Chapter 276: A Great Victory
The officers shouted, especially those young officers from the Guards, who were the first to climb out of the breastwork, and then brandished their command knives to lead the charge!
There are also various slogans in his mouth:
"Kill!"
"Get out!"
"Quick, rush forward!"
Under the leadership of the officers, three infantry battalions and one mixed battalion of the Datang New Army, with a total of more than 1,300 soldiers, climbed out of the breastwork, and then rushed out in formation.
The spearmen held spears several meters long, and their steps were steady, and many of the spearmen in the front row were wearing armor, and they were the backbone of hand-to-hand combat in the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
The musketeers gave up loading and firing their guns, and kept up with the spearmen with their bayonets in hand-to-hand combat, and the two arms formed a dense forest of spears and bayonets, which made people look numb.
At the same time, Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu also led nearly 100 sword and shield soldiers to kill from the left flank, they did not want to charge frontally, but to attack the flank of the Ming army, under normal circumstances, it was to attract the attention of the Ming army and create opportunities for the spears to break through head-on, but now, their main job is to chase and kill the Ming army on the flank.
Even the archers threw down their bows and arrows, drew their long knives at their waists and followed behind the musketeers, assisting the spearmen and musketeers in the fight.
More than a thousand people rushed out in a short defense line of several hundred meters, and then quickly advanced in a dense and neat formation!
At this time, there are no gunshots, no explosions, only all kinds of shouts, and they are going to carry out a primitive and bloody hand-to-hand charge!
At this time, on the battlefield, the smell of gunsmoke and blood was mixed together, which completely stimulated people's nerves!
A thousand households of the Ming army who had just come off the raft looked at the soldiers of their own side who were constantly retreating backwards on the river beach, the dense corpses in front of them, and the wounded soldiers lying on the ground and groaning.
At first, his face was full of disbelief, but soon the expression on his face changed to fear!
Then he climbed up the raft again without hesitation, and then urged the soldiers: "Row quickly!" ”
The expressions on the faces of those soldiers were not much better than those of their own adults, and the scene on this river beach was really terrifying.
These personal soldiers are the elite of the Ming army, they have seen a lot of life and death, they have fought a lot of battles, and they don't know how many corpses and casualties they have seen.
But this is the first time they have encountered such a situation today!
3,000 people crossed the river to charge, although many people were lost on the river, but in the end there were more than 2,000 people who successfully landed on the shore, and the casualties at the landing place were not small, at least more than 100 people died under the bows and arrows of the puppet Tang thief army when they first landed on the shore, as well as muskets and artillery.
But even if these casualties are larger, but because most of the dead and wounded are cannon fodder, they can barely bear it, and they originally thought that they would be able to enter hand-to-hand combat after rushing up, and then rely on the absolute superiority of troops to crush the puppet Tang thief army.
But what they didn't expect was that after they rushed to twenty meters, they were subjected to a dense explosion!
They didn't know what the explosions were, but they knew the serious casualties they caused.
In just a dozen seconds, hundreds of people were killed and wounded, which had to make them wonder if they would be killed if they stayed here for a while.
They didn't know that there were only about a hundred grenades in the Datang New Army, and all of them had been thrown out.
This retreat, and the retreat of the whole army, caused a collapse and became natural!
Their own army has collapsed, and those pseudo-Tang thief armies have already rushed over in a dense formation, when is it better to climb on the raft and flee for their lives at this time?
In fact, many of them just got off the raft, their feet were still in the river, and the Ming army who had not had time to go ashore saw the defeat of the Ming army in front of them, and they dared to stay there one by one, and they all climbed onto the raft again with their hands and feet, and then rowed towards it desperately.
However, these are the Ming troops who have just landed in the rear and have not had time to participate in the battle, but after the collapse of the Ming troops in the front row, although they all ran towards the river, the new army of the Tang Dynasty in the back also rushed up with spears and bayonets.
The Ming soldiers who fell behind ran a little slower, and they were immediately stabbed by the spears in the back.
Even if they ran fast, there were more than 2,000 people congested on the riverside, and more than 2,000 people who had completely collapsed and lost their organization, they rushed to the river, and those who ran to the river climbed onto the raft in a hurry, regardless of the fact that they were the only ones on the raft, they just rowed for their lives.
The whole scene is completely out of control!
And on a small ferry moored by the river, a middle-aged Ming army general turned pale at this time, and most of the generals behind him did not look good.
The middle-aged general looked at the soldiers who had been completely defeated, and did not speak for a long time, and finally sighed deeply, took two steps towards the bow of the ship, and said at the same time: "I am ashamed of the emperor's grace in this battle!" ”
After that, he jumped from the bow of the boat and jumped into the river, which greatly alarmed the generals and soldiers behind him.
"My lord, don't kill yourself!"
"Quick, get your adult up!
In the chaos, when everyone was shouting, several people jumped from the bow of the boat and tried to be a water man.
However, when they jumped into the water, they found that the water was not as deep as their waists, and when they stood up, half of their bodies could still be exposed.
The middle-aged general who jumped down before was standing in the river at this time, and said with a look of remorse and anger to the soldiers and subordinates who jumped down after him: "Even this water is wrong for me!" ”
At this time, several Ming soldiers at the back of the ferry heard the sound and ran forward, looking at their main general and a group of people standing in the water, several personal soldiers were dragging the main general to board the boat, some did not know what to do, and immediately asked a person next to him: "What's wrong?" ”
The man next to him showed a hint of sneer: "The water is too shallow!" ”
Regardless of whether it was a real jump or a fake jump, those Ming troops did not let the main general of the Ming army jump into the water and commit suicide, and after a while, they dragged the middle-aged general onto the ferry.
Immediately, a deputy Qianhu hurriedly ordered others: "What are you waiting for, get off rowing quickly!" ”
When he said this, in fact, many Ming soldiers had already climbed onto the raft and rowed towards the river, and they were scrambling to be the first to do so.
The Ming army has been completely defeated, this is a fact that anyone can see, if it runs slowly, can there be a way to live?
In order to escape, one by one will naturally not lag behind, and run as fast as you can!
But how many people will be able to escape?
The charge of the new army of the Tang Dynasty has been launched and is constantly approaching, and the distance from this river beach to the breastwork is only thirty meters, leaving little time for the Ming army to flee.
In such a short period of time, how many people can escape smoothly?
No matter how much the Ming army can escape, in this battle, the complete victory of the Datang New Army is already a foregone conclusion!