In the early morning of November 20, the fourth year of Chongzhen, several soldiers standing guard were sitting in front of the fire on the wall of Wuqiao.

"Zhang Cai, do you think the chaotic troops outside the city will really attack the city? If we come to attack the city, can we defend it?"

"Who knows whether to guard or not. If it weren't for the three meals this day, who would have done this thing?"

"I heard that the bandits outside the city had a civil strife and thousands of people died. Liu Fang said that what he saw with his own eyes was that the bodies were piled up in mountains. If this was the case, we wouldn't have to worry so much."

"Mr. County Master said that he had invited the army from the northern prefecture city to suppress the thieves. When tens of thousands of troops arrive, it will definitely be called the thief army without returning. We just need to defend the army when it comes."

"But how long will it take for the army to come? We don't know what it is, wait, see what it is. The bandits have started cooking, and they are afraid they are coming to attack the city, so go and report to the captain." A soldier appeared outside the city and the fires were increasing. He must have started cooking, so he hurried to the city to notify the captain who was sleeping.

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In the military camp, the soldiers hurriedly took dry food and water bags made of surplus grains and began to work on the camp after breakfast.

Although a day ago, the army was born, causing nearly one-third of the troops to be killed or injured, after hearing that they were going to attack Wuqiao County, no one had any objections or neglect. After all, there was not much food and grass, and even for food, they had to fight. Moreover, the defense of Wuqiao County was not strong, and the soldiers were making various preparations silently.

According to Kong Youde's observation, Wuqiao County was lax in defense and had many wealthy households. After all, it was a county's wealth concentration. As long as Wuqiao was captured alive and Bi Ziyin was plundered, the rich households were searched, they could happily return to Dengzhou.

Another point is that not only Kong Youde has never fought a war, but his firearm battalion has never fought. Now Dalinghe cannot go to it, so he just takes this opportunity to hone the firearm battalion. After all, the future will be an era of invincible firearms. In order to make it bigger when fighting with the enemy in the future, I must improve their combat effectiveness. Practical combat is the best way, and Wuqiao County is just a suitable target.

Looking at the dense army in front of him, Kong Youde sighed deeply. This was his first battle, but he didn't expect that he would fight Wuqiao County.

The soldiers were ready for the 6th period, and a bright color appeared in the sky. It was time to leave. Although Wuqiao County was not far away, order was still necessary.

With Kong Youde's order, Li Yingyuan and Li Jiucheng led the cavalry battalion and the 200-step battalion to go out first to block the city gate. Cheng Xikong followed closely with 600 musket soldiers.

Kong Youde himself brought three hundred artillery soldiers, two hundred musketeers, and the remaining people in the infantry camp to finally come out. This battle was mainly the mission of those infantrymen.

Although the Folang machine cannot break through the city wall, it can still cause damage to the defenders on the city, deter them, provide assistance to the infantry on the journey, and achieve the purpose of training.

As the sky became brighter and brighter, all the troops had arrived at the predetermined location. Kong Youde looked at the thick layer of ice on the city wall in front of him and was speechless. It seemed that Bi Ziyin was not too incompetent. He had done some defenses, although it did not fail to siege the city, which did increase some difficulty.

At first, Kong Youde thought he would attack from the city gate like in a TV series. A bunch of people rushed to the city gate with the rain of arrows on the city tower, and then carried the mulberry to open the city gate. Later, it was revealed that the TV series were nonsense. When the city guard was at a disadvantage, there would definitely be sand and gravel behind the city gate, blocking the city gate. Even if the city gate was burned, it would be fine. Instead of sending more than a dozen soldiers to use their physical gear to fight their strength, the attack from the city gate was not a feasible solution at all, and it would only increase casualties.

Therefore, this time the siege was chosen to be a section of the city wall east of the South Gate. The plan was that the artillery soldiers first used the Folang machine to bombard it for a while, and then officers at all levels of the Infantry Battalion took the lead and used the wooden ladders made yesterday to climb the city, and then two hundred musket soldiers protected them. The infantry cleared the debris used to block the city gate. The main musket soldiers led by Cheng Xikong entered the city to sweep and capture Bi Ziyin alive. In theory, they could completely control Wuqiao County at most two hours.

As for whether there were reinforcements, Kong Youde was not worried at all. According to the fastest calculation, the sender arrived at Hejian Acropolis yesterday afternoon. Even if the commander of the Hejian Guard prepared as fast as possible, he would leave this morning as soon as possible. The Hejian Acropolis was about 200 miles away. Even if all the cavalry arrived, he had already taken down Wuqiao County this afternoon, not to mention that the general guards did not have many cavalry.

Two hundred steps away from the city wall, the soldiers swept out an open space, and fifteen Flang machines were arranged in a row. This distance was outside the range of bows and arrows, and they did not lose their correctness because they were too far away. It happened to be appropriate. The gunners prepared the gunpowder, shells, leads and sub-guns that they needed, and the charcoal fire had already started. They were waiting for Kong Youde to order the firing.

The Folang machine was introduced from Portugal in the 16th century. In the Ming Dynasty, the Folang machine was called the Folang machine. This cannon was naturally called the Folang machine cannon. The cannon weighs between 300 kilograms and 1,000 kilograms and is given multiple sub-guns. Unfortunately, it can quickly open fire. However, due to insufficient airtightness, the range is not far and the maximum is less than two miles, but it is more than enough to be used for siege.

The Folang machine brought this time was 500 kilograms, and the mother gun was about two meters long and could shoot solid shells of three kilograms. Each one was equipped with a six-door gun, so each cannon only needs fifteen people to operate.

Before the war started, the six-door guns were loaded with gunpowder, shells, and fuses. After the war started, the sub-gun was embedded in the mother gun, ignited the fuse, and after the shooting, the sub-gun was taken out, and another sub-gun was installed. The shot sub-gun cleaned up the gunpowder residue, and then reloaded the gunpowder, shells and fuses, waiting for a new round of shooting, so it could achieve extremely high shooting.

Kong Youde looked at the city wall about two feet in front of him and felt something was wrong. He only saw some young and strong people wearing civilian clothes on the city wall, and they all looked quite scared. Logically speaking, there should be nothing wrong, but there was always a hint of uneasiness in his heart.

I thought carefully about whether I had any missing places. There was no missing places. Maybe it was because I was a little nervous when I participated in the war for the first time. So I waved my head, put aside these distractions, and then stepped forward, pointed the knife forward, shouted "Everyone has it, fire the fire."
Chapter completed!