"Give the Rumi gunmen weapons and let them go to the city to defend." Zhou Yuji ordered that the carriage camp was short of troops, especially the infantry.
If there are 20,000 Beijing troops inside to cooperate with the defense, the defense can be almost airtight. During the Battle of Yang Fan's Grassland, there were infantrymen on the city, and fire soldiers in the shooting holes of the steel plates below the city.
The top and bottom cooperated and beat the Haraqin people to collapse. However, they currently do not have enough troops to arrange it this way.
Defending around the city, there were not enough people to form a three-stage shooting, so they could only let the Rumi gunmen go to the city to defend. After they fired their muskets, they used cold weapons to defend the city.
Like the soldiers in the car camp, they were issued with light and flexible chainmail. The chariot battalion was responsible for the defense of the chariots, and they were responsible for the city walls.
The cavalry drills of the Xinghe Regiment, who were transferred to cooperate, dismounted and went to the shooting holes in the steel wall under the city to shoot with muskets.
Now that the rebels have arrived at the city, the Rumi Gun's long range has no advantage. Instead, the long reloading time and cumbersome steps have become a disadvantage.
At this time, what is important is the rate of fire, and the faster the reloading, the better. Each member of Xinghe Tuanlian had six double-barreled flintlock muskets and two carbines.
It would be most appropriate to let them shoot under the city. Thirty-six hundred men, eight hundred men on each side of the wall.
Enough to fill the shooting positions. Gao Changlin directed the four gunners to quickly close the gun window and lock it.
"Quick, hurry up, you two go under the car, take the blunderbuss and the spear. You two follow me on the roof of the car," he shouted.
"Boss, how can we get up when more than half of the roof has collapsed?" Gao Changlin realized at this time that their sidecar was hit by a red cannon and the roof was lifted off.
Looking up, most of it is out in the open air. He grabbed a long bench from under the car and placed it directly in the wall at the rear of the car.
In this way, half of the body can be exposed outside the car. He looked at the layout and asked two people to defend here. He quickly got out of the car and went to the car next to him to take a look.
He is Xiaoqi, in charge of two cars and ten people. There was a deputy flag in the car next to him giving instructions. This sub-flag is unique to the car camp.
Created based on actual needs. There is no such position in other battalions. The two vehicles and the five-meter-long city wall in the middle are the defense area they are responsible for.
A small Lumi gun flag helps defend this section of the city wall. They hurriedly put on their chainmail armor, picked up their swords and other weapons, climbed onto the scaffolding, fired with loaded Lumi guns, and then handed the empty guns to Xinghe regiment Lian Xiaoqi below.
Xinghe Tuan Lian Xiaoqi has five people responsible for firing and five people responsible for loading. Also help them reload their ammunition.
By this time, the surging rebels had overturned the barbed wire fences in many places and poured in. Just in time, Rumi's cannon opened fire, knocking down the rebels again.
Some excited rebels quickly jumped into the previous trenches to avoid musket fire. But when they jumped in, they were stunned and almost cursed in anger.
These trenches slope outward at a steeper slope. There is a very gentle slope to the inside. In other words, the shooting holes under the city wall and on the city wall can easily shoot people hiding in the trenches.
These trenches only protected the outside. A burst of musketry was fired, and a large number of the rebels who entered the trench were killed.
These were all designed by Yang Fan. The idea comes from the trenches outside the European bastions. These trenches served as a barrier and protection against external fire.
But once the enemy enters the trench, they will find that the internal slope angle is extremely large, almost a gentle slope.
On the city wall, you can easily shoot the enemies occupying the trenches without blind spots. A red firework bomb rose into the sky, followed by a blue one.
This is the command to shoot and fight freely. Looking at the rebels surrounding them, Zhou Yuji said: "We still lack experience. The barbed wire fence is arranged too close. If we arrange it eighty meters away, we can create at least nine opportunities for the Lumi gun soldiers to fire."
"This kind of experience can only be gained after suffering losses on the battlefield. It cannot be predicted in advance." Huang Hao comforted.
At this time, shouts of killing and gunshots were heard one after another from up and down the city wall. A fierce battle has begun outside the steel plate city wall of the car camp.
The rebels saw that the wall was not high. It was only about four to five meters, and the ladder they sent up was too long and couldn't be used.
He simply climbed up in layers. Lumi Gunslinger had already put on his chainmail and the bucket helmet he bought from Yang Fan. The bucket helmet was the cheapest.
Armed with simple knives, spears, long-handled axes, hammers and other weapons, they began to attack the rebels who were climbing the city.
The regiment training under the city wall opened fire at the shooting port. Outside the narrow shooting hole, figures were shaking, and there were enemies everywhere, shouting and running around.
Soon the rebels found out and these scoundrels were down there shooting them. They weren't stupid either, and they soon learned that the cat ducked down or moved at high speed to avoid the gunfire.
But there were too many of them, and many times, if the front ones escaped, the ones behind would be shot. Huang Yugang's small flag happened to be on Gao Changlin's section of the city wall.
Before, they were running fast, and those who had no casualties would just run away after the fight, and all of them withdrew into the car camp.
Now, they took turns using the long wooden-handled axes they were issued to slash the rebels who tried to climb up. These axes are fire axes with wooden handles purchased from Yang Fan.
The handles of these axes are painted red, and the sharp axes with cold light are not available in this era. This thing is so effective at breaking armor.
Something that can crack open security doors can also cut through the armor of this era without any problem. Especially the curved handle, it is so comfortable to hold and chop. I don’t know how it is designed to save effort and maximize the power.
Of course, they don't know the term ergonomics. When I first purchased it from Yang Fan, I mainly considered it to be cheap and have excellent performance.
This thing is a mass-produced product in modern times, so you can charge as much as you want. Much cheaper than forging it yourself. Zhang Laosan swung the fire ax and struck the ax on the shoulder of a general flagman who was climbing up. The sharp fire ax broke his scales in an instant.
There was an all-metal beast on the shoulder, which was cut in half by a fire axe, and then the shoulder bone and collarbone were all chopped off.
Zhang Laosan used all his strength to pull out the ax stuck in the bone. Blood spurted out, and the commander-in-chief screamed and turned over, falling to the ground with a plop.
Immediately afterwards, as the dough was being drilled, there was a cry, bang bang bang! Five gunshots were fired. The rebels below fell down three men, who were hit by musketry.
The ladder he was climbing up on the front shoulder immediately collapsed and fell to the ground. The people behind the rebels immediately counterattacked with three-eyed guns.
Bang bang bang! Although the three-eyed gun is at a distance of more than ten meters, its accuracy is too poor.
It couldn't hit the shooting port at all. The lead bullet of the three-eyed gun hit the steel plate and made an ear-splitting sound. Three millimeters of hardened steel plate easily stopped crude lead bullets.
Lead bullets are soft, and the temperature when exiting the chamber is very high, and the melting point of lead bullets is low. So it's very soft and sticks directly to the steel plate.
Zhou Yuji saw from the telescope that the rebel rear team came up carrying the logs for impact.
