Valley Emperor

After observing the entire battlefield and communicating with Hao Bainian on the front line, Li Xuan decided to transfer the remnants of the baggage regiment, the tenth infantry battalion of the fourth infantry regiment, a musket team from the artillery battalion, and a guard battalion to form a temporary middle army. Commando, the interim commander of this department will be the commander of the 4th Infantry Regiment Wang Danxu.

The Chinese commando will carry out a surprise attack from the southwest to the northeast, that is, launch an attack from the left flank of the front line, assist the 1st Infantry Regiment to completely destroy the enemy's flanking troops, and then join the 1st Infantry Regiment to sweep the enemy army. Army, completely defeat the enemy army!

As for why Wang Danxu was appointed as the commander, it was because the three senior generals Li Xuan valued were all in the front line. Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, and Fang Xitong were all in the front line, each leading a main infantry regiment. Is the forward commander.

When no one is available, Wang Danxu, a veteran bandit, can only be used!

However, although Wang Danxu, who was ordered in danger, was a general from a bandit, he had rich combat experience and had led thousands of people to fight, and his prestige and qualifications were quite sufficient.

As long as you don't mess around and simply lead the troops to launch a surprise attack according to the predetermined plan, then there is no problem!

After receiving the order, Wang Danxu listened to Li Xuan's personal instructions on how to fight, and repeatedly emphasized that he should not change the battle plan without authorization, and he should always pay attention to the semaphore command where the Chinese army was located. He also knew that this might be something he could catch. last chance.

In the past few months, as long as you are not blind, you can see that His Majesty has begun to support young officers from the Guards, while veterans from bandits have been suppressed by themselves. Huang Xueren and Fang Dongquan are now only deputy commanders. Woolen cloth.

Although he was promoted to head of the regiment, in terms of power, he was still inferior to Hao Bainian, Li Chunjing, and Fang Xitong.

This can be seen from the previous series of high-level personnel appointments. The forward commander is Hao Bainian, and the deputy commanders are Li Chunjing and Fang Xitong.

However, Huang Xueren, Fang Dongquan and even him, the former commander of the Guards, were all behind.

Now, under the urgency of the battle, His Majesty could not let Hao Bainian and the others command the commando of the Chinese army, so the appointment of the commander fell to him.

And he must not waste this opportunity, because he knows that if he messes up this time, it will be almost impossible to get the opportunity to command the army in the future.

So in the face of Li Xuan's instructions, he listened very carefully, and at the same time, he had the cheek to ask several staff officers from Zeng Ziwen's combat division who had temporarily dispatched him to come over and help him make temporary decisions. After all, this combat operation was no trivial matter. He is also worried about his ability to successfully command so many temporarily drawn troops.

Zeng Ziwen naturally would not refuse, and dispatched three young staff officers of the combat division to him on the spot.

The staff of the Operations Division are basically all young officers recruited in the past year. These young officers are basically from academic backgrounds. After they enter the martial arts school to study, they enter the imperial school to study, and they have the experience of serving as grassroots officers.

These combat staff are basically lieutenants, and they will be released to serve as the chief officers of the troops. According to the current expansion of the Datang New Army, these people will be at least a battalion commander after they are released.

These people have both traditional cultural education and new-style military education. In terms of quality, they are even the best among the many officers in the Datang New Army. More importantly, they are actually still in the learning stage. , to learn from others or to delve into more advanced military knowledge.

If it is said that the officers who were originally from the Guards temporarily propped up the sky for the new army of the Tang Dynasty, then these young officers who were originally scholars and then went through a series of military education will be the future of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

With the presence of the staff of the combat division, Wang Danxu felt a lot more at ease, and immediately did not dare to delay the time, and just rode his horse to gather the troops.

In Wang Danxu's Chinese army commando, the cargo regiment has just experienced a brutal war, and the number of troops has been reduced a lot. Now there are only about 1,400 people left, while the other troops have not experienced any battles. new force.

All the troops added up to about 1,800 people, which can barely be called an army of 2,000!

In terms of the number of troops, this is actually the configuration of an infantry regiment. However, in terms of the configuration of troops, the level of equipment, and even the quality of the troops, it still cannot be compared with the two main infantry regiments, the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 2nd Infantry Regiment. .

After Wang Danxu led the army to set off, Li Xuan was still watching the entire battlefield as before!

At this time, the battlefield looked as if the two sides had entered a stalemate. Hao Bainian's forward force of about 6,000 people fought against the main force of the Ming army with a force of 20,000 people. Hundreds of people.

However, the Ming army on the opposite side was not feeling well either. More than half of them were young men and civilians who were weak in combat. If they fought, they could only rely on the guards and recruits.

Among the guards, they can only rely on the generals' personal soldiers, and the combat effectiveness of ordinary guards is actually very limited.

After this fight, although it seems to be pressing the pseudo-Tang thief army to fight again, and constantly trying to launch an offensive, in fact, it did not advance many fronts, and it suffered heavy casualties. Three infantry phalanxes have been defeated one after another. Nearly two thousand people were killed and wounded.

It's just that these people who were killed and wounded were ordinary cannon fodder soldiers, not the backbone of the generals' personal soldiers and recruits. Otherwise, they would have collapsed on their own.

In order to support the infantry operations, the artillery units that had originally recruited to attack the Ming army's cavalry also turned their guns and began to intensively shell the Ming army's infantry phalanx.

The solid shells of the heavy artillery, the close range shot of the battalion artillery, and every shot of the artillery took the lives of a large number of Ming soldiers.

In this battle, although the number of artillery of the new Tang army was not large, it played an important role from beginning to end, and caused a large number of casualties to the Ming army.

Whether it was the battle between the infantry or the attack of the Ming cavalry just now, in fact, at least one-third of the casualties of the Ming army were the result of artillery.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the two sides have not officially entered the stage of large-scale hand-to-hand combat.

When the artillery began to bombard the Ming army's infantry phalanx, Wang Danxu once again turned his head to look at the troops behind him, then pulled out the command knife on the horse's back, and used the command knife to point to the Ming army more than 100 meters ahead to give an order: "The whole army has it, move forward in unison!"

Immediately, these 1,800 infantrymen began to form two huge linear phalanxes and began to advance!

This is the advice given to Wang Danxu by the staff of the Operations Department. This is because although this Chinese army commando has the size of a regiment, it actually has a lot of numbers. There were four battalions, the 10th Infantry Battalion of the 5th Infantry, a battalion of the Guards, and a battalion of Musketeers from the Artillery Battalion.

Moreover, the configuration of arms and the strength of combat effectiveness of each unit are different. The number of musketeers in the baggage regiment is relatively small, each battalion has only one musket team, and the four battalions of the baggage regiment have lost a lot of personnel, and they are not satisfied with the quota. On their own, it is difficult to organize a battalion-scale linear array.

The command of other troops is also a problem, so we simply divided these troops into two parts, and the commander of the baggage regiment and the battalion commander of the 10th Infantry Battalion served as the temporary commanders of the two phalanxes.

The first phalanx consisted of three infantry battalions of the baggage regiment, and the second phalanx consisted of a battalion of the baggage regiment, the tenth infantry battalion, a guard battalion, and an artillery battalion.

The former has more troops, but the latter is actually more effective, because the 10th Infantry Battalion is the only regular infantry battalion among these units, and the infantry in the Guard Battalion is not weak.

When the Chinese Army Commando began to advance, the 1st Infantry Regiment also launched a corresponding counter-offensive. The 2nd Infantry Battalion invested in the final reserve. The heavy armored sword and shield soldiers in the 5th Team launched a surprise attack, and several other main infantrymen. The battalion is the same, limited by the shortage of muskets and a slight surplus of spearmen. The fifth team is generally composed of sword and shield soldiers and archers. The specific proportions are different, but the overall proportion is maintained at half and half.

The sword and shield soldiers in the fifth team are heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, and these fifty heavy armored sword and shield soldiers are also the only heavy armored sword and shield soldiers in a regular infantry battalion!

When the fifty heavy armored sword and shield soldiers in the fifth team wore heavy armor and launched a surprise attack with their shields raised, they were inserted into the array of the Ming army like a sharp knife~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Although they were in the process of advancing, several people were put on by the hand guns of the Ming army, and several people were killed by the spearmen of the Ming army, but the remaining people still rushed into the array of the Ming army.

When more than 40 sword and shield soldiers in heavy armor entered the Ming army array, it was almost disastrous for the Ming army.

Because at this time, it has entered a real melee combat, and in this melee combat, the only people who can fight against the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers are actually the same heavy armored sword and shield soldiers. When other arms encounter them, either run, or be killed.

Zhao Dashan held a long-waisted knife made of fine steel, and while using the round shield in his hand, he carefully swayed a spear that was stabbing towards him, and then took a few steps forward, and gently waved the fine-steel waist knife in his hand, It was to stab to death the Ming army spearman who was stabbing at him with a spear.

In this kind of close combat, it is almost impossible for the spearmen to be the opponents of the sword and shield soldiers, because the spearmen are different from the sword and shield soldiers. , it is necessary to use the collective strength to form a spear formation to kill the enemy.

Otherwise, the heavily armored spearmen of the new Tang Dynasty will not actively abandon their spears in the melee stage, and then draw out their waist knives to fight. Chaotic close combat!

The 2nd Infantry Battalion launched a counterattack. The other two Infantry Battalions of the 1st Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Infantry Battalion also launched a counterattack. As for the 1st Infantry Battalion, it was withdrawn from the battle with the cavalry and joined the line. in the battle sequence.

The 1st Infantry Regiment and the Chinese Army Commando led by Wang Shanxu, although the two units already suffered a considerable loss of personnel, the remaining troops are still more than 3,500!

And these troops, all launched a counterattack against the Ming army!