The next day, 500 Han men who had just been rescued were ordered by Shang Keyi, Shang Kejin, and Shang Kexi to push nine shield carts and carry twenty ladders to approach Xiuyan Fort, which had no moat at all.

The cavalry of Dongjiang Town had already launched a round of attack, and they all shot arrows when they approached sixty or seventy paces to the southern city wall.

At the same time as the main attack was launched at the south gate, the east gate of Xiuyan Fort was also disturbed by more than 400 Shenshu battalions and Jinyi guards, plus a hundred cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" led by Liu Fenyong in turn.

There were no city gates in the west and north directions of Xiuyan Fort, and Yuan Siming and Sang Yu each led a defender who shot the general cavalry at the head of the city.

Attacking from all sides is both true and false is an established tactic, if there is any slackness, the attacking Ming army does not mind climbing the wall, because the wall of Xiuyan Fort is too short, only more than seven meters.

More than half of the Ming soldiers and horses were concentrated in the direction of the south gate, and the shield carts made yesterday were concentrated here, and there were less than 200 Han people in the other three directions, carrying five or six ladders to pose for the ant-attached siege city.

At this time, Huang Han took a general cavalry to suppress the main attack of Dongjiang Town, and he was surrounded by Hanzi and Yang Danian, as well as Gu Kui, Yan Congyou and other four personal soldiers.

Shen Ming and the other four thirteen-year-old children did not bring out the soldiers this time, not only because they were not old enough, but also because of their poor riding skills.

But Huang Han often put the five mini guns with him, and he personally loaded the mini guns early this morning, and the four personal soldiers of He Yongqing and Lei Mingchun were unwilling to do it.

Because Lei Mingchun and a few of them have not been trained in loading, they are not professional, and the loading is exquisite, not pouring gunpowder into the barrel and stuffing Mini bullets to complete it.

At the very least, it is necessary to have enough experience to tamp gunpowder with a whole strip, and the loader who has just started often does not have a good grasp of the scale, and too tight or too loose will affect the power.

Huang Han never slackened, although the loading action was not skillful but the steps and techniques were very standard, he also carefully checked the firing steel spring of each Mini gun, and rubbed the flint with a fine file to ensure the firing rate.

The five Mini guns were well maintained, the rifling in the barrel was not smoothed, and there was no lead hanging, which should be due to the fact that Shen Ming's four children often wiped the barrels.

Huang Han did not care about his troops with his troops, and in order to prevent emergencies, the cavalry of the "Red Banner Army" did not all concentrate outside Xiuyan Fort.

Yang Guoen, Wang Zhicheng, Zhang Yang and other six generals each led a general banner man to spread a reconnaissance net from afar, and a large number of Jiannu men and horses approached within 50 miles to ensure that they were discovered.

The men and horses of Dongjiang Town are all concentrated in the direction of the main attack, and nearly half of their cavalry can't shoot arrows, so the long-range attack is only a few hundred people, because it is a cavalry shooting, although the arrows fly beautifully but the lethality is insufficient, and the defenders at the head of the city can still deal with it.

Not long after the battle began, the rough and heavy eight shield carts were pushed by twenty or thirty common people to approach eighty steps below the city, and the common people carrying the ladders also came up.

Originally, nine shield cars were prepared, but one of them broke down on the way and couldn't be pushed, so there was no time to repair it and give up.

Huang Han waved his hand to signal the "Red Flag Army" to join the shooting ranks, Yang Danian immediately rushed forward with men and horses capable of riding and shooting, the "Red Flag Army" knights have face armor and all-steel cuirass, and it will basically not be a big problem to be shot by Jiannu at a distance of sixty or seventy paces.

At this time, it can better suppress the archery of the Jiannu at the head of the city, so as not to suffer heavy casualties among the common people without armor.

Huang Han stopped a hundred paces away from the city gate, in order to be able to fire the Minny gun more accurately, he dismounted and aimed at the city head in a standing position, Huang Han was not going to shoot the small characters, his goal was to stop the Jiannu officers, at least the white armor soldiers.

There are less than 200 Jiannu soldiers stationed in Xiuyan Fort, and now after the national mobilization, 5 or 600 people have taken up bows and arrows to go to the city to assist in the defense, and most of them are old people and children, and their combat effectiveness is actually not good.

Because the Ming army was besieged from all sides, Jiannu could only choose to defend on all sides, and they also saw that the south was the main direction of attack of the Ming army, so most of the defenders here were regular soldiers, and the number reached about half of the total strength.

Huang Han had been looking at Shang Kexi, and saw that the three brothers had already dismounted, and they respectively commanded their subordinates to shoot arrows while following the shield cart to approach the city.

Seeing that the four hundred or so Dongjiang soldiers under the command of the three brothers of the Shang family had come to within thirty paces of the city, the arrows shot by the infantry bow at this time became more powerful and the accuracy was greatly improved.

The Ming army's arrows flew up to the city like locusts. The defenders at the head of the city were well prepared, their shields and battlements blocked most of the arrows, and some of the Jiannu fought back with their bows.

After all, the coverage of the shield car is limited, and more than a dozen Dongjiang soldiers who leaned out and shot arrows were unlucky and were shot in the body, and let out a scream.

These Dongjiang soldiers did concentrate iron armor on their bodies, lined with cotton armor, and had iron eight-petal bright helmets on their heads, and they might not lose their combat effectiveness if they were shot by arrows.

They are more tenacious, and they refuse to lose the upper hand and still pull the bowstring and release arrows desperately, because they are using the foot archers to cover the sword and shield men to enter the city, and whether they can suppress the shooting of the city head Jiannu is related to the feasibility of the ant siege.

Some of the Dongjiang soldiers who were approaching on horseback were also shot, and they refused to fall off their horses and ran back by holding on to their horses.

Huang Han looked at the city with a gun in his hand, and quickly selected a white-armored soldier with a full bow as a hunting target, which was the first live target he shot with a mini-gun, and luckily, the mini-gun was successfully fired, and the mini-armor bullet accurately drilled into the chest of the white-armored soldier.

Jiannu's white armor, who was aiming at Shang Kejin and firing the armor-piercing cone, bloomed bright red on his chest and fell to the city, and the armor hit the city bricks with a crisp sound of "dang lang lang", he was inexplicably unwilling, and he didn't know what was going on until he died.

After succeeding, Huang Han continued to block Jiannu, but the second, third, and fourth shots were not successful, and he changed the primer and pulled the trigger again before hitting the Mini bullet.

In the rain of arrows, there were four crisp gunshots, and a hundred paces was too small for the accuracy of rifled guns, and Jiannu Bayala in the melee did not know how to guard against the blows of cold guns.

They relied on the strong armor on their bodies, and knew that it was not so easy for diffuse feathered arrows to penetrate the armor and shoot into the flesh and skin. Often when they shot the Ming army, their bodies exposed too many battlements, which created a good opportunity for Huang Han to snipe them.

In a few moments, four young and middle-aged Jiannu soldiers were killed, and three of them were Bayala.

Hanzi's archery skills are too poor, and he is used to throwing weapons, and the killing distance of throwing axes and throwing guns is far less than that of bows and arrows, so he couldn't help but not hit the horse, and stepped forward to join in the fun, and kept following Huang Han closely.

is also because most of the people around him are people from Dongjiang Town, and Hanzi is a little worried about Fa Xiao's safety, so he personally serves as a bodyguard.

Hanzi also saw Fa Xiao use a mini gun to kill the enemy for the first time, and he was excited to see Huang Han's bullets on the side.