Jiannu entered the customs and seized dozens of Daming cities and passes, and most of them took to loot many castles and then give up.

Da'ankou, Longjingkou, Malangu, Jizhen, Santunying, Xianghe, Yutian, Sanhe, Xianghe, Shunyi, Luanzhou, Zhangjiawan and other Daming cities and passes that were once lost have too many Franc machines, bowl-mouth guns, guns, and a few Hongyi cannons.

It's a pity that the barbarians won't use these firearms, they can only choose to move them as captured copper and iron, and most of the artillery in the rest of the abandoned cities was smashed by Jiannu with sledgehammers.

Liu Zhilun was overjoyed to get these firearms, after rust removal and maintenance, most of the guns can be put into the battlefield, and the training of gun bearers is relatively simple, and the original Ming army bird guns will be able to do it immediately, because the principle and structure of the gun is actually a large bird gun.

Now even the "Red Banner Army" stationed in Nancheng has 20 guns deployed, this thing can effectively kill 150 steps, and it can indeed explode the bow and arrow, and the enemy is absolutely dead when hit by two or two large projectiles, and even the war horse can not bear as long as it is shot.

Being able to hit the enemy while being out of the enemy's range, the use of guns to defend the city will undoubtedly greatly boost the morale of the defenders.

Huang Han drank a large bowl of broth and ate three or five cooking cakes for each of the newly rescued and screened strong laborers, and then gave them the task of making these people kneel on the ground and kowtow in gratitude.

This time the mission was able to be carried out extremely quickly, thanks to the results of Liu Zhilun's particularly adequate preparations for the defense of the city.

In order to prepare for sending troops out of the city to complete the sneak attack when the four city gates were blocked, Liu Zhilun prepared a lot of ropes and hanging baskets.

Now Huang Han ordered the rescued Han people to use a hanging basket in groups of four or five people, the purpose of course was to save the fathers and villagers who were hiding at the base of the city wall.

Huang Han proclaimed the discipline of rescue, children first and women second, the elderly second, and finally young men, all young men had to be shirtless and pull their hair so that the strong laborers who rescued them could see clearly before they could be pulled up the city wall.

The rescue operation in the south of Zunhua was underway, and Liu Zhilun was amazed when he learned of the feat of the "Red Flag Army", and he personally brought 15 guns, carried four bed crossbows, and led 800 men and horses of the standard battalion to the south gate to give Huang Han strong support.

Many of the five or six hundred young and middle-aged people who appeared at the head of the city were anxious, because they had family members still outside the city, and in a few moments a hundred hanging baskets were put down.

A moment ago, the soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" at the head of the city had already shouted to let the people hiding under the city know that the Ming army was preparing to drag them to the city with hanging baskets, and they also knew that children and women were given priority.

Ordinary people cry for their wives, daughters, or daughters-in-law to sit in hanging baskets with their young children and grandchildren.

Of course, the strong laborers who saved people did not spare their strength at this time, and they were not afraid of being shot by the Houjin army, and they shouted the trumpet and dragged it with all their might......

Mang Gurtai, who was monitoring the movement of the Ming army from afar, found the defenders' movements and was furious, so he took the trouble to send thousands of men and horses, and even drove Nikan from a remote ravine, wouldn't it not take long for all of them to be dragged into Zunhua City?

He waved the command flag and ordered the Zhenglan flag and the Tartars to rush into the city and disrupt the rescue operation of the Ming army with cavalry shooting.

Suddenly, the enemy rode thousands of horses and galloped over, and when he saw the Houjin army that was nervous and came just for the slaughter, Huang Han shouted: "The whole army is shooting, Lao Tzu only looks at how many men and horses Mang Gurtai is going to throw under the city before he stops." ”

The rain of arrows of the Houjin army shot towards the city, and there were also a rain of arrows to pay tribute to the Tartars and Jiannu, which were sparse and sparse mixed with gunfire.

The effective hit rate of the feather arrows shot at the head of the city is not worth mentioning, because the enemy is mounted and scattered, and the power of direct fire is not as great.

In addition, Liu Zhilun, a master defender of the city, had already provoked wooden arrow curtains and straw curtains at the head of Zunhua City, resulting in more than seventy percent of the arrows shot by the Jin army nailed to the wooden or grass-tied mantle like arrows borrowed from grass boats.

To say that Liu Zhilun, who was born in poverty, is really good at tinkering with wood, wheelbarrows, wooden cannons, wooden arrow curtains, etc. are all cheap and easy-to-use things.

In fact, as long as the wooden cannon is mastered well, it can still be done by effectively firing a few cannons, and I think that the Red Guards used a large number of pine cannons fired with homemade black powder.

The "Red Banner Army" that shot arrows at the head of the city all used helmets and visor-armor, and the worst were equipped with cotton visor-armor.

Therefore, unless it is very unfortunate to be shot into the eye by the arrows of the Houjin Army, the lethality is not worth mentioning, and some of the "Red Flag Army" heroes have already inserted seven or eight feather arrows in their bodies and are still shouting and firing back, until they shoot eleven or twelve arrows, and they feel that they really can't pull the bowstring.

Hundreds of men who put hanging baskets to pull the refugees under the city also let out, and they risked being shot by the Houjin army to pull the rope desperately, but the women and children curled up in the hanging basket were relatively safer, after all, the outer frame of the rattan hanging basket was enough to resist the feather arrows thrown by the enemy.

A man named Li San, who was about twenty years old, was lucky enough to find his wife and children, and just as he was trying his best to pull them towards the city, the Houjin army launched a surprise attack, and a rain of arrows hit, and Li San was shot in the chest with two feathered arrows in his back.

He used his last strength to pull the hanging basket up to the city, and several companions pulled Li San and his wife and children to hide behind the battlement, although it was a thrown feather arrow, but it was also fatal in the face of the unguarded people, Li San vomited blood in his mouth and obviously couldn't do it.

He looked at his wife, who was less than twenty years old, with infinite affection, and a smile appeared on his son, who was only three years old.

Seeing that the husband she had just found was about to leave forever, Li cried out heartbreakingly: "Boss, you can't die, you can't leave your son!" Without you, how can I live as a woman? ”

Li San's lips moved, he looked at the red flag rolling at the head of the city and said with difficulty: "Baby, mother, you remember, follow the 'Red Flag Army', you will have a way to live......"

Many men were injured or even sacrificed in order to save more people, but others were not frightened, they closed their companions' angry eyes, wiped the tears from the corners of their eyes, and put down the hanging basket to bring the hope of life to more Han compatriots.

Medical soldier Liu Dashou was very busy today, but fortunately, he temporarily requisitioned dozens of healthy women to help carry the wounded, disinfect and bandage the wounded, and even a few women had seen Liu Dashou stitch up the wounds of the wounded a few times, and they were also bold enough to draw a scoop on the gourd.