Valley Emperor

Judging from the expressions of these people alone, I am afraid that these people firmly believe that they can defeat all enemies, even if the enemy army is several times or even dozens of times theirs!

As for what their actual thoughts are, no one knows!

But at least there is no fear on their faces, and their hands and feet will not tremble like ordinary infantry!

This alone makes them worthy of their reputation as the most elite troops in the Datang New Army!

The Grenadiers were advancing, and they were not actually advancing with their muskets like the Musketeers, their muskets were still on their shoulders, not even loaded beforehand.

Although the grenadier units of the Datang New Army are also equipped with muskets, the actual generals of the Datang New Army rarely use them as ordinary musketeers on the spot, and they don't even use them to line up and shoot with muskets.

The generals of the new army of the Tang Dynasty prefer to put the grenadier troops into the battlefield at the most critical time, and shake the morale of the enemy army by killing the enemy intensively and the huge deterrent force generated by the explosion of the grenades, and then throwing in the spear. Soldiers, and even ordinary musketeers launched a hand-to-hand charge.

Basically, the use of grenadiers is actually similar to the last salvo of the musketeers!

Moreover, because the grenadiers are relatively scarce elite troops, under normal circumstances, the commanders of the Datang New Army will not arbitrarily throw the grenadiers into the battlefield, causing unnecessary losses.

Generally speaking, the grenadiers in the new army of the Tang Dynasty belonged to the precious arms after all. In the hearts of senior generals, they were not much worse than the cavalry with the same small number. They belonged to the arms that could change the situation of the battle at critical moments.

In terms of the current history of many battles between the new army of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming army, the grenadiers have indeed lived up to expectations, defeated the strong enemy many times, and created favorable conditions for the army's final charge!

Grenadiers who use grenades as their main weapons, their muskets are often just a backup weapon!

Therefore, their muskets were not held in their hands, but were still carried on their backs. They were holding black grenades in their hands, and they also carried four grenades in the cloth bags on their backs. .

The weight of the grenade is not light. Whether the grenadiers are marching or fighting, they always carry five grenades with them. In a short period of time, these weights do not seem to matter, but if the time is long, this is actually for the soldiers. A very heavy burden, replaced by ordinary infantry, I am afraid that I will complain a lot.

After all, in addition to the weapons they carry, soldiers will also carry other things, such as dry food, drinking water, and even changed military uniforms, quilts to keep out the cold, and some odds and ends.

The musketeers of the Datang New Army have a whole set of equipment, including a complete set of military uniforms, which includes underwear, jackets, shoes, socks, leggings, belts, etc., and then a quilt and a backpack.

At the same time, they will carry a musket, a bayonet, a clear strip, an ammunition bag, paper-packed gunpowder and lead bullets, as well as a match string, a bamboo water bottle, a wooden lunch box, and so on.

This whole set of things, the load is not too small!

Moreover, these things are carried by soldiers, and the baggage unit will not help you transport these things when you are marching!

Only before entering the battlefield, the soldiers will take down the things that are not related to the battle, and hand them over to the troops who are specially responsible for guarding them, and then go to the battlefield with only weapons and ammunition.

In addition to having the same equipment as ordinary musketeers, the grenadiers also had to carry five additional grenades. These five grenades plus other things made the grenadiers' load not too small during the march.

Of course, now that the grenadiers enter the battlefield, in addition to ammunition and weapons, naturally they will not be foolish to bring other things.

After the grenadiers got out of the line, they didn't go straight to the front. After they entered the battlefield, they stopped behind the Eighth Infantry Battalion.

They will not be the first to fight the enemy in this battle, but the ordinary infantry phalanx.

This grenadier is the most elite force under Song Tianbiao. He needs to use this force at the most critical moment, not consume them in the early battle!

Whether or not the grenadiers are to be put into battle requires him, the commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, to make a personal decision and order!

After the 3rd Infantry Regiment actively adjusted its formation, it formed a huge phalanx consisting of five phalanxes!

In front were two main infantry battalions, basically lined up in a straight line, with spearmen in the middle of each infantry battalion and musketeers on the flanks.

Directly behind the two main infantry battalions is the third main infantry battalion.

These three main infantry battalions formed an inverted glyph, which was the core strength of the third infantry regiment in this battle!

At the rear of the three infantry battalions, there was a reserve battalion that had not been established for a long time. This reserve battalion was a pure cold weapon force, with spearmen as the core, equipped with sword and shield soldiers and archers.

According to the establishment, the 3rd Infantry Regiment should have a reserve battalion, but at present the reserve battalion of the Datang New Army has not been fully expanded, so the second reserve battalion of the 3rd Infantry Regiment is not attached.

This reserve battalion is also used as the last line of defense to protect the artillery and the regiment's positions, because their rear is the cavalry and artillery directly under the regiment.

This kind of formation configuration, especially the formation configuration of the inverted zigzag, is actually a formation used by the Datang New Army in the Battle of Tongguweicheng. Unleash the maximum frontal firepower!

Because the third infantry battalion is located behind the two infantry battalions, it can not only cover the rear and even the flanks of the previous two infantry battalions, but also does not affect their frontal firepower.

Such a phalanx, directly in front of the three main infantry battalions, can concentrate about 250 people to meet the enemy head-on, and there are six lines behind them, as well as front and rear!

This data is not too good, but it is not too bad. If you want to increase this number, there is only one way, that is to increase the production of muskets and increase the proportion of musketeers, so that the musketeers in an infantry battalion will not There will be only two teams, but there will be three teams, or even more.

The infantry regiment of an infantry regiment will not only have less than 700 musketeers, but more than 1,000 or more musketeers.

When the 3rd Infantry Regiment faced the enemy in a dense array, the Ming army finally launched an attack on the 3rd Infantry Regiment!

The nearly 5,000 Ming troops also listed several infantry formations, and they began to launch a tide-like attack on the new army of the Tang Dynasty!

The speed of the Ming army's advance is not fast. Of course, this has nothing to do with the strength of the Ming army's combat effectiveness, because in this kind of battle, it is impossible for both sides to run as soon as they enter the battlefield. .

The generals always try their best to preserve the physical strength of the soldiers before launching the final charge. Otherwise, if they keep running around, it is easy to exhaust themselves half to death before running to the enemy.

After all, the soldiers of this era, even the semi-modern army of the Datang New Army that has adopted line tactics, still have many soldiers wearing heavy armor.

This running takes too much physical effort!

The current five thousand Ming armies are slowly approaching, and further behind them, more Ming armies are also maintaining a slow advancing rhythm. They want to form a formation that cooperates with each other and can support the strikers at any time.

On the side of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, after the formation of the battle formation was listed, there was not much change, and it was nailed firmly in place like a nail, and blocked the passage of the Ming army to Lipingfu City!

Although the Ming army's forward was not fast, the road that had not had a few hundred meters in the first place was still quickly finished!

When he saw that the Ming army had entered a distance of 150 meters, Song Tianbiao immediately said, "The battalion artillery team opened fire!"

Following Song Tianbiao's order, the two 150-pound shotguns in the battalion artillery team were immediately ignited with fuses, followed by a loud roar, and suddenly a thick white shot was emitted from the muzzle. Smoke~www.wuxiaspot.com~ And in the white smoke, many iron nails, iron pieces, etc. were shot out.

After flying over a distance of more than 100 meters, these tiny iron nails and iron pieces soon fell into the front line of the Ming army.

However, there was no accident. The front-row soldiers of the Ming army array fell down in unison!

Even many of these front row soldiers are wearing armor!

But in the face of artillery fire, these armors actually don't do much!

Although the iron nails, iron pieces, etc. shot by the cannonball are not large, their power is incomparable to that of the lead shot fired by the musket.

At a distance of more than 100 meters, if the soldiers wear heavy armor of dozens of pounds, especially the combination of cotton armor and iron armor, they can block lead bullets.

But being able to stop buckshot doesn't mean you can stop artillery fire.

It is a pity that there are only two artillery pieces that can be fired at a distance of 150 meters by the new army of the Tang Dynasty. The remaining four are bowl-mouth cannons weighing only 100 kilograms. The effective range of these bowl-mouth cannons is relatively short. , only about seventy or eighty meters.

Otherwise, if the battalion artillery team had six 150-pound shotguns to fire in salvos, the Ming army on the opposite side would suffer heavy casualties, and if they were hit by several rounds of artillery fire, they would not have waited for them to rush to the front. In the past, it is estimated that hundreds of people will be killed and injured.

Artillery, from the day it appeared on the battlefield, has become a big killer on the battlefield.

Especially with the development of technology and the continuous improvement of artillery, after the sixteenth century, in general, in this period of time, the styles and tactics of modern artillery have been determined, so artillery is on the battlefield. even more important position.

After the nineteenth century, it can be called the **** of war!