After a while, Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates pushed out three swarms of bees mounted on the car, and the three swarms were not the same, one was square, one was round, and the other was octagonal, and the rockets inside ranged from one hundred to forty.

Zhang Xianzhong got these things when he was fighting Luzhou, and they didn't use them, but they were beaten by officials and soldiers with this kind of thing, and they felt that the range was not bad. And he caught a showman, saying that this thing could shoot two hundred paces away.

"He Xiucai", Zhang Xianzhong instructed: "You prepare, follow the front operation." ”

"My lord, I have already handed it over to the soldiers, everything is ready, as long as they light the fire, I don't have to go." He Xiucai hurriedly said.

Zhang Xianzhong frowned and looked at He Xiucai, who had been wiping his sweat nervously, and finally nodded: "It's okay, you can get it for them!" ”

"I can definitely get it right, don't worry, the king." He Xiucai immediately said. He originally wanted to escape, but the thieves were very closely guarded, and he never found a chance. I hope that this performance will make the thief's guard of him looser, and he doesn't want to be charged with being a thief.

He Xiucai pretended to look at the swarm of bees in the car again, in fact, he didn't understand it very well, he just read it in the book, and he still had to let those craftsmen do it.

"Did you get it?" He Xiucai asked.

An old craftsman respectfully replied: "It's all done, as long as there is a little fire, it can be launched." ”

He Xiucai nodded and said to the soldiers next to him, "It's done, you guys push it out." ”

At this time, Li Zhong's army was treating the wounded and collecting the corpses. Although they are both artillery and crossbow arrows, and their lethality output is very strong, they can still have rogues rushing closer. When the pikemen begin to stand up and stab, there are not many opportunities for the crossbowmen behind to fire their bolts. Fortunately, they had enough baggage carts, and there were many crossbowmen who got on the baggage carts and condescendingly fired crossbow arrows outward, so that there were not too many thieves rushing over.

Even so, in the close-range fight, all weapon advantages are gone, and only the most basic physical strength and force competition remain. Among the thieves, the ones who can rush over are all old thieves, with good martial arts and rich experience, and they can always cause some casualties to Li Zhong's subordinates. If there were no crossbowmen to shoot arrows and fill the positions at any time in the back, there were a few places that would have been breached.

"How many casualties?" Li Zhong asked.

The captain of the pro-soldier replied: "It is still counted, and it has been reported that 27 people have been killed in battle, and 106 people have been injured, of which 48 are seriously injured. ”

"Let the doctors treat it well," Li Zhong instructed, "Let each battalion (thousand troops) deploy on their own to ensure the integrity of the military formation." ”

"Yes."

As soon as the captain of the pro-soldier left, a soldier ran over and reported: "General, there is a situation with the thieves. ”

Li Zhong nodded and followed the soldiers to the east. He immediately saw three carts being pushed out of the bandwagon of thieves, with vats diagonally placed on them. The thieves cautiously pushed this way, protected by a shield in front of them.

"What's that?" Li Zhong asked.

The surrounding soldiers didn't know that they were all farmers before, and they had never seen this thing.

Li Zhong doesn't care what it is, anyway, it shouldn't be a friendly thing. So he ordered: "Inform the artillerymen, knock out those things." ”

After a while, a three-inch gun turned its muzzle and began to aim at the still moving swarm.

With a "boom", the first solid bullet hit the gap between the three or two cars, causing no damage.

The artillerymen quickly operated, clearing, cooling, loading, and adjusting aiming, and bombarded the three or two vehicles at a distance of 250.

"Boom", another cannon sounded, and this time the shell directly hit the car in the middle. The shield-bearer in front of him fell down screaming, and the car behind him was also knocked apart, and the round thing that was fixed on it also fell to the ground. The pieces of wood injured the two thieves in the cart as well.

The thieves pushing the other two cars stopped, and a small leader shouted, "Almost, right?" Didn't you say that you can play more than 200 steps? ”

The leader of the other car shouted: "It's almost over, let's run quickly, or the shells will come again." ”

"Quick! Fast! Ignition, ignition. The leaders ordered in a panic.

They quickly lit the fuses of the swarm, and then ran back quickly. The shield-bearers rested their shields against the cart, which was their last duty. As for the injured, they don't care.

They had just run twenty or thirty paces when a "boom" was heard, followed by a "click". As they ran, they looked behind them and saw that the car with the octagonal swarm had also been hit, one wheel had been shattered, and the car was crooked to one side.

"Good guy, you hit it right." One of the leaders panted as he ran.

The other also gasped and said, "It's good that we ran fast." ”

At this time, the lead of a swarm of bees finally ignited the rocket inside, and the sound of "boom", "boom", "boom", "boom" was constantly heard, and the rocket flew out of the barrel with fire. Like a bee, a ball of rockets flew off into the distance with a loud sound.

However, those rockets are like drunks, with no fixed trajectory at all, some fly far away, and some fly away and land. The rockets in the octagonal barrel crooked to the side also flew out quickly, but those rockets had no target at all, and most of them landed on the ground early, only a few of them flew far, but they did not go in the direction of the officers and soldiers.

Li Zhong and the others looked at three or four rockets, and flew towards them in flames. He didn't have anything to order at this time, he had to pay attention to the soldiers themselves. Although the speed of the rocket is not slow, fortunately, there is flame, it can still be seen, and it should not cause much damage.

One of the rockets was flying towards Li Zhong. Li Zhong instantly pulled out the long knife on his waist and drew a circle with the knife, just knocking the rocket aside. As soon as the pro-soldier next to him subconsciously lowered his head, the rocket flew over his head and landed on the ground behind him. At this time, the flame of the rocket tied to the feather arrow slowly decreases until the flame is completely extinguished.

"Put it away," Li Zhong instructed, "take it back and let the craftsmen see what it is." ”

Zhang Xianzhong watched the two swarms being knocked over before they were launched, and he could only be anxious. When the swarm was finally launched, he scolded at the rockets that were flying around, "It's a bird!" When I beat Lao Tzu, I looked quite powerful, why did Lao Tzu look like this bird when he used it! ”

After that, he was arrested and shouted, "He Xiucai! Don't you want to work for my Lao Zhang?! ”

"No, no." He Xiucai nervously explained: "It's less, and it's more to be powerful." He saw Zhang Xianzhong deal with those uncooperative scholars, all of whom were killed, without any discussion.

"What else can you do?!" Zhang Xianzhong asked coldly.

He Xiucai wiped the cold sweat from his head and said in a trembling voice: "God, the Divine Fire Crow, and a few Divine Fire Crows." ”

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