At noon, the Yuan army Dazhai has begun to take shape, especially in the direction of the valley mouth, layer after layer of thick loess is built high, forming a series of trenches. Behind each trench were armorers wearing heavy step armor, iron circle armor, willow leaf armor, and heavy shields and axes. At the end of the trench and the camp, behind the rows of sharp antlers to resist the horses, there were ten five-tip cannons lined up.

Defend against long-range damage from musket lead bullets with a trench, and can also return fire when fired by the Dragonbird Musketeers with a five-tip cannon that kills at a hundred paces. When the Dragonsparrow musketeers had to approach after a long attack failed, they were killed with a heavy shield warrior.

In the battle of Qiongguan for nearly a month, Zhang Hongfan, who knew something about the weapon of muskets, also figured out some offensive and defensive strategies. Of course, he didn't expect such a defense to hold back that strong army. His current deployment, Ali Hague did the same at the beginning, but it ended in tragedy.

Zhang Hongfan is not here, if the Dragon Bird Army really dares to kill from the valley, he can't ask for it. The game he set up was originally to lure the Dragon Sparrow Army to the bait. What really caught his attention was the rear.

More than ten miles away behind the Yuan military camp, there is a protruding peak that happens to be stuck in the mountain road. If the surrounding mountains are compared to a warship, this mountain peak is like the bow corner of this big ship that cleaves the waves, and it hits directly into the waist of this mountain road. It not only knocked out a turning angle of the mountain road, but also squeezed a canyon mountain road with a width of dozens of zhang into more than ten zhang, becoming the narrowest part of this mountain road.

After the 8,000 Yuan army has entered the valley, if a strong army seizes the commanding heights of the mountain, and blocks this pass with stones and logs, strong crossbows and hard bows, it can form a trend of closing the door and beating dogs. Not only Zhang Hongfan's 8,000-strong army could not escape, but the 15,000-strong rear army could not successfully converge. In this way, the 8,000-yuan army has become a lone army.

Long before entering the valley, Zhang Hongfan sent a team of men and horses to climb the peak, repeatedly reconnoitre, and confirmed that there was no ambush, and then led the army into the valley. And once the valley mouth is blocked, the Dragon Bird Army can no longer directly go out of the valley to occupy this peak. Judging from the surrounding terrain, if you want to bypass the large army to attack and occupy this peak, the complex and difficult jungle and high mountains will definitely make it difficult for large troops to pass, and a team of less than 100 people can barely ......

Zhang Hongfan stared at the mountain peak from afar, and suddenly asked the military guide: "What is the name of this mountain?" ”

The guide was a Li man and couldn't understand Zhang Hongfan's official language, so after the translation was translated, the guide shook his head and said a word.

The translator said: "Back to the words of the marshal, this Li people said that this mountain is nameless. ”

"Nameless? Let's call it the Nameless Peak. ”

Zhao Lie and Zhang Hongfan didn't expect that the commanders of their rival camps would give this mountain the same name.

"Order, Qianhu Liu Zili led a thousand foot soldiers to garrison the nameless peak to ensure that the army's back road is safe."

With Zhang Hongfan's order, the Yuan army camp was boiling and neighing. Half an hour later, a thousand-person infantry army held the flag of General Liu, set off from the south of the Yuan army camp, and quickly rushed to the nameless peak.

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At the same time, among the mountains and mountains, a team of more than 100 people, under the guidance of the Li guide, rushed to the nameless peak.

Walking at the forefront of the team is the commander of this hundred-person team, ready to take Shen Pingbo. At this time, Shen Pingbo had a bowl-shaped iron helmet on his head, a short armor on his upper body, a narrow-legged short hakama on his lower body, and soft boots for climbing mountain tigers. The waist is inserted with a short gun, carrying a leather bag, and the leather bag is full of five-foot long point steel flying guns, and the peacock is open, which is extremely eye-catching.

In just one year, after the Battle of Wan'an Military City and the Battle of Yacheng, he was promoted from team general and general to preparation general. The unknown people of that year, relying on their own hard work, had the qualifications to enter the account. And today, there is even more work in front of him.

"As long as a wedge is laid in the Nameless Peak, the two armies in front and behind the Yuan army can be divided alive and made it impossible for them to converge, which is the key to the total annihilation of Zhang Hongfan's troops for our army. However, the terrain of the nameless peak is narrow, and at most more than 100 people can be placed, and these more than 100 people will face not only the elite of Zhang Hongfan's thousands of yuan army outside the valley, but also the upcoming army of tens of thousands of yuan on the other side of the mountain. It's a life-or-death mission – who dares to go? ”

Da Shuai's shout still echoed in his mind, and Shen Pingbo's black sword eyebrows jumped abruptly along the helmet, and his lips tightened into a line. He was the first general to come out of the crowd and compete with each other, so he grabbed this task - to fight against all enemies! It sounds almost like suicide, but just by surveying the terrain of the Nameless Peak, you know that the difference is not so great.

Although the nameless peak can only accommodate more than 100 soldiers, it is also because of the steepness of the peak, it is impossible to climb on the east and west sides, and only the north and south directions can be marched. The southern part of it is covered with jungles and stretches into the mountains, which is the route of the Dragonsparrow's march. Only the north side is close to the mountain road, there is a small area with a gentle slope, and the Yuan army in front of the valley mouth wants to attack, only this one direction, only this small slope. The maximum number of troops to be deployed at one time will not exceed five hundred. In other words, they have to face no more than five times as many enemies each time.

Shen Pingbo turned his head, and there were a total of eighty-eight musketeers behind him, half of whom were armed with shotguns, and there were twenty strong, brave, heavily armored sword and axe soldiers. With such a strong team in both long-range and close combat, what is there to fear against a constant stream of enemies that are five times larger?

And what really gave Shen Pingbo the greatest confidence was not the one hundred and eight well-equipped and strong soldiers, but the twenty people at the back of the team......

At the rear of the team, there was also a preparation general of the same level as Shen Pingbo, the deputy commander of the newly formed artillery battalion, Hu Yanxiao, who had performed well in the battle of the Dragon Bird Army to capture Qiongguan. On Hu Yanxiao's side, a total of 20 strong men carried four gun mounts and four steel cannons under camouflage gun jackets.

The 24-pound cannon developed by the Iron House at the beginning weighed no more than 800 catties, and after splitting it, it was only 3 or 400 catties, and it could travel on any rugged and dangerous terrain by relying on people and horses alone. However, the four cannons were not 24-pounder guns, but small steel cannons, which were made from the remaining steel used to make the 24-pounder guns.

THE LENGTH OF THE STEEL PLATE OF THE MILITARY BASE IS 5M*50CM*10MM, AND THE FINAL LENGTH OF EACH CANNON BARREL IS ONLY 3.8 METERS, AND THE REMAINING 1.2 METERS CAN NOT BE WASTED, AND ARTILLERY CAN ALSO BE MANUFACTURED. With a body tube of 1.2 meters and a length about the same as a musket, it is naturally impossible to shoot from a distance, but it is absolutely stable for close-range shotgun bombardment. In the battle for position, the "oversized version" of this shotgun is an absolute nightmare for any enemy.

"Tiger Roar" - this is the code name of the new shotgun steel cannon.

This is the confidence of Shen Pingbo, Hu Yanxiao and the 128 soldiers under their command to fight against the tens of thousands of troops!

"How far is it?" Shen Pingbo shook the flying gun on his back and asked the Li guide.

The black and thin Li guide climbed up the tree like a monkey and looked at it for a while, then lowered his head and said loudly, "There are eight more whistles on the tree." ”

Shen Pingbo knew that "blowing the tree whistle" was the counting method of the barbarians, so he rolled it into a whistle with leaves and blew it vigorously until he could not hear it, which was converted into a distance of about two miles. Eight tree whistles are nearly twenty miles.

Twenty miles, at the current pace of marching, can be reached in about an hour......

At this time, a sentry dressed in a gilly suit came from the front: "Shen Jiangzuo, there is a situation." ”

Shen Pingbo immediately climbed up the mountain with the sentinel, and the sentinel picked up the treetops and pointed down: "Jiang Zuo, look." ”

Shen Pingbo squinted and saw that on the mountain road below, a thin line was rolling towards the direction of the nameless peak.

With a click, Shen Pingbo broke the branch in front of him, his essence flashed, he jumped back three times and two times, and decisively ordered: "The third squad guards the rear of the artillery team, and the rest of the first, second, and fourth squads, unload their armor and abandon food, only bring guns and ammunition, and move forward at full speed!" ”