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More than 20 rafts, carrying more than 100 volunteers, this is a township warrior from the capital county of Ruzhou, as well as Li Zhao himself brought twenty or thirty fast arresters from the state government. The leader of the team is Zheng Guanwei!

Wei Qing on the shore looked at Zheng Guanwei, who was standing on the bow of the boat with a knife [raft], like a general leading the army to the battle, with envious and jealous eyes. Because Zheng Guanwei is famous for his knife playing, he won over Wei Qing, who is good at using bows and arrows, in this competition. This group of men and horses is going to go up the river, go around to the back of the Phoenix Terrace and land on the shore, and work together with the main force in front of the Phoenix Terrace to flank the Chen family mob.

Li Zhao felt that the person who took the lead needed to be more brave and brave, and Zheng Guanwei, who played with a big sword, was obviously more consistent with Wei Qing's image score than Wei Qing, who bent the bow and shot arrows. So in this job competition, Zheng Guanwei won, while Wei Qing lost.

In front of Wei Qing, Li Zhao also looked at the volunteers who were slowly sliding on the surface of the lake. This is a strategy that he decided after thinking about it for a long time and discussing it with the leaders of the militia groups in various counties.

Of course, the total strength of the militia is less than 800 people, but there are 600 people, and how many people can the Chen family have? How many people will the Chen family put here in Phoenix Terrace? 100？ 200？ Li Zhao didn't think that there would be many people on the Phoenix Terrace opposite, otherwise they wouldn't have only a little people to disturb them.

For the past two days, the Chen family has sent people to shoot at the camp with muskets every day. They really killed one of them.

Ever since they set up camp outside Phoenix Terrace, the militias have been cutting down trees, making ladders for attack, and making rafts. In two days, they made more than 20 barely accessible rafts and 30 long ladders.

Of course, it is impossible for thirty long ladders to be put into the front of the attack at one time, and the small Phoenix Terrace has a total width of only fifteen or sixteen zhang. This is also because this is the place where three streams meet, a node in the upper and middle reaches of the Yuma River, from where the road will only get narrower and narrower as you continue westward.

As long as it is a battle, it can be damaged, and these thirty long ladders also include alternates.

On the Phoenix Stage, Chen Ming, Chen Erbao, and all of them were looking at the more than twenty small rafts rowed downstream with an idiotic look. Li Zhao couldn't have imagined that the Chen family had a cannon in their hands, right? Although the artillery equipped with the Phoenix Terrace is a tiger squat cannon that weighs only forty pounds with the gun mount and one piece.

The head and tail of the cannon are 2 feet long, and 7 iron hoops are added around the body, and the gun head is erected by two iron claws, and there are iron stumbling, with a total weight of 36 catties.

This is the tiger squat cannon in the hands of the Qi family army in the Ming Dynasty.

The tiger squat cannon cast by the Chen family has some improvements compared with the tiger squat cannon in Qi Jiguang's hand, mainly because the gun mount can be lowered up and down, which is much better than the tiger squat cannon in the Ming Dynasty, so the weight does not decrease but increases, and it is larger.

The tiger squat cannon can be loaded with 100 small lead or small stones weighing 5 yuan each time, and the top is pressed with a large lead bullet or large stone bullet weighing 30 taels, and the large and small bullets fly out together when fired, the roar is like thunder, and the lethality and radiation range are very large, it can be said to be a particularly large shotgun and gun.

If it is used to bombard dense combat formations, it will be more effective than two-pound artillery to suppress the enemy's manpower offensive.

The firing range is very short, and the lethality is mainly concentrated within ten zhang. Elsewhere, this is a short leg that can't even be compared to a grenade, but in a broken place like Phoenix Terrace, the effective killing of ten zhang can already block the surface of the Yuma River. Now that the surface of the Yinma River has shrunk by half, this is not only from one side, but from both sides, which is equivalent to doing the Chen family another favor congenitally. The range of activities that can be carried out on the water surface of the militia is narrower.

Chen Ming panicked for these volunteers on the raft, how much loss did you say they would die later?

Phoenix Terrace only needs to put these people in front of them, and then the eight tiger squat cannons 'bang bang bang', one cannon down, I'm afraid that more than 20 rafts can be cleaned up. When he frightened Li Zhao and the others, he also made a mortal enmity with the people of the state city.

That's more than 100 lives!

Chen Ming didn't want to immediately encircle the encirclement and suppression of the Manchu Green Battalion, and the gaze of those big men in the Kaifeng provincial capital. So he was only going to use two tiger squat cannons, as well as a batch of muskets and hunting bows for this pit.

The latter is the weapon that Chen Erbao's group of fierce men equipped themselves, they traveled back and forth between Xiangxian and Lushan, and the Chen family equipped all of them with cuirasses and some muskets and handcuffs. But many people still haven't put down their hunting bows.

Tumenji belongs to the mountainous area, and it is not normal for the surrounding mountain people to go up to the mountains to hunt. The people here, even if they don't know how to use hunting bows, have seen this inferior weapon made by the mountain people. Compared with the regular military bow of the Green Battalion, the hunting bow has a short range, the accuracy is not good, and it is easy to fatigue, that is, the service life is short. Chen Erbao and these people are still carrying hunting bows, and it can only be said that they are used to using them.

"Ming Shao, the militia is coming!"

Just as the raft on the water surface of the Yuma River was struggling to paddle towards the Phoenix Terrace, a large force of the militia was also dispatched. Chen Ming raised the monoculars and could already see the long ladder carried by the volunteers walking in front.

After waiting for two days, Li Zhao finally made a big move!

Chen Ming looked indifferently at the militia group approaching Fenghuangtai step by step, their speed was slower than the raft team in the river. The raft team stopped at a distance of 100 meters in front of the Phoenix Terrace and waited until the main force of the militia arrived.

Chen Ming analyzed this scene from a deep meaning, the militia group could shake the confidence of the Phoenix Terrace guards by doing so, in the eyes of the militia group, they were the absolute superior party, and the division of troops would of course shake their enemy's will to fight. In addition, it allows them to truly recognize their own strengths. It's just that whether Li Zhao and the others can think of this side is uncertain. It is more likely that the raft team is greedy for life and death, and wants to rely on the land offensive to attract the energy of the defending troops, so that they can take the opportunity to break through the Phoenix Terrace, otherwise they will be intercepted by the defenders of the Phoenix Terrace.

A sense of pride gathered in Zheng Guanwei's chest, and when he brandished his broadsword again and ordered all the rafts to move forward, there were only two words in his mind - meritorious service to join the army. After the completion of this invasion and suppression of the mob, the state government will definitely ask for merit from above, and he Zheng Guanwei will definitely be one of them, taking the opportunity to enlist in the army will definitely be able to get an official, and the taste of leading a large army is definitely not comparable to practicing martial arts and boxing in the countryside.

At this moment, Zheng Guanwei felt that he had found the true meaning of life. It's just that when the hormones in his head calm down, whether he can maintain his current feelings is another story.

Men can't resist the explosive feeling of 'swinging a sword to break the clouds', but there are many, many things in this world that are also irresistible.

When Zheng Guanwei calms down, he will first find out that he is already thirty-five years old.

"Boom ......" two thunderclaps on a sunny day, and two clouds of gunpowder smoke filled the short city wall of Phoenix Terrace.