At this time, the Ming army on the top of the city experienced such a situation. Two places were hit by concentrated firepower, causing a certain amount of casualties, which brought great panic to the Ming army in these two places.
, however, the Ming army in other places was still doing well.
But this is not the key point. The key point is that the emotion of panic is contagious. Seeing the Ming army next to them fall, the Ming army in other places will think: wait for those thieves to shoot at them, wouldn't it?
Something seriously wrong?
Many Ming troops thought this way, so even those Ming troops who had not been hit by firepower still did not dare to take the lead.
Under such circumstances, the archers naturally did not dare to lean out and shoot arrows accurately. They could only shoot arrows outward with their eyes closed. As for where the arrows would fly, we can only ask God.
In fact, the heavy armor, sword and shield soldiers led by Butcher Chen and others have not yet crossed a distance of 80 meters!
The result is undoubtedly that the Ming army fired arrows prematurely, causing most of the arrows to fail to fly in front of the Tang army. The few arrows that were thrown across eighty meters had no accuracy or power at all.
Looking at the arrows falling in front of him, Butcher Chen grinned. The Ming army on top of the city was not as strong as those in Fengjiazhuang.
At the beginning, the young men of the Feng Family Village waited until they were within shooting range before shooting arrows. And although they caused little casualties to themselves, because they were protected by armor at that time, to be honest, the archers of the Feng Family Village
Our initial hit rate was pretty good.
Wang Shanxu, who was riding behind, looked at the Ming army's unorganized counterattack on the top of the city. He also smiled and said with a relaxed expression: "It seems that we are lucky. The one we just hit should be one of their senior officials!"
Immediately, Fang Dongquan, who was beside him, picked up the conversation and said, "Your eyesight is better. If you hadn't asked us to hit the city gate tower just now, we wouldn't have been able to hit that high official!"
Wang Shanxu said: "Who allowed a large group of them to stand stupidly on the city gate tower, and the official also wore dazzling scale armor. Who else would I hit him if he was so eye-catching!"
Wang Shanxu said so, but he also had to admire his luck. Being able to shoot down a high-ranking official from a hundred meters away was beyond words.
It is obvious to all that the accuracy of the matchlock gun is poor. When aiming at a target, the bullet can miss by more than ten meters.
He didn't expect to hit a high-ranking official just now. He just saw that there were many people in the city gate tower, and they were all standing stupidly. Didn't this make it clear that he wanted to shoot a volley at them!
After this wave is fought, it doesn't matter no matter how low the hit rate is, you can always get some results. What matters is the density of fire anyway. Who cares about the low hit rate of a single gun.
But what he didn't expect was that there was a high-ranking official of the Ming Army included in the victory!
The generals of the Ming army who could wear scale armor were unlikely to be high-ranking soldiers or low-level officers. At least they had to be more than a hundred households, or even a thousand households.
I'm so lucky, I can't stop you!
Wang Shanxu, who was in a good mood, said loudly: "Brothers, work harder, aim for me and hit again. When I get back, I will ask General Chen to kill the pig that was collected yesterday. We will eat meat tonight!"
Hearing Wang Shanxu's words, the soldiers of the Musketeers couldn't help but swallow their saliva. That was meat. They hadn't eaten it for many days.
Although they wandering outside the mountains have much better food than when they were in Huangzhu Mountain because they can eat from the enemy, meat is still in short supply. There is no way. There is not much meat these days, so even if you grab it, you can't get it. How many.
Even if they grab some scattered meat, if it is divided among more than 500 people, each person can only eat some meat dregs.
In order to have a piece of meat at night, you have to aim hard and hit hard!
With this in mind, the soldiers of the musketeers were all excited and carefully aiming, as if the Ming army on the city in front were big fat pigs!
But the result of the subsequent battle was a bit frustrating. The Ming army suffered two waves of volleys, especially after a burst of volleys at the city gate tower that injured Long Dajun. These Ming soldiers all learned wisely, and one by one They all hid behind the city wall and refused to come out.
So much so that when looking from outside the city, no one can be seen on the top of the city, it seems like an empty city!
In the third round of salvo fire, they failed to achieve any results, and all the bullets were missed.
In this regard, Wang Shanxu was also a little helpless. No matter how powerful his musketeers were, they could not hit the Ming soldiers hiding behind the city wall!
For this reason, the only option is to order a suspension of shooting, allowing the soldiers to remain alert and wait for orders to fire at any time.
Then he looked back at Li Xuan on the top of the hill. He was also waiting for Li Xuan's order!
On the hill, Li Xuan took his eyes back from the city wall in front, then turned to Zeng Ziwen, Qian Mengjiu and others: "My dear friends, now that the enemy army cannot retreat, what should our army do?"
Zeng Ziwen said: "Reporting to your majesty, our musketeers are unparalleled. Just a few rounds of shooting have already made the puppet Ming rebels frightened and unwilling to fight. I thought that the next step could be to let General Chen and others go up to build a bridge and climb the city!"
As he spoke, Zeng Ziwen looked like he was eager to give it a try, obviously looking forward to attacking the city directly.
However, Qian Mengjiu shook his head and said: "It is not appropriate to attack the city hastily. Although our army has suppressed the enemy, once we start to climb the city, in order to prevent accidental injuries, the musketeers must stop. The soldiers who will climb the city by then may be Going into crisis!"
With that said, he turned to look at Li Xuan and said: "Your Majesty, even though the Ming army at the top of the city has been suppressed, there are still many defenders in the city, so we still need to be cautious!
In my humble opinion, we should continue to maintain pressure on the Ming army at the top of the city. We can try to fill in the moat and lure the Ming army to counterattack, so that the musketeers can make another contribution and undermine the enemy's morale!"
Li Xuan nodded slightly and said "hmm",
Then he said to the bodyguard beside him who was delivering the order: "Send the order to the baggage team and ask them to select soldiers to prepare to fill the river!"
Qian Mengjiu's proposal was more to his liking. He would fill in the moat to put pressure on the Ming army and force them to fight back. This would allow the Musketeers to fire a few more volleys, although the results might not be many. But it's much better than taking the risk of climbing into the city.
After all, they didn't really want to conquer Zhengtai County. They were just here to scare people. There was no need to actually attack the city.
Regardless of whether there were casualties or not, what if the Ming army really conquered the city without a fight?
Will he enter the city at that time or not? If he doesn't enter the city, he will always feel at a loss. But if he enters the city, it is not asking for death. It is estimated that it won't take long for countless Ming troops to swarm in from all directions, even if they are all serf guards. Soldiers, but he was also able to destroy his Tang Dynasty.
It's because Qian Mengjiu, an old comrade, is deeply in my heart and knows what I want, that's why he made the proposal of only attacking without attacking.
On the contrary, Zeng Ziwen, who did not fully understand the national policies of the Tang Dynasty, only thought about fighting and victory, and did not care about what to do after victory.
This Comrade Zeng needs to be taught for a while to make him understand that our Tang Dynasty is a group of bandits who grow small mushrooms. If they can grow insignificantly, they can only grow two mushrooms occasionally, but they must hide them when the enemy comes.
Just hide and don't let them see you.
When you have a certain strength in the future, you can plant mushrooms all over the mountains and fields to poison them!