Qianhu Xu Zhong commanded the defense of the South Gate, this time the thieves were attacking the city at the South Gate, looking like it was a shocking momentum, but in fact, it was just a one-sided slaughter on their side, and under their own arrows like rain, those thieves could not take a step beyond the thunder pool at all.

In fact, I can see that this is a repetition of the thief's old trick, that is, using human lives to consume one's offensive and defensive equipment, and consuming one's physical strength and fighting spirit.

But don't you know, not only do you have enough arrows here, complete offensive and defensive equipment, but also the rich rewards promised by the county, after experiencing the shock and unbearable just now, those signings now regard the killing of thieves as a bounty hunting activity, and for a while the morale is like a rainbow, those signatories are all excited to scream, while opening the bow and arrows, while loudly reporting the number of kills, shooting, excitedly jumping feet, shooting away, and cursing in annoyance.

The spearmen and shields who were about to stop the thieves stretched their necks one by one, their eyes were red, and they watched with envy as those archers hunted for rich bounty food, and pulled those archers from time to time, licking their faces and asking to change positions with them.

How could the rising archers who were shooting take this great opportunity? As a result, in some places, there were cases of swords, shields, spearmen and archers pulling and fighting, and if it weren't for the bullet pressure of hundreds of small banners, there would have been infighting.

Thousands of households Xu Zhong is rarely cared for, and he is happy to see such a scene appear, rob it, grab it, anyway, there are enough thieves outside the city, and the donations raised are rich enough, the most important thing, even if it is not distributed, those money and food have nothing to do with themselves, and they have become bounty distribution, which is also a way to improve morale, so as to increase the chance of holding the city, as long as the city is held, it is their own great merit, I can't say, I am the first thousand households in the Ming mainland to have real military merits, as soon as the war is over, there is a division in the report, then his own promotion is also a certainty.

In fact, this is your own benefit, the people are boiling, it is your civil official supervision of the local disadvantage, and I have no responsibility as a general, but the people you tossed are full of grievances, and the displaced people are everywhere, but it is the opportunity for me and other martial artists to be promoted.

When I think of the proud place, I already feel that I have made steady progress, and I am already fluttering when I walk.

When the killing was in full swing here, Xu Zhong was also dreaming leisurely, a pro-soldier who was sent to Xicheng to supervise the battle came in a hurry, looking at the pale face of the pro-soldier, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart, and hurriedly ended his dream, and said in his heart: "It's not good, look at this situation, is there something wrong in Xicheng?" ”

Without waiting for the pro-soldier to speak, Qianhu Xu Zhong grabbed the pro-soldier and lowered his voice and asked, "What's so alarming?" Could it be that something is wrong in Xicheng? ”

The pro-soldier hurriedly whispered without waiting for a breather: "Master Qiqi." Thinking that this is wartime, he hurriedly changed his words: "General Qiyu, the thieves in Xicheng are powerful, and our brothers have suffered heavy losses, so they can't stand it?" ”

"What? How can this be? That thousand households Xu Zhong was stunned on the spot, how could the thieves in Xicheng be so powerful? At this moment, the kung fu made the officers and soldiers who relied on the deep trenches of the high city suffer heavy losses, and there is still a risk of not being able to support it? Could it be that when I think of this, I can't help but shudder.

After being stunned for a moment, he immediately grabbed the neck of the soldier again, and continued to lower his voice and asked, "How can this be?" Could it be that there are more thieves in the West City than in the main battlefield of the South City? Could it be that someone deliberately released the water? ”

Seeing his master's anxious and frightened look, the soldier hurriedly explained: "The thieves in Xicheng are only less than thirty percent here, and they have not signed a sign against the water. ”

When Xu Zhong heard this, he put his heart down, let go of the hand holding his own soldier and let out a sigh of relief. "It's okay, it's okay, but since that's the case—"

"Master, it was the thieves in the West City who started shooting their bows and arrows at the brothers in the city from the beginning."

"What's this? Could it be that the official and military standard weapons cannot take advantage of the terrain advantage? ”

"However, the thief used a strange bow and arrow, the bow was higher than a man, the arrow was four feet, the thickness of the little finger, just outside the range of our bow and arrow, the arrow came, the momentum was extremely strong, but the giant shield and blue brick could be pierced, and the Chinese were all killed with one arrow, and the brothers were beaten and could not fight back."

Yes, here we can't fight back against him, but Xicheng gave himself the opposite.

"How many dead and wounded were there in that city?" Qianhu hurriedly asked.

"Ten stops are dead, three stops, and there are two or three stops, and there are serious injuries and can't fight again."

This loss immediately made Qianhu Xu Zhong gasp, this battle has just begun, let his side lose half, then this battle will not be able to fight, fortunately, this is in the city offensive and defensive battle, if this is in the field, the consequences are clear with his heels.

According to the practice of the officers and soldiers, if you lose three achievements on the battlefield, you can count it as a defeat, and if the damage reaches forty percent, then it can only be regarded as a fiasco, fifty percent? It would be close to annihilation, for the rest of the soldiers turned around and fled without a trace.

"What are you doing in a daze, leave it to Lao Xue here, you hurry up and follow me to Xicheng, there must be no accident there." Xu Zhong immediately made a decision, handed over the Nancheng garrison to the deputy Qianhu, and rushed to Xicheng with his family.

Mizhi County is small, and there was a lot of time when he arrived in Xicheng, and when he arrived, the arrow array of the stars had withdrawn to the formation, and began to fill the moat step by step.

Xu Zhong was lying at the mouth of the female wall, and he saw that his bow and arrow were helpless against the ordinary quilts, and the moat was being quickly filled.

Although the number of thieves in this group is much smaller than that in Nancheng, most of them are strong, especially the central part of the thief array, which is the elite of the thieves at a glance, and has the various siege methods of this thief, so I have to re-estimate the strength of the thieves.

Could it be that the thieves in Nancheng all use the old and weak women and children as meat shields as the main force, in fact, to attract their main force and attention, and play a game for themselves? This is the real thief breakthrough?

It's careless, it's really careless, it seems that the non-muddy really has the ability to write, and the essence of the hero, dare to take tens of millions of lives to cover for the elite here, this is not what the hero can do, who else has this kind of scheming?

Fortunately, you have gone too far and let me see the flaws, then I will never let you succeed.

Thinking of this, there was a kind of pride in his heart to compete with the traitorous male, and he suddenly turned around and shouted to the soldiers who followed him: "Come on, bring our treasure at the bottom of the box, I want to surprise these poles that don't know the height of the sky." ”

When the soldiers heard this, they shouted together, turned around and ran down the city noisily.

That big killer weapon is the elm spray in this world now, this is the trump card of rice fat, it is a sharp weapon that can only be taken out at the most dangerous time, but now it seems that it can only be taken out early.

Elm spray, which actually appeared in the Yuan Dynasty, is a disguise of artillery, that is, a simple artillery, made of high-quality mountain elm.

Elm is divided into elm and mountain elm, mountain elm is also called mountain flower elm, the elm itself is the growth period of the long texture is fine and hard, the north takes him as a beam, can not rot for hundreds of years and does not deform, the mountain elm is harder than the elm.

Mountain elm mainly grows in the stone crevices of the northern mountains, cold and drought resistant, the wood is more dense and hard, often hundreds of years to grow to a diameter of 20-30 centimeters, like this to reach nearly 40 centimeters is quite rare. Due to the long growth period, most of the farmers in the old days used him to make axles and ploughshares, which were even more polished than iron, and because of the fine and hard wood, the patterns were fine and beautiful, and the rich and noble families were mostly used to make high-end furniture. However, because this tree species is too hard, most people who live in the north know that they have to be done by old carpenters and use the best tools to do it with a lot of effort.

It is used as a substitute for copper or iron cannons, but it has less charge than copper cannons or iron cannons, but the effect is no worse than that of copper cannons or iron cannons. Because it did not require technology and was inexpensive, it was widely used in the northern cottages, forts and peasant armies at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

But after all, he is still wood, and the service life of this thing is very short, just five or six cannons, not to mention, the armament of rice fat has been relaxed for a long time, that is, this cheap elm spray is very scarce, and it must not be maintained.

The Lord of the Thousand Households watched the long dragon arrows wrapped in the quilt not enter, but it was still out of reach through the moat rolling wood and fire oil, and the sharp weapon that I wanted to take out at the most critical time was only taken out now, and if I hesitated any longer, everything would really be over.

Under the urging of Xu Tao of thousands of households, dozens of thousands of military men ran down to the city with more than 100 villagers, and with the help of a group of masters, they sprayed the hidden elm wood under the city to the city. At the battlements in the city, dozens of elm spray foundations have long been built. Everyone hurriedly set it up.

The old man of the Thousand Households Institute jumped and kicked his helpers to carry the gunpowder and lead over, picked up a wooden spoon and scooped a spoonful of gunpowder into the muzzle of the elm spray, to see if it was not enough to scoop a spoonful, and then picked up a piece of broken paper and stuffed it in, let a strong man tamp it violently, and then stuffed a bag of lead into it and tamped it, and then poured the primer into a fire behind the elm spray, and let the strong man lift the elm spray, set it up on the turret that had been piled up long ago, laboriously adjust the muzzle, and then nail the fixed iron nail on the elm spray, and the other strong men saw that it was completed. With a bang, he grabbed his head and ran, leaving only the veteran who fired the fire with a torch in his hand and a word in his mouth. Tremblingly, he put his torch towards the fire door. As a puff of green smoke floated up, a tongue of fire quickly spread to Elm's heart.