The battalion commander of the reserve battalion dared to say this, and naturally he also had his confidence!

Although the Ming army on the opposite side is numerous, in fact, the regular army is only 1,000 people, and the remaining 4,000 are just young and strong, and he, who has fought against the Ming army many times, knows deeply that these young and strong combat effectiveness is not as good as pigs!

At least if the four thousand pigs run in one direction, there is no accident, and they will never turn back, which will stand in their way, and they will most likely be trampled to death by living trampling.

Even if the 4,000 pigs escape, it will be quite difficult to kill or capture them!

Don't you see, even if our party is incomparably great, has unparalleled combat power, has broken through the limits of the universe, and is invincible in all known or unknown planes of mankind, when the pigs in the pig pen run away, then the whole class or even the whole platoon or even the whole company will immediately go to the mountains and streets to find it!

The scene of the people's soldiers dispatching a large number of soldiers and horses to catch pigs can be called a classic scene of many tragic battles throughout the ages, and its tragedy is not weaker than the Battle of Iwo Jima, the Normandy landing, and the Battle of Shangganling!

It was a tragic scene! It's tearful!

From this, it can be judged that the combat effectiveness of pigs is actually not weak!

In particular, they have a quality that almost all armies in the world, from ancient times to the present day, do not have: they never know what surrender is!

How many years have been there and how many pigs have died tragically at the hands of humans and been served to the table? That's too many to count!

But!

But!!

But!!!

Not a pig has ever surrendered, never!

They all fought to the last moment of their lives in the face of butcher knives, and no pig ever gave in!

So some people in history say that if you put 50,000 pigs and can't catch them in three days, it's just a fart, and you want to catch them in three days, and you can't catch them in three months!

From this point of view, saying that the combat effectiveness of these Ming troops in front of them is not as good as that of pigs, which is actually not an insult, but it still elevates these Ming troops!

Because these Ming troops will surrender!

In the battle between the Datang New Army and the Ming Army, especially the recent large-scale battles and victories, the generals of the Datang New Army also felt a little floating.

While thinking highly of himself, he also despised the Ming army.

In the eyes of many officers of the Datang New Army, especially the middle-level officers, the regular guards in the Ming army are just like that, with the same strength, the officers of the Datang New Army are not afraid of these Ming guards at all, even if the strength of the Ming army is twice or even three times that of them, they dare to fight a dozen in the case of a frontal field battle.

The only opponent that they pay some attention to, that is, those recruits who pay their lives for money, the recruits under Song Zhiwen still left a deep impression on the new army of the Tang Dynasty, those recruits will not be the same as those guards, the whole army will collapse if they encounter a little setback, they still have combat effectiveness, which can be seen from the fact that Song Zhiwen and Zhu Zhihai both regard recruitment as the core and main force of the army.

As for those young and strong men who were temporarily recruited by the Ming army, they didn't have any combat effectiveness at all, and they were enough to fight in a tailwind battle, let alone a hard battle.

The 5,000 Ming troops in front of him, in the heart of this major and battalion commander, in fact, the 4,000 young and strong people were directly ignored by him, and the enemy he wanted to fight was only 1,000 guards.

His 500 troops fought twice the strength of the guards, and he felt that he was still sure!

So even if the Ming army in front of him has begun to counterattack with bows and arrows, and his own soldiers have begun to suffer casualties, he still hasn't frowned, and he is still full of confidence!

After all, today's casualties are controllable, after all, like in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, there are not many archers in the Ming army!

This archer is not a cabbage, generally only in the regular Ming army will be equipped, that is to say, only in the guards of Xinglongwei, there are so many dozens of professional archers, in addition, there are also some people in the young Zhuang who are hunters or know how to shoot arrows for other reasons, but the total number will not be too much.

As a result, the sum of the 5,000 Ming army is actually about 100 archers, which is actually about the same as the number of archers in the reserve battalion of the third regiment.

As for the average quality of archers, don't despise anyone, because most of the archers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty were captured by the Ming army, and the archers on both sides can be regarded as of the same origin, and no one is better than the other in terms of the initial quality of soldiers.

Of course, in the later period, the new army of the Tang Dynasty will strengthen the training of these soldiers who were captured by the Ming army, and the military law is extremely strict, which is relatively higher than their previous combat effectiveness, but the improvement is limited.

There are also cavalry in a similar situation with archers, and the cavalry of the new army of the Tang Dynasty is also mostly captured by the Ming army, but later they deeply felt the greatness of the Tang Dynasty and the greatness of Li Xuan, the saint of the ages, so they did not hesitate to abandon the pseudo-Ming, so as to devote themselves to the big family of the Tang Dynasty, and contribute their own meager strength to the great cause of overthrowing the pseudo-Ming.

Well, they naturally wouldn't say that if they didn't choose to surrender to Cheng, the Datang New Army would directly cut them down, and once they surrendered to the thief, there would be no way out.

So far, I have not heard of anyone who surrendered to the Ming army and is still alive!

For the anti-thief, for a hundred years, the Ming Dynasty has held an unswerving attitude: kill, kill, kill! Use the most iron-blooded and ruthless means to kill him without leaving a chicken dog!

This is still the case for ordinary anti-thieves, not to mention the soldiers of the former Ming Army who betrayed the past!

This is a rebellion, the first offender is the Zhu Jiu clan, well, this is talking about Li Xuan, the main accomplice, that is, Liu Bagou, Zeng Ziwen, Fang Dongquan and them, the Zhu Jiu clan is estimated to be unable to take the turn, but the Zhu San clan is still easy.

As for those ordinary officials and officers of the Datang New Army, it is estimated that they will also end up with a full end of beheading.

Ordinary soldiers, raiding homes and the like won't, after all, the workload is too much, and the Ming Dynasty can't kill it, but the soldiers themselves must be caught and killed one by one, and it is rare to say that there is still a life left if caught.

Even after the suppression of the puppet Tang thief army, in Xingquan Mansion and Liping Mansion, the people and families who were involved in the puppet Tang thief army in the past could not escape the punishment of the imperial court, and I don't know how many families will be beheaded all over the house, I don't know how many men will be beheaded, women and children will be sold into slavery, and I don't know how many people will be exiled for 3,000 miles.

In short, in the matter of the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, whether it was Li Xuan or Liu Bagou, or those ordinary officers, even soldiers and even some people and families who were involved with the Tang Dynasty, they all could not afford to fail.

There is no turning back!

Either sweep the world and replace it, or die......

Those Ming troops surrendered to them, they had no third way to go, and they couldn't even surrender again and become a Ming army again!

This is also the reason why many soldiers of the Ming Army who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, especially the middle and low-level officers, fought more than some of the officers trained by the Tang New Army themselves, because at this time, they were no longer working for the Tang Dynasty, not for the sake of loyalty to Li Xuan, they just wanted to live!

The archers on both sides continue to shoot at each other, although they will cause some casualties on both sides, but the battle between the archers cannot distinguish the winner of the two, and the one that can make them separate the winner is the next hand-to-hand combat.

Because the charge of the Ming army has already been launched, it will not stop because of the archers' arrows, in fact, they can't stop.

It's easy to get a pig to run, but it's not so easy to get a pig to stop.

In fact, when the distance between the two sides was shortened to about fifty meters, the battle situation was no longer under the control of the Ming generals.

Fifty meters, thirty meters, when the front row of soldiers of the Ming army rushed to within thirty meters, the archers on the side of the new army of the Tang Dynasty began to retreat en masse.

Cover the archers with their sword and shield hands behind them, while they will be responsible for killing the Ming soldiers who pass through the spearmen array.

At the same time, the retreating archers continue to bend their bows and shoot arrows by projectile!

The spearmen of the three spearmen began to raise their spears at the command of the officer, and pointed their spears forward!

At this time, the chaotic queue of the Ming army on the opposite side also issued all kinds of slogans, rushing to the front is naturally the bravest and most effective soldiers in the Ming army, they are usually regular guards, and the core of these guards is some middle and low-level officers and the families of these officers!

These Ming generals also knew very well that they could not expect to rush to the forefront with Qingzhuang, because then before they could get closer, these Qingzhuang would collapse directly.

It can only be to let the elite regular army open the gap in the front, and let the young and strong in the rear follow up and fight a tailwind battle.

The Ming army quickly crossed and rushed past a short distance of thirty meters, and then collided with the spearmen array of the reserve battalion of the Third Infantry Regiment of the Datang New Army!

The moment the two sides collided together, if you look down from the sky, you will see that the Ming army is like a torrent, directly hitting the array of the reserve battalion of the third regiment, and then dissipating in front of the array of the reserve battalion of the third infantry regiment of the Datang New Army like a wave!

At this moment, there were numerous casualties of soldiers on both sides!

But overall, it was the Ming army that suffered more casualties, and there were many!

The reason for this is very simple, the spearmen of the Datang New Army in the front row are all heavily armored spearmen, they are wearing heavy armor, and their protection against cold weapons is still okay.

As for the Ming soldiers on the opposite side, in fact, there are not many people wearing armor, most of them are middle and low-level officers and their own soldiers, and ordinary soldiers basically have no heavy armor to wear, a few soldiers will have a cotton armor, but more soldiers, not even cotton armor!

In this way, when the hand-to-hand combat between the two sides occurred, a large number of soldiers without armor of the Ming army suffered heavy casualties!