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The grenades of the Datang New Army have been in service for several months and have been used in several large-scale battles.

Therefore, some Ming troops who had fought with the new army of the Tang Dynasty also knew about hand grenades and called them "flowering bombs", and were deeply impressed by the flowering bombs of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

However, this impression is only limited to the Ming army who have fought against the new army of the Tang Dynasty and suffered from grenade bombing. It does not mean that every Ming army knows the grenade of the new army of the Tang Dynasty and is impressed.

And the key point is that almost all the Ming troops who encountered the grenadiers of the Datang New Army have been annihilated.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty used grenadier troops on a large scale twice. In the two battles of the Lanjiang River, it was Song Zhiwen's troops who fought with them. However, this Ming army had already been defeated, and not many remnants were left. Most were killed or wounded or taken prisoner.

Today, Qiu Yu, the Ming army who has traveled south from northern Guizhou, is the first time to fight against the new army of the Tang Dynasty. Although he has heard of the sharp firearms of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, he has also heard the word "flower bomb" from a few words.

But to be honest, it is impossible to really feel the feeling of being thrown on your head by a piece of grenade without experiencing it yourself.

Dozens or hundreds of grenades were thrown into the dense crowd, and then exploded at almost the same time. The momentum was far beyond people's imagination.

One or two grenades were still in the crowd, and more than a dozen people were killed or injured. Although it was quite scary, for an army, especially an army that numbered hundreds or even thousands. Actually, it's nothing.

Its deterrent effect is not even as good as the salvo of a hundred muskets!

When the musket team of the Datang New Army fired in a salvo at medium and short distances, the enemies on the opposite side often fell in rows and rows. After a round of salvos, the front row of the enemy troops on the opposite side often fell in unison.

Or it is the shooting of artillery, a solid ball shell fired by an 800-pound artillery, if it hits the enemy's infantry square accurately, it doesn't matter whether the opponent is an elite in thick armor or unarmored cannon fodder. If you can plow out a flesh and blood channel, blood and flesh will fly everywhere you go, and the soldiers who are in it will die if you touch it, and you will even get the chance of being disabled.

And shotguns are equally lethal. Even the bowl-mouth cannons of the Ming army, if they are shot at a distance of twenty or thirty paces, if the cannon is sprayed out, the enemy on the opposite side will fall down a lot.

Therefore, even the war in the sixteenth century was actually very cruel, and there were many weapons with huge lethality.

In contrast, a simple grenade is actually limited in power, and a single grenade will kill and injure more than a dozen people.

But the key point is that the grenades of the new army of the Tang Dynasty this year are not to throw one or two, but to throw out dozens of grenades at a time, as many as hundreds or even hundreds.

A grenadier can carry four grenades in a battle, and a grenadier team with a hundred soldiers can throw a hundred grenades in this round, and in just one minute, they can throw out a hundred grenades. Throw all the grenades on you.

This is equivalent to a grenadier team that can throw at least 400 grenades in just one minute.

What would a scene where four hundred grenades explode in unison?

The soldiers in Song Zhiwen's department who have been annihilated can tell you what the scene is: Hell on Earth!

When the grenade explodes intensively, most of the soldiers in it will be killed and injured immediately, and the lucky ones who survive will also be stunned by the sound waves. You cannot see clearly the people and things around you.

The only thing that can be seen is that it was fine a few seconds ago, but now it has become a corpse, or a comrade-in-arms who lacks arms and legs, is covered in blood, and is screaming.

That scene is enough to make a person unforgettable for a lifetime!

Troops who are subjected to intensive grenade explosions will suffer heavy casualties during the explosion. Hundreds or even thousands of people are possible, depending on how many grenades are thrown and how dense the enemy formation is.

However, causing heavy casualties to the enemy is only one of the functions of the grenade. For an army of tens of thousands of people, the casualties of hundreds of people are uncomfortable, but they are nothing.

The real collapse of the enemy is that the casualties caused by the explosion of the grenade will severely damage the morale of the enemy.

Although soldiers in the army are under orders, they will be less afraid of death and injury than ordinary people, but they are still kind. As long as they are human, most of them are afraid of death, whether it is elite or cannon fodder.

Hundreds or even thousands of people were killed and injured in just one minute, and the same number of troops were killed and injured after fighting for several days. These are two completely different concepts.

Song Zhiwen's original troops were attacked by the Grenadiers of the Tang Dynasty's new army several times, and almost every time they ended in complete collapse.

And now, the usual scene happens to the Ming army under the command of Qiu Yu.

When the 5th Infantry Battalion of the Datang New Army threw grenades, although they only had fifty grenades, they could only throw so many grenades, but these fifty grenades were thrown by the hundreds of Ming troops outside the city wall. among the crowd.

The effect is equally astonishing!

In a short period of time, dozens of holes appeared in the Ming army crowd under the city, each of which represented the fall of at least several Ming soldiers!

Because among the dense crowds, only those who have fallen down will make the crowd appear empty one after another.

Dozens of holes represent at least the deaths and injuries of these hundreds of people!

This number is almost an astronomical figure for a Ming army of at least 2,000 people, and among these 2,000 people, only five or six hundred people actually rushed under the city wall.

You must know that regardless of the lively fight between the two sides, they fired and fired, but in fact the Ming army only suffered dozens of casualties.

Even if the two sides were short-handed, the Ming army's wall-mounted troops engaged in close combat with the heavy armored infantry of the Datang New Army on the top of the city. The casualties on both sides were eliminated, so that the latecomers could not find a foothold.

However, even so, the number of casualties on both sides will not be too large!

Why?

Because the city wall where the two sides are fighting is so short, not even ten meters wide, and the soldiers on both sides fighting in close quarters are all heavily armored units. To be honest, they have to rely on the waist knife in their hands to kill the enemy's heavily armored infantry. Really, really Not an easy task.

They even slashed each other dozens of times, but they didn't have anything to do with each other, only leaving little knife marks on the armor.

So don't look at the fierce fighting between the two sides, but in the moment before this, the casualties of both sides are very limited!

But now, it is different!

In a short period of time, the Ming army was killed and injured more than 100 times, and the huge momentum caused by the explosion of the grenade also greatly affected the morale of the army.

Combined, the morale collapsed, that's for sure.

No army has yet been able to survive such a violent explosion and still not collapse with heavy casualties, even if it is replaced by a modern army of later generations.

Although the army of later generations needs to withstand more powerful artillery fire, they will definitely not be crowded and bombed by stupid people.

This kind of people crowding people and getting bombed can only appear in the era of the transition from cold weapons to hot weapons!

The attacking Ming army collapsed without incident. They used it like a tide, and then receded like a tide in just a few minutes.

It's just that there were five or six hundred people when they came, but less than half of them were able to retreat in the end!

Some of them were killed and wounded in the previous battle, and then they were killed and injured by a grenade. The last part was shot by the musketeers and archers of the New Tang Army when they turned around and fled, and some of them did not escape. The Ming army soldier of chance,

Especially the heavy armored infantry of the Ming army who climbed the city wall!

They are in a close fight with the Datang New Army. How can it be so easy to turn around and run away? If you are a little distracted, you will be stabbed by the opposite Datang New Army soldiers!

So at the end of the fight, dozens of Ming soldiers who climbed the city wall had already been killed and wounded in the previous battle. Only less than ten of the remaining forty people escaped successfully, and the rest can only be After fighting hard, he was finally killed by more and more soldiers of the Datang New Army, or he surrendered voluntarily.

The Ming army was defeated, and Qiu Yu's expression in the back was still stunned!

He could hardly believe his eyes, what was going on with that dense explosion? What happened to the fatalities in the film?

Originally, he thought that the handguns and artillery of the pseudo-Tang thieves were powerful enough, but he did not expect that the pseudo-Tang thieves would have such explosive and intensively explosive firearms.

At this time, a Ming army general next to Qiu Yu also recovered from a state of surprise~www.wuxiaspot.com~ However, he still couldn't believe the scene he saw: "This, blooming bullet, is this a fake? Tang Bandit Army's blooming bomb!"

"Flowering bullet!" When Qiu Yu said this, he almost gritted his teeth. Now he finally remembered that he had received a piece of information about the pseudo-Tang thief army passed on by his boss a while ago.

It is rumored that this information has been defeated several times on the Lanjiang River. Although it led to the oral record of Song Zhiwen, the **** of the pseudo-Tang thief army, there is a lot of information about the pseudo-Tang thief army, from the official system to the main leader of the thief army. , and then go to the number of the pirate army, troops, arms, weapons and so on.

This piece of information is the most detailed information that the Ming Dynasty can get so far.

Qiu Yu had also seen this information and read it carefully, but his focus was on who the general of the pseudo-Tang thief army was, what his personality traits were, and how to prepare weapons.

From this, he learned that the firearms of the pseudo-Tang thieves were very sharp, and he also learned about such a thing as a blooming bomb.

But even so, he did not expect that the firearms of the pseudo-Tang thief army would be sharp to this place, especially this explosive bomb was so terrifying!