The two Ming soldiers on the ladder who were running towards the stone wall also took advantage of the situation, and although they did not fall to death on the spot, they also fell to ashes, and the two Ming soldiers who had lost the protection of the strict formation suddenly became the targets of the Uighur archers, and were killed by random arrows.

"What are you eating! Knock out their arrow towers for Lao Tzu! All the cheers! The general flag officer of the Ming army, who was in charge of commanding an iron mortar artillery team, saw an arrow tower in front of the enemy army very arrogantly firing one sharp arrow after another at the forward battalion, and the anger in his heart rose all at once, and he shouted at his men with a tiger face.

The iron mortar gunners under him knew that he was also anxious because of the stalemate of the battle, the threat of the enemy's arrow tower was too great, if he did not kill it quickly, not only would he cause serious casualties to his own people, maybe it would be the failure of this attack, the pikeman on the ladder just now was shot dead by the enemy on the arrow tower.

An experienced iron mortar gunner licked his chapped lips because of the dry climate and nervousness, a pair of tiger eyes stared closely at the arrow tower not far away that kept firing arrows at the Ming army, the light shot out of the pupils slowly focused, and his hands continued to adjust the body of the iron mortar cannon with the slight movement of his pupils, and finally, a spiritual light came up, he felt that his heart, eyes, and hands, the three had reached the most perfect combination, this distance should be about the same, and said loudly to the assistant beside him: "Quick! Cannonball! ”

When the assistant heard the veteran's order, he immediately loaded a cannonball into it, and the assistant's heart was still very happy, because he saw in the eyes of the mortar gunner unprecedented fortitude, although the cannon did not go out, he could already be sure that the large lead bullet could hit the target, because he had never seen the mortar gunner so confident.

Sure enough, with a "ignition!" The voice of the ground came, and the iron mortar cannon "Boom! There was a roar of rage, and a huge buckshot out of the massive cannon, drawing a perfect arc in the air, and then slamming into the arrow tower not far from the stone wall with unerring accuracy.

"Click!" With a bang, several pieces of wood in the middle of the arrow tower were smashed in an instant, and the load-bearing of the arrow tower changed dramatically and began to tilt. As a result, several Uighurs in the tower staggered and stood unsteadily, and the arrows that had already been aimed did not know where they had been shot.

"Don't panic! Steady! Ming Jun is a blind cat touching a dead mouse! The Uighur ten-man commander in command in the arrow tower commanded loudly.

He had already seen that two soldiers were panicking because they were afraid, so they had to stabilize their hearts, but he didn't believe what he said just now, because he only felt that the Ming army's cannon was not fired blindly with his eyes closed, but had already been aimed at him.

Sure enough, after seeing the success of the first blow, the old iron mortar gunner of the Ming army was very excited, as long as he came to shoot, the arrow tower that had been crooked and slanted had to collapse, and immediately shouted at the assistant next to him: "Quick!" Clean the barrel! ”

The cannon at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty was very troublesome to operate, after the first shot, the second cannon could not be fired immediately, first of all, the sparks in the barrel of the cannon should be extinguished with water, then dried with a dry cloth, and finally loaded with combustibles and gunpowder, and finally loaded with shells. If the two armies are in a field battle, the other side can advance a lot of distance in a few minutes, and it is difficult to say whether these firearms can fire a second shot, not to mention that they are solid bullets, and whoever they hit is counted, and the lethality is relatively limited, so in the battle in the early Ming Dynasty, if you want to crush the opponent with firearms alone, it is simply a fool's dream, firearms are just an auxiliary means, and the final victory or defeat of the war still depends on hand-to-hand combat, whichever side wins.

After the assistant was busy with all this, the experienced mortar gunner adjusted the cannon for a while, because the moment the mortar cannon was fired, the huge thrust would cause the cannon body to shift, and if the cannon was not adjusted, the shell would definitely fly.

After some adjustments, the old iron mortar gunner of the Ming army measured the distance with his torch-like eyes, and felt that the angle and direction were the same as last time, and if the cannon was fired in this state, the foothold of the shell should be not much different from the last time, and immediately ordered loudly: "Cannonball!" ”

One of the assistants immediately stuffed the shell into the barrel and shouted: "Ignition!" Because the last shot was hit, it was very accurate, and the assistant's confidence was also raised, so he shouted extra hard when he shouted, as if he was afraid that others would not hear him.

"Boom!" As soon as the cannon rang out, the mortar cannon that had no idea how many cannons had been fired let out its roar again, and fortunately, this time the cannonball still smashed impartially on the top of the arrow tower just now, "Click! With a bang, the balance of the arrow tower was completely destroyed, causing the arrow tower to collapse with a bang. The archers inside also fell, either dead or wounded.

"Well played! Brothers, rush! This opportunity cannot be wasted! Wang Huchen, who was fighting hard, suddenly heard a loud "boom", and immediately guessed what was going on, raised his eyes and looked at the situation from the gap in the shield, and sure enough, the arrow tower that was a great threat to them was eliminated, and he was immediately very excited, commanding the troops to charge bravely, such a good opportunity must not be wasted.

"Kill!" It was a very refreshing thing to watch the enemy's behemoth that posed a great threat to itself collapse with a bang, and the morale of all the soldiers of the Ming army's forward battalion was boosted, and the shouts of killing rose wave after wave, like a tide, slapping wave after wave against the Uighur army's embankment made of stone walls.

In the midst of this lightning and flint, hundreds of Ming troops had already crossed the stone wall, brandished their weapons, and fought with the Uighur army above the stone wall, and the situation of the Uighur army was quite tense for a while.

"Adjutant General, please send our reserves!" Seeing that the situation was critical, a high-ranking Uighur general who was standing next to the Uighur Army's deputy general, also Hua Butai, immediately stood up, put his right hand on his chest, bowed deeply, and took the initiative to ask for help.

Ye Butai squinted at the situation of the stone wall in front of him, although his eyes were not big, but they were extremely deep, and after hearing this Pingzhang's request, he said very calmly: "You send half of the reserves up, and the rest stay here." At the same time, the herald ordered all localities to strengthen vigilance to strictly prevent enemy sneak attacks. ”

"Sneak attack?" The Uighur Pingzhang looked at it with a bewildered expression, he would never believe that the Ming army put on such a big posture and attacked so desperately, could it just be a feint, and asked very puzzled: "Deputy general, I think this is the main direction of attack of the Ming army." They only filled in this passage, how could they attack somewhere else? ”

He smiled at the corner of his mouth, glanced at the Uighur army's Pingzhang with the attitude of an elder, and said in a serious voice, as if teaching his own children: "Brother, haven't you noticed? The Hami army that attacked with the Ming army yesterday did not appear. ”

"Hami army?" When the Uighur Pingzhang heard this term, he unconsciously laughed, and for a long time it turned out that the deputy general was worried that it was the Hami army, was this a little too unfounded, and even the grass and trees were all soldiers, and said very angrily: "What if the Hami army goes to attack us?" With the remaining troops of the battalions, they can definitely be subdued. ”

He was still too young, and he sighed slightly in his heart, and then, he put on the posture of an elder, and tirelessly taught him: "Brother, remember what the elder brother said, and promise that you will not suffer for the rest of your life." ”

Uighur Pingzhang was stunned for a moment, he knew that this was a very resourceful person, and he was also very slippery in the officialdom, mixed like a fish in water, and generally what he said was not a kind of heroic words to serve the country, but enough to make you use a lifetime of good words, so he immediately put on a deferential posture and said respectfully: "Please give advice to the deputy general." ”

"Don't despise anyone."

"In addition, bring the rest of the stone throwers and focus on the forward battalion of the Ming army."

"Subordinates obey! Subordinates will do it! The Uighur soldier's Pingzhang was like an initiation, and it suddenly dawned on him that the adjutant general was right, that he could not take any opponent lightly, and that a small snake might kill a buffalo.

Therefore, he strictly followed the order of the deputy general, and while drawing out 10,000 of the 20,000 reserves to block the forward battalion of the Ming army, he ordered the catapult to be transported up to attack the forward battalion of the Ming army.

The firing range of the catapult is very close, only 300 meters at most, this distance is much of a threat to the Ming artillery with a general range of 500 meters away, so it does not account for much light, but the forward battalion of the Ming army is at least more than 200 meters away from his firearms battalion, if the position of the catapult is set 300 meters away from the target forward battalion, the catapult is more than 500 meters away from the firearms battalion of the Ming army, and the threat will be much less.

It can be seen that Ye Hua Butai is indeed an experienced veteran.

"Kill! Kill it! "Zhang Guodong, a thousand households of the Ming army who rushed to the front, had already climbed the stone wall and was leading his own guards to slash and kill the Uighur soldiers in order to open up more beachheads for his teammates behind.

Zhang Guodong rushed forward this time with the determination to become a benevolent man if he did not succeed, and he would never plant himself twice in the same place, so he fought extremely bravely, cutting down two Uighur soldiers in succession, and he cut off most of the neck of one of them, and blood poured out, staining all his black armor red.