Seeing that although the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Battalion in front began to be chaotic, they gathered together and launched an attack, and things were much better than he Zhou Shanbao expected.

Originally, he thought that at the beginning of the landing, there would be chaos for a long time, and the troops might even be afraid of the enemy due to the intensive bow and arrow fire of the Ming army, which is why he took the overseer to land so early.

Because he originally wanted to assist the officers of the 1st Infantry Battalion in organizing the formation and organizing the attack.

And now, he knew that his overseer team was afraid that it would not be useful.

After the landing, the 1st Infantry Battalion soon formed five small phalanxes, large and small, and the distribution of troops was not the same ratio of standard musketeers and spearmen, but was different.

There was even a small phalanx of more than eighty men, all musketeers, and there were no spearmen to cover them.

But it doesn't matter, because this battlefield is already so big, no more than two or three hundred meters wide.

With so many people crowded on this river beach, it was not easy to organize a complete attack under the enemy's bow and arrow fire, and it was not possible to maintain the complete formation and disposition of troops in a head-on decisive battle.

The landing of the 1st Infantry Battalion was followed by a team of grenadiers and archers!

As the 1st Infantry Battalion advanced the battle line, the more than 100 archers of the archer team were unable to attack the deep Ming army array because of the distance.

As for the Ming troops who were close, they were already entangled with the First Infantry Battalion at this time, and if they shot a few waves of arrows, the probability of shooting themselves would definitely be higher than the probability of shooting the Ming army.

As for why the 2nd Infantry Battalion and the 1st Mixed Battalion were not allowed to land as the second batch of troops, or to rush forward at the same time, this was because the landing ground was too small, and if more than 1,000 people were crammed into it in a short period of time, it would cause even greater chaos.

What's more, what the new army of the Tang Dynasty needed most at this time was not hand-to-hand combat troops, but archers who could strike at the follow-up in-depth forces of the Ming army, and grenadiers who forcibly broke through the Ming army's defense line.

Although the 2nd Infantry Battalion and the 1st Mixed Battalion were also considered the main forces, they were not suitable for the tasks at the beginning of the landing.

After the 1st Infantry Battalion resisted the first wave of the Ming army's counterattack, the Datang New Army urgently needed to kill and wound a large number of Ming troops in a short period of time in order to completely destroy their defensive lines, instead of more people crowding on the river beach and blindly rushing forward.

As the archers and grenadiers also went to the river beach, Hao Bonian, who had always been concerned about the occupation on the bow of the ship, also showed his wings.

To be honest, today's landing operation is not a combat method that the Datang New Army is good at, and what the Datang New Army is good at is still frontal field warfare, and it has put on a dignified posture.

However, this kind of landing operation was chaotic, the site was not large enough, and the troops could not be carried out in a timely and effective manner, which greatly limited the combat capability of the Datang New Army.

For example, the muskets of the landing force are of little use in today's battle!

After landing, the distance between you and the Ming army is only a few tens of meters, you have to use a musket to shoot at the archers of the Ming army, that is an act of looking for death, you shoot a shot, people can shoot four or five arrows, not to mention that the archers of the Ming army still hide behind the low wall to shoot arrows, and the musketeers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty can only line up to shoot on the empty river beach.

This is simply a target for the Ming army!

This is also why Hao Bonian let the archers land with the 1st Infantry Battalion, because the bow and arrow can be thrown, which can hit the Ming archers behind the low wall and cover the 1st Infantry Battalion fighting in front.

The musketeers, on the other hand, did not have such an effect, and even many of them were soaked with gunpowder and arquebuses when they landed, so that the muskets in their hands could only be used as spears.

This is also why, after the 1st Infantry Battalion landed, it did not use the tactics of musket shooting, but rushed directly to hand-to-hand combat.

At such a critical juncture, no combat method is as effective as rushing up to hand-to-hand combat!

After the archers went ashore, they didn't even have time to line up, and soon they ran forward to the effective range under the orders of the various platoon commanders, and then began to bend the bow and shoot arrows, although this caused the arrows shot out to not form a rain of arrows, which did not look shocking enough, but the effect was not bad.

More than 100 archers began to shoot arrows, which was more than the archers of the Ming army on the opposite side, and a rain of arrows shot out, which immediately caused a large number of casualties to the Ming army.

Originally, these Ming troops relied on low walls and other fortifications, even if the first infantry battalion rushed up and fought them hand-to-hand, but their actual casualties were still not large.

But now that the archers of the Don army began to shoot arrows, their casualties immediately began to increase rapidly.

However, this was not enough, because the grenadiers of the Datang New Army also came up, and they were the middle force in this landing operation.

Although the strength of the grenadiers was small, only a hundred, but once they were allowed to throw grenades within thirty meters, the power was not to be said.

The explosion of a hundred grenades at the same time, not to mention these Ming troops, even the first infantry battalion of the Tang New Army, a semi-modern unit specializing in line operations, could not withstand it.

And now, the grenadiers of the Datang New Army have begun to line up, and then step forward with neat steps!

Eighty meters, fifty meters, thirty meters, when they marched to about twenty-five meters away from the low wall of the Ming army, with the order of the grenadier officer, these grenadiers threw the grenades in their hands in unison, and suddenly, more than 100 black grenades appeared in the sky and fell into the Ming army behind the low wall a few seconds later.

Suddenly, the flames and gunpowder smoke set off in the Ming army's array, and the dense explosions were connected together, as if they were about to shake the entire area.

Such a big movement even made the soldiers of the 1st Infantry Battalion on the front line stunned!

However, they were just stunned, and the Ming army that had suffered the violent explosion had already suffered a large number of casualties!

At this time, those Ming troops finally couldn't bear it, and they didn't know who started it, and soon they just turned around and ran.

Looking at the Ming soldiers who turned and fled, the grenadier team officer stopped asking his soldiers to throw a second round of grenades, which were very precious.

They brought less than 800 grenades with them in this battle, and their main battle had not yet begun, so they had to leave enough grenades for the Ming army to use in the decisive battle, otherwise, now that they had used up the grenades, they would only be ordinary musketeers.

Although the grenadiers no longer threw bombs, the other units of the Tang Army did not stop moving, and when the grenadiers stopped throwing bombs, the officers and deputy officers of the various phalanxes of the 1st Infantry Battalion had already shouted the slogan of the charge in unison!

The salvo and bomb throws are followed by a charge that completely establishes the victory, which is the valuable experience gained by the Datang New Army in several battles with the Ming army, and each time it does so, it can often reap victory.

This time, they're no exception!

The musketeers and spearmen of the First Infantry used various methods to climb over the low wall, and then charged directly after the collapsed Ming army.

And when the battle situation developed to this point, Hao Bonian in the rear knew that the battle of crossing the river had been won.

Not crossing the river is only the first mission goal of his main force, he also needs to lead the troops to break through the defense of the follow-up Ming army, and then kill to the rear of the Ming army at the Lanjiang crossing, and launch an attack on the Ming army at the Lanjiang ferry to annihilate the Ming army at the Lanjiang crossing

Only then will he be considered to have completed this combat mission.

So he said unhurriedly: "Let the follow-up troops speed up the landing, and after half an hour, this officer will lead the whole army to raid the east bank of the Lanjiang ferry." ”

The follow-up landing also included the 2nd Infantry Battalion, the 1st Mixed Battalion, the Sword and Shield Team, the Baggage Brigade and other troops, and the young and strong men who accompanied the army also had to cross the river together.

As for the cleaning on the battlefield, there is no need to clean it at all, Hao Bonian didn't even bother to catch the prisoners this time, for the surrendered Ming army to collect their weapons, after tying them up, casually let the baggage team send some people to take care of them, and the main force cannot be divided into a large number of people to take care of the prisoners.

Half an hour later, Song Zhiwen couldn't wait to take the whole army on the road again, and this time the number of the whole army was more than 100 less than before crossing the river.

In the process of crossing the river, about 80 people were killed and wounded, and dozens of people were left to guard the prisoners and clean up the battlefield.

However, compared to their losses, the losses of the Ming army were even greater, and the defenders, who numbered almost 500 men, were almost completely defeated, and more than 200 were killed and wounded, most of whom were pursued and killed when the Ming army collapsed.

More than 100 people were captured, and the remaining 100 or so did not know where to flee.

Therefore, from a military point of view, the Ming defenders at Ferry No. 3 have been completely annihilated.

There was no time to wait for the follow-up baggage and young and strong people, Hao Bonian went south as soon as he sorted out the troops.

His target was the east bank of the Lanjiang Ferry.

At the same time, Song Zhiwen had just received a report from the defenders of the No. 3 ferry!

There were more than a thousand or even two thousand pseudo-Tang thieves on the third ferry?

How is this possible?

He knew it well. , There are only four or five thousand people in the puppet Tang thief army, there are more than two thousand people on the second ferry, there are three thousand people on the Lanjiang ferry, and there are three or five hundred people on the third ferry he will believe, but he doesn't believe that there are two thousand giant pseudo-Tang thief army.

This time, he obviously miscalculated, because he didn't know that the more than 2,000 people wearing military uniforms on the side of Ferry No. 2 were just ordinary villagers.

Although he was still very puzzled in his heart, reason told him that the No. 3 ferry was afraid that it was going to end, and the pseudo-Tang thief army that appeared at the No. 3 ferry was very likely to be their main force.

What to do?

Is it time to send troops to Ferry No. 3 for reinforcements?

But is it too late? How many people to send are suitable?

For a while, Song Zhiwen was silent, and he couldn't make a choice for a long time!