In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, there are three groups of soldiers with very obvious differences, such as sword and shield bearers and archers, cavalry and middle and high-level generals, they are all those old bandits who are either excellent in martial arts or good at archery, riding and other skills. ｘ

The more than 200 people who were assigned to the baggage team to serve as young and strong were ordinary young bandits, these ordinary bandits had nothing to say, no skills, and they all had old fritters.

But the spearmen and musketeers are newly recruited and trained soldiers, and these soldiers have two characteristics, one is young, the other is honest!

As a result, the soldiers in the musket and spear corps were generally young, especially the soldiers in the musket corps, who were generally not very old, most of them were fifteen or sixteen years old, and few musketeers were more than twenty years old.

The musketeers were even able to find thirteen or fourteen-year-old half-sized boys, none of whom were as tall as the muskets with bayonets in their hands.

The spearmen were obviously a little surprised that they could kill an enemy so easily, so that they were a little stunned, and after the spear was pierced and pulled out, he couldn't recover from watching the fallen Ming soldiers.

And in the next second, he just felt a sharp pain, lowered his head and saw that he didn't know when a knife tip appeared on his chest: a steel knife of the Ming army system penetrated his chest from the back!

The steel knife was quickly drawn, and the spearman didn't even let out a scream, but the whole person was paralyzed to the ground, his eyes were still open when he fell, and the corners of his mouth squirmed as if he wanted to say something, but he could only make a slight uh-humm.

Lying on the ground, he looked at the sky with his eyes open, half of the sky was blue without a trace of clouds, and half of it was flushed with the red of the setting sun, blue and red as if it were swords and blood, interweaving the most brilliant colors in the sky.

With a slight convulsion, the blood flowing from his body quickly infected the ground, intertwined with the blood of the Ming soldiers he had killed before, changing the color of the sky!

"Kill! Those who don't want to die rush up with Lao Tzu and drive them off the city! "As soon as Butcher Chen killed a few Ming soldiers who had climbed to the top of the city, he led his men towards a section of the city wall not far away.

There is another Ming army on the top of the city!

At this time, on the tower of the city gate, Zeng Ziwen frowned and said: "It can't go on like this, although General Chen's sword and shield team is brave, but they alone can't do it, if you want to hold the city, you must rely on spearmen and musketeers!" ”

Hearing Zeng Ziwen's words, Li Xuan frowned, and he naturally saw that his own troops were now engaged in hand-to-hand combat at the head of the city.

In order to defend the city wall, the spearmen were too scattered to gather to form a phalanx of spears, and if the spearmen were not numerous enough to form a dense phalanx, then the spears in their hands would not actually play much role, and they could easily be rushed up by those Ming soldiers wearing heavy armor, holding shields and steel knives, and then slashed with a single sword.

Although the sword and shield soldiers led by Butcher Chen are not weak in combat effectiveness by relying on heavy armor, you must know that most of the first batch of Ming troops who rushed to the city were also wearing armor and holding shields.

Even in terms of training, these sword and shield soldiers of the Ming army who rushed to the city were better than Chen Butcher's men, and their combat was more disciplined.

After all, they are regular troops, and Butcher Chen's command is just a group of bandits with better physical fitness and greater courage.

And when he saw that the sword and shield soldiers led by Butcher Chen were also entangled, Li Xuan was quickly thinking about his limited military knowledge in his mind in order to break the situation.

In this situation, relying solely on the melee of sword and shield soldiers and spearmen, it is no longer possible to drive the Ming army off the city wall, which can be seen from the increasing number of Ming troops climbing to the top of the city, if it continues like this, it will not be long before the entire city wall defense line will collapse.

The Datang New Army is not an elite army that can fight to the end, to put it bluntly, this is just a group of bandits, and the ability to withstand casualties is very limited, once the casualties are too large, and there is no hope of victory, then it will naturally collapse completely.

Can't wait any longer!

In the next moment, I saw Li Xuan take a deep breath, then drew the long sword at his waist and strode forward, while shouting: "Musket team, array!" ”

The musketeers on the city wall were still loading at this time, ready to shoot more and more Ming soldiers under the city, but anyone with a discerning eye could see that with the current rate of fire of the musketeers only two shots a minute, the enemy would climb the city wall after they finished loading.

Seeing Li Xuan personally coming over and personally ordering the muskets to line up, Wang Danxu didn't have time to think about it, and immediately ordered: "Array...... Array ......"

In less than half a minute, at least fifty Ming soldiers rushed to the head of the city, and established the most basic position at the head of the city, covering the Ming soldiers in the rear to climb the city wall through the long ladder.

Wang Zhisi, who was under the city, saw that his soldiers had opened the gap, and even ordered the Ming soldiers who were still under the city to climb towards this gap.

Su Jiakang, who personally supervised the battle later, also smiled when he saw this scene, according to the development of this situation, it will not be long before he will be able to return to Zhengtai County, and he may be able to have dinner in the county office!

At the same time, Li Xuan personally ordered the musketeers who were still loading and shooting at the Ming army under the city to quickly stop loading and firing, and then began to line up on the city wall, which was only three meters wide!

"Tighter, tighter!" Li Xuan no longer cared about his emperor's majesty at this time, and personally commanded the soldiers to line up, and now this moment of life and death is no longer the time to be decent.

If you can't drive the Ming army off the city, then I'm afraid I won't survive tonight.

Under Li Xuan's personal orders, these half-sized soldiers of the musket team began to crowd around the city, almost shoulder to shoulder, thus forming a tight array of almost impermeable musketeers.

Li Xuan raised the long sword in his hand and shouted, "Bayonet ready!" ”

His herald, on the other hand, acted as a voice amplifier, shouting repeatedly:

"Bayonet ready!"

"Bayonet ready!"

"Bayonet ready!"

Seeing that dozens of musketeers had already finished urgently lining up and were all loaded with bayonets, Li Xuan did not hesitate at all, pointed the long sword in his hand at the Ming army in front of him, and shouted almost with all his might: "The whole army charges!" ”

"Charge the whole army!"

"Charge!"

Seeing Li Xuan, who was almost crazy in front and personally led the musketeers to launch a bayonet charge, Qian Mengjiu and Zeng Ziwen in the back all looked incredulous, they couldn't believe that this was what Li Xuan had done, because in their impression, this emperor of his own family had always stayed behind the battlefield, even if he personally commanded so many battles, he had never been on the front line, let alone charged in person.

But now, the young man is wielding the gilded saber that is only for decoration, and leading dozens of muskets to launch a bayonet charge!

They didn't know that Li Xuan was not brave, but the last counterattack in despair, and the rabbit was in a hurry and bit people.

Anyway, defeat is death, it is better to die on the way to the charge!

And who dares to say that his bayonet charge must not drive this Ming army off the city wall? What if the Ming army is driven out of the city!

Dozens of improvised musketeers, who formed a phalanx of six infantry in a tight formation, strode forward along the city walls!

A few soldiers on the side of Huangzhu Mountain along the way saw it, and they all involuntarily retreated to the side to let them pass.

In the Ming army at the head of the city, a hundred households had just killed a bandit from Huangzhushan, and when he looked up, he saw a bayonet rushing towards him, and immediately shouted: "Formation, hurry, formation!" ”

Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that in the face of the enemy's charge, you must also form a formation to meet the battle, and fighting separately will only be swept away by the enemy.

However, it was not an easy task for him to get the Ming soldiers to line up, because once the attacker was on the city, whether it was the attacker or the defender, it was easy to have a scuffle, and it was impossible to stop its large-scale concentrated resistance in the melee.

But now, Li Xuan gathered the musketeers who were not going to participate in hand-to-hand combat, and regardless of the large number of Ming troops under the city, he formed an array and launched a bayonet charge against the Ming army on the narrow city wall!

They didn't even have the intention of loading their guns, they just rushed up with muskets with bayonets on them!

Looking at the bright bayonet forest in front of him, the Ming army involuntarily took two steps back, but there were other Ming soldiers behind him who blocked his retreat.

He carried the steel knife and shield in his hand, trying to block the bayonets that kept approaching!

However, this resistance was in vain, for in the next moment several bayonets were stabbed at him at the same time, and although he struggled to block one of them with his shield, he was still stabbed in the chest with two bayonets.

As soon as the bayonet went in and out, the hundred households of the Ming army fell in a pool of blood!

And in the rear of this Ming army, more Ming soldiers began to retreat involuntarily, and tried to form a tight formation to resist with the weapons in their hands.

But generally speaking, the attacking soldiers who climbed the city rarely had spearmen, most of them were sword and shield soldiers, although they had armor, steel swords, and good martial arts, but in the face of the bayonet forest, all this was in vain.

And not to mention, what they were facing was not the sword and shield soldiers of Butcher Chen, nor the spearmen led by Fang Dongquan, but the musketeers led by Li Xuan himself.

In the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the musketeers have always been very special, born from the Guards, they have still maintained the style of the Guards era, their average age is very young, and even their physical fitness is not as good as other armies, especially not as good as the sword and shield soldiers under the command of Butcher Chen.

But the reason why they were able to become the core combat force in the Datang New Army, and they were able to convince Butcher Chen, was not only because the bullets fired from the muskets in their hands were powerful enough and far.

But because of their bayonet charge!

Many past battles have shown that they are stronger at bayonet charging than shooting, and on several occasions they rely on bayonets to defeat the enemy.

And now they have once again launched a bayonet charge!

This was a bayonet charge in despair, they either broke the Ming army and drove the Ming army off the city, or they were completely defeated and died under the swords and guns of the Ming army! r

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