The stones on both sides of the road were blackened by the oil. The gunpowder mixed with sulfur burned and gave off a choking smell, and Zhao Xingde and Du Fujiao beside him were choked with tears. The smoke was mainly upward, and it was conceivable that the Hassans above the mountain roads were even more uncomfortable. "His grandmother's," Captain Ten, Jian Cheng, who covered his mouth and nose with a sweat towel drenched in water, still scolded angrily, "and let me chop up these dog mongrels." ”

The Hassanites guarded the narrow mountain road with a strong crossbow made of steel, and just now the smoke and fire burned so that those Hassan disciples could not defend it, Wang Tongdeng led his team, with a water-soaked silk cloth on his mouth and nose, and touched the mountain wall towards the pass, but he did not get close, but suddenly a burst of crossbow arrows shot out from a high place, and the iron crossbow arrows made of pure fine iron fell on the cliffs and mountain roads, clanging bells, and shooting out scattered sand, fortunately the sergeant dodged quickly, and only one sergeant was shot in the arm.

When the sergeant was dragged down, his face was pale, and his iron crossbow arrow was stuck in the crack in his armor before he could pull it out. "Undo your armor!" Marching Sima Huang Zongdao shouted, he is a doctor and a langzhong. The sergeant who was shot was named Chun Yushang, and when he saw Huang Zongdao's nervous face, he smiled and said, "There is Lao Huang Sima, it is not very painful." Then he scolded, "The dog thief makes a strong crossbow." After the iron armor on his left shoulder was untied, Huang Zongdao didn't dare to take the arrow at will, and used a pocket knife to cut a hole in his sleeve, and his face changed suddenly.

I saw that the wound was already red and swollen, and there were small bumps scattered beside it. "The arrows are poisonous." Huang Zongdao was shocked, and hurriedly strangled Chun Yushang's wound tightly with a cooked cow belt, raised his head and said to him in a deep voice: "Chun Yu, this arrow is coated with poison, I can only dig out the surrounding flesh and crossbow arrows now, you have to hold on." ”

Chun Yushang's face also changed, and he said with a forced smile: "Although Huang Sima makes a move, snort, Chun Yushang is not a Kansai man." ”

Huang Zongdao didn't have time to say much to him, and waved his hand to ask the two sergeants to hold Chun Yushang down. He roasted the knife on the fire next to him for a moment, and then stabbed it above the wound, cutting deep into the flesh, and immediately the blood flowed profusely. Chun Yushang trembled, his face turned much paler in an instant, but he still gritted his teeth and froze motionless. Huang Zongdao pulled out the arrow and a large piece of red, swollen and blackened flesh, cleaned the wound for Chun Yushang several times with medicinal solution without pausing with his hands, and then wrapped the wound with cotton wool and gauze, then took a breath, wiped the sweat on his forehead, and comforted Chun Yushang a few words, but saw that his eyes were red, it was terrifying, his heart sank slightly, and asked: "Chunyu, you are dizzy and have chills on your body." ”

Chun Yushang endured the pain and replied, "This ghost weather is a little cold. His grandmother's, give me a sip of wine sweat. ”

"No, you can't drink right now." Huang Zongdao said in a deep voice, his ears were so cold that his teeth chattered, and Huang Zongdao ordered the regimental training soldiers to take a blanket and wrap it around him for two days.

The battle on the mountain road ahead continued, and Ming Hongdu was guarding the pass.

"Okay, let me go." Jian Cheng knocked the iron shield with a horizontal knife, and the sergeants of Du Fujiao's team also held the iron shield and looked at Zhao Xingde.

"Nope." Zhao Xingde flatly refused. He already knew that the Assassin Sect used poisonous crossbow arrows that pierced through armor, and he didn't want to sacrifice his soldiers in vain, so he only frowned and considered countermeasures, he looked up at it, and behind the steep pass in the thick smoke, he didn't know how many poisonous snakes were hidden. It is conceivable that every time the Xia army threw fire oil cans and ignited them, these people would retreat and take shelter for a while, and after the flames were extinguished, they would come out to defend again.

He said secretly, "If only there was an iron barrel cannon." "Unfortunately, the artillery was too heavy to be towed in a short time. Thinking of this, a flash of inspiration suddenly appeared in his mind, and the earth-shattering thunder dead man who looked at death as if he were at home appeared in front of him.

"General Duan, the last general thinks that he can use a stone cart to throw the ignited sky-shaking thunder behind the pass." Zhao Xingde said to Duan Huaixian, the earth-shaking thunder is a sharp weapon to defend the city in the Central Plains, and it is impossible for Kangju City to be unprepared.

"Can you be sure that the pre-ignited earth-shaking thunder will be thrown with a stone thrower?" Duan Huaixian hesitated, what Zhao Xingde said This method seems to be whimsical, the length of the medicine of the earth-shaking thunder is different, and the burning time is uncertain, the stone-throwing of the stone-hairer is far less accurate than the artillery, and the weight of those oil canisters is very different from the sky-shaking thunder, and it takes repeated attempts to get it accurate, but now, there is no time.

Duan Huaixian was groaning to himself, and suddenly found that there was some coolness under his feet, and when he looked down, a lot of clear water flowed down the mountain road, it was winter, and the flowing water formed ice not long after he was on the mountain road, and the mountain road was on both sides of the mountain wall, narrow and steep, which was not conducive to attacking on the back, and now it was even more slippery, and it was easy to fall if he was not careful.

"If it's done right, there should be no problem. Let's give the last general a try. Zhao Xingde said in a deep voice.

"Okay, then let you try, if not, raise the iron shield and attack it." Duan Huaixian nodded. Waving his hand and marching Sima Jin Changtai took his military order, and rode back to Kangju City to transfer a hundred earth-shaking thunderbolts. The defenders of Kangju City did not dare to slack off, and after receiving the notice, they transported it overnight in a camel cart, and the next morning, they were sent to the bottom of the mountain.

According to the angle and force of the catapult and the difference between the weight of the earth-shaking thunder and the oil tank, Zhao Xingde re-estimated the distance between the catapult and the target, repeatedly calculated the parabolic route, and test-fired three or five rounds at the bottom of the mountain, making a few corrections. I also marked the general length of the Heaven-Shaking Thunder Medicine Twist, and tried it a few times, and the time it took for the lead to burn from there to the end was slightly more than the time it took for the catapult to be thrown behind the enemy's pass. He urged the sergeants to carry the horses and horses to the launch site, and only five of them were placed in a pile next to the stone truck, and the others were continuously transported by the sergeants from the farther stack of ammunition.

After repeatedly talking to the gunner of the stone truck about the essentials of the launch, Zhao Xingde refused Du Fujiao and took the initiative to ask the fire to be ignited, personally took the fire fold in his hand, blew it on the side of his mouth, and approached the medicine primer. After the bright and dim firelight, the gunpowder primer began to burn, and the hearts of the surrounding sergeants were all hanging in their throats, the power of this earth-shattering thunder was not small, once it exploded, the surrounding area was either dead or disabled. Behind the boulder a few zhang away, Captain Duan Huaixian looked at the field of the stone cart with a solemn face, and in the distance, the sergeants with bows and shields held their breath.

The cannon of the stone cart looked at Zhao De's raised right hand without blinking. In the northwesterly wind, he held the hammer of the cannon high in both hands, shaking slightly.

Zhao De's face was leaning in front of the gunpowder primer, carefully watching the burning position, which put life and death outside the degree, so that everyone next to him couldn't help but feel a chill.

Suddenly, the beating spark spread to the pre-calibrated position, "Put!" Zhao De shouted violently, and his right hand waved down violently. The sound shook the surrounding valley and reverberated faintly.

The cannon hand of the stone truck was stunned for a moment, and then came back to his senses, the cannon hammer "bang" smashed on the teeth, the tightened cow tendon machine spring made a gurgling sound, the torque drove the rock-throwing arm, weighing more than 100 catties of earth-shaking thunder, with huge inertia, with a flickering wind, thrown out into the air, in Zhao Xingde's eyes, drew a perfect parabola, almost unmistakably fell behind the enemy guarded pass, almost without pause, it was a loud "boom", the mountains responded, Even the snow on the mountain tops in the distance seemed to tremble slightly.

"Good!" Wang Tongdeng's right fist hit the mountain wall. Beside him, Chun Yushang's face was already cold, and his body twitched from time to time. Huang Zongdao said that this is a symptom of snake venom.

"Come again!" Zhao Xingde waved his hand, and another earth-shattering thunder was placed on the stone cart, and he still personally observed the order. A huge roar resounded through the valley again and again. The mountains responded, the beasts panicked, and many of the Hassan cultists who had been hiding behind the stone pass were blown to a blur of flesh and blood.

"Our Zhao Dutou is a man." Du Blowhorn said to a few centurions with a smile on his face. Duan Huaixian also exhaled lightly, it was not easy for the sergeant of the Chengying Battalion to be selected and trained, and if it was not a last resort, he would not want to take it out and fight.

After Zhao Xingde fired more than a dozen cannons, he felt that the bow spring tendon of the stone thrower had been slightly relaxed, and one or two of the earth-shattering thunderbolts that were emitted gradually fell in front of the pass. He asked the gunner to stop firing for a moment, found a piece of paper, and recalculated the position of the catapult with a pencil on a rock. Although the three marching horses all knew how to observe the sky and position, they had never seen the location of the stone cart estimated on the spot, and they looked at him with some surprise as they were so accurate.