"Lao Shi, amazing! There is indeed a good amount of strength. Admire, admire! Next to another trebuchet, Fang Bing was full of praise for Shi Tianji, who was faster than him, while loading stone bullets.

"Hehe, if you want to talk about strength, if I want to be called second, there is no one on the scene who dares to call first." Shi Tianji, who was praised by Fang Shan, was in a happy mood and said without modesty.

"Lao Shi, you really used all your strength to eat." Bau made a rare joke about Shi Tianji.

"You say this, Lao Shi doesn't necessarily like to hear it. This power of feeding is generally described as a person who reluctantly uses all his strength, which gives people a feeling of inadequacy. But you look at Lao Shi, the big stone in his arms, it is like holding a ball of cotton effortlessly. Shi Lang said to Bau.

"You two guys just talk a little bit and say something that doesn't hurt or itch. Hurry up and get to work! Shi Tianji didn't blame Bau for speaking inappropriately, but urged the two of them to throw stones with all their might.

"Okay, Lao Shi, as long as you can load the stone bomb in time, we will keep it and let it fly to the bottom of the mountain immediately, so that the people of the country under the mountain can have a good taste of this flying thunder." Shi Lang continued Shi Tianji's words.

"Well, voila. It's packed. Launch! Shi Tianji picked up his round arms and kept loading stone bullets.

"Whew...... Hoo pop ......"

The boulder kept being thrown into the crowd of Japanese soldiers below. The mountain road was littered with broken stones and dead and wounded Japanese soldiers.

However, the boulders falling from the sky did not completely block the advance of the Japanese soldiers, and those Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough not to be hit by the stones still rushed up along the staircase road on the west side of the Longshan granary.

"Hit!"

Just as the enemy reached a distance of about fifty paces from the gate of the granary, Luo Shangzhi let out an angry roar at his men, and at the same time, shot the sharp arrow in his hand at the Japanese soldier who was running in front of him with a sword.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"

In an instant, poisoned arrows flew down from the city wall, knocking down the hundreds of Japanese soldiers who were rushing to the front, and their corpses rolled down the stairs, knocking down many of the Japanese soldiers who followed behind.

"Brothers, hit me hard, aim and hit!" Luo Shangzhi shot arrows while loudly encouraging his subordinates around him.

The Japanese army, who had dodged the stone bullets, attacked the granary door in waves, and were shot dead and repulsed in waves.

For a time, on the mountain road in front of the Longshan granary, arrows flew. One by one, the Japanese soldiers who were hit by the arrows screamed and fell down the mountain. The blood of the Japanese soldiers who were shot to death stained the winding mountain road red.

"Iron gunner, aim at the archers above and kill them!" A Japanese officer lying behind the stone ordered in a loud voice.

Among the Japanese soldiers who came to reinforce the Longshan granary this time, there were nearly 200 iron gunners, in addition to those who were stoned to death, there were also nearly 100 Japanese iron gunners rushed up, they dodged the corpses of the Japanese soldiers rolling down in front, and cowered behind the rocks on both sides of the mountain road and did not dare to move forward.

Hearing the order, the iron gunners had no choice but to stand up, each find the best firing position, and aim at the famous archers on the city wall to fire projectiles.

The location of these iron gunners was more than a hundred meters from the granary wall, a distance beyond the range of bows and arrows. The poisoned arrows of the Ming army posed no threat to them.

The firing range of the iron cannon of the Japanese State was far more than 100 meters, and the iron cannon in the hands of the iron gunners posed a serious threat to the Ming soldiers on the city wall.

"Be careful to conceal and beware of enemy buckshot. Wait until the enemy is close

Beat! Looking at more than a dozen of his subordinates who were shot by the enemy's lead bullets, Luo Shangzhi reminded loudly.

The enemy rushed up one by one, and the Ming soldiers, risking being hit by iron cannons, fired the poisoned arrows in their hands at the enemy soldiers who rushed into the firing range.

The battle stalemate lasted for nearly half an hour, and both sides suffered varying degrees of damage.

The stone steps below the granary were piled with the corpses of Japanese soldiers.

The entire mountain road was completely stained red with blood.

The Ming army has also suffered more than half of the casualties.

At night, from the direction of Wangjingcheng, a steady stream of Japanese soldiers were rushing towards the Longshan granary.

As the minutes ticked by, the battle was extremely fierce.

The burning granaries crackled from time to time, the walls had already collapsed, and the howling mountain wind blew onto the burning grain piles, and the wind fueled the fire and accelerated the speed at which the grain was burned.

"My lord, it's almost time." Shi Lang, who was standing next to the trebuchet, glanced at the sky and said to Luo Shiyin beside him.

"How burned is this granary now?" Luo Shiyin looked down at the fire that was still burning under his feet and asked Shi Lang.

"There should be ten ** burned. Even if the enemy starts to extinguish the fire now, but on this Middle Road Peak, they only rely on a wooden barrel to get water, and I think they are a drop in the bucket. Shi Lang replied.

"That's good. Send a signal to General Luo Shangzhi to inform the soldiers below to retreat as planned. Luo Shiyin said to Shi Lang.

"Yes, sir."

Shi Lang promised, took out the Wansheng Franc machine he was carrying from his body, aimed at a horse lantern on the corner tower below and pulled the trigger.

With a "bang" of gunshots, the lantern went out. This was the signal of retreat agreed upon by the Ming military in advance.

"Brothers, shoot all the arrows in your hands, and then, alternately cover the retreat." Luo Shangzhi saw Luo Shiyin issuing a retreat order, and immediately ordered in a loud voice.

According to the consultation between Li Rusong and Luo Shiyin, Luo Shiyin served as the supreme commander of the operation to burn the Longshan granary, and Luo Shiyin had the right to decide on all actions on the spot, and Luo Shangzhi should obey unconditionally.

After hearing the order, the crossbowmen of the Ming army shot the last arrow in the quiver, threw away the quiver one after another, and went down the stairs under the corner tower in an orderly manner to the granary courtyard.

Seeing that the Ming crossbowmen began to retreat, Luo Shiyin ordered the Jinyi guard to shorten the range of the torsion trebuchet, so that the flying stone projectiles could fall as much as possible on the stone steps in front of the corner tower, so as to prevent the Japanese soldiers from approaching the granary gate.

Under the cover of stone bullets thrown by trebuchets, the archers of the Ming army withdrew to the courtyard one after another.

According to the pre-set retreat plan, the Ming crossbowmen were first asked to retreat to the cave hall east of the granary, and then, Luo Shangzhi led a part of his men to guard the door on the west side of the cave hall to cover the retreat of other crossbowmen and Jinyi guards. The route of retreat was the entrance to the cave on the east side of the cave hall that the Japanese used to fetch water.

After a fierce battle, the Ming soldiers led by Luo Shangzhi were less than three hundred at this time, and it can be said that there were heavy casualties.

Luo Shangzhi left thirty sturdy soldiers to guard the cave gate with him, and let the other soldiers retreat along the four ropes that went down to the Han River outside the cave.

On the platform at the top of the Middle Road Peak, Luo Shiyin commanded his subordinates to block the road for the Japanese to ascend the peak with trebuchets, so as to buy time for the Ming soldiers in the cave hall below.

Huge boulders smashed into the stone steps that the Japanese people climbed, causing the stone steps that were not wide to fly sideways, causing the speed of the Japanese people to move forward greatly.

Estimate the Ming in the cave hall below

Most of the soldiers should have withdrawn to the Han River below, and Luo Shiyin ordered his Jinyi guards to stop throwing stones and start retreating.

The Jinyi guards above quickly withdrew to the cave hall below and made peace with Luo Shangzhi.

"Lord Luo, you withdraw first, and I will lead the brothers to cover here." Luo Shangzhi said to Luo Shiyin.

"Okay, Lord Luo, take care!" Luo Shiyin was also not humble, because this was all a pre-agreed retreat plan, and he didn't want to waste his words and delay everyone's precious retreat time.

The Ming soldiers who retreated first went down to the river, then swam to the other side of the Han River and retreated according to the predetermined route.

On the Jinyi Guard, Luo Shiyin, Shi Lang, Ye Ruliu and other members of the detachment and Abbot Xiuneng and others first withdrew to the river, and then, on the bamboo raft of Heigu and her husband, who had been waiting here, went upriver and disappeared into the night.

The remaining Jinyi guards, under the command of Fang Shan, also successfully withdrew to the surface of the river, and then swam to the opposite bank and disappeared into the rocks on the shore.

In the cave hall, seeing that the Jinyi guard had been safely evacuated, Luo Shangzhi immediately ordered his thirty soldiers to retreat.

But at this moment, a "bang" was suddenly heard, and the west gate of the granary was slammed open, and a large number of Japanese soldiers swarmed to kill in the direction of the cave hall.

"Ten of you will stay with me. The others immediately retreated! Luo Shangzhi ordered his opponent.

"My lord, let's stay, you go first!" One of the twenty soldiers who were ordered to retreat shouted loudly.

"Yes, my lord, you go first. We will cover your safe evacuation! Other soldiers also took a stand.

"Alright, don't be wordy. That's an order. Violators, behead! Luo Shangzhi coldly ordered.

The soldiers had no choice but to retreat according to Luo Shangzhi's order.

In the blink of an eye, the Japanese soldiers armed with spears and knives howled and rushed into the cave hall.

Luo Shangzhi held a big knife and led the ten warriors left behind to start a fierce hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

After a fierce battle, Luo Shangzhi led the only three remaining subordinates to fight and retreat, and came to the retreating cave.

"My lord, go! We've got you covered! ”

The three Ming soldiers stubbornly entangled the Japanese who attacked the side, and shouted to Luo Shangzhi, who was already wounded in his left arm.

"Let's go together!" Luo Shangzhi was unwilling to give up his men to escape alone, and brandished a big knife to rescue the three men who were besieged.

The four of them worked together to break free from the siege and retreat to the edge of the cave.

"Kill them!" The Japanese soldiers in the cave hall flocked to the entrance of the cave and entangled Luo Shangzhi and the four of them.

"My lord, let's go!" A Ming soldier took advantage of Luo Shangzhi's inattention, picked him up and lifted him to the edge of the hole, and then, despite Luo Shangzhi's struggle, pushed Luo Shangzhi down.

In order to buy time for Luo Shangzhi to retreat, the three Ming soldiers in the cave hall held the entrance of the cave and fought hard with the enemy until they were hacked to death with a knife.

With the sacrifice of three soldiers to save each other, Luo Shangzhi jumped into the river to win precious survival time and swam to the other side smoothly. By the time the Japanese gunners fired at him from the entrance of the cave, he had already escaped under the cover of the rocks on the shore.

A fire of the Ming army basically burned hundreds of thousands of stones of grain stored in the granary of Longshan by the Japanese people.

Although less than 10,000 stone of grain was rescued from under the ruins afterwards, this grain was a drop in the bucket to solve the problem of feeding nearly 200,000 Japanese soldiers in Wangjing.