The Ming army and the Tang army have been fighting for many years, and they are naturally quite familiar with the grenades that the Tang army has equipped a large number of, and even they themselves are copied and equipped, but the number of equipment is not much.

Because the grenades currently equipped by the Tang Army and the grenades imitated by the Ming Army are, to put it bluntly, a cannonball with an arquebus fuse, with very low technical difficulty, and any blacksmith can produce it.

What restricts the large-scale equipping of the Ming army with grenades is not a technical factor, but a matter of cost!

In these years, gunpowder was very expensive, and the sulfur and saltpeter required for the production of gunpowder were relatively expensive, and the processing process was not so simple, and the processing of gunpowder was relatively complicated, which always led to the relatively expensive price of gunpowder.

It is naturally no problem to use it as a propellant for guns and shells, and it can be supported by gritting your teeth if it is a little more expensive, but if it is to be used as gunpowder for shells and grenades on a large scale, then the amount required for this will increase significantly, and finally lead to a large increase in military spending.

The military expenditure of the Ming army was originally a small amount, and the large amount of gunpowder needed for gunpowder and guns was not enough, so how could it be possible to waste a lot of gunpowder to make grenades, mines and the like.

However, the Datang Army is different, although the cost of purchasing gunpowder by the Datang Army is also not cheap, but the large-scale import, reduce the cost of raw materials, and at the same time adopt large-scale mechanical processing, the output is large, and the unit price is naturally reduced.

And more importantly, the military expenditure of the Datang Army is far more than that of the Ming Army, and it is much more!

When the Ming army in Yangzhou City wanted to motivate the soldiers, but in the end they couldn't even take out 100,000 taels of silver, and the third army outside the city was worth more than 100,000 cannonballs alone.

The military expenditure of the Tang Army is enough to support the large-scale equipment of the Tang Dynasty Division, and the large-scale use of all kinds of firearms!

Grenades, that's just one of them!

In the same way, those heavy howitzers are also big money eaters, and every howitzer is money, and it's a lot of money!

Although the Ming army was limited by military spending and did not equip grenades on a large scale, it was also a small number of grenades in an elite army with good treatment.

Grenades are more familiar, and these Ming troops naturally know how to defend against grenades!

Naturally, if there is a cover, you are hiding in the bunker!

But when you encounter a grenade and have no cover to rely on, then the best thing to do is to lie down directly, although it is still possible to get injured, but it is better than standing stupidly.

Especially usually heavy infantry is also equipped with heavy armor, if the distance is farther, and luckier, this armor can also block the killing of shrapnel, of course, whether it can be blocked, depends on luck.

Of course, if you're unlucky enough to drop next to the soldier, you're going to be doomed nine times out of ten.

So the commander of the Ming army, after seeing the grenade, his first reaction was to shout for people to lie down, but it was still too late!

As soon as his words fell, he heard a loud bang in his ears, and at the same time, the guard behind him was pushed violently, and then his eyes went dark, and he completely lost consciousness.

Because at this time, a howitzer exploded just two meters behind him!

The shock wave of the grenade pushed him, but it was not the shock wave that made him fall and even lose consciousness, but shrapnel!

One of the many shrapnel remnants of the grenade exploded hit him in the back, easily tearing apart his armor and burrowing into his body, thus taking his life.

The grenades continued to explode, and when dozens of grenades exploded, most of the dozens of Ming heavy infantry who had rushed to the top of the ruins had already fallen.

At the same time, on the outer slope of the ruins, a major officer in the Datang assault battalion once again held a steel knife high and shouted: "First team, rush up, hurry!" ”

"Second team, keep up!"

"Grenadier prepares for the second round of bombing!"

"Rush!"

"Long live Datang!"

As the smoke from the previous round of grenade explosions was blown away by the wind, the assault battalion, which had been repulsed half a minute earlier, once again climbed to the top of the ruins, and when they scrambled upwards, the corpses of soldiers from both sides were trampled under their feet!

It had only been a few minutes since the two sides had been fighting each other in this ruin, but the number of soldiers on both sides who had fallen in this ruin was already more than 200, and it was still rising in a straight line!

Densely packed corpses, almost covering the entire roof of the ruins!

And on the outside of the ruins, that is, on the road where the Datang Army charged, it was full of corpses and wounded!

They directly braved the attack of the Ming army's artillery, muskets, grenades, bows and arrows to launch the charge!

Of course, the Ming army was even more uncomfortable, because when the soldiers of the Ming army attacked the infantry of the Tang Army charging outside the city with guns and artillery and other weapons, more than 200 artillery pieces and more than 10,000 muskets of the Tang Army were also aimed at the head of the city!

A hundred-household Ming army musket team is often just loaded, and then leaning out from the battlements, it will be subjected to a dense barrage outside the city, whether it can pull the trigger alive, whether it can be pulled back alive after pulling the trigger, that is purely a matter of character.

Under the powerful firepower of the Tang Army, the Ming army on the head of the city almost fell from the city wall as before the rain, dense and continuous, and more Ming soldiers fell directly on the city after being killed and wounded.

Soon, the blood on the head of the city will be a cross-current, and if you step on it, you will even slip if you are not careful!

At this moment, although both sides are suffering great casualties, the senior generals on both sides know that the final victory may be decided in the next few minutes, in the gap in the ruins!

Therefore, even if the first assault battalion of the first batch of landing operations had already suffered more than half of the casualties in the fierce battle and had lost the ability to continue the attack, the commander of the assault force who commanded the operation at the front did not hesitate at all and continued to order the second assault battalion to participate in the direct charge operation!

To climb the ruins, it is only a short straight line distance of more than ten meters, but here, every centimeter of progress is the price of blood!

And on the top of the ruins that the two sides have repeatedly fought for, the corpses of soldiers on both sides are even more spread all over the ground!

When the battle was the most intense, the assault battalion of the Tang Dynasty was driven down again, and after the hundreds of new reinforcements of the Ming army stabilized the defense on the top of the ruins, the Datang Army was even more ruthless, and directly called the heavy howitzers, regardless of the possible accidental damage, and carried out intensive artillery bombardment on this section of the ruins gap.

In one volley, more than 20 howitzers fell here, directly reimbursing at least 200 Ming troops, while the Tang army itself was also injured by mistake, with dozens of casualties.

Such a tragic battle made a Ming army unit that rushed to reinforce mutini on the spot, turn around and run!

Because this kind of operation has become a veritable meat grinder, this section of the gap is not big, even if you add some of the broken city walls on both sides, it is only tens of meters, and the troops that both sides can invest at the same time are only a few hundred.

But the deaths and injuries of hundreds of people are naturally not taken into account by the senior generals on both sides, and the people who attacked in front are almost dead and wounded, and the Datang Army will not hesitate to send another battalion up!

And the Ming army is similar, those senior generals are constantly sending troops to plug this gap!

However, soldiers are also human beings, and they will also be afraid, and if you let them fight ordinary battles, then it's fine, but if you let them fight this kind of battle, whether they win or lose, they will die in the end, and they will also retreat and even mutiny.

At this time, the determination of the generals on both sides is tested!

The test is the courage of the soldiers on both sides!

It will test the usual discipline training of the armies of both sides even more!

The senior generals on both sides are determined, but there is a huge gap in the courage and discipline training of the soldiers on both sides!

The Tang Army, which attacked the ruins, was an assault force and some grenadiers, and the main body of the assault force was the soldiers and the most elite sword and shield soldiers, and they never fought to the death.

The soldiers not only fought like this when they served in the Tang Army, but also fought like this when they used to serve in the Ming Army!

Among their many tactical moves, there is no option to retreat at all!

And the grenadiers, that are the elite of the elite in the Tang Army, whether it is quality or courage, the best soldiers can be selected as grenadiers!

When these two are combined with each other, the combat effectiveness and resilience they burst out will definitely surpass the Ming army on the opposite side!

When the second assault battalion in the assault battalion and a grenadier team with new reinforcements once again stepped on the corpse to the top of the ruins, this time, they directly brought up two shotguns and set them up on the spot, that is, they aimed at the inside of the ruins, preparing to counterattack hundreds of Ming soldiers to open fire.

At the same time, the grenadiers also threw down the last grenades they were carrying!

When the sound of artillery was thought about, when the sound of the explosion was heard, more than half of the more than 300 Ming soldiers who were preparing to counterattack were killed or wounded on the spot, and the rest finally couldn't bear such a cruel battle, many people fled backwards on the spot, and some even shouted and began to run around.

"Don't stop, rush down, crush them, scatter them!" The major of one of the assault battalions in the leader shouted, and continued the assault with the troops who had managed to climb the ruins.

But he had just taken two steps with the troops, that is, his body was slightly stunned, and then he involuntarily fell forward, and if he looked closely, he could find that a small hole had appeared in the plate armor on his chest, and blood spread out through the small hole, and together with the blood of other people, it soaked this ruin.

He fell, but his troops did not stop, and hundreds of soldiers of the assault force stepped on the corpses of their comrades and Ming soldiers, and quickly advanced forward.

Behind them, there are more soldiers of the Tang Army who are far from constantly passing through the ruins!

It was an infantry regiment in the Fifth Infantry Division of the Tang Army, with heavy musketeers and heavily armored spearmen who gave up their spears and directly picked up their waist knives.

They densely passed through the gaps in the ruins, and then quickly spread like the back of the city wall, spreading to the walls on both sides!

At the same time, on the high ground outside the city, Hao Bonian also put down his binoculars, and then said: "The artillery troops can transfer their firepower, transfer to the city walls on both sides, and then let the second mixed regiment enter the battle to support the Fifth Infantry Division!" ”

After saying that, Hao Bonian looked up at Yangzhou City again, and then said: "Tell Chen Keqiao that tonight, this official is going to have dinner in Yangzhou City!" ”