Many of the generals of the Ming Army who fought against the Tang Army actually didn't feel much about the strict queue of the Tang Army, they just felt that they were nothing more than strict military discipline.

For the artillery of the puppet Tang thief army, even if it is heavy artillery, it is a little surprised at most, because artillery is not unusual, and the Ming army itself is equipped with many bowl cannons.

Not to mention that now the Second Infantry Regiment did not bring the heavy artillery from the Second Artillery Battalion at all in order to hurry, and some were only six battalion guns of one hundred and fifty catties, this kind of battalion artillery was on the side of the Ming army, that is, the bowl mouth cannon, they had seen it.

As for the musket, it's a bit odd, but in their opinion, having their own archers doesn't make it too weak to fight.

They seldom think about how strong the fighting power that erupts when these are combined!

So these didn't shock them too much!

But there is one weapon that will definitely open their mouths wide for the first time, and that is the grenade!

When the grenadiers continuously threw grenades and exploded in the array of their own troops, that scene was enough to shock every Ming general!

At the beginning, Song Zhiwen, Lord Shen, and Zhu Zhihai were all shocked by the flowering bullets of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

However, before they could figure out how to dodge or restrain the puppet Tang thief army's flowering bomb, their own troops were often completely collapsed.

No matter what Cen Xiong's reaction was, it was impossible for the Second Infantry Regiment of the Tang Army, which had entered the final stage of the counter-charge, to stop at this time.

The spearmen have raised their spears and are ready to make a final charge, the musketeers are preparing for the final salvo, and the grenadiers are throwing bombs!

Their bombing is not over yet, usually the situation is small, they will throw two or even three or even four rounds of grenades in a row, and completely defeat the Ming army on the opposite side with dense grenade explosions!

When the three-wheeled grenades exploded in the Ming army array one after another, the gunpowder smoke completely filled the Ming army array, so that the soldiers on the side of the Tang New Army could not even see what was going on opposite the Ming army.

However, at this time, the officers of the musketeers also gave the order!

"Aim!"

"Shoot!"

The last shot, and the most powerful salvo, is out of the way!

The officers on the side of the Datang New Army, regardless of whether they were battalion commanders or captains, were already holding their command knives high and shouting: "Rush!" ”

"The Tang Dynasty is invincible!"

"Grenadier will fight to the death!"

As the order to charge was given, the musketeers with bayonets and the heavily armored spearmen rushed forward one by one with steady and fast steps!

At this time, in the rear of the Ming army array, Cen Xiong's look of surprise was still the same, just now, he watched his troops fall in batches.

Before they really rushed in front of the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side, they were already killed and injured by the firearms of the puppet Tang thief army!

This battle was completely beyond his comprehension!

In battle, shouldn't everyone rush forward, then engage in hand-to-hand combat, and finally their own heroic and unrelenting soldiers successfully defeat the enemy?

Why hasn't this really rushed forward, and their own troops have already suffered heavy casualties!

The violent explosion just now and the subsequent salvo are conservatively estimated that at least more than 200 Ming soldiers have fallen, and most of these Ming soldiers are soldiers in the front row.

The soldiers in the front row of the Ming army were all soldiers who were armed with spears and used for hand-to-hand combat, and behind these soldiers in the front row were some ordinary sword and shield bearers, crossbowmen, and knife hands, who were usually used to assist the spearmen in the front row.

Now that the spearmen in the front row are almost dead, how can the remaining group of auxiliary troops in the back be able to block the dense spear forest and bayonet forest in the front row!

They did not continue to charge as before, but looked around the battlefield blankly, many of them didn't even know what was happening, but saw countless comrades in the front row fall in pieces.

Even if they wanted to rush forward, but they were only armed with short weapons, how could they engage in hand-to-hand combat with countless spears and muskets with bayonets on the opposite side?

This is another melee fight, but a head-to-head battle in which the armies of both sides form a formation, and in this case, the power of the heavily armored spearmen will be maximized.

And a soldier with a short weapon, even if he is a heavily armored sword and shield soldier in this kind of head-to-head confrontation, he will not play a better role than a light armored sword and shield soldier.

Because a large group of spearmen on the opposite side will not give you the opportunity to rush up and fight in close combat!

This kind of head-to-head duel in which the two sides form a tight formation, basically stabbing each other with spears, competing for the courage of both sides, the quality of protective equipment, and of course, the tightness of the formation.

However, the spearmen in the front row of these Ming soldiers have almost been killed and wounded, and how can the remaining group of sword and shield soldiers, crossbowmen and short knife men fight with the Tang Army in front of them?

At this time, courage is already unable to compensate for their tactical inferiority!

So most of them didn't dare to rush up again!

Occasionally, a few heavily armored Ming soldiers rushed forward, screaming, trying to dodge the spears, and then launching hand-to-hand combat and opening a gap for the following friendly forces.

But as soon as they rushed out, they were stabbed into a hornet's nest by the dense spears on the opposite side!

However, this is the battlefield, the advance of the Tang Army will not stop because of the Ming army's stagnation, in fact, when the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army launches a counter-charge, there are only two possibilities for them to stop, one is to defeat the enemy and win, and the other is to defeat and retreat, otherwise, they can't stop at all.

Because when the whole army launched a charge, the senior generals in the rear were practically unable to maintain effective control over the troops on the front.

The red-eyed soldiers will look to see if they want to retreat, whether they want to move, they only have the enemy in front of them!

Stepping on a neat pace, the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army, lined up in a tight formation, it didn't take long for the counter-charge to the front of the Ming army, and then there was continuous stabbing without technical content!

Every time the head of a spear is stained red with blood, it means that it once stabbed a Ming soldier!

When most of the spearheads of the spearmen in the front platoon were stained red with blood, there were already hundreds of dead and wounded Ming soldiers on the ground!

And the counter-charge of the Datang Army continues!

But what is even more surprising is that after these Ming troops suffered such heavy casualties, they still did not completely collapse!

Reason?

The reason is very simple, in the tactics of the soldiers, there has never been such a thing as retreat, they have always been constantly advancing and advancing, whether it is the comrades in the front row or the enemy who die.

The soldiers in the front row actually wanted to escape under the heavy casualties, but it was not that they didn't want to retreat, but they didn't know how to retreat, as for the front row to turn around and run away, the Ming soldiers in the back row were still advancing, as soon as you turned around, you hit the knives and guns of your comrades in the back!

As a result, these 3,000 soldiers of the Ming Army were like continuous waves, and the rear was constantly crowded and surging up one after another, and then fell under the infantry phalanx of the Tang Army!

This situation lasts for dozens of seconds, and it is normal for a minute, but it is still like this for several minutes, which is absolutely abnormal!

Li Chunjing watched that although the soldiers on the front line had killed a lot of enemies, the front was no longer advancing, but fell into a strange stalemate, and the casualties of the soldiers in the front row were also appearing one after another and increasing, and he finally ordered: "Order the second cavalry battalion to charge the enemy's rear!" Cooperate with the infantry to flank the puppet Ming thief army before and after! ”

Although judging from the situation on the battlefield, his Second Infantry Regiment has an overall advantage, and the ratio of casualties between the enemy and us has even reached more than ten to one, but if he continues to fight like this, he is also worried that he will fall into a stalemate, and even if he wins the battle, I am afraid that he will suffer relatively large casualties!

The Battle of Rongxian was only the first battle of his Second Infantry Regiment in Guangxi, and it was absolutely impossible to suffer excessive casualties here, which would seriously affect the follow-up combat mission.

His Second Infantry Regiment went south, and the strategic goal was not to stop at Rongxian, or even Liuzhou, but to Wuzhou, even Zhaoqing, and even Guangzhou!

In order to avoid indifferent casualties as much as possible, he ordered the 2nd Cavalry Battalion to attack!

The Second Cavalry Battalion was originally on the right flank, and when he saw the flag order from Li Chunjing, Major Lu Yuzhi, the commander of the Second Cavalry Battalion, immediately turned over and ordered his subordinates: "All get on the horse!" ”

Suddenly, one hundred and fifty cavalrymen turned over and mounted their horses in unison!

"Draw your sword!"

When he spoke, Lu Yuzhi was also the first to pull out his saber and hold it, with the knife resting on his shoulder!

A group of cavalry under his command also drew their sabers at the same time!

"Moving forward!"

Lu Yuzhi gave the order again, and at this time, the herald beside him also slowly blew the horn in his hand!

After the sound of the trumpet, the cavalry began to urge the horses to march slowly!

At this time, the one hundred and fifty cavalry was roughly divided into two queues, one in front and one behind, the cavalry in front was about 100 cavalry, and the cavalry in the rear was about fifty cavalry, and the distance between the two was about twenty or thirty meters!

And on the left side of the middle of these two phalanxes, there is the deputy commander of the second battalion and two heralds with horns!

Lu Yuzhi rode a horse and walked in the front, holding his head high, and behind him were the heralds and several officers!

In the rear, there was an array of cavalry advancing in a neat formation!

After crossing dozens of meters, Lu Yuzhi ordered again: "Trot forward!" ”

Suddenly, the herald's horn began to hurry, fast and rhythmic!

However, at this time, Li Chunjing, who was on the hill behind, frowned: "Lu Yuzhi, what's going on?" How did they go towards the enemy's flank phalanx, I asked them to attack the enemy's rear formation, and cooperate with our army to flank the front and rear! ”

At this time, a staff officer also showed a worried look: "The cavalry battalion has rushed in the wrong direction, and the enemy still has a complete infantry phalanx on the west side, so I am afraid it will be ...... to rush over."

"Damn, how do you pass that order?" Li Chunjing frowned!

And a flag soldier on the side saw this scene, his face was already extremely pale, no one knew better than him, when he gave the order just now, he mistakenly sent the 'rear formation' to the 'flank'! ”

"Herald, tell Lu Yuzhi immediately and ask his cavalry to stop charging!"