Valley Emperor

The nearly 100 grenadiers who were running in small steps stopped, then raised their muskets in unison, and aimed at a Ming army on the left side of the gap!

At the same time, among the hundreds of Ming army they were targeting, more than a dozen Ming army archers also drew their arrows and put them on the bowstrings, and then bent the bowstrings towards the opposite group of fake Tang thieves!

"aim!"

"shooting!"

At the same time, in the Ming army team opposite them, a statement army general shouted: "Release the arrow!"

Almost at the same moment, the teams of both sides fell down a lot of soldiers!

After the dense and crisp sound of gunfire, the captain didn't pause at all, didn't even look at the fallen grenadier, and pointed forward with the commanding knife he held high: "Bayonal charge!"

After shouting, he directly turned over and dismounted, and then charged with his own grenadiers with the command knife!

"Kill!"

"Grenadiers are invincible!"

"Long live the Tang Dynasty!"

In this battle, this grenadier team did not even use their best bombs, but just like the musketeers, approaching the salvo and charging directly.

This is because they are shooting from the bottom up, and it is easy to shoot, but it is almost impossible to throw the grenade twenty or thirty meters away, and the city wall is six or seven meters high.

So they gave up the bombing directly, but launched the simplest and most direct bayonet charge!

Of course, as a captain and captain of the most elite arm of the Tang Dynasty, the Grenadiers, Han You did not want to foolishly lead his own men to death, and bring a group of defenseless grenadiers with him. Rush up for a close-range melee.

He was going to take the grenadiers to continue to provide support, and to cover the heavy armored infantry of the Liuzhou Independence Regiment to charge, and to drop bombs at the right time to open a gap for the Liuzhou Independence Regiment's assault.

Before the grenadiers launched the charge, in fact, the three battalions of the Liuzhou Independent Regiment had already rushed up one after another. They had completely abandoned the previous complete formation and ran as fast as possible. and then climbed up the ruins where the dust had not completely disappeared.

Fighting on the ruins of such a city wall, it is naturally impossible to maintain a tight formation, and the next battle will be dominated by melee melee where the two sides are entangled.

And this is also the fighting style that the Liuzhou Independence Regiment is best at!

The Liuzhou Independence Regiment, a force composed of elite standing soldiers provided by the major chieftains in Guangxi, although it is already the regular army of the King of the Tang Dynasty, its combat mode and atmosphere are still completely different from other regular armies. No muskets, no artillery.

This is a pure cold weapon unit, but it is a daunting cold weapon unit, because the armor rate of this unit has reached 100%!

The heavily armored spearmen and heavily armored sword and shield soldiers in this unit are almost all heavily armored, and even some strong soldiers will wear double armor, which is a set of Tang-style cotton iron armor. The outer layer will also be covered with a set of chain mail or scale armor.

Not only the projectiles and shrapnel of muskets have a certain defensive power, but the defensive power of cold weapons is even more excellent!

Even the archers and the auxiliary light-armored swordsmen, shields, and spearmen wore relatively light leather or cotton armor.

In fact, according to the idea of ​​Lieutenant Colonel Mei Shenjian, the new head of the Liuzhou Independence Regiment, the Liuzhou Independence Regiment under his command should preferably be all heavily armored. However, armor is a scarce resource. Whether it is self-made or seized, the number is relatively small. Moreover, almost every unit in the Datang King Division has a great demand for armor.

Because whether it is a regular army or a garrison army, there are two types of arms: heavy armored spearmen and heavy armored sword and shield hands.

Armor is a scarce material second only to guns and cannons, and it is impossible to meet the needs of all troops, so even the Liuzhou Independence Regiment, a heavy-armor cold-weapon unit that specializes in melee combat, cannot have a single piece of heavy armor. At most, one third of the equipment is equipped.

However, even so, the combat effectiveness of this unit cannot be underestimated.

Sophisticated equipment, coupled with the sturdy and fearless characteristics of the soldiers themselves, and the sufficient and excellent food supply in the regular army of the King of the Tang Dynasty, made their physical fitness far surpass that of ordinary soldiers. The combination of these Together, it is enough to allow this unit to exert a huge combat effectiveness in close-range melee.

When the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independence Regiment climbed to the ruins one after another, Captain Han You followed with the grenadiers!

After following the soldiers of the Liuzhou Independence Regiment to climb the ruins, he was greatly relieved to see the reinforcements of the Ming Army that were rushing in not far away!

The most fearful thing about this kind of charge is to be blocked by the enemy in time under the ruins, so when climbing the ruins, not only will you be unable to exert your own combat effectiveness because of the inconvenience of movement, but you will also be attacked by the enemy from a commanding height.

In the last Wuzhou battle, when the 3rd garrison brigade hit the gap, it was because it was a step slow and had not climbed up to the ruins. It was intercepted by the Ming army. In the end, the two sides continued to fight on the ruins, which led to Intensive casualties.

But today, God seems to be on the side of the Great Tang King. They climbed the ruins first, and now, they will be condescending to resist the enemy's counterattack.

Seeing that the enemy's reinforcements are already less than tens of meters away, the forward troops are already climbing the ruins, and the archers in the rear are also bowing their bows and shooting arrows at their own troops!

Captain Han You decisively ordered: "Grenadiers, prepare grenades!"

In this condescending close range, nothing is more lethal than a grenade, and the grenade can effectively kill the enemy's heavy armored infantry!

When he gave the order, he also turned his head and glanced at the Liuzhou Independence Regiment, the friendly force next to him.

The archers in the Liuzhou Independence Regiment also followed, and they have already started to bend bows and arrows for free shooting.

However, many bows and arrows fell on the front line of the Ming army, but they did not have the desired effect, because most of the front line of the Ming army soldiers on the opposite side were heavily armored soldiers, and they had a good defense ability against bows and arrows.

The bows and arrows that are commonly equipped in the Kings of the Tang Dynasty are ordinary bows and arrows, and they are rarely equipped with heavy arrows specially used for armor-piercing, because the task of armor-piercing is basically handed over to the musketeers.

At this time, if the Liuzhou Independence Regiment was fighting with ordinary musketeers, they would probably have hurried to shoot at close range. Will rush up and have a hand-to-hand fight with their own.

But today, it is the grenadiers that accompany the Liuzhou Independence Regiment to fight!

Strictly speaking, the grenadier unit is a musket unit, because they are also equipped with muskets, and their daily training is mainly based on line tactics, but they are different from ordinary musketeers in that they are also equipped with grenades!

They were able to leap over many arms in the Datang Wang Division in one fell swoop and become the most elite troops in the Datang Wang Division because they would still need grenades to fight.

In order to throw grenades, they need to have extraordinary physique and courage beyond ordinary soldiers, and these two in turn make them real elite infantry.

Look at the subordinates have taken out the grenade!

"ignition!"

"bomb!"

Following Captain Han You's order, the grenadiers threw dozens of grenades. These grenades were thrown downwards and landed farther than when they were thrown on the flat ground or thrown upwards. Most of them fell into the ground. The formation of the Ming Army's heavy armored infantry under the ruins, and some even flew over a distance of more than 30 meters because of their excessive force. They passed these heavy armored Ming Army soldiers and fell into the archers in the back row of the Ming Army. .

As the explosions continued to sound intensively, the people who were bombed in the Ming army's camp suddenly turned their backs on their horses, and the screams followed the explosions continuously, reaching the ears of every enemy and soldier nearby.

In the dense explosions, the charging momentum of the heavy armored infantry in the front row of the Ming army camp seemed to be interrupted, and dozens of people were killed and injured suddenly, which made these confident heavy armored infantrymen. They were all a little stunned.

You must know that the soldiers in the trap camp at the forefront are all soldiers in heavy armor, and these heavily armored soldiers can also be said to be the core elite force in this trap camp.

Almost everyone was carefully selected, and they received treatment that ordinary Ming army soldiers did not have. Each of these soldiers was the direct line of the Ming army generals.

On weekdays, they are full of self-confidence, thinking that once they rush up, the pseudo-Tang bandit army who will definitely be able to kill them will call their father and mother, and the whole army will collapse.

But what I didn't expect is that this has not rushed to the ruins, but suffered such a heavy loss!

Don't think that these dozens of people are not important in this Guangzhou battle, on the contrary, they are very important.

Although there were tens of thousands of troops on both sides in the Battle of Guangzhou, such heavy armored elites, whether in the Ming army camp or the Datang camp, were actually not many~www.wuxiaspot.com~ For example, Liuzhou In the independent regiment, the heavy armored infantry rushing to the top of the city is actually only two or three hundred people. The Ming army trapped under the city originally had so many heavy armored infantry, but now they have lost dozens of people all at once. , it can be said that the momentum of the charge was suddenly disrupted.

But the Ming army under the city was obviously unwilling to be beaten passively, and they wanted to rush up!

"What about our musket battalion, why haven't they come up yet!"

"Damn, don't stand and wait to die, fight back with bows and arrows and hit their musketeers!"

With the order of the Ming army general, some of the Ming army archers who were trapped in the camp turned their bows and arrows, and then carried out arrow rain covering shooting in the direction of the grenadiers at the head of the city.

The rain of arrows came, and the grenadiers suffered a lot of casualties in an instant. They had no armor to resist bows and arrows!

Immediately, Han You shouted: "Go back, hurry up, use the reverse **** to protect yourself, and continue to throw grenades!"