He Hezai and Liu Chongli didn't actually attack the Great Sultan's Palace, they just asked people to set fire everywhere, pretending to be very anxious, as estimated by Tianmeng Gong Sebuta, it was difficult for them to break the Great Sultan's Palace.

It's not that they can't attack, but it's difficult, it can't be done without the sacrifice of hundreds of people, and even if they do, they will have to face the counter-encirclement of Sebuta, and they are likely to put themselves in a state of being attacked from both sides.

Therefore, in their plan, the storming of the Sultan's Palace must be after defeating Sebutra, and the posture they are putting on now is to attract Sebutra to rush to support, but to scare the guards of the Sultan's Palace, so that they do not dare to come out and attack easily.

Three hundred pirates under He Hezai, and more than two hundred soldiers armed with flintlock muskets formed a phalanx that was not too small, which was actually a rudimentary Spanish phalanx that had long been obsolete in the West.

But in Liu Chonghan's case, there is no choice, because they don't have enough bayonets for brown bass guns in their hands, and there is a great disadvantage in hand-to-hand combat, and they must be supplemented with hand-to-hand combat!

In the general perception, the bayonet should be very easy to make, but Ye Kai came to this era and found that the bayonet was too precious, so precious that it exceeded the flintlock pistol itself.

Because at this time, the materials used to make bayonets were very demanding, and many aspects such as firearms could be made with ordinary iron, but bayonets could not be used, and steel that was very precious in this era must be used, and only steel would not break easily.

Moreover, the bayonet at this time is still a product that tests the country's industrialization ability, because this thing needs to be loaded and unloaded back and forth, which has high requirements for the loading and unloading structure.

For example, the model should be unified, and the sturdiness of the key parts should be high, after all, you are going to pierce someone else's body and then pull it out, and the target of the stab will also have the possibility of armor.

The parts are not strong, or the bayonet is not firmly fixed, which will lead to the stabbing into the human body at any time, the bayonet cannot be pulled out, or it is broken and falling, and it will be fought to the point of white-knuckle combat, and suddenly there is no bayonet, which is very fatal!

The preciousness of the sleeve bayonet, even the British did not dare to waste it casually, Warren . Of the thousand flintlock muskets sent by Hastings from India, most of them were without socket bayonets!

Therefore, in the actual battle, the soldiers of the Ye family themselves figured out a way to fight, that is, they still followed the habit of pulling the teeth in the west, and equipped a certain spearman in the flintlock pistol phalanx, which was specially responsible for hand-to-hand combat.

As it turns out, this style of play may not work against the Europeans, but it is still good against the Malays, including the Buggis.

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A bad feeling echoed in Sebutra's mind, for he saw that about five hundred Tang soldiers had finished lining up in the square near the Sultan's Palace!

There were more than a dozen corpses lying in the square, all of which seemed to be close to the Sultan's Palace, and the militia who came after discovering the signal were all shot by the Tang people without mercy.

Looking back, more and more Malays have flocked to his side, and the Tang people on the opposite side are obviously more than 500 people, and the small 2,000 people fight more than 500 people, the odds are already very high, and he has to hurry, if he waits for the Tang people in Xicheng to be organized, his side will probably not be able to defeat him.

You push me, he shouts at you to make trouble, and Tianmenggong commands his men to form a phalanx, but the flintlock pistols and even arquebuses in their hands are much less than those in the hands of the Tang people.

Liu Chongli and Ho Hezai also discovered the main Malay force that had arrived, and the reason why they chose to line up in the square instead of ambushing them was because not many of Liu Chongli's soldiers were equipped with bayonets.

Many people only have a short knife hanging from their waist, and they have so many things to carry with their own flintlock pistols that there is really no place to carry melee weapons anymore.

The melee weapons were insufficient, and they were very deadly in the street battles at night, so Liu Chongli simply gave up the plan of ambush, and lined up in the square to have a frontal fight!

'Didi! The sharp whistle sounded, and the Malays had already launched the attack first, and hundreds of Malay musketeers with various flintlock muskets and arquebuses, as far as they could, formed an equally dense phalanx, and began to slowly approach forward!

At the sound of the whistle, Ho Hezai commanded his pirates to carry all kinds of thick wooden boards, even door panels, and water-soaked quilts on the boards.

They lowered their bodies as much as possible, and while protecting themselves, they provided a little extra cover for the clan soldiers behind them, which was still very useful when facing a small number of muskets and average power.

"Bang!"

"Boom!"

The muskets in the hands of both sides were fired almost at the same time, because it was night, and the moon that was still shining just now suddenly disappeared, and the visibility became much lower, and both sides could not see the people on the other side very clearly, and could only judge the approximate location of the other party from the orange firelight!

The first round of guns fired, and four or five pirates under He Hezai, who were holding the door panel, fell, and more than a dozen Ye family soldiers fell behind them.

He Hezai's eyes widened hard, but he still couldn't see the situation of the Malays, but he knew that the Malay casualties must be much larger, because the screams were basically in Malay vernacular.

"Reload! Preparation! Prepare for a salvo, whoever dares to fire indiscriminately, the whole family drives out of Terengganu! ”

Liu Chongli held a spear and roared loudly, and while shouting, his thighs trembled, and even his voice began to tremble.

In the era of queuing to shoot, the officers must have been at the forefront, and the casualties were certainly the highest, and he was still shouting so loudly that on this night when visibility was not high, shouting was tantamount to revealing the position.

Sure enough, as soon as the shouting fell, the firelight flashed, and two bullets shot at him, Liu Chongli only felt a sharp pain like a pinprick coming from his left ear, it was probably the hot lead bullet just now, which hit his left ear!

He gritted his teeth and didn't let himself roar, and continued to command the battle without even changing his posture, his brother Liu Chonghan was still in the Great Sultan's Palace, so he had to quickly defeat the Malays in front of him, and if he said no, he could help his brother pick up a life!

"Fire!" Liu Chongli, who was in pain, ordered loudly, and the few firearms that were fired at him just now exposed the location of the Malays!

"Boom!" Another round of gunfire rang out, far less neat than the first, but the killing effect should have been much better than the last, because the Malay guns on the opposite side were far less flaring.

"Free fire!" Liu Chongli gave the order to fire freely, but in fact, in ordinary battles, after basically two salvos of the enemy, he could only shoot freely.

Because on the battlefield, everyone is flustered, and in the face of the situation that may burp at any time, there are definitely very few people who can really calm down and feel at ease, such people are born soldiers, born butchers, and there is no one out of a hundred people.

At this time, most people will lose their sense and judgment of their surroundings, coupled with the sound of gunshots, screams, and roars, the soldiers basically cannot hear the orders of the officers, and can only fight according to their own instincts.

In that kind of movie, the team that can line up to shoot four or five times or more is basically only the most elite lobster soldiers and the emperor's guards.

The Ye family soldiers only barely fired two rows of guns, and the Malays were even worse, they basically only released a not very neat round of guns at the very beginning, and the second round was already a blind fight!

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