At this moment, the officers and soldiers could only use the old method to attack the city, honestly set up ladders and climbed up with shields, while the officers and troops below still used cannons and muskets to cover. Li Guangtian couldn't let the soldiers continue to cats behind the base of the city wall, so he had to seriously throw stones and other heavy objects at these officers and soldiers who climbed the ladder.

Due to the rush of time, and the main focus of the ordnance institute is on the manufacture of firearms, so there is very little manufacturing of weapons for defending the city, even if Li Guangtian now has a small number of earth-shaking thunder and other defensive weapons made by the ordnance, he basically only uses stones and boiling water as weapons, and of course he can also use spears to stab down, but this is too risky, because the officials and soldiers below have been bombarding the city wall.

Although the third standard is only two hundred people, but it is more heroic than the officers and soldiers below, although the officers and soldiers below rely on the firearms are sharp, but few people dare to fight hard, and finally want to climb the city wall but because they see the stones flying down on it, they are too frightened to move, but the soldiers of the Han army are forced to use wooden shields to protect their bodies and break the ladders one by one, although the wooden shield can not block many iron bullets, but from time to time there are soldiers who are accidentally knocked to the ground, but this is also by sacrificing dozens of people to hold the Xiashan Pass for three days.

"There are not many thieves, they all rush up for me, and whoever rushes up, the official will reward him with ten taels of silver!" Li Zhanchun is very angry now, he not only hates the stubborn hundreds of thieves in front of him, but also hates these officers and soldiers under his command one by one, like a coward, they were blocked under the city wall by more than 100 thieves for two whole days.

In fact, this is not to blame Li Zhanchun, most of the officers and soldiers are like this, although the Ming army's firearms equipment and development level is not backward, but due to the perennial lack of sound and long-term agricultural production and lax training, the soldiers' will to fight has greatly declined, especially in the south, which has not been in war all the year round, there is no combat effectiveness at all, but now Li Zhanchun has now increased the reward to ten taels, and some soldiers have also begun to glow with some fighting spirit.

Gradually, Li Zhanchun continued to increase the reward of silver, and the fighting spirit of the soldiers gradually increased because of money. Some of the outlaw soldiers, who were full of hope of making a windfall from this battle, gritted their teeth and rushed forward with stones and huge trees. The soldiers of the Han army had to come over and block these soldiers back, but these soldiers finally climbed up, where they were willing to give up, and they gritted their teeth and fought hard with the soldiers.

Seeing that the casualties of the soldiers of the third target gradually increased, Li Guangtian had to let some of the people who were responsible for carrying stones and boiling water join in, while he withdrew all the soldiers to fight the officers and soldiers who rushed up first. The soldiers of the Han army did not show weakness, and formed a formation with troops, spears stabbed horizontally and vertically, and forced these officers and soldiers who rushed up to the city wall.

Another day, although the city wall was defended, there were not many people left in the third standard of the Han army, and there were only about fifty people excluding the wounded. And Li Zhanchun seemed to have guessed this, not only was he not discouraged by the failure of the siege of the three consecutive cities, but instead increased the reward to fifty taels, and said: "The thieves are estimated to be less than a hundred now, and we only need one breakthrough tomorrow to break through, but the official still says the same thing, no matter who it is, as long as he rushes up, the silver will definitely be rewarded to him!" ”

Li Zhanchun was quite trustworthy among the officers and men, and when these officers and soldiers heard that they would be rewarded with 50 silver, they were all like warriors who had beaten chicken blood, clamoring that they would be the first to attack the city wall tomorrow morning. Of course, the great increase in confidence of these officers and soldiers is also related to the fact that there are not many Han soldiers in Xiashan Pass, otherwise even if they give more silver, these officers and soldiers will not dare to exchange their lives.

"General, we don't have many people now, even if we lose all of our money, we can't hold it here, or let's retreat", the third standard team walked over to Li Guangtian and persuaded.

"We can't withdraw, Gongzi asked us to hold on here for ten days, and now it's only five days, we can't just leave", Li Guangtian said and stood up without caring about the bleeding wound on his shoulder: "Now there is only one way to delay the official army from attacking the city." ”

"What a way!"

"Rush out and attack the officers and soldiers at night!"

After Li Guangtian said this, he immediately gathered the remaining 50 or so soldiers, and immediately left the Xiashan Pass from the secret passage, and attacked the official army camp at night.

"Lord Garrison, the thieves are really attacking at night!"

Li Zhanchun couldn't help but smile after hearing this: "As expected, immediately let the soldiers ambush them, as long as the thieves rush in, they will shoot me immediately!" ”

"Yes!"

Li Guangtian and more than 50 other soldiers of the Han army rushed over, but when they rushed into the camp, they found that countless officers and soldiers had gathered with firearms.

"It's not good, the enemy army has been prepared!" Seeing this, the team said to Li Guangtian.

"It's too late, brothers, it's all a death anyway, whether the officers and soldiers are prepared or unprepared, they will all be killed by me, and killing one will count as one!" Li Guangtian couldn't care so much now, so he directly raised his spear and rushed over first: "Kill!" Seeing this, the team behind him gritted their teeth and killed him, and the other warriors also rushed over with a scream.

"These thieves are a little bloody!" Li Zhanchun sneered and waved his hand, and in an instant, countless officers and soldiers around raised their firearms and began to shoot at the soldiers of the Han army. However, it was not the soldiers of the Han army who fell first, but the officers and soldiers, and they fell one after another, although because it was night, there was basically no accuracy, but it still frightened many officers and soldiers.

Li Guangtian saw that more than a dozen of his soldiers had fallen, and he was angry and his blood was in his veins, and he saw gunshots and the groaning of officers and soldiers falling to the ground in the distance, and then he heard the sound of horses whistling. Li Guangtian hurriedly looked back, and saw that the cavalry of the first battalion of the Han army rushed over, slashing and slashing at the officers and soldiers who began to scatter. The officers and soldiers had muskets in their hands, but before they could light the ropes, they fell to the ground.

"What's going on, why are there so many thieves all of a sudden!" Li Zhanchun was stunned for a moment, and immediately ordered all the firearms soldiers to retreat to the camp, and immediately formed a three-stage array to block the thieves and cavalry who were rushing in, and at the same time, he was also busy ordering all the officers and soldiers to be on guard, preparing to deal with the thieves who were surrounding from afar. In the distance, there were indeed thieves and bandits, and they were the main force of the Han army, with more than 4,000 people, and it was the cavalry and the fourth battalion that were at the head.

Here, Li Guangtian saw that the officers and troops had withdrawn to the camp and set up a position to deal with the cavalry mark, so he hurriedly withdrew with the remaining soldiers of the third target, and did not continue to fight with the officers and soldiers in front, because Yang Ming had reprimanded him, and he couldn't just let the soldiers go to death, and now that the main force has arrived, and the officers and soldiers are with firearms, it is useless to rush over with the soldiers himself.

"Childe, you can be counted as coming, if you come one step later, the soldiers of the third target will all be killed!" Li Guangtian couldn't help but burst into tears as soon as he saw Yang Ming, and the ruthlessness that he wanted to fight to the death with the official army at first disappeared without a trace, and Yang Ming only patted his shoulder when he saw this: "You guys have worked hard, go down and rest." ”

"Hmm", Li Guangtian and other soldiers of the third target retreated, and at this time, the fourth battalion had just rushed over.

"The officers and soldiers have now set up their positions, and then let the cavalry brave the rain of bullets and bullets will increase the casualties, let them all withdraw, go back to the back to come to a front and rear flanking attack, let the fourth battalion go up in front, let these officers and soldiers see the power of our Han guns!" After Yang Ming gave the order, the fourth battalion immediately ran up with guns and began to shoot at the officers and soldiers.

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