"Captain... Do you think we're sure this time? ”

"What are you worried about? I haven't heard of how the 20,000 troops of the five military camps won in the first place, and the Holy Lord asked us to retreat to this mountain, we must have made thorough preparations! ”

"Yes, those people are not easy to deal with during the day, but at night, even if those people have shields to protect themselves, they can't resist the hidden attacks of the rain of bullets!"

Although he didn't see anyone preparing for the blasting operation on this temporary basis, the officers of the Guards could only comfort everyone in this way, and Xiao Xuan didn't debunk anything about it, and of course he didn't intend to boost morale with clear lies.

Some of the soldiers around Xiao Xuan who understood the truth were also a little silent at this time. In this unprecedented battle, the strength of the top elites outside the gate with bows and arrows is really shocking.

"Do you think that no matter how much our firearms have improved in the future? Even if it is an artillery team composed of all mules and horses, it can't be compared with those elite archers outside the gate? Xiao Xuan suddenly asked.

"The Holy Lord has said before that if an archer can effectively shoot a war bow with more than one stone and two fights, and shoot it accurately, then the combat effectiveness will be qualitatively different. An artillery corps of the same number is not comparable for the time being in most cases... We didn't believe it before, but today we understand why ... ”

Xiao Xuan shook his head and said: "Bows and arrows are important combat effectiveness, and of course it is a direction that our army will learn from Jiannu in the future." A strong enemy outside the pass can build an elite archer estimated at the level of one or two thousand with a population of two or three hundred thousand. If I, the Ming Dynasty, build hundreds of thousands of armor-clad archers of this level with hundreds of millions of people, I will be invincible in the world, and those Westerners will not be able to stop them. But I also believe that in a decade or two, or thirty or fifty years, one day the combat power of firearms will once again overwhelm the bow and arrow... ”

Of course, several of the pro-soldiers around him couldn't help but be suspicious, after all, bows and arrows that can break armor and have a high hit rate don't seem to be comparable to the development prospects of any firearms at all. It's just that at this time, Xiao Xuan also had to prepare the last resort to press the military will of the people around him.

Before night had completely fallen, and the sky seemed to be still dark blue, more than fifty Houjin elite archers with intact combat strength began to besiege from three directions with overwhelming combat power in the face of 2,000 people, approaching halfway up the mountain. The top of the hill is not very high, and the range is not very large, and the total height is only fifty or sixty meters, and these people can easily use the cover of the hillside to approach the distance of only about twenty or thirty meters from the height of most parts of the small hill.

There were rocks rolling down the hillside, but they were either too sparse or not a threat, after all, there was no turnstile preparation on this temporary small hill, and it was not too much of a threat. At this time, among the more than fifty remnant elites, about twenty or so of the most elite archers who could shoot a strong bow with one stone and four buckets began to use heavy arrows up and down one after another. These initial kinetic energy are comparable to the heavy arrows of the two Song Dynasty Divine Arm Crossbowmen when they are thrown down again, and they still maintain about eighty percent of the initial kinetic energy, because the difference in height weakens the power of tens of joules, and still has the power that a one-stone war bow can only have in the near distance.

More than 20 elite archers shot more than 2,000 heavy arrows in about a moment or so, and these heavy arrows falling from the night easily pierced the wooden light shield above the crouching foxhole, and in almost most cases, each round of seemingly sparse arrow rain could elicit a low moan that seemed faintly audible. The teenagers who were hiding in the squatting foxhole did not expect that under the cover of shields, these bows and arrows could penetrate and pose a certain threat to the people in armor.

The bows and arrows carried by dozens of people were not too many, and many Houjin elites took off the steel-headed short spears on their backs at this time, which were specially used to attack and break the formation, and prepared to launch the final impact.

On the top of the mountain under the cover of night, the continuous screams and even the occasional fierce hand-to-hand combat sounded one after another, in such a battle, although the Houjin elites were in a disadvantageous situation in the attack, but the battle was more like a one-sided slaughter, many teenagers hiding in the foxhole were directly stabbed in front of the steel-headed short spear that pierced the shield when they were hidden.

The sound of guns also rang out one after another at this time, but they were either suppressed by bows and arrows, or they could not threaten, the number was not too dense, and there were also heavy armor on their bodies.

Many pro-military officers and soldiers around Xiao Xuan hid under the tent, and only relied on the faint light behind the shield to launch fire through the curtain with turtledoves and guns. Although this kind of blind fire could not hit the opponent attacking in the night, and even if some lighting preparations were made in advance, it was also in danger of being besieged from all sides because the position was too narrow, but this firearm that could threaten the heavy armor still attracted the attention of most of the elite in the dark night.

"The place where the sound of turtledoves is dense is probably where the new emperor of the Ming Court is!" A Houjin elite said in a low voice

"Not necessarily, maybe it's just a pretense of firepower to attract us, covering the emperor's escape west in the night." Someone else whispered.

At this time, Vice Admiral Houjin, who led the team, made his own judgment: "It's not difficult to solve these firecrackers taking some risks, let's search them one by one!" Don't let the new emperor of the Ming court run away! ”

The brutal and bloody battle was still raging, but it didn't take long for the decent resistance to fade away under the suppression of the elite melee assault and the rain of arrows of the Houjin elite.

The more experienced Houjin elites had prepared some clothed grass targets early on, and then lit the fire, but there was still no firepower to take the opportunity to fight back in the dark night. Only a few lone tents appeared, which quickly turned into clouds of fire under the ignition of special rockets, and only some things such as food bags and cash boxes remained. It seems that dozens of elites have not yet carried out the final purge and purge, but it seems that there is no suspense about the outcome at this time.

"Let's get started! Maybe someone who will be able to capture a few decent positions in the enemy army will find the news! At this time, Vice Admiral Houjin, who was determined in his heart, ordered.

However, at this moment, the firelight suddenly lit up from the periphery of the entire small hill in a low blasting sound, forming a ravine composed of fire ditches, illuminating the entire hill, and the Houjin elites who had been prepared for a long time also quickly lowered their bodies at this time and prepared to deal with the ambush with the shields they had prepared long ago. It's just that people don't seem to notice any figures through the gaps in their shields, and there is no whistling sound when the shotgun may land after exploding.