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After the smoke of gunfire near the car array cleared, the fierce fire began in a row. At a distance of almost a dozen paces, a buckshot of about seven coins flew out of the chamber with a huge amount of energy at a speed that clearly exceeded the speed of sound. The charge also seems to be much higher than normal, leaving much armor protection almost completely useless.

The possibility that the defenders of the counterattack would use the vehicle formation as a basis for firing was expected by many elite Ming army officers who had considerable combat experience. However, with the strength of the defenders of about a few hundred people, if they want to shake the tight defense line composed of thousands of Ming troops who occupy the encirclement posture in the open fire, it seems to be a complete cannibalistic dream.

In the old days, shotgunners or arquebusiers often needed hundreds of rounds to kill and wound a single enemy in the defense of the enemy in the defense, and the efficiency of hitting was much lower than in modern European warfare before World War I. Even if you fire at close range with a powerful turtledove gun, dozens of projectiles kill and injure one person, which is a good achievement. After all, not many people can really see the battlefield like a shooting range. The errors caused by repeatedly hitting the same target, making mistakes in loading the projectile, and not daring to aim directly when firing completely completely offset the formation of this era, which was far more dense and exposed than the wars of the Republic of China era. And that's not taking into account the rate of fire and break-up. Therefore, arquebusiers were very dangerous in this day and age if they were not grouped together with spears or melee soldiers or even archers with a faster rate of fire.

However, when a round of fire was fired from the opposite side, it was as if a target was being fired at a very close distance, and the hit rate at such a night was far from being comparable to that of an ordinary firearm. In one round of fire, almost all the Ming troops in the front row felt someone fall not far from them.

The fire didn't seem to stop, and after only a moment, the second round of fire began to rage again. In just four breaths, the five rounds of fire were fired, and seven or eight hundred projectiles were fired in the fierce fire, and in a very short period of time, the 3,000 Ming troops who had opened up the formation were killed or wounded under the firepower, and about half of the front row of troops was lost. This was followed by another round of heavy grenades thrown into the ranks.

If under normal circumstances, the soldiers of the Ming army generally understood that this kind of grenade, which was not very powerful like an artillery battle, but after being hit by firearms one after another, they again encountered the shock of the grenade offensive and the shouting of killing from a short distance, many officers and soldiers could no longer bear the pressure and began to retreat at this time, and the whole team began to lose some shape under the deterrence of fear. If it weren't for the fact that this war barracks used to attack the stronghold near the Huguo Temple was still a relatively elite battalion leader, I am afraid that it would have started to jump at this time.

Just a moment later, the thin opponent who had burst out of the smoke flashed into his figure, the round helmet that seemed to have no decoration, the armor that had blackened under the night, and the blackened firecracker, and the strange blade mounted on the double-barreled firearm as if it had been dyed with ink, everything was so strange.

When the morale of the Ming army, which was on the verge of collapse, saw that the enemy troops rushing out of the smoke seemed to be very thin, and there were no decent long weapons, their confidence regained a lot. Many Ming soldiers who had developed a habit of fighting on the battlefield subconsciously put one end of their spears on the ground to save the strength that had become somewhat unstable under the fear, and were ready to fight these opponents hand-to-hand at any time. The Ming troops of each platoon also subconsciously got together and formed a denser front than the typical Mandarin Duck Town.

However, at this moment, the flickering firelight accompanied by the fierce sound of guns rang out almost at the edge of the long weapon attack, only a foot away from the line.

At this distance, there are almost no misses, and there are only occasional repeated hits. The shock and screams brought by the instant fall of hundreds of Ming soldiers finally made the morale of the Ming army, which had already suffered a certain amount of casualties, quickly collapse. When the casualties of the soldiers accumulated more than 10%, they encountered the surprise attack of the "black blade", and the chaotic formation quickly collapsed under the bayonet melee assault.

If a pikeman were to engage in hand-to-hand combat with a modern white-bladed soldier with a bayonet on his rifle in daylight and without armor, perhaps a pikeman or other regular cold weapon would be very advantageous. However, when the enemy is chasing and attacking in chaos, the bayonet that can rely on greater momentum to stab the opponent's body effortlessly, and can be easily pulled out, and then it can also make the opponent quickly bleed, and the bayonet is significantly stronger than the traditional cold weapon. When the soldiers were quickly confined to disintegration under the onslaught, the auxiliaries behind also collapsed.

At this time, even the partial general of the Ming army who was in charge of leading this main barracks did not know that it was roughly judged before. The total strength of the volunteer battalion that launched the counterattack was only about 450 troops.

Before the battle, the first battalion and one company of the 235th Regiment of the 27th Army of the Chinese Volunteers increased from 130 to about 150 after replenishing some elites transferred from the teaching brigade. On average, each person, including the cooks, was strengthened into each squad, with the average soldier of the first company in the front, and the two other volunteer soldiers of the second and third companies of the new company selected in the city-head test were behind. The accompanying mixed personnel of the second company carried another double-barreled steel gun as a supplement to the firepower, but it was handed over to the team leader for temporary shooting when the assault battle was fired. The soldiers of the trifecta did not have enough sophisticated double-barreled flintlock pistols, so they supplemented them with two specially made arquebuses loaded with ammunition. In this way, the regular soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 235th Regiment, who rushed to the front in a rapid assault operation, had at least six rounds of firepower ready to fire. Coupled with the bayonets and grenades carried by others, to a large extent, it can simulate some of the tactics that Xiao Xuan is familiar with in the revolutionary army during the modern Republic of China.

What many soldiers didn't know at this time was that Xiao Xuan, who was the "battalion instructor", also personally participated in the attack at this time, although he did not rush to the front, but he also worked with some other elites transferred from the teaching brigade as a "sharpshooter" to accompany the team's attack to make up for some problems that firearms may encounter in night battles in this era.

When the team used efficient combat performance and rapid attack to defeat a combat battalion in the siege with a force of no more than 500 or so, they did not continue to attack desperately, but regrouped as roughly as possible under the contact of the suona code, ready to deal with possible accidents at any time.