At three o'clock in the afternoon, with the sound of three horns, the city gate of Ganquan County, which had been closed for a long time, suddenly opened, and a team of neatly dressed villagers walked out of the city wall under the leadership of the children of the Zhao family of the Zhang family and the Chen family who rode war horses, and walked out of the city wall with the rumbling drum and trumpet, and began to set up a formation.

Behind the neat 3,000 Xiangyong, there are more than 700 guards wearing tattered mandarin duck jackets, the formation is not neat, and the fighting spirit is not high, so they stand behind the Xiangyong in a mess, behind these guards and military households, they continue to pour out of the city gate, they are dressed well, the knives and guns are still neat, but the landlords who are more messy and serve are the strong Xiangyong Nursing Hospital, and then there is a crying and shouting, pushing or carrying all kinds of equipment. The big stick of water and fire in his hand kept greeting those who were cowering, in exchange for bursts of heart-rending cries.

Then what came out was a fiery red big silk, high and fluttering, with a big Ming character on the book, next to the big Xu, a relatively low pole on the top, the writer had a big Zhang character.

Daxu is the capital flag, that is owned by five products and thousands of households, Zhang Zi is the general flag, that is Zhang Yuan's general flag, the flag is in the people, the flag is scattered, and the generals of the whole army are in the eyes of the army.

In front of the battle, three thousand Xiangyong followed an order to the left and right, flashed out of a clearing, those guards shouted the trumpet, with the help of a group of signatories, hummed and launched a few bed crossbows, these bed crossbows are the necessary weapons for the official army to attack the city, but the bed crossbow of the official army is not as advanced as the improvement of the army, a installation of the winding will require dozens of signatories to work under the guidance of the veteran for a long time, it took a while to fiddle with it, and there is also a bed crossbow due to a long time can not be maintained and the string is broken, The bowstring rebounded and caused the first casualty of the battle.

At the same time as the bed crossbow was placed, there were many signatories tremblingly launched ten elm sprays of different sizes, and then there were five tiger guns that were only configured by formal officials and soldiers, although they were rusted on it, but they were still the gods of the battlefield, and their power should not be underestimated.

The bullying army did not have long-range attack weapons, so the township warrior army put these guys under the nose of the fortress and a stone's throw away. Just so unscrupulously installed and set up under the command of dozens of veterans.

Just when everyone was desperately busy, under the banner after the big array, Zhang Yuan and Ganquan Qianhu were surrounded by a group of subordinate generals, and they were riding on horses and holding pergolas to observe the fortress that stood at the throat like a god in silver armor.

Zhang Yuan was excited by the excitement of the first battle to kill the enemy, but also for the high fortress, and the bursts of murderous aura emitted on the fortress, the excitement of the original first battle was extinguished by this shock, looking at the front of the battle, and constantly beating horses and running back and forth and shouting loudly, he still shook his head in his heart, all of them were young and frivolous, and they were not calm enough to grind a lot.

Turning his head with a smile on his face, he said to the Qianhu: "Lord Qianhu, the lower official has just been in the battle formation, and he has no experience in killing the enemy and commanding, everything is under the command of the Qianhu Lord, and I can learn a thing or two from the Qianhu Lord, please." ”

Seeing that Zhang Yuan was honest and modest, the thousand households nodded reluctantly, raised their eyes to observe the enemy situation in the fortress, and planned the corresponding tactics in their hearts.

Qianhu went into battle, for the sake of the two thousand taels of silver that Zhang Yuan sent overnight last night, and when Zhang Yuan visited again this morning, he agreed to Zhang Yuan's request, but he only promised Zhang Yuan that he would send soldiers to operate siege firearms, and take deputy Qianhu and other generals to help guide the attack and defense.

As the so-called winning people's money and eliminating disasters with people, besides, this time the thieves are just defensive, as long as they don't fight to the death, their brothers will not have any losses, and they must not learn from Nafu County and Luochuan, and they all left their soldiers on the battlefield, and as a result, the officials of a city have become bare-rod generals, and they are blocked in the city by a few militiamen and can't cross the thunder pool for half a step, which is too embarrassing.

promised to help, but stated in advance that the guards were to abide by the governor's order to assist Li Yuanhao in suppressing the bandits, but Li Yuanhao was not there, so he couldn't just dispatch people to go into battle immediately, which was contrary to the imperial court's precautionary requirements for martial artists. He also gave five hundred stone of grain from the donations of the merchants, wealthy families, and gentry as a token of thanks.

Qianhu solicited the county honor, opened the arsenal, carried out a large number of offensive and defensive equipment, and the veterans selected by themselves, and led a large group of signatories out of the city to line up.

Zhang Yuan hurriedly instructed his cronies to arrange clever cronies to study next to each technical equipment, and of course gave those veterans some copper coins for tuition.

Seeing that Zhang Yuan was so serious that he nodded secretly, this Zhang Yuan was indeed ten thousand times stronger than those who were arrogant and carried away with a few stinky money and a little power. At the moment, he also accepted his contempt and pointed out carefully.

When everything in the army is in place, the attack is about to begin, Zhang Yuan retracted his gaze and said with a low smile: "My lord, the battle is about to begin, are we sending a general out to fight the enemy and scold the formation?" ”

Those thousand households and those veteran military households all looked at him with idiotic eyes, have you heard too much? No matter how people look at themselves tossing and turning, they don't react at all, that is, they make it clear that they want to fight to the death, and they are ready to fight.

Zhang Yuan saw that everyone was looking at him with idiot eyes without concealment, and he knew that he had asked a question that was even more idiot than an idiot, and said with a smile at the moment: "Everything is under the command of adults, and I will fully cooperate on the side." After that, he handed over the military power in his hands to Qianhu without hesitation, and he took a group of cronies to hide next to him, and carefully observed and learned the method of siege.

The thousand households nodded, and did not shirk, and ordered his subordinates to shake the command flag, "Order the whole army to be on alert, and order the artillery to aim at the auxiliary wall above the fortress and open fire." ”

The Tiger Zun Cannon, which had long been loaded, was the first to start lighting the fuse with a torch, and in an instant, there was an earth-shattering explosion, and five stone projectiles flew up to the head of the fortress at a speed visible to the naked eye. With a few loud bangs, three stone bullets hit the fortress wall, the stone bullets shattered, and the stone fragments flew around with the broken ice, but the silver-white ice wall only shook slightly, and the three bullets only left three small pits with the size of a bowl on the ice wall, and the effect was almost the same as tickling the fortress, and there was no other effect.

As the shooting of the Tiger Venerable cannon began, the ten elm sprays were also fired one after another, and countless lead bolts flew out like a storm and rushed towards the fortress. A thick smoke rose on the battlefield and covered half of the sky, and the loud noise made all the people on the battlefield ringing and heartbeating, and those signatories were even more frightened and squatted on the ground and did not dare to cry. But this earth-shattering explosion stimulated all the township brave children on the battlefield, making them become extremely excited and enthusiastic one by one, and I don't know who took the lead in shouting: "General Zhang is mighty, and the township is invincible." ”

With this cheer, all the townsmen cheered together, and then the two thousand Xiangyong behind him also shouted together, so the whole position resounded with earth-shattering cheers, and the fighting spirit was high-spirited, it seemed that this burst of cannons went down, and the thief army was wiped out.

A gust of wind passed, blowing away the thick smoke of gunpowder, and when I looked at it, the god-like fortress only added a lot of pockmarks to the side facing the army, and other than that, it was unscathed.

As a result, the originally deafening cheering array immediately became silent, and everyone was stunned when they saw it, even the battle-hardened Qianhu couldn't help frowning and saying nothing. After thinking for a while, he ordered loudly: "The Tiger Zun cannon will fire five more rounds, and the elm spray will not be fired." ”

It seems that the siege or stone bullets have an effect, the elm spray is a waste of ammunition at all, and what the thief army lacks is gunpowder.

After getting the general's order, the officers and soldiers who were responsible for operating the Huzun cannon began to clean up the cannon chamber to extinguish the remaining sparks in the cannon chamber, and began to load gunpowder and pellets according to experience, and when everything was ready, the old gunner drank back the idle people, etc., ignited the artillery, and there was a loud sound of the mountain shaking the ground, this time the effect was better than the last time, and four stone bullets hit the city wall, but the effect was still minimal, only the upper half of the fortress cracked out more than a dozen cracks.

Qianhe was very satisfied, as long as it continued like this, it would not take the fortress of the thief to collapse without Gorin. When Qianhu Zhang Yuan was waiting for pride, in the gap of reloading, countless figures suddenly appeared in the fortress that had not seen people, holding wooden basins and buckets in their hands, they shouted a trumpet, and the water in the buckets in their hands fell down the city wall, the weather was cold, and the water that fell down the city wall flowed not far away and immediately froze, and the original potholed city wall immediately became smooth and smooth again, and became extremely hard again, Such a result not only made the hope ignited in the heart immediately pour with this bucket of cold water, which made everyone very depressed, and they could only helplessly scold the person who came up with such a lack of morality. But Cao Meng, who was hiding behind the secondary wall of the high fortress, did not change his face and did not beat his heart, scolding, anyway, this method was thought up by the Yang family at the beginning, what does it have to do with me? I'm just copying it.

After the six rounds of cannons, the Tiger Zun cannon was overheated and could not be fired again, but the shooting effect was minimal, just a stone bullet character exploded, just hit the edges and corners of the weak secondary wall of the fortress, smashed a large piece of ice, and injured the two brothers who were hiding behind, but the wall was immediately repaired with water and was as intact as ever.

Zhang Yuan looked at the frowning Qianhu and asked in a low voice, "What should the adults do next?" ”

The thousand households did not answer, thought for a while, and said to the herald: "Go and order the bed crossbow and shoot." ”

"Yes," the herald said, turning and running away.

The bed crossbow is the sharpest weapon in history to siege cities, take it out and see how your little Xiaoice fortress can resist.