Although Li Xuan believed that musketeers would eventually replace archers, spearmen, sword and shield men, and almost all other cold-weapon infantry units.

But he also knew very well that for the Tang Dynasty, it would be a long process for musketeers to replace cold-weapon infantry, and the limitation here was not that the musketeers were insufficient, but because for the Tang Dynasty, it was difficult to mass-produce muskets on a large scale.

In other words, Li Xuan had no way to equip all the troops under his command with muskets now!

In addition, there are some performance defects of the musket, which will also limit the full replacement of the cold-armed infantry by the musket.

Because the musket currently equipped by the Guards is still an arquebus smoothbore gun, and it is not the smoothbore gun that Li Xuan has always wanted.

Today's arquebuses of the Guards, although not bad in this era, are not only much stronger than the primitive hand-held muskets of the Ming army, but even compared with the muskets of the West of the same era, they are not far behind.

But this is still far from enough to support the modern army plan in Li Xuan's heart!

As far back as he can remember, the musket units of modern armies were able to form a sufficiently dense firepower with just three platoons.

This is a huge tactical advantage that arquebuses cannot replace!

It's a pity that in order to change from arquebus to stone, the level of craftsmanship required is still too high for the Tang Dynasty.

Because the springs needed for flintlock pistols were made of special spring steel, which was a veritable high-tech for the 16th century.

Therefore, it is too difficult for the Tang Dynasty to obtain a flintlock pistol, at least until he comes up with spring steel, this flintlock pistol cannot be made.

Based on the problem of technology and output, it is impossible for Li Xuan to completely replace the cold-weapon infantry in the Tang Dynasty in a short period of time.

But this does not mean that Li Xuan will not continue to develop the musket unit, even if it is a musket unit with arquebus, the more the better!

If I had so many hundreds of musketeers, I am afraid that in today's battle, there would be no need for Chen Butcher and them to rush up and fight, and directly hit them in a few rounds of guns, maybe the other party would collapse.

It's a pity that he didn't, so Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu still have to continue to put on armor and charge!

Standing in the rear, Li Xuan could clearly see that Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu were like tigers descending from the mountain, rushing to the front of the Ming army with dozens of sword and shield hands behind them, tearing through their defense line, and rushing in to fight closely.

Among them, more than 20 heavy-armored sword and shield men led by Butcher Chen were the backbone.

These more than 20 armor-clad sword and shield bearers, relying on the armor protection ability on their bodies, were almost like no one after entering the array of the Ming army, and the surrounding Ming troops were unable to resist at all.

Especially the butcher Chen who rushed to the front, he was no enemy at all, and the pig-killing knife shone with a cold glow, making everyone daunted.

Not only Butcher Chen, but in fact, most of the other twenty or so armored bandits he brought with him could not meet opponents!

That's right, it's not that they can't beat the enemy, but they don't even have an opponent!

Because most of the time, when Butcher Chen and the people just rushed over, the Ming army composed of those county warriors and people turned around and ran out of a long distance first.

As a result, Butcher Chen chased after the Ming army and cut it, but they couldn't cut it alive or dead.

After all, Butcher Chen and they are all wearing heavy armor, which is not only tiring to run, but also not fast, but these county warriors and people of the Ming army have no long objects, no weight, and even weapons are very light flat shoulders, which are fast thieves and thieves are fast.

This scene made Li Xuan behind him a little speechless, these Ming troops are really good enough, if they don't run away, they can't catch up with the Chen butcher.

Compared to Butcher Chen, who was as tired as a dog, but couldn't cut people alive or dead, Cai Erhu in the back was lucky, because the light-armored sword and shield men led by Cai Erhu followed behind Butcher Chen's heavy-armored sword and shield hands, which were used to cover Butcher Chen's back and flanks, and occasionally they could clear out some fish that slipped through the net or slipped over from the flanks to pick up cheap Ming soldiers.

Sixty or seventy sword and shield men entered the Ming army's array from the flanks, judging from the formations of both sides, Chen Butcher was about to completely collapse the Ming army's flank, but in fact, until now, Chen Butcher and they have not cut a few Ming soldiers at all.

The sword and shield hand on Butcher Chen's side seemed fierce, but in fact it could not threaten the Ming army, at least all this was nothing in Wu Baihu's eyes.

The current Wu Baihu is even more worried about the spearmen of the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side, who are as high as more than 100 people.

Although their speed was not fast, they kept moving forward with their spears, and the pressure brought to the Ming army by the spear exceeded the pressure brought by the bullets of those muskets to the Ming army before, and even more than the pressure brought to the Ming army by Chen Butcher and Cai Erhu's 'big killing' on the flank.

Those sword and shield bearers seem to be very majestic now, but Wu Baihu is still confident that people can stop them.

However, once the more than 100 spearmen on the other side approached, the regular guards under his command would be fine, but the other county warriors and people would definitely collapse.

They can't fight calmly in the face of a dense array of spears!

"Shoot arrows and hold them down!" Wu Baihu hurriedly shouted, asking the archers behind him to bend their bows and shoot arrows, but the time was urgent, and there were not many archers left in the Ming army, so after Wu Baihu finished speaking, he only saw more than ten arrows flying into the spear array of the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain.

However, although they shot two people, it was nothing to the spearmen of more than 100 people in the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, the spearmen of the Guards were already less than fifteen meters away from the Ming army.

What does this fifteen meters represent? It means that the soldiers on both sides are already able to read each other's expressions clearly.

Without waiting for the commanders of the two sides to give any more orders, the two sides were soon completely scuffled.

Even Wu Baihu didn't have time to care about anything, but brandished a long knife and rushed up to fight in person.

I don't know how long, but after he finally cut down a spearman of a pseudo-Tang thief army, he found that there was no trace of the soldiers under his command around him, and when he looked down, the ground around him was almost full of corpses and wounded who were screaming, and most of them were Ming soldiers.

When I looked back slightly, I saw a large number of my own soldiers rushing towards the rear, and the ground was full of weapons they had discarded.

When he saw this, he knew that this battle was defeated, and it was completely defeated!

But how could I lose?