Chen Sheng watched silently from the city tower, and he knew that this battle was indeed difficult to fight.

Because momentum is very important, no matter how good the weapon is, the gap it creates will not be a gap when the soldiers on both sides approach to face to face.

Because no matter what knife you use, the one that can kill is the one that is good, and the gun is the same.

Chen Sheng immediately gave an order to the Lihaiwei soldiers, that is, they must block the besieging enemy from a distance of thirty paces.

This is obviously a scrapped order, and Chen Sheng himself knows that if this can really be done, this battle will not be difficult to fight.

The flintlock pistol could not reach this kind of thing that even later generations of rifles could not do.

But Chen Sheng's intention was to give confidence to the Jingwei on the city wall.

The herald's loud command made Jingwei gradually regain his courage.

It is clear that no matter how powerful the artillery is, as long as there is no infantry approaching, it will not play a role, and its main role is destruction, not capture.

The Ming army also has artillery, of course, it is not the new artillery of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Lihaiwei has not changed artillery, even if it is changed, it can't be brought, Lihaiwei only has a small cannon that was shamelessly named "mortar" by Wu Zheng, and it is not as full as the musketeers led by Wu Zheng, the entire Lihaiwei 20,000 people (Lihaiwei is alternative from beginning to end, supernumerary), a total of only 400 small cannons.

The Ming army deployed the old artillery of the Ming Dynasty on the city wall, which was small in size, naturally shorter in range than the Qing army, and not as accurate as the red-coated cannons of the Qing army.

Therefore, mutual suppression is definitely not possible.

That is, at the beginning of the battle, the defenders were in a position of being beaten.

After six rounds of shelling, the Qing troops began to attack the city.

But the shelling continued, the defenders were suppressed, and a cannonball smashed on the left side of the tower, overturning half of the tower, and the soldiers sweated for Chen Sheng.

Fortunately, Chen Sheng was not in the city tower at this time, but observed in the city wall.

The Qing soldiers are getting closer and closer.

Without Chen Sheng's order again, the well-trained Lihai guards had already ignored the artillery bombardment of the Qing army and began to aim with their probes and guns.

At this time, the Qing musketeers, who were close to about 100 paces, could also start shooting with arquebuses.

Dense projectiles hit the battlements, striking out sparks.

The defenders still took advantage, and the casualties of the defenders were much smaller than those of the Qing army's musketeers, who were not shielded in the slightest.

Lihaiwei's shooting completely suppressed the Qing army's musketeers, but this period of mutual fire completed the smooth approach of the Qing army to the city wall.

Chen Sheng's order to keep the Qing army thirty paces away automatically expired.

But no soldier would bother with this order, because anyone who has fought knows that it is impossible.

Under the example made by Li Haiwei, the soldiers of Jingwei began to spontaneously rush up, taking arrows and bending bows.

At this moment, the whole team is mixed, and no one cares if the establishment is messed up.

The Qing army erected no less than 100 ladders, and this level of climbing the wall is almost unstoppable, and whenever this kind of scene appears, it is generally that the enemy climbs the city wall, and then starts hand-to-hand combat on the city wall.

Of course, whether it can be captured or not depends on the success or failure of hand-to-hand combat.

But today is different, Li Haiwei has a grenade in his hand, and when the Jingwei soldiers shoot arrows like locusts, the Li Haiwei soldiers have already retracted under the battlements and sat down with their backs against the battlements.

Shi Shiran took off the wooden-handled grenade from his waist and began to pull the flint.

Even if it is a flint musket, it is difficult to shoot straight down, because unlike later rifles, the projectile of the front-loading gun is poured from the muzzle of the gun and then shot with a whole strip, and it is okay to shoot diagonally downward, and there is a high chance that the projectile will loosen or even fall down. Therefore, the musketeers had a strict rule, that is, they were not allowed to shoot straight down.

That is to say, when the enemy really approaches the city wall and climbs upward, the musket loses its effectiveness, either with a grenade to defeat the enemy, if not, then everything goes back to the era of cold weapons, bows and arrows, rolling wood, etc.

The Jingwei looked at Li Haiwei sitting next to them strangely, although they didn't believe that the previous heroic Li Haiwei would slack off at a critical moment, but they really didn't understand.

When Li Haiwei threw the wooden-handled grenades in his hand one after another, Jing Wei was still suspicious, such a small iron lump was thrown down, I was afraid that it would not kill people, right?

Nikan also saw it from the monocular eternal mirror, and a smile appeared on his lips, the defenders are broken jars?

But soon, Nikan's smile stiffened, because the little iron bump exploded.

The explosion was like a small blooming flower to the entire city wall, and from a distance, it was almost imperceptible.

But only the Qing soldiers who climbed the wall understood that the splattered shrapnel was definitely sharper than arrows.

Arrows need to be shot by someone, look up and see someone aiming at you, you can also flash left and right, no more, the agile soldier also came over to the inside of the ladder and climbed up, but this iron lump of shrapnel has nowhere to predict, unless the luck is too good, not within the scope of the explosion.

How many people are there in Keli Haiwei, the entire city wall is full of corridors, these soldiers who have changed from cold weapons, how do they know how to save ammunition, they are like hens laying eggs, one after another slumping out, until there is no more grenade on the side of the waist, and then they start to put bayonets on the barrel of the gun.

The Jingwei were dumbfounded, they were shocked that they could still fight like this?

But the Qing army under the city was poured blood mold, and the wooden-handled grenade in the military workshop, although it was tested by the fire rope, and the gunpowder in the fuse could be filled, it was still manual, and the slight error could determine the speed of burning.

The combustion error of one or two seconds is normal, and with the delay of the Lihaiwei soldiers deliberately holding it in their hands, most of the grenades that went down were exploding in the air.

That's why Nikan saw small flowers blooming on the walls through his telescope.

It's just that Nikan can't understand how these little fireworks can destroy the siege of his 5,000-strong army, it's incredible.

The explosion continued, so that the Qing soldiers who climbed up on the entire city wall fell down from the dumplings in the next pot, and the capital wall was too high, so they fell down and were either killed or injured.

Nikan sensed an abnormality at this time, and the defenders guarding the Jinchuan Gate in front of him would definitely not be the previous defenders.

The outpouring of this thought made Nikan's whole person tremble unconsciously, and he thought of a man and an army.

Just when he almost roared out of his lungs.

The Jinchuan Gate opened in an instant.

A cavalry poured out of the gates, then split to the right and left, and charged at Nikam's main camp a few miles away.

And after the cavalry, no less than three thousand infantry poured out.

Three horizontal columns were formed at the gates of the city, and the guns were fired at the opposite side.

It was too late, but it was fast, and the outpouring of cavalry and infantry was like a flowing stream.

The infantry's shots were barely aim, they were raised, then the second team stepped forward and fired, and then the third team.

And so on, slowly moving forward, with almost no intervals.