The sun is gradually going down, the temperature is gradually dropping, but what is not falling is the temperature of the human heart.

Both the Japanese and our side are actively preparing for the next battle.

I suspect that the Woko must have sent men to reconnoiter behind Xiaoqingshan, and they must have hoped to find the weakness of this nameless city and break through our defenses in one fell swoop.

But from what I've looked around, the city is small, but it's surrounded on all sides, like an iron bucket, so that the other side can't find anything to take advantage of.

Moreover, under my explanation, Zhang Zaiwu and others also laid a mechanism on the cliff outside the back mountain, as long as someone dares to copy the back road, what awaits them will be a merciless burial, and there is absolutely no other possibility.

But we are not without hidden dangers, the biggest problem comes from the inside - on the one hand, there is not much food in the small city, according to the current rebel army plus the consumption of the people, it is estimated that in less than twenty days, the food will be completely exhausted.

On the other hand, disease. Yes, the disease came unexpectedly, which gave Zhang Zaiwu and others a headache.

The problem had already erupted half a month before we arrived, but the rebels persevered with a strong will, buried their sick and dead comrades, and continued to embark on the journey against the Japanese with tears in their eyes.

After we arrived, I brought Karasim, the military doctor, with me for safety reasons, which brought great hope to this small town.

He didn't have enough medicine, but what was the most on the mountain? Plant!

And there are always things in plants that can be used as medicines, at least partially in place of medicines.

So in just one day, Karasim treated more than a dozen seriously ill patients, and provided some hidden rebels and civilians with the best treatment plan that could be achieved so far, and the whole city was jubilant and uplifted for a while.

But the biggest problem is still on the front after all, judging from the angry performance of Shibata Katsuya's army, Jin Anshun's original assassination must have been successful, and only Shibata Katsuzhong's death can provoke Chai Tianjun's angry continuous attack.

The most important thing we need to do now is to let them know that we are actually in league with Hideyoshi Hashiba.

This is also the biggest purpose of our assassination this time, as long as we can get Hideyoshi Hashiba and Katsuie Shibata to clash head-on, our strategic goal will basically be achieved!

What is most likely to be spotted in the dark? One is the fire, and the other is the sound.

But the firelight is not representative after all, and I can't show them a movie.

So, I decided to use sound for this task!

At the third watch, I saw the signal of the nine ghosts Masataka and others on the top of the mountain - a rocket, which indicated that the sneak attack force of the Shibata Army planned to attack the small city at night, and at this time it had already left the camp and began to maneuver in the direction of the small city.

We silently watched the Shibata army on the opposite side, and the number of people seemed to be more than during the day, and it seemed that they were planning to take advantage of the lack of vision at night to crush the forces in the city at once.

But what they didn't expect was that during the daytime, I commanded Zhang Zaiwu's rebel army to build three fortress defense artifacts in the narrow terrain - scattered flower trebuchets!

Such a machine does not require much technical content, to put it bluntly, two triangular brackets fixed to each other, a sturdy spindle that serves as the central pillar of the lever bracket, and the corresponding ropes.

In densely wooded areas, especially tall needle pine areas, it is not difficult to meet such a requirement.

According to the drawings I draw, a few carpenter-turned-rebels led a large group of people to build crude and rudimentary machines in half a day.

The aspect is that the graphics I draw are really simple and they are easy to understand. On the other hand, it is also the huge pressure of survival that makes these people burst out with infinite motivation, and the big tree surrounded by one person can be dried up in less than three or five minutes, which is absolutely unimaginable in the past.

The rest of the people, as long as they could move their legs and feet, and who could see with their eyes, went about looking for stones to use as ammunition, and by night they had already piled up three hills of stones in the playground at the gates of the city.

As long as there are no problems with the scattered flower trebuchet, these stones are enough for the pirates outside the city to know what the end of the world feels like.

They were getting closer and closer, farther and farther away, and when they reached the edge of the trebuchet's range, I shouted as best I could, "Shoot!" Shoot! Don't let go of any of these Shibata family things! This is the order of the Left Minister! Shoot! ”

In the night sky, my voice was heard far away, and I didn't know if I could hear it clearly, so I repeated it several times aloud.

That way, even if you don't hear at first, I'll force you to hear it!

The people under the city wall shouted, and immediately pulled the rope pulling the main shaft together!

The trebuchet spindle suddenly rebounded, and the net bag containing the stones was thrown forward violently! Like a shower, a puff of stones covered the face of the approaching Japanese who were screaming outside the city!

I listened in the city, and while these would-be robbers were being hit by the fierce stones from the scattered flower trebuchet, someone shouted out the voice I wanted to hear:

"Inside the castle walls are the people of Hideyoshi Hashiba! They betrayed! ”

"Yes! Yes! The city is a monkey who doesn't keep his promises! ”

"They've brought the city's defense equipment! Is this to annihilate us completely? ”

"Did they go to war with our army in complete disregard of His Majesty's orders?"

"It must be! You see! Shotgun again! Get out of the way! ”

"Ah!!h

At the same time, the nine ghosts on the top of the mountain, Masataka and others began to shoot at the formation of the Japanese Kou, because our guns are all modified, using simple ** firing arquebuses, almost one gun can shoot three guns.

Therefore, although there were only a few dozen people on the top of the mountain, they were forced to shoot hundreds of people in turn!

This time it is even more confirmed that Yushiba Hideyoshi colluded with the Goryeo people, as long as we can defend this small city, the situation on the entire Goryeo battlefield will be completely rewritten!

The rebels and militia climbed the tower under the cover of the scattered flower trebuchets, and threw stones, rubble, wooden blocks, and everything they could on the pirates below the city, still venting their deepest anger!

I saw Kim Anshun's mother, a physically and mentally injured woman's family, braving the muskets of the Japanese to shoot up the city walls, carrying the cannon stones and wood back and forth with her body bent, and avenging her daughter in her own way!

This is the people's war, and the people's war will be won, I cry out in my heart!

During this whole process, I took Zheng Shibiao with me tightly, and I wanted to educate him to grow up little by little from real battles, and grow up better than him in history. And my purpose is to pass on my thoughts through him, to his son Zheng Zhilong, and then to his grandson, Zheng Chenggong.

"Do you understand? Sometimes you only have one, but you can make it exert the power of ten! I gently patted Zheng Shibiao on the shoulder and hid behind the cover and roared loudly.

It's not that I don't want to whisper, it's that the battlefield is too noisy to be heard if I don't roar loudly!

Zheng Shibiao is a good young man, in such an environment where people shout and neigh, what he shows is not fear and fear, but a strong excitement!

"Yes! Yes! I understand what you mean, sir! Zheng Shibiao yelled at me excitedly: "We want to perform!" You want to make your strength stronger than what you really have, right? Mr! ”

That's what I made him call me, and he doesn't make any sense. In Chinese culture, Mr. originally meant teacher, but maybe one day he will understand that this phrase Mr. is far more than the meaning that the teacher represents, but a kind of sustenance to the younger generation, to the future, and to the inner wish of the unattainable!

"That's right! You're right! I shouted at Zheng Shibiao: "But it's not all right! Sometimes you have to perform more powerful than your real strength, and sometimes you need to disguise yourself so that the enemy can't figure out your true strength, understand? ”

"Understood, sir! Pretend to be whatever we need, right? Zheng Shibiao grinned happily as if he had gotten his favorite toy.

Perhaps, in his young mind, for the first time, he discovered that the war that had always been terrible was much more interesting than he had imagined!

It turns out that in addition to killing and being killed, war also has such a magical way to open! It turns out that human wisdom really has such a powerful ability that it can change the day!

He turned his head and watched as the people in the city shouted as hard as they could, throwing the stones of the scattered trebuchet out of the wall again and again, and then pulling the spindle back into place and reloading it with the stones.

The cycle goes on and on.

It suddenly occurred to him that the warriors who had previously seemed to be tall warriors, or archers, even musketeers who were hard to come by, seemed to be nothing more than that.

The real strong man does not need to use his hands, what he needs to move is wisdom.

In this process, Zheng Shibiao's thinking changed little by little. He watched me command Zhang Zaiwu's men in battle, repelling the attacks of the Japanese again and again, and finally completely strangling their idea of taking the city in every inch of the city below, and for the first time in his young heart, he felt a heartfelt reverence for everyone other than his father.

One day, I want to be a person like Mr., crisscrossing the battlefield, and be ten thousand enemies!

The scale of the battle was not large, but the intensity was very impressive, and in less than two hours, more than 3,000 Japanese were killed under the not wide city walls!

Such a battle can no longer be simply called a battle, but a one-sided but one-sided blow.

This will be a great blow to the morale of the beaten side, and the Japanese in the city are very obvious, they shout and scream, but no one dares to go into the range of the scattered flower trebuchet.

The fierce fighting between the two sides gradually turned from the fierce fighting in the first half of the night to a long confrontation, and such a confrontation was extremely advantageous to us, because we were in danger to defend, but the Japanese were standing in the open terrain out of thin air, facing the rain of bullets and bullets on our side at any time.

But in the long run, it will be unfavorable to our side, because we have no reinforcements, at least no clear rescue force.

The confrontation lasted until dawn, and the Japanese invaded several more times, but they were stubbornly blocked by our side again and again.

After a night of attacking, the Japanese were also tired, and it was clear that they were ready to withdraw their troops temporarily to recuperate, and then look for a suitable opportunity to attack.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, on the hill southwest of where the Japanese were located, another army appeared, and the number of people was at least 8,000 to 10,000!

As soon as they appeared at the top of the mountain, the fierce musket fire began to rain down on Shibata Katsuie's troops!

Who is it? I was overjoyed in my heart, took off the telescope behind my back and looked into the distance, only to see the word "Maori" on the big banner fluttering in the wind, which further demonstrated the powerful majesty of this army!

But I know that where is this Maori family's troops, it is definitely Shimazu Yoshihisa invited by Moqing!

But who cares! As long as it's the troops of the Yushiba family, of course it's better to write Maori, so let Shibata Katsuya and Maori Terugen go! Shimazu Yoshihisa picked himself really clean, this trick is worth learning!

I whispered to Zheng Shibiao.

And the arrival of the army of the "Maori" family also became the last straw that crushed the Shibata Katsuya army, and the Shibata army like a tide finally couldn't suppress the fear in their hearts and began to retreat quickly in the direction of Wang Jing!