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The Japanese were also very aware of the firearms of the English, and they also prepared a way to deal with them in advance, that is, to erect a wooden plank wrapped in iron sheets in front of the ordinary push, and then push the cart close to the defenders, so as to achieve the purpose of hand-to-hand combat and defeat the defenders with numerical superiority.

However, this assumption did not take into account the fact that there were a large number of grenadiers in the defenders. The pirates tried several times to approach the English positions with their plank carts, but they had these grenadier teams of the bravest soldiers heroically approach the enemy's plank carts and throw out grenades that blew the plank carts to pieces, injuring the Japanese in the vicinity of the plank carts on a large scale.

The Woko also tried to lure grenadiers with plank carts, and then killed with ranged weapons or sent hand-to-hand combatants to fight, but these grenadiers were not alone, with a large number of flintlock rifle-armed teammates in cover.

The effective range of these flintlock muskets was less than a hundred meters, but now that the distance between the two sides was only a few tens of meters, the power was so great that the muskets who tried to approach the grenadiers without shelter were shot down one by one by the muskets.

The skilled Assassin had tried to charge the grenadiers with a huge shield, but after several blows, he could not break through effectively, and was almost wiped out by a combination of grenades and muskets, so he hid behind him and stopped charging forward.

Li Yingyuan couldn't help but sigh that in the face of a position guarded by a large number of firearms, personal force was really useless. Maybe Senior Brother Xie Xun's roar can play a special role, but considering that kind of roar is actually attacking all the people present regardless of friend or foe, I'm afraid it doesn't mean much.

There is also a limited number of those plank carts. After several attacks, the Wako lost eighty or ninety percent of their carts, so they stopped using wooden carts, thinking of rushing in directly, or attacking from multiple directions at the same time to break through the defenders' defenses. However, it is of little use.

The military construction of the English in the county was extremely effective. In addition to the original earthen wall of the county government government as it was, a second line of defense was established by combining trenches and sandbags inside. This second line of defense is indented by tens of meters compared to the earthen wall, which can not only ensure the firepower advantage of the defenders, but also provide a good protection effect.

As if this was not enough, the English also laid out a third line of defense, that is, relying on several sturdy two- and three-story thick brick buildings, on which soldiers could shoot condescendingly, and even four artillery guns to assist in the defense.

Now guarding this defensive system are the Ming soldiers trained by the English, these soldiers are composed of fifty or sixty Ming people brought by the English from the South Seas, and some sailors and pirates with combat experience.

These soldiers had many years of experience in begging for a living at sea before joining the English, and each of them had at least five or six years of experience in piracy or guarding against pirates, and they were not as afraid as ordinary people when they encountered combat scenes, and they behaved very calmly, not much worse than the English army.

Guo Huaiyi also impressed Li Yingyuan. I always thought that the leader of the returnee faction in the military department was not clever enough, far less able to speak and scheming than Huang Cheng, but at this time, seeing Guo Huaiyi's proper command and proper scheduling, I realized that Guo Huaiyi was reused by the British because of this battlefield command ability.

In addition to treating the wounded soldiers, Li Yingyuan secretly ran outside to observe the battle situation, and understood that although there were many of them, it was impossible for them to break through the defensive line of the defenders.

There were more than 1,000 people outside the county government, five or six times more than the Ming soldiers guarding the county government, but this numerical advantage was useless at this time.

These pirates were poorly armed (in fact, the average pirate was very high relative to the English), and the bows and arrows and birds were combined to make up for less than a hundred men, and the rest were cold-armed hand-to-hand combat units armed with swords and spears.

They also had several guns, but the range and power were not satisfactory, and the level of artillery was far inferior to the defenders, who had been rigorously trained by the English. The Japanese tried to push the artillery closer several times, but they were all destroyed by the defenders guarding the tall buildings, and they could not be effective.

In addition, these pirates are composed of multiple bands of pirates, their orders are not uniform, and they are simply unable to give full play to their numerical superiority in today's near-street warfare, which are all shortcomings that cannot be eliminated.

The Japanese could occupy the outermost part of the county's earthen wall, but that didn't mean much, as once they dug a gap in the earthen wall and rushed in, they would face the muzzles of the defenders who were waiting for them, and if they wanted to defend the earthen wall and shoot at the defenders, it would be exactly what the defenders wanted.

With the quantity and quality of the ranged weapons of the pirates, they could not take advantage of the battle in which almost everyone in the defenders had a flintlock pistol.

The two sides fought for a long time, and the Japanese took advantage of the surprise attack at the beginning to wipe out some of the soldiers and apprentices who went out, but they did not take advantage of anything else.

When he had some free time, Li Yingyuan also began to think carefully about the ins and outs of this battle.

The Japanese wanted to fight back and regain control of Dinghai in their own hands, which was a sign a long time ago.

Let's just say that the original Musashi family, although no evidence of his collusion with the assassins was found in the Musashi family at that time, it cannot be said that their destruction was innocent, at least it must be inextricably linked to these current Japanese robbers, but they were unlucky, and before they could attack, they were wiped out by the English first.

After the fall of the Musashi family, the big families of Dinghai were greatly shaken, and frequently showed goodwill to the English, constantly inviting those who depended on them to dinner and giving good things, but now it seems that they are all tricks to lure the enemy, openly showing favor to make people relax their vigilance, but secretly thinking of a surprise attack, in one fell swoop to eliminate the English who invaded Dinghai.

The English must have been aware of this. On the surface, they accepted the submission of the big families, and even recruited apprentices and dependents from them, but secretly they were loose on the outside and tight on the inside, stepping up all kinds of preventive measures, and even trying to find ways to explore the military arrangements of the Fuso people.

The Fuso people's attack was menacing, and thousands of people actually participated in the battle. Judging from the current situation, at least two or three thousand Japanese invaders secretly went ashore and hid in the homes of those large Fuso families, and at this time they attacked the military facilities of the English together.

More than 1,000 of them besieged the county government and cut off the connection between inside and outside the city; another 1,000 attacked the forts and armories in the ports outside the city; and thousands of pirates attacked the English warships in small boats, and used small boats filled with gunpowder and oil to get close to the English warships, set the boats on fire and then jumped into the sea to escape.

Originally, these arrangements of the Japanese were not impractical, but unfortunately they still underestimated the actual combat ability of the English.

Judging by the response of the English, they were not paralyzed by the previous victories at all, and had been waiting for the Japanese to counterattack.

Li Yingyuan even suspected that the laxity of the English people before was made to show people.

Moreover, the intelligence of the English people was also doing a good job, and they knew something about this attack by the Japanese pirates, or at least knew very well that there would be thousands of Japanese attacks in the next few days.

The British people's response was to secretly withdraw the main force of the English army from the county government and arrange it on the port and warships, focusing on guarding against the water forces of the Japanese invaders, and as for the county government, only more than 200 Ming soldiers were left to contain part of the Japanese army.