There were three leaders kneeling in front of Liu Zongmin, they lowered their heads and begged for mercy loudly: "Please forgive the chief sentinel." ”

"I said it before, if you dare to retreat without an order, you will be severely punished!" Liu Zongmin said coldly.

The three of them still lowered their heads, they were all old men in the rebel army, so they naturally didn't worry too much. But the strange thing is that Liu Zongmin didn't give any more instructions, but silently let them continue to kneel.

After a while, Li Jiyu came over with his own soldiers. He ignored the three people kneeling in front of Liu Zongmin, hugged his fists at Liu Zongmin and the others, and said, "Generals, I think this group of officers and soldiers is really not ordinary, let's attack in another direction." ”

Liu Zongmin didn't answer Li Jiyu, but ordered loudly: "Come on, drag these three guys who retreat without permission down, and correct the law on the spot!" Pass the head of the battalions, and then there are those who violate the order, the same example! ”

Several of Liu Zongmin's personal soldiers immediately stepped forward, grabbed the three leaders, and dragged them out.

One of them shouted loudly: "Chief Sentinel, I have followed you for five years, blocked two arrows for you, begged the Chief Sentinel to spare your life!" ”

"Military orders are like mountains." Liu Zongmin looked at his struggling subordinates and said in a slightly trembling voice.

The other leader shouted to Li Guo: "General Li, save me, save me!" ”

Li Guo had no choice but to turn his head and not look at his men. Liu Fangliang's subordinates, on the other hand, did not react, as if they were dead.

In a few moments, three bloody human heads were brought in on a tray.

Liu Zongmin asked Li Jiyu: "Master Li, can you see clearly?" ”

"What does Jiang Ye Liu mean?" Li Jiyu is also the leader of the party, and he is not afraid of the bloody head, and asked lightly.

Liu Zongmin waved his hand and asked his subordinates to take the head out. After that, he said with a smile: "They retreated without authorization and let this attack fail." Let's attack again, what does Leader Li think? ”

Li Jiyu looked at Li Guo and Liu Fangliang who were staring at him, hesitated for a while, and then asked, "Or is it the same as this time?" Your people are in the front and behind, and my people are in the middle? ”

"Yes, it's still the same."

Li Jiyu frowned and said: "General Liu, the trench of the official army is three zhang wide, how can the earthen cart of more than 1,000 catties pass?" Don't tell me to fill in the ditch and make two trips back and forth, and we'll be half as small. ”

Liu Zongmin said with relief: "Naturally, we can only fill in the trench, but we have earth-wheeled trucks as cover, and the casualties will not be too big." Moreover, there is still a five-zhang wide passage for the official army, and it won't take much time for us to fill in a 100-step-wide passage. ”

"And the dirt cart?" Li Jiyu asked in disbelief.

Li Guo confirmed: "Leader Li, don't worry, we still have nearly a hundred vehicles, which are enough to use in the south." "In fact, the earthen cart is not a rare object, as long as it is a sturdy cart that can carry more than a dozen bags of earthen bags, it can be used. It's just that they use a large amount, and the loss this time is also large, so I'm afraid I won't be able to find it if I look for it nearby.

Li Jiyu lost more than 2,000 people this time, although the number was not large, but more than half of them were backbones who had seen blood. There are only four or five thousand such backbones in his ranks, and the rest are all outcasts.

But Liu Zongmin cut off his henchmen in front of him, what else can he say? Moreover, although Liu Zongmin only brought more than 30,000 people this time, his combat strength was definitely higher than his 60,000 or 70,000 people.

"Okay, as long as General Liu is willing, my Li Jiyu will not be ambiguous."

At this time, in Li Yan's barracks, the soldiers were receiving gunpowder and projectiles sent by King Zhou. The gunpowder was picked out in a wooden barrel, although it was also granular, but the ratio was not as good as Li Yan's, and the power was only sixty percent of Li Yan's gunpowder.

And those iron bullets are available in various calibers, and they are not perfectly round, and the surface has not been treated much, and there are pits. also sent a lot of iron filings, which were also used by Li Yan and them.

"Fourth brother," Li Mu looked at this large pile of things, and said disappointedly: "We can't use these things that are given." ”

Li Yan sent away the soldiers of the palace who sent the ammunition, and said in a low voice: "Then I can only keep it first." When the enemy is repulsed, it will be sent to the gunpowder workshop and made into bombs, and it will be used to defend the city for the people. ”

"You old man is really good, if only you gave us raw materials, and you can make more gunpowder and projectiles." Li Mu complained dissatisfiedly.

After half an hour of preparation, Liu Zongmin and Li Jiyu finally launched another attack. This time, however, only the south side had earthen carts, while there were thousands of thieves on the east and west sides, beating drums and shouting five hundred paces away, attracting the attention of the officers and soldiers on both sides.

The thieves still used the earththen cart as cover, and the foot soldiers followed behind. But this time, the thieves were not holding knives, guns, bows and arrows, but all small bags of dirt. They followed the cart, and when it came to a stop at the edge of the ditch, they threw out the small bags in their hands, crossed the cart, and threw them into the ditch in front. Since they had to be thrown at least five or six paces away, their dirt bags were large, otherwise they would not have been able to throw them out.

Fortunately, Li Yan's cannon was not fired, giving the first batch of thieves a chance to throw out the dirt bags in their hands. But the first thing they heard was the shouts of their companions who had fallen into the ditch last time.

"Don't throw! We're still alive! ”

"Help, brothers, come and save us."

……

However, the first batch of thieves did not hesitate at all, but quickly threw the dirt bags in their hands, and then quickly ran back. They all knew that the artillery shells that could explode by the officers and soldiers could pass over those earth-wheeled carts, and if they stayed longer, they would be looking for their own death.

The thieves in the back were driven forward with small dirt bags, and the thieves returning in front of them crowded into a pile.

At this time, the soldiers on the watchtower in Li Yan's camp immediately reported, and then thirty tiger squat cannons immediately began to fire. "Tong" and "Tong" sounded several times in succession, and the projectile flew over the earthen cart by the ditch and landed near the crowded crowd.

"Boom", "boom", some of the flowering shells immediately exploded, killing and injuring the nearby thieves. And some of the flowering bombs are still rolling on the ground, and the leads are still "sparkling".

"Run! It's going to explode! ”

The panicked crowd became more crowded, and the more they tried to flee quickly, the more they couldn't leave.

"Boom", "boom", the remaining flowering bombs exploded one after another, accompanied by bursts of screams, and the thieves ran backwards in even more panic.

Liu Zongmin coldly ordered from behind: "Release the arrow!" ”

The sound of "squeak" and "squeak" of open crossbows rang out, and more than 2,000 crossbowmen wound their arrows. After that, in the tense sound of the bowstring of "boom" and "boom", it flew out and shot at Li Jiyu's subordinates, who were also killing officials and rebelling.

With a scream, the thieves who rushed through the small dirt bags prepared on the ground were shot down in a large area, and the thieves who were shot were far more casualties than Li Yan's flowering bombs.

"Retreat, die!" In the rumbling explosion, the troops in front of Liu Zongmin stopped loudly, and once again opened their bows and crossbows, aiming at the thieves who were stunned in place.