Following Wang Shanxu's order, the musketry soldiers who lined up neatly pulled the triggers in unison, and immediately there was a burst of crisp and dense gunfire in the field.
Accompanied by the sound of gunfire and rising white smoke, dense bullets hit the city wall a hundred meters away, causing sand and gravel to fly. The impact of some splashed fragments was so strong that it could also hurt people.
Maybe the bullets you see in movies and TV shows are average in power, and at most there will be a small hole after being hit, but in fact the bullets are quite powerful, even if they are just lead bullets from a matchlock gun, they are quite powerful, otherwise
Nor can it penetrate two millimeters of plate armor at a distance of 100 meters.
The bullets hit the city head so intensively that it looked like it had been blown by a strong wind, with sand and gravel flying wildly.
Two Ming soldiers who were not hiding were hit on the spot. One of them was hit in the back of the head. The huge impact of the bullet caused him to fall backwards. He convulsed after falling to the ground.
After a few times, it stopped moving completely.
This scene made several Ming soldiers nearby stunned with fear. One of them couldn't help but vomited out on the spot when he saw the red and white stuff coming out of the fallen soldier's head.
Fear instantly enveloped the surrounding Ming soldiers!
"The fire guns of these bandits are quite powerful!" At this time, a middle-aged man wearing scale armor frowned and said on the city gate.
A fat middle-aged man wearing civil official robes beside him said: "Long Qianhu, the bandit army's muskets are so powerful, I'm afraid they won't be able to stop them!"
When this person spoke, he still looked sad.
The middle-aged man who was called Long Qianhu glanced at the civil servant, with a hint of contempt in his eyes. This county magistrate named Xu has no sense of responsibility at all. This battle has just begun, and he said that he can't stop it. This is not
To increase the prestige of the bandit army and destroy your own morale, what will the soldiers below think?
Compared with the county magistrate Su Jiakang, this Xu County Prime Minister is not even the slightest bit worse. Su Jiakang personally led troops to suppress the puppet Tang traitor army several times, and this Xu County Prime Minister, I heard that at the beginning of the year, this person
He was in charge of the defense of Longhua Town. As a result, the puppet Tang bandit army had just entered Longhua Town, but before they formally attacked the city, he took his people and escaped secretly, which ultimately led to the collapse of the Longhua Town garrison.
Longhua Town was looted, and even the stored military rations were burned to the ground.
The thought of guarding Zhengtai County with this person gave him a headache!
However, although he had contempt for the Xu county magistrate, Long Qianhu still suppressed the contempt in his heart and said patiently: "Master Xu, don't worry, although the thieves' fire blunderbuss is very powerful, we have a strong city to defend.
There are two hundred soldiers and eight hundred young men in the city who are determined to defend the city to the death. It will not be easy for the bandits to break into the city!"
But when he spoke, he obviously lacked confidence!
Whether two hundred soldiers and eight hundred young men can hold Zhengtai County, to be honest, is unknown.
Everyone knows what kind of young men are recruited temporarily. They are just to scare ordinary people. They are unreliable in a real war.
What he can really rely on is the two hundred guardsmen under his command!
Alas, I didn't expect that as soon as I took over the defense of Zhengtai County, I would encounter a large-scale siege by the bandits. If I had known that this would happen, I should have followed Wang Qianhu and the others out of the city.
This person's name is Long Dajun, and he is the deputy Qianhu of the Fairy Shi Qianhu Office. It has been half a year since he came to Zhengtai County with Wang Zhitan, but this is the first time he encountered a large-scale pseudo-Tang bandit army.
It's just that although he is a little depressed, the city still needs to be defended, and he doesn't want anyone to be around to affect the morale of the army while defending the city.
Therefore, Long Dajun said: "Master Xu, the situation is critical now. I would like to ask Master Xu to go down to the city to take charge of the overall situation. Let the young men and civilians in the city prepare boiling oil and huge trees and rocks in case of emergency!"
What this actually means is: I’m here to watch, so get away as far as you can!
However, after Xu County Cheng heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief. The city was so dangerous. How could he have run up there if he hadn't been concerned about the negative impact.
Now Long Dajun took the initiative to propose that he go to the rear to organize the people to prepare the equipment to defend the city. Naturally, he was happy and immediately said: "In this case, the defense on the city wall will be entrusted to Long Qianhu. I will now organize the young people to prepare."
Big rocks and huge trees!”
At this time, the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty outside the city fired again, and this time they fired in the direction of the city gate tower.
As the gunfire rang out, a large number of bullets hit the city gate tower. The sudden bullets made Xu County Prime Minister so frightened that he immediately fell to the ground. He ignored the majesty of the court official and lay directly on the ground, and then fought back with his hands and feet.
And use it to climb behind a big pillar.
But at this time, Long Dajun had no intention of paying attention to Xu County Cheng, because a bullet had just hit him in the chest, and the lead bullet easily penetrated the scales on his body!
Before he had time to react, he fell down, and blood immediately spread from his right chest, quickly staining the scales on his body red.
"Quick... let them... hide, don't go out!" Although the fallen Long Dajun was covered in blood, he still wanted to struggle to get up, and at the same time he was still talking intermittently.
Before he finished speaking, several of his soldiers had already pounced on him:
"Protect your lord!"
"Quick, my lord has been shot. Get the doctor quickly!"
"Take the adults to the back!"
Several of his soldiers were his confidants. When they saw that the master of the family was shot, they immediately ran over. At the same time, they hurriedly lifted up Long Dajun and ran towards the back.
At the same time, some people were running to find the doctor.
For a time, the entire city gate tower became a little chaotic!
Xu Xian Cheng looked at Long Dajun, who was being carried back by several soldiers, with some trembling. He trembled and murmured: "I know that these thieves are not easy to deal with. It's over, it's over, now we have to do it thoroughly."
Ruined!"
At this time, a man from a hundred households nearby ran over and said, "Mr. Xu, what should we do now? Those thieves are coming up!"
After hearing this, Xu Xian Cheng carefully raised his head and glanced outside. After only one glance, he quickly retracted!
Although he only glanced at it, he also saw a group of heavily armored puppet Tang rebels coming out of the city. These rebels were still carrying ladders, and it looked like they were about to climb the city.
"Quick, quick, let them shoot arrows quickly, don't let the thieves rush up!" Xu County Cheng said in a panic: "Once they rush up, we are all finished!"
Long Dajun was injured and was carried away. Now the only one who can command the defense of the city is Xu County Cheng. As soon as he spoke, the Ming army and the young men below began to bend their bows and shoot arrows.
However, no one dared to lean out and take aim before shooting. They all hid behind the city wall and used projectile methods!
It's not that they don't want to, it's that the blunderbuss of the puppet Tang rebel army are too sharp, and they may be hit by bullets if they show up.
They had no time to consider that the muskets of the puppet Tang rebels had a limited reloading speed. So far, the musketeers had only fired two rounds of volleys.
They had no time to think about it. Although the musket was powerful, it actually hit very few people. Only about ten Ming soldiers were hit by two rounds of shooting.
The reason why people were panicking was because the musketeers under Wang Shanxu all concentrated their firepower on a certain section of the city wall to achieve the effect of one-sidedly increasing the density of firepower.
The increased firepower density caused extreme panic to the Ming army under the shroud of firepower!