Seeing that all the generals under his command asked for battle, Li Banghua felt comforted in his heart, but he didn't speak, continued to look at the mountains in the distance, and silently thought about the way to attack, Li Bei, Lu Yuanding, and Chen Tan didn't speak, thinking together in their hearts. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly said: "Lord Cabinet, in the opinion of the lower officials, although the power of our artillery cannot collapse the city in front of us in a short time, but the victory lies in the long enough range, if the artillery is moved to the north slope and bombarded the hill on the north side of the city, and then if it can defeat the thief army on the hill in one fell swoop, it is best to clear the obstacles for our army to capture that mountain!" ”

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng finished saying this, Li Banghua immediately said: "What Jiandou said is exactly what I want!" ”

On the north and south sides of Shimen Pass, there are two steep peaks respectively, the mountains where the mountains on both sides are located are in an east-west direction, the mountains on the north side are higher, but the mountains where they are located are undulating, there is another low mountain not far to the east, there is a saddle-shaped slope between the north peak of Shimen Pass, although the slope is steep, but if the artillery is assumed on this low mountain in the east of the north peak of Shimen Pass, the situation is naturally different.

What's more, taking the higher north peak is also beneficial to suppressing the thief army on the south peak of Shimen Pass.

After Li Banghua thought it through, he quickly made up his mind and ordered Lu Yuanding to personally lead people to transport the five artillery pieces to the small hill east of the north peak of Shimen Pass, and then set up a position, adjust the firing angle, and prepare to support the infantry of the Tianxiong battalion to launch a battle to the top.

Then, Chen Tan was ordered to select three hundred elite warriors in the Tianxiong camp as the selection front, led by Chen Tan, as the main foot soldiers to climb to the top and fight.

At the same time, Li Pei selected 200 musketeers with more accurate marksmanship from the mine camp to launch an attack together.

Two hours later, around the time of Shen Shi in the afternoon, the three carefully selected teams were all prepared, and Lu Yuanding also carried the five Chongzhen rear-loading smoothbore mother cannons to the hill closest to the north peak of Shimen Pass, and set up an artillery position on the small flat ground above.

This hill is located in the east of the north peak of Shimen Pass, there is a saddle-shaped valley between the north peak of Shimen Pass and the mountain below, if you count the curve distance of the surface, I am afraid that there will be more than two miles, but the straight line distance from the north peak of Shimen Pass from this mountain is more than 600 steps.

According to the algorithm of later generations, the altitude of the hill where the artillery position is located is more than 300 meters, and the altitude of the north peak of Shimenguan is about more than 500 or 600 meters, and the drop is about 200 meters.

Just after the afternoon of Shen, Lu Yuanding's artillery position was set up, and a total of 500 brave men selected by Chen Tan and Li Bei gathered in front of Li Banghua and Lu Xiangsheng.

"The people who dare to fight are all the ones who choose the front in the army! After the war, take the mountain, regardless of life and death are promoted to the third level, if the heroic battle is killed, the official personally to the emperor to ask for an order, his parents and family court to support him, there is a son for the son of the official, no child and there is a brother of the heir of the son of the shadow and the official. If you fight to the death to reach the top, this official will not lose up! ”

After Li Banghua said these words to the five hundred elite Xuanfeng, Chen Tan and Li Bei shouted loudly: "Dare not fight to the death!" ”

The five hundred elite Selectors all looked excited, and at this time they all shouted in unison: "Dare not fight to the death!" ”

At three o'clock in the morning, the sun was in the west, Chen Tan was in front, Li Bei was behind, and the leaders selected the front, quickly ran out of the camp, and ran to the north hillside.

Everyone under Chen Tan's command held a shield in his left hand and a knife or spear in his right hand, while Li Bei's command was all musketeers, but at this time, everyone's muskets were loaded with bayonets as long as one foot and eight inches.

Of course, at this time when life and death existed in an instant, Li Bei, who had gradually become accustomed to musket tactics, still chose his most trusted longbow as a long-range weapon.

Five hundred men crossed the artillery position set up by Lu Yuanding, raised their shields and went down to the valley under the north peak of Shimen Pass, and were soon discovered by the enemy above.

The peaks on the north and south sides of Shimen Pass are all bare rocks, and there are no tall trees or dense shrubs as cover, so the officers and soldiers were immediately discovered by the thieves on duty above, but fortunately, the place on the top of the peak is not large, and the number of people is not large, and the rain of arrows and rolling stones are not particularly dense.

As soon as the thief army on the top of the peak moved, Lu Yuan's artillery position on the east hill also immediately opened fire, and three cannons were fired in a row, and a scream came from the north peak mountain of Shimen Pass, obviously one of the cannons had hit the top of the mountain, and concentrated the thief army.

Chen Tan and Li Bei took advantage of this opportunity to shout and shout to order their subordinates to choose a front and climb to the north peak of Shimen Pass, while Lu Yuanding also continued to command the artillery position to continuously fire artillery bombardment on the top of the north peak of Shimen Pass.

The bows and arrows and rolling stones of the thieves were somewhat suppressed, but the bombardment of the official artillery caused the same number or even more falling stones, crackling and clanging on the helmets and plates of the officers and soldiers.

Fortunately, the projectiles fired by the official artillery hit the hill and formed a little more scattered rockfall, so as not to cause fatal damage.

With the continuous firing of Lu Yuanding's artillery position, Chen Tan and Li Bei led their subordinates to climb all the way up, and the vanguard finally came to a platform more than 200 steps away from the peak, and had a foothold on the north peak of Shimen Pass.

As soon as Li Bei climbed onto this platform, he heard a sudden shout from the peak of the land of two arrows, and a group of thieves came out, and a dense rain of arrows shot out.

Li Bei hurriedly lowered his head and fell down to dodge, only to hear the local chaos, fortunately the hat strap was tightly fastened, otherwise the wide-brimmed cymbal helmet on his head would have to be shot to the ground by a condescending bow and arrow.

Under the panic, suddenly another wave of rolling stones came instantly, Li Bei immediately rolled towards the side of the mountain, his back against the mountain body curled up into a ball, a round boulder, just smashed in front of his feet, rolling and smashing down the mountain, he just breathed a sigh of relief, he heard several screams from below, several officers and soldiers who were climbing up were shot down the mountain by the stones thrown from the top of the mountain.

The ribbon-like area where Li Pei was located was only a dozen steps long and a few steps wide, and could only accommodate twenty or thirty people to stand here, and if these people did not continue to climb up, the others would have to make a detour farther away.

Listening to the continuous screams below, more and more officers and soldiers were shot down the mountain by the bows and arrows and stones on the peak, Li Bei gritted his teeth, suddenly got up and turned, and with a "whoosh" sound, an arrow was shot, which happened to be on the face of the thief army who was looking down and was looking down, only to hear a miserable scream from the thief army, and fell backwards.

At this time, another round of artillery roar came, and Li Bei shouted: "This is a dead place, if you don't want to die, follow me!" ”

After saying this, Li Bei ignored the scattered rocks caused by the shelling, and climbed to the top of the peak with his hands and feet.

Lu Yuanding, who was far away on the east side of the mountain, saw from the clairvoyant mirror that the twenty or thirty officers and soldiers who were rushing to the front were climbing quickly to the top of the mountain, and the hundreds of thieves on the peak also got up again to shoot arrows and throw rocks, and immediately ordered five artillery pieces to fire at the same time again, and in an instant, five projectiles roared away, and this time each of them accurately hit the crowd at the peak, and for a while, flesh and blood flew sideways, killing one piece!

Taking advantage of the screams and chaos on the peak, Li Bei also climbed to the edge of the peak with twenty or thirty musketeers, sword and shield men around him.

The thief army on the north peak of Shimen Pass also realized that the critical moment had arrived, and regardless of the artillery projectiles constantly coming from the hills to the east, they opened their bows and shot arrows at Li Bei and the others who had just emerged.

As soon as an archer from the Tianxiong Battalion next to Li Bei's right showed his head, he was shot in the face by an arrow from the thieves, and fell down the mountain screaming, falling heavily on the rocky hillside.

Just dodged a round of face-to-face arrow rain, Li Bei's hands on a stone on the top of the peak forced, the whole body jumped to the top of the mountain, rolled over, dodged another wave of arrow rain, and finally reached the peak first.