Bang bang bang......

After the siege equipment came into range of the defenders, the Swedish musket mercenaries soon entered the firing position and rained down bullets at the enemy troops at the head of the city.

The Swedish musket mercenaries are all copies of the enhanced version of the template of the veteran musketeers at the peak of the Kingdom of Sweden in the 17th century, and the accuracy of their shooting is naturally needless to mention, and it is much better than the Polish miscellaneous militia musketeers who defended the city!

Even if the Polish musketeers at the head of Lutsk relied on the firing port, the battlements and the condescending superiority to the Swedish musket mercenaries were nothing more than a one-to-one exchange ratio.

The battlements at the head of the city allow the musketeers defending the city to only show a small body, and the raised shooting ports on the walls are only a small opening, and the soldiers inside only need to stick their guns out of the small openings to aim and shoot.

One can imagine how difficult it is for the musketeers of the siege side to hit each other!

Not to mention that shooting condescendingly will have a wide field of view and a longer aiming range!

Therefore, in the siege warfare of this era, if the difference between the musketeers of the two sides is not large, the battle loss ratio of the musketeers can even reach 1 to 5!

This is why it is too difficult for the besieging side to block the firing position at the head of the city with firepower, of course, the main thing to fight is to look at the people, no matter how big the territory occupied by the defending side, if the defending soldiers are a group of scum, they can't hold it for long......

When the Swedish musketeers stood in formation to confront the Polish musketeers at the head of the city, rows of musketeers from the Shenji Battalion wearing the iron armor of the Ming army immediately reinforced, which greatly made up for the lack of Swedish musket mercenaries and the battle damage caused when engaging the enemy.

After all, the cross-section of the walls of Lutsk is very wide, but the Swedish musket mercenaries only have 1,000 men, and it is impossible to cover the entire city, they are just as a warlord and the first strike firepower.

With the 'joining' of 3,000 musketeers of the Ming Army's Shenji Battalion, the Polish musketeers at the head of the city of Lutsk were immediately suppressed, not because of the heavy losses of the Polish musketeers at the head of the city, but because most of them were frightened by the dense lead bullets, and the city walls were constantly smashed by lead bullets and fragments, and the people who came up fell one after another, this kind of scene was really terrible for the Polish militia who did not have much combat experience......

After the firepower at the head of the city was suppressed, the Polish cannon fodder slaughtered below finally regained a little courage, leaned out and continued to push the siege equipment.

The firepower at the head of the city of Lutsk before, but it killed the Polish cannon fodder, they didn't dare to run back, but they still knew how to lie on the ground to avoid bullets, so many siege equipment fell into a state of stagnation for a while.

It wasn't until the Taiping side re-suppressed the firepower of the city of Lutsk that the Polish cannon fodder got up again and continued their work under the shouts of the Swedish musketeers and the musketeers of the Shenji Battalion.

As the wooden shelves smashed on the city wall one by one smashed on the head of Lutsk, the Taiping army resounded with a tsunami-like cheer, and the Ottoman light shield soldiers, who had been preparing for a long time, erected the crescent-shaped square shield in front of them, clenched their scimitars in their hands and shouted inexplicable Turkish slogans, and rushed to the planks of the siege towers and siege ladders.

The siege tower is connected to a diagonal plank below to accept the soldiers to climb up, and in front of it is an equally thick plank that strikes at the head of the city of Lutsk, forming a 'bridge', so the siege soldiers only need to take their weapons and step up from the plank below to charge after the siege tower is in place, and there is no need to climb the ladder at all!

The siege ladder is a bit troublesome, compared with the simple ladder, the siege ladder is just more than the base and the wooden wheel, which can ensure that the siege ladder will not be like the simple ladder, the defenders will push it down, and the siege ladder with a base is difficult to push down even if a dozen people work together.

If the defenders want to deal with this kind of large siege equipment, they can only destroy it by fire, or simply use large-caliber artillery shells to smash it directly.

It's a pity that the city is full of lead bullets, and those Polish militiamen don't dare to raise their heads, who has the heart to set fire?

Under the strict orders of the officers, several brave Polish militiamen were knocked to the ground by several lead bullets as soon as they lifted the oil, and the container containing the oil immediately wet a large area at the head of the city, if it were not for the strict control of the fire source at the head of the city, the Poles would have burned their own people first......

The garrison officers at the head of Lutsk looked at the militia who were cowering behind with a desperate face, not because they were incompetent, but because these militiamen were originally just ordinary hawkers, workers, tailors, blacksmiths, homeless people, and other young men who had never fought at all, and they could insist on not fleeing the city, which was already worthy of the Lutsk city defense......

Soon, the Ottoman light shield warriors on the towers and ladders rushed up to the city, and as the friendly troops ascended the city, the Taiping musketeers below finally stopped their fire and fired accurately, preventing the Polish defenders at the top of the city from spilling a pile of 'golden water' (dung) or fire oil.

The head of the city of Lutsk was very spacious, and many Polish soldiers hiding behind it, holding their spears, lined up a thin array of spears on the head of the city, and when the Ottoman light shield soldiers boarded, they stabbed forward violently, piercing several blood holes in the Ottoman light shield soldiers.

After all, the Ottoman light shield soldiers only had one shield, and in the face of spears far more than themselves, they were pierced into hedgehogs without even touching anyone.

However, hundreds of siege equipment can allow the Ottoman light shield soldiers to climb hundreds of people at the same time, and those siege towers can allow the Ottoman light shield soldiers to rush up and kill together with their shields, and the Ottoman light shield soldiers quickly killed the Polish pikemen on the head of the city after paying heavy casualties at the beginning, and opened up a foothold little by little, and gradually, a large number of Ottoman light shield soldiers swarmed up, all of them landed on the top of the city!

However, at this very moment, when the battle was almost decided, a group of Poles, naked and carrying large wooden barrels and kerosene, suddenly rushed to the top of the city and rushed directly towards the foothold of the Ottoman light shields.

Immediately afterwards, Hong Tiancheng, who was watching the battle on the high ground in the distance, suddenly burst out several earth-shattering explosions in his field of vision!

As the explosions rang out one after another, patches of fiery snakes immediately filled the city.

Hong Tiancheng looked gloomy as the Ottoman light shield soldiers who climbed to the top of the city were torn to pieces in the explosion and fire snakes, burned into fire men and fell to the head of the city one by one, and ordered the heralds around him: "Let the Poles carry buckets to extinguish the fire, I must take Lutsk today!" ”

The practice of the Lutsk defenders dying together and igniting the entire city obviously angered Hong Tiancheng, since the Poles didn't care about their lives, Hong Tiancheng would naturally put away the last trace of mercy!