The first row of bandits had already rushed to the barbed wire fence. They held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other to cover the bandits carrying ladders behind them.
The Eight Banners soldiers began to throw bows and arrows from behind. Suddenly arrows fell like locusts, and the city walls and the thatched roofs in the city were covered with arrows.
Yang Fan looked through the blinds and saw that the shields of these bandits were all made of improvised rattan shields and wooden boards. These shields were better than nothing, and their protective properties were very limited. They were clearly fooled by the Tatars. It also plays a psychological role. Let them be bold when charging.
Arrows outside kept hitting the shutters, making a buzzing sound. The soldiers outside were holding wooden boards and pot lids on their backs or carrying them on their backs, and pressed against the wall to avoid being hit by stray arrows.
"Get ready to shoot," Yang Fan said to the grinding table.
"Everyone is here, shoot freely, don't be anxious, aim and hit." Mo Zhui shouted to the surrounding soldiers with a tin trumpet.
Huang San finally got his chance this time. Shangziying and Xiaziying suffered serious battle losses and were in urgent need of reinforcements. They gave priority to recruiting soldiers from the ore selection workers. As the first batch of mineral processing workers, Huang San was successfully selected due to his good physique.
He has never experienced a battlefield either. But he is naturally bold and not afraid.
Yesterday, the squad leader had already summarized the gains and losses of the recent battle and told everyone in detail what to do on the battlefield. They already had a good idea.
Huang San stretched out the musket from the gap in the sandbag, and received a new musket with a butt. He still has a long gun head hanging on his waist. The squad leader said that if the enemy rushes to you and has no time to reload, ignite and shoot, just install the gun head, and then hold the very comfortable place on the front of the butt with one hand. , grasp the handguard under the barrel with one hand. Use it as a short spear to assassinate the enemy.
He squinted his right eye and looked through the rear sight at the rear of the barrel and the front sight at the front of the barrel. There was also a bandit who didn't know how to get over the barbed wire fence. He connected the three points according to what the corps leader taught him. His shoulders adjusted again, the gun butt was firmly supported on his shoulders, and he took a deep breath.
He made sure that there were no mistakes as taught by the corps leader, and then the fire break in his right hand lit the first fuse.
The fuse burned very quickly, less than a second, but Huang San's nervous palms were sweating, and this second felt extremely long.
The bandit was still shaking. He underestimated this simple barbed wire. Not only did he fail to climb over, he fell due to the shaking, and his clothes were still hung on the barbed wire. As he became anxious, he struggled more and more, but ended up getting entangled in the barbed wire. The more he struggled, the tighter he became.
Huang San carefully moved the muzzle of the gun little by little, always allowing the bandit, front sight, and rear sight to be connected.
"Bang!" There was a loud noise, and a ball of flames and gunpowder smoke spurted out from the muzzle, while sparks and smoke also spewed out of the ignition hole.
The butt of the gun jerked back, causing a slight pain in his shoulder. He immediately remembered that the team leader said that if you don't grasp the position of the butt of the gun well, it will hurt. Everyone's body shape is different for this optimal position, so you have to be flexible and try it out.
Then he saw that the bandit's head exploded, and the bullet entered from the forehead. When it flew out from the back of the head, it had expanded into a big hole, and red and white sprayed all over the floor. The bandit immediately fell down and became immobile.
Huang San felt excited. He didn't expect it to be so easy to kill an enemy.
He immediately put away his joy and continued to look for the next target.
"Huang San, good job. You hit the first hit for the first time on the battlefield. I'll take credit for you," the squad leader yelled. This sound was heard by every partner in his team amidst the bang-bang-bang gunfire.
Huang San felt excited. A sense of pride arises spontaneously.
He kept up his efforts and aimed another shot at another small leader who was shouting with a knife and instructing others to set up ladders. This time he was farther away, more than thirty meters away. The fire door gun was at this distance. The lethality was sharply reduced, and it no longer moved in a straight line. No one could predict where the lead bullet would fly.
The unlucky guy behind the little boss screamed, was shot in the thigh, and fell down.
Although the lead bullet has a diameter of 15 mm and is irregular, resulting in severe attenuation of kinetic energy and greatly reduced power, it is still easy to hit such an unprotected target. The lead bullet penetrates deeply into the flesh of the thigh. Without surgery, I'm afraid it can't be taken out.
The unlucky guy was obviously hit in the artery, blood spurted out uncontrollably, and he fell to the ground wailing.
Throughout the south gate and south city wall, hundreds of gun barrels protruded from the gaps in the sandbags, shooting at the climbers outside the Reaper wire fence.
The bandits were confused by the barbed wire fence. It was obviously just a dozen wires nailed to wooden stakes. Although it had thorns, it was so difficult to cross.
It was swaying in the wind, without any strength at all, and extremely difficult to climb. If you are not careful, you will get hung up and cannot be pulled off. A large number of bandits pile up in front of the barbed wire fence, becoming a living target for the muskets.
Yang Fan felt relieved. He was most worried that these recruits would not be able to withstand the human sea offensive. Now it seems that the effect of the barbed wire fence is unexpectedly good.
These modern barbed wire fences are all made of steel wire, and the scissors of this era cannot cut them at all. The bandits held the wooden shields in front of them in vain, but neither the shields nor the wooden shields could stop the lead bullets at all.
The speed of the bow and arrow is only more than thirty meters per second, and the crossbow arrow can reach forty-five or six, which is already very scary. It can definitely break through triple armor at more than ten meters. But Yang Fan's fire gate gun can reach a speed of 150 to 170 meters per second.
With this initial speed, there is no problem in penetrating triple armor within twenty meters. If it can hit at thirty meters, even if it cannot penetrate triple armor, the blunt trauma caused by the kinetic energy will be very serious, and it is likely to lose the ability to move. Not to mention the Teng shield and the wooden shield, even the iron-covered wooden shield can't stop it.
The gunshots on the city wall were unhurried because the officers were watching with sticks and were not allowed to fire their guns indiscriminately.
A man fell with almost every shot.
The horrific casualties were like a dark cloud hanging half over the bandits' heads. They were unable to advance, and they were forced to retreat by the Tatars' bows, arrows and spears, which almost drove them crazy.
The entire Jia La community was constantly firing arrows at the city with their riding bows to support the bandits' attack. These arrows were densely inserted into the sandbags and penetrated the sacks. A single arrow could not penetrate the sand. And the sand cushions the force of the arrow very well.
The fire door guns that were fired were all stretched out from the gaps in the sandbags that were less than the width of the hand. Some of the shooting holes were even small gaps between two sacks, with another sack covering them.
Most of those falling from the sky were blocked by the pot lids carried by the soldiers on their backs and on their heads and wooden shields made out of temporary work, without much success.
Only a few unlucky ones were shot in the exposed feet and calves. Then according to the prior arrangement, he was dragged down by the strong men, bandaged and rescued.
Aktun looked at the situation ahead and said to Abdul Bayan: "Master, we can't charge like this. Five or six hundred bandits are dead, so we can't get up at all. This is a wilderness, and there is no place to hide from muskets. If you want to If you want to charge forward, you still have to build the siege equipment and then charge forward."
Abdul Bayan didn't care at all how many bandits were killed or injured. These people were all recruited. In order to keep it secret, he planned to kill them when he left, but he still had to use them now.
"Let's get here today and retreat."
The sound of clanging gongs sounded. The bandits seemed to have been granted amnesty, and the tide receded on one side. More than a hundred bandits had climbed over the barbed wire fence, and the bandits who were trapped in front of the trench and preparing to set up ladders were stupid and had to climb back again, which would cost their lives.
