It was like a wild rush rolling up on the flat ground, and more than 10,000 rogue Kou shouted in unison, taking advantage of the gap between Li Xiaojun's trebuchet reloading, and strode towards the east of Iron Dragon City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The rogues quickly rushed to the edge of the moat and immediately began to crowd across the improvised bridge.

A number of rogues were accidentally squeezed into a moat more than 3 meters deep by their companions, screaming and struggling, and then disappeared into the water.

When Li Xiaojun threw a stone and launched the earth-shaking thunder again, the Liukou was already prepared, and when he saw the huge earth-shaking thunder roaring, he immediately scattered in all directions.

This time, a total of six earth-shattering thunderbolts exploded, but only more than 300 rogues were killed and injured.

Li Xiao sighed in his heart, this trebuchet is still a backward product that can only save emergencies, the preparation time for launch is long, and the attack speed is too slow, so that the enemy has enough time to deal with it, and the forward speed of the earth-shattering thunder projected by this projection is also a world of difference compared to the rate of fire of the cannonballs fired by the cannonball.

"Bang bang .。。。。。。"

The earth-shattering thunder had just been launched, and forty-six of the fifty Lumi guns were fired one after another, and because of the use of gunpowder with fixed pellets, the rate of dumb fire dropped significantly, while the firing speed was more than twice as fast as before, and it could be fired every minute.

Small three-coin heavy lead bullets with the sound of death were shot out one after another at the rogues who roared and rushed across the improvised bridge, and because the rogue team was concentrated and dense, more than 30 rogues were killed or injured in a volley.

In a short time, the rogues, who had already rushed through the moats, gathered more and more, and there were more than 3,000 people, and they shouted and set up the siege ladders towards the city walls. Soon, there were more than a dozen long, thick siege ladders with hooks on them, swaying towards the eastern wall.

"Rush up, build the city wall, and attack the Ming Dog!"

The deputy general Zhang Hualong saw that he had finally begun to take the advantage, and he was overjoyed, and ordered loudly.

With their own generals cheering up, the rogues burst out in unison and rushed towards the city wall faster and faster.

"Ready, cast!"

With a burst of shouts, 2,000 auxiliary soldiers, in a group of two, one was draped in a burning fire rope, and one was holding the 27-kilogram earth-shaking thunder composed of 15 catties of pig iron and 12 catties of black powder.

"Bang Bang 。。。。。."

In an instant, a total of more than 900 earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown down the city, and the dazzling yellow-red flames that exploded almost simultaneously could blind people's eyes, and in the deafening continuous explosions, the defenders of the city were deaf almost at the same time, and a large number of soldiers were shocked to the ears, eyes and noses of the soldiers were shocked and bleeding.

Li Xiao had long thought of this result, in order to prevent the impact of the explosion on Li Xiaojun himself as much as possible, he had ordered that when the earth-shaking thunder was dropped, the soldiers defending the city should stuff their ears with rags or cotton, and at the same time, after seeing the earth-shaking thunder drop, they immediately opened their mouths wide to reduce the damage caused by the explosion as much as possible.

The earth-shattering thunder that exploded collectively produced a violent shock wave that made the entire city wall tremble slightly. Several of the guards were unsteady on their feet, slipped on their feet, and fell from under the walls screaming, and immediately fell into meatloaf.

Li Xiao even suspected that if it was continuously dropped, the terrifying power of this earth-shattering thunder might blow up the eastern city wall.

Rao is like this, Li Xiao still underestimated the damage and effect of the explosion of 800 earth-shattering thunderbolts containing 12 catties of black powder.

At this moment, under the eastern wall, suddenly everything was silent.

In the case of severe tinnitus, Li Xiao saw that in the choking white fog rising in the sky, more than ten siege ladders, most of which had been torn apart, and even if they were complete, they fell silently and smashed into pieces.

The dense fog cleared slightly, and Li Xiao's soldiers looked down and saw a terrifying scene.

More than 3,000 rogues who had crossed the trench were blown to pieces almost at the same time. Looking down, there were piles of blackened corpses, only a few wounded soldiers wailing and twitching in the ground, but Li Xiaojun, who was deaf from the shock, could not hear their miserable cries at all.

Zhang Hualong, the deputy general standing on the other side of the moat, had his gray helmet dropped, his hair was scattered, his face was scorched black by the earth-shattering gunfire, his ears and nostrils were bloody, and his expression was shocked to disbelief.

In this silent world, Li Xiaojun saw that the large number of rogues who had not yet had time to cross the moat, everyone had an extremely terrifying expression on their faces, as if they had seen the most terrible thing, they threw down their tools and weapons one after another, and fled backwards in a chaotic manner. Zhang Hualong reacted, and subconsciously wanted to escape with the terrified rogues next to him, and took a step to the ground, but fell to the ground with a thud.

He was horrified to find that his right foot, although he was wearing iron mesh boots, was actually cut off half of the sole of his foot by the flying fragments!

Zhang Hualong screamed and fell to the ground unconscious, but fortunately there were soldiers next to him, so he hurriedly picked him up and staggered backwards.

It's late.

Due to the embarrassment just now, Zhang Hualong lost the best time to escape, and his personal entourage Ding Fang set him up and walked a few steps, and a huge earth-shattering thunder caught up with him and exploded not far from his feet.

Zhang Hualong, who was in a coma, suddenly felt that he had the ability to fly, he could clearly feel his body rushing straight into the sky, and strangely, he could clearly feel that his body turned into a rain of flesh and blood at this moment, scattering and splitting.

At this moment, Zhang Hualong found that he didn't feel much pain, but felt that his body suddenly became very light, as if only in an instant, with the thick white smoke rising from his body, he flew to the distant sky.

Zhang Hualong, the senior general of Zhang Xianzhong's department, who would have become the governor of the Right Army of the Great Western Kingdom, was blown to pieces by the earth-shaking thunder in this tentative attack, and his bones were difficult to find.

Zhang Hualong's death made the panicked rogues speed up the pace of escape.

Rao was able to flee so quickly, the earth-shattering thunder thrown by the trebuchets and the lead bullets fired by Lu Mi's hands still caught up with them, causing more than 500 dead and wounded to these people.

The enemy fled extremely quickly, quickly rushing backwards and fleeing.

After a large number of rogues had fled hundreds of paces, the Hongyi cannons on the eastern wall rang out again, bombarding them until they escaped from the effective firing range, and more than 300 rogues threw their bodies on the way to escape.

Feng Shuangli, the general of the rogue who had been watching the battle from behind, his face was pale, his lips trembled, and his fingers trembled before his fingers, but suddenly he fell from his horse with a bang.

The cavalry on both sides quickly supported him, and helped him pinch people, and Feng Shuangli woke up slowly.

"Order, withdraw troops." Feng Shuangli muttered, coughed violently a few times, and said to the soldiers next to him: "Send someone to the west to inform the king and tell him that the Ming army has a large number of firearms to help, and our army's morale is exhausted, so we have to retreat." ”

With tears in their eyes, the soldiers went as promised.

Seeing that the Liukou began to retreat on three sides, the head of the Iron Dragon City erupted in a continuous and huge cheer.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Kill the rogue and get fame!"

"Kill the rogue, go to heaven!"

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The battle to defend the city finally ended, and Li Xiaojun's first battle was victorious.

In total, nearly 6,000 rogues were killed and wounded, but only seven or eight of Li Xiaojun's people fell to their deaths due to the shaking of the city wall during the explosion. It was a complete victory.

Although the spear and shield soldiers at the head of the city were all excited, there was no lack of regret.

This time, the firearms unit completely sang the battle of the protagonist, and he was just an observer, which undoubtedly made the guns and shields quite disappointed.

Those golden ash bottles, also in this battle, did not play any role.

It's just that from this battle, everyone in Li Xiao's army discovered the huge power of the firearms unit, and everyone had a faint feeling in their hearts that in the future battle, the firearms unit would be afraid to keep playing the leading role.

Among these people, the happiest is undoubtedly Zhao Jie, the chief of firearms, who has a smile of great joy, brighter than the sunshine in the sky.

Not long after, several rogue cavalrymen came running over on horseback and asked Li Xiao for permission to send someone to collect the corpse.

Li Xiao agreed to their request, but he attached one condition.

That is, Li Xiaojun had to clean up the battlefield before they could send someone to collect the corpse.

Li Xiao's request made several rogue cavalrymen feel helpless and humiliated, so they had to run back and ask for instructions, and Fang pulled out their horses again to report that the above had agreed that Li Xiaojun could clean up the battlefield first.

Now that the two sides had agreed, the eastern gates were wide open, and a large number of auxiliaries rushed out of the city, and began to collect the armor and weapons that were still usable from the corpses of the rogues.

They cleaned it very carefully, and even the discarded siege equipment was put into the Iron Dragon City.

After all, while the city was still surrounded by the rogues, these siege equipment, broken wood could be burned into charcoal to make gunpowder, and large pieces of intact wood could be made into new trebuchets.

About an hour later, Li Xiaojun finished cleaning. More than 500 pieces of armor were obtained, including a large number of swords, guns and shields.

It's just that all the wounded soldiers who were struggling and not dying were slashed and killed on the spot by Li Xiaojun's auxiliaries, and none of them remained.

Next, Li Xiaojun entered the city with all the harvest, and after Li Xiaojun entered the city, thousands of people came from the Liukou's side, mostly the people who had just filled the hole, and the corpses of the Liukou who died from the city wall to the road were all shipped back and then cremated collectively.

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Under the bloody sunset, the cold and damp evening breeze sucked in the water vapor in the Taihang Embankment River, and wrapped in the rising bloody breath from the dead corpses outside the eastern city wall, whistling and brushing over the low-hanging and depressed blue-black face of Feng Shuangli, the general of the rogue, who stood like a puppet.

Into the, a complete fiasco! Such a fiasco seems to be the first time since Shaanxi raised its army. Feng Shuangli, the general of the defeated army, was extremely hateful.

In particular, the death of Zhang Hualong, as his own deputy general, made Feng Shuangli feel sad about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

This Zhang Hualong, who was in the same village as himself and joined Zhang Xianzhong's hungry rebel army with him that day, is now forever separated from his own yin and yang.

He suddenly remembered that at the military meeting last night, he boasted about Haikou in front of Zhang Xianzhong, saying that he would seize Tielong City and completely wash away the shame of Li Dingguo's defeat last time. Unexpectedly, in the jealous eyes of the generals, he drank Zhang Xianzhong's strong wine, how proud and confident he was at that time, but now he didn't even touch the wall of Tielong City, so he lost nearly 6,000 soldiers, so he had to return in a hurry with the remnants of the soldiers and horses, Feng Shuangli was so ashamed in his heart that he couldn't be more ashamed.

He hesitated for a long time, but decided to go and ask Zhang Xianzhong in person.

"Smack!"

Whip hard and whip Feng Shuangli in the face.

On the horizontal flesh of Feng Shuangli's left face, a deep blood mark immediately appeared, and where the flesh opened, blood dripped down.

Seeing the general Feng Shuangli, who was beaten in public outside Zhang Xianzhong's barracks, Feng Shuangli and his own soldiers, who bowed their heads and followed behind, knelt on the ground one after another, and did not dare to come out.

"I'm going to kill you useless dog! You lost your army and lost your generals, which greatly damaged the morale of our army, but you still have the face to come back to see me! Zhang Xianzhong, who was very angry, held a bloody horsewhip in his hand, and in those vicious triangular eyes, he almost wanted to breathe fire and scolded loudly.

"The marshal, incompetent, the loss of the army and the humiliation of the division, the marshal is punished right." Feng Shuangli, who was whipped, was furious in his heart, but he could only reluctantly admit punishment.

"Good! I'll kill you! ”

Another fierce leather whip was whipped, and a cruel and hideous blood mark also immediately appeared on Feng Shuangli's right face, the flesh was more open, and the blood was dripping down.

Feng Shuangli was ashamed and angry, so he could only grit his teeth with hatred and endure it.

Hearing the commotion at the door of Zhang Xianzhong's barracks, the nearby rogue generals came over to check the situation.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong gritted his teeth and slapped Zhang Xianzhong's face five or six times with a horsewhip, making Feng Shuangli's face bloody and miserable.

Zhang Xianzhong was about to fight again, and his right hand was tightly held down by Wang Shangli, the general on the side.

Wang Shangli, one of the first generals to follow Zhang Xianzhong's uprising, although his achievements were mediocre, but because of his oldest qualifications, he was quite valued by Zhang Xianzhong, after the establishment of the Great Western Kingdom, he was named the former military governor, and his status was still above Feng Shuangli.

Later, after the fall of Zhang Xianzhong, Wang Shangli and Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo and others surrendered to the Southern Ming Dynasty together, but they were not reused by the Southern Ming Dynasty like Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo, so they have always been resentful. When Sun Kewang was defeated and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, Wang Shangli also wanted to lead his troops to surrender, but was discovered by Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Mu Guo, and was finally forced to commit suicide.

Wang Shangli was good friends with Feng Shuangli, and when he saw that he was beaten so badly, he hurriedly tried to dissuade him.

"Marshal, don't fight, don't fight, you really beat Shuangli to death, and it is impossible for our army to turn back this defeat. Our army was only a small defeat, but there were still a lot of opportunities for victory. If you destroy yourself like this now, it will only make the Ming Dog of Iron Dragon City even more rampant. It is better to spare his life, and it will not be too late to make meritorious contributions in the future. Think again. Wang Shangli looked sympathetic and persuaded in a low and earnest voice.

Zhang Xianzhong's right hand clenched the horsewhip, and finally slowly drooped down.

"Feng Shuangli, let me ask you, do you know why you were defeated!" Zhang Xianzhong stared at Feng Shuangli, who was kneeling on his legs in front of him, and shouted coldly.

Feng Shuangli, who was beaten with blood on his face, his skin was open, and his lips were bruised and swollen, he was extremely angry and hateful in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it at all, he said in a low voice: "I never thought that the enemy's artillery was so powerful as the earth-shattering thunder, and I made the mistake of attacking lightly against the enemy, so I was defeated by the enemy. ”

"You didn't expect that! You didn't expect that! Just one sentence, you didn't expect that nearly 6,000 soldiers of our army were buried, and you said it lightly! Zhang Xianzhong saw that Feng Shuangli was not willing to admit his mistake, and he was furious in his heart.

What Zhang Xianzhong didn't expect was that Feng Shuangli gritted his teeth and said loudly to him: "King, the Ming army's firearms are fierce, if our army continues to use such tactics, I think that even if we throw all these 50,000 soldiers and horses into it, I am afraid that it will not help!" ”

"Bastard thing! What did you say! Zhang Xianzhong saw Feng Shuangli say such deflating words, his face turned red with anger, and the horsewhip in his right hand was raised high.

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