Purr –

A shot fell from the sky, a stone projectile as big as a millstone pierced the sky, and smashed down with a terrifying roar. An unlucky brute bears the brunt of the attack and is directly flattened by the boulder.

Rumble!

The boulder bullet smashed into a large crater, and the flattened brute soldiers were instantly reduced to countless fragments, flesh and mud and sand. As the stone projectiles jumped and rolled away, the puddles of thick blood and floating broken animal skins in the pit were disgusting.

More boulder bullets smashed into the open ground, shooting the gravel and sand in the open area into the faces and bodies of the barbarians who were charging around, beating the brutes to the point of bleeding, making these brutes with blue faces and fangs even more bloody and terrifying.

Although the ten five-tip cannons in front of the Yuan barracks gate are extremely powerful, and there are no dead corpses in them, there are traces of boulder bullets flying in the air after all, as long as the eyesight is good, and then the cleverness, there is still a chance to avoid it.

Therefore, the Yuan army did not expect to rely on the cannons to scare off these barbarians. On the fence wall of the camp, rows of archers and crossbowmen kept pulling their bows and opening crossbows, shooting arrows into the sky, and after reaching the highest point, thousands of arrows made a buzzing sound and fell down with powerful momentum, like a sudden heavy rain in the valley.

Puff puff puff!

One brute after another fell in the blood mist, and the open field was densely packed with arrows, making the desolate gravel land seem to be overgrown with crops.

Arrows kill people far less terrifying than stone bullets, but the effect is much greater, but it is even more impossible to scare the brutes. You must know that the eight barbarians in Qiongzhou have often fought against the court for hundreds of years to do "repeated offenses", and the three major military states and a capital city in Qiongzhou have defended against these barbarians, and the most commonly used tactics to deal with barbarians is to shoot with bows and crossbows.

After hundreds of years of struggle, the barbarians have long been accustomed to this method of warfare. Therefore, the brutes have a strong resistance to arrow strikes. Even if the arrows rained down, even if the people around him were killed by the powerful arrows one by one. The brutes only ran faster, and quickly withdrew the rattan cards from their backs, raising diagonally over the top to resist.

Li Fang's rattan brand has a good defensive performance against arrows, and even when Zhao Liecao created the Dragon Bird Army, he used it for reference and promoted it to the whole army. Sure enough, as soon as the rattan card came out, the arrows shot by both the hard bow and the strong crossbow were all blocked and could no longer penetrate. In this regard, the strength of the musket can be reflected, if the flintlock musket is fired, it is not a problem to penetrate the rattan card fifty steps away to kill the card holder.

Under the cover of the rattan plaque, the brutes finally broke through the first wall after being cleaned by artillery arrows at the beginning, killing and wounding hundreds of people.

The Yuan army arranged 200 gunners and 100 sword and axe players behind the first rambut - it was not that the Yuan army did not want to deploy more troops, but this open land was only a fairly wide canyon trail after all, not a vast plain, and it was already the limit to be able to lay down 300 troops horizontally, and there was no more.

The gun player is just an ordinary sergeant of the Yuan army, but the knife and axe hand is the elite of the Yuan army, everyone holds heavy soldiers, wears strong armor, and the advantage is not too obvious against the barbarians with short knives and bare arms.

A large axe had just slashed over a brute soldier, and suddenly a strange cry was heard, and a figure swooped down from the wall, riding on the hand of the axe, tearing off the helmet of the axe-bearer with one hand, and stabbing the enemy's exposed neck with a short knife in the other......

A Yuan gun player yelled and stabbed at a brute, but his opponent threw a javelin, pierced through his chest, and fell to the ground with blood. Before the successful brute had time to rejoice, the figure in the oblique stab shook, the sword flashed, and the brute's big head flew up......

In this life-and-death struggle, the death howls brought about by quick knives cutting meat, sharp axes splitting bones, spears breaking abdomen, and slaying the trachea filled this wall with a radius of about 30 zhang......

The chief of the Yuan army is in the array, and the chief of the barbarian soldiers is in the melee. The terrain of the canyon trail is not suitable for arrays, let alone depth, and it is difficult for the Yuan soldiers to arrange neatly in formation, so the terrain is conducive to the melee of the barbarians, plus the barbarians are numerous and fierce. After a bloody battle, the first line of defense of the Yuan soldiers finally could not be supported, and the remnants of the soldiers retreated to the second wall.

At this time, more than 2,000 barbarian soldiers had all rushed out of the canyon, carrying a tsunami-like offensive from the mountains, stepping on the flesh and blood of the enemy and clansmen, and frantically rushing towards the second wall.

Tight Tight Tight!

Boom Boom Boom!

The cannons and arrows that had stopped attacking because of the melee between the enemy and the enemy rang out again, completely ignoring the safety of the defeated soldiers who fought and left. Obviously, in the eyes of the Yuan army commanders, these remnants of the defeated soldiers were already deserters not worth maintaining.

The barbarian soldiers who were pursuing obviously did not expect the enemy army to be so cold-blooded, and only cared about slashing and killing, and did not have time to take the rattan card to resist for a while, and were put down by this wave of arrows and artillery stones, and the losses were heavier than those of the Yuan soldiers.

Only by seizing a wall, the barbarians suffered four or five hundred casualties, but the barbarians can fight against the imperial court for hundreds of years, and it is always difficult to suppress them, relying on their fierceness and fearlessness, as long as the clan elders do not issue an order to collect troops, as long as the casualties are still within the tolerable range, they will fight to the end.

The second wall of the Yuan army is still 200 gun players and 100 knife and axe players. Although there were more than 2,000 barbarian soldiers, due to the narrow terrain, only three or four hundred people in the front could contact and fight with the enemy, and the rest could only wait for the barbarians in front to fall before they could fill their positions.

Although Zhang Hongfan was limited by the terrain and could not let the Yuan soldiers line up to fight, he also used the terrain to turn the barbarian offensive into a refueling tactic, and used three walls to grind away the flesh and blood of the barbarians little by little.

In the canyon, the sound of fighting was earth-shattering, and from time to time there was a huge sound of artillery and stone bombardment, and the valley echoed in bursts, and the roar was endless for a long time.

The nearly 1,000 crossbowmen on the fence wall of the Yuan military camp have already seen soreness in their arms, the speed of opening the bow has gradually slowed down, and the rain of arrows has gradually become sparse. Many people were pale and frightened, since the battle of Suishan Mountain last year, there were only sporadic rebellions in the entire Central Plains, which were immediately extinguished, and they had not encountered such bloody and brutal fierce battles for a long time - these barbarians were really ruthless!

"These brutes are really ruthless." Zhang Jue exhaled and sighed lightly, "The second wall has been broken." ”

A general said: "Just as the marshal expected, the blood of the barbarians is about to run dry." ”

From the top of the slope, it can be clearly seen that the barbarian soldiers who were originally densely covered with the canyon have become much more sparse like the arrows of the Yuan army after breaking through the second wall. At least five or six hundred barbarians have been worn out of this wall, and the remaining more than a thousand barbarians can only break through the third wall at most. Before touching the camp, it was already the end of the crossbow, and there was no power to attack the camp.

"Evacuate the cannons and change to a second group of crossbowmen." Zhang Hongfan coldly ordered. As long as he began to command the battle, his brain was as calm as a machine, and his physical functions were also extremely excited, and the weakness and cough that plagued him seemed to have left his body, and his whole body exuded a powerful majesty and domineering aura.

After receiving the flag, the herald knelt down and replied loudly: "Follow the marshal's order." ”

Soon, the five cannons behind the Yuan army were dismantled one by one and quickly transported back to the camp from the Yuanmen Suspension Bridge. As the last of the cannons advanced through the gate, there was a beastly howl from behind them - the brutes had finally breached the third wall.

The barbarians, who numbered less than a thousand men, braved the rain of arrows, chased and cut down the Yuan soldiers, poured fire oil on the antlers that lay outside the camp to resist the horses, and then turned around and galloped wildly in the blazing fire. And the arrows of the Yuan army were wave after wave, nailing the fleeing barbarians to the ground one by one.

Zhang Jue and other generals were all indignant, and they all asked for orders: "Marshal Du, please give the last general a battalion of men and horses, and kill these barbarians!" ”

Zhang Hongfan nodded, and was about to give an order, when suddenly his eyes froze - what is that?

At the mouth of the valley a few miles ahead, the fog surged, and the figures were full of people. With the sound of a rumbling heavy object moving, slowly, a strange giant circular metal barrel burst out of the mist, like a giant beast opening its bloody mouth......