Valley Emperor

Following Wang Danxu's order, the soldiers of the musket team lined up in a neat line pulled the trigger in unison, and there was a crisp and dense sound of gunfire on the field.

Accompanied by the sound of gunfire and the rising white smoke, dense bullets hit the city wall a hundred meters away, causing the sand and gravel to splash.

Maybe the power of the bullets seen in film and television dramas is average, at most one more small hole is punched, but in fact the power of the bullet is quite large, even if it is just the lead bullet of an arquebus, its power is quite large, otherwise Nor can it penetrate two millimeters of plate armor at a distance of 100 meters.

The dense bullets hit the city head, so that the city head looked like it was blown by the wind, and the gravel flew wildly.

On the spot, two Ming soldiers who were not hiding were hit, and one of them was hit in the head. The huge impact of the bullet caused him to fall backwards with him. After a few moments it stopped completely.

This scene made a few Ming soldiers beside him stunned. One person looked at the red and white things that flowed out of the fallen soldiers' minds, and couldn't help but spit them out on the spot.

Fear instantly enveloped the surrounding Ming soldiers!

"The fire guns of these thieves are quite powerful!" At this time, a middle-aged strong man wearing scales and armor frowned.

A fat middle-aged man in a civilian robe beside him said: "Long Qianhu, the pirate army's fire cannons are so powerful, I'm afraid they can't stop it!"

When the man spoke, he was still crying.

The middle-aged and strong man known as Longqianhu glanced at the civil servant with a hint of contempt in his eyes. This county magistrate surnamed Xu had no responsibility at all. The battle had just begun, so he said he couldn't stop it. Raise the prestige of the bandit army and destroy your own morale. What will the soldiers below hear?

Compared with the county magistrate Su Jiakang, this Xu county chief is not even a little bit worse. Su Jiakang has personally led troops to suppress the puppet Tang thieves several times. As for this Xu county chief, I heard that at the beginning of the year, this person was He was in charge of the defense in Longhua Town, but as a result, the puppet thief army was just under the city of Longhua Town, and before it officially attacked the city, he sneaked away with someone, and finally led to the defeat of the defending army in Longhua Town.

Longhua Town was looted, and even the hoarded military rations were burned.

When he thought that he was going to guard Zhengtai County with this person, he had a headache!

However, although he had contempt for this Xu county chief, Long Qianhu still pressed the contempt in his heart and patiently said: "Master Xu, don't worry, although the pirate army's fire gun is not small, but I have a strong city to defend. There are two hundred soldiers and eight hundred young men in the city swearing to defend the city, and it is not so easy for the bandit army to break into the city!"

However, when he spoke, he was obviously a little lack of confidence!

Whether the two hundred soldiers and eight hundred young men can defend the town of Zhengtai is an unknown to be honest.

Everyone knows what kind of young people who are recruited temporarily, that is, to scare ordinary people, and if they really fight, they are unreliable.

He can really rely on the two hundred guards under his hands!

Alas, I didn't expect that as soon as I took over the defense of Zhengtai County, I encountered a large-scale siege of the city by the thieves. If I knew it would be like this, I should have followed Wang Qianhu and the others out of the city.

This person's name is Long Dajun, who is the deputy Qianhu of the Fairy Shi Qianhu Institute. It has been half a year since he followed Wang Zhitan to Zhengtai County, but this is the first time he has encountered a large-scale pseudo-Tang thief army.

It's just that although he was a little depressed, the city still had to be defended, and he didn't want someone to influence the military's morale while defending the city.

Therefore, Long Dajun said: "Master Xu, the situation is critical now, and please invite Master Xu to go down to the city to preside over the overall situation, and let the young men and people in the city prepare oil, giant trees and boulders in case of emergency!"

The meaning of these words is actually: this is watched by Lao Tzu, how far you go!

However, when Xu Xiancheng heard this, he was greatly relieved. The city was so dangerous, if he hadn't been worried about the bad influence, how could he have run up.

Now Long Dajun offered to ask him to go to the rear to organize the people to prepare defense equipment, he was naturally happy, and immediately said: "In this way, the defense of the city wall will be entrusted to Long Qianhu, and this official will now organize the youth and prepare for the defense. Big boulders and giant trees!"

At this time, the musket team of the Datang New Army outside the city fired again, and this time they fired in the direction of the city gate tower.

With the sound of gunshots, a large number of bullets hit the city gate tower. The sudden bullet made Xu Xiancheng fall to the ground in fright. He even disregarded the majesty of the imperial court official and lay on the ground directly, and then returned his hands and feet. And use it to climb behind a large pillar.

But at this time, Long Dajun had no time to pay attention to this Xu County Chief, because a bullet had hit his chest just now, and the lead bullet easily penetrated the scales on his body!

So much so that he didn't have time to react, the whole person fell down, and the blood immediately spread from his right chest, quickly dyeing the scales on his body red.

"Quick... let them... hide it, don't go out!" Although the fallen Long Dajun was covered in blood, he still wanted to struggle to get up, while still talking intermittently.

Before he finished speaking, several of his personal soldiers rushed up:

"Protect adults!"

"Quick, the lord is shot, get the doctor here!"

"Take the adults to the back!"

Several of his personal soldiers were all his confidants. When the owner was shot, he immediately ran over. At the same time, he hurriedly raised Long Dajun and ran towards the back.

At the same time, some people rushed to find the doctor.

For a time, the entire city gate tower became a little chaotic!

Xu Xiancheng looked at Long Dajun who was carried back by several personal soldiers with trembling, and murmured with trembling in his mouth: "This officer knows that these thieves are not easy to mess with, it's over, it's over, this time it's going to be thorough. Ruined!"

At this time, a hundred cats next to him ran over: "Master Xu, what should we do now, those thieves are coming up!"

After hearing this, Xu Xiancheng cautiously raised his head and glanced outside, and after only one glance, he quickly shrank back!

Although he only glanced at it, he also saw that a group of pseudo-Tang thieves in heavy armor came out outside the city. These thieves were still carrying cloud ladders, and it seemed that they were going to the city.

"Quick, quick, let them shoot arrows, don't let the thieves rush up!" Xu Xiancheng said in a panic: "Once they rush up, we are all finished!"

Long Dajun was injured and was carried away, and now the only one who can command the defense of the city is Xu Xiancheng. As soon as he spoke, some of the Ming army and the young men below began to bend their bows and shoot arrows.

However, no one dared to lean out and aim and shoot again, they all hid behind the city wall and used the projectile method!

It's not that they don't want to, but that the fire guns of the pseudo-Tang thieves are too sharp, and if they emerge, they may be hit by bullets.

They have no time to think about it. The reloading speed of the muskets of the pseudo-Tang thieves is limited. So far, the musket team has only fired two rounds of salvos.

They didn't have the heart to think about it. Although the musket was powerful, it actually hit very few people. The Ming army hit by the two rounds of shooting was only about ten people.

The reason why people are panicking is because the musketeers under Wang Shanxu have all adopted the method of concentrating their firepower on a certain section of the city wall in order to achieve the effect of unilaterally increasing the firepower density.

The increased firepower density caused extreme panic to the Ming army under the shroud of firepower!