The Tang Dynasty is ready to conquer the monthly ticket list again, and the monarchs quickly bring the monthly ticket to the battle!

This time, millions of kings set out on the expedition, the road ahead is bumpy, and there are countless strong enemies, perhaps, there will be countless soldiers who fall on the road of conquest, and maybe, the credit will fall short.

But the Tang Dynasty King fought in the south of the city, died in Guo Bei, and never gave up!

This monthly ticket battle, even if you die, you will fight!

Finally, let's shout:

Long live Datang!

Long live Datang!

The Tang Dynasty is old!

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After Zhao Dong shouted, his two gunners hurriedly ran around, and then began to hurriedly prepare to load the shells.

There is nothing better than a cannonball to deal with the enemy's infantry attack, especially when hitting the enemy's dense phalanx, a solid cannonball can be smashed down, and a bloody channel can be plowed.

When Zhao Dong was hurriedly loading, the other Ming troops on the city naturally discovered the abnormal movement of the puppet Tang thief army outside the city, and those artillerymen had already begun to load one by one, and then no one fired the cannon indiscriminately, but after loading, they waited for the puppet Tang infantry to rush to the firing range and open fire.

At the same time, many of the generals of the Ming army commanded at the head of the city also shouted loudly, so that a large number of soldiers behind the original city wall were ready to enter the city, and several heavy armored troops specially used to fight against the assault battalion of the puppet Tang thief army were also ready.

This is also one of the most commonly used strategies of the Ming generals to defend the city, although most of the time it is a failure, and it cannot really block the assault battalion of the pseudo-Tang thief army, but it does not mean that this method of response is wrong, in fact, the method is right, every time it fails, that is because it is difficult for the Ming army to concentrate enough heavy infantry on a certain section of the city wall.

The assault battalion of the puppet Tang thief army, even the ordinary low-level officers and even ordinary soldiers in the Ming army, all know what type of troops it is, it is a fully armored army, and the thief army is all tall and large, with superb martial arts, and can be very flexible in heavy armor.

When defending the city, what the Ming army was most afraid of was not the artillery bombardment, but the assault battalion of the pseudo-Tang thief army!

Once the heavy infantry is on the city, it is basically to kill the gods and kill the Buddha, and the Ming army has almost no other effective means of restraint except for using the same heavy infantry to fight!

And this situation, after the large-scale and comprehensive replacement of plate armor by the pseudo-Tang thief army, is even more prominent!

The Ming army also seized a small number of plate armor of the pseudo-Tang thief army, and conducted a test, after testing, it was found that this kind of plate armor was actually made of stainless steel throughout, and several large pieces were connected to each other, and there were no gaps in the critical parts at all, and the ability to resist blows was very strong!

All kinds of cold weapons, especially spears and swords, unless they are directly inserted from a very small number of weak points, otherwise they basically cannot break through the defense of plate armor, and only the use of some heavy weapons, such as maces, hammers and other heavy cold weapons that purely rely on smashing people to kill have some effect.

At the same time, this kind of plate armor of the pseudo-Tang thief army can effectively defend against bullets at medium and long distances, although it is said that at close range, it is still impossible to resist bullets, but at a distance of tens of meters, ordinary bullets cannot penetrate this plate armor at all.

But these are not what shocked them, and what really shocked them was that this kind of stainless steel, at a glance, they knew that the plate armor with extraordinary cost, the pseudo-Tang thief army was able to have a large amount of equipment, and almost all the spearmen were one per person, although most of them were half-body armor and cuirass, but this still made them almost unbelievable.

They also tried imitations, just like they imitated muskets and cannons before, but after trying a lot, they simply gave up, because plate armor can indeed be created by craftsmen, but it takes a long time and is expensive.

If you want to produce it in large quantities and equip it, it's almost impossible, and you can't have the money, because you can't build so much.

They didn't know at all that these plate armors were all from the arsenal in the Datang Ministry of Industry, directly forged and formed, and the process was far simpler than they imagined, and the price was lower than they imagined.

Of course, to play large-scale plate armor mass production, there are actually a lot of technical prerequisites, and they are unattainable by the current Ming Dynasty.

To mass produce plate armor, first of all, there must be ready-made steel, so that you can play forging and forming, and the steel plate, not to mention in the Ming Dynasty, even in Europe is a precious thing, large-scale mass production is more difficult, although the European army in this period has basically popularized plate armor, but the cost is still slightly higher.

As for forging and forming, there are no technical problems for European countries at the same time, and as for the cost, it is naturally not as good as the Datang Ministry of Industry, which uses a large number of machinery.

In the current Datang army, plate armor has basically become the standard, cold weapon troops, that is, spears, swords and shields and other types of troops, the basic configuration of the whole body and a half-body armor, a small number of elite with the whole body armor, the reason why not all with the whole body armor, is naturally related to the cost, the whole body armor because there are too many fragmentary accessories, its procurement cost is far more than the half-body armor and breastplate, a set of full-body armor, its purchase price is at least three times more than the half-body armor, is more than five times the breastplate!

Unless it is an elite soldier or an officer in a cold weapon unit, it is generally not equipped with full body armor.

For cost considerations, at present, the most equipped in the Tang Army is cuirass, and some cold weapon troops, that is, spearmen, archers, sword and shield bearers are also equipped with it, and then grenadiers, and even musketeers in some troops are also equipped with it.

At first, the Datang Army still insisted on refusing to equip the musketeers with armor, because it would affect their mobility, but later it was found that the grenadier units equipped with cuirass, and the casualty rate was greatly reduced, so that the Datang Army high-level began to equip cuirass on a large scale.

Although the power of muskets in these years is also large, it is actually limited, and there are still a large number of archers in the Ming army, and the musketeers are equipped with lightweight cuirass, which can also effectively reduce casualties to a certain extent, so now ordinary musket troops are also trying to start large-scale equipment cuirass, but it is also selective equipment, not to say that all the brains are equipped.

Musketeers equipped with helmets and cuirasses, also known as heavy musketeers in the Tang Army, specialize in fighting in the front row, after testing, bows and arrows are basically ineffective against this kind of heavy musketeers, and only muskets can defeat them in medium and close range shots.

Even the opponent's ordinary cold weapon troops, such as spearmen, sword and shield hands, etc., if the opponent is not armored, then it is basically not the opponent of these heavy musketeers!

This is also the reason why in the current Datang Army, the top level of the army began to equip musketeers with helmets and cuirasses on a large scale.

Cheap, industrially mass-produced plate armor, full-body armor, half-body armor, and cuirass are widely equipped with the Tang Army, especially the cuirass, which has greatly increased the armor rate of the Tang Army.

As a result, the armor rate of the front-line combat units in the Tang Army (excluding baggage, artillery, engineers, etc.) is more than 70 percent!

And this armor rate is actually quite terrifying, and at the same time, the main forces of Europe, such as the Spanish army, had an armor rate of about 50%.

On the side of the Ming army, the armor rate depends on what troops, if it is a guard soldier, there is nothing to say, less than a tenth, and the armor is still tattered, if it is the elite of the border army, it can be more than 50%.

However, the armor ratio of the new army units such as the Jiangbei New Army, the Jiangnan New Army, the Inspector Standard, and the Broken Thief Army is relatively low, basically about 30 percent.

Their musketeers, basically not equipped with armor, not because they didn't want to equip it, but because they didn't have so much armor to equip them!

The puppet Tang thief army has sharp guns and thick armor, which is recognized by the Ming army, and the assault battalion in the puppet Tang thief army is even more terrifying!

All of them are in armor, and at least half of the thieves in it are equipped with full body armor, and the rest are full body armor and cuirass, once such a heavy armored force makes them rush to the city, it will be almost a massacre!

And to deal with them, in addition to preparing the same heavy infantry confrontation-for-tat, it is more effective to destroy them on their way!

No matter how powerful the armor of the thief army is, it can't stop the cannonballs!

Not to mention solid shells, even shrapnel from shotguns, these armors are not resistible, and at close range, shooting with a musket can effectively penetrate these armors!

Zhao Dong took people and equipment, in order to intercept the assault battalion of the thief army!

As long as one cannonball hits, it can at least kill and injure many people or even dozens of puppet Tang assault camp thieves.

After reloading, he personally operated the cannon and prepared to fire, as long as the opposing thief army entered his effective range, then he would not hesitate to fire.

But to his surprise, the assault battalion of these thieves slowly entered a distance of about five hundred meters, and then disappeared.

It is also incorrect to say that he disappeared, because Zhao Dong was condescending, and he could still see those thieves, but these thieves all entered those trenches and continued to advance in the trenches.

This meant that it was almost impossible for his shells to inflict any damage on these people.

It seems that the only way to do this is to wait for them to get closer before firing with grenades and muskets.

Zhao Dong didn't fire, but some of the other Ming artillerymen couldn't help but fire, and as a result, Zhenming, the trench has a very good defensive effect on solid shells, and those live shells basically flew over the trench, but there was no way to cause any damage to the assault battalion soldiers in the trench!

Zhao Dong waited, he waited for these thieves in the trench to come out, but he knew that the trench of the thief army was only dug at a distance of about fifty meters from the city wall, and they always had to come out of the trench!

However, while Zhao Dong was waiting, he suddenly felt a strong vibration, and then there were two huge dull explosions in succession!

The violent vibration caused by the explosion almost made Zhao Dong a little unable to stand, and he finally stood firmly, but he found that the direction of the city wall not far away had released a huge amount of smoke and dust, and through the smoke and dust, he could vaguely find that the city wall there had almost completely collapsed!

Seeing this scene, as an experienced old artilleryman, he didn't know what was going on there, this was a blasting!

The puppet Tang thief army must have dug a tunnel under the city wall, and then buried a large amount of gunpowder for blasting!

It's over, the city walls have collapsed, needless to say, the soldiers on the original section of the city wall must be finished, and even the soldiers of the nearby city wall are estimated to be shocked, and even suffered heavy casualties, and there is a vacancy in that section of the city wall within at least a few dozen meters!

Zhao Dong was extremely shocked, and the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Tang Army outside the city also fired rapidly, most of them aimed at the walls on both sides of the collapsed city wall, and some of them crossed the collapsed place and shelled them in depth!

At this time, he looked at the nearest assault camp of the Pseudo-Tang Thief Army outside the city, and saw that they were moving quickly in the trench, and soon they reached the end of the trench, and then jumped out and rushed towards the gap in the collapsed city wall!

And in the rear, tens of thousands of Tang soldiers also launched a charge at the same time!

Seeing the pseudo-Tang thief army rushing over almost all over the mountains outside the city, Zhao Dong's mouth opened slightly, and the whole person was stunned, he didn't see the thief army attacking the city, but the charge of tens of thousands of people, he really saw it for the first time.

Finally waiting for the shouts of the people around him, he reacted, and then said loudly: "Fire, quick, fire!" ”

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