Biyun stood on the position, holding a telescope and watching the battle on the top of the city, his face sinking like water. In the past two years, the Ministry of War has purchased a large number of telescopes to equip the army, especially in the border army. If Su Hao knew that his product was now being used by the enemy, he would probably be depressed for a while. In fact, this kind of thing is certainly inevitable, no matter what era, as long as any new equipment is applied on a large scale in one's own army, it will sooner or later be lost to the enemy.

"This damn Xiao Ruxun is so brave, he knew it was like this, he should have found a reason to get rid of him before the incident." Biyun scolded hatefully.

"General Bi, our men have already attacked four or five times, and each time they have been driven down by the Ming army, our casualties are very heavy." Qianhu Ma Zhengguo reminded. They themselves were originally the Ming army, but after the incident, they changed their name to the Ningxia army and regarded the Ming army as their opponent.

"I know." Biyun said, "But the Ming army also has casualties. There are only more than 2,000 people in the detention center, can they withstand such casualties? ”

Ma Zhengguo said: "Having said that, however, what General Bi brought this time are all elite soldiers trained by Prince Bi after several years, if the discount is too much, when the Ming army invades in the future, what will we use to resist?" ”

"What do you think?" Biyun asked.

Ma Zhengguo pointed to a team standing on the side and said, "Don't let the Cangtou Army go, take advantage of Xiao Ruxun's exhaustion, the Cangtou Army can get full success in one fell swoop." ”

Biyun nodded, turned around and shouted:

"Saihan!"

"In!" A man with a big waist and a round face came over and stood in front of Bi Yun with a loud voice. He was originally a horse bandit in the Mongolian steppe. was worshiped and recruited, and became a thousand generals in the Cangtou Army. The Cangtou Army is a private soldier raised by the family, and he eats well, trains well, and has strong combat effectiveness on weekdays. It's a trump card for Bibai.

"You take 1,000 Cangtou army sergeants to assist in the siege of the city, and you must defeat the Ming army and take Pingyu City." Biyun ordered.

Saihan grinned and asked, "After the city is broken, maybe I and my brothers will be allowed to make some money?" ”

Biyun knew that the Cangtou Army had no military discipline at all. Soldiers do not want to die when they fight, and after the battle, they must harass the people, kill people and set fires, and do all kinds of evil. Now if you want them to fight, it will definitely not work if you don't give them some benefits. Thinking of this, Biyun nodded and said, "I can break through Pingyu City." Whatever you do, General Ben will not intervene. ”

"Good!" Saihan replied loudly, then returned to his team and shouted to his subordinates: "Brothers, our master is now the lord of Ningxia, and we can't disgrace our master." There are only 2,000 Ming troops in Pingyu City, so let's go and attack the city. After the city is broken, all the property and women in the city are ours! ”

"Kill!"

The soldiers of the Cangtou Army shouted slogans and ran towards the city wall. There was a scuffle on the city wall, and there was no one to stop the charge from the city with bows and arrows, so the Cangtou army quickly rushed to the foot of the city wall, climbing up the ladder set up by the rebels before.

"What kind of team is this?"

Hearing the noise under the city, Su Hao and the others all gathered to look down at the city wall where there was no battle. I saw a group of men dressed in black cloth screaming and climbing the ladder, looking like crows falling on the wall in winter, and the momentum was very terrifying.

"This is the private soldier of the Bibai family. The name is the Greyhead Army. Jiang Tingfu, who escaped from Ningxia City, introduced.

"This is the Cangtou Army, I've heard its name for a long time, and I only know what it looks like today." Chen Dao said that he had heard Jiang Tingfu say about the matter of the Cangtou Army. I just haven't actually seen it.

Jiang Tingfu said: "Don't underestimate this cangtou army, this is the most fierce army in the hands of Bibai. These people are not so much soldiers as bandits, ruffians. They don't want to die in wars, they are completely dead soldiers who worship and raise. I really didn't expect that Bibai would be willing to let the Cangtou army go out to attack Pingyu City. ”

"It's not strange, Bibai obviously also knows the reputation of General Xiao, and he is afraid that Pingyu City will not be easy to fight, so he took out all the money for the housekeeping." Xu Guangzu said.

The addition of the Cangtou army immediately reversed the situation above and below the city. The previous offensive of the rebels had already overwhelmed the officers and soldiers of the Pingyu Station at the head of the city, and as soon as the more fierce Cangtou army was put in, the pressure on the defenders at the head of the city increased sharply, and the battlements that were broken through suddenly became more than a dozen. The Cangtou soldiers who rushed to the wall held the ghost-headed knife in their hands, and danced to hang the wind, often with one enemy and no decline at all.

"Change, it's your turn!" Xiao Ruxun ran to Su Hao and the others and shouted loudly. He was covered in blood, and the big knife in his hand had been curled, but it didn't seem to be hurt, and he still had enough confidence to speak. He also noticed the appearance of the Cangtou Army and knew that now was the critical time.

"Great! Xiong Minyang, lead the brothers up! Su Hao had been waiting for Xiao Ruxun's words for a long time, and immediately gave the order to the chief of firearms, Xiong Minyang, to participate in the battle.

"Whew!" Suddenly, the call to collect the troops sounded at the head of the city, and the soldiers of Pingyusuo, who were fighting with the rebels, were stunned, and although they did not know what to do, they still retreated in unison, disengaged from contact with the rebels on the city wall.

"The Ming army is defeated! The Ming army was defeated! ”

The rebels shouted with joy, and instead of rushing after the retreating Ming army, they held the occupied battlements and guided the rebels under the city to rush up the city one by one along the ladders.

"Survey the camp, prepare!"

In front of the rebels, at some point, a group of soldiers with long muskets appeared, they stood in several rows, and the muzzles of hundreds of muskets were aimed at the rebels who were gathering at the battlement and preparing to charge. Xiong Min raised his hand and held a small red flag, which was used to give orders.

"The Ming army wants to use firearms, don't be afraid, rush forward!" Saihan held the ghost-headed knife and commanded his men.

"Rush!" The soldiers of the Cangtou Army shouted loudly and rushed towards the ranks of the Kanyu Battalion.

The popularity of firearms was very high in the Ming army, and they were also used in large quantities in the process of fighting the Tatars in the border army, so the soldiers of the rebel army were no strangers to firearms. They know. The Firebolt has a certain power in melee combat, but it also has a significant drawback, that is, it takes a long time to ignite and has limited lethality. In the past, when fighting the Tatars, the Ming army generally fired a round of firearms first. Then you have to quickly throw away the firecrackers and take out cold weapons such as knives and spears to fight. Now, the two sides are facing each other on the narrow city wall, and I really don't know if the other party's firearm is fast, or the sword in my own hand is fast.

"Put!"

With Xiong Minyang's order, the flintlock pistols in the hands of the soldiers in the front row rang out. Just listen to a bang after that. The line of rebels rushing to the front stopped abruptly, and several large holes opened in each person's chest, and blood gushed out like a spring.

"Second row, put!"

The red flag in Xiong Minyang's hand waved again, and the soldiers standing in the second row pulled the trigger, and another group of rebels fell backwards with their backs facing the sky. The other rebel soldiers who were following them were knocked unconscious and almost fell.

"It's not good, the Ming army's guns are powerful, retreat quickly!" Saihan was following behind, and the two volleys of the survey battalion did not hit him, but they also scared his soul away. He found that the firearms in the hands of the team in front of him were obviously different from what he was familiar with. Not only are these firebolts firing fast, but they are also much more powerful than ordinary firebolts. The traditional firecrackers in the ranks of the Ming army were fired with black powder, which was not strong enough to penetrate the armor. However, the flintlock pistol used by the Kanyu Battalion has undergone several rounds of modification, and the current firing charge used is the yellow gunpowder produced by the Su factory, which is several times more powerful, and the discharged bullet is enough to penetrate ordinary iron armor.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion mechanically took turns firing in rows and rows in accordance with their previous training, and the soldiers who had fired quickly wiped the chambers of their guns and reloaded them with paper shells. Preparing for the next round of shooting. The nervousness of the first entry into battle was gone, and the soldiers were left with only the usual training skills in their minds, and they pulled the trigger rhythmically, as if there was only a set of chest targets in front of them.

This three-stage shooting method did not originate from Su Hao's thoughts. But it was invented as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that when the general Mu Ying was pacifying the southwest, he felt that the fire rate of the fire gun was too slow to contain the enemy army, so he invented the tactic of shooting in groups of three people and alternately, so that the fire speed of the fire gun was equivalent to three times that of the original. However, in the case of the use of arquebuses, due to the short range and long ignition time, even if there is a three-fold rate of fire, it is difficult to block the cavalry's assault, which is also the reason why the Ming Dynasty was still repeatedly defeated by the Mongol cavalry despite its firearms.

The flintlock pistols of the Kanyu battalion were fired with paper shell bullets and flintstones, which increased the firing speed in an all-round way, and coupled with the three-stage shooting method, the firepower was almost endless, and the rebels under the command of Saihan could not rush in front of them at all.

"Run, the Ming army's firecrackers are too powerful!"

Seeing their companions fall in rows under the guns of their opponents, the courage of the rebels was lost at once, and they ran back crying and shouting, trying to escape down the ladder down the ladder.

As the saying goes, it's easier to go up a mountain than to go down, and it's much harder to run down a ladder than up. Some people are lucky enough to fall on the corpse of their companions, but they don't fall into anything. There are also those who are unlucky, and there are scattered weapons in the place where they fall, and they directly pierce a number of holes in their bodies.

Seeing the rout of the enemy army, Xiong Min drew a circle in the air with the red flag in his hand, and the soldiers scattered in a queue, in groups of more than a dozen people, and ran separately to the battlements of the city walls. When encountering the rebels who did not have time to escape, the soldiers of the survey battalion did not wait for them to approach, they raised their guns and hit them, and knocked the opponent to the ground with a single shot.

In a short time, there were no living rebels in sight of the city, and the soldiers of the survey battalion occupied the battlements, stretched their flintlock pistols out of the arrowholes, and fired incessantly at the rebel soldiers fleeing for their lives under the walls. The rebel soldiers listened to the whistling sound of the projectiles flying in their ears, and they were all frightened, and they ran wildly, only hating their father and mother for missing two legs.

"Alright, stop shooting!" Su Hao saw that the rebels under the city had fled a hundred and ten steps away, and hurriedly issued an order to Xiong Minyang.

"General Su, why don't you keep fighting?" Xiong Min stopped his subordinates and asked Su Hao in surprise. The range of Su's flintlock pistol can reach more than 300 paces, and if you continue to shoot, you can kill more rebels who are fleeing for their lives.

"Don't worry, there will be many opportunities in the future, why expose our strength to the opponent now?" Su Hao said to Xiong Minyang with a smile.

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