At the critical moment, Sun Yuanhua braved the artillery fire to personally climb to the top of the city, and ordered loudly, "All gunners obey the order, load ammunition, adjust the shooting of Zhu Yuan, and prepare to open fire!" ”

On the arrival of Sun Yuanhua, these artillerymen were moved to tears, braving the enemy's artillery fire, regardless of the pain on their bodies, the gunners got up one after another and began to operate the artillery to counterattack. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info The cannon at the head of the city finally began to make a sound, and the cannon shot out and flew towards the pirates under the city.

The gunners of the Broken Army, who had been trained for a long time, were still at a good level, and under the command of Sun Yuanhua, they quickly adapted to the rhythm of the battlefield and began to counterattack in style. Hundreds of artillery pieces from both sides were firing at each other, and the sound of artillery resounded through the sky, and the rumbling of artillery could be heard for miles.

The pirate's strength lasted only three rounds of shelling, after which they had to switch to solid shells due to the exhaustion of flowering shells. Without the huge lethality of the flowering shells, the pressure on the city head was greatly reduced.

Stone River City itself was purpose-built for future artillery warfare. The defense of Lingbao is vividly embodied, the pirate's artillery looks amazing, but in fact, it did not cause much damage to Shihe City, the cannonball hit the city wall only smashed a few shallow pits, splashed some bricks and stones, and it is impossible to collapse the city wall of Shihe City without ten days and a half months with the current firepower.

After an hour of shelling, both sides stopped shelling. Because both the pirates and the city's sprawling army were embarrassed to find that they had no way to cause any damage to the enemy, because the pirates had no flowering bullets, solid bullets, powerful but too small in the attack range, so that they could neither break through the city walls, nor kill the artillery at the head of the city. And the Broken Army's long-range artillery is too small, and the range is too short to reach the pirates in the distance, and the pirates are naturally not stupid enough to run within the range of the Broken Army and be beaten. These shells are fired out, and they can't get the desired effect, in fact, they are just a waste of shells!

Time passed, and in the blink of an eye, the sky gradually darkened, and it turned out that it was already dusk. After a day of fighting and hurrying, most of the pirates were exhausted, and the power of the artillery at night was limited, Wang Zhi also gave up the idea of continuing the attack, and ordered his pirates to set up camp and prepare to fight again tomorrow!

In the pirate camp, Wang Zhi was furious, it was enough to be annoyed by dozens of cavalry for an hour today, but he didn't expect to come to Shihe City, not only the salt pans were flooded, but the arsenal was emptied! Wang Zhi originally wanted to make a fortune, but in the end, he didn't get any benefits, and hundreds of people died. What made Wang Zhi even more uncomfortable was that after two hours of fighting, more than half of the gunpowder of the cannonballs was consumed, and as a result, not even a single piece of the city wall collapsed. Wang Zhi has done a lot of things that harm others and benefit himself, such as robbing houses and robbing merchant ships, but it is the first time that Wang Zhi has done such things as today!

They came from afar for wealth, but not only did they offend a big force for nothing, but they didn't get the benefits they deserved, and Wang Zhi regretted it a little! A retreat gradually sprouted in my heart. Wang Zhi couldn't help but say to Li Tianxing beside him: "Sir! Behind the high walls of Shihe City, we haven't knocked down so many cannons today! How can this be? Sir, it's like a way! ”

Li Tianxing shook his head and said with a wry smile: "What can I do about such a thing?" I didn't expect this Stone River City to be such a strong fortress. Originally, according to the construction time of Shihe, I didn't expect that its scale would not be too large, but I didn't expect that it would actually be a business trip! This time, they have already taken precautions, and we are kicking the iron plate! ”

Wang Zhi was anxious: "I know all this!" I'm wondering what we should do now? Is it to continue to fight? Or do you want to leave it at that? ”

Li Tianxing glanced at Wang Zhi and said casually, "You should ask yourself this question!" You are the commander, I am just a military advisor, the decision is yours, not mine! You ask yourself, are you willing to retreat like this? ”

Wang Zhi was choked, and only after half a sound did he sigh, "What if you are unwilling?" Without ten days and a half moons, we are afraid that we will not be able to defeat this Shihe City. If you can't beat the stone river, you can't get the wealth in it. And we don't have that much time to spend with them! I estimate that the reinforcements in Jiaozhou are now on their way! I'm afraid I'm going to be dumplings when I stay! Let's go! What if you don't go!? ”

Li Tianxing sneered, "Ten days and a half moon? Are you dreaming? I don't think I can even think about it for a year and a half! Taking advantage of the fact that the official army has not yet come, it is still too late to withdraw, otherwise as soon as the reinforcements arrive, with our 3,000 people, it will be a dead death! We were supposed to take a risk this time, but now it seems that it has failed! Since you have failed, prepare for the worst and bear the consequences of failure! Withdraw your troops! ”

Wang Zhi hung his head and said dejectedly: "Okay! Withdrawal! Let's leave early tomorrow morning! ”

What Wang Zhi didn't know was that just as they were discussing retreat, the army of the Broken Army was rushing back to Shihe under the leadership of Zhang Yao! After breaking through the Aoshan Guard, Fan Liang truthfully told Zhang Yao about the situation found in the city. Zhang Yao was shocked, guessing that they had fallen for the enemy's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain! Sure enough, it didn't take long for Qingdao to be captured, and the news of the Shihe crisis was delivered. Knowing the seriousness of the matter, he didn't care about repairing it, Zhang Yao immediately ordered the army to come back to help!

In order to rush back to Shihe in time, Zhang Yao ordered the army to abandon all baggage, and the army set off overnight with only the weapons and dry food for three days. In one day and one night, the army traveled nearly 100 miles in a hurry, and finally arrived near the Shihe River at the ugly hour.

In the night, Zhang Yao took Zhang Yiheng, Fan Liang and others to a hillside to quietly observe the situation of the pirate camp. After half a ring, Zhang Yao said loudly, "Okay! Let's go back and prepare, and in two hours, the whole army will attack! ”

"This..."Zhang Yiheng was speechless in his heart, and couldn't help asking, "Yao'er, don't we need to arrange a battle plan and attack directly?" ”

Zhang Yao shook his head and said, "There's no need! How are they all fighting! The art of war clouds, ten are encircled, five are attacked, and times are battled! There are 10,000 of us! The enemy army is only 3,000 and defenseless! You can attack boldly with confidence! ”

"What if the enemy escapes? You know, they also have a large fleet of ships on the beach! Once they break through, we won't be able to catch up! Zhang Yiheng continued to ask

"I didn't mean to wipe them all out! If we can defeat them, the siege of the Rock River is our goal! Our people are all new recruits! If the enemy fights to the death, the winner is still unknown! I can't take this risk! We can't afford to lose! Once defeated, Shihe City will be in danger! Compared to killing some pirates, it is still more important than Stone River City! Zhang Yao replied softly (to be continued.) )