Although there were no binoculars, from the castle tower, Nikan and Kong Youde could still see that the opponent was preparing to attack in an orderly manner, so they also took some measures accordingly.

Kong Youde's Tianyou army dragged the cannons to the main streets to block the streets, and also placed a few tiger squat cannons on the city walls to prevent the enemy from rushing along the city walls.

"Nikambezi, I've put at least three cannons at every intersection." Kong Youde said, "These cannons were originally heavy artillery for siege, and their range and power must be stronger than their small cannons, but they move more slowly, but fortunately, the enemy's movements are a little slow, so now our cannons are in place." If the enemy rushes up the street, hehe, these cannons are not vegetarian. Even if he pushed the shield cart up, it was also a cannon. ”

"What if the enemy also pushes the cannon over and bombards it?" Nikan asked.

"Nikan Beizi," Kong Youde arched his hand, "these streets are all straight, the longest is no more than a hundred paces, the whole street is within the range of our cannon's shotgun, we have at least three cannons at each street entrance, their cannons want to bombard, first push the cannons up, place them, and then load the fire. Medicine, artillery, if there is this time, we would have bombarded them all and knocked them all over! ”

Nikan nodded and said, "The prince is right. I think that one of the three cannons of the prince should be prepared at all times, and should not be lit in normal times, lest the enemy take advantage of our loading time to push the cannons up. ”

"Beizi has a point." Kong Youde arched his hand again, and then called a personal soldier, gave some orders, and the personal soldier went down.

At this time, they noticed that the enemy troops on the opposite side began to move, and these enemy troops were all armed with muskets, and in groups of several people, they formed columns, and slowly advanced forward against the houses on both sides of the street. Soon appeared at the end of the street guarded by the Qing army.

Because the number of enemy troops was not large, the Tianyou army did not open fire. The cannons of the Tianyou Army are too big and very slow to reload, and if there are only so many enemies to open artillery bombardment, when the enemy troops swarm up, it will be too late to open fire. Besides, there are only a few enemy troops, what can they do? is to rush over and release the gun, the soldiers of the Tianyou Army also have firearms in their hands, and the Eight Banners soldiers next to them also have bows and arrows and swords in their hands. Just a few people, isn't it also death to rush up?

Chen Defu led a few stragglers around a street intersection, and in front of him was the defense line of the Qing army. Chen Defu could clearly see that about a hundred paces away from the opposite side, there were three cannons of the enemy, and there were some Qing troops surrounded by them, some with muskets, some with bows and arrows, and some other cold weapons.

Chen Defu half-squatted down, raised his hand, and several stragglers following him also stopped. They quickly found a few footings or pillars on both sides of the street, and shrank to the back, only pointing their guns in front.

"Aim at the gunners, hit those gunners first!" Chen Defu Road.

The guns in the hands of these stragglers are not the same as the guns of ordinary soldiers. The barrel of the gun in their hands was forged from expensive crucible steel, then drilled and then pulled out rifled, high-grade rifled guns. Because the strength of crucible steel is far from being comparable to wrought iron, drilling or something, it is naturally extremely difficult, and the drilled bits are almost all made of all kinds of natural corundum, that is, ruby sapphire and the like, and it is extremely easy to be damaged when drilled. In addition, if you drill such a deep hole, if you are not careful, you will drill crookedly, and then the whole pipe will be wasted. So even if it is a master, you have to carefully work for three or four days to drill out a usable barrel, and then pull out the rifling, this process is a little simpler, but it still has to be operated by the master, if you throw it to a novice, it is not good, and a barrel that is finally made out is scrapped. Therefore, the production of this gun has always been very low, and the cost is very high, and the production cost of each such rifle is more than two hundred taels of silver. So until now, there are less than a hundred such guns in the entire model army.

But as the saying goes, a penny of silver is a penny of silver. This kind of gun cost so much, and naturally it has outstanding performance, and with silk-wrapped mini rounds, this rifle can effectively shoot at human-sized targets at a distance of 150 or even 200 paces, which is even more than the range of almost all guns of this era. In fact, in the original history, if it were not for the appearance of shrapnel shells, the infantry armed with front-loading rifled guns using Mini shells would have almost eliminated artillery from the battlefield.

Chen Defu looked at the distance, erected the ruler on the barrel, and then aimed at a gunner standing next to the cannon and pulled the trigger......

Kong Changgui is Kong Youde's personal guard, and at this time he is taking several other personal guards to suppress the formation here. When Chen Defu and the others appeared on the other side of the street, Kong Changgui naturally saw them. However, Kong Changgui didn't take them too seriously, just a few people, and there was a big deal.

"I'm probably here to explore the way." Kong Changgui thought so.

From a distance, I saw that these people had shrunk behind the corner of the house, and Kong Changgui was still laughing in his heart that these enemy spies were too timid. "They don't look at how many people they have, is it worth bombarding with cannons?" At this time, I saw that the enemy soldiers stretched out their guns from behind the corner. Then there were a few puffs of white smoke.

"What can this hit if you put a gun so far away? Not to mention people, even houses may not be able to hit. Isn't this just a matter of indiscriminate gunning? While thinking like this, Kong Changgui thought about suppressing the people below and not shooting back indiscriminately, so as not to waste ammunition for no reason.

Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly saw the gunner Jiang Sanfa and the other two deputy gunners standing next to the cannon planted on the ground. That Jiang Sanfa fell right under his feet. Kong Changgui lowered his head to take a closer look, but saw that Jiang Sanfa had a big hole in his chest, and blood was gushing out, while Jiang Sanfa had his eyes open, but he had already lost his breath.

"So far away, you actually hit it? This, this is too ......"

The three gunners were shot, which made the soldiers of the Tianyou Army panic, and some people raised their guns and wanted to shoot back! Fortunately, Kong Changgui and the others quickly reacted and used a leather whip to help them calm down. Kong Changgui scolded while whipping the messy sergeants: "I'm afraid of a bird!" It's not like you haven't hit a bird, so far, hit a bird! They were just lucky just now, and I don't believe they can still hit! ”

As soon as the words fell, I saw that the enemy soldiers on the opposite side showed the barrels of their guns from behind the corner of the wall and fired another round in this direction. This round knocked over a few more gunners standing next to the cannon. At this moment, the soldiers of the Tianyou Army, who had gradually calmed down, suddenly panicked again, and they didn't know who took the lead, so someone fired a shot indiscriminately over there. With this spear taking the lead, the others also raised the bird gun in their hands or the three-eyed gun that could not shoot so far and crackled towards that side. Even the gunners couldn't help but fire two shots indiscriminately in that direction.

Of course, this random shot failed to hit any target, because Chen Defu and the others had already hid behind the corner of the wall to reload their bullets after firing that shot, but when they fired, the gunpowder smoke from the guns blocked their field of vision. I couldn't see anything for a while.

The soldiers of the Tianyou Army were still shooting blindly, and Kong Changgui, who had reacted, hurriedly raised his whip and shouted: "Don't fire indiscriminately!" "While beating the soldiers. I want to get the situation under control. It's just that the gunshots are very loud, everyone is panicked, his shouting, and even his leather whip Many people don't pay much attention.

"Useless waste!" Kong Changgui suddenly heard someone beside him say this in Manchu, and as soon as he turned his head, he saw a white-armored soldier walking over, and as he walked, he drew the knife on his waist.

Kong Changgui knew that the white-armored soldier was planning to kill someone, so he hurriedly took off his waist knife with the scabbard in his hand, and slashed at the soldiers who were in a mess, shouting: "Don't let go of the gun anymore!" The other soldiers also tried harder and harder, and finally suppressed the chaos again. The white-armored soldier had already pulled out the knife, but when he saw that there was no one to cut, he snorted coldly, and did not put the knife into the sheath, but just stood there with the knife, looking around at those Tianyou soldiers with fierce eyes, as if he was very dissatisfied because he could not cut off one or two heads. He looked at everyone, and suddenly said with a look of disdain: "You Han dogs are really useless, a few people will make you like this!" There are only a few people on the other side, don't you dare rush up and kill them? You ......" He suddenly turned around, pointed a knife at Kong Changgui and said, "You bring people and rush up and kill those guys......"

To say that the chaotic fire of the Tianyou Army in front was not without effect, and the fog of the battlefield caused by their shooting also blocked the vision of Chen Defu and others, making them unable to continue shooting. However, the fog of the battlefield also covered the movements of other troops, and taking advantage of the smoke of this period, a group of model soldiers came up and burrowed into the houses on both sides of the street.

Not long after these model soldiers entered the houses on both sides of the street, they saw dozens of soldiers wearing armor and holding swords and shields rushing out from the smoke of gunpowder on the opposite side, rushing straight towards Chen Defu and them.

At this time, Chen Defu had already loaded his bullets, but instead of firing at the rushing enemy, he pulled out his bayonet from his waist, quickly loaded it onto his rifle, and then met it.

"How can I make sure that I have the right shot for my goal?" Chen Defu, who later became a shooting instructor, answered the student's question like this: "Shoot him closer until his nose has reached your bayonet!" ”

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