Valley Emperor

Although Li Xuan believes that the musketeers will eventually replace the archers, spearmen, swordsmen and other almost all cold-weapon infantry arms.

But he is also very clear that for the Tang Dynasty, it will be a very long process for the musketeers to replace the cold-weapon infantry. The limitation here is not that the musketeers are insufficient, but because the Tang Dynasty As far as the dynasty is concerned, it is difficult to mass-produce muskets on a large scale.

In other words, Li Xuan has no way to equip all his troops with muskets now!

In addition, some performance defects of the musket will also be the factors that limit the full replacement of the cold weapon infantry by the musket.

Because the muskets currently equipped by the Guards are still arquebuses, not the muskets that Li Xuan always wanted. .

Although the arquebuses of the Guards today are not bad in this era, they are not only much stronger than those primitive hand-held firearms of the Ming army, but even compared with the muskets of the West at the same time, they are not too bad. .

But this is still far from enough to support the modern military plan in Li Xuan's heart!

In his memory, the musket unit of the modern army was able to form a sufficiently dense firepower with only three rows of queues.

This is a huge tactical advantage that can't be replaced by arquebus!

It is a pity that the level of craftsmanship required is still too high for the Tang Dynasty in order to change from arquebus firing to stone firing.

Because the springs needed for flintlock guns are made of special spring steel, and spring steel, for the sixteenth century, is a veritable high-tech.

Therefore, it is too difficult for the Tang Dynasty to obtain a flintlock gun. At least until he comes out with spring steel, this flintlock gun cannot be obtained.

Based on technical and production issues, it is impossible for Li Xuan to completely replace the cold weapon infantry in the King Division of the Tang Dynasty in a short period of time.

But this does not mean that Li Xuan will not continue to develop the musket unit, even if it is a musket unit with arquebuses, the more the better!

If I had so many hundred musketeers, I'm afraid that in today's battle, I wouldn't need Butcher Chen and the others to rush up to fight, and they would just shoot a few rounds of guns, and maybe the opponent would collapse.

It's a pity that he didn't, so Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu had to continue to charge forward in armor!

Standing at the back, Li Xuan could clearly see Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu, like tigers descending the mountain, they rushed to the front of the Ming army with dozens of swordsmen and shields behind them, tore apart their lines of defense, and rushed in to fight close to themselves. .

Among them, more than 20 heavy armored swordsmen and shields led by Butcher Chen were the backbone.

These more than 20 sword and shield fighters in armor, relying on the protective ability of their armor, entered the Ming army's formation almost as if they were no one, and the surrounding Ming army could not resist at all.

In particular, Butcher Chen, who was at the forefront, was simply an enemy without one.

Not only Butcher Chen, in fact, most of the other twenty or so armored bandits he brought with him could not meet their opponents!

That's right, it's not that they can't beat the enemy, but they don't even have an opponent!

Because most of the time, when Butcher Chen had just rushed over with his people, the Ming army composed of the county warriors and the miners turned around and ran a long distance.

This also led to Butcher Chen and the others chasing the Ming army to cut, but they couldn't cut it alive or dead.

After all, Butcher Chen and the others are all wearing heavy armor. It is not only tiring to run, but also not fast. However, these county warriors and civilian husbands of the Ming army have no long things, no weight, and even weapons. Lightweight pole, it runs very fast.

This scene made Li Xuan at the back feel speechless. These Ming troops are really shameless. If they don't run away, they can't catch up with Butcher Chen.

Compared with Butcher Chen, who was tired like a dog, but couldn't cut people alive or dead, Cai Erhu was luckier because the light-armored sword and shield led by Cai Erhu was behind Butcher Chen's heavy-armored sword and shield. Covering Butcher Chen's back and flanks, he can occasionally clear some fish that slip through the net or sneak over from the flanks to pick up cheap Ming soldiers.

Sixty or seventy sword and shield players rushed into the Ming army's formation from the flanks. Judging from the formations of the two sides, Chen Butcher was already about to completely destroy the Ming army's flank, but in fact, until now , Butcher Chen and the others did not cut down a few Ming soldiers at all.

Butcher Chen's sword and shield might seem fierce, but in fact they can't threaten the Ming army, at least all this is nothing to Wu Baihu.

What Wu Baihu is more worried about now is the more than 100 spearmen of the Puppet Tang Bandit Army.

Although their speed was not fast, they continued to advance with their spears. The pressure that the spear and the spear brought to the Ming army exceeded the pressure brought by the bullets of the muskets to the Ming army, and even exceeded the current Butcher Chen and Cai Erhu. The pressure brought by the 'big kills' on the flanks to the Ming army.

Those sword and shield players seem to be very powerful now, but Wu Baihu still has the confidence to let people stop them.

But once the opponent's more than 100 spearmen approached, the regular guards under his command would be fine, but the other county soldiers and civilians would definitely collapse.

They can't fight calmly in the face of dense spear formations!

"Hurry up and hold them down!" Wu Baihu shouted quickly, letting the archers behind him bend their bows to shoot arrows, but the time was urgent, and there were not many archers left in the Ming army, so Wu Baihu said After that, only a dozen arrows flew into the spear formation of the bandits in Huangzhu Mountain.

However, even though they shot two people, it was nothing to the more than 100 spearmen of the Tang Dynasty's division~www.wuxiaspot.com~ At this time, the Guards' spearmen were already far from the Ming army. Fifteen meters away.

What does fifteen meters mean? The soldiers representing both sides were already able to see each other's expressions clearly.

Without waiting for any further orders from the generals on both sides, the two sides soon had a complete melee.

Even Wu Baihu didn't have time to take care of anything, but rushed up with a long knife and killed himself.

I don't know how long it took, but after he finally cut down a spearman of the pseudo-Tang bandit army, he found that there were no traces of his soldiers around. The wounded screamed, and most of them were Ming troops.

Looking back slightly, I saw that a large number of soldiers were running towards the rear, and the ground was full of weapons they threw away.

When he saw this, he knew that this battle was defeated, and it was completely defeated!

But how can I lose?