Seeing this kind of scene in front of him that was different from his expectations, Wang Zhixi was also hesitant, and his intuition told him that he had to retreat at this time, otherwise he would continue to wait until the guns of the puppet Tang thief army came, and the close distance would cause a large number of casualties.

The pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side did not shoot because they ran out of ammunition or collapsed, even at night, but Wang Zhisian also passed through the countless torches held by both sides and clearly saw that the musketeers of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side had been reloaded after the last shot.

And already with the guns raised, they just need to pull the trigger to shoot!

However, these pseudo-Tang thieves did not shoot for a long time, even if Wang Zhixi didn't understand why the pseudo-Tang thieves on the other side did this, but he knew that if his soldiers continued to step forward and waited for sixty or seventy meters or even closer when the other party fired, they would definitely suffer a lot of casualties.

Reason told him that it was time for the forward soldiers to retreat!

This is just an attack like a drill, you can't kill and wound too many people in vain, and even if you really want to fight, you can't fight like this!

If he really wanted to fight, Wang Zhixi would rush forward directly with thousands of people, instead of sending only 100 to 200 people to carry out a tentative attack like now, which would only increase casualties.

But reason also told him that if he dared to order a retreat at this time, Su Jiakang in the back would definitely not let him go.

Su Jiakang is not a fool, he retreated a few times before, but the puppet Tang thief army also played a round of guns, and now the puppet Tang thief army retreated without firing a shot, and when they met a grumpy commander of the army, they dared to directly behead the general.

Wang Zhixi didn't want to die, and he didn't want to be beheaded on the spot by Su Jiakang, who was so furious, so even if the hundreds of households under him turned to look at him, he pretended not to see it.

At this time, he was very similar to Su Jiakang, in order to save his own life, he directly gave up the lives of his subordinates.

Wang Zhi sighed and didn't give an order, and the Ming army striker in front of him fell into a state of hesitation!

A deputy thousand households leading the army are neither advancing nor retreating, and they involuntarily stop as they walk.

He, the forward general, stopped, and the middle and low-ranking officers and ordinary soldiers under his command even stopped!

They don't want to rush up, the puppet Tang thief army's firearms are extremely sharp, that's something that ordinary guards know, and if they can't rush, they will naturally not rush up stupidly.

So, there was an extremely strange scene on the battlefield, the attacking Ming army vanguard actually stopped at a distance of about eighty meters from the Datang New Army array, and it was also strange that these Ming troops had obviously entered the Datang New Army musketeers, and even entered the range of the archers, but they were stunned and did not shoot and shoot.

But this situation was soon broken by the pro-soldiers sent by Su Jiakang to supervise the battle, and the leader of a strong military attache wearing a hundred official robes rode forward with fifty pro-soldiers, he waved the long knife in his hand and said loudly: "Your Excellency has an order, retreat without authorization, and behead, cowardly and unprecedented, behead!" ”

Hearing the words from the rear, Deputy Qianhu, who was the leader of the Ming army's forward, gritted his teeth, and then said loudly: "Keep going!" ”

Now they can't retreat, Wang Zhisian didn't order a retreat, and Su Jiakang strictly ordered not to retreat, if he ordered a retreat at this time, he would be the first to die.

And he, like Wang Zhisian and Su Jiakang, doesn't want to die!

So it was only the ordinary soldiers who died!

The Ming army forward, which had stopped, moved again, and although the soldiers were extremely frightened and unwilling to step forward so that they walked very slowly, they still walked step by step.

At this time, in the new army of the Tang Dynasty opposite, Wang Danxu nodded slightly towards Fang Dongquan, who was commanding the archers not far away, and then raised his command knife again.

When the Ming army stepped into the 80-meter cordon, Wang Danxu said loudly: "Aim!" ”

When the Ming army continued to move forward, when it was about seventy-five meters, Wang Danxu did not hesitate to order to shoot.

After a round of guns, the Ming army on the opposite side did not have any accidents, and more than a dozen soldiers in the front row fell in unison, and these soldiers who rushed in front were basically soldiers in armor, even if they were wearing inferior iron armor or cotton armor, but it was much stronger than the vast majority of Ming soldiers who only wore single clothes in the back.

And these inferior iron armor and cotton armor, if they are at a distance of about 100 meters, they can barely block the musket bullets of the Datang New Army, but they can't stop it at all at a distance of more than 70 meters.

The muskets of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty were medium-caliber muskets, although they were not as powerful as the 20 mm Spanish heavy muskets, but they were also much stronger than the Japanese iron cannons of the same era or the bird guns that had not yet been imitated and equipped by the Ming army.

At a distance of more than seventy meters, those well-made steel plate armor can penetrate it, let alone these inferior iron or cotton armor.

So there is no doubt that none of the Ming soldiers who were knocked down were spared, all of them were seriously injured, and some of them were killed on the spot.

The moment the Ming soldiers in the front platoon fell, the Ming army, who was already panicked, panicked even more, and this was not only the panic of the soldiers, but also the deputy thousand households and the two hundred households leading the army were also afraid.

On the battlefield, the bullets of the puppet Tang thief army do not recognize people, and after continuing to rush forward, the probability of their own death and injury is not small.

After the musketeers of the Datang New Army fired the first round of volleys, the archers under Fang Dongquan's hands also began to shoot arrows!

Although there were not many archers, and the arrows shot were not many, thanks to the rapid fire, these arrows were constantly inserted into the Ming army's array like rain.

Even if these arrows are too far away and their power is seriously insufficient, they can't do any damage when they are shot on some iron armor or even cotton armor, but this Ming army is not an elite personal soldier Everyone wears armor, and only a few people are protected by armor, and most of them are only wearing ordinary clothes.

And these unarmored units have little resistance to these bows and arrows.

After a few waves of arrow rain, these Ming army forwards finally couldn't hold on, and without waiting for the rear to Mingjin, nor waiting for the deputy Qianhu and Baihu who led the army to order a retreat, those ordinary soldiers just began to spontaneously turn around and flee.

And seeing them turn around and run away, Su Jiakang in the rear said: "Order, those who retreat without permission will be killed!" ”

Soon, Su Jiakang's personal soldiers lined up with swords and guns, and at the same time shouted: "Those who retreat without authorization, behead!" ”

Looking at the knives and guns of their own supervising team in front, the fleeing Ming army forward soldiers stopped again, and then looked around blankly in the middle of the battlefield, if they continued to flee back, if they did not die in the hands of the pseudo-Tang thief army, they would die in the hands of their own people.

Wang Zhisian looked at the chaotic scene in front of him and looked helpless, when he didn't give the order for the striker to retreat a few minutes ago, he expected this scene!

He turned around and looked at Su Jiakang, that Su Jiakang was still confident and satisfied, he gritted his teeth and made up his mind! 10