The rumbling cannon sound continued to echo in the sky above the city of Liping, and the crisp and dense gunfire made the entire city of Liping province hear.

Such a dense sound of guns and cannons has already made the Ming defenders and even ordinary people in the city feel that the pseudo-Tang thief army is different from ordinary anti-thieves.

The combat methods of these pseudo-Tang thief armies were different from any enemy that the Ming army had encountered in the past.

The density of firearms equipped by those pseudo-Tang thief armies is far more than that of ordinary anti-thieves, and even the Ming army itself is far inferior.

What's more important is that the firearms of these pseudo-Tang thief armies are extremely powerful, far from being comparable to the Ming army's own firearms that can only play a small role within a few tens of meters.

The puppet Tang thief army, which is equipped with a large number of firearms, has a completely different combat method from the previous cold weapon troops, which also leads to whether it is Su Jiakang's troops or Song Zhiwen's troops before, or the Ming army on the side of Liping Mansion now, when facing the dense firearms of the puppet Tang thief army, they are all a little unaccustomed to it, and they don't even know how to deal with it.

The equipment of a large number of new weapons has led to a change in tactics, and the change in tactics also represents a change in the mode of warfare, and the advantages brought by this change are also huge.

Hao Bonian saw that the troops who climbed the city had successfully climbed to the top of the city with the support of guns, and the follow-up musketeers also climbed up to the city through long ladders one after another to reinforce the sword and shield soldiers.

And although the Ming army at the head of the city, under the leadership of several generals, wanted to drive down the puppet Tang thief army that had already ascended to the top of the city, it was not easy to do it.

At this time, although there were not many puppet Tang thief troops who climbed to the top of the city, they were all sword and shield soldiers wearing heavy armor, and some of the stronger soldiers were even wearing double armor, not only cotton and iron armor, but also a layer of chain mail, scale armor and other iron armor on the outside.

After dozens of sword and shield soldiers with heavy armor protection ascended to the top of the city, facing the ordinary Ming troops and even the young and strong at the head of the city, it was basically like entering a no-man's land, and those Ming troops were simply difficult to resist, let alone resist and drive them off the city wall.

"It seems that our heavy infantry still needs to be kept!" Hao Bonian, who was watching the battle break out on the head of the city outside the city, said after seeing this scene: "At least in the battle, the heavy infantry still has a place!" ”

Li Chunjing, the narrator, said the same: "Brother Hao is right, now many people in the army say that muskets and spears are enough to sweep the world, but in today's siege warfare, spearmen cannot participate in the battle, and if you rely on musketeers without armor protection to fight at the head of the city, I am afraid that the casualties will be very large, and the effect of the battle will not be too obvious!" ”

In recent times, especially after the Second Lanjiang Campaign and the Third Lanjiang Campaign, the musketeers performed so well that many people in the military believed that the Ming army had been defeated by the musketeers alone, and that the other arms should be abolished to free up more military funds to expand the musketeers.

Even generals such as Fang Dongquan and Huang Xueren, who were born as bandit leaders, strongly supported the expansion of musketeers, believing that the ratio of musketeers to spearmen in the current main force should not be one to one, but two to one or even three to one.

As spearmen who fought with musketeers, some people wanted to cut it, and as for the swordsmen, shields, and archers, some people even wanted to cut it vigorously.

And the Datang New Army did this, except for the Fourth Infantry Regiment, an infantry regiment with two garrison battalions, which is somewhat special and has a large number of sword and shield troops, the other four existing infantry regiments are not too many sword and shield troops.

Taking the First Infantry Corps as an example, the regimental headquarters has three infantry battalions, one battalion artillery team, one cavalry team, and one with three 500-pound artillery pieces, which still belong to the artillery battalion but are strengthened to the artillery team of the First Step, and one is also a baggage regiment but strengthened to the First Infantry Corps.

In other words, the First Rank Corps did not have direct sword and shield soldiers, archers, etc.

Only one squad of cold weapons units in each of the three infantry battalions.

For example, the first infantry battalion had two musket teams and two spear teams, while the fifth team had to be equipped with swords, shields, bows and arrows because of the lack of muskets.

That is to say, in each infantry battalion today, there is only one team of sword and shield soldiers and archers, and each has half a team of sword and shield soldiers and archers.

This was originally a helpless move that was not enough for muskets, but today it seems that these sword and shield soldiers have played their due value.

In large-scale field battles, these sword and shield soldiers may not be very useful, but in the battle that requires close combat, the role of sword and shield soldiers, especially heavily armored sword and shield soldiers, is still irreplaceable.

However, the role of archers has become more and more embarrassing, first of all, it is difficult for the new army of the Tang Dynasty to train a large number of qualified archers in a short period of time, and almost most of the archers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty are prisoners of the Ming army.

And the role of archers on the battlefield is not irreplaceable, although they can still play a certain role, but musketeers can already replace their tactical position.

In addition, musketeers are easy to train and the quality of soldiers is even lower, so no one in the new army of the Tang Dynasty now mentions vigorously developing archers, but tends to replace archers with musketeers.

Of course, limited to the serious shortage of muskets, the existing archers still need to continue to take on certain combat missions.

Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing were discussing the issue of sword and shield soldiers and archers outside the city, obviously the focus was no longer on the city, because at this time, even the blind could see that this Liping Mansion had been breached.

The soldiers of the Datang New Army occupied the city head from tens of meters to hundreds of meters at the beginning, and finally when the soldiers of the Datang New Army broke into the city gate tower, they opened the city gate, and then a large number of Datang New Army at the city gate quickly entered the city through the city gate.

An army of thousands of people poured into the city, unless a Ming army of tens of thousands of people suddenly appeared in the city, otherwise, this Liping Mansion would definitely be able to take it.

And the development of things was indeed the same as Hao Bonian's judgment, just an hour later, the troops entering the city had already reported that they had cleared the organized resistance of the enemy troops in the city.

After hearing this, Hao Bonian turned to Li Chunjing and said, "Brother Li, let's go into the city!" ”

Li Chunjing said with a smile: "Okay! ”

After the two said that, they glanced at each other and couldn't help but smile.

Then he entered the city with the follow-up troops and guards, and when Hao Bonian and Li Chunjing stepped on the main street of Liping Mansion City, where there were still blood stains on the ground, supported by a group of officers and guards, Hao Bonian, who was riding on the horse, smiled even more.

Today's breakthrough is enough for him to continue to maintain his prestige and seniority in the new army of the Tang Dynasty and become the first general without controversy.

In the future, when His Majesty issues the real rank of general, he must be the first to become a general!