(It's strange, the book review section seems to have cooled down in the past two days!) Why? ）

The unlucky ghosts who rushed to the front were immediately shot by arrows or guns, and were thrown down in the open space outside the temple.

"Archers! What about archers? Come up, put arrows at Lao Tzu, and hold them down! The sword player is facing forward, give me a storm on the temple gate! Go find a piece of wood, carry it for Lao Tzu to knock open the temple door and kill it! Whoever is the first to enter the temple will let the woman inside pick first! Liu Fang dismounted and caught up with him behind, busy directing the generals under his command to adjust.

The thieves on the gable kept throwing arrows outside, but in addition to the first wave of a few officers and soldiers, after the sword players of the officers and soldiers were transferred to the front, the effect was no longer obvious.

Seeing that the sword player in front had blocked the opponent's counterattack, the officers and soldiers who had just suffered a setback came to the spirit again, and dozens of archers were let to the front, and they shot each other with arrows and the thieves on the gable, and the thieves were quickly suppressed, and they no longer dared to blatantly lie on the gap in the gable wall and release arrows outward.

Moreover, in order to suppress the thieves on the gable, the officers and soldiers brought up two boxes of bees from the bottom of the mountain, set them up outside the monastery, and after igniting them, they swished and spewed flames, and flew to the gable wall of the monastery, nailed to the gable wall like a hedgehog, and also shot and injured two thieves who were lying on the gable and tried to shoot arrows outward, and immediately the other thieves were suppressed and could not raise their heads.

As soon as they saw that the thieves were suppressed and unable to fight back, a group of village soldiers cut down a pine tree outside the temple from behind, cut off the branches casually, and then carried the trunk up.

There was a faint roar of thieves and soldiers in the temple, faintly mixed with the panicked cries of women, which made these officers and soldiers outside the temple come to the spirit, and one by one they waited for the mountain gate to be knocked open, and rushed in to kill people and rob money to play with women.

The sword and card players lined up forward, holding shields to cover their heads, and slowly approached the temple, when they approached to twenty steps, some officers and soldiers with fire guns and three-eyed guns began to release their guns, and a gunfire rang out with a bang, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke, the lead bullet crackled on the temple gate, leaving dense small holes on the dilapidated temple gate, but although the temple gate was broken, it was still made of thick wood, although the lead bullet left a lot of small holes on it, But there wasn't much lead that could really penetrate, but even so, it still made the thieves inside let out an exclamation.

A group of village soldiers were carrying the freshly cut down pine trunk, rushed out of the array, shouted the trumpet and rushed towards the temple gate, only to hear a loud bang, the temple gate shook violently, and a lot of dust fell from the gatehouse, but the temple gate only shook a little, but it was not immediately knocked open.

When the officers and soldiers saw the temple gate shaking, they immediately shouted hello, became more and more energetic, tightened their weapons one by one, exerted all their strength, and prepared to attack the mountain temple.

At this time, in the Stone Buddha Temple, only the dozens of soldiers led by Feng Gouzi stood near the gable and shouted, and a group of armored soldiers lined up in the open space in front of the hall, collectively looking indifferently in the direction of the temple gate, but did not make any sound at all.

The two rescued women hid in the dilapidated side hall and wept a few times from time to time, but there was not a single tear, but they looked out curiously from time to time.

Xiao Tianjian pressed the hilt of the knife on his waist, stood on the steps in front of the collapsed hall, and coldly listened to the strange screams of the officers and soldiers outside the temple, the sound of firecrackers, and the loud clanging sound of the temple gate being slammed.

One of the soldiers quickly stretched out his head to look out of the gable, crouched down and shouted, "They are close to the outside of the gable!" ”

Gao Cheng, who was taken in by Xiao Tianjian earlier and sent it to the gable with two soldiers at this time, carried a wooden box to the bottom of the gable, bent down and opened the box, revealing round stone eggs that were larger than fists, these round stones were obviously carved out of common local stones, and there were obviously traces of carving and chiseling, which was not too regular, strangely on each stone egg, there was a wooden stopper, and there was a small hole in the center of the cork, from which a long lead was drawn, It's as if the stone eggs have a little braid.

After Gao Cheng recuperated in Tianlong Village during this period of time, his body has grown a lot, and the dishes on his face have already changed to a healthy complexion, and he looks much more energetic.

He bent down and took out these stone eggs from the box, and passed them to the soldiers squatting on the gable wall one by one, bared his teeth, revealing a mouthful of big white teeth, both excited and a little nervous, and whispered to the people above: "Hurry up and throw it outside the wall with the medicine twist, don't fall inside, otherwise, we will all follow the blood luck!" ”

The soldiers squatting above all grinned, nodded their heads again and again, and each of them had a fire fold that had been lit in their hands, Feng Gouzi also stretched out his head to look at it, and whispered: "Don't be careless, be careful with Lao Tzu, listen to my orders, and throw the fire out together!" Did you hear that? ”

The soldiers lying on the top of the low ladder responded one after another, holding a stone egg in one hand and a fire fold in the other, ready to prepare.

"Listen up! Ignition! Throw it! Feng Gouzi suddenly yelled and quickly covered his ears.

The soldiers who were lying on the low ladder hurriedly put the fire fold to the lead on the stone egg, and when they heard the hissing sound, the lead was ignited, and a faint blue smoke came out.

Immediately after that, the dozen or so soldiers who were squatting on the low ladder stood up straight, raised their hands, and threw the smoking stone eggs in their hands to the outside of the wall.

At this time, the officers and soldiers and the swordsmen of the villagers had already approached the outside of the gable, and suddenly they saw more than a dozen stone eggs thrown out of the gable, and they smashed into their crowd with a clang.

"Grandma's! Be careful, the thieves are throwing stones outward! Someone immediately exclaimed.

But few people noticed anything unusual about the stones thrown into their crowd, and the knife players hurriedly raised their shields above their heads, lest they be hit in the head by the stones thrown by the thieves.

But it didn't take long for the officers and soldiers gathered outside these temples to suddenly explode at the feet of the villagers.

Moreover, these explosions exploded in a series of explosions, one after another, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose from the crowd, and then a miserable scream sounded around each explosion point, and then many officers and soldiers fell to the ground wailing, and some of them became bloody people on the spot, and blood was bubbling out everywhere, rolling all over the ground and howling fiercely.

The sudden explosion made the officers and soldiers outside the temple tremble, and they didn't know what was going on, so they scattered and avoided.

Liu Fang was also taken aback when he stood behind the formation, he didn't know what was happening in front of him, looking at the clouds of gunpowder smoke rising from the crowd in front of him, and the panicked people and horses who scattered and avoided, he hurriedly ordered loudly to stabilize.

But before he could suppress his own men, a pile of smoking stone eggs was thrown out of the gable, and this time the officers and soldiers who had eaten a trench and grew wise and the villagers knew that this kind of stone egg was doing a trick, and as soon as they saw this thing thrown out, they ran away from the gable, afraid that they would be blown up by this thing again.

Sure enough, they guessed correctly, as soon as these stone eggs were thrown out, they exploded soon after they landed, and once again there were clouds of gunsmoke, which made the people close to the stone bombs scream, and as a result, many people were put down, even the team of villagers who were carrying the pine tree trunk to hit the temple gate were also hit by three such explosive stone bombs, and a few people were put down, and the rest of the people picked up the pine tree trunk, and then scattered the girl and fled from the temple gate.

The officers and soldiers and Xiang Yong, who were still showing off their might just now, couldn't get up their majesty this time, and they ran farther away from the gable, looking at the dozens of officers and soldiers who were injured in the explosion lying near the gable, and they didn't know what to do for a while.

"Report to Mr. Liu Qian, the thieves are cheating, I don't know what to use, the explosion killed and injured many of us, so we can't prevent it! Please Liu Qian decide! A small flag officer ran to Liu Qianzong and reported to him in a panic, this guy still had blood on his face, and a flying stone chip opened a hole in his forehead, and the guy grinned in pain.

The soldiers in the temple stretched out their heads to look at the officers and soldiers who had been blown back outside, and immediately let out a cheer, and the archers who did not dare to get up and release their arrows just now stood up again and released arrows at the officers and soldiers.

The corners of Xiao Tianjian's mouth showed a smile, when he took in the Gao Cheng brothers, although there were sympathy for the two brothers, but at the same time, the more important reason was that Gao Cheng had a career, Gao Cheng did not disappoint him, he was really familiar with gunpowder, the last time he hit Lijiazhuang, because the time was too hasty, Xiao Tianjian let Gao Cheng make the stone thunder failed to catch up in the battle of Lijiazhuang came in handy, but this time it caught up and was used here, and the officers and soldiers outside the temple were honored to become the test objects of this new weapon.

To put it bluntly, the stone mine is a simple stone grenade, originally with Xiao Tianjian's idea, he wanted to use this kind of stone mine equipment for the soldiers, replacing the javelins equipped in the army.

But through the repeated experiments of Gao Cheng and the two stonemasons, it was found that if this thing was too small and too light, the charge was very limited, and the power of black powder was far less powerful than the explosives used in later generations, and the power of the explosion was very small, so it could only be made a little larger to be powerful. No one has such a big arm strength that can throw something weighing four or five pounds out of dozens of meters at once, so he can only give up the idea of replacing the javelin with a stone mine.

But this does not mean that this kind of thing is useless, at least it is no problem to use mines, after all, the Ming Dynasty has already invented mines, this thing is not advanced, just a problem of concept, and this thing is most suitable for condescending guards, directly from a high place, it is no problem to throw it into the enemy crowd, so in order to test the actual combat effect, this time Gao Cheng and the dozens of stone mines he had just built were brought out with the army.

Listening to the screams of ghosts crying wolves outside and the sound of explosions one after another, although Xiao Tianjian didn't see the situation outside, he could guess that the effect of this thing should be good.