Li Xuanzhu asked Zhang Chao: "Brother Zhang, have the women and children in the village and the idle people been evacuated?" ”

This time, Xiao Tianjian left Li Xuanzhu in Shuangfeng Village, and the guard of Shuangfeng Village was handed over to him as overall responsibility, and the rest of the generals gave him deputies and obeyed his orders, so Li Xuanzhu took over this arrangement.

Zhang Chao nodded and said: "Most of the women and children in the village and the idle people have been transferred to the mountains south of the village, but according to the general's orders, the craftsmen have not evacuated, and they continue to work overtime!"

In addition, the general also specially instructed them to produce more iron thunderbolt cannons during this time, which is the most suitable thing for defending the city! Hmph, this time I want to let the officers and soldiers know how powerful our thunderbolt cannon is! ”

Zhang Chao nodded and laughed, shook his head and said: "That's so, but the number of thunderbolt cannons is very limited, we only have a few hundred on hand, even if the craftsmen work overtime every day these days, it is estimated that the number will not be too much, this thing is not critical, the general also said, don't take it out in large quantities first, and wait until the time to go back and decide the victory, and then take it out for the officers and soldiers to taste!"

This time, the defense of the two sides of the northeast will be handed over to Brother Zhao and Brother Jiang, according to the general's arrangement, the brothers of the three battalions will not be able to use it until the critical time, so it is up to the two of you to resist the attack of the official army in advance! ”

Zhao Erdonkey and Jiang Chengdu nodded and agreed, although Zhao Erdonkey was a little dissatisfied with obeying Li Xuanzhu's dispatch, but he didn't show it on his face, but he always had a pimple in his heart.

Li Xuanzhu stood on top of a newly built fortress wall, put his hand on the pergola and looked down the mountain, and after looking at it, he sneered and said: "These officers and soldiers haven't realized the power of our walled wall here, so let them try it!" Lao Huang, how is your injury now? Can it withstand it? ”

Huang Shengqiang was hit in the right chest by a three-eyed projectile of the official army half a year ago, and was seriously injured, almost losing his life.

After listening to Li Xuanzhu's questioning, Huang Shengqiang coughed lightly and laughed: "No problem!" It's just a little bit of a cough sometimes! Fortunately, there is Doctor Lu who treats it in time, otherwise, the last time Lao Tzu may be finished! Go ahead! Brother Li, what are your orders? ”

Li Xuanzhu said with a smile: "I don't dare to say it, this time the general left a message for us before leaving, asking us to consume more troops of the officers and soldiers here, and prepare for the next counterattack, your artillery team will have work to do this time, whether we can block the attack of so many officers and soldiers depends on the performance of your artillery team!" ”

Huang Shengqiang touched his two wisps of rat whiskers and said with a smile: "This Brother Li can rest assured that our artillery team can now be said to be incomparable to the past!" Lao Tzu has already prepared enough snacks for the officials and soldiers, and they will see! ”

While a few people were talking, they heard a herald running from the north of the stockade and shouting to Li Xuanzhu: "General Li and all the generals, the officers and troops have begun to assemble outside the north gate, and it seems that they are about to make a move!" ”

After hearing this, Li Xuanzhu nodded and said, "Got it!" Brother Zhao, then you should go back to the north gate first! Jiang Chengcheng stayed here at the East Gate, Brother Huang worked harder, greet your subordinates back and forth, it seems that the East Gate side is about to start working! I'll take care of it this time, and I'll sit in the village with Brother Zhang Chao, and if you have something, you can report me at any time! ”

After Zhao Erdonkey turned back to the north gate he was in charge of, he looked up, and sure enough, the officers and soldiers under the mountain had already lined up a formation of about 1,000 people, carrying large wooden trees and dozens of long ladders, and the war drums began to beat.

The more than 1,000 officers and soldiers immediately shouted to the sound of war drums and rushed towards the north gate of Shuangfeng Village.

"Grandma's, a thousand people will be pressed up at once, it seems that this Xu Dingguo really wants to take this place in one go! Hum! What a pity! This time, the officers and soldiers are in the wrong place again! After Zhao Erdonkey saw it, he sneered and said to himself.

Don't look at Zhao Erdonkey, this guy is a little small-minded, but after two years of tempering with Xiao Tianjian, this guy has not performed badly in front of the battle, and he has also experienced dozens of battles, big and small, and can be called a veteran oilman, so in the face of the situation in front of him, Zhao Erdonkey seems very calm.

"Pass my orders! One sentry and two sentry teams entered their respective positions on the wall, and beat this group of officers and soldiers down for Lao Tzu! Three whistles and four whistles continue to rest! After Zhao Erdonkey saw the movement of the dismissed army, he turned his head and shouted to the herald.

"General Zhao has an order, each team enters the position! Get ready for battle! ......" The herald immediately conveyed Zhao Erdonkey's order, and the trumpeter immediately grabbed the military horn and blew it to his mouth.

After a group of resting village soldiers heard the sound of the trumpet, the generals stood up and waved their hands and shouted: "Brothers, the officers and soldiers have come up, it's our turn to strike!" Let's put Lao Tzu on the wall! ”

After that, a group of village soldiers, under the leadership of their respective commanders and chiefs, climbed the wall, entered the pre-arranged position, wielded all kinds of weapons, and began to look down the mountain with their heads stretched.

Xu Dingguo rode on horseback and quietly watched the team sent slowly towards the north gate, waved his hand and ordered: "Pass the order, push the cannon up, and bombard the thief's village for me, try to see if I can collapse the thief's village!" ”

When Xu Dingguo came, he even ordered someone to remove a batch of cannons used to defend Taiyuan City, and handed them over to Xu Dingguo to bring them here, just considering that Xu Dingguo and they may have a tough battle this time, trying to let Xu Dingguo have some advantages in firepower.

Therefore, Xu Dingguo did not lack artillery at hand, and this time he also took it out, lined up in the open ground under the mountain, and aimed the muzzle of the black hole at Shuangfeng Village.

The artillery equipment of the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers is varied, as small as only twenty or thirty pounds of Furlong cannons, as large as thousands of pounds of Hongyi cannons, there are no less than dozens of kinds, and Yangcheng is located in the mountains, the road is not easy to pass, and the Hongyi cannons are mostly concentrated in the Beijing Division, the Northern Xuanda and Jiliao along the line to defend Jiannu, the number of Hongyi cannons here in Taiyuan is very limited, so the artillery brought by Xu Dingguo this time is basically mostly medium-sized Furlong cannons or mortar cannons.

Dozens of cannons were also quite majestic after being lined up outside the stockade, and with the roars of the officers, these cannons were ignited one after another and began to fire.

Suddenly, in front of the official and military formations at the foot of the mountain, there were clusters of flames and smoke, and dozens of cannons opened fire at the same time, but they were also quite shocked, and the ground seemed to tremble.

The villagers who had just climbed the wall had never seen such a scene of a hundred cannons! When they heard the cannon outside the village, many people were trembling and almost threw all the guys in their hands to the ground.

These dozens of shells were scattered on the north wall of Shuangfeng Village like a torrential rain, and suddenly hit the gray stone on the wall, so that the people on the wall could feel a slight tremor under their feet, and the faces of many village soldiers were suddenly a little green with fright, and their morale could not help but be frustrated again.

Zhao Erdonkey was also taken aback by such a bombardment by the official army, his body involuntarily shortened, and he hid behind a thick arrow stack, but when this round of artillery passed, he saw that such a fierce shelling had very limited damage to a deformed wall like them, even if the shells hit the wall directly, but because the walls were prismatic and had a considerable slope, the shells could not effectively transmit the power to the wall, and they all turned into ricochets and flew to the side. Less than thirty percent of the shells accurately hit the wall, the rest were either high or low, and the shells did not know where they flew.

Zhao Erdonkey was relieved at this time, and sneered: "Get up!" Nothing to be afraid of! There is no way for us to take the artillery of the official army! ”

After listening to Zhao Erdonkey's roar, the villagers on the wall calmed down a little and waited quietly for the next battle.

However, the officers and soldiers who launched the attack became a little excited after hearing and seeing the artillery fire of the officers and soldiers on their side, and they let out a cry again, struggling to raise the wooden tree and the long ladder in their hands, and rushed towards the Shuangfeng Village with a roar.

When this group of officers and soldiers was about to approach the distance of 100 steps away from the wall, the officers and soldiers separated a group of people from the crowd, placed large wooden boxes outside the wall, removed the cover in front of the wooden boxes, and then lit the boxes to reveal the medicine twist.

After a while, these wooden boxes began to swish and make a strange roaring sound, shooting countless rockets, all kinds of flying guns and arrows pulled out thin smoke in the air, mixed with the whistling sound of the fire, it was really like a swarm of bees out of the nest, flying towards the wall.

After hearing this harsh sound, the soldiers on the wall quickly hid behind the arrow stacks, allowing these flying spears and arrows to fly over their heads, and in just an instant, nearly a thousand rockets were shot at the wall.

If you use this kind of swarm rocket to deal with the dense enemy army in the open field, the effect is indeed quite powerful, but after getting here, these swarm bees lose their effectiveness, in addition to being able to strengthen their prestige, but basically they can't cause much damage to the Xingtian army on the wall, and can only play a role in deterring.

In the launch of this rocket, only three unlucky villagers on the wall were injured by the rocket because they could not dodge, but only one person was killed by an arrow in front of them, and the remaining two were only slightly injured, which basically had no effect on the defenders on the wall.

However, the officers and soldiers who attacked the wall did not know, and only saw their rockets swarming up the wall, thinking that the enemy army had caused great casualties, so they all shouted excitedly and rushed towards the wall.

Zhao Erdonkey lay behind an arrow stack, looked at the officers and soldiers outside from the arrow hole, and said scoldingly: "What did this Huang Shengqiang do to eat?" There are so many officers and soldiers close to the wall, but why don't they fire artillery? ”

It just so happened that Huang Shengqiang walked behind him and heard his words, so he said to Zhao Erdonkey: "Brother Zhao, it's not kind for you to say that!" The people of our artillery team are not idiots! See for yourself, how does Lao Tzu fire a cannon on this wall? Even now, the cannon can't hit the officers and soldiers! How can I have nothing to do with the officers and soldiers to release empty cannons? Wait! After a while, as long as the officers and soldiers come up, they will look good! ”

Zhao Erdonkey didn't expect that he had just heard Huang Shengqiang's bad words, which made the old face a little ashamed, and quickly nodded yes, asking Huang Shengqiang to hurry up.

Huang Shengqiang went down to a gun position, personally looked at the set artillery, and then smiled with satisfaction: "The general is really powerful!" actually made such a walled wall, this time it is enough for the officers and soldiers to drink a pot! As long as they enter the depression, they will shoot them fiercely, this method is simply amazing! Hey! ”

These gunners also showed a wicked smile on their faces, nodded their heads in agreement, and each of them was ready to fire.