Compared with Fang Dongquan's hesitation, Huang Xueren, another person who is in a similar situation to him, is much wiser, Huang Xueren, who is the deputy commander of the Second Infantry Brigade, has officially made an excerpt to Li Xuan a few days ago, saying that he is old and unworthy of such a heavy responsibility as the deputy commander of the Second Infantry Brigade, and asks to be transferred back to Xingquan Mansion to live idlely, so that he can often serve in front of His Majesty.

This means that he hopes that Lin Xuan will find him a vacant position on the Privy Council.

But the deeper meaning is, Your Majesty, I have already retreated from the main force with great interest and made way for those students of the Imperial Academy, can you give me a high and decent position?

Li Xuan is very pleased with Huang Xueren's knowledge, and has already sent a will to recall Huang Xueren, who led the army to fight in northern Guizhou, although he is coming back to report on his work in the name, but if nothing else, Li Xuan will arrange for him to have a spare position in the Privy Council, and at the same time will promote him to a major general of the army, and even reward him with a knighthood and give him a decent and rich arrangement.

As long as Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan are willing to take the initiative to give up military power, Li Xuan is still very willing to treat these two veterans who have been from the dragon for a long time and have made great contributions in the early days of the Tang Dynasty!

However, Fang Dongquan didn't know about Huang Xueren's arrangement, but even if he knew that he would not completely give up military power like Huang Xueren, he still wanted to continue to lead troops, even if he led the garrison, he had to lead troops!

Compared with these two people, Wang Danxu, who also belongs to the veteran, is much better, he honestly leads the troops, and he has been quite low-key recently, but he is firmly in the position of the commander of the Fourth Infantry Regiment, and led the Fourth Infantry Regiment under the command of Fang Xitong to fight in central Guizhou, and it is almost to the provincial capital of Guiyang.

And Li Xuan is also satisfied with Wang Danxu's recent performance, and is ready to continue to observe Wang Danxu, in the short term, Wang Danxu is not expected to be promoted to the brigade commander of the main infantry brigade, but if Wang Danxu's state continues to be maintained, the brigade commander of the main infantry brigade will not be able to run in the future.

Almost everyone of these generals in the early Tang Dynasty had different choices, and their future was naturally different.

However, whether these veterans can keep up with the pace of expansion of the Tang Dynasty is actually unable to affect the development of the Tang Dynasty.

The younger generation of officers led by Li Xuan has now become the core officer group of the Tang Army, and the younger generation of generals represented by Hao Bonian, Fang Xitong, and Li Chunjing have actually replaced the role of Fang Dongquan, Huang Xueren, and Wang Danxu in the early days.

And the middle and lower-level officers, who are all students of the Martial Arts Hall and the Imperial Academy, especially the students of the Imperial Academy, almost control most of the important positions of the main force, and this is extremely important for both the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Tang Army and Li Xuan's control of military power.

Now, these officers are in front of the Ming army camp, continuing to form a team, so that the troops are always at the top of their state, so that they can attack at any time!

When will they attack? Naturally, the Ming army on the opposite side could not withstand the shelling of the Tang Army and made changes.

At that time, whether these Ming troops are defeated, retreated, or take the initiative to attack, it will be the moment when these Tang Army infantry units launch the final general attack!

Now, all they have to do is wait!

Densely packed one after another neat infantry arrays outside the Ming army camp, the Ming army in the camp was also under great pressure.

And this pressure, in turn, will cause them to suffer great casualties!

Why, because the puppet Tang thief army is outside the camp, and the fortifications such as the wall of the Ming army camp have already been damaged in many places after being bombarded intensively, and some places have been razed to the ground.

In this case, it means that the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite side may rush in at any time!

In order to prevent the puppet Tang thief army from rushing in, these Ming troops also had to line up a tight phalanx ready to meet at any time!

However, the Ming army continued to maintain a dense infantry phalanx, which provided the best targets for the 2nd Artillery Battalion of Butcher Chen.

When he saw that many of the walls of the Ming army camp had been damaged, and the artillery positions of the Ming army, which were scheduled to be attacked, had also been hit hard by their own side, at this time, Chen Butcher began to order the artillery units to start moving targets!

The shells of the artillery units began to cross the wall, and then shelled in the direction of the depth of the camp, that is, the dense infantry phalanx of the Ming army!

At a distance of more than 300 meters and less than 400 meters, the 11 heavy guns of the Second Artillery Battalion of the Datang Army did not dare to say where to hit, but they were still able to roughly hit the target.

Especially when the target is still a dense infantry phalanx with a very obvious target!

As the Second Artillery Battalion began to shell the infantry phalanx of the Ming army, the casualties of the Ming army instantly increased.

One by one, solid ball shells streaked across the sky, and then fell into the Ming army's array, and then ploughed out a bloody ** channel!

The screams kept ringing one after another!

The ordinary soldiers of the Ming army were screaming, and the middle and low-level officers of the Ming army were also panicking, looking around from time to time, they tried to get orders from the top, whether it was to launch an active attack or to retreat, it was much stronger than just being beaten now, if it continued like this, morale would fall rapidly, and then the collapse of the army would be inevitable.

And the senior generals of the Ming army, who are regarded as pillars by those middle and low-level officers, are also in trouble now, and they don't know what choice to make at all!

"The pseudo-Tang thief has sharp weapons, and it really deserves its reputation, no wonder even Zhu Zhihai will be defeated in Liping!"

"Yes, their artillery is really too far away, the two sides are more than two hundred steps apart, they can give us such a big damage, look at their heavy artillery, I'm afraid it weighs a thousand pounds!"

"This kind of artillery is even more powerful than the Franc cannon I saw in the sailor before!"

"The thief's weapons are sharp, it's not okay to continue like this, if you don't fight back just by being beaten, you will be finished sooner or later!"

"What do we do now? Or just rush out and fight them! We are now the main force is not damaged, and it may not be impossible to win if we rush out to fight now! ”

"Rush out and fight them in the field? What are you kidding, have you forgotten how the 3,000 soldiers in Rongxian were wiped out, and how our 500 soldiers were defeated two days ago? ”

"That's right, we must not rush out, now we rush out to find death!"

"But what if we don't rush out? Isn't it possible to stand here and be beaten all the time? ”

"It is not feasible for a large group of men and horses to rush out, but it is better to let the archers take a hundred steps forward and shoot arrows at their infantry phalanx, so that the enemy's infantry phalanx will also suffer heavy casualties?"

"Rush out and release the arrows, how far? If it is far away, the muskets of the puppet Tang thief army can hit farther than our bows and arrows, and don't you see, their bowl cannons are placed a hundred steps away, just waiting for our archers to rush up, and the puppet Tang thief army also has many archers, and if the distance is far away and shoot at them, our archers will definitely suffer heavy casualties!

If they rush closer, they can certainly kill and injure the thief army, but how can their spearmen rush up, and these archers will not be slaughtered by then! ”

"Then we'll send hand-to-hand fighters to cover the archers!"

"Nonsense, in this case, wouldn't it become a counterattack by the whole army, are you sure that we can take advantage of the hand-to-hand combat of the whole army?"

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, so what the hell should I do? You can't just drag it all the time! ”

These high-ranking generals of the Ming army have a word to me, but no one has been able to propose a way to improve the current crisis.

Wei Yan above looked at the group of generals under his command who were obviously at a loss, and even frightened, and his heart was angry and helpless.

He can also see what his generals have seen, and although he is not proficient in military affairs, he can also know from the discussions of his generals that the current situation is very, very bad for his side.

And the most important thing is that there is no way to fight back against the attack of the puppet Tang thief army!

No, there is also a way to fight back, that is, to rush out and fight to the death, but looking at the attitude of these generals under his command, if he forces them to rush out, I am afraid that the whole army will be broken up before they rush out.

They were already frightened by the field combat ability of the puppet Tang thief army, and now they don't even have the courage to fight to the death!

Could it be that those pseudo-Tang thief armies on the other side are really so strong? Is it really as invincible as the people from Guizhou said?

Wei Yan once again looked at the pseudo-Tang thief army outside!

In the line of sight, the infantry phalanx in the front row of the puppet Tang thief army is still very close, and the hand-to-hand combat thieves in the front row are almost all wearing heavy armor, and the hand-to-hand combat soldiers in front of the pseudo-Tang thief army are afraid that there are no less than eight hundred!

Don't think that for the nearly 10,000 people of the puppet Tang thief army, there are only 800 hand-to-hand combat soldiers wearing heavy armor is very few, in fact, this is already a lot.

This can be seen by comparing the troops under Wei Yan's own command, the 8,000 people in Wei Yan's department, wearing heavy armor, are basically some of the personal soldiers of officers and senior generals, even if they are all counted, at most there are two or three hundred.

Moreover, there is a cavalry of more than 200 people on the side of the puppet Tang thief army!

However, the 8,000 Ming army under Wei Yan did not have professional cavalry, at most there were dozens of generals on horseback!

Let's not mention whether your own infantry can beat the infantry of the puppet Tang thief army, in case the infantry and the infantry of the puppet Tang thief army engage in hand-to-hand combat, more than 200 cavalry of the puppet Tang thief army will rush around the flank, and then it will be over!

This battle is not easy to fight!