Sizhou is a big city, the population is obviously larger than Xuyi, Bai Yintu quickly recruited five or six thousand young men to charge the city defense, but Bai Yintu is still very cautious, he did not send these young men to the city wall for the time being, but only used them to do some miscellaneous work.

But this situation did not last long, and Baiyintu noticed the difference in this army...... The enemy's muskets did not need to be reloaded, they were fired continuously.

From ancient times to the present, the number of people has been the first point in defending the city.

Baiyintu was no exception, he sent all the fighting armies in the city to the walls, but in this way, the first wave of heavy losses was even more exaggerated.

Jiang Quanyi was not armed with a repeating rifle, but with a "machine gun".

Military workshops could not miniaturize the repeating device, and could only be mounted on a large "machine gun".

This "machine gun" weighs more than 300 catties, and a single bracket is more than 60 catties.

This is heavier than a small cannon, fortunately, with Wu Zheng, everything is not difficult, the disassembly of components, assembly after the battlefield, which makes the biggest problem of transportation solved.

Not much, Jiang Quanyi's 3,000 men were armed with 36 "machine guns".

But this kind of weapon, combined with a hundred small cannons, especially those that shoot flower shells, is a disaster for the defenders on the city wall.

Bai Yintu didn't know, he was used to fighting bloody frontal hand-to-hand combat, although he also knew the long-range shooting of firearms, but he didn't take it to heart at all, he only knew that if he wanted to break through the wall he was defending, the enemy had to go up to the wall.

It's a pity that he was wrong, he destroyed the wall of the living force, is that still the city wall?

The body of the "machine gun" is cylindrical, and each grain is filled with nearly one or two refined gunpowder? Quite powerful? For the city wall of this "non-standard" prefecture, hit the mud and stone splash? Expose a pit no less than three inches.

Although the rate of fire is not high? But it's not the same as a rifle that needs to be loaded with a single shot.

Thirty-six machine guns with small cannons when they began firing? The defenders on the city wall fell like ears of rice swung by a scythe.

Jiang Quanyi didn't even hesitate at all? He ordered the infantry to attack the city.

Such huge casualties? hasn't made Baiyintu realize that the danger is approaching, and he still thinks that no matter how good a firearm is, it also needs to be reloaded? He ordered the walls to be replenished with youth.

But then he found out? While enemy firearms were firing non-stop, the defenders on the walls could not raise their heads at all, let alone draw their bows or raise their guns to the bottom of the city.

How can this battle be fought?

Bai Yintu was finally stunned and stunned.

Half an hour, Jiang Quanyi's troops occupied the north gate of Sizhou? On the wall of the North Gate alone, the corpses of the Qing army left? There are no less than a thousand.

Baiyintu led the remnants to retreat to the west, and the city of Sizhou was recovered.

Jiang Quanyi did not order the pursuit? Instead, he left a partial division to defend at the west gate, and then led the rest out of the east gate? To the Qing army crossing the river on the other side of Xuyi City? A raid was launched.

God knows how psychologically broken the Qing army was when it was attacked? Behind him is the base camp of Sizhou City, how can the enemy attack from behind...... Haven't you heard of the attack on Sizhou City?

Too fast, Jiang Quanyi led his troops to sweep the west bank of the Huai River, and drove the Qing army that was scurrying around without mercy to feed the fish and shrimp.

Three days later, the surface of Hongze Lake was full of swollen corpses, causing the fishermen by the lake to be unable to fish for a whole month, and they were all fishing for corpses, because Jiang Quanyi then issued a notice to fish out a corpse and reward two taels of silver.

So, someone got rich overnight!

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Jiang Quanyi led his troops to sweep the west bank, and naturally he couldn't hide his eyes from the other side of the river, which was only two or three miles away.

The Qing army attacking Xuyi City suddenly collapsed.

In fact, at this time, hundreds of Qing troops had already attacked the west gate of Xuyi City, and the defenders who were obviously unable to do so were fighting each other.

According to Chi Erhan's words, in all fairness, if Jiang Quanyi was an hour late...... No, in half an hour, the west gate will not be able to hold it.

The two armies actually met across the river, Jiang Quanyi took a boat on the river and briefly met with Chi Erhan, and Jiang Quanyi, who learned about the battle situation in Jiuxian, immediately waved his army south to reinforce Jiuxian.

And Chi Erhan led a force of less than 2,000 people to take over the defense of Sizhou.

Since then, the Battle of Sizhou has ended, the east gate of Fengyang City has been smashed, and the Northern Expeditionary Army has irreversibly pointed to the east gate of Fengyang.

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If we say, Jiang Quanyi was at the north gate of Sizhou and tried his hand with a "machine gun".

Then, on the north bank of the Huai River north of the old county, the battle against the two thousand Qing cavalry should go down in history.

Since ancient times, infantry against cavalry, without suspense, is mostly defeated, and even if it wins, it must be a crushing victory.

Even if Wu Zheng pulled out the musketeers, he never won completely, and the casualty ratio was basically one to two, or even higher.

Jiang Quanyi is a madman, and Wu Zheng has already made a conclusion for him.

If this battle was to be commanded by Wu Zheng, the forward must have been sent as bait first, the main force occupied the position, set up a musket position, and then the forward led the enemy cavalry to the firing range and fired.

But Jiang Quanyi is different, maybe he played smoothly at the north gate of Sizhou.

His command was - there was no command.

So there was a strange scene that had never appeared on the battlefield in China before today - the infantry charged the cavalry.

Of course, "machine guns" and small cannons, gave strong fire support.

Maybe it's God's help, just like the Qing army attacking Xuyi City, the Qing army on this shore also didn't expect that an enemy army would appear behind them, let alone that it would be such an enemy army with strong firepower.

In order to cross the river quickly, the Qing cavalry ferried people and horses separately, which caused the Qing cavalry to be unable to respond at the first time, and the people looked for the horses, giving Jiang Quanyi no less than half a pillar of incense.

This was enough for the troops to break within 100 paces of the enemy.

In the following battle, there was no suspense, with almost the same force, infantry against cavalry, frontal battle, total annihilation.

Jiang Quanyi easily got hundreds of good horses, and after he went back, he "extorted" a good price from Qian Qiaogong, of course, this is a later story.

The annihilation of nearly 3,000 Qing troops on the north bank of the Huai River represents that the siege of Jiuxian has been eased.

That night, Jiang Quanyi, who had crossed the Huai River, led his troops to the old county and launched a siege with Liu Fang of the old county against the Qing army outside the city.

However, because it was night and it was too dark, most of the Qing troops besieging the city fled westward after being defeated.

At this point, the Battle of Sizhou officially ended.

However, the remnants of Baiyintu and the Qing army that fled west invisibly caused the defenders in Fengyang City to suddenly increase by five or six thousand, which increased the difficulty of the upcoming Fengyang battle.

Of course, at this time, whether it was Jiang Quanyi, Liu Fang, and Chi Erhan, the three departments no longer had the strength to continue the attack.

The Qing army suffered two defeats in a row, its vigor was greatly reduced, and it was about to purge the army, and the two sides fell into a brief stalemate across the Huai River.