This is probably Wu Zheng's only mastery of the musket tactics of this era.

Sixteen artillery pieces, from beginning to end, were deployed on the northern walls.

Condescendingly, this is the only way to increase the range, whether it is a field battle or an offensive and defensive battle, it is correct to deploy it on the city wall.

Everything is ready, only the north wind is owed.

When Wu Zheng was uncertain, the cavalry of the Qing army finally came.

When the horizontal black cavalry line of the Qing army appeared in the eyes of the defenders, the recruits began to get nervous.

Their hands were shaking.

Everyone's eyes were secretly aimed at Wu Zheng.

Wu Zheng was also nervous, this time he made an unprecedented attempt, so as to strengthen his determination to organize 30,000 recruits into 30,000 musketeers.

The Qing cavalry stopped advancing three miles from the city wall.

Send a group of dozens of scout cavalry, charge to the city gate, and then quickly turn in front of the city gate, while shooting arrows at the city head with a draw.

Dozens of arrows swept over the heads of the defenders with screeching sounds.

Although it didn't hurt anyone, the shock to the recruits' hearts was unparalleled.

Wu Zheng didn't move, his face was still calm, even if he was pretending.

Because Wu Zheng's every move at this time was a kind of guidance for the defenders' recruits.

Calm, Mount Tai collapsed and his face did not change, and it was an introductory cultivation that a general must practice.

Wu Zheng knew that these dozens of scouts were just fire reconnaissance by the Qing army.

They test the ability to counterattack on the walls and decide from which relatively weak position to attack.

After three consecutive cavalry shots, the Qing scouts saw that there was no reaction from the city, so they returned to their own formation.

Wu Zheng originally thought that the enemy army should attack the city now, right?

What I didn't expect was that from afar, the Qing army generals led by him waved their hands.

The Qing cavalry slowly spread out from the center to the sides.

Eight wagon-loaded cannons appeared in the middle.

Wu Zheng was stunned.

Before Wu Zheng could come back to his senses, eight small cannons began to shoot at the head of the city.

Fortunately, it was a solid bullet fired, and if it was a flowering bullet, Wu Zhengzhen didn't know how many recruits on the city wall still had the courage to stay in peace.

But even so, many recruits jumped up screaming.

This made those foreign musketeers in the first row roll their eyes with disdain.

In fact, these solid bullets caused some damage to the buildings of the city walls at most, and basically had no lethal effect on personnel.

The panic of these recruits made the secrecy meaningless.

But just when Wu Zheng was about to give the order to open artillery to bombard the position of the Qing army's artillery.

Something strange happened, the Qing cavalry began to move in the direction of the city gate and began to accelerate.

Wu Zheng was very puzzled, the Qing army understood that there was an ambush on the city wall, why they wanted to attack instead.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that in the eyes of the Qing army, the unknown is terrifying, and it is common sense that there are defenders ambushing and resisting at the head of the city.

Since entering the customs, the Qing army has been invincible, there is no city that cannot be attacked, and more of it is the Ming army that has collapsed when it heard the wind.

Needless to say, the 5,000 cavalry of the Qing army had to capture a small county town with a wall no more than one zhang high.

Perhaps the commander-in-chief of the Qing army was still laughing, how could the defenders, who couldn't even hear a few cannon shots, block a volley of our 5,000 cavalry.

The so-called crooked attack was correct, and the panic of the recruits made the Qing army weaken its vigilance, so Wu Zheng did not give the order to open artillery, and wanted to lead the Qing army closer to the tactical purpose, inadvertently, it was actually achieved, which is afraid that it is the will of heaven.

If the Qing army remained at 200 paces and not 150 paces, the musketeers would not have played any role at all.

But the Qing army has launched a general offensive at this time, and they are also rushing for time to attack the city, and for the cavalry, there is only one way - cavalry shooting!

Close to the city walls, interspersed left and right, sideways riding and shooting.

The defenders of the city were wounded with a barrage of arrows, and then the gates were blasted open with artillery, and the cavalry poured in.

Therefore, when the attack was launched, the artillery of the Qing army kept firing at the head of the city, but not directly at the city gate.

When it is said slowly, it is fast at that time.

The cavalry charge of the Three Mile Land was only a breath and a breath.

The cavalry of the Qing army rushed to the city wall in three columns, and then after approaching the city wall, they quickly turned left and right in the direction of the city gate, formed three lines on the left and right, and shot arrows at the city head sideways.

Dense arrows come like locusts, and unlike solid cannonballs, cannonballs are straight, but arrows run in arcs.

This is also the reason why it is possible to suppress the crossbowmen on the city walls.

Recruits on the walls began to suffer casualties.

But this did not affect the counterattack of the Ming army.

Because if the arrows fired by the cavalry were to go over the city wall to kill and wound the soldiers, they had to aim higher than the city wall, otherwise they would be blocked by the city wall.

The opening of the battlements is lower than the highest part of the city wall, so the battlements are often not the target, and at this time, whether it is attacking or defending the city, the shooting does not need to be aimed, and it is often aimed at one direction to shoot and kill in the face.

Wu Zheng quickly ordered that the artillery be aimed at the position of the Qing army's artillery, and the muskets began to fire in three stages at the same time.

It was a massacre.

It even exceeded Wu Zheng's imagination.

Even if it is a new soldier, as long as it is fired, a row of projectiles shoots out, often without aim, and the Qing cavalry seems to have crashed into it by itself, and then falls down in pieces, forming a gap.

The follow-up cavalry could not stop the horses from galloping wildly, and had just filled this gap, while the second row of musketeers was just firing, and the first row of musketeers who had already fired retreated and reloaded.

After three rounds, the recruits were getting more and more comfortable, and at least hundreds of Qing cavalry had fallen under the city.

In fact, the equipment of the Qing cavalry was no less than that of the Ming cavalry, they were dressed in leather armor, and the leather armor also had an inner lining, and inside the inner lining, there was also a silk vest.

In this era, silk fabrics were also extremely luxurious in the Ming Dynasty, and ordinary officials could not afford to wear them, but they could be used by the Qing court to equip the army, which can be said to have made a heavy bet.

This is to protect the cavalry from arrow wounds, because the infantry restrain the cavalry only the bow and crossbow are the most lethal, cavalry is usually wounded by arrows, but the arrows have barbs, and often pull out the arrows when healing the wounds will cause a second wound.

The silk fabric is dense and tough, and the arrows are often shot continuously, once the arrow is hit, the silk fabric will sink into the body with the arrow, so that as long as the silk fabric is pulled, the arrow can be easily removed.

This is an effective way for wounded soldiers to heal quickly and return to the battlefield.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Qing army was not afraid of arrows on the city wall at all, but today, they miscalculated.

Three rounds of muskets were fired, just a blink of an eye between breaths.

Nearly a centimeter in diameter, a red-hot projectile made of lead is obviously much more lethal than an arrow.

Hundreds of people fell in the blink of an eye, so that the Qing army had no time to react.

At the same time, sixteen artillery pieces at the head of the city fired in unison, and the position of the Qing artillery was covered with smoke and dust.

The Qing generals panicked at this time and instinctively retreated, wanting to get out of the range of the city's artillery, and this retreat was two miles.