With the arrival of the large team, Li Zicheng besieged the city on all sides and surrounded Qin Wangzhuang like an iron bucket. From a distance, the black pressure is full of thieves, and the terrifying momentum alone already makes people feel an invisible coercion.

In the tentative attack just now, Li Zicheng only chose a direction north of the city, so Zhu Youzhen also put the focus of defense here. Now it's different, there are thieves in all directions, and Zhu Youzhen has no choice but to distribute the troops equally.

He ordered Li Dingguo, Li Laiheng, and Xie Yong to each lead 500 soldiers to be responsible for the defense of the east, south, and west respectively. And to the north, where the pressure is the greatest, is Zhu Youzhen and Qi Meifeng led 800 people to garrison. There are still 700 Qin soldiers left as reserves, and they will hurry up to the top if they are tight.

After a while, shouts of killing sounded in all directions at the same time, and the thieves began to attack the city!

But this siege was different from the last time, the thieves rushed to the outer moat, no longer in a hurry to cross the river, but formed a defensive formation with shields, arranged archers behind the shields, and began to fire arrows at the head of the city at this distance. The rest of the thieves began to dig in the earth in an attempt to fill in the outer moat.

Seeing this, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but admire Li Zicheng's adaptability. The reason why the thieves failed miserably in the last attack was largely because of the barrier of the outer moat. If the thieves were able to fill up a short section of the ditch, the speed of crossing the river would be greatly accelerated, and it would be much easier to attack the city and retreat.

The outer moat was about fifty paces from the city walls, and both sides were within range of the other. Of course, for the rogue, it is more difficult, because the initial velocity of the bow and arrow is not as good as the projectile of the bird's gun, and it is an upward attack, and the lethality is really limited.

But at this time, the archers had the cover of a shield in front of them, and it was much better than the last time they were completely unprotected. Although the shields were wooden, they were somewhat protective. The piercing force of the bird's round buckshot is not strong, and at most it will shatter the wooden shield, but it will not hit the people behind. One shield was shattered, and soon another was replaced, still maintaining a tight formation.

Zhu Youzhen saw that he was anxious, and roared: "Fire suppression, give me all the enemy's shields to smash!" ”

Fire suppression is a common tactic used in modern armies. In particular, the moldy army, with its super military strength, has taken this tactic to the extreme. In fact, to put it bluntly, fire suppression is to use guns (and possibly missiles to be added) aimed at a part of the battlefield and fire on a large scale and for a long time, so that the enemy in this area can not raise his head at all.

And to implement such tactics, there is a prerequisite for the exception of ammunition. Because fire suppression is not aimed at shooting, but indiscriminate bombardment, the consumption of ammunition is very alarming. According to statistics, the average ammunition consumption for every soldier killed during World War I was 2,000 rounds; During World War II, the same soldier was killed, but the ammunition consumption soared to 20,000 rounds. By the time of the Vietnam War, the mold army needed to consume 200,000 rounds of ammunition for every Vietnamese guerrilla killed!

In contrast, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army on the battlefield of resistance against Japan consumed only thirty or forty rounds of ammunition on average. This does not mean how good the marksmanship of the Eighth Road is, but only that the comrades are short of ammunition and cannot suppress firepower.

And Zhu Youzhen can't have the strength of Emperor Moldy now, there are only 400 birds in the full battle, and only 100 are distributed to the city walls on each side. But for the thief's bow and arrow, this hundred guns are completely sufficient.

Because although Qin Bing's guns were not many, the ammunition was very sufficient. Since the new process was adopted to make lead bullets, the production capacity of lead bullets has reached tens of thousands of rounds per day, and now Qinwangzhuang has more than 500,000 rounds of lead bullets in storage. Thousands of boxes of gunpowder were used to fire them, and it can be said that even if all these 400 guns were destroyed, they would not consume one percent of the ammunition stock.

With Zhu Youzhen's order, the bird gunner suddenly increased the frequency of shooting, and shot at the thief's shield array. Although there were a lot of shields for breaking into the camp, they couldn't help but consume it so much, and after a while, they were beaten to the ground, and they could no longer build a defensive line.

Without the cover of the shield, the casualties of the rogue's archers immediately began to increase. Li Zicheng was also alert, and immediately retreated when he saw that the situation was not good. After this battle, although the thieves failed to cross the outer moat, they also filled in a small ditch. What's more, after fighting for a long time, the Qin soldiers failed to kill many thieves.

Zhu Youzhen didn't have much to do about it, but fortunately, it was difficult for the enemy army to attack. If it is consumed like this, Zhu Youzhen is not afraid, because Qinwangzhuang, whether it is grain, grass or ammunition, has extremely sufficient reserves, and it is not a big problem to be surrounded for a year and a half. And the thieves can't have too much grain and grass, and after a few days, they will naturally withdraw from the siege and leave.

But as soon as the battlefield stopped for a while, the third wave of the thieves' attack began. This time they didn't have shields, but instead they had replaced them with bed boards, door panels, and even larger chair surfaces that they had scavenged from nearby villages and towns, and they rushed up as long as they could block bullets. Don't look at the simplicity, there are still some effects, after all, the lethality of the Qin soldiers' bird guns is also relatively limited.

Zhu Youzhen could only let the Qin soldiers continue to suppress the firepower. The thief came again and again after the fight, and seemed to be happy with it. The generals defending the city were puzzled, wondering if the enemy was trying to use this trick to exhaust the defenders' ammunition. If that's what they think, they're wrong!

This war of attrition lasted from noon to dusk, but the thieves showed no signs of stopping, and continued to attack. And Qin Bing's bird gunners didn't know how many shots they fired, and they were already exhausted.

Only then did Zhu Youzhen suddenly realize that although the ammunition was enough, the people and guns couldn't hold it! Especially guns, the durability of the bird's gun, of course, cannot be compared with modern firearms. Modern machine guns can fire dozens of rounds in a row, but after seven or eight shots in a row, the barrel will be deformed due to overheating.

Therefore, today, the Qin soldiers have been shooting non-stop, and a hundred bird guns are divided into four or five groups to fire in turn. Even so, the firing frequency is still too high, and if it continues to fight, it is in danger of being scrapped. Zhu Youzhen hurriedly ordered to stop shooting, these birds are his treasures, and they can't be wasted senselessly.

Fortunately, night was falling, and the thief's blindness inevitably flared up again. Li Zicheng had no choice but to give a stupid order to withdraw his troops, and Zhu Youzhen breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Li Dingguo and other generals also rushed from other city walls and reported to Zhu Youzhen about today's battle, which was similar to Zhu Youzhen's side.

Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but be surprised: "It seems that we still have to reduce the frequency of use of bird guns." In addition, what does Li Zicheng want to do? There's no way he knows how many guns and ammunition we have, and he can afford to consume them. ”

There are also many discussions about this, and there is no consensus. Only Li Dingguo frowned and said, "Your Highness, I don't think this Li Zicheng is simple!" I don't know if you noticed it, but not all the troops who broke into the camp were under the city! ”