Although the muskets equipped by the bandits in Huangzhushan still have many shortcomings, there is one thing that is difficult to compare with other weapons, and that is its huge power.

When Wang Danxu gave the order to shoot, the two musket teams of the Tang Dynasty Division resounded with dense gunfire accompanied by thick white smoke.

At the same time, the Fengjiazhuang archers on the head of the city who were bending their bows and aiming at them were ready to shoot arrows, but they fell in an instant.

Dense projectiles hit the battlements, splashing rubble, hitting those Fengjiazhuang archers who stood up, making bloody holes.

The power of the projectile is incomparable to that of the bow and arrow, and after the bow and arrow shoot out of the enemy, if the arrow is not pulled out directly, and it does not hit the fatal part, then it is difficult for the person who is hit to completely die or lose combat effectiveness in a short time.

On the ancient battlefield, it was common to see fierce men with several arrows stuck in their bodies covered in blood, but they still continued to fight regardless of their bodies.

However, if you are hit by a bullet, even if you don't directly hit a fatal part, you will lose your combat effectiveness instantly.

A dozen big holes, this is definitely not an exaggeration!

Even if the bandits of Huangzhushan used extremely primitive arquebuses, which were far less powerful than the modern firearms of later generations, their power should not be underestimated.

None of the fallen Fengjiazhuang archers were able to continue to stand up, because these people only exposed their upper bodies, because the parts that were hit were not the head or chest, etc., this part was punched out of a big hole, and their injuries were conceivable, some were killed on the spot, and most of the rest were only out of breath without intake, which was a state of serious injury and dying.

There were not many archers in Fengjiazhuang, and there were only twenty or thirty people who stood up and prepared to shoot arrows just now, and just now they were only hit by a volley, and at least ten people fell.

Its casualty rate should be more than half!

Some of the rest of the people didn't react, and continued to aim, and then shoot arrows, but some reacted, screamed, and then retracted back into the battlements, and many of them were still trembling.

Although they had seen the benefits of the puppet Tang Thief Army before, and several people were hit, it was not they who faced it personally.

However, the volley just now was fired at these archers, and because of the distance, the hit rate was quite impressive.

Just one round of salvo fire completely defeated the archer army in Fengjiazhuang, and the few archers who did not react after shooting a few arrows, found that the other archers on the left and right were either dead or screaming, and then he felt a little scared after realizing it, and then without anyone reminding him, he himself would retract back behind the battlements.

At this time, none of the others at the head of the city blamed the archers, who had retracted from the battlements and refused to get up and shoot arrows.

Because even the few men in brocade robes were pale at this time, it was obvious that even they didn't expect the firepower of the puppet Tang thief army to be so fierce.

Why are their firecrackers so strong?

This shouldn't be!

It's not that they don't know about the firearms, and they even have a batch of firearms they have obtained from the officers and soldiers, but the firearms in their hands can't hit that far at all, and it's good to be able to fight twenty or thirty paces away in actual combat, and the accuracy is extremely poor.

Therefore, at this time, the firearm was only an auxiliary weapon for the Ming army and these people in Fengjiazhuang, and the long-range attack mainly relied on archers.

Fengjiazhuang is the property of the Feng family in Fucheng, and at the same time, because it was looted by the puppet Tang thief army some time ago, the eldest lord in the mansion was extremely angry, so he specially sent three stewards and several other stewards from the Fucheng family to take charge of the defense, so that Fengjiazhuang would not be looted again.

Although this Fengjiazhuang is located in a cheap place, close to the edge of the mountain, according to the reason, it is just a remote village, but this Fengjiazhuang just has a small plain, and the water is abundant, although the place is small, but the fields are all high-quality fields, and a lot of grain can be produced every year.

It is not an exaggeration that Fengjiazhuang, which produces a lot of grain, is valued by the Feng family, after all, in this year, there is nothing more precious than food.

But even if it is valued, it has even spent a lot of manpower and material resources to build the city wall, and when the farmers are slack, they will organize tenants to train, originally thought that Fengjiazhuang was already impregnable, but I didn't expect that this battle had just begun, and more than half of their archers were lost.

If we add the seven or eight people who lost in the lead, then the total is more than twenty dead and wounded.

This more than 20 people may be a small number for a large army, but for Fengjiazhuang, it is a big loss.

In particular, most of the dead and wounded were still archers, and the remaining archers were also frightened, and did not dare to lean out again and risk archery, so they could only continue to hide behind the battlements, and then aim their bows and arrows at the sky, and shoot scattered arrows by projectile.

However, the arrows thrown at the sky are almost negligible, both in terms of accuracy and power.

Except for an unlucky guy who was shot in the thigh, everyone else has nothing to do, continue to build bridges!

Seeing that the musket team in front of him had completely suppressed the enemy archers, and when his own manpower was quickly building a bridge, Li Xuan turned to Butcher Chen and said, "The sword and shield men are ready to enter the city!" ”

In this kind of siege warfare, there is nothing more suitable than a sword and shield hand in heavy armor!

After Butcher Chen received the order, he quickly came out with his subordinate sword and shield men, and then began to slowly step forward step by step.

These heavily armored sword and shield men walked very slowly, and their movement speed was not even as fast as their usual walking, it was not that they could not run, but to save their physical strength.

Running in heavy armor is very physically demanding, and they must conserve as much physical strength as possible in order to charge and climb at the last moment.

Although the speed of these heavy-armored sword and shield men carrying long ladders was slow, the pressure on the people of Fengjiazhuang at the head of the city was far greater than those musketeers before.

Because the musketeers were only shooting outside, but these sword and shield men would climb up to the top of the city to fight, and if they couldn't stop them, once they were allowed to climb up the city and block the counterattack, then the city would be lost.

Therefore, when they saw the pseudo-Tang thief army outside preparing to come up, the brocade-robed men in Fengjiazhuang at the head of the city shouted loudly again, on the one hand, they tried to get the archers to shoot and intercept, and on the other hand, they also asked the others to prepare for the upcoming hand-to-hand combat.

However, the remaining dozen or so archers just appeared, and there was a rain of bullets, and those frightened archers didn't dare to come forward anymore, and it was useless to say anything to those brocade-robed men.

In this case, the heavy armor sword and shield men led by Chen Butcher and them successfully crossed the moat through the newly built wooden bridge without any obstacles along the way, and behind these heavy armor sword and shield men were also followed by a large number of spearmen.

If the sword and shield men acting as the vanguard can successfully ascend the city and establish a position, then these spearmen will follow and climb up continuously, and it will be impossible for the people of Fengjiazhuang to drive them down again.