"Grandma, these guys are so bold that they even dare to mobilize the government soldiers!" Zhou Jianliang put down the horn bow and scolded indignantly.

"Soldiers? How can it be? Guo Nu was shorter than him, stood on tiptoe, stretched his neck to look out of the car wall, and slid his right hand from side to side like a fish's fin.

"Beware of the other party's strong crossbow!" Zhou Jianliang pushed him to his feet, and then leaned over and grabbed a wooden shield, blocking his body under his nose tightly. "Don't tiptoe, look closely at the two bandits on horseback. If it weren't for the soldiers, Lao Tzu would have pulled out his eyeballs and stepped on them for you! ”

"The soldiers are disguised as bandits? Specifically to kill my big brother? Guo Nu could see that the two cavalry that were driving away the bandits were indeed well-trained. But in any case, I can't see why the other party is not a bandit. In an instant, his brows were furrowed, and confusion was written all over his fat face, "Mobilizing government soldiers without permission is a big crime of rebellion." They will not be afraid of being known by the Holy One......"

"Kill us all, won't no one know?!" Wang Han put down the other horn bow and pouted and sneered, "Later, you can even easily kill all the bandits outside and avenge us." In this way, there was an explanation to the imperial court, and there was a reason for the mobilization of government soldiers. As for the chronological order, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, so why is it difficult to move his hands and feet? ”

"This, this ......" Guo Nu's eyes widened, and a few beads of sweat faintly rolled down the edge of the iron helmet.

As a well-known evil young man in Chang'an City, he boasts of eating both black and white. Today, I finally understand what is the real black and white! The ones I played before, compared to others, are like children's plays.

"Don't worry, these must be within the expectations of Young Eunuch Zhang." Seeing that he was shocked and couldn't give up, Wang Han's heart suddenly swelled a little unbearable, and he stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, whispering comfort. "If you don't believe it, ask him. Since he dared to use his body as bait, it was impossible for him not to be lenient against the enemy. ”

"Hmm!" Guo Nu agreed, looking for Zhang Qian with his eyes. But I saw that my senior brother was standing on the roof of a carriage, sticking a thick bamboo tube to his right eye, and kept turning around. The elder brother's left eye was always closed, as if he had accidentally fallen into the sand.

"Senior brother, have you adjusted the telescope? How far can you see? Guo Nu immediately forgot about his nervousness again, leaned over with his fat buttocks, and asked with a salivating face.

"It's still not good, I can only look at a rough idea." Zhang Qian took the bamboo tube away from his right eye and handed it to Guo Nu, "And it's very tired of the eyes." See for yourself, you'll know after reading it. Don't forget to watch it for too long, you will get dizzy after a long time! ”

"Hey, hey!" The confusion on Guo Nu's face disappeared completely. He happily took the bamboo tube, stood on the roof of the carriage, and learned from his senior brother just now, with one eye open and the other closed, observing the enemy's movements with the bamboo tube telescope.

Zhang Qian gave an order, and the two family members who originally used shields to protect him immediately changed the protection target to Guo Nu. Zhang Qian himself jumped out of the carriage and began to slowly rub his eyes with his hands.

It was very uncomfortable, and I even wanted to throw up. Because the quality of the glass was not up to par, and the curvature of the lenses was not exactly the same, before setting out, he summoned simple telescopes made by the best craftsmen at hand, and the results were outrageously poor. Along the way, he repeatedly adjusted the telescope, and only improved the telescope to the point where it could barely be used. As for clarity, don't even think about it.

"How?" Wang Han and Zhou Jianliang walked over with concern and asked in unison.

"The monk of the White Horse Sect has arrived, there should be no more other accomplices!" Zhang Qian put down his hand, looked at a pair of red eyes, and responded in a low voice.

"Light wolf smoke?" Zhou Jianliang's eyebrows jumped, his hands clasped together, and his knuckles made a series of crisp sounds.

"You decide for yourself, you don't have to ask me. I'm a complete amateur in war! Zhang Qian knew his own catties, thought about it, and shook his head with a smile.

"Then don't rush, withstand the first wave of attacks first. lest they arouse their suspicions! Zhou Jianliang gritted his teeth and said viciously.

"Then there's no hurry!" Zhang Qian smiled again, as good as a stream. Immediately, he asked Zhou Jianliang very uncertainly, "Brother Zhou, it should be fine." I mean, let you get involved in this kind of thing. ”

"I'm just ordered to escort the train and gunpowder to Shuofang, passing by here, what's the problem?" Zhou Jianliang rolled his eyelids, his face full of disdain, "If someone finds fault in the future, Lao Tzu will tell him that Lao Tzu is taking his brothers at this moment, twenty miles away." As a man in the army, he saw the wolf smoke asking for help in Datang, can he still hide? ”

"That's good!" When Zhang Qian heard this, his mood was suddenly relieved. He exhaled and nodded slightly.

"Even if you put your heart in your stomach, you will rush at the gunpowder, trains, and iron plate armor that you have made, and the Shuofang army will not allow others to touch you casually!" Knowing that Zhang Qian was a chick who had never experienced the battlefield, Zhou Jianliang also smiled and began to take care of the big package, "When the thieves attack again, you can hide yourself in the carriage and be careful not to be injured by stray arrows." I'll take care of everything else! ”

"In this case, please Brother Zhou!" Zhang Qian smiled and saluted, but did not hide himself according to Zhou Jianliang's words. Instead, he picked up a shield and a horizontal knife from the carriage, grabbed them in his left and right hands, and slowly stood behind the wall of the carriage.

For the first time in his life, he participated in a battle of more than 100 people, and he was not nervous or scared at all, which is a lie. However, no matter how nervous and scared he was, at this moment, he couldn't shrink his body into the carriage. Otherwise, even if the dozens of elite border troops under Zhou Jianliang didn't laugh at him, the family members of the Guo and Ren families who traveled all the way would have their morale plummeted.

"Everyone, check the horn bow, carefully select the feather arrows, and try to stick them in the mud ground around you, so that it is convenient to use!" Seeing that Zhang Qian refused to follow his advice and hid in the carriage alone, Zhou Jianliang raised his eyebrows again. However, he didn't say anything to urge him, but quickly turned his head to the people behind the carriage.

Before leaving, Zhang Qian specially borrowed the two hundred family members from the Guo family and the Ren family, and they were all dressed as people at the moment. However, on the chest of each person, a shiny iron plate was hung with a belt. Originally, there was only a kudzu cloth towel to cover the top of the head, and all of them were covered with an iron helmet with a brim.

They often escort goods to the north and south, and they have long been accustomed to bandit attacks. Although the total number was less than one-fifth of the enemy's troops, there was not the slightest fear or panic on his face. Hearing Zhou Jianliang's words, he immediately complied with them, and in the blink of an eye, he filled his own side with well-made feather arrows.

In contrast, the officers and soldiers of the Right Yi Guard, who were hiding near the carriage, were more like Minzhuang. Because they did not know in advance that they would definitely be attacked on this trip, when the first wave of bandits rushed over, more than half of the fifty officers and men fled. The remaining seventeen or eighteen, led by a brigade leader surnamed Chen, shivered with their backs against a carriage in the center of the city.

"Melon cowardice!" Zhou Jianliang scolded disdainfully, but he didn't bother to force Right Yiwei to participate in the battle.

Blocking a round of attacks by the enemy forces outside was an easy task, with the fifty elites of the Shuofang army around him and the two hundred family members specially borrowed by Zhang Qian, it was enough. Allowing the untrained officers and soldiers of the Right Guard to join in will drag everyone back.

What's more, the Shuo Fangjun brothers around him were all wearing iron vests that had only recently been developed by the Ordnance Supervisor. And the defense equipment of the Ren family and the Guo family is slightly worse, and the chest is also hung with a large iron plate.

This is about to become an ironclad army, how many times has Zhou led his brothers to fight against the Turks before? Although the number of people is a little smaller at the moment, the command of the family members is far less satisfactory than that of Brother Shuofang. But if you simply defend and don't attack, it will not be a problem for someone Zhou to guard for three days and three nights!

"Woo-woo, woo-woo-woo-" A low trumpet sounded down the hillside, with a hint of chill. The sunlight overhead instantly began to dim, and a cloud of white clouds drifted through the clear blue sky, leaving a clear shadow on the earth.

In the shadows, the three thieves, who had reorganized their team, began to act together. They take care of each other and form an inverted zigzag array. The Black Wind Village is on the left, the White King Village is on the right, and the minions of the Yellow Leaf Village are mixed with the monks and government soldiers, and they are located slightly behind the center. Supervise the actions of Black Wind Village and White King Village at any time, and look for flaws to launch a fatal blow to Checheng.

The kind-eyed Zen master stood under a big tree 300 steps away from Checheng with a middle-aged man dressed as a bandit and full of military atmosphere. On the side of the two, there were also seven or eight heralds with horn flags behind their backs, who were responsible for liaising with the three components of the "inverted zigzag" formation at any time. In front of the two of them, there were four trumpeters holding horns, taking turns puffing out their bellies, repeating the sound of urging battle to all the minions over and over again, "Woo woo, woo woo, woo woo woo-"

"Alright, alright, got it, it's over, right?" Several small leaders of Baiwangzhai glanced towards the location where the horn sounded, scolding in their mouths, but their legs had to speed up their movements.

Now it is not their big boss Bai Fugui who is talking about it in the team, but a monk with a fixed legal name. Their big boss, who was honestly "protected" by four yellow-faced monks, walked in the center of the entire right-wing attacking team. As for their second master, Wang Chunqiu, who was always suspicious and liked to disagree with others, had long been lying in the ditch under the hillside. I was stabbed several times in the front chest and back, and I didn't see it!

Along with the second leader Wang Chunqiu, who was killed by the monks, as well as more than a dozen middle-level leaders of Baiwangzhai and Heifengzhai, all because they had doubts about today's task, they were immediately executed "military law". As for the cottages, when did there be military law? Which clause in military law says that you will die if you talk nonsense? All the size of the minions are not clear.

The only thing they know now is that if they don't follow the orders of the bitter monk, the yellow-faced monk who is mixed in the team will immediately slaughter their big boss, and then kill them again.

"Woo woo, woo woo, woo ......" The sound of the horn became more restless, and the big boss Bai Fugui, under the protection of the four yellow-faced monks, instigated the mount to accelerate. The minions of Baiwangzhai were also taken to run more quickly. The procession, which originally looked like a square, was dragged into a long strip of twists and turns in the blink of an eye.

The team of the left-wing Black Wind Village was also stretched into a long strip. Stimulated by the sound of horns, two long lines, like the upper and lower blades of scissors, quickly cut towards Checheng. The defenders in the car city all shrank behind the carriage, neither fighting back nor scolding, as if they had resigned themselves to fate.

A hundred paces away from the wall, the minion archer hits the bowstring and throws them into the wall as he runs. The sparse arrow shafts flew out of the ranks, and were distorted by the mountain wind on the way, in vain. The remaining half was successfully shot on the board of the carriage, making a sound like hail hitting the window lattice.

The defenders behind the wall still didn't fight back, allowing the feathered arrows to fall in waves. It's weird, even a little scary. However, the minions of Baiwangzhai and Heifengzhai have no idea what to think about. Stimulated by the sound of the horn, they continued to stride closer to the target, and in just seven or eight breaths, the distance between the two sides was reduced to within fifty paces.

"Knock, knock......" The thunderous drums of war suddenly sounded in the car city. The sky suddenly lit up, the white clouds quickly left, and in the sun, the feathers and arrows were like waterfalls.

The minions of the Black Wind Village, who had already learned a certain lesson from the death of their companions, all slowed down, or raised their shields, or struggled to sweep their weapons or bows in front of themselves, ready to meet the rain of arrows falling from the sky.

This action has saved many lives. The feather arrows that came with the sound of drums, although fast and urgent, were blocked by the shields, and a few lucky ones, even happened to use weapons and bows, swept the shaft of the arrows, and although they were scared into a cold sweat, they successfully escaped.

Look at the minions of Baiwangzhai again, but they are not so lucky. Because they did not understand the situation of their opponents, after they heard the sound of war drums, very few of them made timely defensive moves. As a result, at least thirty minions were hit by feathered arrows and rolled on the ground screaming, bleeding profusely.

The bandits, who were lucky enough not to be shot by the feathered arrows and successfully blocked the feathered arrows, let out a hoarse scream from their mouths, and their legs suddenly accelerated, and they ran towards their targets at a faster speed, trying to start hand-to-hand combat as soon as possible to get rid of the unfavorable state for their side. Everyone's eyes widened, and everyone ran so much that the corners of their mouths were foaming.

The second round of feather arrows broke through the air again, and on the left and right wings, more than 30 minions were put down on each side. In the two teams of Baiwangzhai and Heifengzhai, there were dozens of minions who collapsed on the spot, turned around, and fled for their lives in a hurry.

In the Yellow Leaf Village team at the bottom of the inverted character, two cavalry immediately rushed out on horseback, and the bright steel knives were shining into a row of sawtooth teeth in the sun. With the sound of hurried horses' hooves and war drums, sawtooth swept across the hillside at high speed, cutting down all the fleeing minions in a pool of blood.

If you go backwards, you will die, and if you move forward, there may be a glimmer of life! In the face of the bloody facts, all the minions immediately made a choice. Row after row, screaming and continuing to pounce on the car wall, no longer afraid of the volley of arrows.

Dozens more minions died under the third and fourth waves of feathered arrows. However, with the absolute numerical superiority, the two teams, still with more than 350 minions each, successfully pounced under the car wall.

Because of the proximity, the bows and arrows were useless, and the attackers and defenders, across the carriages, began to strike each other with short axes and throwing spears. In the blink of an eye, the hatchets and spears were useless, and a few groups of minions grabbed the carriage with hooks and ropes, and pulled back with all their might. Most of the minions climbed straight onto the roof of the car or leaned under the car.

Dozens of spears were raised from inside the car city, alternately stabbing at different roofs. Several minions couldn't dodge, were stabbed with spears, and rolled off screaming. At the same time, dozens of spears, piercing the bottom of the car, nailed the minions trying to burrow into the wall to the ground one by one.

The battle situation instantly became tragic, and the carriage was up and down, and flesh and blood were flying. Countless corpses tumbled to the ground, staining the ground red. Blood and death, buying enough time for the attacking side. The carriage, which had been held in by hooks and ropes, began to tilt, and suddenly, with a bang, one of the carriages was pulled over, and the copper measuring instruments loaded with it were rolling around.

"The car city is broken, the car city is broken!" Bai Fugui shouted loudly with excitement, urged his mount, and rushed straight to the gap that his minions had exchanged for their lives.

The four yellow-faced demon Vajra who were in charge of monitoring and holding him hostage on his side reacted faster than him. He jumped off the horse at the same time, took three steps and did two steps, and rushed to the gap in the car city, and the Zen staff in his hand brought four strong winds!

A whole row of spears stabbed out from the gap, stabbing the minions of Baiwangzhai who rushed into the gap first one after another. The obstacle in front of the Demon King Kong was empty in an instant, and the first to rush to the gap swept the Zen staff with all his might, "Click! "Jingle Bell!" With a few sounds, five or six spearheads rose into the sky, and the defenders with spears lost their weapons and scattered in all directions.

"Amitabha-" The Buddha's horn was loud, and the first Demon King Kong successfully rushed into the car city, and his figure disappeared. The other three Demon Vajra who followed him were greatly encouraged and sped up to join forces. At the moment when they were about to rush into the car city, at the gap, seven or eight family members suddenly came up, and a cold light flashed in front of each of them.

"Be careful of the crossbow arrows—" Bai Fugui let out a loud cry from his mouth and decisively fell to the side of the war horse. A cold light swept against his thigh, and the leather armor wrapped around the outer thigh was easily swept through.

"Puff puff puff ......" The sound of metal shooting into flesh and blood made people's scalps flutter. The three Demon King Kong, who rushed into the gap in the car city, lowered their heads and looked at the crossbow rods on their chests, and then fell down with their eyes open.

Bai Fugui, the big boss of Baiwangzhai who escaped to death, did not dare to take a closer look at the battle situation at the gap. Decisively pulled the reins of the horse, and with skillful riding skills, the war horse was pulled into a circle and fled.

The sound of crossbow arrows shooting into the body ...... sounded one after another in several openings in the car wall. The attackers who were the first to rush into the gap, whether they were Demon King Kong, copycat bosses, or ordinary minions, were shot into a sieve one by one and fell in pools of blood one after another.

The morale of the attacking side, which was already very low, collapsed in an instant. Bosses and minions retreat like a tidal wave, moving as fast as possible away from the walls and openings of the car, lest they become the target of their crossbow arrows. Several Demon King Kong and bandit leaders who had already attacked Checheng lost their support in an instant, and they were surrounded by the defenders, and they slashed together. In less than three or two snaps of the fingers, they were all chopped into pulp!

The attacking cavalry on the periphery, who was responsible for supervising the battle, stepped forward again to intercept the retreating minions, but they could stop this batch, but they couldn't stop that batch, and they were carried all the way down. The defenders, who had eased up within the walls, calmly grabbed their horned bows and aimed at the cavalry on horseback to shoot feathered arrows, turning four or five horsemen into hedgehogs.

The cavalry did not dare to take any more risks and took the initiative to withdraw from the range of feathered arrows. The unhindered minions ran faster, and in the blink of an eye, they all retreated down the hill.

"Throw all the corpses out and restore the car wall!" Zhou Jianliang poked the bloody horizontal knife into the ground and commanded loudly.

"Yes!" The brothers of Shuo Fangjun responded in unison, approached the front, lifted the body of a demon King Kong from his feet, quickly ran towards the gap, and then threw it far away.

"Yes!" "Understood!" "Yes!" The family members of the Ren family and the Guo family also coaxed and agreed, carrying away the corpses of the demon King Kong and the bandits in the car city, and then, they straightened the overturned carriage with their hands and feet, and reloaded the bronze measuring instruments scattered on the ground onto the carriage.

The whole process was not disturbed in the slightest. Including the Huangyezhai bandits who did not suffer any losses and the government soldiers dressed as robbers, they also slowly retreated, no longer thinking about any luck.

The first round of attacks was originally intended to be a temptation. At the cost of the lives of more than two hundred bandits, they had already tested the true strength of the defenders inside the walls. Next, the tactics will be adjusted to launch a fatal blow.

"Light the wolf smoke!" Jumping on the high car and sweeping it at the attacking side with a simple binocular, Zhou Jianliang calmly ordered. All over the body, the pride of the military is written.

The current record is indeed worthy of his pride, in the last round of battles, the total casualties of the enemy army have exceeded two hundred and fifty. If it weren't for the joint efforts of the soldiers and the Demon King Kong, at least two of the three bandit teams would have completely collapsed. On the defending side, the dead and wounded, all added up to less than twenty people.

This is mainly due to the new armor and helmets on the shoulders of the people. Although the style of the helmet is extremely ugly, the armor is only a smooth iron plate, lacking any beauty.

"In any case, you can't let Zhang Shaojian have an accident, otherwise, the marshal can let Zhou go, and Brother Shuo Fangjun will also have to drown Zhou alive with spit!" Raising his hand and knocking on the iron vest on his body, and then looking at Zhang Qian, who was slowly moving his muscles, Zhou Jianliang secretly swore in his heart.

The iron vest is only one-third of the weight of the Mingguang armor, and the thickness is only about one cent. As for the helmet, it is so thin that it feels like a straw hat. However, the protection of iron vests and helmets far exceeds all expectations.

Zhou Jianliang saw with his own eyes that the arrows falling from mid-air were easily bounced off by the helmet. And the axes and spears thrown by the thieves through the carriage smashed on the iron vests, leaving only a white spot.

The casualties on his side basically all occurred after the gap appeared. In order to close the gap, the nearby families had to form a formation and engage the attackers in hand-to-hand combat. And the enemy army that rushed into the gap first was either the absolute elite among the bandits, or the Demon King Kong specially cultivated by Buddhism, both in terms of combat effectiveness and combat experience, far surpassed the family ding.

"Whew-" wolf smoke rose up behind him, and was quickly blown into a tumbling oolong by the mountain wind. Zhou Jianliang jumped out of the high car and walked quickly to the silent Zhang Qian, the scar on his face beating slowly.

The two got together to discuss how to adjust their tactics. At the foot of the hillside, Zhao Qing, the captain of the government military school dressed as a bitter monk and a bandit, also got together, reorganized the team, and dispatched troops.

The wolf smoke that swayed up made the bitter mood very irritable. And Zhao Qing, the captain of the government army, was disdainful of wolf smoke.

"Even if you let it go, there are only about 20 catchers and archers in Liuhe County, and you will definitely not dare to come out to find death!" In order to make Ku feel at ease, he patiently explained, "Over there in Jiangzhou Mansion, even if you send troops over, you will have to walk for two hours. ”

"Amitabha!" After reciting a Buddha name in a low voice, his confidence suddenly increased a lot. In two hours, even if he took human lives, he also piled up Checheng, not to mention, he still had a bigger killing move in his hand.

After the confidence was greatly increased, the deployment of troops became smoother. The flowing order was passed down, and in a short time, all the soldiers and horses were regrouped together, and a huge three-fold array was discharged.

The Black Wind Village people who suffered the greatest losses were ranked at the front of the entire team. The Baiwangzhai people, who suffered the second most serious losses, were ranked in the second attack sequence. The people and horses of Huangye Village, who suffered minimal losses, were placed in the third stack together with the Demon King Kong and the cavalry. Most of the weapons were directly aimed at the back of the two stacks of centaurs in front of them.

Because a large number of leaders have been killed or killed in battle, the bandits of Heifeng Village and Baiwangzhai cannot organize effective resistance, so they can only bow their heads and accept their fate. After a while, the irritable horn body resounded in the field again, and the bitter monk suddenly raised his sword and commanded all the horses to pounce on Checheng together.

This time, the minions walked faster, and it only took a dozen breaths to get within range of the defender's feathered arrows. Rows of feathered arrows rose from inside the walls of the car, knocking a large number of minions to the ground. However, the minions who were not hit by the arrows were pushed forward by the monks who followed in the back row, and continued to accelerate forward with weapons.

Forty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps, rivers of blood, corpses piled up into a passage forward. Just when the two thieves of Black Wind Village and White King Village were about to collapse, suddenly, the sound of the horn changed, "Woo woo woo woo", like a monster roaring in a winter night.

The cavalrymen in charge of supervising the battle suddenly rode their horses to overtake the minions, and the soldiers divided into two ways and rushed towards the chariot wall, dozens of flying claws took advantage of the speed of the war horses to fight out, and fiercely hooked the corners of the chariot wall.

"Bang, bang, bang......" The change was sudden, and the family members in the car wall didn't have time to cut the rope behind the flying claws. Almost before I saw the cavalry dressed as bandits, with the speed and strength of their mounts, pull the carriages that formed the walls of the carriage to the side.

There were three times more openings than last time, and they quickly appeared on the wall of the car. The largest gap is two zhang wide. Zhang Qian was taken aback, and decisively rushed forward to help block the enemy army, and at this moment, Chen Heng, the leader of the Right Yi Guard Brigade who was cowering by the carriage in the center, suddenly followed and stabbed him in the back of the heart!