This Qing army couldn't even resist the frontal attack of the Niudao Company, not to mention that Huo Qiu took Nanxi Company to kill it behind him, so the whole line collapsed in less than a minute, and in a desperate situation, they knelt on the ground and surrendered to the Hong Army, only a few people fled towards the city gate with bayonets and guns from time to time.

There was also a Qing army of more than 100 people, they originally wanted to advance in a roundabout way, but soon after leaving the city, they encountered An Hailian and the pioneer company together, although Shi Yunqing and Shi Jihui belonged to the auxiliary troops, but sixty flintlock muskets joined hands, and a few rounds of guns bombed this Qing army back to the city, leaving only twenty or thirty corpses and wounded.

"O thief! Sure enough, it's a thief! ”

Li Zong, who was on the city wall, was frightened, and exclaimed repeatedly: "Close the city wall, you must not attack, you must not go out of the city to attack thieves!" ”

He sent out more than 400 soldiers, but after only a while, more than half of them had already been lost, and the soldiers who fled back to the city were also demoralized and did not dare to go up the city wall to fight the red thieves again.

The red turban thieves he saw in front of him were only a few hundred, but just like that, hundreds of red turban thieves had eaten more than half of the more than 400 troops he had gone out of the city to attack, and as far as they could see with their own eyes, the red thieves had very little loss.

Now the red thieves have begun to shoot at each other with the Qing army under the city, and the guns and cannons on both sides are bombarded, and the bullets are raining down, Li Zongmo originally thought that he had relied on the advantages of the city wall to bombard the red turban thieves who only hastily built simple anti-gun fortifications under the city, and they definitely had an advantage.

You must know that on the coast of Zhejiang, there are not many counties like Taiping that have such big red-coated cannons, camp cannons, and mountain-splitting cannons, not to mention that in addition to these artillery, there are hundreds of bird guns on the city wall, and the guns are bombarded downward.

But after the shooting began, Li Zongmo found that something was wrong, several former Ming red-clothed cannons that posed the greatest threat to the red thieves were fired after half a long time, and he asked Zhang Shoubei loudly: "Garrison? What's the matter with this redcoat cannon? ”

Zhang Shoubei also felt strange, and the result surprised both of them: "Among the red thieves, there is a team of quasi-head guns, which specially bombards the brave leaders, gunners and gunners of our soldiers, and our officers and soldiers are killed and killed a lot!" ”

Li Zongmo didn't know the origin of this group of mysterious quasi-head guns, but even if the gunners and brave leaders who carried down many red-coated guns were not hit, the bullets were very deep into the body, and they suddenly lost their combat effectiveness.

"Good! The Mini rifle is really powerful! Huo Qiu, who was holding a telescope, nodded again and again: "Good fight, fight far!" ”

A group of soldiers armed with Mini rifles are the best soldiers in the entire Nanxi battalion, and they give full play to the range advantage of these ten Mini rifles to attack and kill many gunners, brave leaders and shotgunslingers, but Liu Chang still regrets that they do not have sniper scopes or binoculars, otherwise they can play a greater role and not be as bad as they are now.

Even the result of one out of ten was enough to make the Qing army in the city tremble, and in the direct fire between rifles and artillery, the Rainbow army also had a slight advantage, and their flintlock guns suppressed the Qing army's bird guns in terms of performance, but both companies suffered some casualties.

As for the four field artillery, they now take on the heavy responsibility of besieging the city, with their bronze barrels and a few barrels of cannons with black powder to create a lot of casualties on the city, but the threat of the red-coat cannons is very great, although some gunners were shot, but the artillery never dared to shoot at close range.

The gunfight between the two sides became long, Li Zongmo watched the soldiers on the city wall fall to the ground from time to time, and although the casualties of the Red Turban Army under the city were far smaller, he asked Zhang Garrison: "How much has it lost?" ”

"Now the soldiers on the city wall have lost fifty or sixty people, this red thief is too brave!" Zhang Garrison was also very embarrassed: "The thieves who fought against our soldiers in Xicheng were no more than 500 people, and my soldiers gathered more than 1,000 people, but they were still at a disadvantage!" ”

However, the attack of the Nanxi battalion also stopped, but Liu Chang had already received good news: "The dragon spear battalion and this team have arrived!" ”

"Good!" Liu Chang felt that he still had to rely on the Dragon Lance Battalion when he was critical: "Order the Dragon Lance Battalion, Thunder Company, and Wan Jun Company to immediately join the offensive and capture Taiping County in one fell swoop!" ”

He said in a very powerful tone: "Tell Zhai Jie that the Dragon Lance Battalion will be finalized when it is critical!" ”

"At the critical moment, it's up to our dragon lance battalion to make the final decision!" Zhu Dun, a layman monk, encouraged everyone in the forest below the city: "Our dragon spear battalion has always been invincible, and when we arrive, the battle can be over!" Brothers, get ready to kill! ”

Three infantry companies and three artillery companies launched an offensive directly in the west corner of the city, and seeing that there were suddenly so many red flags under the city, Li Zongmo suddenly lost half of his confidence: "Hundreds of red thieves are so brave, not to mention that there are so many red thieves again, Zhang Garrison, do you still have soldiers in your hands?" ”

Without the dragon lance battalion to attack, the west corner of the city is already in a dangerous situation, Zhang Shoubei hesitated: "I still have a hundred soldiers in my hands, fill them all in!" ”

As he was talking, a thunderous voice had already sounded on the opposite side, Li Zongmo listened to the continuous bombardment of this row of artillery, and suddenly sat on the ground and shouted bitterly: "Our Taiping County is in danger, Taiping is in danger!" ”

Six siege guns and ten field guns bombarded the western corner of the city at once, and then it was time for the Minnie riflemen of the dragon lance battalion to exert their might, and the defenders of the city were immediately greeted by accurate rifle bullets as soon as they showed their heads.

Although the Mini rifle still had a 1 in 10 hit, the 40-shot Mini rifle was always looking for a target to shoot, which made it very dangerous for any Qing army exposed to the battlement wall.

The red-coated artillery, the camp artillery, and the mountain-splitting cannon almost stopped firing, and all the light and heavy artillery of the Rainbow Army exerted great power on the battlefield, and the Qing army could no longer withstand such a bombardment, so they hid back in the cave of the hidden soldiers, preparing to wait for the Rainbow Army to launch an attack before killing it.

Li Zongmo was also dragged off the wall by Zhang Garrison: "Knowing the county, knowing the county, the thieves have powerful guns, you have to avoid it!" ”

And the whole Rainbow Army also began to operate somewhat modernly, the baggage company sent ammunition forward, the health company began to contain the wounded, and the western corner of the city was soon blasted open a gap, and the Rainbow Army prepared to expand this gap, and immediately put into the infantry company to solve the battle.

It's just that in the order of the infantry company's input, Huo Qiu and Zhai Jie's two battalion commanders had a small conflict: "Let's go up Nanxi Company first!" ”

"The casualties of Nanxi Company are not small, it should be our dragon spear company that goes first!"

"Let's settle the battle with Nanxi Company!"

"The Dragon Lance Company is fully organized, and it can be finalized at the critical moment!"

As he was talking, a scout over there reported the latest battle situation: "Check, there is a large group of Qing demons fleeing from the east of the city!" ”

Liu Chang immediately made a decision: "Okay, let the second company of Nanxi and other units solve the fleeing enemy, and the dragon gun company and the Nanxi company will attack the northwest corner of the city at the same time, and the battle must be resolved in the shortest possible time!" ”

And Li Zongmo in the city also got the same news: "The rest of Niu Deshun's troops have rushed out of Dongcheng, and now the militia has decided to abandon the city and leave!" ”

In fact, after entering the Tibetan Soldier Cave, after discovering that defending the city was a dead end, Niu Deshun's remnants and the Tai Civilian Regiment had already swarmed away, and there was no need for them to walk on a dead end with Li Zong.

"County honor, county honor!" Zhang Shoubei didn't expect this red thief to be so brave: "This red thief is the most brave of the thieves, Liu Juehu's department, has always been known as one hundred, we have been guarding for two hours, and we are worthy of the emperor's old son, let's break through from the south city together!" ”

"Good!" Li Zongmo also knew that this Taiping City would never be able to hold it, so he immediately notified the foot archers and personal soldiers of the Yamen to assemble: "Let's go to the southern city with the garrison!" ”

The shouting and killing sound was earth-shattering, Li Zongmo led the team to run wildly, and rushed to the south city, but when he arrived at the south gate, he didn't see Zhang Shoubei's figure, but there was worse news: "The red thief has entered the city, Zhang Shoubei has protruded from the east gate, and more than 100 thieves are blocked outside the south gate!" ”

"Damn] it's a big deal for Zhang Shoubei!" Li Zongfu immediately understood: "This bastard, if I can break through, I will definitely settle accounts with you, Lao Tzu, the county is so hard!" Kill me with me! ”

In history, this Li Zong touched the county and later transferred to the county commander of Shimen County, Zhejiang, and met Li Xiucheng's onslaught on Tongxiang, just had Zhang Yuliang's army crossing, as a result, he tried his best to keep Zhang Yuliang in Shimen, who expected that Zhang Yuliang not only received his warm hospitality, but also received his gold and silver property, Li Xiucheng's army had not yet arrived at Shimen and had fled away, leaving only Li Zongmo, who knew nothing, to die in the city.

And now he didn't have long been out of Nancheng, and he met Shi Yunqing and Lin Song, who picked up cheap, and led the vanguard to cover up, and the foot archers in the yamen, and the fast ones who usually handled cases were okay, how could they stop such a group of wolves, and they were killed and defeated all of a sudden, and Li Zongmo was also cut off by Lin Song in the chaos: "Okay, Lao Shi, look at it, a county, Lao Tzu killed a county!" Haha, what about Zhixian, it wasn't chopped by Lao Tzu with a knife! ”

At this time, the entire county town of Taiping became silent, that is, the battle was over, and a red flag was soon raised on the city wall, announcing that the Rainbow Army had taken control of their first county town.

The first battle of the north, although there were some twists and turns, is now over!

A smile appeared on Lin Song's face, and he carried Li Zongtan's head and said, "This Taiping County has been won, which county should be taken next?" Maybe Lao Tzu can also get the territory of a county."

"Didn't you say it, Huang is too familiar, and the six counties are enough! Huangyan Taiping is the essence of Taizhou, and winning two counties is enough to supply tens of thousands of troops! ”

Shi Yunqing said loudly: "Naturally, it's Huangyan County!" ”

Sword pointing at Huangyan!