As he spoke, there was a thunderous cannon sound under the mountain, and the projectiles flew up the wall of the cottage with a roar, and smashed heavily on the wall, all the soldiers of the Xingtian Army immediately lowered their bodies and hid behind the thick arrow stacks, and a cannonball happened to hit Xiao Tianjian's location, almost grazing Xiao Tianjian's body and flying over, and crashed on the gatehouse behind Xiao Tianjian's fitness, and suddenly raised a piece of gravel dust, and the falling dust almost buried Xiao Tianjian and Liu Yaoben, One of the guards was shot on the spot, and his body was immediately torn in two pieces and buried in the collapsed earth.

Fortunately, Xiao Tianjian's reaction was also quite fast, and he threw Liu Yaoben to the ground in time, and protected Liu Yaoben with his body, Liu Yaoben was not injured, and Xiao Tianjian was wearing armor, although he was hit with a few masonry, but basically he was unharmed.

Tietou hurriedly rushed over to help Xiao Tianjian, Xiao Tianjian stood up with a disgraced face, shook the dust on his body with a scolding face, pulled up Liu Yaoben under him, looked at Liu Yaoben's slightly frightened face, patted him and said: "The war is not as simple as you think, you are not really ready to go to the battlefield, but your youth battalion is commendable, I am very pleased, you don't have to think about anything now, learn what we teach you, it will come in handy one day!" This kind of thing is not in a hurry, you should understand why I am arranging it this way! Go down, boy! Take your little brethren and watch us from afar! Hope you guys can take a few more things out of it! ”

Liu Yaoben stopped insisting after hearing this, and immediately nodded with both legs: "Obey!" Thank you for your advice! We're not here to mess with the generals anymore! With that, he staggered down the wall.

Xiao Tianjian turned around, pushed away a few guards who were blocking him, slapped the dust on his body, and scolded with a smile: "It seems that the gunners of the official army have grown up these days, and as soon as the cannon is fired today, Lao Tzu will be dismounted!" Hehe! Get out of the way, don't stand in my way, come here, give orders to the brothers in the artillery team, and don't be polite to them, first return the color, and then beat me up to those officers and soldiers! ”

After a while, several medium-sized Furlong cannons on the hill and three three-pounder and two six-pounder guns also roared, these cannons were assumed to be specially prepared for them on the turret, the firing angle was very open, very conducive to aiming, and the aiming men of each gun had basically received Gao Su's training, the training was quite adequate relative to the officers and soldiers, and after previous wars, the aiming accuracy was by no means the same grade as the gunners of the officers and soldiers, although they did not dare to say where to hit, but when dealing with a piece of targets, After some careful aiming, the artillery of the Xingtian Army was still colored to the artillery array of the officials and soldiers under the mountain, and several shells accurately fell into the artillery array of the officers and soldiers, overturning two guns of the second general of the officers and soldiers on the spot, and also killing several gunners of the officers and soldiers.

The gunners of the Xingtian Army are not worse than the gunners under his command, and the artillery of the people is accurate, and at such a distance, they can still accurately hit his artillery array, and they are obviously looking at the enemy's battery, but they are in a hurry and can't hit, so they can shoot some shells, and they don't know where they flew, so they can only fire at the hill in a chaotic manner. The cannonball that almost hit Xiao Tianjian just now was all due to luck.

In this way, in addition, the number of enemy artillery is not as large as that of the Xingtian Army, and the accuracy is not as good as that of the Xingtian Army, so at the beginning of the artillery battle, the gunners of the Xingtian Army beat the officers and soldiers to the ground, and the battle situation presented a one-sided situation.

In this era, no one in the official army has the idea of suppressing the opponent's artillery with artillery battles, and Xiao Tianjian has undoubtedly taken the Xingtian Army to the forefront of the times in this regard. Aimed at the officers and troops who had just assembled at the mountain pass, they fought down.

Although the officers and soldiers were quite well prepared this time, a row of shield carts was set up in front of the assembled queue to resist the firepower of the Xingtian Army, but in front of these shells, even if it was a heavy shield cart, it seemed so vulnerable, when even three or two shield carts were torn apart by solid bullets, some officers and soldiers hiding behind the shield carts were either knocked into the air or stabbed to death by broken stubble. There was an exclamation of surprise from the group of officers and soldiers who provoked the starters.

That's not all, there are two cannonballs that fell directly in the crowd, and in an instant, two bloody roads were opened in the crowd, where the cannonballs flew quickly, the stumps and broken arms flew into the air, and the minced flesh of the human body flew everywhere, and the terrible screams suddenly filled the entire battlefield, but Zuo Guangxian was also ruthless this time, not only the officers and soldiers under his command were put into battle, but even a large number of accompanying Xiangyong also joined the array of attacking the mountain under the supervision of the supervising team, and most of the Xiangyong were responsible for pushing the heavy shield cart and carrying the heavy wooden treeThe officers and soldiers responsible for the main battle provided cover, such artillery bombardment, for such a dense formation, although the killing effect was good, but it could not hurt their roots, the two bloody alleys existed for a very short time, and they were immediately filled by the dense crowd, and the wounded could only lie at the feet of countless people, making a terrible scream, and they were trampled to death in the ground after a short time.

Behind the offensive formation was a fierce and vicious warlord, each carrying a snowy ghost-headed knife, as long as they saw a person out of the formation and trying to retreat, they immediately waved their broadswords, and killed the escapees on the spot, forcing the soldiers in front of them to slowly arch towards the mountain gate.

This battle is different from the previous offensive, Zuo Guangxian can be said to have made a plan to break the cauldron and sink the boat, as soon as he made a move, he put the elite of the generals on it, although the artillery fire of the Xingtian Army was very accurate, and the shield carts in front of the array were destroyed again and again, and the officers and soldiers hiding behind the shield carts were bloody and flesh flying, but immediately there would be new shield carts to plug the gap and continue to attack towards the mountain.

Less than 200 paces away, the officers and soldiers paid a considerable price under the artillery fire of the Xingtian Army, but this time they failed to break up the formation of the officers and soldiers as before, and a large number of officers and soldiers cursed loudly.

Liu Bao stood on a pass wall, staring at the attacking crowd of officers and soldiers, and saw that the officers and soldiers had entered the outside of the wall sixty steps before he shouted hard: "Fire!" ”

A row of firecrackers took a step forward, put the bird's guns on the top of the arrow stack, and under the order of the officer at the head of the right-hand platoon, they collectively pulled off the dragon's head, only to hear a burst of bean-like guns, and more than 100 projectiles popped into the crowd of officers and soldiers, raising a blood mist.

But after all, the officers and soldiers made full preparations this time, and placed a large number of shield carts and hand-held wooden canopies in front of the queue, which effectively resisted the usual platoon gun shooting of the Xingtian Army, and most of the projectiles hit the shield carts or wooden canopies, which was not much for the officers and soldiers hiding behind.

Seeing that this method is effective, the officers and soldiers immediately became arrogant again, this time the battle Zuo Guangxian said clearly, capture this village, whoever is the first to attack the village, can be rewarded with two hundred taels of silver, kill or capture the thief head alive, reward three thousand taels of silver, there will be brave men under the heavy reward, few soldiers do not want to earn such a jackpot, so today's move, the officers and soldiers also showed a super fighting spirit, in the face of the fierce attack of the Xingtian army, they did not rout as before, but continued to arch towards the mountain gate.

When the official army array entered the walled wall fifty paces away, a large number of officers and soldiers of the firecrackers and archers also came out one after another, and began to counterattack towards the wall, and countless arrows fell to the wall like flying locusts, and immediately some soldiers of the Xingtian Army fell to the ground with arrows.

A firecracker had just stepped to the front row, and was about to put down the bird's gun to aim, when an arrow flew in front of him, hitting him in the face, and an arrow shot into his eye socket, so painful that he screamed miserably, and fell to the ground and convulsed violently, and after a while, he swallowed his breath and died on the wall.

The officers watched this scene indifferently and continued to shout calmly: "Aim! Fire! ”

Another platoon of musketeers opened fire en masse, killing a group of officers and soldiers who were firing arrows or guns under the wall, and then the officer waved his hand, and a group of soldiers from the prepared battalion immediately rushed to the wall, and the wounded were immediately sent to the medical camp in the wall for treatment.

But after all, the officers and soldiers were ruthless this time, although the casualties were very heavy, but they were not as before, there was no intention of retreating, they were in front of the cottage of the Xingtian Army, and behind them was the snowy broadsword, no matter which direction they ran, they could not escape death, so many officers and soldiers simply made up their minds to fight to the death, and they didn't care about the robes that fell around them, and continued to approach the wall.

For a while, the bottom of the wall was boiling like a pot of boiling water, and the dense officers and soldiers held shields to cover the top of their heads, leaning against the wall, and then those long ladders like centipedes leaned against the wall, and slowly began to erect.

In the face of such a crowd tactic, although the Xingtian Army has a great advantage in platoon gun shooting, but once the number and will of the enemy army exceeds their firing density, such a platoon gun shooting will seem a little thin.

When he saw a large number of officers and soldiers crowded under the wall, Liu Bao couldn't help but feel a little numb at such a scene, and scolded in his mouth: "Grandma's! It's really deadly! They can't be beaten down like this, it seems that this time the officers and soldiers have made a bloody investment! ”

Xiao Tianjian was still standing at the gatehouse watching the battle situation in front of him, and sighed slightly, Zuo Guangxian was still a capable general, and he was able to dispatch the morale of the officers and soldiers to such a degree, and burst out with such combat effectiveness, if it wasn't for his Xingtian Army stationed here today, I am afraid that the general righteous army would not be able to support it by this time, but unfortunately Zuo Guangxian chose the wrong opponent this time, and chose his Xingtian Army as the opponent, so today he is destined to fall into the sand here.