Although the Japanese pirate reinforcements did not ride horses and marched on foot, each of them moved as fast as a wheel of fire, rushing towards the east gate of Suzhou City, leaving behind a trail of dust.
"Men, Suzhou City is ahead. Chief Xu has already succeeded and controlled the east gate of Suzhou City. As long as we rush to support Chief Xu in the first time, Suzhou City will be ours. You can pick any girl inside. As long as you have a strong waist and strong kidneys, you can do not only double Flying Swallows, but even a group of Flying Swallows!"
While Chen Dong led his Japanese pirates to attack the city gate, he laughed loudly and used women to stimulate the pirates.
"That's right, the gates of Suzhou are already open, just like a woman taking off her pants, all we need to do is rush in and conquer her! There are countless young ladies with delicate skin and tender flesh in the city, and there are countless shiny gold, silver and jewels in the city. Go ahead, the women are yours, and the gold, silver and jewels are yours too."
Ma Ye also used vulgar words, women, gold, silver and jewelry to stimulate the Japanese pirates under his command, asking them to speed up again and again.
"Woman, woman, gold, gold, ah ah ah, charge forward, charge forward..."
The Japanese pirates were stimulated by Xu Hai and Ma Ye and screamed, their legs flying, running all the way towards the city gate, as if they were not going to the battlefield to support, but to the amusement park to rob women and money.
The Japanese pirate reinforcements rushed all the way, leaving a trail of dust behind them, and the distance from the city gate was shrinking.
Prefect Shang, who was standing on the city wall, watched as the Japanese pirate reinforcements in the distance rushed towards the city gate at a speed visible to the naked eye. He seemed to see the fate of the city being destroyed and people being killed approaching. Cold sweat flowed down his face and back like a rainstorm.
"It's dangerous, it's dangerous..."
Prefect Shang muttered to himself in fear, wishing he could slap himself in the face several times to stop him from listening to Zihou.
But it's too late to say anything now!
The only way to save Suzhou City and himself was to quickly wipe out the Japanese pirates who were causing chaos in the city and then close the city gates. As for whether the Zhejiang army entered the city or how many people entered the city, he could not care less.
But... ...
Seeing the Japanese pirates attacking the city walls, killing people everywhere, and advancing step by step, Shang Zhifu was in tears. Not to mention killing the Japanese pirates in the city, it was good enough to stop the Japanese pirates from attacking the city walls.
As for wiping out the Japanese pirates?! Haha, the reward for killing a Japanese pirate has risen to a sky-high price of five hundred taels, but our side is still being defeated by the Japanese pirates and is in a very bad state. The Japanese pirates are even in a precarious situation and are trapped on the stone steps.
If we want to wipe out the Japanese pirates in the city, we can't do it with the soldiers we have now. It will only be possible if reinforcements arrive!
But, damn it, the Japanese pirates' reinforcements are getting closer and closer, why are our reinforcements still not coming!
Magistrate Shang looked around but still could not see any sign of reinforcements. He gnashed his teeth in anger, and a strong sense of despair grew wildly and uncontrollably in his heart. It was over, it was over this time...
Compared with the frightened and anxious Prefect Shang, the more critical the situation became, the calmer Zhu Ping'an became.
"Hold on the outside, and quickly reload the muskets inside." Zhu Ping'an gave the order calmly, directing the Zhejiang army to fight.
The three rows of soldiers on the Zhejiang Army's perimeter used bayonets to hold off the Japanese pirates' attack. The rest of the soldiers quickly loaded gunpowder, bit open the oil paper ammunition bags with their teeth, poured the gunpowder into the musket barrels, tore open the lead bullet bags, poured in lead balls, tamped them with iron pipes, and poured primer into the gunpowder door. These seemingly cumbersome steps had been practiced countless times by the Zhejiang Army, and they were already familiar with them. They only took a few breaths to complete.
"The ammunition has been loaded." The soldiers reported one after another.
"All fire guns, ignore the pirates outside, aim at the wave of pirates in front of the city gate, and hit them hard."
Zhu Ping'an saw that all the soldiers had loaded their ammunition, and ordered everyone to concentrate their firepower to attack the Japanese pirates in front of the city gate.
At once, thousands of guns fired at once. Bang, bang, bang. The dense and orderly sound of musketry rang out, and a cloud of smoke filled the air.
Although the wave of Japanese pirates that rushed out of the city gate were strong in individual combat, they were disorganized and undisciplined. Although they caused considerable losses to the Zhejiang Army at the beginning, they could not break into the dense and neat bayonet formation of the Zhejiang Army.
Because they did not charge into the formation and did not mix with the Zhejiang army, they became sitting ducks for the Zhejiang army's muskets.
After the neat and dense gunfire, a large number of the Japanese pirates fell instantly.
There were only about 400 Japanese pirates in this wave. After a short battle, dozens of them had been killed. Now there were only about 300 of them, and about 1,000 muskets. On average, each Japanese pirate could get two or three muskets.
This wave of Japanese pirates was so close that the muskets were fired almost at their faces. Although the hit rate might not reach 100%, 70 to 80 percent would definitely be no problem.
Of the more than three hundred Japanese pirates, almost two hundred fell after this sudden wave of firing from thousands of guns.
Of this wave of Japanese pirates, there were only less than a hundred people still standing on the field, most of them were injured and their positions were loose.
Kill him while he is ill.
"Bayonet, charge!" Zhu Ping'an stretched out his hand and pointed forward, commanding the Zhejiang army to charge forward with bayonets.
In an instant, the Zhejiang Army's bayonet array was directed at the remaining less than a hundred Japanese pirates. Before these pirates could recover from the volley of thousands of guns, a sea of white bayonets rushed in front of them. No matter how high their martial arts skills were, facing so many bayonets, they could only struggle desperately. They could block one bayonet, but not two. They could block two, but not three...
At the same time, Liu Dadao, who occupied the city gate, also led a hundred Zhejiang troops under his command and rushed towards the remaining Japanese pirates, cooperating with the Zhejiang army's main force to attack from the front and back.
This time, the targets of the pincer attack were less than a hundred Japanese pirates.
The Japanese pirates had almost no armor protection, while the Zhejiang troops were fully clothed in cotton armor and were armed to the teeth.
The Japanese pirates who fought desperately would either die or be crippled if they were stabbed by bayonets, but the Japanese swords in their hands were almost all blocked by the Zhejiang soldiers' cotton armor.
The Zhejiang Army's cotton armor had a large protective area, and the gaps between the armor parts were also well blocked. In the life-and-death battle, the Japanese pirates found it difficult to seize the gaps.
Unless some individual Japanese pirates were fearless and willing to stab the Zhejiang Army in the face with their Japanese swords, even though they were stabbed with multiple bayonets, they could inflict fatal damage to the Zhejiang Army.
However, there are only a few Japanese pirates who are so fearless and brave that they are willing to die. The Zhejiang army is not a sitting duck. They will not let you stab them in the face, and they will dodge.
In the end, only three of the Japanese pirates succeeded in dragging the Zhejiang army to their deaths.
In less than ten breaths, the Zhejiang army wiped out the Japanese pirates who rushed out of the city gate at the cost of more than ten casualties.