Valley Emperor

Many Ming army generals who fought against the Datang Army did not feel that the formation of the Datang Army was strict, but they felt that they were nothing more than strict military discipline.

The artillery of the pseudo-Tang thief army, even the heavy artillery, is at most a little surprising, because artillery is not unusual, and the Ming army itself has many bowl-mouth cannons.

Not to mention that the 2nd Infantry Regiment did not bring the heavy artillery from the 2nd Artillery Battalion at all in order to hurry. Some of them were only six 150-pound battalion cannons. This kind of battalion artillery was on the Ming Army side. It's a bowl of guns, they've seen it before.

As for the musket, this thing is a bit weird, but in their opinion, they have archers at home, and they are not too weak to fight.

They rarely think about how strong the fighting power will be when these are combined!

So these are not too shocking to them!

But there is one weapon that will definitely open their mouths for the first time, and that is grenades!

When the grenadiers continuously threw grenades and exploded in the array of their own troops, the scene was enough to shock every Ming army general!

The original Song Zhiwen, Lord Shen, and Zhu Zhihai, without exception, were all shocked by the blooming bullets of the pseudo-Tang thief army.

However, before they figured out how to avoid or restrain this kind of explosive incident of the pseudo-Tang thief army, often their own troops have completely collapsed.

Regardless of Cen Xiong's reaction, it was impossible for the Second Infantry Regiment of the Datang Army, which had entered the final stage of the counter-charge, to stop at this time.

The spearmen have raised their spears and are ready to launch the final charge, the musketeers are preparing for the final round of salvos, and the grenadiers are continuing to drop bombs!

Their bombing is not over yet. Usually, the situation is small. They will throw two or even three or even four rounds of grenades in a row, and use the intensive grenade explosion to completely defeat the Ming army on the opposite side!

When three rounds of grenades exploded in the Ming army array one after another, the smoke of gunpowder completely filled the Ming army array, so that the soldiers on the new side of the Datang Army could not even see what happened to the Ming army on the opposite side.

However, at this time, the officers of the Musketeers also ordered!

"aim!"

"shooting!"

After the last round of shooting, which was also the most powerful salvo, was shot out!

The officers of the Tang New Army, regardless of whether they are the battalion commander or the captain, are already holding up their command swords and shouting, "Come on!"

"Great Tang Wang Shi is invincible!"

"Grenadiers will never retreat!"

Following the order of the whole army to charge, the musketeers with bayonets and the heavily armored spearmen charged forward at a steady and fast pace!

At this time, behind the Ming army formation, Cen Xiong's expression of surprise was still the same. Just now, he watched his troops fall in batches.

Before they really rushed to the opposite side of the Pseudo Tang Bandit Army, they were already killed and wounded in pieces by the firearms of the Pseudo Tang Bandit Army!

This battle was completely beyond his comprehension!

In a war, shouldn’t everyone rush up and fight close to hand, and in the end, their own heroic and unrelenting soldiers successfully defeated the enemy?

Why haven't they really rushed up, their own troops have already suffered heavy casualties!

From the violent explosion just now and the subsequent salvo, it is conservatively estimated that at least more than 200 Ming soldiers fell, and most of these Ming soldiers were front row soldiers.

The front-row soldiers of the Ming Army were all soldiers with spears and used for hand-to-hand combat, and behind these front-row soldiers were some ordinary sword and shield hands, bowmen, and swordsmen. These people were usually used to assist. The front row of spearmen.

Now that the spearmen in the front row are almost dead, how could the remaining group of auxiliary troops be able to block the dense forest of spears and bayonets in the front row!

They didn't continue to charge like before, but looked around at a loss on the battlefield. Many of them didn't even know what happened, but saw countless front row comrades fall in pieces.

Even if they want to rush up, but they are only armed with short weapons, how can they engage in hand-to-hand combat with countless spears and muskets with bayonets on the opposite side?

This is another close-quarters melee, but a frontal battle in which both armies form a formation. In this case, the power of the heavily armored spearmen will be maximized.

And a soldier with a short weapon, even if it is a heavy armored sword and shield soldier in this kind of head-to-head confrontation, his role will not be better than a light armored sword and shield soldier.

Because a large group of spearmen on the opposite side will not give you a chance to rush up to melee melee!

This kind of head-to-head confrontation in which the two sides form a tight formation is basically stabbing each other with spears. The competition is the courage of both sides, the quality of the protective equipment, and of course, the tightness of the formation.

However, the front-row spearmen of these Ming soldiers were almost dead and wounded. How could the remaining group of sword and shield soldiers, bowmen and short swordmen fight against the Tang army in front of them?

At this time, courage is no longer able to make up for their tactical disadvantage!

So most of them don't dare to rush up!

Occasionally, a few Ming soldiers in heavy armor rushed up, trying to dodge the spear, and then launched a melee fight and opened a gap for the follow-up friendly troops.

But just after they rushed out, they were stabbed by the densely packed spears and turned into a hornet's nest!

However, this is a battlefield, and the advance of the Datang Army will not stop because the Ming Army has stopped moving forward. There are two possibilities, one is to defeat the enemy and win, the other is to defeat the enemy and retreat, otherwise, it will not stop at all.

Because when the entire army launched a charge, the senior generals in the rear were actually unable to maintain effective control over the troops on the front line.

The soldiers with red eyes will see if they should retreat or move. They only see the enemy in front of them!

Stepping in a neat pace, the Infantry phalanx of the Datang Army lined up in a tight formation, and it didn't take long for them to counter-charge to the front of the Ming Army's formation.

Whenever the head of a spear is stained with blood, it means that it once stabbed a Ming soldier!

When the spearheads of the spearmen in the front row were mostly stained with blood, there were already hundreds of dead and wounded Ming soldiers on the ground!

And the counter-charge of the Datang Army is still going on!

But what is even more surprising is that after these Ming troops suffered such heavy casualties, they still did not completely collapse!

reason?

The reason is very simple. In the tactics of the soldiers, there has never been such a thing as retreat. They have always been advancing in battle, and they have been advancing, no matter whether the front row comrades or the enemy died.

The soldiers in the front row actually wanted to escape despite the heavy casualties, but not because they didn't want to retreat, but because they didn't know how to retreat at all. As for the front row, they turned around and ran away, and the Ming soldiers in the back row were still advancing. Well, as soon as you turned around, you bumped into the sword and gun of your comrade-in-arms behind!

As a result, the three thousand Ming Army soldiers were like constant waves, and the rear was crowded continuously, and then they fell under the infantry phalanx of the Datang Army!

This situation lasts for dozens of seconds, and it is normal for one minute, but it continues for several minutes. This is absolutely abnormal!

Li Chunjing saw that although the soldiers on the front line were killing a lot of enemies, the front line was no longer advancing. Instead, after falling into a strange stalemate, the casualties of the soldiers in the front line appeared one after another and more and more, he finally gave the order. : "Order the second cavalry battalion to charge the enemy's rear line! Cooperate with the infantry to flank the puppet thieves!"

Although judging from the situation on the battlefield, his Second Infantry Regiment has an overall advantage, and the ratio of casualties to both the enemy and the enemy is even more than ten to one, but if he continues to fight like this, he is also worried about a deadlock. If you win, I am afraid that you will also suffer relatively large casualties!

The battle of Rongxian was just the first battle for his second infantry regiment in Guangxi. It was absolutely impossible to suffer too many casualties here, as this would seriously affect the subsequent combat missions.

His second infantry regiment went south, and the strategic goal is not to stop at Rongxian, not even Liuzhou, but Wuzhou or even Zhaoqing or even Guangzhou!

In order to avoid insignificant casualties as much as possible, he ordered the second cavalry battalion to attack!

The 2nd cavalry battalion was originally on the right wing. When he saw the semaphore order from Li Chunjing, the battalion commander of the 2nd cavalry battalion, Major Lu Yuzhi, immediately got on his horse and ordered his subordinates: "All mount!"

Immediately, one hundred and fifty cavalrymen turned on their horses in unison!

"Draw the knife!"

When speaking, Lu Yuzhi was also the first to pull out his saber, and held it up, leaning the back of the saber on his shoulder!

A group of cavalry under his command also drew their sabres at the same time!

"Moving forward!"

Lu Yuzhi issued an order again, and at this time, the messenger around him also slowly sounded the horn in his hand!

After the gentle horn sounded, the cavalry began to urge the horses to move forward slowly!

At this time, the 150 cavalry was roughly divided into two groups, one in front and one behind. The cavalry in the front was about 100 cavalry, and the cavalry in the rear was about 50 cavalry. The distance between the two was about 20 to 30 meters. the distance!

And on the left side of the middle of these two phalanxes, there are the deputy battalion commander of the second battalion and two messengers with horns!

Lu Yuzhi rode at the forefront, with his head held high, and behind him were the messengers and a few officers!

In the rear ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ is an array of cavalry advancing in neat formation!

After crossing tens of meters, Lu Yuzhi gave the order again: "Run forward!"

Immediately, the horns of the messengers began to rush, rapid and rhythmic!

However, at this time, Li Chunjing on the top of the mountain in the back frowned: "What's going on with Lu Yuzhi? Why did he move towards the enemy's flank formation? I asked them to attack the enemy's rear formation and cooperate with me. The army attacked from front and back!"

At this time, a staff officer also showed a worried look: "The cavalry battalion rushed in the wrong direction. The enemy army still has a complete phalanx of infantry on the west side. I am afraid that it will rush over..."

"Damn, how did you pass the order?" Li Chunjing frowned!

And a semaphore soldier on the side saw this scene, and his face was extremely pale. No one knew better than him. When he gave the order just now, he mistakenly pronounced 'back formation' as 'flank'! "

"The messenger, immediately tell Lu Yuzhi to let his cavalry stop charging!"