When the fireworks rose halfway up the mountain, Liang Wensheng knew that Xu Tangyi and they had occupied the first walled gate. He immediately ordered Ding Zhuang, who was setting off smoke at the foot of the mountain, to stop the smoke and bring weapons to quickly go up the mountain along the dense forest to reinforce Xu Tangyi.

Duan Qianhu led the soldiers along the mountain road to carry cannons and quickly went up the mountain with baggage to reinforce. Suddenly, more than a thousand people rushed up the hill shouting for killing. The shouting and killing sound resounded throughout Ma Qi Mountain, the momentum was huge, and the shouting shook the sky.

The bandits in the cottage heard the shouts of killing under the mountain, and they were so frightened that their faces were colorless, and the two trembled, such as mourning, the timid and even incontinent, the urine soaked the pants, and they wore less in summer, and they could smell a smell of urine in the village.

At this time, Ji Chao and Chu Ying hurried to the wall, and when they saw these people one by one, Ji Chao felt a sadness in his heart, thinking that such a cowardice had not yet started, so he was scared like this, and it was difficult to defend the cottage. In order to boost morale, he shouted: "Brothers, don't be afraid. They only captured the first wall, there are more than 400 people in our village, as long as they dare to come forward, they will be stoned, I don't believe they are not afraid of stones! As long as they are repulsed and disabled, they will not dare to attack again! ”

Chu Ying also shouted: "They are only more than a thousand people, and there are tens of thousands of boulders in our village, as well as rolling logs. They are not enough for us to stone! We are condescending, occupying the position, afraid of his birds! ”

After the encouragement of the two, these panicked bandits calmed down a little. Reluctantly in their positions, ready to fight.

There were more and more officers and soldiers in the open field outside the cottage, but they all gathered here and did not attack again, and the two sides kept facing each other like this. Chu Ying on the walled wall was uneasy in his heart, it was obvious that the officers and soldiers were still waiting. Because there was a pile of stones in front of the open field, the rolling wood and stones could not hurt him at all, and it was impossible to open the door and kill him. These bandits simply don't have that courage.

After more than ten minutes, Duan Qianhu finally led the soldiers and lifted the cannon up, and the baggage was also in place one after another. Xu Tangyi hurriedly ordered Ding Zhuang to set up cannons, light fires, and add water.

On the wall in the distance, the bandits looked at the four big guys who came up and wondered, especially Chu Ying, he had been worried about the big general cannon, but obviously the four big guys who came up didn't look like the big general cannon.

At this time, a bandit with good eyesight acted as a commentator: "What are these officers and soldiers doing, how can they bring up four big kettles?" Hey, you see, it's a kettle, they added water to it, and now it's on fire again. Or are they thirsty to boil water to drink? These soldiers are really exquisite, and they still bring such a big kettle to boil hot water to drink. ”

Another robber said, "They are so numerous that they don't need such a big kettle to drink." ”

The bandits burst out laughing.

Chu Ying stood on the wall and thought hard, what are these officers and soldiers going to do? What do they boil water for? Is it really boiling water to drink? But just to boil water to drink, they went to great lengths to carry them up from the bottom of the mountain? No, there must be a demon when things go wrong, it's better to be careful, I have to stay away, I can't stand in the front.

Seeing that a pillar of incense is about to burn halfway, it will be launched immediately. Xu Tangyi took out the telescope He Zhiyuan gave him and looked at the wall for a while, and suddenly he found a familiar face! I was shocked, how could it be him? He adjusted his focus and looked at it carefully, and yes. Although he hasn't seen each other for more than ten years, his face doesn't have the vigor of his youth, and there are more vicissitudes of life, but this face is familiar to him.

He handed the binoculars to Ma Wu, pointed to the person in the distance and said, "Look at that person, do you know him?" ”

Ma Wu picked up the binoculars and looked at it and said, "That person is the big boss chasing the wind and whipping Ji Chao." ”

Xu Tangyi chuckled in his heart, and sure enough, he guessed correctly. But he didn't have the surname Ji before, why did he get the surname Ji later?

In fact, the current Ji Chao is Qian Heng, the son of Qian Yue, a comrade-in-arms in Antonwei. At that time, Qian Heng was only fifteen or sixteen years old. He and Qian Yue had a lifelong friendship, so the two families got along very well, and they also escaped together when they fled, but later ran away halfway due to the pursuit of officers and soldiers. Xu Tangyi thought about it carefully and immediately understood that he changed his name in order to escape the pursuit of officers and soldiers, since this was the case, he had to find a way to keep him, and it was not in vain that his father saved him.

Thinking of this, Xu Tangyi ordered the gunner: "Wait for the loose bombs, adjust the muzzle of the cannon to target the crowded place in front of you, pay attention to avoid Ji Chao, the big boss, I want to catch him alive, I can't kill him." ”

Chu Ying, who was standing behind the crowd, saw the officers and soldiers in the distance adjusting the muzzle of the cannon from the gap, and he immediately felt bad, this was definitely not a kettle, but more like a general's cannon! So he was more careful to be on guard. But the group of bandits next to him hadn't figured it out yet, and they were still talking about it together.

While the robbers were talking casually, they saw a puff of white smoke coming out of the spouts of the four large kettles in the distance, and almost simultaneously there was a loud bang. Before they could figure out what was going on, a cloud of nails and stones rained down on their faces. Then there was a scream, and dozens of bandits were knocked to the ground. Some were killed on the spot, some were seriously injured, covered in blood, lying on the ground convulsing and wailing in pain.

Ji Chao reacted immediately when he saw this scene, shouting: "Hide behind the wall, don't stand on the wall." ”

Chu Ying was secretly glad that he was hiding behind the crowd, and he was thinking quickly in his heart, this cannon is so powerful, it is estimated that it will not last for an hour, and the cottage will definitely be lost. It's time to slip away.

Thinking of this, he said to Ji Chao: "Big boss, I'll go and drive the people in the dungeon here, we will use them to resist for a while, I don't believe that the officers and soldiers will shoot at the people." ”

"Okay, you take a few people and go quickly!" Ji Chao replied, not expecting him to slip away.

Chu Ying took a few bandits and left in a hurry, and when he was halfway there, he said to the bandits: "You go to the dungeon first, I'll go to the toilet with a stomach, and I'll be there in a while." ”

Several bandits had no doubts, agreed, and ran to the dungeon.

Chu Ying hurriedly ran to his room, found the ropes, dry food, and some fine soft silver taels that had been prepared, and ran to the back of the cottage with Niu Erdan.

At this time, all the people and horses of the entire cottage arrived at the wall in front of them, and there was no one behind. Chu Ying asked Niu Erdan: "Where is the cave you are talking about?" Let's go. When it was too late, the officers and soldiers attacked. ”

So, Niu Erdan led the two and hurried to the back of the cottage, came to the edge of the cliff, and found a big tree. Niu Erdan said: "Tie the rope to this tree, slide down the rope, and when you are about five feet above the water, you will find a hole in the cliff. When the officers and men retreated, we jumped into the lake and swam out. ”

"Jumping in the lake? I can't swim! Chu Ying shouted in despair.

"It's okay, I will. When I get ashore, I'll find a boat to pick you up. Niu Erdan said.

"You have to come." Chu Ying swept away his original arrogance and said almost pleadingly.

Niu Erdan simply said: "It will definitely come, you save my life, and I will repay it." ”

How did he know that a few days ago he also suggested that Ji Chao kill them, and it was Ji Chao who saved his life, not Chu Ying who saved him.

So the two of them slid down the rope into the cave one after another, and finally escaped.

At the same time, Xu Tangyi ordered the gunners to fire a second round of shotshots, and the bandits suffered a loss and learned to be obedient the second time. I found a place to shoot early, so there were not many casualties in the cottage.

Xu Tangyi immediately asked the gunners to adjust the muzzle of the gun, and fired four more solid shells at the gate of the village. Where could the wooden gate withstand the blow of the shells, and only two rounds of shelling were carried out, and the gate was shattered.

Ma Wu saw that the gate of the village was broken, and he was about to rush upwards as soon as he greeted him, Xu Tangyi shouted: "Come back!" You kid don't want to die? Watch out for their rolling logs! ”

Everyone stopped and stared at Xu Tangyi in surprise. Duan Qianhu was also anxious at this time: "Captain Xu, the breaking of the gate is a good opportunity for the brothers to rush upward, why did you stop it?" ”

Xu Tangyi didn't answer him, but shouted at Jiang Yuanqing: "How many second kicks are there?" ”

"How much more?"

"Let it all out this time!"

Jiang Yuanqing agreed, and led his brothers to start firing oversized second kicks again. The bandits in the stockade were able to dodge the shells, but not the mustard powder. After a while, the cottage was filled with smoke, and everyone had tears and snot flowing down their faces, and they all temporarily lost their combat effectiveness. Taking advantage of this gap, Xu Tangyi shouted: "Brothers, rush! "Rushed forward first.

Ding Zhuang of the village saw that his captain took the lead in rushing to the peak, and everyone else also rushed up. Duan Qianhu saw that Ding Zhuang was rushing in front of him, where was he willing to lag behind, and shouted: "Brothers, follow me!" He also rushed up after Xu Tangyi.

Other Ding Zhuang were infected by this and also rushed upward. For a time, the narrow mountain road of just 200 steps was crowded with people. They shouted one by one, holding steel knives and spears, and rushed desperately towards the cottage.

The bandits in the stockade saw that the crowd rushing up below could not see their heads at all, and they were so frightened that they ran backwards. Ji Chao shouted desperately, trying to stop their jump. But the defeat was like a mountain, and the frightened bandits were a rabble with their own ghosts, who still cared about the orders of the big bosses, and ran backwards in a swarm.

Ji Chao saw that the general trend had gone, and he had no power to return to the sky, so he could only run backwards with everyone, but where could he run? Running to the back is also a dead end. Thinking of this, he sighed: "That's it, instead of being a fleeing ghost, it's better to be a man who died in battle!" ”

With that, he pulled out two steel whips from his back with both hands, and fought with Ding Zhuang who caught up. I saw him dancing with two whips, as fast as black lightning, whirring in the wind, and after a while, four or five Ding Zhuang were knocked to the ground by him. At this time, he heard a loud shout: "Chasing the wind and whipping Ji Chaoxiu is going rampant!" Everyone get out of the way, I'll take his dog's life! ”