On the outskirts of Chunhua City, the crowds are like a sea, and the mountains and plains are full of moving heads.
Countless messy flags were scattered in all directions, the flags fluttering and moving in the strong wind.
The spears and spears are like forests, the sea of people is surging, and it is as vast as the water of eight rivers and nine fields!
At the front, a large black bamboo stick attracts attention.
The flag is one foot and eight feet high. The pole has a tassel head and a pheasant tail, and is tied with a bright yellow trumpet belt that is eight feet and five inches long.
The flag has four sides, with black as the base and bright yellow as the edge. In the center of the flag is a large white word "Chuang" embroidered.
Under the dark black banner, Li Zicheng was wearing a narrow-sleeved cloud-shouldered embroidered Lan robe, a bright silver double-breasted long body armor, a belt around his waist, a sword and a bow, and he was sitting on the lookout.
The lookout was surrounded by warriors wearing red frontier armor, and a group of military academies wearing fish scale armor stood around Li Zicheng.
In the battle of Sanshui City, Zhang Waijia died, most of the Liao soldiers were defeated, and almost all of the armor and soldiers were captured by Li Zicheng.
Li Guo, Gao Jie, Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong and other generals lined up the school on both sides.
At the foot of Chunhua City, the sound of trumpets continued to rise and fall for a long time.
"Woo——————"
The next moment, the crowd outside Chunhua City also took action.
Simple ladders rose and fell among the crowds, and a large number of ragged soldiers holding various weapons swarmed towards Chunhua City under the leadership and urging of the old soldiers.
"Break the city and open the official warehouse!!"
"Kill the officers and soldiers!!"
Countless hungry soldiers gathered together, forming an endless crowd.
The tide surged, roaring like thunder, setting off huge waves, and slammed towards Chunhua City!
Chen Wang stood behind the crenellations of the city tower and looked calmly at the surging army of hungry soldiers.
Chen Wang's heartbeat slowly accelerated a little, but his mind was still very clear and was not greatly affected by it.
He has seen this scene countless times. The accelerated heartbeat and trembling body are not all due to fear, but more of the body's instinctive reaction before fighting.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!!!"
The special sound of the Fran cannon resounded loudly on the walls of Chunhua City.
A large amount of gunpowder smoke slowly rose from the city wall, and the cannons pushed out by the gunpowder shot fiercely into the hungry soldiers with a sharp whistling sound.
After all, the Fran cannon is not a Hongyi cannon. It is relatively less powerful and has a much shorter range, but once it hits, it can penetrate both men and horses.
Although most of the Ming troops who were manning the artillery were half-assed, the hungry soldiers outside the city came in thick and black. There was no need to calculate the distance or calibrate the artillery, as long as the artillery was fired, they would be able to hit.
A cloud of blood mist exploded from the formation of hungry soldiers, but it dissipated immediately and was submerged again by the subsequent influx of hungry soldiers.
But compared to the hungry army formation with nearly 10,000 troops, everything did not have much impact.
The bombardment of more than 20 Fran cannons on the Chunhua city wall did not even make much waves, and it had already returned to normal.
Soon the hungry soldiers who broke into the army swarmed under the city wall of Chunhua, and countless ladders were erected.
One after another, the hungry soldiers struggled to climb up, carrying broken bucklers or daggers in their teeth.
The shouts of killing below the city were deafening and resounded through the sky, but the only response to them from the city was the rising smoke of gunpowder, the dull sound of gunfire, and the sound of sharp arrows piercing the air.
Rolling stones and wooden logs were thrown from the city wall one after another.
Slanderous wails, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground, and angry shouts echoed in everyone's ears.
Looking down from the clouds in the sky, it seems that there are countless dense ants clinging to the west wall of Chunhua City.
Chen Wang did not make any moves. He had already delegated the command to Tang Shiping, Hu Zhili, and Luo Guizhong.
This wave of attacks by the rogue bandits was just a test, and most of the troops sent out were hungry soldiers.
Although their routines have changed, they are still generally the same as before, with horse troops holding the formation on both sides and old bandits in the middle to supervise the battle.
It's just that the final ones are no longer ordinary troops and elite cavalry.
On top of the city tower, Chen Wang could see clearly that most of the troops held three-eyed muskets in their hands, and there were many Fran machine cannons behind them.
There were also squatting tiger cannons placed in front of the formation, obviously to prepare for the impact. Except that there were no rockets, all other arrangements were the same as when he fought behind the mountain road palace.
Chen Wang's eyes narrowed slightly. He had heard from the beginning that Zhang Waijia was frustrated in his battle out of the city and then returned to the city.
Zhao Huailiang stood aside and whispered.
"Zhang Shuai led us to attack the army formation outside Sanshui City. This is the layout of the army."
"At the beginning, when we were attacking the city, we stepped out of the city and killed their hungry soldiers."
Zhao Huailiang pointed to the hungry soldiers swarming under the city and continued to speak.
"We drove the broken soldiers to attack their military formation, but suddenly we heard several explosions, and then many of the broken soldiers fell to the ground. The rest did not dare to move forward, either retreated or fled to both sides. .”
"Although the troops were not defeated, Zhang Shuai saw that the enemy's firearms team was not protected by a gun formation, so he led us straight away."
"result……"
Zhao Huailiang's voice became a little deeper.
"The sound of guns and gunshots in front of the army formation was like popping beans. It kept ringing without hearing it. No one from the sentry cavalry sent by Zhang Shuai rushed over..."
Zhao Huailiang's eyes were slightly red and his hands trembled slightly.
Chen Wang's expression was gloomy. From a long distance away, he couldn't see clearly the weapons held by those troops.
"You were at the back, did you see what kind of firearms they had and how they fired?"
Zhao Huailiang pondered for a while and then answered.
"Three-eyed blunderbuss... all they seem to have are three-eyed blunderbuss. There are no bird blunderbuss or other firearms."
"I didn't see how they fought, but their military formation was very strange. They basically didn't move. Those at the front were squatting on the ground, and something was being passed around from behind."
Chen Wang pressed the Yanling knife on his waist and lowered his head.
Zhao Huailiang's words allowed him to get several key pieces of information.
The Chuang army did not use bird blunderbuss, but basically used three-eyed blunderbuss.
The three-eyed gun has a short range, but it can fire three shots in an instant, and the instantaneous fire coverage is indeed stronger.
And it seems that he did not learn the round-shooting and retreating technique he used before, but made some improvements according to the situation.
The firearms tactics used by the invading army should be that the soldiers in the first row should be responsible for firing the three-eyed musket, and after firing, pass it to the people behind.
Then the person in the back row handed over another three-eyed gun and gave it to him to fire.
All shots are fired by the gunners in the first row, and those who follow only need to load the powder.
"After killing and injuring one sentry soldier, we withdrew our troops and returned to the city."
"After that, I helped to defend the city until the city was finally breached by internal forces."
Chen Wang looked at the invading army formation outside the city with a deep expression.
Defending Sanshui, there is no problem with Zhang Waijia's decisions.
Unable to take advantage of the situation to disrupt the enemy's troops, holding on to the city is indeed the best way.
Moreover, Zhang Waijia's mission at that time was only to defend Sanshui City. The enemy was a tough enemy and there was no need to gnaw on it.
