On the hillside, in front of a giant drum standing behind Li Xuan, a drummer with his bare upper body and his muscles shining in the sun raised the mallet in his hand, took a deep breath, and slammed it down towards the giant drum in front of him.

Boom, the sound of drums suddenly sounded in the wilderness, on the river, and in the sky, and reached the ears of every soldier of the Tang New Army.

Boom, the drums are beating again!

At this time, the soldiers of all battalions and teams in the Datang New Army are also preparing to fight!

In particular, the officers of the three musket teams had already given their own orders: "Ready!" ”

Suddenly, the musketeers of each musket team lit the arquebus, ready to shoot at any moment!

Behind the musketeers were nearly a hundred archers, who had already pulled their arrows out of their quivers and stuck them in the ground.

On the one hand, this is done to facilitate archery, and on the other hand, there is another reason that ordinary people do not know, but it is extremely vicious, that is, to increase the probability of infection of the enemy who is hit by the arrow.

Speaking of which, many people may ask, why were the arrows fired by archers not coated with poison in ancient wars?

This is because in ancient times, highly toxic drugs were difficult to extract and even more difficult to preserve, which led to the problem of high costs, and if it was just ordinary poisons, then it was not very useful.

So ancient archers didn't usually get their bows and arrows poisoned!

But that doesn't mean they don't do anything, they don't apply poison, but they often get gold juice on their arrows.

What is Golden Juice? and pee too!

Shooting an arrow with feces and urine on an enemy increases the chance that the enemy will be infected after being hit by an arrow.

In addition, rusty arrowheads are also very popular with them, and inserting arrows into the soil also has this effect.

So don't believe that the archers of the ancient armies would use poison on a large scale, but don't think that the archers of ancient times would be stupid enough to do nothing.

Human wisdom is infinite, especially in war, because both sides will try their best to kill each other, if they can't kill each other, then they are the ones who die, in order to survive, in order to kill the enemy, so people will always continue to innovate in war.

During the Thirty Years' War, flintlock pistols replaced arquebuses on a large scale, making line tactics the mainstream of the battlefield.

In the Napoleonic Wars, artillery rose from the auxiliary to the status of the main branch, and had a decisive impact on the outcome of the war.

In the American Revolution, high-precision Mini rifles replaced smoothbore guns as the mainstream of warfare, and skirmisher tactics became mainstream.

The Russo-Japanese War made machine guns shine, and by the time of the First World War, intensive charges had become history.

World War II is a palace of various technological innovations, all kinds of new technologies developed for the war are simply dazzling, and the technologies that everyone is familiar with today are actually born during World War II, television, radar, ultraviolet night vision devices, and the famous nuclear bomb!

In addition, although the decades-long Cold War did not break out into a hot war, both sides prepared for war, so technological innovation also showed an explosive state.

Therefore, war is the source of all technological innovation!

After coming to this era, in order to win the war, Li Xuan also carried out many technological innovations within his ability.

An arquebus with a custom-made gunpowder with a front sight and equipped with a sleeve bayonet.

A long-barreled front-loading smoothbore gun made of bronze.

A breastwall defense system suitable for musket fire.

Even the entire organization, the innovation and change of tactics, all this is in the service of victory in the war.

And today, it's time to test whether all that he's done can make a difference.

The Ming army began to cross the river, and when I looked at it from the west bank, there was a dense crowd of rafts and the Ming soldiers on the rafts, who were struggling to paddle with the rudimentary wooden oars in their hands, or even just a small plank, to push the raft forward at a faster speed.

Corresponding to the dense Ming army, there are also neat and dense soldiers of the Tang New Army behind the breastwork.

Originally, they wanted to build the breastwork directly to the river, but it was too close to the river, the ground was soft, and even some of it was mud or sand, so it was too difficult to build a perfect breastwork fortification, so they had to push it to a distance of 30 meters to build the breastwork.

But this does not mean that the thirty meters from the breastwork to the river are empty, so that the Ming army can land smoothly, in order to block the landing of the Ming army, they placed a large number of distance horses in this area, or even simply set up some wooden stakes.

Naturally, these wooden fortifications were not designed to kill or injure the enemy, but to make it impossible for the Ming army to form dense formations.

It's a pity that the time is too short, otherwise Li Xuan would have planned to build a wooden fence directly near the river.

Dense ranks of soldiers behind the breastwork, and the musketeers were already reloaded, waiting for the order to fire.

And the commanders of the musket team are also secretly calculating the distance, and now the Ming army has not even come to the center of the river, the distance is too far, and the muskets can't hit.

I can only watch Xie Ziwei's artillery fire intermittently, but Xie Ziwei's artillery has good lethality when the Ming army is still on the river beach, because the solid ball cannonball can continue to bounce.

However, when the Ming army was launched and officially crossed the river, the shells of the solid ball were of little use, because they sank into the water, and as for the fact that one cannon hit the raft of the Ming army, knocking over and falling into the water.

This hit rate is too small, and if it wastes shells, it is better to use scattered bullets!

That's right, now Xie Ziwei and they have already begun to shell with shotguns, but the first shot of shots was not effective, and it missed, and it just happened to land on the water without the raft of the Ming army.

It's a pity that he has only been learning artillery for two days, and it is not easy to decide the timing and type of ammunition according to the distance.

But then again, even if Xie Ziwei's artillery hit a boatload of enemy troops, it still couldn't affect the situation of this battle.

As for the 3,000 Ming army, there were more than 200 large and small rafts used to cross the river alone, and in addition to the rafts, there were also boats that were originally ferries.

With the help of these rafts and boats, they were able to cross the river in one go.

When the Ming army's river-crossing troops crossed the middle line, only seventy meters away from the shore and only one hundred meters away from the Datang New Army, the officers of the various musket teams had already unanimously ordered to shoot!

A crackling sound suddenly sounded on the surface of the river, and a white smoke spreading more than 100 meters long floated above the chest wall.

The musketeers opened fire, announcing that the battle between the two sides has entered the most critical and at the same time the most intense stage!