Chapter 172: Don't fight team battles, only grab heads

Although one of the two musket teams was not fully staffed, it seemed unbalanced during the exercise, and even there was no so-called 'enemy' in front of the two musket teams, they were just shooting at the air, and there was not even a target in front of them.

However, the commanders of the musketeers on horseback took great pains to direct the soldiers to shoot.

If this encounter is seen by outsiders, they may think that they are stupid, obviously there is nothing on the other side, but they look like they are facing a great enemy.

However, these are just the perspective of ordinary people, and the same scene is completely different for a professional general.

In Zeng Ziwen's sight, he could see rows of neat enemies slowly stepping forward and trying to rush over, and then they were hit by a dense platoon of guns, and under the blows of the round-firing volleys of guns, the enemies fell in rows.

Zeng Ziwen was still reminiscing about the time when the musketeers were firing in rotation, and the troops in the drill below had already entered the next step.

The archers, who had been behind the spearmen, overcame the air raids between the spearmen and came to the front row of the spearmen and began to bend their bows and shoot arrows.

The archers did not hesitate to shoot at the 'enemy' at high speed, and according to the predetermined plan of the exercise, they would act as an auxiliary long-range force to assist the musketeers in giving cover shots to the enemy after 80 meters of entry.

The rate of fire of the archers was quite fast, and in the blink of an eye they were already shooting a patch of arrows, which landed in the direction of the intended 'enemy army', so that the ground was full of arrows.

After the archers cooperated with the musketeers to shoot at a distance, after the 'enemy' had entered a distance of thirty meters, with an order, the archers quickly retreated from the gap between the spearmen, according to the predetermined plan, by this time the enemy had rushed to a relatively close distance, and the archers' strength was sharply depleted after continuous firing, so that they could not shoot arrows.

Therefore, the archers fired a wave, then retreated behind the spearmen, threw down their bows and arrows, drew their swords, and prepared to assist the spearmen in battle.

The musketeers, however, put their bayonets into the barrels of their guns after they had finished loading!

When the 'enemy' was at a distance of twenty meters, the musketeers fired the last bullet as the commander swung his sword, and then charged with the muskets already loaded with bayonets!

As the commanders of the musketeers gave the order to charge with their bayonets, the spearmen were already ready and rushed forward with their spears in hand.

Together with the musketeers, the spearmen launched a final frontal charge against the enemy who had already rushed to within twenty meters!

At this time, it was a full two hundred spears stabbing at the 'enemy' array together!

According to the predetermined plan, at this time, the 'enemy' had already suffered great losses after being subjected to continuous medium and long-range coverage fire from muskets and archers, especially the last round of fire from the musketeers within twenty meters, the hit rate was quite high, enough to inflict devastating damage on the front row of the enemy in the charge.

The final charge of bayonets and spears was the straw that broke the camel's back and would crush the enemy.

Of course, there are not only musketeers, archers and spearmen on the battlefield, but also the ace troops of the Tang Dynasty's ace troops, heavy armor sword and shield soldiers.

Twenty meters after the enemy had entered, when the spearmen had charged, they had already rushed up from the flanks, tearing through the enemy's line and creating an opportunity for the spearmen in the Chinese array.

At the same time, according to the predetermined plan, after the 'enemy army' collapsed, the cavalry team where the Chinese army was located also quickly rode up to pursue the enemy army that had collapsed and get more results!

After a drill, the battlefield was filled with white smoke, and those soldiers were tired enough, especially those sword and shield soldiers wearing armor, who had run hundreds of meters on the battlefield.

Wearing dozens of pounds of armor on his body, he also had to hold a steel knife and shield in his hand, even if he ran a few hundred meters, it was very fatal.

The easiest thing was the thirteen horsemen on horseback!

For the first half of the show, they had been watching the show, but at the last moment of the exercise, that is, after assuming that the enemy army had collapsed, they rode out on horseback and trotted out to pursue the enemy army.

From beginning to end, I didn't even have to sweat a drop, and I robbed people's heads!

However, this is also the characteristic of light cavalry on the frontal battlefield, they are just like Juggernaut: they don't fight team battles, only grab heads!

After watching the drill, Li Xuan turned his head to Zeng Ziwen and said, "Mr. Zeng, if you are asked to command this army, how many Ming troops can you oppose?" ”

Hearing this, Zeng Ziwen did not answer immediately!

If it was before, Zeng Ziwen would definitely say: "My great soldiers are extremely brave, how can you and other rebels be able to fight against it, sweeping Huangzhu Mountain, dozens of elite soldiers are enough!" ”

But now he didn't say that!

On the one hand, he was unwilling to deceive himself, and on the other hand, he also knew that there was another unspoken meaning in Li Xuan's words: If you are willing to submit to me, this army may be under your command in the future!

Zeng Ziwen was silent for a long time, so that the soldiers on the school field began to leave one after another, and he was still silent.

Zeng Ziwen was silent, and Li Xuan didn't urge him!

The hesitation on Zeng Ziwen's face was quite obvious, he could already see that this Zeng Ziwen had already loosened up, and now he was afraid of being entangled.

Li Xuan is not afraid that he will hesitate and entangle, this time it will not work, he can wait for the next time, anyway, he does not plan to let this Zeng Ziwen go.

Either he has been concerned as a prisoner of war, or he will return to the Tang Dynasty, in addition, Zeng Ziwen has no third way to go, of course, he can also learn from those loyal ministers to commit suicide, but will he commit suicide?

If he would have committed suicide, he would have committed suicide half a year ago, so why wait until now to be alive and well!

After a long time, Zeng Ziwen spoke: "If you let your majesty lead this army and order a ban, you can defeat a thousand households!" ”

Hearing Zeng Ziwen say that his new army could only deal with one thousand households, Li Xuan was not surprised, and even felt quite normal.

Why?

Because of the more than 300 new troops, only more than 80 guards have been trained for a long time, and the remaining archers and sword and shield bearers are still those old bandits, and the rest are all farmers.

In other words, most of these people have only been training for a little more than a month.

After more than a month of training, he was able to fight against the Ming army with a thousand households, isn't this satisfying?

Even though the Ming military guard has fallen in these years, and a thousand households in the inland have as few as three or four hundred people, and as many as six or seven hundred, but it is also the regular army of the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the new army can fight against one of the thousand households, Li Xuan feels that it is enough to carry out his plan, and if there is Zeng Ziwen, a person who is familiar with the Ming army, to help, then the certainty will be even greater!

Thinking of this, Li Xuan immediately said: "Recently, I have been thinking hard about training the new method, and there are a few inconsistencies, I wonder if Mr. Zeng can solve my doubts!" ”

Zeng Ziwen was slightly stunned when he heard this, and the hesitation on his face reappeared!

After half a sound, he sighed lightly, and then said, "I don't know what the problem is?" ”