Nowadays, the artillery and artillery tactics in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, because of Li Xuan's existence, can barely be regarded as keeping up with the mainstream of artillery in the world today, with 800 catties or even 1,300 catties of artillery.

And this kind of artillery is still a typical long-barreled cannon, when firing solid bullets, the power is huge, used in the land battlefield, that is to meet the gods to kill the gods, to meet the Buddha to kill the Buddha, a cannon past, there is nothing that can stop these heavy solid ball iron shells.

It's a pity that this kind of heavy artillery has relatively high requirements for smelting technology, and at present, the craftsmen in the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty have no way to use iron to make this kind of importance, so they can only use bronze, and copper is used to mint coins in this year.

In other words, today's Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty directly uses copper coins to cast cannons!

However, those 150-pound battalion guns, although they were also cast in bronze at the beginning, but because these 150-pound battalion guns are short-barreled shotguns, the requirements for the barrels are not too high, and those craftsmen are already ready to use iron to cast this kind of shotguns.

After all, the bowl cannons of the Ming army are actually cast with iron, there is no reason why the Ming Dynasty can play like this, and the Tang Dynasty can't do this, right, at most, the cast shotguns are heavier and of worse quality.

But even so, it's a great deal!

The price difference between copper and iron is huge!

However, it takes time to use iron cast cannons, even if it is just a short-barreled shotgun, and don't expect those craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty to be able to make it in a short time.

After withstanding many rounds of shelling in a row, the soldiers in the front row of the Ming army on the opposite side were killed and wounded, and these Ming soldiers, like the Ming troops in most inland areas of this era, participated in this large-scale battle this time.

The inland has been peaceful for a long time, and most of the Ming troops in these inland areas are just suppressing bandits, catching bandits, etc., and the real large-scale wars are all unknown how many years ago.

These soldiers of the Ming army who stepped onto a large-scale battlefield for the first time were actually no different from the recruits, and when they saw the front row of soldiers on their side fall one after another, not many of them could withstand this terrifying battlefield pressure.

If you are human, you will be afraid of death!

So they involuntarily stopped, no one dared to rush forward to the front, and they all wanted to hide behind their comrades.

For a time, the forward units of the Ming army, especially those that had been shelled, even had small riots.

Not to mention that these ordinary soldiers were frightened, even the officer groups in the Ming army, and even the senior generals, were quite surprised to see the shelling of the Datang New Army!

Artillery they've seen, and there's quite a bit of it!

But most of them are bowl-mouth cannons of tens or hundreds of pounds, which can't hit far at all, and many of the artillery pieces are actually still mounted on the so-called gun trucks.

They often need to go to a distance of fifty or sixty meters before they can fire, and the use of artillery is also a lack of standards and technology, many Ming gunners are not very professional, even aiming is not very good, only know the most basic loading, fire.

But if you ask them to aim at that area and then carry out accurate shelling, that is very reluctant, and the Ming army's definition of whether a gunner is qualified or not is very simple: just be able to fire the artillery.

So at this time, it was natural for them to be surprised when they saw that the artillery of the puppet Tang Thief Army accurately covered their forward soldiers.

Zhu Zhihai couldn't help but sigh: "The firearms of these pseudo-Tang thief armies are really sharp!" ”

At this time, he hadn't seen the heavy artillery shelling in the artillery battalion of the Datang New Army, if Zhu Zhihai saw the heavy artillery of the artillery battalion of the Datang New Army carrying out accurate shelling, I am afraid that he would not sigh, but be dumbfounded.

This can't blame Zhu Zhihai for making a fuss, but these heavy cannons are already beyond his cognition.

The artillery of the Tang New Army and the artillery of the Ming Army are completely different concepts, and they can even be said to be products of different eras.

The high-ranking generals in the Ming army made a fuss about the shelling of the puppet Tang thief army, and some middle and low-level officers of the Ming army who were on the front line were even more deeply touched.

The adults in the rear may only see the momentum of the puppet Tang thief army's artillery firing, and they can also see their own soldiers falling, but this feeling is far less profound than that of the officers on the front line.

Every time the puppet Tang thief army on the opposite side spewed out white smoke, the soldiers in the front row would fall down in a large area, and after coming like this a few times, the soldiers at the front began to be afraid.

Even those officers who led the team, most of them were afraid, and many of them began to look around in a daze, trying to find orders from the peak, especially the order to retreat, even if they did not retreat, it would be good to immediately launch a rapid charge.

Just walked up so stupidly, I don't know how many people will die!

However, this is all the thoughts of the middle and low-level officers on the front line, in the middle of the forward army, although Chang Pingchang frowned, but as a commander, and he was also trusted by Zhu Zhihai, he sent him to lead the whole army, which means that this person still has the ability.

After watching a few rounds of shelling by the puppet Tang thief army, he had already estimated the frequency of the shelling of the puppet Tang thief army and how many casualties it might bring to his side!

And he believes that this kind of casualties can be borne by his side!

So he still sat on his horse, his head held high, and ignored his men's inquiries about whether to avoid the thieves for the time being, or simply to immediately charge.

Instead, he rode his horse slowly forward, and at the same time commanded to the left and right: "Tell me to go down and keep in formation!" ”

Then, as if he couldn't see the shelling of the puppet Tang thief army, he continued to lead his troops to advance slowly!

Seeing that although the Ming army was shaken for a while, it stabilized the formation and continued to move forward, and did not even launch an early charge because of this, Song Tianbiao's face became more cautious.

This Ming army is much stronger than the Ming army I have encountered before!

Immediately said: "Let the musketeers and archers prepare, the grenadiers had better prepare, today, we will fight to the death with the puppet thief army!" ”

In many previous battles, when the artillery of the Datang New Army, especially the shotguns that can cause a lot of casualties, began to fire, the Ming army on the opposite side often made two choices, one was to charge in advance, and the other was to turn around and flee directly.

Here, more to charge ahead!

In this way, although the enemy army is advancing faster, it is easy to scatter the formation, and if the cold weapons do not have a complete formation, then the rout will not be far away.

Next, the new army of the Tang Dynasty will meet the enemy with dense musket shooting, assisted by bows and arrows!

Wait until the enemy advances to within 30 meters, then have the grenadiers come forward and throw grenades, while the musketeers fire a final salvo, followed by a direct spear and bayonet charge.

Under normal circumstances, after continuously experiencing long-range interception by the artillery, muskets, and bows of the Datang New Army, and then after the last round of musket salvos and grenade throwing, the front row of the enemy army will often completely collapse.

At this time, the spearmen in heavy armor will become the core of the battle, completely destroying the scattered formation and demoralized enemy army, once the front row of the enemy army completely collapses, it will often affect the enemy soldiers in the back row, and then it will evolve into a total rout.

This series of tactics of the Datang New Army has been tried and tested, and many generals of the Ming Army, especially those who have fought with the Datang New Army, such as Song Zhiwen, who has arrived in Beijing and was sent to prison, are very familiar with this set of tactics of the Datang New Army.

But it's one thing to know, it's another to crack it!

Standing within seventy or eighty meters with archers and playing against the new army of the Tang Dynasty?

It can only be said that people who think this way underestimate how cheap the musketeers are!

It takes more than ten years for your archers to train one, and the musketeers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty can become an army in three months, and two musketeers can be exchanged for an archer, and the musketeers will make a steady profit.

Whether it is the Ming army or the new army of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, there are not many qualified archers, there are only more than 800 people on the side of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and all of them are prisoners of the Ming army, and the Ming army is about the same, Zhu Zhihai's army of more than 30,000 people, there will be no more than 1,500 qualified archers.

Not long after the establishment of the Datang New Army, the number of musketeers had exceeded 2,000, and the scale continued to increase by hundreds every month.

Your Ming army archers and musketeers of the Tang New Army are fighting for consumption, and the archers must be dying!

Besides, in this case, the Datang New Army will not play with you to shoot, they will advance at high speed, advance to thirty meters and then play a salvo, and then directly launch a bayonet charge!

Your archers are only three shots at the enemy, and when the musketeers of the new army of the Tang Dynasty rush up with muskets with bayonets, it will be a miracle if these archers do not collapse!

In other words, the Datang New Army actually doesn't even give you the opportunity to fight for consumption!

From a practical point of view, with the existing arms and comprehensive quality of the Ming army, the best way to defeat the new Tang army with complete firepower is to contain it with infantry, and then use cavalry to launch a flank charge, and the cavalry cannot stupidly attack the infantry phalanx, but have to impact the artillery position.

First knocked out the artillery position, and then the cavalry swept the formation, and the infantry continued to pinn down, waiting for the new army of the Tang Dynasty to scatter, and then directly launched a cavalry charge.

Otherwise, with the same strength, it would be difficult for the Ming army to defeat the infantry phalanx of the Datang New Army in a regular field battle!

Of course, in fact, there is a simpler, more efficient and most practical way for the Ming army, that is, to use human heads to pile up!

No matter how strong the firepower of the Datang New Army is, it is limited!

You stupidly use the same force to attack head-on, but if you use several times or even ten times more troops to launch a frontal attack.

I don't dare to say 100%, but nine out of ten can directly crush the Datang New Army in front of me!

In the face of absolute superiority in troops, any tactical superiority is scum!

And now, Zhu Zhihai used this tactic, more than 30,000 people pressed forward, just the mountains and fields, and the figure that could barely see the end at a glance could make Song Tianbiao look at his scalp numb!