The Qing army was very uneven, and shouted to the heralds, "Quick, let them attack quickly, the stronger the better, they are all so close, can't they rush up?" Let a sentry charge and press down on the walls with our muskets, and let the natives rush up and deal with the enemy with their knives and bows, and they will simply insult the musketeers with their muskets. ”

As the Qing army joined, the gunfire on the walls became louder, and some elite militiamen joined in the shooting, but they used front-loading singles flintlock pistols.

Some are still rifled guns, and the accuracy is good.

Many of the Tusi soldiers roared and shot arrows at the city walls, but where the militiamen who already had helmet protection, their bows and arrows were already weak and powerless when they reached the city walls, and they could not hurt anyone at all.

On the contrary, many people were put down by the increasingly dense muskets on the city wall, and one by one they fell screaming and screaming at a distance of fifty to thirty meters in front of the city wall.

In the end, the Tusi soldiers gave up the musket, threw away the musket, pulled out the broadsword, scimitar, dagger, and rushed towards the city wall at a rapid pace, at this time a whistle sounded on the city wall, suddenly changed the shooting rhythm, turned into a row of guns shooting, a row squatted down to put the gun outside the battlement, and retreated after the release, and the other row of people got up, took two steps forward, put the gun on the battlement mouth and put the gun at the enemy, and then squatted down to load, and then went up in the back row, lying on the shooting hole under the battlement mouth to shoot.

The first row stands up and continues to cast after the third row.

You don't have to look to see if the enemy is hit outside, and then continue to retreat two steps back to reload, and the second row takes two steps forward to release the guns at the battlement.

Although some agile Miao soldiers dodged well, they rushed to the bottom of the city wall, raising their heads, and the enemy suddenly dropped stones and torches, exposing them to the fire, and then the soldiers on the bend of the city wall on the flanks shot at them, and they fell to the ground, even if one or two of them managed to dodge, there was nowhere to hide, and they were hit by the stones and torches behind.

The green battalion of the Qing soldiers had already rushed to a distance of one or two hundred meters, and at this time the militia lying on their stomachs in the shooting hole began to shoot at them, although the enemy also began to shoot, but it was still unknown how many militiamen their guns could hit, maybe a few unlucky ones were hit, and they were quickly dragged away by the militia on standby, and they were taken down the city wall for treatment.

Half an hour later, the gunfire stopped abruptly, less than 100 Tusi soldiers returned, less than 100 Miao soldiers returned, more than 200 people from a sentry post returned more than 100 people, and the entire army of nearly 2,000 people was almost completely annihilated.

There were corpses all over the city wall, but there was not much fire, because they were all musket shots, and nothing could be ignited, and the front of the city wall was still faintly in the dark moonlight, and only the occasional cry of pain could be heard, and one or two sobs, and if the nose was sensitive, you could still smell the faint smell of blood and the confused smell of gunpowder smoke in the air.

It was getting darker and darker, and the enemy was obviously still at ease, which made the Qing generals who led this army a little angry, and immediately shouted to attack the city on all sides and push the artillery up.

This pressure obviously did not allow the enemy to make the choice of calling for help at the Phoenix Ferry.

Even he knew that the enemy apparently thought that they could annihilate their own troops, or repel their own troops, as if they were there to harass them.

But just as he had given the order to intensify the attack, the sound of horses' hooves rang out, far away in such a silent night, and distant shouts were heard, from the troops set up on the perimeter to guard them.

After a while, several cavalrymen ran up the mountain and knelt on the ground, "Report to the general, the prince said that the enemy came out of the ferry with a force of 3,000 people and came this way." Let you send troops to intercept it, and at the same time, the prince said, let you go back to the ferry, prepare to outflank the enemy's rear road, and don't want the enemy to run away from this side. ”

The general is very happy, the enemy has been lured out, so even if his side can't break through the enemy's mountain city, it can be regarded as having completed the task, and it is not bad to wait for the arrival of the army to attack the city.

However, the troops had already been released, and now they had jumped to a distance of only two hundred meters from the enemy, and if an army of 10,000 men wanted to stop them in a short time, the heralds would have to break their legs, and they would have to wait until after this attack.

Anyway, there are 30,000 troops over there, and the enemy's crossing only has many troops, even if it is a force of 10,000 people, it is said that it is only an ordinary brigade of the enemy's militia.

That kind of soldier is about the same combat effectiveness as the strong man who has just been pulled into the ranks, and the troops composed of 30,000 soldiers who have fought against the Huaxia Army through Sishan Prefecture, as well as veterans who have captured the Dajin State and fought against the Great Qing State, must be stronger than the enemy's miscellaneous soldiers.

What's more, it is said that the enemy's strength is less than 8,000 people, and there are many people in the surrounding villages, and he came over this time to annihilate no less than 2,000 troops, and each town has at least 2,000 troops, so I am afraid that there are only more than 4,000 troops, and 3,000 troops come out at once, then there are only more than 1,000 troops in the town.

Two thousand against thirty thousand, even if they have three heads and six arms, they will not escape the danger of annihilation, even if the enemy increases troops from the other side of the river, they will have to mobilize for half a night, and then find a boat to cross the river, and when they cross the river, the battle over there will have been finished long ago.

It was even possible to annihilate part of the enemy's reinforcements across the river.

In that case, with the enemy's ships and the ability to annihilate part of the enemy's forces, it would be easy to cross the river and break the enemy's barrier.

The enemy's nearest reinforcement would take a day to reach the ferry on the other side, and by the time the enemy arrived, the prince's 20,000 troops would probably have crossed the Yellow River.

Whether the remaining 10,000 or more troops Wang Ye chooses to transfer back or continue to cross the river is not a matter of his own consideration, but with the temperament of the prince, he will definitely not put his old bottom into it, after all, this side is just to contain the enemy, and the frontal assault is Yao Qisheng's business, there is Suo Etu on the grassland side, and Wu Sangui on the Datong side, how can they not let all their soldiers and horses undertake the task of fighting.

While he was thinking about it, the artillery of the Qing army over there had already begun to bombard the city wall.

Ten ten-pounder guns, eight nine-pounder guns, they took great effort to drag them from the other side of the mountain, these cannons are said to have been stopped by the Kingdom of China for a long time, but on the side of the Qing army, these guns are the favorite artillery of the field troops, with a long range, great power, fast loading, and lightweight, the nine-pounder cannon is only more than 400 kilograms, almost a thousand catties of weight, and the ten-pounder cannon is only 480 kilograms, just over a thousand catties of weight, but it is longer than the Qing army's 4,000 catties of red-coated cannons, the rate of fire is fast, and it is easy to carry.

There is a special battalion of soldiers and horses to carry these artillery, other battalions with pipes carry three or four six-pounder guns, and the sentry team can also carry a three-pounder cannon for activities, and it is easy to strike at the enemy, and the Qing army used this kind of firepower to defeat the Dajin Kingdom.