Even if these 300 people are already the vanguard elite soldiers of the Ming army, it is impossible to make them all armored, at most, let the most dangerous soldiers in front of them wear armor, adding up to dozens of people, and more are light infantry who only wear cloth clothes.

As the order was given, the archers successively used projectiles to shoot arrows at the dense formation of the Ming army, and these arrows passed over the heavy infantry in the front row and fell directly over the heads of the light infantry in the rear.

However, the Ming army also seemed to expect to be intercepted by bows and arrows and muskets, and although more than a dozen people had been killed and wounded, they still did not stop their pace, but shouted various slogans under the leadership of the officers and began to launch the final charge.

When the Ming army was only more than 60 meters away from the city, the musketeers also completed the second round of reloading!

Wang Danxu didn't waste a second, and soon gave the order to shoot directly!

And at this distance, the hit rate of the musket can be further improved, and the power of the musket is enough to knock down the heavy armored soldiers in the front row of the Ming army!

As the gunshots rang out, the soldiers in the front row of the Ming army who were running seemed to have encountered a, and almost instantly, more than a dozen soldiers in the front row fell in unison, most of them were soldiers wearing armor.

This round of shooting obviously disrupted the rhythm of the charging Ming army, and for a while some of the Ming soldiers continued to rush forward, but some stopped running and looked back from time to time, while the archers were led by the officers and tried to bend their bows and shoot arrows at the head of the city to shoot back.

Although the Ming army's offensive continued, it was obvious that the entire formation had been disorganized.

Wang Zhisi, who was in the rear, saw this scene and couldn't help but say to Su Jiakang: "My lord, the thief's arms are sharp, do you want the strikers to withdraw first, slow down and attack again?" ”

At this time, Su Jiakang also frowned, this wave of attack is obviously a failure, this defeat is not to say that the casualties have been caused so far, but the rhythm of the offensive has been disrupted, and the attacking troops have obviously lost the courage to continue the attack.

Although the casualties of the 300 strikers are not large, at most more than 20 people have been killed or wounded, this kind of casualties are nothing in a siege battle, and in some large-scale siege operations, the attackers often follow one after another in order to make a breakthrough, and hundreds or thousands of people have died under the city walls.

The Ming army led by Su Jiakang has more than 1,000 people, even if it is not counted as the 300 Ming army that is still on the road, the 300 Ming army in the northwest, even if it excludes the five or six hundred young men who were temporarily recruited, but the main force under his command still has more than 1,000 people, and among them are recruits sent by Fucheng.

The casualties of more than 20 people were completely bearable for this Ming army, and even without extreme circumstances, it would not cause the slightest wave.

However, the situation was not so seen, the attacking troops were still a full fifty meters away from the city wall, and they had already been hit by two rounds of fire and arrows, so that more than 20 people were killed and wounded.

In particular, the last round of fire salvo of the puppet Tang thief army killed and injured more than ten Ming soldiers at one time, which was enough to put everyone in danger in the Ming army on the front line.

So many people have been killed and injured at such a distance, if you go twenty or thirty meters or even under the city wall, facing the fire of the puppet Tang thief army, you will not be hit one by one, and when the puppet Tang thief army will hit a row of muskets, I am afraid that you will immediately have to fall a large piece.

This panicked mentality is easy to spread!

Once it is not controlled, it will cause complete chaos and even collapse.

Su Jiakang took a deep breath and said, "Mingjin collects the troops, let the striker come back first!" ”

Wang Zhisigh heard this and breathed a sigh of relief, although the Ming army that launched the charge now was a recruit from the Fucheng side, not his disciples, but if these recruits suffered too many casualties, I am afraid that the main force of the next charge will be his troops.

But then Su Jiakang said again: "The army continues to prepare, let the young people in the back come up, and your thousand households will also go up, and when the strikers come back, we will fight again, this time we will do our best, and we must attack the city in one go!" ”

Although the first round of attacks was blocked, Su Jiakang had no intention of giving up, he knew very well that time was on his side now, if he didn't seize the limited time now, but sat and waited, then it would be dark, and he would not be able to continue the siege after dark, so if he waited until tomorrow, maybe those pseudo-Tang thieves would have gained a firm foothold.

So, he had to hurry up and fight again!

He couldn't just watch the puppet Tang thief army spend the night peacefully in the city.

Hearing Su Jiakang's words, Wang Zhi sighed and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything, but cast a complaining look at Wu Nuanzhi next to him.

Why is Su Jiakang in a hurry to attack the city, he Wang Zhisian naturally knows, if Zhengtai County fell unexpectedly and cannot be recovered quickly, then the negative impact caused is enough for Su Jiakang to be beheaded and his house is raided, and even he Wang Zhisian himself will not be better there by then.

It's all to blame for this Wu Nuanzhi, relying on the support of Fuzun to mess around, if he hadn't proposed this serial plan to lead the main force of the pseudo-Tang thief army to Zhengtai County, how could Zhengtai County be breached.

Wu Nuanzhi naturally felt the malice from Wang Zhisi, but now he was in no mood to care.

He also didn't expect that Zhengtai County, which had two hundred regular troops and hundreds of young and strong guards, would not be able to hold it for several hours, which led to a huge loophole in his strategy.

Now he consciously closed his mouth, and no longer raised any objections, but let Su Jiakang command, and even when Su Jiakang asked him to bring three hundred recruits to act as the vanguard and launch the first wave of siege, he did not raise any objections.

Now that the situation has become like this, Su Jiakang is responsible, and Wang Zhisian is responsible, but in the final analysis, the most important responsibility is still on him Wu Nuanzhi.

However, he still held on to a glimmer of hope and said: "My lord, although this attack failed, but it also tested the strength of the thief army, what they fought was only nearly a hundred firecrackers, and the firecrackers were slowly loaded, and there were only a few rounds before the enemy, as long as we rushed up at the same time with enough people, there was still a great chance of rushing up in one go!" ”

Speaking of this, he raised his voice slightly and said, "As long as we can rush in, we will be able to completely annihilate the main force of the puppet Tang thief army and capture the puppet emperor Li Xuan alive!" ”

When he heard Wu Nuanzhi talk about capturing Li Xuan alive, Su Jiakang also forcibly held back all kinds of worries in his heart, squeezed out a smile and said: "My army has nearly 2,000 people, and the thief army is only 500, as long as the soldiers fight bravely, it is still possible to recover Zhengtai County and capture Li Xuan alive!" ”

After receiving the retreat order from the rear, these Ming troops turned around and fled, leaving only more than a dozen corpses under the city and a few wounded who were seriously injured to the end and could not retreat.

After these recruits returned, Wu Nuanzhi accompanied Su Jiakang to check them one by one, encouraging the morale of these recruits.

Although the first attack of these recruits failed, it is undeniable that their performance was not bad, at least before the order to retreat, they did not collapse, but were disrupted, if they did not retreat and continue the attack, maybe they could run to the foot of the city and start erecting long ladders to climb the wall.

In addition, these recruits are also the more elite troops in the Ming army, and they have to rely on them for the siege of the city.

Two quarters of an hour later, the Ming army completed preparations before the second siege.

Compared with the last siege, this time the Ming army sieged significantly more, including recruits, guards and young people, and the total number exceeded 1,000 people.

However, unlike the last time, the most elite recruits were not placed at the front, but at the back.

At the front were those young men with weak combat effectiveness, numbering about three hundred, and in the middle were the guards led by Wang Zhisi, about five hundred, and the last one was Fucheng recruiting.

The young men who were arranged at the front obviously guessed that they were going to be used as cannon fodder, most of them were like dead ashes, looking like they were about to step on a dead end, and some people were crying on the spot, lying on the ground and not getting up, and some people wanted to secretly retreat.

But whether it was someone who wanted to escape or lay on the ground and refused to get up, they were driven forward by the Ming soldiers who pressed the formation, and those who dared to resist were all cut with a knife.

Several Ming army generals were riding on horses and shouting while wandering behind the young man: "Those who escape from the battle, behead, if you retreat without an order, behead!" ”

Using death as a threat, these young men finally embarked on the attack!

However, Su Jiakang obviously did not put his hope on these young people, and the regular army followed closely behind.

According to the plan he discussed with Wu Nuanzhi, since the puppet Tang thief army was sharp, then let the young and strong people with weak combat effectiveness consume the firepower of the thief army first, so as to give the main force in the rear time to buy time to launch a battle in the city.

And this time, Su Jiakang is Wang Wang Zhisi, a thousand households who personally pressed the formation, and without his Su Jiakang's order, he must not retreat.

In layman's terms, even if you die, you have to die on the way to attack!

Even in order to prevent the attacking troops from retreating and collapsing without authorization, Su Jiakang had already used the remaining hundreds of reserves as a supervising team, many of which were archers.

Time passed bit by bit, when the Ming army advanced to more than 100 meters away, the rear of the Ming army sounded a dense drum, and then the front of the Ming army only wearing single clothes, no armor protection, and only a weapon in the hand of an iron knife was driven to rush up.

The regular army in the rear also trotted in unison to keep up with it!

The moment the drum sounded, more than 1,000 Ming troops launched a charge of the whole army, looking down from the city, the mountains outside the city were full of Ming troops, almost countless, its momentum was so great that the bandits of Huangzhu Mountain on the city were all discolored, and many people showed a look of extreme fear.

Even Butcher Chen, who had always been very bold, couldn't help but gasp, this thousand army charge looked too scary.

However, at this time, Li Xuan was still indifferent, and even said to the ministers around him with a smile: "Look, they are here to die again!" ”

But no one saw him, his hand had already grasped the hilt of the long sword at his waist, and no one knew that he was shouting in his heart at this time: "It's over, it's over, it's going to be over!"