Without Lin Ziran by his side, it was obvious that the other marksmen were more open-minded. Clear gunshots could be heard intermittently from the top of the city, and sometimes one could hear a hit or something.
By the afternoon, the Guang'an rebels on the opposite side had shrunk!
Because after a few hours, they had already suffered seven casualties.
Although seven people are a small number, it is already a lot for a team of only more than 300 people, not to mention that they also suffered five casualties yesterday, and another one was injured in the morning.
This adds up to a total of thirteen.
What's more important is that this state of being beaten and unable to fight back made the Guang'an rebels outside the city extremely uncomfortable.
So, they shrunk!
Subsequently, they dug the traffic trench deeper, more than two meters deep.
Now, Luo Mazi and others on the top of the city had no choice. They didn't even risk their lives, so naturally there was no fight.
Just like this, the amount of work has also increased. Lin Ziran estimates that they will not be able to dig it out today. What they need to prepare now is to wait for their communication trenches and artillery positions to be repaired after tomorrow, and then pull up the artillery again and how to resist the bombardment.
Already.
Regarding how to counter the enemy's artillery bombardment, Lin Ziran decided to use Mini rifles to accurately attack the opponent's artillery.
Even if the opponent digs out artillery positions, their artillery needs to be aimed and shelled, and their artillery will always show up. After all, their artillery is a direct-aiming artillery, not a deflection artillery that can be hidden behind a bunker.
Therefore, the precise strike of the Mini rifle can still be used.
Other than that, the only option is to reinforce the bunker and provide passive defense.
In addition to the city walls, bunkers based on sandbags also need to be built on top of the city.
For this reason, Lin Ziran asked Wang Jinquan to come over again and asked him to organize young people to help the soldiers build bunkers, and a complete anti-gun bunker must be built before tomorrow.
Wang Jinquan naturally obeyed Lin Ziran's instructions with pleasure.
At this time, as long as you don't let him take the money, everything else will be easy.
Besides, it's very simple to organize young people to help build bunkers without him having to do any hard work himself. He can only bark twice.
So he said very happily: "Mr. Lin, please rest assured that my subordinates will definitely let them work hard!"
That night, Wang Jinquan personally led a group of his men and a large number of young men to help build a bunker, while Lin Ziran himself also directed a group of fake soldiers to build a bunker on the top of the city.
Although most places outside the city are dark, many firelights can still be seen. They are the Guang'an rebels who are using torches to illuminate and continue to dig communication trenches.
Unfortunately, they could only see the light from the torches, but not the people. Those Guang'an rebels were hiding in the traffic trenches and did not show their bodies at all.
That night, both sides were busy building fortifications.
It's just that one is for offense and the other is for defense.
When it was about eleven o'clock the next morning, Lin Ziran went up to the city again and saw an artillery position about four hundred meters outside the city.
There is a bunker in front of this artillery position, with only two gun barrels exposed.
The artillery positions of the Guang'an rebels were quite well constructed, and Lin Ziran did not find any loopholes.
The expected precision strike with the Mini rifle was hopeless.
It didn't take long before the shelling started on the other side.
But only artillery bombardments were seen, but no artillerymen showed up, which left Lin Ziran at his wits' end.
I have no choice but to hide.
In the following time, a group of fake soldiers and bandits at the top of the city, plus more than a hundred young men, could only passively hide in the bunker at the top of the city, watching the other side calmly fire.
Cannonballs kept falling on the city walls and gate towers, and some even hit the city gates, smashing them to pieces.
It's just that the city gate has long been blocked by Lin Ziran's order, so it doesn't matter if the city gate is blown apart!
At this time, someone shouted loudly: "The boss, they are coming up!"
At this moment, Lin Ziran frowned!
Damn it, who calls you the boss at this time?
Wang Jinquan and the others were right next to them, so they just shouted, "Master, you fools."
Wang Jinquan glanced at Lin Ziran with a thoughtful expression.
But before I had time to react, I heard another shout from outside: "Boss!"
As soon as these words came out, Wang Jinquan obviously froze. When he turned around, he found Lin Ziran looking at him.
But at this time, Lin Ziran was no longer in the mood to care about Wang Jinquan and the others, because someone was already shouting: "They are coming!"
Lin Ziran and Wang Jinquan both stood up and went to the top of the city.
When we arrived at the top of the city and looked outside the city, we saw that the Guang'an rebels outside the city were already coming up in groups with guns, and many of them were holding ladders!
It was obvious that they were about to launch a real siege!
Lin Ziran immediately pulled out the command knife from his waist: "Fire first with the rifled gun, take aim and hit them back!"
"Others get ready!"
In the past few days, Boss Wang and his people have been working day and night to modify and modify more than ten rifled guns. As for the hollow round-head bullets, they have been working day and night to melt more than 3,000 rifled guns.
Lin Ziran now has thirty-five rifled guns under his command, each equipped with about a hundred rounds of ammunition.
This batch of Mini rifles is also the key to whether Lin Ziran and others can defend Qingshan Town.
Following Lin Ziran's order, the thirty or so fake soldiers and bandits who had better marksmanship were selected during this period and all started shooting freely with rifled guns.
The crisp sound of gunfire rang out.
As expected, some of the Guang'an rebels outside the city fell. Although the number was not large, only two or three people, they had just launched the charge and already two or three people fell.
As they continued to approach, the hit rate of the rifled guns also began to increase. Before long, seven or eight more Guang'an rebels fell down on the opposite side.
This adds up to more than ten people.
However, the Guangna rebels on the opposite side only numbered more than 300 people.
What's more important is that they are still almost three hundred meters away from the city wall.
However, the Guang'an rebels outside the city were worthy of being regular troops. After ten people fell down, they continued to advance, maintaining a strict and almost crowded line of three lines.
However, when they advanced to about 250 meters, the soldiers at the forefront finally couldn't help it, stopped involuntarily, and then turned to look at the officers riding horses on the left and right sides!
Because at this distance, their casualties began to increase significantly. Especially in the eyes of the soldiers on the front line, comrades fell around them almost all the time. The fear caused by this kind of continuous casualties was greater than being beaten by the opponent.
Volleys are even more uncomfortable.
Because after the opponent fired a volley, they knew that they would not be shot at at least for about twenty seconds.
However, this kind of free shooting, although it seems to be intermittent and has no deterrent effect, actually causes casualties to them all the time, especially the soldiers in the front row. They can find that their comrades around them are being hit almost all the time.
And fell.
"It's cool, it's just like hunting!" Luo Mazi shot behind a Guang'an rebel and said involuntarily: "They just stood there like fools and let us shoot them, and they didn't know how to hide!"
Lin Ziran didn’t answer after hearing this!
Do you think that the Guang'an rebels outside the city are bandits just like you? They lie down and hide when the situation is bad!
They are a regular army, and they are playing dense line tactics!
When charging, you can't hide, let alone lie down!
Even if they saw something was wrong, they did not hide or lie down, they just turned to look at their officers.
Unfortunately, at this time, many soldiers of the Guang'an rebel army discovered that their commander had disappeared!
They didn't know that because the officers on horseback were too conspicuous, they became the hunting targets of the bandits guarding the city from the beginning. Several officers in the front row had already been killed one after another.
The Guang'an rebels, who could not find their officers, continued to suffer unilateral killings. At this time, they finally couldn't hold on and collapsed.
A large number of Guang'an rebel soldiers rushed to the back.
Seeing this scene, Lin Ziran finally breathed a sigh of relief. He was really afraid that the Guang'an rebels on the opposite side were not afraid of death and rushed all the way.
Well now, those Guang'an rebels collapsed on their own initiative because they could not bear the continued casualties.
Putting down the gun in his hand, Lin Ziran immediately said loudly: "Everyone who participates in the battle today will be rewarded, and those who are meritorious will be rewarded double!"
The money obtained from Wang Jinquan and other large households in the city in the past few days has finally been put to use.
Immediately, Luo Mazi quickly stepped forward: "My lord is mighty and my lord is heroic!"
Even Wang Jinquan came up and said with a smile: "Sir, does everyone share in this reward?"
Lin Ziran nodded lightly: "Well, everyone who participates in the war has a share!"
Taking another look at Wang Jinquan, Lin Ziran remembered the words "big boss, boss" before the battle broke out.
He immediately said: "Wang Zhenshou, I heard that you just took office a month ago?"
After hearing this, Wang Jinquan paused and looked up at Lin Ziran. After a few seconds, he said, "I heard that Master Lin's fifth patrol battalion came from Pingdan County next door?"