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In only five or six seconds before and after, almost the entire formation of the Fourth Mixed Regiment stopped instantly, and then the soldiers began to urgently organize the formation!

At this time, if there are Ming army cavalrymen who are watching ahead and are familiar with the tactics of the Tang army, then they will find that although the infantry of the pseudo-Tang thief army in front of them are in a panic, the formation is standard. Six rows of lines, and the standard is the infantry battalion!

The enemy's cavalry charge is imminent, every second is precious now, and at this time, the rigorous training of the Datang Army in the past finally reflects its value!

Although the enemy cavalry was already in sight and was launching the final charge, the soldiers of the Datang Army, as if they had not seen it, obeyed the orders of the officers and began to line up for themselves!

The officers rode on their horses, ordered the formation step by step, and prepared for battle!

As for those soldiers, although many of them were already panicking in their hearts, at this time, the long-term rigorous training made them make an almost instinctive conditional response at this time, even if their minds continued to send out The sound of running away, but their footsteps involuntarily stopped at the command of the officer, and then began to organize the formation, and the movement was quite fast.

Some of the musketeers who have finished lining up have already raised and lit the arquebus. As for the muskets in their hands, they have already been loaded in advance, but when the arquebus was lit, many of their hands were shaking. , In fact, if they were not allowed to reload their ammunition in advance, they might not even be able to load the ammunition now!

Because time did not allow them to list the quadrangular phalanx specially used to restrain the cavalry, they could only meet the enemy with the six-column phalanx that they were best at and most familiar with.

The spearmen also took up their spears while arranging their formation!

Those heavy-armored spearmen who are tired and panting can finally rest now. They only need to hold the spears in their hands now, and they can't interfere in other things.

Compared with the panic in the formation of several infantry battalions, the grenadiers in the fourth mixed regiment reacted completely differently!

If those ordinary infantrymen would be nervous and scared in the face of this kind of battle, and even wanted to flee, they were just lined up to meet the enemy due to the strict military law and the instinct formed by the harsh training in the past.

Then the grenadiers in the fourth mixed grenadier team held their heads high, and they were the first troops in the army to complete the formation!

There were more than 100 people, and no one showed fear. Even the two officers in the grenadier team rode on their horses with a relaxed look, and gave orders in a leisurely manner!

Seeing this scene, Gu Shizhong in the rear couldn't help but sigh, if the infantry under his command were all grenadiers, the battle would be much easier.

But he also knew that his idea was doomed to be impossible.

The grenadiers in the Datang Army are the most elite arms. Although there are not many people, only one grenadier team is assigned to each regiment-level troop, but their combat effectiveness is the best in the entire army!

The grenadiers are powerful in combat, not because they are well equipped. In fact, the muskets they use are exactly the same as those used by ordinary musketeers. Their iconic equipment is grenades, and now it is not only the grenadiers who are equipped with them. , Ordinary troops will also be equipped and used in defensive operations.

Even the breastplates they have recently equipped are actually not unique to them. Many troops are equipped with breastplates and even full-body armor and half-body armor.

The grenadiers of the Datang Army have strong combat effectiveness, never because of their equipment, but because of the quality of their personnel!

Nowadays, grenadiers select soldiers from veterans in each unit. The first criterion is to join the army for more than one year or participate in more than two battles.

And this condition, there are many people in the Datang Army who can reach it, but the conditions of physical fitness and courage are enough to brush most people.

Only soldiers with a height of 1.7 meters or more and a strong physique can be selected for the qualification, and after being selected for the meeting, it depends on their performance, especially if the performance of courage is slightly worse, they will be brushed down immediately.

Because the grenadier unit needs the strongest and bravest soldiers, as for combat skills, it can be trained slowly!

In many battles, the grenadiers can easily win more with less, and have a strong will to fight. When the casualty rate reaches more than 30%, they can still maintain a high fighting spirit to attack!

Even if the casualty rate exceeds 50%, the grenadiers can still maintain a certain combat effectiveness.

However, after the casualty rate reaches 30%, the ordinary troops lose their offensive combat effectiveness long ago, and after the casualty rate reaches 50%, even defensive operations will collapse.

Therefore, in the Datang Army, the superior generals often used the grenadiers as the last trump card, resulting in the grenadiers always appearing on the cruelest and most difficult battlefields!

And now, Gu Shizhong also regards the grenadiers as the last trump card. He hopes that the grenadiers can play the most crucial role in this battle and buy time for the main force to adjust the formation!

The grenadiers were already lined up behind the main force's formation. At this time, they were the Ming Army's vanguard cavalry who had raised the speed of the horses, and the formation of the 3rd Infantry Battalion of the 4th Mixed Regiment was less than 200 meters away!

The leading Ming army cavalry saw the Puppet Tang bandits lining up in front, and a young Baihu looked puzzled, and then urged his horses to approach Zhao Qianhu, who was in front, and said loudly, "Sir, the Puppet Tang in front of you. The bandit army is a little weird, they stopped to line up!"

The middle-aged Zhao Qianhu didn't care: "If someone kills you, can you not resist?"

"These pseudo-Tang thieves in front of us are just struggling to the death. After we rush in and disrupt their formation, it's not up to us what we want to do!"

Immediately, this Zhao Qianhu said: "Also, young man, hasn't anyone told you that you are not allowed to shake the heart of the army when you are in battle?"

After that young Baihu listened, although he still wanted to say something, he had to retreat, and then continued to follow Zhao Qianhu in front of him on a horse!

At this time, Zhao Qianhu had already raised a cavalry spear in his hand and shouted, "Come on!"

As Zhao Qianhu took the lead and launched a charge, several cavalry messengers behind him also sounded their horns in unison, and then, the more than 100 Ming cavalry behind him started the final charge!

At the same time, Wang Bianyi, who was at the back, saw that the cavalry at the front was charging, and immediately frowned!

Although there were still more than 300 meters away, he also felt that the reaction of the pseudo-Tang thief army opposite was a little abnormal, which was not like the performance of a defeated army.

The normal appearance should be like this: after the cavalry of one's own side catches up, the enemy army begins to flee desperately, and then the cavalry of one's own side slowly chases and kills. The thieves were killed.

But now, the pseudo-Tang thief army in front has stopped. Although the formation is a little flustered, they are moving too fast.

More importantly, they lined up before their own cavalry charged.

In his impression, it was the infantry in the superintendent, and it was impossible to form a line up in a hurry when facing the charge of the cavalry!

Just when he was puzzled, the Ming army cavalry in front had already rushed up, and the few cavalrymen who could shoot arrows on horseback even bent their bows to shoot arrows directly, although the power of riding bows was weaker than that of foot bows. , but at such a close distance, it is still powerful!

At the same time, the opposing Pseudo-Tang thieves also started to make a burst of gunshots!

But someone on the side said: "Sir, look, General Zhao has already rushed in!"

When this person spoke, he still showed excitement on his face!

Sure enough~www.wuxiaspot.com~ When Wang Bianyi looked forward, he saw Zhao Qianhu's more than 100 cavalry charging at high speed. The infantry phalanx of the pseudo-Tang thief army, but went around and inserted directly into the middle of the queue of the two pseudo-Tang thieves!

"Rush in, so easy to rush in?" Wang Bianyi was a little puzzled. Although some of the vanguard cavalry were constantly being hit by the muskets of the pseudo-Tang bandit army, they managed to rush in.

"Sir, the pseudo-Tang thief army has already been broken through, let's rush up, and the main force of annihilating the thief army is here to fight!" Someone next to him said.

Wang Bianyi no longer hesitated at this time, and immediately ordered: "Go ahead and separate the pseudo-Tang bandit army!"

Immediately, the main cavalry of the Ming Army, which was more than 200 meters away from the infantry formation of the Pseudo-Tang Bandit Army, also made a final high-speed sprint!

At the same time, in the formation of the fourth mixed regiment, there was no panic or even collapse as expected by the Ming army cavalry generals!

Especially Zhao Qianhu, who rushed to the front, when he led more than a hundred cavalry under his command to rush in through the gap of the infantry phalanx of the two pseudo-Tang thieves, and was about to detour to attack their flanks, he found them in front. There happened to be a team of infantry soldiers of the pseudo-Tang thief army with only a hundred people.

Since he has already rushed in, there is absolutely no reason to quit.

In fact, the Ming army cavalry rushing in at high speed can't stop at this time!

They are now either biting the bullet and continuing to charge, or they are starting to swerve!

As for Zhao Qianhu, he chose to continue to charge forward, because there were only more than 100 infantry soldiers of the pseudo-Tang bandit army in front of him.

The forward of the Ming army continued to charge forward, and the target was the grenadiers!