For Liu Jinchang, who had just come ashore, there was no attack in vain in the past night, and only one of the three groups of spies sent by the forward Yang Mingguang to the east bank was discovered by the Qing Demon, and the undiscovered ones caught a few lone Minzhuang, and explored the details of the Qing Demon in the camp clearly. Don't look at the demons' flags planted all over the wall, the arrow tower is built high, in fact, there are more than 1,000 temporarily recruited villagers.

Thinking that the supervisor sent someone to the Fairy Temple overnight to deliver a letter, and asked his colleagues who were going to attack Taizhou to divide their troops to pull out the camp of the Qing Demon in front of him, Liu Jinchang felt very uncomfortable, and did not want to delay the efforts of his colleagues.

It's too late to build a ladder, but more than a dozen bamboo ladders have been brought from the west bank, and the demons are hiding in the camp and not in the city, and the wall soldiers are not high, as long as they rush to the front, they can put the ladder up.

However, Yang Mingguang and the brigade commander Guan Youpeng did not rush to the trench under the wall in one breath, but rushed to the position where the gun could hit the wall and stopped, just when the two were about to let the brother who carried the gun shoot first, they only heard a gunshot, and the projectiles of the Qing demon hit like raindrops, and the brother who rushed to the front was overturned seven or eight in the blink of an eye, followed by a scream.

"Captain, the Qing Demon has a gun!"

"Brigade Marshal, the Qing Demon carries more guns than us!"

"What are you shouting, hit them quickly!" With Yang Mingguang's order, the Taiping soldiers who made the shotguns hurriedly fired at the wall.

Bang...... Bang...... Bang......

The Taiping Army's guns rang out, and several Taiping soldiers who made the shotguns forget for a while that their shotguns couldn't hit that far, and they also subconsciously followed the guns, and the front of the battle was suddenly filled with white gunsmoke like the walled wall.

The first row of guns knocked down seven or eight bandits, Lu Daming's blood boiled with excitement, brandished the oxtail knife and shouted: "The brothers below pretend to hurry up for me!" The next round of raising the gun, after raising the gun, and then hitting the foreign gun, aiming at Lao Tzu, hit hard! ”

"It's loaded, it's loaded, fifth brother, drag it up!" When Xiang Yong, who was loaded, heard that there were several bandits in the first row of guns, he was more excited than the gunmen on the wall, and as soon as he loaded the ammunition, he pulled the rope and shouted with his head up.

"Okay." The gunner hurriedly dragged the gun up the wall and set up it again on the fence to aim.

At the same time, Han Xiufeng was hiding behind the two big wooden shields held by Datou and Ji Da, watching the battle through the gap. The row of guns just now didn't know if they were in a hurry and didn't have time to aim, or because their guns were not far away, and not a single projectile could hit the wall.

If they shoot like this, the bandits will be defeated and invincible. As he was secretly rejoicing, he saw nearly a hundred bandits rushing to the front of the formation with shields, and slowly moved forward under the cover of shotguns. And the bandits on the river also opened fire, and the sound of the cannons was deafening, but fortunately their cannons were not accurate, and not a single shell hit the western wall.

"Spear team, the bandits behind the shield soldiers, let me go!"

Bang...... Another burst of gunfire.

Lu Daming didn't care to look at this row of guns and knocked down a few bandits, so he shouted at the top of his throat: "Raise the gun and load, prepare the gun quickly, you can't see the second row of wooden stakes clearly, give Lao Tzu a beat!" ”

The Taiyong battalion only had about 30 guns and a dozen firebird guns, so they could only shoot in two sections, and the spear carrying team and the shotgun team had just fired two rows of guns, and a large number of bandits had already rushed to the third row of wooden stakes.

The place on the wall was too small, Lu Daming was worried that the gun-carrying team and the fast-gun team would delay the shotgun team to release the guns, so he immediately shouted: "Raise the gunner to the east wall, go to the east and west arrow towers, load the bullets and shoot, aim and beat Lao Tzu hard, don't wait for the order!" ”

"Yes!"

"Shotgunners prepare, hold steady, don't panic, play three in a row!"

With Lu Daming's order, the shotgunners who had been on standby stepped forward, put the loaded shotguns on the fence and began to aim, and the gunners quickly retreated to the east wall, while the gunners hurriedly climbed up the arrow tower.

Chu Chenggui and Wang Ruhai and other two groups of Xiangyong in Hai'an and Jiangyan, who were guarding the south wall, not only could not intervene, but had to avoid them at any time. Zhang Yiguo opened his eyes, leaned on the fence and secretly sighed that he had known that the concentration of firearms was so sharp, and that a camp should be built at the bridgehead of Changchun in Taohua'an at that time.

Han Xiufeng didn't think that his personal command would be better than Lu Daming's command, so he stared at the bandit formation, and couldn't help but turn around and say: "Brother Zhang, these bandits are really difficult to deal with, you see, they have been shot in several rows, killed and injured dozens of people, and the formation is not chaotic." ”

"What Master Han said is extremely true, if it is easy to deal with, they will not attack the city all the way from Guangxi to kill here."

As soon as Zhang Yiguo's voice fell, Ji Er said eagerly: "Master Han, Master Zhang, the gang of thieves from the Fairy Temple has moved!" ”

"They're running to the east wall." Han Xiufeng took a deep breath and turned around and said, "Brother Zhang, I'll leave it to you here, I'll go to the east wall to supervise the battle." ”

"Master Han, don't worry, as long as I Zhang still has a breath, the bandits don't want to attack the wall."

Han Xiufeng nodded slightly, and then rushed to the east wall with the first rank. The south wall is the main direction of attack of the bandits, Lu Daming must guard over there, as soon as Han Xiufeng arrived at the east wall, he immediately shouted: "Qianli, you command the spear-carrying team!" As soon as the bandits walked a hundred and eighty steps, they were beaten. ”

"Yes!"

"Brother on the arrow tower, from now on keep an eye on the bandits coming to the east wall! Don't worry about the ones in the south, they have a shotgun team to greet them! ”

"Master Han put it down, let the little ones come and go!"

As he was talking, Yang Mingguang, the commander of the Taiping Army, and Guan Youpeng, the brigade commander, had already held their shields, and rushed to a dozen steps away from the trench, thinking that the Qing Demon on the wall had so many guns just now, as long as they gritted their teeth and persevered, they could put the ladder on the wall, but what they didn't expect was that with the deafening gunshots, the Qing Demon's guns hit more fiercely than just now!

On the wall, the Qing Demon condescendingly shot down, and just raised the shield to protect the top of his head, more than a dozen black muzzles suddenly stretched out from the wall, and the fire flashed, and there was another burst of gunshots, and a few old brothers fell. The sound of gunshots, cannons, shouts of killing, and painful wails were endless, which made Yang Mingguang can't help but think of a person he met in Hunan, the Qing demon surnamed Jiang was also fighting with a group of unfatal villagers who were fighting against the heavenly soldiers, which was more difficult to deal with than the Eight Banners and the Green Battalion.

……

"Archer, shoot!"

The bandits had already rushed to the front, and the archers who had practiced for two days finally came in handy, Lu Daming shouted while waving his knife: "Chu Chenggui, Wang Ruhai, the time has come to work hard, if you want to get rich, don't let these bandits rush to the wall!" ”

"What are you shouting, we are here, don't try to rush up to the bandits!" Chu Chenggui didn't care about the excitement anymore, pushed away a Xiangyong and went straight to the position where a few thieves were carrying ladders and preparing to go up the wall.

At this time, the group of Taiping troops from the Fairy Temple had already circled the east, and as soon as they entered the range of the guns and the firebird guns, Wang Qianli waved the oxtail knife and shouted at it.

A row of guns fought, rushing to the forefront of the Taiping army fell a dozen, the east wall of the villagers suddenly cheered, the drummer saw clearly, but also heard clearly, excitedly waving the drumstick desperately, the rapid drum beat knocked on the wall of the village and the camp can not squeeze the wall of the village warrior blood boiling, even the 100 local people who assisted in the defense are not as afraid as before.

The two groups of bandits add up to more than 2,000 soldiers, and the shotguns on both sides add up to less than forty shots, while the Taiyong battalion's guns, bird guns and foreign guns add up to more than 150 rods, and there are strong camps to defend, Han Xiufeng is more confident about whether he can hold it, and he is thinking about how many lives the bandits will have to pay to beat the bandits back when they are all pressed up, and there is a burst of cheers on the west wall.

"What's going on?" Han Xiufeng asked subconsciously.

The big head couldn't figure it out, and when he was looking back, he only heard a villager on the south wall shouting happily: "It's fighting, it's fighting, Master Han, the cannon on the west wall has hit one of the bandits' boats." ”

"Okay, great, let them keep fighting, hit hard!"

As soon as Han Xiufeng's words fell, the sound of killing on the south wall shook the sky, and the thieves who rushed to the edge of the trench set up a ladder to climb the wall as if they were not dying, Chu Chenggui and Wang Ruhai were already prepared, and immediately ordered the villagers to push the ladder out with forks, and the thieves finally put the ladder on the wall, how could they just let them push it away, and the people below were desperately holding on, and the people who were responsible for the attack rushed up desperately.

"His grandmother's, don't die, don't die, Lao Tzu will fulfill you!" A villager raised his knife and cut down the bandits who were about to climb to the fence. Just as he was about to deal with the bandit who was following him, he saw a black shadow flying from below, his neck tense as if he was stuck, and the whole person was thrown up from under the wall with a spear thrown into the wall.

With a muffled thud, a villager fell from the wall with a spear stuck in his neck.

Wu Wenming, who was guarding the camp, chuckled in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Here, here, prepare penny, prepare to assist in defense!" ”

"It's coming!" The student reacted, and hurriedly rushed to the wall with a few people carrying a penny. Wu Wenming glanced up, then turned around and said, "Doctor, there is a brother injured here!" ”

The sound of killing on the south wall shook the sky, and the gunfire was chaotic, but it never stopped.

The group of thieves from the fairy temple also rushed to the front of the trench after receiving a few rows of guns, just as they raised the ladder to prepare for a strong attack, and Han Xiufeng also drew his knife to prepare for a bloody battle, there was a rapid gong sound from the south, and then the bandits retreated like a tide, and did not forget to take away the dead corpses and wounded soldiers when retreating.

Seeing the bandits getting farther and farther away, the string in Han Xiufeng's heart slowly loosened, and he came to the south wall with the fence, looking at Zhang Yiguo, who was covered in blood, and asked, "Brother Zhang, are you okay, are you hurt?" ”

"It's okay, it's all the blood of the bandits." Zhang Yiguo looked at the corpses in the trench that the bandits didn't have time to take away, and said excitedly: "Happy, I killed it really hard today!" Master Han is like a god with soldiers, and the lower officials admire him! ”

"Why are you using soldiers like gods, they think we are a soft persimmon, and they think that as soon as we rush up, we will collapse without a fight, but I didn't expect us to be very hard, not only did we not collapse without a fight, but also knocked out a few of their front teeth."

"But there are more than a few front teeth, Master Han, look at it, we will kill a hundred and ten of them in this battle!"

"Great victory! What a victory! Zhang Guangcheng rushed over and said: "Brother Han, Brother Zhang, the bandits have conquered the city, and the momentum is like a bamboo, even big cities like Wuchang and Jiangning have been easily captured by them, I didn't expect to suffer a big loss here in us, what is this not a big victory for us?" ”

"It's a big victory, but you have to wait for the thieves to really retreat before you can celebrate." Han Xiufeng looked at the bandits who retreated to the south, and said solemnly: "They were a light enemy just now, and now they know that we are not easy to deal with, and they will definitely be ready to attack again." ”

"What can they do?"

"Prepare for the siege of the city, and attack our camp as a city." Han Xiufeng didn't want to splash them with cold water, so he immediately changed the topic: "Chenggui, how many brothers have we killed or injured?" ”

"Master Han, I'm dead here...... Seventeen or eighteen were dead, and many were wounded, estimated at fifty or sixty. ”

"Hurry up and count, and heal the injured."

"Yes."

While the Taiyong battalion was busy counting the dead and wounded, Yang Mingguang was hanging his head and reporting to Liu Jinchang.

"Master Shuai, these Qing demons are not easy to deal with, they have at least two hundred shotguns, our shotguns are not as many as them, and they are not as far as them, and most of the brothers who brought them back are damaged under their guns......"

"I saw it all," the past half a year has been all about the wind, Liu Jinchang never thought that the more than 1,000 villagers in front of him were so difficult to deal with, not only the morale was high, but even the armament was better than the green battalion, he looked back at the prison army sent by the Heavenly King, and said with a gloomy face: "This is not to blame you, if you want to blame us, we can only blame the enemy, bury the pot to cook first, collect wood to build a ladder after eating, and then attack when everything is ready." ”