Facing the sharp counterattack of the Ming army's archers, Captain Han You didn't shout like those stunned young officers not to retreat, resist, resist such words!

His grenadier unit was not here to fight the enemy, his task was to provide fire cover for the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, from a volley at the charge to the round of grenade throwing just now, all to provide cover for the Liuzhou Independent Regiment.

It's not their job to fight the enemy's heavy armor, and it's not their job to shoot at close range with enemy archers.

Due to the low rate of fire of the arquebus, shooting at close range with the archers without armor on both sides is basically an act of seeking death.

Because the archers can shoot arrows in a short period of time, the archers have fired three or four arrows, and the musketeers may not be able to shoot a second shot.

Therefore, in the face of the targeted counterattack of the Ming archers, he did not hesitate to order the troops to retreat, of course, this retreat is not to run back directly, but to retreat from the top of the ruins to a few meters, as long as you come down from the top of the ruins, continue the defense line at the top of the ruins, and naturally hand it over to the heavy infantry of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment.

In this way, the grenadiers could not only rely on the shields and armor of the heavy infantry to protect themselves, but after retreating, they were in an anticline, and the arrows of the Ming army were already difficult to damage them!

And more importantly, throwing bombs can throw a parabola at a large angle, so they can still throw bombs in the anticline, but the accuracy is not so accurate, and the throwing distance will not be very far!

However, even so, it can still bring great damage to the Ming army's trapped camp, and greatly cover the Liuzhou Independent Regiment to withstand their counterattack!

However, just when Han You thought that his troops had inflicted heavy casualties on the Ming army's counterattack troops and had become a stable front, he suddenly saw another Ming army running and appearing from a street corner not far away!

As soon as he looked at this Ming army unit, he was frowning slightly!

"Musketeers!"

It is no secret that the Ming army purchased and equipped muskets and trained a musketeer, because this musketeer had appeared many times and played a relatively large role in repelling the tentative attacks launched by the First Army in the early stage.

Therefore, not only Han You, but most of the Tang Dynasty soldiers were Ming troops in Guangzhou City, with a musketeer of about 500 people.

And now it seems that the Ming army in front of you is those musketeers!

After the enemy's musketeers come up, I am afraid that they will cause heavy damage to their own Liuzhou Independent Regiment, although the heavy armor of the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment can resist the projectile, but it can only resist from a distance.

If this Ming army musketeer was allowed to shoot within 50 meters, I am afraid that the hundreds of officers and men of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment who are now fighting on the top of the ruins will suffer great losses, and this kind of loss is something that the Liuzhou Independent Regiment cannot bear independently.

Not only Captain Han You saw the danger, but Lieutenant Colonel Mei Shenjian, the commander of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, who was personally leading the team to fight on the front line, also saw the danger, and he commanded: "The archers save their physical strength and prepare to shoot at the enemy musketeers at a long distance!" ”

Then he said to the herald beside him: "Flag word, encounter the enemy brigade of musketeers, ask for reinforcements from grenadiers or musketeers!" ”

As the commander of the assault force, Lieutenant Colonel Mei Shenjian's every move was naturally watched by the senior generals in the rear, and at this time, there were at least five or six single-channel binoculars aimed at him and the flag soldiers around him!

At this time, Colonel Lei Wan, the deputy director of the Operations Department beside Li Xuan, said: "Lieutenant Colonel Mei encountered the enemy brigade of musketeers and asked for reinforcements from the musketeers!" ”

In fact, at this time, Li Xuan also saw through the telescope the flag sent by Lieutenant Colonel Mei Shenjian asking for reinforcements, he knew that with Mei Shenjian's character, if he didn't really encounter a situation that he couldn't deal with, he wouldn't easily ask for help, since he asked for help, then he should have encountered a more serious situation.

Lieutenant Colonel Mei Shenjian was not born as a bandit, but as a general in the Ming army, he was a guard commander in the Ming army, a military attache of Zheng Sanpin, who was captured by injuries in the battle of the Tonggu Acropolis that rose in the early Tang Dynasty.

He didn't go to thieves in the first place!

However, the Ming Dynasty thought that he had surrendered to thieves, and Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou at the time, naturally would not tolerate such a high-ranking military general to surrender to thieves, so he personally ordered his family in Guiyang to be killed.

If you throw a thief, you will rob your family and exterminate your family, this is not a lie, the Ming Dynasty really did this!

After his family was raided and exterminated, Mei Shenjian was a thief with the hatred of his family being ruined, and he was naturally very welcome to such a high-ranking general, the Tang Dynasty, and Li Xuan was the deputy head of the garrison as soon as he made a move.

He is also a brave man, and he is not blindly fighting with many people, and he is a very smart general, and then with the great expansion of the army, he was then promoted to the commander of the fifth garrison regiment.

And this regiment belongs to the Third Garrison Brigade, and has made great contributions in the Battle of Wuzhou!

After the war, Li Xuan reorganized the Liuzhou Independent Regiment, and at first transferred Cai Erhu as the first regiment commander, but later with the expansion of the Third Garrison Brigade, Li Xuan transferred Cai Erhu back to the Third Garrison Brigade as the brigade commander.

The second commander of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment after the reorganization was taken over by Mei Shenjian, the former commander of the Fifth Garrison Regiment of the Third Garrison Brigade at that time.

For the senior generals, the Ming Dynasty is deeply versed in evil, and they can't wait to catch Mei Shenjian to give a Ling Chi, and all of them are raiding the family and exterminating the clan, and there will definitely be no appeasement, but in this way, it also makes these generals more desperately loyal to the Tang Dynasty and fight against the Ming army.

Mei Shenjian is a typical example!

How can you not repay the revenge of destroying the family and destroying the family?

Of course, this is just one of many reasons, and there are other reasons, such as helplessness, such as being a founding hero in order to make a contribution.

Everyone's minds are different, but this does not prevent them from leading the thief army and the court official army to war!

Even many generals still lead the old troops to fight, which is quite common in the garrison.

However, in the regular army, although there are generals, they are in the same high position as Mei Shenjian, and there are not many who control the real power.

Mei Shenjian asked for help, and Li Xuan, who was in the rear, naturally would not turn a blind eye, and soon ordered the First Infantry Brigade to send the First Infantry Corps to support.

However, it is just to come forward to support, that small gap is actually unable to accommodate thousands of people to fight, and it is almost the limit to be able to accommodate hundreds of people, but around the gap, the armies of both sides are gathered tens of thousands of people to fight.

What can really support the Liuzhou Independent Regiment at the front is still assigned to the grenadier units in the three assault battalions!

Each of the three assault battalions had a grenadier team attached to it.

The 1st Grenadier Team led by Captain Han You was one of them, and another grenadier unit was also quickly climbing the ruins to rush to support.

The next battle will be a grenadier unit fighting with the Liuzhou Independent Regiment!

After another grenadier rushed up, the unit and the remnants of Han You's command converged, and in the previous series of operations, the first grenadier under Han You's command suffered considerable losses, and had already suffered more than 20 casualties, and the casualty rate had exceeded 25 percent.

If this casualty ratio had been placed in ordinary musketeers, it would have collapsed long ago.

But as the most elite class of troops in the Tang Dynasty, the grenadiers have their own pride!

Their slogan is to fight to the death!

Speaking of being fearless of death, they are even more extreme than the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment!

Without the courage to be fearless of death, how dare you stare at the enemy's fire and go all the way up to a distance of twenty or thirty meters to drop bombs!

Without the courage to die, how could you hold on tightly to the grenades that had been lit and wait for the officer to give the order before throwing them, knowing that these grenades would not take long to explode.

Purely speaking of courage, the grenadiers of the Tang Dynasty Division are definitely the crown of the whole army!

Only such a unit can withstand more than 20 percent casualties and still fight stubbornly!

And that's why, every time an assault battalion is organized, grenadiers are used instead of ordinary musketeers to fight with heavy infantry.

Because ordinary musketeers simply can't afford to fight with such a large casualty rate!

After the two grenadier teams converged, this grenadier unit already had more than 180 troops, and the grenadiers who had thrown all the grenades also got one or two grenades from their comrades!

At this time, Captain Han You wiped the blood on his face, at this time, a lot of blood flowed out of his face because he was scratched by the arrows of the Ming army, but he simply wiped it, and then raised his command knife again: "Grenadiers, use muskets, use grenades to tell them that we are the real king of musketeers!" ”

"All of them, lined up"

Although Han You is only the captain of the first grenadier, according to the battlefield regulations of the Tang Army, unless there is a clear order, the command of the temporarily integrated unit will automatically belong to the command of the person with the highest military rank.

The reinforcement came up with the second grenadier team, and the captain of the team was also a captain, but he was a junior captain who had just been promoted for a short time, and the number of his unit was also behind, so according to the battlefield regulations of the Tang Army, Captain Han You had the command of this integrated grenadier without dispute.

Unless there is a clear order from the superior to make someone else the commander!

Han You saw that the queue had been initially formed, and without the slightest hesitation, he ordered:

"Grenadier, forward!"