The three lines of defences were stacked with cloth bags filled with mud and sand, only as high as the chest of an adult man, and three rows of musketeers stood behind the sandbag walls, which could be used as cover protection, and the muskets could also rest on top of them, just lay them flat and ignite the fuses with the fire rope, which was convenient and safe.

"Fire, fire."

At the head of the city, the officer in charge of defending the city desperately urged the artillery to fire after seeing Chen Tang send out a urging signal to open the cannon.

Boom Boom Boom –

After firing more than a dozen rounds in a row, six of the guns were dumb due to malfunctions, operational errors, and poor quality, and two of them blew up, blowing up several artillerymen who were responsible for operating the guns, and stacking the gunpowder next to them was detonated.

The only few remaining Franc machine guns bombarded fiercely, the sound of the cannon was deafening, it sounded very scary, but it did not achieve much killing effect, the solid iron bullet used to bombard people originally depends on luck, not to mention the bombardment of moving targets, a few shells down, it sounds very scary, but the result turned out to be zero casualties.

Such an accurate head was naturally ignored by the musketeers of the People's Army, and under the command of Guo Hushan, the three columns of musketeers marched forward.

"First row, ready."

Behind the first sandbag, the officer leading the team shouted loudly to the musketeers in the first row to prepare for fire.

Bang bang –

Most of the musketeers of the Taiyuan Prefecture Army went to the battlefield for the first time, and the first time they were on the front line, seeing the rows of civilian troops approaching, they were nervous, and the arquebus in their hands lit the lead and put the guns down.

The musketeer next to him was also very nervous, and when he saw that his companion had released his gun, he quickly followed and lit the fuse, and put down the gun in ping-pong.

"Which son of a son put the gun?"

The officer's face was crooked in anger, he just ordered to prepare for shooting, and did not give the order to shoot, the civilian army was getting closer and closer, but it was still outside the range of the musket, he was so angry that he scolded, shoot your sister's gun?

Bang bang bang –

The people's troops who lined up to advance also instinctively fired back, they were also nervous, so queuing up to meet them, there was no difference from taking the initiative to eat bullets and send them to death, plus the distance was getting closer and closer, only two or three steps away from entering the range of the musket, and the visual distance was inevitably a little poor.

"Stand back, stand back and reload, the one in the back, come up, come forward, stupid."

Crossing the Tiger Mountain roared loudly, he was a fierce general who charged into battle, and he was not afraid of playing with knives in close combat, but it was really a little difficult for him to command the unfamiliar musket volley.

On the contrary, the Taiyuan army has a training manual for muskets, but no one cares about it, and uses it as toilet paper, but fortunately, Sun Chuanting reminded him in his letter to Chen Tang, and Chen Tang hurriedly turned it out, so that the officers and soldiers in charge of the musket battalion temporarily held their feet, and practiced for a few days, and the effect was still a little, at least stronger than the confusion of the musketeers of the people's army.

"The first column stepped back, the second column stepped forward, prepared, shot."

With the loud shouts of the officers, the musketeers of the People's Army finally entered the range of the muskets, and the musketeers of the Taiyuan Prefecture Army opened fire in a ping pong, and the entire defense line was filled with choking gunsmoke.

More than a dozen musketeers in the first row of the People's Army who entered the range of muskets fell down on the spot, and the others were a little panicked.

"Shoot, what do you see me doing? A sucker. "The mountain tiger scolded and kicked a musketeer next to him, pig head, it's all on this, and stupidly waiting for Lao Tzu to give an order before he dares to shoot?

In his scolding and scolding, the musketeers of the people's army finally fired back, but they were ready to shoot back with scum, most of the lead bullets flew into the sky, and some hit the sandbags, only one unlucky government soldier was shot in the face of the door, and fell down with a miserable scream, and the rest of the government soldiers quietly breathed a big sigh of relief, and it turned out that the spearmen on the opposite side were more scum than them.

"The first column stands back, and on the second column, the medics, carry down the brothers who have been shot."

At the officer's order, the musketeers of the first column stepped back a few steps and hurriedly loaded the gunpowder, and the spearmen of the second column stepped forward and became the first column, and the medics waiting behind hurriedly stepped forward and carried the soldiers who had been shot down, causing some small confusion.

Bang bang bang –

The gunmen of the Taiyuan army took the lead in shooting the second round of guns, they used a fixed paper cartridge shell, which was faster than the civilian army in the speed of loading gunpowder.

More than a dozen civilian musketeers fell with a scream, but the others who were still standing were not afraid, they hurriedly stepped back, loaded their gunpowder, and the second column of gunmen standing behind stepped forward and fired a second round of guns.

In fact, it is not that the target of the musketeers of the People's Army is higher than the scum of the Taiyuan soldiers, but that most of them are playing with muskets for the first time, and the Taiyuan soldiers have a sandbag wall with a chest height as a cover, blocking a lot of lead bullets that are shot, so that people can give the illusion that the musketeers of the People's Army are on the spot.

Both sides played muskets, and the ping-pong shooting was very enjoyable, but the Taiyuan soldiers took advantage of the sandbag bunkers and the fixed paper bullet shells, and in the shooting, only 20 people were shot and fell, while the civilian army had already fallen more than 100 people, and the losses were quite large.

"Damn, those officers and soldiers are hiding behind the wall, we can't beat them......" The mountain tiger gritted his teeth and cursed, but this battle was related to the life and death of the people's army, even if the casualties were large, they could only grit their teeth and hold on, and ordered the remaining musketeers to continue to shoot at the officers and soldiers.

The sound of ping-pong gunfire echoed in the wilderness, choking the smoke of gunpowder filled the battlefield, and there was a dramatic scene on the whole battlefield, with a small number of musketeers on both sides firing at each other, and the main army of tens of thousands of people became the crowd of melon-eating people watching the excitement.

"Oh no, the Tianxiong army is here......

A bloodied scout crawled to report that Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army had been killed from the south, less than three miles away.

"What?"

Wang Ziyong and the other leaders of the People's Army were shocked, didn't it take more than half a day to travel at the earliest, why was it so fast?

They sent a large number of scouts to monitor Lu Xiangsheng in the south, Qin Liangyu in the west, and Sun Chuanting's headquarters in the north, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army was the closest, but according to the time calculation, no matter how fast it was, it would take more than half a day's journey, and now they suddenly appeared nearby, which frightened them.

The leaders looked at each other, the Taiyuan Mansion Army, which was the most scummy in combat power, failed to defeat it, on the contrary, it also lost its troops and generals, and its sharp strength has been frustrated. Since he didn't dare to fight, the only choice was to continue running.