Looking at the low city wall that was only ten feet high in front of him, the first reaction of the commander of the 2nd Regiment of the 10th Division was contempt, his contempt for Qingchuan County and the entire Qingchuan defenders...

Because of this, Commander Xiao Dan ordered without thinking: "First Battalion Commander, I will leave you with the Qingchuan County Town in front of you... I will send a company immediately to attack and take a look, and test the strength of the Qingchuan defenders..."

Because the Tiger and Leopard Army looked down on the imperial government army, the battalion commander of the first battalion was also full of contempt for the Qingchuan County in front of him.

In his eyes, attacking Qingchuan County was the commander who gave him military achievements...

It takes almost no price to hold this military achievements in your hands.

Therefore, as soon as the commander Xiao Dan's order was issued, the first battalion commander's face was covered with a strong and hot expression.

He decisively ordered his subordinates who were also full of heat around him: "The fourth company attacks, and the fifth and sixth companies provide fire cover... The artillery platoon six light mortars will be arranged immediately and provide artillery support to the fourth company at any time..."

Although the first battalion commander was very arrogant, he looked down on the imperial army defending Qingchuan County.

However, when assigning tasks, it is still very concise.

The entire offensive order was issued in the most basic offensive method I learned in the officers' school, without any fancy...

Soon, a camp of more than 500 tiger and leopard troops walked out of the camp, walked slowly towards Qingchuan County.

One hundred and fifty steps, the city wall defenders did not move at all, and one hundred and twenty steps, there was still no movement at all.

Just as hundreds of musketeers advanced one hundred steps away from the city wall, the sound of gunfire like a bean burst sounded directly at the top of the city.

Then I saw more than a dozen Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers walking in the front, squealing and stumbled heavily on the charge road.

The government army suddenly attacked, and although it caught the attacking forces of the Tiger and Leopard Army off guard.

However, they, who are well-trained, did not experience any fluctuations due to this casualty.

A company of more than one hundred musketeers quickly adjusted their offensive formation... bent over and continued to advance towards the city wall with a more scattered array.

Five or six companies, more than three hundred musketeers stopped directly on the spot. They quickly formed muskete arrays based on platoons.

He raised the musket, aimed at the imperial army with almost half of his body exposed at the top of the city wall, and pulled the trigger without hesitation...

For muskets without rifling, the longer the range and higher the initial speed, the higher its shooting accuracy.

Therefore, when the effective range exceeds a full fifty steps, the shooting accuracy of the firearms equipped by the Tiger and Leopard Army is definitely far greater than that of the imperial government's army.

More than 300 musketeers, although the first round of shooting only fired more than 100 lead bullets.

However, more than 100 lead bullets caused at least twenty casualties to the defenders on the city wall in a very short period of time.

On the other hand, more than 100 musketeers in the fourth company who continued to attack the city were too scattered because their formation was too scattered. In addition, the lead bullets fired by the official army, they had already started to float after eighty steps, without any accuracy.

Thank God for every round of gunfire sounds on the city wall, it can take away the lives of seven or eight tiger and leopard armed musketeers.

And just as the muskets on both sides were coming and going, shooting at each other.

The six mortars of the artillery platoon were also ready to fire.

The six mortars that had pointed the black hole muzzle at the top of the city wall, and under the care of the gunner, they roared directly...

Six flowering bullets with a screaming sound hit the target after just a brief flight. An explosion occurred...

Three flowering bullets that fell on the top of the city were like the god of death, and they directly exploded three unmanned areas on the top of the city. They had more than thirty and the government army, and they didn't even have a chance to react. They fell heavily on the top of the city with screams and turned into corpses.

Muskets suppress, artillery kills the enemy... Under the joint attack of the Tiger and Leopard Army musketeers and gunners, the casualties of the official army on the city immediately increased.

Faced with this situation, the face of the guards of the city's official army not only did not see any worry or solemn expression, but a sneer flashed across the face.

Because it still has a killer weapon in its hand.

After three consecutive rounds of flowering bullets exploded at the front of the city, the guards of the official army finally ordered: "The red-clothed cannon aimed at the Tiger and Leopard Army's position, fired the cannon immediately and destroyed it... Light artillery, aimed at the Tiger and Leopard Army's attacking troops, fired the cannon immediately... Fight for three rounds of artillery to disintegrate the Tiger and Leopard Army's attack..."

"Boom boom boom..." The Flang machine cannons directly arranged on the top of the city sounded the first sound of shelling.

Then, the dense shotguns covered more than 100 musketeers in the fourth company like rain.

Accompanied by heart-wrenching screams, the musketeers of more than 100 people in the fourth company were directly beaten into a hornet's nest by this airtight steel storm...

Just as the Tiger and Leopard Army attacking troops were shot and fell to the ground, a series of even more dull roars followed in Qingchuan City.

Then, the eighteen flowering bullets with a scream passed over the city and flew towards the Tiger and Leopard Army artillery positions.

Although the red-clothed cannon's accurate head is not very good, it is still very accurate to shoot targets with two or three hundred steps.

Therefore, three of the eighteen flowering bullets hit the target directly.

As the violent explosion sounded at the artillery position, three mortars connected to four or five gunners were directly overturned to the ground by the air waves generated by the explosion of the flower bomb. Seven or eight gunners were hit by the fragments generated by the explosion of the flower bomb. With screams, they fell to the position with blood and turned into corpses...

On the battlefield, no one, including the regiment commander Xiao Dan, expected that the situation of the battle would change so quickly...

The imperial army defending Qingchuan County was not only equipped with a large number of muskets, but also a large number of cannons, and also had huge powers that could fire flowering bullets.

Therefore, in the face of the artillery counterattack from the government army, many people were stunned on the spot because of shock.

Especially the dozens of gunners who operated six mortars, they have been fighting the enemy since they started equipping mortars, and they have never experienced the enemy hitting the flowering bullets on themselves...

Of course, there are people who respond quickly.

The first battalion commander who directly commanded the attack, faced the sudden sharp counterattack of the government troops. In addition, he was shocked, and immediately thought of the new army that the imperial court had formed for a year.

Then, it was like an angry lion, shouting loudly with an anxious face...

"It must be the new army of the court, and the new army of the court must be the new army of the court... Only they can equip so many red-clothed cannons... Why are you still stunned? Retreat immediately. If you don't retreat, the red-clothed cannons of the official army will blow up all the soldiers..."

The musketeers of three companies quickly withdrew from the battlefield with the sound of retreating horns.

However, the well-trained new imperial army still used artillery to leave at least fifty bodies on the retreat road...
Chapter completed!