Seeing those heavy cannons, Liu Baiwolf's heart sank immediately, he was not as ignorant as the little minions who were guarding the first pass, as a well-informed bandit leader, he couldn't know the power of those big guys. Once they are allowed to roar www.biquge.info, the consequences will be unimaginable, at least this second pass is difficult to hold.

Thinking of this, Liu Baiwolf relented and shouted around: "Who is going to destroy the cannons of the official army?" The big boss said that as long as the cannons of the officers and soldiers are destroyed, those who have meritorious service will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver! "Now, Liu Baiwolf did not hesitate to pass on Tianlong's order. Moreover, he also knew that as long as he kept the pass, this little thing was nothing, and if he couldn't keep the pass, he would have to finish playing with Sui Tianlong.

There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, and this saying also applies to thieves who do no evil. I heard that I could get a reward of fifty taels of silver, when even more than a hundred thieves stood up. Liu Baiwolf ordered one of his bravest small leaders to take these more than 100 "brave men" and touch down a path towards the Ming artillery position that was still under construction under the cover of grass and trees.

Pang Yue had already expected that the thieves might come to this attack, and had already ordered the bird soldiers and archers to ambush around the artillery position. Therefore, when the thieves thought that they had unknowingly touched the vicinity of the artillery position and were about to take the officers and soldiers by surprise, the Ming army's bird-gunned soldiers and archers spoke. For a while, the feather arrows screamed, the lead flew sideways, and the thieves who came to sneak attack fell one after another like harvested rice, and occasionally some of the fish that slipped through the net rushed to the artillery position, and were quickly cut into pulp by the sword and shield soldiers.

In less than two quarters of an hour, the sabotage organized by Liu Baiwolf was completely bankrupt. Of the more than 100 thieves who volunteered, except for a very few who fled back to the mountains, the rest became another victory for the Ming army.

After a while, the artillery positions of the Ming army had been constructed, and the artillery non-commissioned officers began to adjust the muzzles of the guns, placing gunpowder and lead bullets. At this time, Liu Baiwolf's face also changed in fright, and he yelled and ordered his minions to roll down the logs and boulders.

In fact, there was no need for Liu Baiwolf to remind them, the thieves who had long been frightened and colorless, driven by the desire to survive, threw rolling logs and big stones towards the artillery positions of the Ming army as if they were dying, it seemed that only in this way could their hearts get a moment of peace.

It's a pity that the Ming army built the artillery positions more tricky, and the distance was relatively long, so the efforts of the thieves did not get much effect. Only one of the cannons was deflected by the rolling logs, but then it was corrected by the artillery soldiers.

"Run, brethren!" I don't know who shouted, and then a large number of thieves fled backwards as if they didn't want to die, Liu Baiwolf was furious, and just wanted to order his sword and axe men to kill people, but helplessly found that even many sword and axe men who were responsible for supervising the battle had joined the ranks of the escapees.

"Boom! - "Boom! ——" The two general cannons in Ganzhou Town roared again.

After the loud noise and white smoke, the rubble flew on the second pass, and the thieves who had not had time to leave the wall to escape for their lives were shocked and staggered, bleeding from their mouths and noses. One of the solid cannonballs actually fell directly over the wall and fell into a group of thieves, and then the momentum continued unabated, and easily ploughed a bloody path. In an instant, all kinds of internal organs, blood, and brains splattered everywhere on the wall, almost nothing like Shura Hell. In the pervasive smell of blood, the wails of the thieves were particularly poignant.

"The second master, run. It's unbearable here. A small leader under Liu Baiwolf pleaded bitterly, his face full of horror.

"Withdraw!" Liu Baiwolf used a slightly more decent word, and then followed a large group of defeated soldiers and fled towards the third pass in a panic. Just now, he had seen with his own eyes the unique deaths of the thieves on the wall, and he didn't want to be next. …,

Two quarters of an hour later, the officers and soldiers trapped in the camp took the lead in rushing to the second pass and exterminated the remaining thieves. As the cheers resounded in the sky, the second line of defense built by the thieves also fell into the hands of the Ming army.

In the cottage chamber, Sui Tianlong walked back and forth like an ant on a hot pot, and the loud sound from the bottom of the mountain was like a sledgehammer hitting his chest.

Just now, a minion came to report that the first and second passes had been lost, and the officers and troops were preparing to attack the third pass. Hearing the news, the muscles on Sui Tianlong's face couldn't help twitching a few times, and he felt a little regretful about his original decision: he knew that the officials and soldiers were so closely chasing and stalking, and he shouldn't have taken the rest of his brothers back to the village at all, there are more places in the world that are easier to mix than Gannan, why do you have to hang yourself on this tree?

Originally, he also pinned his hopes on relying on the dangerous terrain of Jiulong Mountain and the strong pass to repel the attack of the official army, as long as the offensive of the official army was contained, and after a long time, the officers and troops who had fallen into a stalemate would definitely retreat in the face of difficulties. I never thought that this group of officers and soldiers actually dragged the cannon up, and it was completely a posture of not breaking the Kowloon Village and vowing not to give up. As soon as he thought of this, Sui Tianlong felt that the nest was on fire, damn, Lao Tzu didn't have their sisters, why did he have such a big enmity with Lao Tzu?!

Seeing that Sui Tianlong's face was not good, Zhu Buru, the military advisor next to him, thought of a way with a roll of his eyes, and said slowly with a rat whisker: "Big boss, I don't know whether to say a few words or not." ”

"What words? Say it! Then Tianlong stopped his rampage and his eyes widened.

Zhu Buru was first taken aback by Sui Tianlong's roar, but then regained the reserve of the literati (at least in his own opinion), and said slowly: "Have you ever thought that this official army is desperately attacking Qingfeng Village, what are they trying to do? ”

I held it for a long time, it turned out to be such a! Sui Tianlong scolded in his heart, and then said angrily: "This doesn't need to be reminded by the military advisor!" Lao Tzu has a little blood on his hands, Lao Tzu knows it in his heart! ”

"Hahaha......" Zhu Buru looked up to the sky and laughed, and after laughing, he shook his head again and again, "This is a bad word of the big boss!" If the officials and the army worked so hard for this matter, how could Da Ming fall to this point? ”

After saying this, Zhu Buru walked up to Sui Tianlong again and raised two fingers: "What the officials and soldiers are trying to do is nothing more than two words!" Material gain! In the final analysis, it's still a word of wealth! To put it inappropriately, in addition to the gold and silver treasures on the mountain, even these thousands of heads in our Jiulong Village are enough for this group of officers and soldiers to ask for a windfall from their superiors! ”

Hearing this, although Sui Tianlong felt like swallowing a few flies, he had to admit that what Zhu Buru said really made some sense, so he asked: "What, does the military advisor have a solution?" ”

"The big boss only needs to do two things now!" Zhu Buru put his hands behind his back, looking confident, "First, increase the reward and make the brothers in the village continue to resist the official army, and let the officials and soldiers know that if they want to break through the Nine Dragons Village, they will definitely pay a heavy price!" This second one needs a letter from the big boss......"

In the evening, the third pass of Jiulong Mountain

After conquering this place in the afternoon, Pang Yue had already used this place as a temporary "former enemy headquarters", directing the officers and soldiers to attack the fourth and last pass blocking the road up the mountain.

The process of conquering the first three passes is much the same, basically the artillery opens the way, and then the infantry goes up to sweep the tail. The bandits, who had long been frightened by the shelling, could not organize effective resistance, so they almost succeeded easily in overcoming these three passes. However, the officers and men encountered a little trouble when attacking the fourth pass. After the third pass, the terrain began to become steeper, and the cannon was extremely inconvenient to carry, and the angle of fire was difficult to adjust, so the hit rate and power were greatly reduced. In addition, the fourth pass is the last barrier to guard the way up the mountain, and Sui Tianlong has always attached great importance to this, and the wall is much thicker than the first three, and it is guarded by a large number of outlaws gathered by Sui Tianlong with heavy money. In such a situation, the two rounds of artillery bombardment by the Ganzhou Town Artillery Team failed to achieve the previous effect, although it also frightened the thieves a lot, but the supervision team sent by Sui Tianlong gradually stabilized the situation after cutting off a large number of heads. …,

It was not until the sun set in the west that several strong attacks by the trapping camp and the Gangfeng battalion were in vain, and the casualty rate began to rise. Seeing this scene, Pang Yue was not too anxious, but ordered the attacking troops to withdraw to the third pass to rest. He knew that now that the Jiulong Mountain bandits had reached the end of their ropes, it was only a matter of time before the army attacked the cottage, and there was no need to increase casualties in vain because of the rush to succeed, anyway, the thieves would never be able to wait for reinforcements.

Because it was getting late, Pang Yue decided to wait for tomorrow to attack, and immediately ordered the Gangfeng battalion to camp on the spot, trap the camp and garrison the first pass, and the Flying Tiger battalion stayed at the big camp under the mountain, and after the whole army recovered its strength, it would break through the thief village in one fell swoop. As a precaution, Pang Yue took his own troops and the officers and soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion to garrison at the third pass.

After arranging the camping matters, Pang Yue had just eaten a few mouthfuls of dry food when he heard Wei Yuan come to report: The thief leader Sui Tianlong sent someone to deliver a letter. Although he was not in the slightest interested in the contents of the letter, he still had the thief messenger brought over.

The one who came to deliver the letter was a little minion, and after trembling and handing the letter in his hand to Pang Yue, he even shouted not to kill him. Pang Yue didn't care about him, and tore open the letter and read it.

Sui Tianlong's letter was very short, and the meaning was very clear: as long as Pang Yue let him and the rest of the thieves live, he was willing to give all the gold, silver and jewelry in the cottage.

"I won't kill you," Pang Yue read the letter quickly, and smiled at the little minion: "Please go back and tell Sui Tianlong that with the blood debts he committed before, he will definitely not survive." However, if he had taken the initiative to surrender, I could have considered leaving him a whole corpse and sparing the lives of those who had committed lesser crimes. ”

"General Xie's grace not to kill! General Xie's grace not to kill! The little minion trembled and kowtowed a few times, and then crawled away.

After the little minions left, Pang Yue instructed Lu Qiwu again: "Liang Gong, I estimate that from tonight to the early morning of tomorrow, most of the dragon qi will jump over the wall in a hurry and send people to attack at night." You go and explain it, so that the soldiers are ready to fight back at any time. ”

"Yes, sir!" Lu Qiwu replied, "As long as that thief dares to come and send them to death, the Gangfeng camp will definitely make them come and go!" ”

Pang Yue just estimated it, but he didn't expect him to really be right. In the early morning of the next day, Sui Tianlong organized hundreds of "death squads" to sneak attack under the cover of night, trying to recapture the third pass, but was killed by the Ming army who had already laid an ambush and suffered heavy losses. Another counterattack by the thieves ended in failure, and the situation became worse for them.