Judging from the expressions of these people alone, I am afraid that these people will unswervingly believe that they can defeat all enemies, even if the enemy army is several times or even dozens of times that of them!

As for what they actually think, no one knows!

But at least there was no fear on their faces, and their hands and feet would not tremble like ordinary infantrymen!

This alone is worthy of their title as the most elite unit in the Datang New Army!

The grenadiers were advancing, and they weren't actually carrying their muskets like the musketeers, their muskets were still on their shoulders, and they weren't even reloaded beforehand.

Although the grenadier units of the Datang New Army were also equipped with muskets, in fact, the generals of the Datang New Army rarely used them as ordinary musketeers on the spot, and they did not even need to list the lines and then use the muskets to shoot.

The generals of the new army of the Tang Dynasty preferred to put the grenadier units into the battlefield at the most critical time, shaking the morale of the enemy army by killing and wounding the enemy intensively and the huge deterrent power generated when the grenades exploded in unison, and then throwing in spearmen and even ordinary musketeers to launch hand-to-hand charges.

Basically, the use of grenadiers is actually about the same as the last salvo of musketeers!

And because the grenadiers are relatively scarce elite troops, under normal circumstances, the commanders of the Datang New Army will not put the grenadiers into the battlefield at will, causing unnecessary losses.

Generally speaking, the grenadiers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty now belong to a valuable class of troops after all, and in the hearts of senior generals, they are not much worse than the cavalry with the same small number, and they all belong to the arms that can change the situation of the battle at a critical moment.

And based on the current history of many battles between the new army of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming army, the grenadiers have indeed lived up to expectations, defeating strong enemies many times, and creating favorable conditions for the final charge of the army!

Grenadiers whose main weapon is grenades, their muskets are often just a spare weapon!

So they didn't hold muskets in their hands, but they still carried them on their backs, and they carried black grenades in their hands, and in the cloth bags they carried on their backs, they also carried four grenades.

The weight of the grenade is not light, whether the grenadiers are marching or fighting, they carry five grenades with them, and these weights do not feel anything in a short time, but after a long time, this is actually a very heavy burden for the soldiers.

After all, in addition to the weapons they carry, soldiers also carry other things, such as dry food, drinking water, and even a change of military uniform, a quilt to protect from the cold, and some bits and pieces.

The musketeers of the Datang New Army have a lot of equipment, including a complete set of military uniforms, which contain underwear, coats, shoes, socks, leggings, belts, etc., and then a quilt and a backpack.

At the same time, they would carry a musket, a bayonet, a strip, an ammunition bag, a paper bag of gunpowder and buckshot, as well as a fire rope, a bamboo kettle, a wooden lunch box, and so on.

This whole set of things, the weight is not small!

And these things are carried by the soldiers, and the baggage troops will not help you transport these things when you are on the march!

Only before entering the battlefield do soldiers remove things that are not related to combat and hand them over to the special guards of the troops, and then go to the battlefield with only weapons and ammunition.

In addition to having the same equipment as ordinary musketeers, the grenadiers had to carry five additional grenades, which, together with other things, made the grenadiers not carry a small weight during the march.

Of course, now that the grenadiers enter the battlefield, they will not be stupidly brought with them except for ammunition and weapons.

After the grenadiers came out of the ranks, they did not rush directly to the front, and after they entered the battlefield, they stopped in the rear of the 8th Infantry Battalion.

In this battle, it will not be them who will be the first to engage the enemy, but ordinary infantry phalanxes.

This grenadier is the most elite force under Song Tianbiao's command, and he needs to use this force at the most critical moment, not consume them in the early engagement!

Whether the grenadiers went into battle or not required him, the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, to personally make a decision and give the order!

After the 3rd Infantry Regiment actively adjusted the formation, a huge phalanx of five phalanxes was formed!

In front were two phalanxes of the main infantry battalions, essentially in a straight line, with spearmen in the middle of each infantry battalion and musketeers on the flanks.

Directly behind the two main infantry battalions is the third main infantry battalion.

These three main infantry battalions, forming an inverted zigzag, are the core combat strength of the 3rd Infantry Regiment in this battle!

At the rear of these three infantry battalions was a reserve battalion that had just been formed for a short time, and this reserve battalion was a pure cold weapon unit, with spearmen as the core, and sword and shield soldiers and archers.

According to the establishment, the Third Infantry Regiment should also have a reserve battalion, but at present, the reserve battalion of the Datang New Army has not been fully expanded, so the second reserve battalion of the Third Infantry Regiment is not attached.

This reserve battalion was also used as the last line of defense, to protect the artillery and the regimental positions, because their rear was the cavalry and artillery directly under the regimental headquarters.

This kind of formation configuration, especially the inverted zigzag formation, is actually a formation used by the Datang New Army in the Battle of the Tonggu Acropolis, which allows the three main infantry battalions to which an infantry regiment belongs to cooperate with each other and exert the greatest frontal firepower!

Because the third infantry battalion, which is located behind the two infantry battalions, is not only able to cover the rear and even the flanks of the two infantry battalions in front, but also does not affect their frontal fire.

Such a phalanx, directly in front of the three main infantry battalions, can concentrate about two hundred and fifty people to meet the enemy head-on, and in their rear, there are a total of six lines in front and behind!

This data is not too good, but it is not too bad, if you want to increase this number, there is only one way, that is, to increase the production of muskets, to increase the proportion of musketeers, so that the musketeers in such an infantry battalion will not be only two teams, but three, or even more.

An infantry regiment of an infantry regiment will not have less than 700 musketeers, but more than a thousand or more musketeers.

When the 3rd Infantry Regiment met the enemy with a dense array, the Ming army finally launched an attack on the 3rd Infantry Regiment!

This nearly 5,000 Ming army also listed several infantry phalanxes, and began to launch a tidal attack on the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

The speed of the Ming army's advance was not too fast, of course, this had nothing to do with the strength of the Ming army's combat effectiveness, because in this kind of battle in array, it was impossible for both sides to run as soon as they entered the battlefield at the beginning.

The generals always tried to conserve the physical strength of the soldiers before launching the final charge, otherwise it would be easy to exhaust themselves to death before they could run in front of the enemy.

After all, the soldiers of this era, even the semi-modern army of the Tang New Army, which has adopted line tactics, still have many soldiers wearing heavy armor.

This is too much physical drain on running!

The current 5,000 Ming troops are slowly approaching, and further behind them, more Ming troops are also maintaining the rhythm of slow advancement, wanting to form a formation that cooperates with each other and can support the forward battle at any time.

On the side of the Datang New Army, there was not much change after listing the battle formation, it was like a nail firmly nailed in place, and blocked the passage of the Ming army to Liping Mansion City!

Although the forward speed of the Ming army is not fast, the road that is not a few hundred meters away is still completed quickly!

When he saw that the Ming army had entered a distance of one hundred and fifty meters, Song Tianbiao immediately spoke: "The battalion artillery team fires!" ”

With Song Tianbiao's order, the two 150-pound shotguns in the battalion artillery team were immediately ignited with the ignition rope, followed by a loud noise, and suddenly the muzzle of the cannon spewed out a thick white smoke, and in the white smoke, many iron nails, iron pieces and other objects were shot out.

After flying over a distance of more than 100 meters, these tiny iron nails and pieces of iron soon fell into the Ming army's forward array.

However, there was no accident, and the soldiers in the front row of the Ming army array fell down in a large area!

Even many of these front-row soldiers are wearing armor!

But in the face of artillery fire, these armors are actually not able to play much!

Although the shotshots of the artillery are not large, the power of the lead bullets fired by the musket is incomparable.

At a distance of more than 100 meters, if the soldiers wear dozens of pounds of heavy armor, especially cotton armor and iron armor that combines cotton armor and iron armor, they can block lead bullets.

But being able to block lead bullets does not mean that you can block artillery shots.

It is a pity that there are only two artillery pieces that can shoot at a distance of 150 meters on the side of the Datang New Army, and the remaining four are only 100 pounds of bowl guns, and the effective range of these bowl guns is relatively short, only about 70 or 80 meters.

Otherwise, if the battalion artillery team had six 150-pound shotguns to fire a salvo, the Ming army on the opposite side would have suffered heavy casualties and would have been subjected to several more rounds of artillery bombardment, and before they could rush to the front of the formation, it would be estimated that hundreds of people would have been killed or wounded.

Artillery, from the day it appeared on the battlefield, has become a big killer on the battlefield.

Especially with the development of technology and the continuous improvement of artillery, after the sixteenth century, generally in this period of time, the style and even tactics of modern artillery have been determined, so artillery has a more important position on the battlefield.

After the nineteenth century, he could be called the god of war!