Just as Kong Youde estimated, the Model Army was consolidating its gains at this time, organizing a local defense while waiting for the artillery to be in place to prepare for the next round of attacks. Now the enemy army in Jinzhou City has been divided into several small pieces, and the enemy army has been completely surrounded except for the south gate.

The artillery of the Model Army has long eliminated the relatively small 6-pounder guns and the smaller 3-pounder guns, because in field battles, relying on the support of heavy horses, the heavier 12-pounder guns can also keep up with the movement speed of the troops most of the time, and in terms of strike distance, strike power, and even strike accuracy, the 12-pounder guns are obviously superior to the 6-pounder guns and 3-pounder guns. However, in street fighting, the 12-pounder gun had to rely on heavy horses to move, and it was difficult to rely on manpower to move short and medium distances. In the offensive, most of the time they cannot keep up with the movement speed of the infantry units. Now the infantry units have taken some of the most critical streets, but the artillery has not yet caught up.

So when Kong Youde and Nikan attacked, the model army in front of them was not supported by artillery fire.

In the direction of the attack of Kong Youde and Nikan, it was an infantry company under the command of the company commander Chen Python who was responsible for the defense. It's just that his infantry company is not complete, of the four infantry platoons, only two are here, and the other two platoons, one is helping the artillery units, helping them move their heavy artillery, and is responsible for keeping them safe; There is another one, who simply lost contact with the company headquarters during the penetration and pursuit operations in front. This is also one of the common situations after a quick assault. It's just that at this time, when Kong Youde and Nikan launched an assault on him with more than 1,000 Qing troops, Chen Python only had two platoons in his hands, plus the troops directly under the company, adding up to about 80 people. The artillery was also not in place, and it was very difficult to repel the attack of thousands of men with flintlock pistols in their hands alone. Fortunately, in the advance ahead, a squad of some other troops broke away with the other troops while pursuing Jianxuan, and then temporarily joined Chen Python's command. In this way, Chen Python's subordinates suddenly had more than ten more people, and finally when Chen Python counted himself into two, there were a hundred people in front of him.

"You're their squad leader? What is your name? How did you get to me? Chen Python asked the extra squad leader? It was a tall man with a black-red face and a pair of small eyes that were bright. On the shoulder of his uniform was a yellow bar, a sign of corporal's status. From his tall figure and bulging muscles, Chen Python could judge that this person was an orphan taken in by the Zheng family. When they were growing up, they joined the Zheng family, ate better than most people, and with relatively scientific training, they were generally taller and older than their peers of this era.

"Sir!" The corporal replied: "Chen Peng, the leader of the second squad of the third company of the second regiment and the second battalion of the fourth company and the third platoon, report to you!" Because it was on the battlefield, he didn't salute Chen Python.

"Brother, your surname is also Chen?" Chen Python laughed and said, "My surname is Chen!" Where are you from? ”

"Report sir, I'm Hu Jianren!" Chen Peng replied.

"Well, I'm also Hu Jianren." Chen Python originally wanted to ask which house it was from, but obviously this was not the time to pull the relationship between fellow villagers. So Chen Python said again: "The Tartars may want to fight back, so your class will follow me first." When the Tartars are repulsed, I will let you go to the troops. What class is your class? ”

The model army has a big competition every year, according to the results of the competition, the infantry squad will be divided into A, B and C three classes, generally speaking, most of the infantry squads are B class, only a few strong, or poor, will be rated as C class.

Chen Peng grinned and said, "Our class is a first-class class!" If you have any tasks, just give them to us, and we promise that we will not be ashamed! ”

"Class A?" Chen Python looked at Chen Peng with wide eyes, and then said, "Okay, then you will be a reserve for Lao Tzu, if there is a problem, it depends on you!" ”

The reserves were mostly used for counter-shocks, and although they did not last long, they were extremely critical. So that's also a reuse.

Chen Python assigned his troops, and the two platoons each guarded a street intersection. He called Chen Peng over again.

"Your class is a first-class class, and there are a lot of first-class shooters, right?" Chen Python asked.

"Yes, there are three first-class shooters, all of whom can score seven or eight out of ten in about eighty steps!" Chen Peng replied.

Generally, the first-class marksman in the infantry squad does not have rifled guns, so it is indeed not easy to be able to hit seven or eight out of ten at a distance of eighty paces.

"Alright, give me those first-class shooters of yours." Chen Python said.

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Kong Youde approached the defense line of the model army with the remnants of the Tianyou army. For example, when the two sides were separated by a street seventy or eighty paces long, Kong Youde saw that at the other end of the street, about sixty paces or so, there was a breastwork wall built up of temporary door panels, clods of earth, and wood.

The breastwall was apparently improvised, but it could also help defend against arrows. The upper body of the model soldiers is well defended, all the soldiers have half-body plate armor without two arms and helmets with face armor, as for their arms, although they are not as tightly defended as the head and torso, but the middle of the double-layer linen sleeves can also be inserted into the wrought iron pieces to strengthen the defense, these wrought iron pieces may not be able to block the knife and spear, and even not necessarily block the heavy arrows shot by the white armor of the barn with a strong bow at close range, but if it is used to deal with light arrows thrown from a long distance, as long as it is not shot in the gap, Basically, there won't be any problems.

However, if the whole body is tightly wrapped in armor, not to mention the cost, just the weight of the armor will seriously affect the speed when performing some tactical tasks. So the legs of the model soldiers did not have armor, or iron skirts or anything. Therefore, the light arrows thrown by Jianxuan at a long distance, or the heavy arrows fired at close range, will pose a certain threat to the legs of the model soldiers. Therefore, such a breastwork can at least ensure the safety of the legs of the soldiers behind it.

Generally speaking, whether it is Jianzhi or the Ming army, there are two main ways to organize the charge, the first way is to directly use the most elite white armor or family as an arrow, first tear a hole in the opponent's formation, and other soldiers follow behind and put it in, and then if the other party collapses, you can then put all kinds of cannon fodder, such as coating, into it to expand the results. The second way is to let all kinds of worthless cannon fodder rush to the front first, let them consume the enemy, and wait for the enemy to be exhausted before committing the main force to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop.

Now Kong Youde and they are in a hurry, so naturally they can't use the second method of warfare, but can only take the first way.