Seeing these headache-inducing positions, as well as the small towns that could be seen not far away, their hearts itched, like hungry wild dogs seeing fresh meat hanging from trees. The leaders of the various units consulted, and the mercenaries still planned to attack and try the defensive situation of the Ming army's position.

None of the mercenaries would take the lead, so they launched a tentative attack from around the town at the same time. After all, the more than 1,000 people of the Ming army were scattered, even if the firing speed of the rifle was much wider than that of the flintlock pistol, it could not block the overwhelming attack, not to mention that Zheng Sanpao did not let them fight hard at all, mainly to kill and injure the leader of the bandits as the first goal, even the machine gun was not used on the front line, and it completely relied on the scattering of the rifle.

The resistance of the Ming army was not very strong, and only a few mercenaries were hit and fell. So the mercenaries began to increase the intensity of the attack, and the Ming soldiers began to retreat in an orderly manner, and in less than an hour, the mercenaries advanced a distance of more than a mile, occupied a part of the Ming army's positions, and used these positions to attack, their casualties began to be smaller, and gradually began to be a little excited.

A large number of mercenaries began to dismount to join the attack, and the Ming army continued to retreat, and even sometimes when the mercenaries had a strong impact, they had to use the machine guns in the back to suppress it. Time passed slowly under the attack of the mercenaries, and another hour passed, and the position of the Ming army was compressed for another mile. In order to better confuse the mercenaries, the Ming army even carried out a wave of counterattacks under the cover of a small number of mortars and machine guns, making the mercenaries feel that the Ming army was still desperately resisting.

Seeing that the position of the Ming army was constantly compressed, the Ming army began to counterattack, and the leader of the mercenaries finally believed that the Ming army was indeed such a strength, so almost all the mercenaries began to dismount to participate in the attack, and the pressure on the Ming army was getting bigger and bigger, and the position of the Ming army was getting smaller and smaller, but in this way, the strength of the Ming army was gradually concentrated, and the strength of the counterattack was a little bit bigger.

In order to attract more mercenaries to attack, Zheng Sanpao transferred more than 500 soldiers from the town to support, and the Ming army's counterattack was greater than in the previous stage. However, these measures seemed to the mercenary officers, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army was no more than that, and the intensity of the attack increased again, and they no longer retained their strength, and began to attack with all their might, and even the small artillery brought by the army was used.

Seeing that the mercenaries began to attack with all their might, Zheng Sanpao ordered the soldiers to carry out several see-saw counterattacks, and after killing and wounding a large number of mercenary soldiers, he made an unstoppable appearance and asked the soldiers to retreat to the town and rely on the rudimentary fortress walls to resist.

The battle lasted for a whole day, and the soldiers were a little tired, and Stroganov's mercenaries saw that they had attacked the town fortress wall, so they drove all the soldiers to a close place, and began to bury the pot to make food, and after eating, let the soldiers get enough rest, and planned to completely capture the town in one go.

Just when the mercenaries were burying the pot and cooking, the Ming army in the town, under the command of Zheng Sancang, had already finished eating, and now they were preparing shells, putting the shells equipped with each small mortar directly next to them, and every two people operated a small cannon, not that one person could not operate, but two people operated faster together.

Half an hour later, both sides made the final preparations, the mercenaries of the Stroganov family gathered around the town, and went all out to prepare for the attack on the town, all kinds of siege equipment were in place, several bandit leaders decided to attack from all sides at the same time, so an order was given, more than 20,000 bandits rushed to the town together, there was a rather shocking momentum, if you are timid, you may really be frightened.

Of course, Zheng Sanpao will not be frightened by this formation, his subordinates have long been prepared, when the dense Cossack bandits approached the fort wall of the town, all the machine guns and small mortars opened fire together, in a very short time, the surrounding town turned into a place of death, in less than a quarter of an hour, the Cossack bandits lost nearly 10,000 people, powerful machine gun bullets, in the dense crowd of lethality increased several times, like a string of sugar gourds, the front was beaten to pieces, and the back was a bowl-sized blood hole, The small mortar will also be fully exerted to its power, with a wide range of coverage and firing, and the extreme speed of two-man operation, so that the shells are in a sea of fire wherever they go.

At this time, even if the mercenaries of the Stroganov family are stupid, they will understand that this time they are completely fooled, the Ming army made them pay a certain price and occupy the preset fortifications, giving them the impression that the combat effectiveness is nothing more than that, but the actual combat power is very well hidden. If it is a skirmish line attack, there will definitely be no such large losses, and you can calmly retreat. In the current battle situation, the only result is a rout, and they are scattered and fleeing to avoid the pursuit of the Ming army, and they have not made a fuss about how many Ming troops there are in the town.

The scattered and defeated Cossack bandits never dreamed that when they began to besiege the town, Sheng Luo had already arranged the encirclement, and it was one person and two horses, it seemed that there were more than 10,000 people, and they now only had more than 15,000 people left, and they were scattered infantry, their war horses had been attacked by Sheng Luo and his troops when Zheng San's artillery began to bombard, and the soldiers guarding the war horses were attacked by the superior Ming army, and after a weak resistance, they were killed and scattered by the fierce Ming cavalry, and most of the war horses were captured by the Ming army, only a few bandits with some horses and rout rounds. Seeing that there were surrounded by the Ming army everywhere, the defeated Cossack bandits did not even form a whole formation, and whoever moved fast grabbed the war horse, even the leaders of the bandits, many of them were trampled to death by the rebels.

The mercenaries who lost their fighting spirit, all of them were like frightened birds, even the big leaders could not command them, at the beginning they were still groups of familiar friends who protected each other and cooperated with each other to escape, and when Sheng Luo's brigade came up, even the weakest resistance was gone, and the only hope was to escape, which made the Ming army fight without pressure, and the squads of several people cooperated with each other, just like chopping melons and vegetables, killing these mercenaries to the point of blood.

The mercenary bandits who escaped from the encirclement of the Ming army were divided into more than a dozen units, and Sheng Luo gave an order, and his troops were also divided into units of more than 30 people in small groups and began to disperse the pursuit. The advantage of two horses per person is fully reflected at this time, plus the war horses of the captured Cossack bandits, almost to the extent of three horses per person, needless to say for those bandits who have lost their war horses, they must have been eliminated quickly, and the bandits who won the war horses are now difficult to escape, and after a long run, a war horse is not as good as two war horses, and the final result is the annihilation of the whole army, so that the investment of the Stroganov family is lost.