By observing the entire battlefield and exchanging flags with Hao Bonian on the front line, Li Xuan decided to transfer the remnants of the Baggage Regiment, the 10th Infantry Battalion of the 4th Infantry Regiment, a musket team of the Artillery Battalion, and a team of the Guards Battalion to form a temporary Chinese commando, and the temporary commander of the department would be Wang Danxu, the commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment.

The Chinese assault team will carry out a surprise attack from the southwest to the northeast, that is, launch an attack from the left flank of the front line, assist the first corps to completely crush the enemy's flank troops, and then join the first corps to sweep the enemy's central army and completely defeat the enemy army!

As for why Wang Danxu was appointed as the commander, this is because the three senior generals that Li Xuan attaches importance to are all in the forward troops, Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing, and Fang Xitong are all on the front line, each leading a main infantry regiment, and Hao Bonian is the forward commander.

If no one is available, you can only use Wang Danxu, a bandit veteran!

However, although Wang Danxu, who was ordered in danger, was a general from a bandit, he had rich combat experience, and he had led thousands of people to fight, and his prestige and qualifications were quite sufficient.

As long as you don't mess around and simply lead the troops to launch a surprise attack according to the predetermined plan, then it's not a big problem!

After receiving the order, Wang Danxu listened to Li Xuan personally tell him how to fight, and repeatedly emphasized that he should not change the battle plan without authorization, and always pay attention to the flag order of the Chinese army, he also knew that this may be the last opportunity he can seize.

In the past few months, as long as you are not blind, then you can see that Your Majesty has begun to support young officers from the Guards, while veterans from bandits have been suppressed separately, and Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan are now only deputy commanders.

Although he was promoted to the head of the regiment, in terms of power, he was still inferior to Hao Bonian, Li Chunjing, and Fang Xitong.

This can be seen from the previous series of high-level personnel appointments, the forward commander is Hao Bonian, and the deputy commanders are Li Chunjing and Fang Xitong.

However, Huang Xueren, Fang Dongquan and even him, the former commander of the Guards, are lagging behind.

Now, under the urgency of the war, His Majesty cannot let Hao Bonian and them command this Chinese commando, so the appointment of this commander will fall on his head.

And he absolutely can't waste this opportunity, because he knows that if he messes up this time, then it will be almost impossible to get another chance to command an army in the future.

Therefore, in the face of Li Xuan's instructions, he listened very carefully, and at the same time cheekily asked Zeng Ziwen to come over and help him make temporary decisions, after all, this combat operation was not trivial, and he was also worried about whether his ability to successfully command so many temporarily transferred troops.

Zeng Ziwen naturally would not refuse, so he dispatched young staff officers from three combat divisions to him on the spot.

The staff officers of the Operations Division are basically the young officers recruited in the past year, and these young officers are basically from scholars, and after they enter the martial arts academy to study, they will enter the imperial academy to study, and they have the experience of serving as grassroots officers.

These operational staff officers are basically captains, and then they will be released to serve as the chief officers of the troops, according to the current posture of the expansion of the Datang New Army, these people will at least be a battalion commander after being released.

These people not only have traditional cultural education, but also have received a new style of military education, in terms of quality, and even the best among the many officers in the Tang New Army, and more importantly, they are actually still in the learning stage, learning from others or delving into more advanced military knowledge on their own.

If it is said that the officers who were born in the Guards temporarily held up a piece of the sky for the Datang New Army, then these young generation of officers who were originally born as scholars and then went through a series of military education will be the future of the Datang New Army.

With these staff officers of the Operations Division here, Wang Danxu was also a lot more relieved, and he didn't dare to delay the time, so he rode directly to gather the troops.

In Wang Danxu's Chinese commando, the baggage regiment has just experienced a brutal battle, and the reduction of the troops is not small, and now there are only about 1,400 people left, while the other troops are new forces that have not gone through battle.

The total strength of the army has reached about 1,800 people, which can barely be claimed to be an army of 2,000!

In terms of the number of troops, in fact, this is the configuration of an infantry regiment, but in terms of troop allocation, equipment level, and even the quality of soldiers, it is still not comparable with the two main infantry regiments, the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment.

After Wang Danxu led the army to set off, Li Xuan was still the same as before, watching the entire battlefield!

At this time, the battlefield seemed as if the two sides had entered a stalemate stage, Hao Bonian's forward force of about 6,000 people against the main force of the Ming army with 20,000 troops, it was quite difficult, and the attrition of the troops was not small, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded before and after.

However, the Ming army on the opposite side was also uncomfortable, more than half of them were young men and people with weak combat effectiveness, and if they fought, they could only rely on guards and recruits.

Among the guards, they can only rely on the generals' personal soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of ordinary guards is actually very limited.

After this fight, although it seemed that the puppet Tang thief army was pressed to fight again, and constantly tried to launch an offensive, but in fact, it did not advance much of the front, and it itself suffered heavy casualties, and three infantry phalanxes were defeated successively, with nearly 2,000 dead and wounded.

It's just that these dead and wounded are ordinary cannon fodder soldiers, not the generals' personal soldiers and recruits as the backbone, otherwise, they would have collapsed on their own.

In order to support the infantry in the battle, the artillery unit that had been transferred to attack the cavalry of the Ming army also turned the muzzle of the gun and began to intensively bombard the infantry phalanx of the Ming army.

The solid shells of heavy artillery, the close-range scattershell attack of battalion artillery, every shot of artillery will take the lives of a large number of Ming soldiers.

In this battle, although the number of artillery of the Tang New Army was not large, it played an important role from beginning to end, and caused a large number of casualties to the Ming army.

Whether it was the battle between the infantry or the attack of the Ming cavalry just now, in fact, at least one-third of these casualties of the Ming army were the results of artillery.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the two sides have not yet officially entered the stage of large-scale hand-to-hand combat.

When the artillery began to bombard the infantry phalanx of the Ming army, Wang Danxu also looked back at the troops behind him again, and then pulled out the command knife on horseback, and pointed to the Ming army more than 100 meters away in front with the command knife and gave an order: "The whole army is there, march forward together!" ”

Suddenly, these 1,800 infantry began to form two huge line phalanxes and began to advance!

Advancing in two lines and phalanxes was a suggestion given to Wang Danxu by the staff officers of the Operations Division, because although this Chinese commando force had the size of a regiment, it actually had more numbers, and there were four battalions in the baggage regiment, the 10th Infantry Battalion of the Fifth Infantry Regiment, as well as a team of guards and a team of musketeers in the artillery battalion.

Moreover, the distribution of arms and the strength of combat effectiveness of each unit are different, the number of musketeers in the baggage regiment is relatively small, there is only one musketeer team in each battalion, and the four battalions of the baggage regiment have lost a lot of personnel, and they are all less than the quota, and it is difficult for them to organize a battalion-sized line phalanx on their own.

The command of the other units was also a problem, so it was simply divided into two parts, with the commander of the baggage regiment and the commander of the 10th Infantry Battalion serving as the temporary commanders of the two phalanxes.

The first phalanx consisted of three infantry battalions of the baggage regiment, and the second phalanx consisted of one battalion of the baggage regiment, one battalion of the tenth infantry battalion, one team of the guard battalion, and one squadron of the artillery battalion.

The former had more troops, but the latter was actually more combative, as the 10th Infantry Battalion was the only regular infantry battalion among these units, and the infantry in the Guards Battalion was not weak.

When the Chinese assault team began to advance, the first corps also launched a corresponding counteroffensive, the second infantry battalion put into the last reserve, the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers in the fifth team launched a surprise attack, like several other main infantry battalions, limited to the shortage of muskets, and a slight surplus of spearmen, the fifth team is generally sword and shield soldiers and archers, the specific proportion is different, but the overall proportion is maintained half and half.

And the sword and shield soldiers in the fifth team are heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, and these about fifty heavy armor sword and shield soldiers are also the only heavy armor sword and shield soldiers in a regular infantry battalion!

When the fifty heavily armored sword and shield soldiers in the fifth team wore heavy armor and launched a surprise attack with shields, they were like sharp knives inserted into the array of the Ming army in front of them, although in the process of penetrating, they were put into several people by the Ming army's handcuffs, and several people were killed and wounded by the spearmen of the Ming army, but the rest of the people still broke into the array of the Ming army.

And when more than forty heavily armored sword and shield soldiers entered the Ming army's array, it was almost catastrophic for the Ming army.

Because at this time, it has entered the real hand-to-hand combat, and in this kind of hand-to-hand combat, the only ones who can fight against the heavy armor sword and shield soldiers are actually the same heavy armor sword and shield soldiers, and other troops will either run or be killed when they encounter them.

Zhao Dashan held a long waist knife made of stainless steel, and carefully swung a spear towards him with the round shield in his hand, and then took a few steps forward, and the stainless steel waist knife in his hand was gently swung out, which was to stab to death the spearman of the Ming army who was stabbing at him with a spear.

In this kind of close-quarters melee, it is almost impossible for the spearmen to be the opponents of the sword and shield soldiers, because the spearmen are different from the sword and shield soldiers, the sword and shield soldiers can fight separately by virtue of their individual martial arts, while the spearmen must use the collective strength to form a spear array to kill the enemy.

Otherwise, the heavily armored spearmen of the Datang New Army would not take the initiative to abandon their spears in the melee stage, and then draw out their waist knives to fight, otherwise, there would be no way to fight chaotic close combat with a spear of four and a half meters on the battlefield!

The 2nd Infantry Battalion launched a counterattack, the other two infantry battalions of the 1st Infantry Corps, the 3rd Infantry Battalion also launched a counterattack, and the 1st Infantry Battalion was withdrawn from the cavalry battle and then joined the sequence of line operations.

The first step corps plus the Chinese commando team led by Wang Danxu, although there are already a lot of losses in these two troops, the remaining strength is still more than 3,500 people!

And these forces all launched a counteroffensive against the Ming army!