The earthen enclosure was lined with Polish musket and spearmen in a variety of costumes, and inside the town there were piles of 'reserves' with the scythes of Polish peasants.

Hong Tiancheng's 'Tatar bandits' had already spread all over the streets and alleys of the town with the fleeing Polish villagers, and the Polish nobles and generals in Zhytomyr could not care about the Tatar bandits of more than 300 people, but the town mayor and the city security officer could not ignore it.

When the townsfolk outside the city sensed the approach of the Taiping army, the whole town quickly sounded the alarm, and the mayor and the city security officer took matters into their own hands, gathered all the militia, opened their arsenals (in fact, there were not many weapons and equipment) to arm the militia, and called on all men who could handle weapons to help defend the town.

This set will be launched every time there is an invasion of foreign bandits, so the implementation efficiency of the town mayor and the city prevention and security officer is quite high.

When it came to the arrival of Hong Tiancheng, the happiest people in the town were the arms merchants and leather armor dealers, and after the news of the arrival of the Taiping army, the inventory of these two types of merchants was swept away in just half a day's effort, and they made a lot of money.

Those who can trade in weapons and armor are not ordinary lowly farmers, even the most powerful mayors and city security officials in the towns, and they will not requisition their goods for no reason.

If every time a merchant fights a war, his goods have to be robbed by his own government army, who still lacks the same brains to do business?

In order to promote trade in their own towns and increase tax revenue, administrative officials such as mayors should try their best to attract merchants to take the initiative to buy and sell on their own turf.

Those noble lords with greater autonomy even set up outposts at various checkpoints in their territories in order to collect more commercial taxes, and collected taxes on a wide variety of goods from past merchants, the most serious of which were in the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania.

Because although these two countries are large, the aristocratic territories are like small semi-independent kingdoms, and the aristocratic parliamentary system of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and the electoral system of the Holy Roman Empire give the nobles below great autonomy, and can even unite to depose the king and the emperor!

Under Hong Tiancheng's order, 90 Taiping soldiers armed with arquebuses marched in three simple horizontal formations to the bottom of the earthen fence, while the Taiping soldiers who were in the majority and armed with cold weapons crashed into cars by cutting down trees to build a simple city gate.

In the face of the three-meter-high earth enclosure, Hong Tiancheng didn't need to build professional siege equipment at all, and his people couldn't support the ant-attached siege with great battle damage, so he chose the way of suppressing and deterring with firepower, and the people who killed the town took the initiative to open the city and surrender!

Of course, if the people in the town really stumbled to the end, Hong Tiancheng would also pay a certain price, under the cover of his own superior firepower, and slowly crash open the seemingly thick wooden-clad iron city gate.

There is only one reason why Hong Tiancheng is so confident, he has a musket output that exceeds the town's defense forces.

There was not even a decent firing point on the earthen fence, only a row of musketeers could stand on it, and the height advantage of more than three meters could not provide much convenience, Hong Tiancheng was still relatively confident in his senior Taiping army musketeers.

Senior means more accurate and faster reloading!

When 90 new recruits of the Taiping Army armed with arquebuses approached within 200 paces of the Tuweizi, the Polish musket militia standing above began to fire the arquebuses in their hands scatteredly.

However, the guns were very loud, but none of the 90 new recruits of the Taiping Army who were advancing fell to the ground......

Hong Tiancheng bet that the Polish musket militia on the opposite side had absolutely not conducted a few decent shooting training on weekdays, except during the battle, and their hit rate was even worse than that of the Taiping Army's new recruits, who had just learned arquebus!

Hong Tiancheng because of the seizure of a lot of ammunition and gifts of the all-out war system, every day after the march during the stay, will be the Taiping Army new soldiers to shoot training, even those who do not have arquebuses in their hands, will also take turns to carry out arquebus operation training, it can be said that now all the Taiping Army new soldiers under Hong Tiancheng's hands can fire the arquebus, and in accordance with the regular operation steps for ammunition loading.

As a qualified salted fish king in later generations, Hong Tiancheng naturally knows the direction of the world where muskets will be popular in the future, and naturally, Hong Tiancheng can't wait to train all the soldiers under his command into firearms troops.

Of course, the firearms unit in Hong Tiancheng's eyes is the kind of good man who can shoot from afar, and can pick up a knife and not kill people when he is close......

The Polish musket militia above the earthen fence could not fire a salvo at all, and stood there nervously watching the Tatar musketeers who were approaching but not firing, while their hands trembled slightly to reload their ammunition, not expecting much courage from a group of militiamen to face the enemy head-on, except for a few old militiamen who were accustomed to seeing scenes of death, most of the militia had a natural fear of real battle.

After all, these Polish musket militias were not professional standing armies, and they all had their own livelihoods and busy things on weekdays, and even if they acted as patrolmen who were similar to catching fast, they rarely faced a large number of enemies armed with firearms.

To put it mildly, these militiamen who stay in safe towns are not even as brave as the bandits who lick blood from their knives all year round.

Fortunately, after the Polish militia above the earthen enclosure saw that the Tatar bandits outside did not pull up the siege equipment such as improvised ladders, all the Polish militiamen with cold weapons retreated from the small space of the city, leaving only the militia with arquebuses in their hands to insist on fighting.

The Polish musket militia was outnumbered in large numbers on the noisy earthen fence, but the frequency of firing was extremely low, with each Polish musket militia firing an average of three minutes to fire a round, not counting operational errors during reloading......

When training, such mistakes are rare, but on the battlefield where death is coming at any time, human nervousness can greatly affect their behavior, and it is common for soldiers to make mistakes.

However, even though the marksmanship of the Polish musket militia was terrible, casualties were inevitable as the new musketeers of the Taiping Army approached, and finally, when they approached a distance of a hundred paces from the city, the musketeers stopped their advance, raised their guns almost simultaneously, and fired a continuous salvo of several seconds from the first platoon!

Three salvos fell, and the howls of humans immediately replaced the sound of gunshots like popping beans!