Cao Meng, who was on the fortress, knew that the enemy was going to launch a rocket attack when he saw Signding carrying out a brazier, and he was secretly glad in his heart, thanks to the brother's discussion that reminded him that he was prepared, otherwise he would cause a big disaster.

With Cao Meng's order, the quilts that had been drenched in water were propped up, instantly filling the secondary wall and the canopy. As soon as this place was arranged, the whistling rockets came to you.

Another stunned miracle appeared on the battlefield, rockets flying like meteors pounced on the fortress, but they all fell off one after another on the strange protection of the fortress, this time there was no rocket in the ground, in everyone's stunned, a ** rocket had no effect, fell in vain, those archers were surprised and overwhelmed, most of them stopped this method of wasting their strength in vain, only some honest archers are still working in vain, sparse waste of strength.

Zhang Yuan and the thousand households, as well as the children of the Chen family who provided the solution, were also unclear when they saw such a result. This result made Zhang Yuanzi, who was originally jealous and envious, gloat when he looked at the brother.

"Don't stop, archers, siege teams charge. The war drums beat the drums. The signing team began to shout, and there was no order to stop. "Although the fire attack fails, the attack must be carried out, and now, no matter what, this battle must be fought and won, or the prestige of the official army will be defeated in front of those who are watching the battle, and it will be difficult to control it, just for the sake of face, and the fortress must be captured. So, Qianhu decisively issued one order after another.

"The death squad marched with the team with gunpowder packs, but after arriving at the attack site, they immediately took advantage of the black shadow movement of the fortress to the west and began to dig the city to repair the medicine room, preparing to blow up the city, I only give you an hour's time, and you must give me these four hundred catties of gunpowder to light in the ice castle in one hour, otherwise you will go directly to the city." The thousand households gritted their teeth at a soldier selected from the official firearms battalion.

Zhang Yuan promised that if he died, he would give him 100 taels of silver to support his family, and if he succeeded, he would be rewarded with 50 taels of silver, and then he would be removed from the army and transferred to his own township warrior team as a hundred households, and specially brought firearms battalions to himself. This kind of treatment was too generous, and at that time, the old soldier jumped high after listening to the music, patted his chest and promised to complete the task.

So the twenty drums began to beat the earth-shattering drums, the two thousand signings stood behind the formation and began to shout desperately, the original fortress of those trenches have been filled with the corpse of the village warrior and the earth and stone carried by the sign, turned into a smooth road, more than 2,000 villagers who were responsible for the siege of the city, stepping on the corpses of their companions began to rush to the fortress like a tide, and once again put a cloud ladder on the city wall, discarding the shield and struggling to climb the city.

A new round of battles has begun.

Cao Meng commanded all the soldiers who could fight to start a new round of defensive fighting, but the attack outside the city this time was different from the previous ones, not only the attack was fierce, but also ingenious in setting up twenty war drums not far from the city to beat desperately, and there were two thousand signs who did not come forward to help the battle but just stood there and roared, which was very strange.

Bluffing, this is the first thing Cao Meng thought of, confusing people's ears, this is the second thing Cao Meng thought of, and that's enough.

This tactic adopted by the enemy will not be untargeted, there will definitely be a conspiracy. But where is the conspiracy?

When Cao Meng cut down the second outlaw, Cao Meng thought of the back and west of the fortress, this time after a series of battles, only the back and west were not attacked by the enemy, one is not to command the back, and the other is a big river in the west, and it is even more difficult to get water by digging ice or something by himself, so what is the enemy's bluff to confuse his ears and eyes?

Sneak attack.

Cao Meng suddenly thought, yes, it was a sneak attack, thinking of this, he was shocked into a cold sweat, his current strength is overstretched, all of them are used to defend the current precarious city wall, and there is no soldier to be deployed, then the back and west are just to send more than fifty seriously injured old brothers to watch and warn, in case the enemy comes from that side, it will be a big trouble.

Thinking of this, he quickly turned around and shouted to the squad leader of the prison sergeant squad who was still fighting bravely with the villagers who had climbed up to the city: "Brother, go to the west wall and have a look, I estimate that the enemy will sneak attack from the west." "The reason why it is so loud is that the war drums and shouts of killing outside are so deafening that they can't be heard at all if they don't make a loud noise.

"Alright, I'll go now." The sergeant squad leader drew his saber out of the body of a village warrior, turned and ran west.

There was no movement on the west city wall, and when he went out, there was no human figure or movement in the field where the torches were shining, so the sergeant was a little relieved, and checked the dozen or so seriously injured brothers, and saw that one of them was no longer breathing, and his heart was dark, but he had seen too much life and death, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and hurriedly comforted the other brothers, and went to the back city to inspect it.

The old soldier of Naganquan quietly left the brigade with a dozen brothers with gunpowder bags and went around the city wall to the west of the fortress. It turned out that the west side was facing the crescent moon in the west, and it was the seventh day of the lunar calendar, and the moon would shine dimly on the earth, coupled with the reflection of the wide river ice, and the reflection of the damn ice fortress wall, it was a piece of light, not to mention a living person, even a mouse could see a few whiskers and heads.

The captain of the sergeant squad looked out of the city, but saw that there was a moonlight, and there was not even a single figure under the city wall, and when he saw that there was no abnormality outside the west city wall, he felt a little calm, and comforted a few words of those seriously injured brothers, and as he rushed to the back of the fortress, he stretched out his head to look down at the city, where the moonlight was on his back, and he couldn't see anything clearly under the city, but it seemed that there was no large group of enemy troops, so he was a little relieved.

But Cao Meng's worries do exist, because the current behavior of the officials and soldiers is really weird, there must be some trick to move so much, otherwise it is full of food and nothing to do? Even the back of the city was deafening with such a big movement, it must be trying to cover up something, the sound was so loud that it could only be trying to cover up the sound, yes, it must be trying to cover up the sound, the sergeant leaned out again, and still couldn't see anything and couldn't hear clearly, but unfortunately there was no torch or anything to illuminate in the eagerness, and he had an idea, and loudly ordered a few brothers who were guarding him to pretend to walk away, and after a while he quietly climbed back, leaned on the city wall, put his ears tightly on the city wall, and then crawled slowly little by little, So back and forth, suddenly immobile in the surprised eyes of the dozen or so soldiers.

Heard, sure enough, he heard the sound of chiseling the wall from the city wall, good boy, this is a trick to chisel the city. But digging the city so carefully, how long will it take to chisel through the city wall that is close to a zhang thick, the sky is already close to midnight, and the village warrior in front is also attacking for most of the night, how can he insist on covering him for so long, except for chiseling through the city wall, what else can be done? Yes, then there is only one way, explosives to blow up the city.

Explosives are the exclusive treasure of the base, the officers and soldiers only have gunpowder in their hands, the power of the explosion is not the same, but as long as the amount of medicine is sufficient, it can also achieve this effect, King Chuang once gave them a reconnaissance and espionage class, he told them the difference between explosives and gunpowder, and explained how to turn gunpowder into explosives.

Now that he knew the result, the squad leader's heart immediately rose to his throat, and he couldn't help but be afraid for a while, hoping that the enemy had not had time to use this method.

The captain of the sergeant squad warned the watchman not to make a noise, and he quietly crawled back to the west of the city, then flew up, ran back to the front of the battle, and reported to Cao Meng.

Cao Meng was also taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly instructed the sergeant of the prison: "Brother, you quickly take a few brothers, take ten explosives bags, and you must blow up those villagers who dug the city." ”

"Yes." The sergeant said yes, beckoned ten lightly wounded brothers to rush to the back of the city with ten explosives bags.

Cao Meng led his subordinates to desperately counterattack the official army, but this time Zhang Yuan was moved to the idea of a successful battle, and pressed up 2,000 men and horses, divided into two sides of the non-stop attack, Cao Meng took out the last reserve and used it, but still couldn't resist Zhang Yuan's crazy attack, look at the dense ant-like township below, Cao Meng had to grit his teeth and release fireworks, informing himself that the two hundred and ten cavalry outside had launched an attack, hoping to mobilize Zhang Yuan, it is best to let Zhang Yuan collect his troops and return to the city, and fight again tomorrow, It's better to take advantage of this time to make adjustments.

Thinking of this, I don't slack off, the battle situation is really dangerous, and I can't hesitate again, I immediately took out the fireworks rocket in my arms, lit it on a torch, and with a bang, a gorgeous firework rose into the sky, and suddenly opened in the high sky, beautiful and dazzling, which made the rhythm of the entire battlefield pause, and all the people looked up at the colorful fireworks inexplicably, and didn't know what the thieves were making at this time.

Naganquan Qianhu looked up at the exploding fireworks, watching its colorful figure slowly disappear in the sky, and there was a lot of emotion for no reason.

Fireworks are so beautiful, but this moment of splendor burns all life, sad or magnificent? Just like the thieves who cast them, although magnificent and dazzling, they only left a few memories for the people of today, and then they became a handful of loess, drowning in this rolling river of history, leaving no trace behind. Is it sad or admirable for a group of heroes who are so attached to their beliefs, so attached to the loyalty of their own group? Or is it a pity?

A voice said abruptly in the middle of emotion: "It's not good, my lord, this is the fireworks of the thief requesting rescue, and I hope that Lord Wanwang will prepare early." When he looked down, he had been following his deputy Qianhu anxiously.

"How?" The thousand households and Zhang Yuan also looked at the thousand households in confusion, indeed, during a tragic war, what fireworks were set off for no reason? There must be something strange here.

"My family is in the south of the city, and my family also has 100 acres of land, and I have also been notified by the thieves to reduce rent and interest, and I have paid the protection fee." Seeing that his deputy was verbose, Qianhu was displeased at the moment and said, "Let's get to the point." ”

"Yes, sir." Deputy Qianhu was scolded by Qianhu, and quickly put away the long speech, "I heard my father say that the thief gave three fireworks to each person who agreed to their conditions, stipulating that once there are bandits harassing them, they can light the fireworks that emit smoke during the day, and light the fireworks at night to warn, as long as the main family insists on one or two hours, there will be militia or thieves who come to the rescue, so this fireworks must be the thief who can't insist on starting to ask for help, and the Lord Qianhu should be on guard." ”

After he reminded him of this, there were also other people who nodded their heads to indicate that there was something to do.

Ah, the thieves asked for help, they finally couldn't hold on to asking for help, such a contest of wills finally ended with their own victory, Zhang Yuan and Qianhu breathed a sigh of relief.