As the melee combat begins, the casualties of the fire rifle soldiers can also begin to increase. The rebel spearmen also came up. The five-meter-high city wall was not enough to completely cover these firecrackers who lowered their firecrackers.
In front of the rebels were shield soldiers, and behind them came many spear soldiers. With a standard spear of four and a half meters, coupled with a person's arms and height, it can completely assassinate the defenders on the city wall.
For a time, the two sides were fighting fiercely from a height of five meters. The rebel swordsmen took the opportunity to climb the wall. The shooting port on the lower level will give priority to the spearmen and shoot them by name.
The rebel shield bearers boldly rushed forward and blocked the shooting port with their shields. Soldiers from both sides roared, cursed, and fought hard.
More ladders started to be put up on the city head from a farther distance. Because the city wall was not high enough and the ladders were too high, they had to be lowered from a distance.
Chain mail has limited defensive capabilities, mainly due to its lightness and unrestricted movement. But both the loss of defense and the effect of the spear are very poor, only the defense against slashing is still good.
Soldiers from both sides slashed at each other and even fell off the city wall. The rebels who fell into the city were quickly killed by the regiment trainer with a musket.
On the lower level of the steel city wall, the Xinghe regiment was shooting non-stop. They used handguns and carbines.
Without their fierce fire below, the upper levels of the city wall would not have been able to hold. In a short period of time, intensive musket fire caused heavy casualties to the enemy.
There is a shooting range under the city wall, which is not as safe as under the ordinary masonry city wall. It can be said that there is no safe place around the car camp.
For ordinary masonry walls, just be careful with your head. However, the bottom floor of the car camp is a shooting position.
Team training is here for a flat shot. Although the rebels tried their best to dodge the shooting holes and ran back and forth quickly to prevent being targeted, several people were knocked down with every burst of gunfire.
The lead bullets practiced by Xinghe Tuan are particularly powerful. These soft lead bullets are wrapped with steel balls. Because the specific gravity of the two different materials is different, these steel-core bullets will immediately lose stability and roll when entering the human body. As long as they are hit, they will cause huge tear-like wounds and huge cavities.
Steel core bullets can easily penetrate armor and break bones. Heavy armored infantry are defenseless even in the face of muskets.
It will be shot directly. The border troops sometimes put on a layer of cotton armor, a layer of chain armor, and a layer of cloth armor on the bodies of those who dared to charge.
Jiannu's cloth-faced armor was originally learned from Daming. Such a configuration can even withstand matchlock guns at close range.
Jiannu used this kind of triple-armored heavy infantry to withstand the fire of muskets, rush up, move away the obstacles such as horseback and grab, and then launch the cavalry to attack the musketeers.
After breaking up the queue, the whole army covered them up. Such an armor and stomach configuration is not only too heavy for soldiers who are not particularly strong to run in it, but it has no problem at all against the three-eyed blunderbuss that is the most equipped in the Ming Dynasty.
However, even though the rebels sent a large number of heavily armored warriors up, their heavy armor was of little use against the double-barreled flintlock guns.
Steel core bullet plus maroon gunpowder propellant combination. It penetrated their armor and stomach easily. Zhou Yuji looked at the sinking sun. Unknowingly, today's battle had continued into the afternoon.
To the east of the carriage camp, a dozen heavy siege vehicles were pushed up. Moving forward slowly, we were already less than fifty meters away from the city wall.
The attack failed for a long time, and the casualties continued to rise. Countless corpses had fallen under the city wall. Many hundreds of households were disabled within ten minutes after going up there.
Had to withdraw. Let's go to another hundred households. The rebels were now on the verge of getting down. If they hadn't used the silver stolen from Zhangjiawan to reward them heavily, as long as they were willing to go up, they would have been rewarded with ten taels per person and another ten taels of silver for killing an enemy.
I'm afraid that they are all defeated now. The shield carts were pushed up again. This was the last batch of shield carts they made in the past three days.
Now, the gun window at the rear of the sidecar has been closed and the artillery is out of service. The threat of the shield cart was removed, and they pushed the shield cart up again.
Used to cover a dozen siege engines. For these siege vehicles, whole logs one meter thick were sawn horizontally as wheels.
Every siege vehicle has five wheels on the left and right. On the floor of the car, on the side is a trapezoidal bracket composed of more than a dozen wooden pillars with a mortise and tenon structure, and inside are more than a dozen triangular stable wooden support structures.
Two thick beams with ropes hanging from them. A log half a meter thick, with a temporary horn cast by a captured blacksmith on the head.
Used as a battering ram. If there wasn't enough time, they might have to install a roof and walls on this car to defend against muskets and bows.
Protect those pushing inside. Seeing the siege vehicle coming up, the Rumi gunmen on the city wall suddenly panicked.
After all, the outer steel plate of this city wall built with two layers of scaffolding is only three millimeters thick. This thickness is mainly based on the fact that an ax cannot be opened.
However, in the face of such a behemoth siege vehicle, it can be said that the effect is limited. Zhou Yuji immediately became nervous.
Turning to Huang Hao, he said, "Why don't you open the gun window and use artillery to deal with them." Huang Hao pondered for a moment and said, "The fighting is too intensive now, and we don't have enough troops. It's not like the last time on the grassland. If If you open the artillery window rashly, I'm afraid the enemy will take the opportunity to sneak in in large numbers. Moreover, the densely packed enemies in front and shield vehicles block the view, and the artillery cannot aim. They have already rushed to the city." Zhou Yuji said anxiously: "What about that? Well, these logs are huge and equipped with cast iron ramming corners. Our city wall may not be able to stop them and they will be knocked open a few times." He pondered for a moment and said, "Fortunately, I have used them during the three days in the city. There are several walls of sandbags. If that doesn't work, let's fight in the streets." Zhou Yuji has a good habit of being careful with Wannian Ship.
He always prepares for the worst. In the past three days, while the rebels were attacking Zhangjiawan, he dug trenches inside the camp and packed sand and soil into straw bags to form fortifications.
There are still several small sandbag walls inside. Even if the enemy rushes in, they can rely on these walls to continue fighting.
Huang Hao said:
"It doesn't have to be like this, the situation is not that urgent yet." Huang Hao turned around and shouted: "Carry the grenade up the city wall. Let the gunpowder boost the grenade launcher and go up to the arrow tower. Kill those rams for me." After hearing the order, the regiment coach quickly ran to the baggage truck and opened the caravan's cloth, revealing densely packed wooden boxes. These grass-green boxes were filled with grenades.
There were also dozens of long, grass-green wooden boxes that were also moved down by the regiment training soldiers. It was unknown what was inside.
These wooden boxes are one foot square and about one and a half meters long. Zhou Yuji said in surprise: "Madam asked you to bring the grenade battalion."
