Valley Emperor

After Zhao Dashan slashed to death the Ming army spearman in front of him, he dragged the fine steel long sword still with blood stains forward, and then aimed at a Ming army sword and shield in front of him and slashed it.

The Ming saber shield in front of him is just a light-armored sword and shield. He is not wearing heavy armor, but he does not dare to resist Zhao Dashan's powerful sword, and the angle of the shield in his left hand is not right. He needs to turn around and back. Only then can he block with a shield, so he raised the long knife in his hand to block it without hesitation!

In an instant, the two long knives collided with each other, and a little spark of light burst out. However, after the two sides retracted their knives, the Ming army light-armored sword and shield hand discovered that the waist knife in his hand had already appeared a huge one. Gap, and then take a closer look at the steel knife in the hands of the Pseudo-Tang thief army facing him and his enemy, but it is still intact.

This thief's knife is so sharp!

This Ming Saber and Shield Slayer made such a sigh. It is extremely sharp, and the sword of this Ming Saber Shield Shou is just an iron sword, only a layer of steel is wrapped around the blade!

The knives equipped in batches in the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the knives of ordinary infantry, whether it is the knives of heavy armored infantry or light armored knives, or simply the knives of soldiers in auxiliary troops, are actually the same style, all of which are the standard of the Ming army. waist knife.

The Ming army-style waist knife in this period was a knife created by combining the characteristics of the Japanese knife and the traditional knife in the Central Plains.

However, unlike the Japanese sword, the thickness of the blade of the Ming army waist sword is basically the same as that of the blade, so it is more suitable for chopping, while the Japanese sword has a thinner blade than the blade, which is more suitable for stabbing.

So although the two look similar in appearance, they are actually two completely different styles of knives, representing different fighting styles.

Later generations also called the Ming army waist knife Qi's saber, but in fact it cannot be said that, because this knife was actually equipped with the Ming army on a large scale before the Qi family army, and the Qi family army was only the most famous among the many Ming armies equipped with this kind of knife. Just one.

And it is worth noting that in the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the Ming army was equipped with a large number of Japanese swords directly imported from Japan.

Although the waist knives equipped by the various arms of the Datang New Army are similar in style, the waist knives equipped by different arms are also quite different in quality.

The waist knives used by heavy armored swords, shield soldiers and heavy armored spearmen are the best. They are basically steel knives made of fine steel, and they are expensive!

This is because the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers and the heavy armored spearmen belong to the heavy armored infantry units. The armor on them is worth dozens of taels of silver, so naturally they will not begrudge a few taels of silver for a knife!

At the same time, the main combat method of these heavily armored infantry units is melee combat, even if they are heavily armored spearmen, they mainly rely on swords and shields to fight after charging, so the requirements for knives are quite high.

The iron knives used by ordinary infantrymen or knives only covered with steel on the blade will have gaps or even cracks and be scrapped after a few uses.

The knives of the heavy armored infantry are steel knives, while the waist knives used by ordinary infantrymen are worse, such as light armored spearmen, archers and even light armored sword shields, gunners, etc. Their waist knives are not the main combat. It is a kind of self-defense weapon of last resort. At the same time, the number of these ordinary infantrymen is huge, so for the sake of cost control, the waist knives they are equipped with are only covered with steel at the edge of the knife, and even many people are equipped directly from Ming Dynasty. The pure iron sword captured by the army.

As for the commanding knives of infantry and artillery officers, they are also variants of the standard waist knives, but they are more sophisticated and are basically steel knives. At the same time, there is a feature that the knives are generally light and thin, not as thick as the waist knives equipped by ordinary infantrymen. The length is also slightly less.

If this kind of command knife is used in actual combat, it is actually not easy to use, mainly because it is more beautiful in appearance, and another feature is that it is relatively light in weight.

And it’s actually very important that you don’t get tired of holding it, because the officers are all commanding from the beginning to the end with the command knife. Holding the command knife high for a long time will also be very tiring!

Zhao Dashan is a heavy armored sword and shield soldier. The armor on their bodies is basically the best in the whole army.

This knife cut a gap in the steel ladle iron waist knife in the hands of the soldiers of the Ming army. It was not difficult, but it was actually not very useful. A knife with a gap could also chop people to death, and the threat was not weakened in the slightest.

Therefore, Zhao Dashan did not dare to be careless. Relying on the heavy armor on his body, he raised the round shield in his hand and took two steps forward, trying to use the shield to directly hit the Ming saber shield hand on the opposite side.

At this time, the Ming saber shield hand on the opposite side also slashed it smoothly, that is, he chopped it up. Zhao Dashan swung the round shield in his hand and swayed the menacing knife away, although the swinging knife was still drawn on his left shoulder. , but the threat is not great, it just left a knife mark on the armor.

However, the next moment, the steel long knife in his hand slashed the opponent's neck!

The long tip of the blade did not encounter the slightest obstacle, and slashed directly across the neck of the Ming saber and shield soldier on the opposite side. In an instant, the blood was sprayed out!

After watching the Ming army soldier in front of him fall, Zhao Dashan did not stop, because he had already seen two Ming army soldiers rushing up.

Even if he is wearing heavy armor, it is still an unwise choice to fight against two, so he chose to temporarily avoid, and at the same time approach a comrade a few meters away!

After reuniting with his comrades, he and his comrades continued to fight until the last moment, and at this last moment, either he was killed or injured and unable to fight again, or the outcome was already divided, the enemy army fled or his side ordered a side retreat.

And before that, he needs to fight all the time!

The heavy armored sword and shield soldiers of the new Tang army rushed into their own array. It is impossible for the generals who threatened the Ming army to not see it. It is easier said than done to destroy the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers.

First of all, the face-to-face Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army has already launched a frontal attack. Under the cover of the spearmen, their musketeers are already close to the last thirty or forty meters, and this distance is basically the Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army. The final distance to launch a full-scale charge.

According to the experience gained by the Ming army and the pseudo-Tang bandit army in many battles, the musketeers of the pseudo-Tang bandit army will always shoot the last round of salvo within the last twenty or thirty meters, and then they will directly Launch a bayonet charge.

Of course, the main force of the charge is actually not the musketeers, but the spearmen, but the bayonet of the musketeers can still give great support to the spearmen.

Not to mention, in the last round of salvos, a large number of Ming army casualties can often be caused, and it is not unheard of for the entire front row of Ming army to fall in the salvo.

Under such circumstances, the Ming army officers on the front line did not dare to mobilize the soldiers in the front row without authorization to contain the heavy armored infantry.

It can only be drawn from the rear, but there are not so many troops behind, and there is a lack of heavy armored infantry!

The people who rushed in were all heavily armored sword and shield soldiers. The ability to melee melee at close range is the most powerful of all arms. If you want to annihilate them in the melee, in fact, the only available units are the same heavy armored units. , especially the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers.

Just like in ancient and modern wars, the best type of arms to fight against cavalry is cavalry. In melee combat against heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, the best use is heavy armored sword and shield soldiers, and other light armored units are basically even if they are sent. The portion of the head that was taken.

However, are heavily armored units so easy to find?

how is this possible!

A suit of armor costs dozens of taels of silver, and the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers are also of relatively high quality to the soldiers, and the reflected treatment is also relatively high.

The new army of the Tang Dynasty has seized a lot of armor and cotton armor of the Ming army, so after a simple modification, a large amount of cotton iron armor can be obtained, so this can be equipped with armor for the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers and the heavy armored spearmen. .

However, the total number of these heavy armored infantry is actually about seven or eight hundred people!

Whether it is for the Ming army or the new army of the Tang Dynasty, the heavy armored units are expensive elite units~www.wuxiaspot.com~ It does not mean that they can be transferred if they want dozens or hundreds. How much better!

Besides, the development of the situation on the battlefield now does not mean that they do not have enough time to deal with it slowly. At this time, the 1st Infantry Regiment and the Chinese Commando are already facing each other from the south and the southwest. Thousands of Ming army launched a full-scale charge.

After the musketeers finished their salvos, Qiqi carried the muskets with bayonets, followed the pace of the spearmen and launched the final bayonet charge!

As the backbone of hand-to-hand combat, the spearmen, especially the heavy-armored spearmen in the front row, advance steadily and slowly. Every step forward, many Ming soldiers on the opposite side take a step back involuntarily. There is no other reason. This row of dense spear forests is really terrifying.

If you don't step back, you will be stabbed into a hornet's nest by the spears of the pseudo-Tang bandit army!

At this time, you can also find that in fact, the spearmen of the infantry phalanx, especially the heavy armored spearmen, their task is not to kill how many enemies, they are to use the dense spear forest to continuously The oppression of the opposing enemy forces forced them to retreat, so that their lines of defense were shaken.

When the enemy's line of defense is shaken, it is not far from collapse. After the enemy is completely collapsed, that is the time to kill a large number of the enemy's living strength.

In the face of such a dense forest of spears, there were not too many accidents on the Ming army side. The Ming army soldiers in the front row began to retreat step by step, but they were blocked by the people behind, and finally chaos inevitably occurred.

The enemy is currently in chaos, so basically it can be judged that their defense line has begun to shake, and it is too late to completely collapse.

A thousand households in the front line of the Ming army saw this scene, and could not help but look desperate and said: "It's over, everything is over!"