In the luring battle at night, the enemy soldiers who retreated in panic did not come and took away the four light guns outside the city.

Zhang Lixin ordered people to carefully pull it over, and when he carefully inspected it from a distance, he determined that the artillery used by these Baoding Zhongshun battalion infantry was much more sophisticated, it seemed to be a small cannon with a body of nearly 100 catties called "Three General Cannons", and the quality of the bore with a wooden stick was one level stronger than that of the artillery captured from the camp city of Qianhu.

The gunpowder, which had not yet been used, was also obviously in the form of paper packaging granules, which was much stronger than the black powder seized from the cities operated by thousands of households, which were only suitable for incendiary materials and were of extremely poor quality. It's just that the enemy in the city didn't come in a hurry and didn't bring much, and the total was only a hundred pounds of gunpowder and more than a hundred rounds of various shells. Obviously, the infantry artillery of the Zhongshun battalion did not think that it would cost much to temporarily go out of the city to suppress the bandits.

In addition, although the armor on the corpses of those enemy soldiers outside the city is also very incomplete, that is, it is a two-grade armor, but the quality is much stronger than the "soil reconstruction" armor that he has re-repaired before.

Zhang Lixin weighed it for a moment, and finally decided to use the pressure box bottom scheme that had not been used to fight again. Because as long as there are more black powder and armor of this quality, and the preparation time of the craftsmen who have been obtained can undoubtedly be further improved.

"Whether or not I have a chance to attack, I have decided to teach the opponents at the head of the city some more lessons. If there is a safer chance, is there anyone willing to go to the city again with me and the other commanders of the Freshman Battalion? Zhang Lixin asked.

After more than a month of missionary work and previous performance, it was not in vain, especially when Zhang Lixin said that he would take the lead in doing so, many people silently stretched out their hands to signal. In this way, eight people who performed better on weekdays and were ready to follow Zhang Lixin and others to launch a siege in the city were selected. In view of the possible situation, Zhang Lixin also arranged the entire assault process in advance...

After the Zhongshun battalion outside retreated into the city, Wang Wenqing also completely strengthened his determination to temporarily defend the city and wait for Ma Qianzong to return to help during the day. Because obviously, judging from the many cannons and powerful trebuchets displayed by the thieves outside, there may be hundreds of thieves ambushing outside the city at any time. Otherwise, could it be that all these people could operate these weapons with some technical content at such a level?

"Quick! All the people on duty go to town! Several officers and village leaders shouted at the head of the city. Because I didn't think that there was a large army with absolute superiority in strength besieging the city, there was no need to take turns to rest, and the strength of more than 1,000 people was quickly deployed to the city. Furnaces of ash flasks, hot dung, auxiliary firearms, and other gunpowder weapons were also lit in various parts of the city. Archers with soft bows, ranging from one to three buckets, are ready to draw their bows and arrows.

It seems that a dark shadow in the distance is still hovering in the southeast of the camp city, with more than 200 infantry troops with the Baoding Zhongshun battalion as the core, and two cannons are deployed in the southeast corner, which has been attacked twice.

At the same time, a lot of wooden planks against stone throwing were erected in the southeast corner of the city. It's just that even though it's arranged, it's just just in case. Even Wang Wenqing, who has always been cautious, thinks that even if the thieves outside the city take a big risk, they will choose other directions.

However, what no one expected was that a dark shadow in the distance seemed to be approaching its original position in the southeast corner of the camp

"Shoot fast!" With the shouts of the military leaders at the head of the city, the rockets were accompanied by a continuous stream of three-eyed guns, and many man-operated bows and arrows, like locusts, pounced on the five catapults approaching from two directions.

Twenty soldiers of the freshman battalion, carrying mud-coated wooden shields with "wet mud quilts" on their backs, marched backwards, and when they approached a distance of about forty or fifty meters from the head of the city, almost every one of them was hit by at least two to five bullets and three to ten arrows.

However, even if the rocket with the flame fell on the wet mud quilt, which was not very thick, the flame was quickly extinguished on the wet mud quilt. Only two fighters were wounded by the three-eyed gun projectile that bounced off the trebuchet. It's just that at a distance of a few dozen paces, it only causes minor injuries like riot-proof projectiles.

When he found the position where he had made a mark when he had arranged the battlefield before, Zhang Lixin quickly ordered to start loading "fire bombs"

In addition to buckshot or pottery bullets, what is the best thing to throw against an opponent with some protective cover on the head of the city?

Zhang Lixin thought of the copper water that burned the fire. However, although the technology of two or three thousand years ago can do it, it must have basic blows and decent stoves, which can not be easily done under the condition of having a certain degree of concealment and portability in the field state at night. It is relatively easy to use and carry a small stove with no blast requirements, and even if you use charcoal, you can only have an estimated furnace temperature of about seven or eight hundred degrees.

Another way is to throw a few hundred degrees of melted lead into a liquid state seems more feasible, and some people have suggested that the pottery bomb can be burned in a furnace to the temperature of a briquette...

However, the final plan was to throw a crockpot ash bottle that burned to the point of seven or eight hundred degrees. The clay pot with the handle was filled with lime and a small amount of charcoal, and was temporarily lit in the field stove that was used as an ammunition box. When used, the hot clay pots filled with hot lime are taken out with an iron hook, placed in four "funnel pots" coated with fireproof earth by the trebuchet, and then thrown. This not only requires a certain amount of preparation time, but also has the possibility of "work-related injury".

Therefore, when preparing for the battle a few days ago, it was finally decided: the first wave of attacks throws "hot gray bullets", of course, according to the calculation: assuming that the opponent notices eye protection, the killing efficiency of hot gray bullets relying on kinetic energy and hot objects does not seem to be much better than pottery bullets or lead bullets, mainly to break the defense. There is also a goal to seek luck: if there are regular defenders on the city, and there are a lot of gunpowder weapons, I wonder how likely is this scattered hot ash to detonate some of the gunpowder of the city's defenders?

And just like that: in a little more than a minute, the team finally pulled the trebuchet to its intended position at the cost of three minor injuries. Twenty soldiers of the Freshman Battalion, with mud shields and weights on their backs, slammed their arms against the levers of the counterweight trebuchets, and in the blink of an eye threw into the air thirty four-kilogram clay pots filled with charcoal and hot lime that had been burned dark red and faintly shone with fire.

Because the speed of charcoal burning is not the same, the position of the clay pot on the pylons at the other end of the stone thrower is different, even if it is put at a distance of about forty or fifty meters, and the weight, direction, and position have long been carefully prepared, the dispersion error range still reaches about one-tenth.

But even so, most of the hot ash cans that emitted a dark red glow and a temperature of about six or seven hundred degrees were thrown onto the city.

It seems that the seven-pound clay pots that flew down from the night sky at the relative height of the seven-story building, which seemed to be built up of wooden planks and bed boards at the head of the city, were smashed and collapsed in an instant. The firelight suddenly sounded with the wails of many people.

It was only a few seconds later, the hot lime and charcoal that glowed like fireflies really ignited the gunpowder and rockets of many of the Zhongshun defenders on the city, and there was a lot of chaos again with the light.

Hot Ash Bullets are cumbersome to reload. Zhang Lixin believes that even if he delays a few seconds more on the battlefield, the killing effect will be greatly reduced. Therefore, the second wave threw the more convenient "hot lead canister", which had a compartment in the lead canister and was itself a small stove. Because it is a liquid thing, it does not need to be too small and dispersed. One large, four small, five trebuchets threw a total of 12 hot lead canisters with a total weight of about 120 kilograms.

Perhaps the heavier object was thrown farther away, and twelve clay pots containing more than a dozen catties of four or five hundred degrees of liquid hot lead fell on the top of the city closer to the depths, and once again smashed many wooden planks on the city head and ignited at the same time.

However, the 400 catties of hot objects in the throwing area between a few breaths made at least 70 people in the southeast city of the camp, which was already heavily armed, either directly scalded and burned, or lost their eyesight in the hot lime. There were also people who were not directly burned, but when reinforcements came from a farther position, they guessed the hot ash and lead, and did not prepare special fireproof shoes, and fell on the hot ground.

The attack of hot lead bullets began again, and in a short time hundreds of people were killed and wounded on the top of the city, and the nature of the wounds was still terrible, and the hundreds of defenders who had gathered in the vicinity broke back.

Zhang Lixin, Wang Wei, Li Yi and others, who had already made preparations, did not hesitate any longer and gathered to prepare to fight in the city.

However, at this time, the trebuchet began to move further to the second firing position, which had been marked three days earlier, and continued to launch projectile attacks, until there were no more people on the entire southeast corner of the city wall, a distance of about sixty meters, and the eight warriors carried the ladder board and braved the arrows that had been shot from the inner city to put the ladder board on the top of the city.

Cautious and cautious adversarial deduction thinking is faithful to the value of this time. The first wave to reach the top of the city was not Zhang Lixin and his men, but a scarecrow who hung it at a 45-degree angle with a long rod like a fishing rod... Sure enough, some remnants of the enemy were lucky enough to hide behind the battlements, and once again stabbed them with their long forks. Zhang Lixin and others, who were hiding under the ladder board of the city, personally released arrows at a distance of about a few meters, covering four more courageous warriors to climb the city, and Zhang Lixin and others also climbed to the top of the camp that was not too high.

Almost at the same time, the trebuchets began to load hot coal bombs that would shatter when they fell to the ground, and suppressed the enemy groups that had retreated some distance further above the city.

Even so, because of the disparity in strength, Zhang Lixin and the others, who had climbed to the top of the city, still felt the three-eyed projectiles or stray arrows that were constantly being fired sporadically in the dark night.

It's just that: even the Zhongshun battalion in Baoding Mansion is not as elite as the border army or the Ming army on the battlefield in Liaodong. There was no such thing as a decent bird gun or a large arquebus. The bow and arrow were also far from the level of the Manchurians. The stray bullets and stray arrows fired from a distance of dozens of meters did not pose much threat to Zhang Lixin and more than a dozen other people wearing armor and shields for the time being.

According to the preparations and objectives in advance, Zhang Lixin and the others, who attacked the city, certainly did not plan to rely on such a small number of men to really take down a city that was still defended by at least hundreds of soldiers who could fight. These people are not the white-armored soldiers of Jianzhou, and it is impossible for them to defeat the Kan Zhan officers and soldiers with absolute superiority in strength in the attack under the condition of having great initiative. Once the other side recovers and launches a counteroffensive again, there will be a great danger ...

Therefore, after capturing the city, Zhang Lixin and others focused on replenishing the wounded and sick arrows and knives of each enemy soldier, and capturing the armor on the corpse of the enemy soldier as quickly as possible. Even a lot of thick wooden hooks and packages with ropes attached to them had been prepared, and the things to be seized were thrown under the city first, and then they were pulled back to save time.

In this way, in a matter of moments, there were already more than 30 sets of barely decent armor, more than 40 pieces of three-eyed guns, and hundreds of catties of sporadic qualified black powder that had not yet been ignited were hung on hooks and thrown into the city or loaded with packages...

Feeling that the soldiers who were covering under the city had begun to throw pottery bombs again, Zhang Lixin and others, who realized that there was not much time, quickly and quietly withdrew from the city with hooks and cables, and fled outside the throwing danger zone as fast as possible with their shields on their backs, and pulled the things they had just captured.

The whole process took no more than ten minutes or so, but many of the bravest fighters in the group were sweating.

It was clear: while the battle was well prepared and lucky, it was still a huge adventure. It's just that Zhang Lixin subconsciously felt that in order to maximize the hard combat effectiveness of the team after that, this risky offensive was still worth it...