Almost at the moment when the cannon sounded, the soldiers of the Hushan battalion in the trenches all tensed their nerves, and they raised their Liao 13 rifles in their hands one after another, aiming ahead.

However, they did not open fire immediately, but stared at the blood-filled deer.

In the moment after the first round of shelling, Li He raised the command knife in his hand fiercely.

"Put!"

At the moment when the commander gave the order, Sun Ermao, who had been aiming at the thief, pulled the trigger, and the moment the gun rang out, the recoil was transmitted to the shoulder.

When the smoke from the muzzle of the gun has not yet dissipated, Sun Ermao hurriedly put it down, took out a bullet from the tile in front of him, and stuffed it into the muzzle with the paper shell, and now the paper shell of the flammable paper shell used by the Liao 13 type does not need to tear the paper bag and pour gunpowder as in the past, and the main progress is that the wrapping paper of the fixed bullet has been replaced from ordinary tissue paper to flammable paper, which will burn immediately as long as it touches the spark, and burns out with gunpowder.

After stuffing the whole paper shell fixed ammunition directly into the muzzle, Sun Ermao smashed the gun butt on the ground twice to ensure that the bullet fell to the bottom of the barrel, and then quickly installed the fire cap on the fire cap seat at the end of the gun.

The whole process may seem tedious, but in fact it only takes three or four seconds, and this historical technology was invented in the late Civil War to greatly speed up the reload. Historically, it was supposed to shine, but it was eliminated by metal shells just a few years after its invention, and now it is its turn to exert its power.

As soon as he put on his fire cap, Sun Ermao raised his rifle again and aimed at the thieves in the deer. When he pulled the trigger again, through the smoke from the muzzle of the gun, he saw that the thief who was aiming had fallen, two hundred meters apart, although he could not see clearly, but he could clearly see that the branches of the deer were dyed red in the blood mist.

The red branches are extremely eye-catching in the sky and the earth, and there are hundreds of corpses scattered among the branches, and more thieves are struggling in pools of blood, they will soon die, but the thieves behind them continue to rush over the car wall as if they have no reaction, waving their knives and axes between the deer, and constantly dragging the cut branches to the rear, even the rain of bullets that keep falling on them can't stop them.

These thieves in thin clothes are completely insensitive to let the bullets hit them, at most, someone is holding a broken pot lid, door panel and other things as a shield in front of them, but how can the thin pot lid door panel block the bullet, after the bullet easily penetrates the wooden board, the twisted and deformed projectile easily tears up a large piece of flesh and blood when it penetrates their body again. For a while, there were wounded people struggling and twisting in pools of blood.

Blood kept splattering from their wounds, and they could only resign themselves to struggling and crying in a pool of blood, and in the crying, their lives were passing little by little......

At the same time, the artillery on the city wall did not slow down the rate of fire, and the shotgun fired by the nine-pound mountain howitzer at this distance, what it was best at was to suppress the infantry, especially on these infantry without any armor protection, its power was fully exerted.

If the number of artillery is large enough, Zheng Sen can completely use artillery to repel the thieves, but he does not have enough artillery, and even the 18-kilogram mortar in his hand does not come in handy now, because the high-explosive grenade may destroy the deer, and the reverse side becomes an ornament.

However, under the blows of shotguns and rifles, the thieves paid the price of at least thousands of casualties, but even so, they still desperately chopped down the branches, not that they were willing to bear all this, but the bright knives and guns behind them were driving them, and if they dared to retreat, they would definitely die.

"Presumably, the tragedy of the ant siege is nothing more than that!"

Looking at the thieves who kept falling and coming from the telescope, and watching them advance little by little with their lives in the deer, Zheng Sen couldn't help but sigh.

"It's almost a branch, a life......"

The description of the siege of the city by ants in the history books that I had read finally coincided with reality in Zheng Sen's mind.

It was at this time that the thieves finally cut through the deer, and the obstacle in front of them disappeared.

"Everybody aim for the passage to hit!"

Li He ordered loudly.

Without his reminder, Sun Ermao and his brothers all aimed at the enemies pouring in the passage—the enemies poured in like a tide.

"Kill......"

The thieves, wielding iron knives and even hoes and sickles, shouted and poured towards the passage between the deer, and those who rushed to the front were constantly knocked to the ground, and the heavy buckshot hit them, like hammers piercing their bodies, and at the same time knocking people to the ground.

"Ah......h

The wounded and fallen people, when they were screaming on the ground, were trampled on them again, and the thieves who swarmed forward, there were so many cares, they had only one thought, rushed over, rushed to the front of the Ming army, killed them, and then ...... They will be able to eat meat and white flour steamed buns.

For these cannon fodder, many of them were once homeless, and the reason why they became thieves was to eat a mouthful of food, even if they died, as long as they could eat a mouthful of white flour steamed buns before they died, they would be content......

The swarming thieves didn't care about the rain of bullets flying in front of them, they rushed over desperately, Li Dahu, who was rushing to kill in the crowd, just ran a few steps, the person in front screamed, and fell, he grabbed this person, and pushed him forward, other people's bodies became his shield, and the bullets kept hitting the corpse, escorting him successfully through the passage between the deer, in front of him was a wide land of nearly 100 meters, without any shelter in front of the wide land, and there was another deer!

The deer barridge composed of low branches stood in front of them like that, and more thieves poured into the open area, and just as they shouted and killed the deer bar, Zheng Sen on the city wall sneered.

"Fire!"

As soon as his words fell, the 18-pound mortar cannon that had been silent began to sing happily, compared to the roar of the mountain howitzer, its roar was even louder, and the deafening sound of the cannon even reached the trench in front and the open ground between the two deer barridges.

At the same time that the thieves were startled by its sound, the cannonballs whistled down, and the moment the cannonballs exploded on the ground, a large cloud of smoke and dust was raised, and countless sharp steel fragments whizzed in the air towards the surroundings, those fragments of different shapes, large and small, tore off their arms and thighs while penetrating the bodies of the thieves, and some people were even blown to pieces on the spot.

Looking at the battlefield shrouded in the smoke cloud of the explosion, the corners of Zheng Sen's lips rose, revealing a sneer.

This is exactly the trap he set up for the thieves, compared to the thieves, his strength is too limited, there are only more than 3,000 people in the full fight, and the infantry is only more than 2,000 people, how can so many people fight the thieves, those thieves are often tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people attack.

If you want to deal with crowd tactics, you have to find a way!

So, from the very beginning, he had already planned - to let the enemy in first, let them into the two deer barricades, turn them into caged rats, and then slowly clean them up. So, when the thieves charged, he didn't fire the cannon, and when the thieves destroyed the deer, he just gave the order to shoot shotguns, all he was waiting for was to let the thieves enter the rat cage and then ...... If they want to rush in front of them, they must break through the deer in front of them, and if they want to retreat, they can only retreat from the wide passage, and it is certain that when they retreat, they also need to leave behind the corpses.

Zheng Sen had already made many calculations and conducted many drills, so he had to fully grasp the timing of the artillery to ensure the maximum effect of the artillery attack.

Watching the thieves being blown up into the sky in the explosion, and watching the infantry greet them with bullets, Tao Fengyang sneered:

"Damn, this battle is really cool, battalion commander, according to me, the brothers can almost eat all these 10,000 people with ten shots each......