The security forces have faced the toughest challenge since their inception. The officers and soldiers concentrated a large number of musketeers in one direction, desperately pushing forward, and both sides did not care whether the fallen companions around them were dead or alive, but mechanically completed the shooting action according to the usual training. The losses on the side of the officers and soldiers were even greater, and the smoke from the musket fire enveloped the entire battlefield, and the soldiers could not see the situation around them clearly, but only followed the order to move forward, forward, and then forward.

Seeing that the battlefield was in a state of stalemate, Hong Chengchou decisively waved the order flag and ordered the archers of the cold weapon troops behind him to press up.

The officers and archers, who had done nothing since the beginning of the war, finally came in handy, using the sacrifices of the musketeers to gain an effective distance, and the positions of the security forces were immediately covered with a rain of arrows, and the soldiers of the security forces, although wearing iron armor, also suffered a large number of casualties in the face of such a large number of sharp arrows.

The gunfire suddenly thinned out, and the pressure on the officers and soldiers was greatly reduced, and they suddenly rushed to the front of the position of the security army.

"Change the shotgun!" The commander of the artillery battalion gave the order in a loud voice, and his voice was a little hoarse due to urgency. The artillerymen of the security army quickly replaced the shotguns and fired them at the officers and soldiers, and the artillery on the city behind them also discovered the crisis, and also replaced them with shotguns, and immediately a large number of iron balls as thick as thumbs shot at the ranks of the officers and soldiers, and bursts of blood mist rose in the dense ranks of the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers were to be knocked down after each shot. The momentum of the advance of the officers and troops has been stagnant.

"Push it through!" The artillery of the official army also killed the red eye, pushed some light artillery closer to the position of the security army, and also reloaded it with shotguns to hit the position of the security army. For a time, the casualties of the security army increased sharply, the firepower of the counterattack was also weakened, and the officers and troops advanced faster.

The numerical superiority of the officers and soldiers worked, and one fell and followed. The officers and generals in the rear kept giving orders, and the soldiers with cold weapons at the back of the officers' firearms battalion rushed forward, knocked down the wooden stakes that the security forces were erecting, pulled off the barbed wire, filled the road in the trenches with the dirt they carried, and rushed to the security army's trenches with their weapons.

Hong Chengchou, who was commanding in the back, was relieved when he saw this scene, and finally rushed forward. From what he knew about muskets, he knew that muskets would not be better than a burning stick in hand-to-hand combat. The hard work of many days finally paid off, and this time the more than 10,000 people in the assault firearms battalion were basically reimbursed. If it weren't for the huge number of cold weapons troops behind them, they would not have been able to rush in front of the security army's position. He hurriedly ordered the follow-up troops to follow in time, to take advantage of this opportunity to melee with the security army, close to the city wall of Yuncheng, take the opportunity to attack the city, if they can take advantage of the chaos to climb to the top of the city, the battle will be victorious.

Zhang Chu in the city was very surprised by the strong fighting will shown by the official army in this attack, and it seemed that the official army would also be ruthless if it was organized, so he hurriedly sent reserves into the battle to support the front, and at the same time ordered the artillery on the city to concentrate on the rear of the official army and cut off the reinforcements of the official army.

In the trenches in the front positions of the security army, the soldiers saw that the officers and soldiers of the brigade were rushing towards them desperately, and the musket bullets knocked them down row after row, and the officers and soldiers were still stepping on the corpses of their own people and rushing forward.

"Grenades!" The squad leader shouted and picked up the grenade placed on the side of the trench and threw it, his shout was only heard by a few people around the battlefield in the volley of gunfire, and they immediately followed the example of the squad leader and threw the grenade and shouted.

Their voices sounded in the position and played an exemplary role for the other soldiers, and the other security soldiers hurriedly picked up the grenades around them and pulled the lead and threw the grenades, and the front of the security army position sounded a series of explosions, and the officers and soldiers who were charging were immediately drowned in smoke.

"Get on the bayonet!" The squad leader knew that grenades alone could not defeat the officers and soldiers, and after throwing several grenades one after another, the squad leader gave an order to prepare for hand-to-hand combat, and the same order was quickly conveyed to the neighboring positions.

"Kill!" The squad leader, seeing that the soldiers were ready, shouted, and was the first to rush out of the trenches.

When the soldiers heard the order, they did not hesitate to jump out of the trench, quickly gathered outside the trench, formed a group of three with each other, and rushed towards the ranks of the officers and soldiers.

When they were about to enter the position of the security army, they were suddenly blown up by a grenade, and then the security army jumped out of the trench to fight, which surprised the officers and soldiers, and they could not understand how the security army with only muskets in their hands could engage in hand-to-hand combat.

When the two sides approached, the officers and soldiers were surprised, the security army actually installed a short sword in front of the musket, and the musket turned into a short spear, and the officers and soldiers only cared about charging just now, the array was already chaotic, and there were all kinds of weapons, and they couldn't tell who was in charge of whom, and the sequence of the whole team was completely disrupted. In the face of the organized group charge of the security forces, their proud martial arts fighting skills were completely useless.

The officers and soldiers were defeated and retreated one after another, and they did not flinch from the fact that so many people had died under the blows of the security army's muskets, but now they were completely overwhelmed by the momentum of the security guards when they charged with cold bayonets. Seeing that the situation was critical, some military attachés in the ranks of the officers and soldiers immediately summoned their own guards to come, and constantly gathered the surrounding officers and soldiers, preparing to form a formation to confront the security forces.

"Flamethrower!" Someone in the security army shouted. I saw a strong man carrying a large iron bucket on his back, under the escort of a circle of security forces around him, dispersed the scattered officers and soldiers around him, and rushed towards the newly assembled team. The generals of the official army dared to rush over as soon as they saw such a few people, and the courage of this thief was really not small. There are not only many officers and soldiers, but most of them are personal soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles and are highly skilled in martial arts. It will not be a problem to take out this small group of security forces. Then he commanded loudly: "Rush over and kill them all!" ”

The teams of the two sides approached, but the security army that opened the way in front of them dodged, and the officers and soldiers couldn't help but be happy, it seems that the thieves are also timid. The officers and soldiers shouted and rushed over. When I got closer, I realized that the big man with the bucket on his back didn't have any weapons, but just stood there stunned with a pipe in his hand. When the officers and soldiers were strange, a long fire snake flew out of the pipe in the hands of the big man, penetrating the queue of the officers and soldiers, with the swing of the fire snake, the entire queue of the officers and soldiers became an active fireball, and the screams were everywhere, the fireballs ran wildly, frightening the people around them to dodge in a hurry, and they didn't run far The screams stopped, and the fireballs also lay on the ground and did not move.

The security forces discovered this trick, using flamethrowers as the core, forming squads, and when they found a small number of officers and soldiers, they dispersed them with bayonets, and if there were officers and soldiers gathered together, they would be barbecued with flames, turning them into fireballs and scattering in all directions. (To be continued.) )