Watching the Zhuang wall collapse section by piece, Zhu Jiu was worried, but his subordinates didn't care, many of them didn't have the consciousness of defending the danger at all, rejecting the enemy outside the door, and they all still dreamed of beating the officers and soldiers in the street battle in the village after the wall fell. What really dampened their morale was the artillery stones that flew into the village off target, each weighing thirty or forty pounds, roaring from the sky, touching houses, houses collapsing, touching pedestrians, blood and flesh splashing, the momentum was really terrifying.

So after nightfall, part of the timid thieves quietly crossed the river north from Nanzhuang, at first it was just a single slip in twos and threes, and then the number of people gradually increased, in groups, and even turned the river beach ferry into a bustling vegetable market store, Zhu Jiu, who was recuperating at home, was shocked when he heard the news, and rudely pushed away the "Lady of the Village" who was in his arms to please, and rushed to the ferry with a knife in one hand.

The news of the thieves fleeing in the middle of the night reached the Qing naval camp, Li Yu, Chen Wanchun and others immediately persuaded Li Mao to take advantage of the situation to attack and seize Nanzhuang, Li Mao refused, his artillery has not yet been trained and skilled, the village wall has not completely collapsed, and the loss will not be small at this moment. Li Mao rejected the suggestion of Li and Chen, and continued to order artillery bombardment.

Under the continuous bombardment of the artillery, the village wall of Ye Shuodu Nanzhuang quickly turned into a pile of mud and rubble, Li Yu and Chen Wanchun were obedient this time, silent, waiting for Li Mao to toss by himself. Li Mao was not polite to them, and ordered the soldiers to push the wooden donkeys into battle.

The wooden donkey, also known as the pointed wooden donkey, is an important siege equipment, on a horse-like chassis with solid wood to form a triangular wooden house, the roof slope is covered with raw cowhide, the soldiers hide in the cart to push, this kind of cart is often used to fill in the ditch or cover the siege soldiers close to the city wall to carry out destruction. The raw cowhide on the roof protects the soldiers from arrows, and the sturdy triangular wooden house also provides good protection against the rolling stone sasswood.

Seeing that the wooden donkey covered the soldiers to grab the gap, the guards were terrified, and the arrows were shot like rain, the cowhide on the wooden donkey was as many as three layers, and under the cowhide was a solid wooden plank, and the soldiers in the car were unscathed in the rain of arrows. Before the attack, Li Mao gave them a death order, once the enemy fired arrows, he let them retreat, although the soldiers did not understand their intentions, but did not dare to disobey the order, seeing the arrows coming like rain, they retreated in disgrace.

"Wooden donkeys are afraid of arrows." The guards on the village wall made a major discovery, so the arrow rain became denser.

The "donkey" soon "grew" a thick layer of "feathers" on its body, and slipped away in the midst of the laughter and angry scolding of the guards.

At this time, the village wall will inevitably thunder with joy, beating gongs and drums to celebrate victory.

After tossing and turning like this a few times, Li Yu and the others finally understood Li Mao's intention—the wooden donkey borrowed arrows—intended to consume the guard's feather arrows. Zhu Jiu is different from ordinary bandits, after tearing the flag and rebelling and suddenly making a fortune, while spending a lot of money on drinking and enjoying himself, he spent a lot of money to buy a large amount of steel, hired craftsmen to build weapons, and spent a high price to buy bows and crossbows from the black market to make feather arrows.

Now Ye Shuodu is surrounded on all sides, and the passage to buy arrows from the outside is blocked by Li Mao, and the arrows in the village are one less than one, once exhausted, the bow and crossbow purchased at a high price will become a pile of waste, which can undoubtedly greatly reduce the casualties of the siege soldiers. This is the reason why Li Mao tirelessly drove the "donkey" to borrow arrows.

Li Yu admired Li Mao's scheming, but he was a little disapproving, Ye Shuo's village wall no longer exists, and it only takes half a day to attack Zhuangzi, and there are only thirty or fifty people killed and wounded...... The pattern is too small to become a big one.

After three days of encircling the village, Ye Shuodu Zhuang has not been able to send out feather arrows, and no one has repaired the gap opened by the artillery, there is no suspense in breaking the village, the ferry of the north river beach is lively again, and there are people who swim and flee to the other side every night, and the guards in the village are panicked, if it is not for the military law constraints, it has already collapsed. Seeing that the time had come, Li Mao ordered the left and right battalions to take the lead in capturing Zhuangzi, and ordered the capture army and the forward Yin Zhibu to cross the river and detour to Beizhuang to create the illusion of attacking Zhuang, so as to contain the Beizhuang garrison and prevent it from rushing south to help.

Li Yu and Chen Wanchun saw that Li Mao's deployment of military horses had a clear eye, and they suddenly realized that Li Mao was not a small pattern, he was using Ye Shuodu to practice, and he did not take the great merit in front of him, but he used it to train the troops, this person ...... Well, some generals.

Li Yu and Chen Wanchun are both veterans of a hundred battles, is it not a piece of cake to deal with this kind of untrained thief? After making a brief battle deployment, the two of them shouted and led the charge. Two hundred officers and soldiers rushed to the edge of the trench outside the village wall, and the thieves on the collapsed ruins waved their flags and shouted, but they did not dare to move forward, and were suppressed by the newly formed bow and arrow array with a rain of arrows, and immediately fled without a trace. Seeing this, Li Yu shouted: "The thieves have no arrows, disarm and cross the river." The attackers shouted and swam across one after another, and the water was still very cold in March, and the besiegers jumped into the icy river with a sharp spirit, shivering from the cold. The trench around Ye Shuodu Nanzhuang is not wide, and there are no iron water chestnuts and sharp piles at the bottom of the ditch, but some thorns are thrown indiscriminately, thorns look terrible, but they cannot cause effective damage to people, and the Qing Navy sergeants use three steel forks to easily pick open the thorns, and rush through the trench.

The thieves who were waving their flags and shouting on the ruins turned their heads and ran when they saw that the situation was not good, and the soldiers who crossed the river laughed when they saw this, and stopped on the bank of the river and put on their armor unhurriedly. Li Mao, who was supervising the formation in the distance, was shocked when he saw this situation, and shouted: "How can Li Yu and Chen Wanchun be so big? Before the words fell, I suddenly heard the sound of drums in the village, and then dozens of archers emerged from the ruins, stretched their bows and arrows, and the arrows shot like rain, killing the officers and soldiers by surprise, and the river beach was suddenly blood-red.

Li Yu, who was pouring water in his boots on the shore, was accidentally hit by an arrow in his arm, and the two guards who had followed him for many years were killed by arrows one after another.

Li Mao hurriedly ordered the archers in the array to suppress them, and these archers were carefully selected to form an arrow array to suppress the archers on the Zhuang wall in the air. The bow and arrow equipment in the Tang army is very common, almost to the point of a bow per person, but the Qing Navy is an exception, the sea is damp, the bow and crossbow are unusable, the strength of the Qing Navy non-commissioned officers is short weapons such as knives and axes, and the long-range projection weapons are mainly flying axes and throwing guns.

After Li Mao found out that Zhu Jiu had purchased a large number of bows and crossbows, he was deeply troubled, and on the one hand, he reported to Tonghutou that the Puzhou garrison was reselling bows and crossbows, and asked the soldiers to step up the training of the "tortoiseshell array" for defense. He also selected sharpshooters from the army to form bow and arrow formations to suppress and eliminate enemy archers on the battlefield. The idea of forming a bow and arrow formation was novel and bold, but it was not favored at first, but the actual combat effect in turn ridiculed those who had laughed at Li Mao.

This group of sixty marksmen showed their might on the battlefield, and the thieves and archers who attacked Li Yu fell one after another under the rain of arrows, and the remnants burrowed back into their hiding holes.

In the end, the Qing navy was the elite of a hundred battles, and the setbacks in the battle did not cause chaos, but instead inspired the soldiers to hate the same enemy, and the soldiers of the two battalions were in high spirits for a while, and once the pirates became serious, which was comparable to a group of rabble.

The main general personally supervised the formation, and the marksmen of the bow and arrow formation group were like chicken blood, one by one, they were full of energy, and the arrows like a rainstorm covered the sky and the sun and poured down on the ruined village wall. There are not many thieves and archers, and even fewer are qualified, and the previous time I fell into Li Mao's "wooden donkey borrowing arrows" scheme, the arrows have been basically exhausted, and after seizing the opportunity of Li Yu's carelessness to launch a sneak attack, the arrows ran out, and most of the losses were lost in the first round of counterattacks of the bow and arrow array, and the remnants were hidden in the bunker and could not move.

Zhu Jiu came to his senses after being put on a swing by Li Mao, and was determined to return the favor with his own way, pretending to run out of arrows, but secretly he was accumulating strength to prepare to hit Li Mao by surprise, seeing Li Yu Tuoda, Zhu Jiuda was overjoyed, and went to the front line to command, and when the officers and soldiers approached and suddenly launched, the blood of the officers and soldiers killed flowed like a river.

Zhu Jiu's heart was as sweet as honey, but unfortunately it didn't take long for him to be happy, and he was suppressed on the ruins by the arrows like rain and couldn't move, Zhu Jiu knew his own details, and knew that if he stayed like this, Li Yu and Chen Wanchun would slow down, and it would inevitably lead to a dead end, so he gritted his teeth, and took advantage of the short gap in the bow and arrow array to change arrows, he rushed out of the bunker and ran madly towards the village, and when the brothers around him were still hesitating, the arrows like rain shot again. Everyone was frightened and silently retracted their heads.

Soon after, the rain of arrows stopped, and Li Yu and Chen Wanchun came up with the infantry troops, and the officials did not give the thieves a chance to beg for mercy, and stabbed the bunkers indiscriminately......

Zhu Jiuyi asked for the village in one breath, raised his eyes and looked around, but his heart was at a loss, the team was chaotic, the people's hearts were scattered, and Nanzhuang was designated to be unable to hold it. The officers and troops did not retreat in setbacks as he imagined, but were more courageous in the face of setbacks. A strategist once told him that the Qing navy was not good at using bows and crossbows, and asked him to buy more bows and crossbows, saying that they would be of great use on the battlefield. Zhu Jiu listened to his words, but unfortunately he only listened to the general, he did spend a lot of money to buy a lot of bows and crossbows, but the arrows were not enough.

"I regret not listening to Chang Kikura's words." Zhu Jiu patted his head in annoyance, pushed aside the crowd of scurrying around, and went to find the strategist Chang Mucang in an alley in the north of Zhuangbei.

Ye Shuodu Nanzhuang can be lost, but Chang Mucang cannot fall into the hands of Li Mao.

General Chang Mu Cangjia Tie guarded the door, and the neighbor said that Mr. Chang crossed the river to Beizhuang early in the morning, and Zhu Jiu scolded secretly: "The old fox ran fast." He left stupidly, looking at the troops who had collapsed like a landslide, Zhu Jiu knew that the general trend was gone, so he took a square scarf and wrapped his bald head, grabbed a handful of black ash and painted his face, and became a deserter in the crowd. He didn't run far away, and a strange scream came from above his head, a fireball, that's right, a fireball, a terrifying arc over his head and directly hit the three-story Chen Family Restaurant on the street, with a loud bang, Ye Shuodu's tallest building was instantly wrapped in terrifying flames.

Fire bombs flew one after another, and fire broke out everywhere in the village.

The fire bomb is thrown in with a cannon car, the production principle of the fire bomb is very simple, fill the clay pot with fire oil, wrap the straw rope around the tank, apply the grass rope with grease and ignite it when used, and then throw it out with the cannon car, the clay pot touches the ground and shatters, the fire oil splashes out, and is ignited by the burning fire rope, which can be gas raging within a radius of a few zhang.

The purpose of using the fire bomb was to destroy the will of the guards and then achieve a victory, rather than massacring the guards or the people on a large scale, so Li Mao left room for the use of fire bombs, giving the guards and the people in the village time to retreat.

Zhu Jiu gave full play to the advantage of his long legs and good running all the way to the Zhuangbei ferry, grabbed a sampan, personally operated the oars and rowed, and arrived at the north shore in a short time, but the fire was blazing, and the smoke was billowing Nanzhuang to the officers and soldiers.

Seeing that the general situation had been decided, Li Mao urgently ordered Li Yingtan to lead the army of Marquis Yu into the village to suppress the soldiers and prevent the occurrence of large-scale war crimes.

Li Yingtan led the order to attack, and led the army of Marquis Yu to enter the Zhuangbei ferry directly, isolating the soldiers of the left and right battalions from the fleeing people. The heroes who were ready to beat the officers and soldiers in the street battles also woke up from their heroic dreams, and they gathered at the ferry, punched and kicked their legs, and beat up the ordinary people who were fighting with them for boats. The water in the spring is still too cold, and it is necessary to die if you swim across the river, so on the surface of the river less than a mile wide, there are floating messy river crossing tools, bamboo rafts, wooden rafts, sampans, bath tubs, and thieves and people are mixed together to flee for their lives.

The purpose of coercing the people to flee was to prevent the officers and soldiers from firing arrows, but this undoubtedly slowed down the retreat. When Li Yu and Chen Wanchun rushed to the shore, they slashed and killed indiscriminately out of revenge. Li Mao was afraid that Li Yingtan would not be able to suppress Li and Chen, so he hurriedly led his guards to the river, but he was relieved to see that the Yu Hou team had isolated the soldiers of the left and right battalions from the fleeing people.

In addition to being a little stubborn, Li Yingtan is still a good person, and he is also decent and fair, impartial in law enforcement, and brave to face tough problems, which Li Mao appreciates. Therefore, although he knew that he was ordered to monitor him, Li Mao still decided to wait for him to be promoted after the war, talent is rare, such a person only serves as a protector of the army, which is really a bit condescending.

His eyes were just wandering around the ferry, and he was attracted by a fair girl in a red dress, her beauty was so touching among the thousands of people who rushed to cross the river, just at a glance, Li Mao was deeply attracted by her.