Although the Haw Par Army has a strict selection policy, if you want to join the field army, you must have more than one year of military experience in the garrison unit.

For those recruits in the boot camp, as long as they can enter the field troops, they can be called veterans. However, no matter what, among these veterans, few of them have actually fought on the battlefield, killed people, and seen blood.

Therefore, these soldiers who have military experience, but have not been on the battlefield and have killed people, in the eyes of those division commanders in the army, cannot be called veterans in the true sense.

A real veteran not only has more than a year of military experience, but more importantly, he has been on the battlefield, killed people, and seen blood. When you really go to the battlefield and see the tragic pictures of the battlefield, you will not be afraid and have the courage to kill.

If in several other armies, especially the First Army, which fought most frequently, the proportion of veterans may exceed eighty percent.

The Third Army of the Tiger and Leopard Army, because it has not fought a real foreign battle, coupled with the continuous expansion of the army in the past two years, a large number of new recruits have been replenished, and the proportion of veterans is less than 30%.

As for the Ninth Division, which has just been formed, the proportion of veterans is not even 20%.

However, among the more than 10 regiments of the Third Army, no matter how the troops were expanded, the proportion of veterans in this regiment remained above 50 percent from beginning to end, and this was the Seventh Division and One Regiment that was about to act as the vanguard of the whole army.

After a day of preparation, a regiment of more than 2,000 soldiers had already set up a position in front of the defense line built by the imperial court. Dozens of mortars, large and small, all of them are holding the muzzle of the black hole, waiting for the order to open the cannon.

And that's not all. On heavy artillery positions behind a regiment. A battalion of heavy artillery. A heavy artillery regiment, with a total of more than seventy cannon guns, also held its own black hole cannon muzzle, facing the defense line in front of the imperial court.

It is certain that as long as the army commander Zhang Wu gives an order, these artillery pieces can blow up the defense line in front of a group of troops in the first place. A lump of strength will also be like an iron fist. Directly smash the defense line in front of the imperial court.

Zhang Wu, the commander of the three armies, although he did not come to the front line of the battlefield in person.

However, with the help of the monoculars, Zhang Wu could still clearly see every move on the battlefield.

As the time approached little by little, the expression on Zhang Wu's face slowly became more serious than ever.

After receiving the signal from the chief of staff beside him, his face was so serious that he didn't hesitate at all, and directly opened his mouth to order.

"Send a signal, according to the predetermined battle plan, start the offensive ......"

Zhang Wu's order had just been issued, and three trumpets sounded. It sounded right behind him.

Then, three piercing screams rang out above everyone's heads.

Three horn shells with a screeching sound. In the blink of an eye, he flew dozens of battles into the air. With three explosions sounding in the air, three dazzling white lights appeared over the battlefield immediately after.

Such an obvious signal, there is no doubt that everyone will know it for the first time.

Without making Zhang Wu wait too long, the roaring explosions began to sound in the two artillery positions.

Two artillery positions, in just one round, fired more than a hundred flowering shells.

When these flowering bombs smashed into the official defense line and exploded, the battlefield that was still calm just now, immediately rose more than 100 fireballs mixed with thick black smoke. Immediately after, the sound of an explosion shaking the ground and shaking came from the official and military positions.

As more and more flowering shells exploded in the positions of the officers and soldiers, their fireballs and escapes slowly joined together.

Soon, the entire position of the officers and troops was completely enveloped by the thick smoke of gunpowder and dazzling fireballs.

More than 100 artillery pieces fired more than 5,000 shells at the positions of the officers and troops, and the roaring artillery fire slowly stopped.

Of course, this pause only refers to the heavy artillery positions at the rear of the battlefield.

Dozens of artillery guns that accompanied the regiment in the attack continued to fire a steady stream of flowering shells at the positions of the officers and troops, covering the more than 2,000 attacking troops of the regiment and getting closer to the positions of the officers and troops.

As a group of well-trained veterans, the officers and men of the regiment were well aware of the firing error and killing range of mortars on the battlefield.

Therefore, under the cover of dozens of mortars, more than 2,000 Hubao musketeers, without the slightest hesitation, advanced the battle line to a distance of less than 40 paces from the positions of the officers and troops in just a short time.

At this distance, as long as a regiment rushed forward ten paces, they could easily throw grenades at the positions of the officers and soldiers.

Such a good opportunity, of course, a group will not let go.

Hundreds of gunners, quickly stopped the artillery fire, under the orders of their respective company platoon commanders, disassembled the artillery, prepared to carry the artillery and shells, keep up with the attacking musketeers, and provide artillery support to the musketeers at any time.

More than two thousand musketeers, who had just stopped, rushed out again. At the same time, the grenades emitting white smoke were also held in the hands of these musketeers.

When there were still the last thirty steps from the official position, more than a thousand grenades were thrown out directly.

The explosive power of a grenade is not as powerful as a flowering bomb, but the power of thousands of grenades exploding at the same time is definitely more than a hundred artillery pieces firing a round of flowering shells.

Therefore, all the officers and men of the regiment participating in the attack believed that even if some of the officers and soldiers on the positions could escape the artillery fire just now, they would continue to fight with them. However, they could not dodge grenades as dense as rain.

As a result, after the grenades exploded continuously, the more than 2,000 Haw Par troops with muskets did not stop at all, and rushed directly to the positions of the officers and troops that were still filled with gunsmoke.

However, the results and pictures in front of them were beyond everyone's expectations.

In the opinion of a regiment of more than two thousand soldiers, after a combined strike of flowering shells and grenades.

Not to mention the corpses everywhere in the positions of the officers and soldiers, there will still be hundreds or thousands of corpses.

However, when they rushed to the position, they found that there were less than a hundred corpses scattered on the official and military positions that had been bombed into ruins under their feet......

"What about the new army of the imperial court, aren't there three thousand new imperial army in front of us, how can these few people...... Could it be that they fled when the artillery attack began......" Looking at the scene in front of him, the commander of a regiment directly said with a puzzled face.

As the head of the forward team, he certainly didn't want to see the task he had so hard won ended like this.

So, after only a short contemplation, he gave the order to continue the attack.

In his opinion, if the officers and soldiers really escaped under artillery fire, as long as they pursued them now, they would definitely be able to inflict heavy losses on them

However, what he didn't expect was that from a few days ago, the new army of the imperial court standing in front of him began to secretly retreat. As for what they have seen in the past few days, it is all an illusion.

And as a striker, a fist that has accumulated great strength is destined to hit cotton. (To be continued......)