With Wang Danxu's order, the soldiers of the musket team lined up in a neat queue pulled the trigger in unison, and suddenly a crisp and dense burst of gunfire rang out on the field.

Accompanied by gunfire and rising white smoke, a dense stream of bullets hit the city wall a hundred meters away, causing sand and gravel to fly, and some of the splashed fragments were so powerful that they could also hurt people.

The power of the bullet seen in the film and television drama is average, and at most it is a small hole, but in fact, the power of the bullet is quite large, even if it is just the lead bullet of the arquebus, its power is also quite large, otherwise it will not be able to penetrate the two-millimeter-thick plate armor at a distance of 100 meters.

The bullets hit the city so thick that it looked as if it had been blown by a gale, and the sand and gravel flew wildly.

On the spot, two Ming soldiers who did not hide their bodies were hit, one of them was hit in the back of the head, and the huge impact of the bullet made him fall backwards with his whole body, and after falling to the ground, he convulsed a few times and then completely did not move.

This scene made several Ming soldiers next to him stunned, and one of them couldn't help but vomit on the spot when he looked at the red and white things flowing out of the brains of the fallen soldiers.

Fear, in an instant, enveloped the surrounding Ming soldiers!

"These thieves are a bit powerful!" At this time, on the tower of the city gate, a middle-aged strong man wearing scale armor frowned.

An obese middle-aged man in a civilian robe beside him said, "Long Qianhu, the thief army's firecrackers are so powerful, I'm afraid they can't stop it!" ”

When this man spoke, he was still weeping and mourning.

The middle-aged strong man known as Long Qianhu glanced at this civil official, with a trace of disdain in his eyes, this county man surnamed Xu has no responsibility at all, this battle has just begun, so he said that he can't stop it, isn't this the prestige of the thief army, destroying his morale, what will the soldiers below think when they hear it?

Compared with the county zun Su Jiakang, this Xu County Cheng is not a little bit worse, Su Jiakang has personally led the troops into the pseudo-Tang thief army several times, and this Xu County Cheng, I heard that at the beginning of the year, this person was in charge of the defense in Longhua Town, but the pseudo-Tang thief army just under the city of Longhua Town, before the official siege of the city, he took people to run away, and finally led to the defeat of the defenders of Longhua Town.

The town of Longhua was ransacked, and even the hoarded military rations were burned completely.

As soon as he thought that he was going to guard Zhengtai County with this person, he had a headache!

However, although he had contempt for this Xu Xiancheng, Long Qianhu still pressed the contempt in his heart, and said patiently: "Lord Xu don't have to worry, although the thief army's firearm is not small, but I have a strong city to defend, and there are two hundred soldiers and eight hundred young men in the city who swear to defend the city, and it is not so easy for the thief army to break through the city and enter!" ”

But when he spoke, he was obviously a little lacking in confidence!

Whether two hundred soldiers and eight hundred young men can hold Zhengtai County, to be honest, this is unknown.

Everyone knows what kind of goods the young people who are temporarily recruited, that is, they scare and scare ordinary people, and if they really fight, they are all unreliable goods.

What he can really rely on is the two hundred guards under his command!

Alas, I didn't expect that as soon as I took over the defense of Zhengtai County, I encountered a large-scale siege by the thief army, and I knew that this would be the case, and I should have followed Wang Qianhu and them out of the city together.

This person's name is Long Dajun, who is the deputy Qianhu of the fairy Shi Qianhu, and has been following Wang Zhixi to Zhengtai County for half a year, but it is the first time he has encountered a large-scale pseudo-Tang thief army.

It's just that although he is a little depressed, this city still has to be defended, and he doesn't want someone to affect the morale of the army when he is defending the city.

Therefore, Long Dajun said: "Lord Xu, now that the situation is critical, please also ask Lord Xu to go down to the city to preside over the overall situation, so that the young people and people in the city can prepare boiling oil, huge trees and boulders, in case of emergency!" ”

The meaning of this is actually this: This is Lao Tzu watching, how far you roll!

However, after Xu Xiancheng heard this, he was greatly relieved, the city was so dangerous, if it wasn't for the bad influence, how could he run up.

Now Long Dajun took the initiative to propose that he go to the rear to organize the people to prepare the city defense equipment, he was naturally willing, and immediately said: "In this way, the defense on the city wall will be entrusted to Long Qianhu, and the official will now organize the young and strong and prepare the huge stones and huge trees!" ”

At this time, the musket team of the Datang New Army outside the city fired again, and this time they shot in the direction of the city gate tower.

As the gunshots rang out, a large number of bullets hit the city gate tower, and the sudden bullets made Xu Xiancheng fall to the ground in fright, and he even ignored the prestige of the imperial court officials, and lay directly on the ground, and then climbed behind a big pillar with his hands and feet.

But at this time, Long Dajun no longer had the heart to deal with this Xu Xiancheng, because just now a bullet hit him in the chest, and the lead bullet easily pierced the scale armor on his body!

So much so that before he could react, the whole person just fell, and blood suddenly spread out of his right chest, quickly staining the scale armor on his body.

"Quick...... Let them ...... Hide it all, don't go out! Although Long Dajun was covered in blood, he still wanted to struggle to get up, and at the same time he was still talking intermittently.

Before he finished speaking, several of his own soldiers had already pounced:

"Protect your lordship!"

"Quick, my lord has been shot, come to the doctor!"

"Take the adults to the back!"

Several of his personal soldiers were his henchmen, and when he saw that the head of the family had been shot, he immediately ran over, and at the same time hurriedly lifted Long Dajun and ran towards the back.

At the same time, some people rushed to find the doctor.

For a while, the entire city gate tower became a little chaotic!

Xu Xiancheng looked at Long Dajun who was carried back by a few soldiers with a little trembling, and muttered with a trembling mouth: "This official knows that these thieves are not easy to mess with, it's over, it's over, it's going to be completely finished now!" ”

At this time, a hundred cats next to him ran over: "Lord Xu, what should we do now, those thieves are coming!" ”

After hearing this, Xu Xiancheng cautiously raised his head and glanced outward, and after only one glance, he quickly shrank back!

Although he only glanced at it, he also saw the team of pseudo-Tang thieves wearing heavy armor outside the city coming out, and these thieves were still carrying ladders, and it seemed that they were about to enter the city.

"Quick, quick, let them release their arrows quickly, don't let the thieves rush up!" Xu Xiancheng looked flustered and said: "Once they rush up, we are all finished!" ”

Long Dajun was injured and carried away, and now only Xu Xiancheng can command the defenders of the city, and when he spoke, some of the Ming troops and those young men began to bend their bows and shoot arrows.

However, no one dared to lean out and aim and shoot again, all of them hid behind the city wall and used the method of projectile!

It's not that they are unwilling, but the puppet Tang thief army's firearms are too sharp, and this risk of being hit by bullets is possible.

They didn't have time to think about it, the muskets of the puppet Tang thieves were limited in their reload, and so far, the musketeers had only fired two volleys.

They didn't have the heart to think about it, although this musket was very powerful, but in fact, there were very few people who really hit, and the Ming army hit by two rounds of shooting was only about ten people.

The reason why people are panicked is because the musketeers under Wang Danxu have all taken the effect of concentrating firepower towards a certain section of the city wall to achieve the effect of one-sided reinforcement of firepower density.

And the increased firepower density caused extreme panic to the Ming army under the shroud of firepower!