city wall, a large number of Ming soldiers were driven by superior officers, constantly launching counterattacks, trying to drive down these pseudo-Tang thief soldiers who had just climbed the city wall.

The soldiers of the assault battalion resisted desperately, and from time to time the soldiers of the 5th Infantry Division climbed up to the top of the city and joined the battle!

Grenades rang out from time to time, and blood spurted out from time to time to stain the sky red!

The screams continued to sound, and there was no time to stop!

Outside the city, Li Chunjing looked at the fierce battle on the city, with a smile on his face, and then nodded and said: "Let the Fourth Mixed Regiment and the Fifth Mixed Regiment not have to launch a strong attack, and prepare to intercept the breakthrough of the Ming army!" ”

At this time, the battle situation was already very obvious, his army had already reached the top of the city, and when hundreds of heavy infantry climbed the city, even if the Ming army resisted desperately, it would definitely not be able to drive his army off the city.

He won this battle!

And now what he has to do is to annihilate the Ming troops in the city, he is not willing to let these Ming troops escape, and then run back to Fuzhou or Nanchang to cause trouble in his follow-up offensive.

Especially those governors and border troops in the city, they must all stay!

And the battle situation was the same as he expected, with the loss of the southern city wall, the civil and military officials in the city also knew that this Luling City was completely finished, and if they didn't want to die, they had to break through and leave immediately.

While some of the Ming troops were still putting up their last stubborn resistance, the Ming troops on the other walls were already leaving the city through the city gates one after another.

Outside the East City Gate, the Fourth Mixed Regiment had already given up the siege, but all of them were arrayed, blocking hundreds of meters away from the East City Gate!

There are more and more Ming troops coming out of the city gate, and when these Ming soldiers saw the pseudo-Tang thief army waiting outside the city, they didn't dare to rush out at the first time!

As a result, more and more Ming troops gathered outside the city gate, and when the Ming army outside the city gate reached more than 3,000 people, they finally rushed out!

Gu Shizhong looked at the Ming army who was finally willing to rush out, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth!

"Look for death!"

When the Ming army began to charge and break through, the artillery battalion of the fourth mixed regiment also opened fire, this artillery battalion was equipped with twenty-four guns, and the power of the artillery bombardment was not small.

Under the shelling, the charging Ming army soon lost the courage to continue charging, so they wanted to flee again!

At this time, a large number of neatly formed troops came out of the city gate one after another, which was completely different from the chaotic Ming army before!

When Gu Shizhong saw these Ming soldiers, he couldn't help but show a cautious expression.

Because he saw that many of the soldiers in this army were carrying muskets!

"This is a false superintendent!" Immediately, someone next to him whispered to Gu Shizhong: "It is said that this is a new army trained by Zhang Yue following the example of my Wang Division, equipped with a large number of guns and artillery, and the tactics are comparable to our army!" ”

Gu Shizhong said: "Hmph, learn from us? , this official wants to see how much they have learned!

If they think that they can be like us just by being armed with guns and standing in a row and firing guns, then they are wrong! ”

The combat effectiveness of the Datang Army is not easy to learn, the combat effectiveness of the Datang Army is formed by many aspects, guns are certainly one of the main factors, but it is only one of them, the combat effectiveness of the Datang Army comes from frequent training and actual combat experience, and there is more strict discipline, and at the same time there is high morale!

Immediately, Gu Shizhong said: "This official wants to let these pseudo-Ming Governors take a look at how the real army fights!" ”

"Order, change formation, six-column formation, artillery units ready to fire rapid fire to intercept fire!"

After Gu Shizhong ordered the change of formation, the artillery units of the Fourth Mixed Regiment began to stop shelling, they did not waste shells and physical strength on those Ming army guards who had fled, but were ready to mark a big gift to those Ming army commanders on the opposite side!

The infantry, on the other hand, began to run and formed a long line formation!

The three infantry battalions lined up in the front, with a distance of about tens of meters from each other, while the two infantry battalions were in the rear, just filling the gap between the three infantry battalions in the first row.

The Ming military governor on the opposite side marked about a thousand people, and their formation was neat, and they soon drove the more than 3,000 Ming army guards to charge!

A total of more than 5,000 Ming troops launched a charge against the array of the 4th Mixed Regiment, and they couldn't do it if they didn't rush, because if they didn't rush out, they would only end up in two: die in battle or be captured!

And these two results were unacceptable to the generals of the Ming army, so although they knew that it would be difficult to rush through the interception of the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of them, they also wanted to try.

What if it succeeds?

The desire to survive made the generals of the Ming army drive the soldiers to keep moving forward, and then run up and charge!

By the time they rushed up, the artillery battalion of the 4th Mixed Regiment opened fire again!

The shells brought a large number of casualties to the Ming army, but they still did not stop, but continued to charge!

The shelling did not stop these Ming troops!

Even after they entered the distance of 100 meters, the platoon guns of the 4th Mixed Regiment caused them heavy casualties, but they still could not stop their charge!

When they rushed to a distance of thirty meters, the officers of the Tang musketeers on the front line commanded their troops to fire the last round of volleys, and then they all raised their command knives in their hands and shouted: "Get on the bayonet, charge!" ”

In the next moment, the soldiers of the 4th Mixed Regiment on the entire front launched a counter-charge with spears and musket bayonets!

And then, there was no then, because after they launched a counter-charge, the Ming army completely collapsed!