It's midday and the sun is warm. But the soldiers in the city were so tired that they leaned their arquebuses against the walls and sat down to rest. The city wall in the sun, from near to far, does not have a trace of smoke and dust rising.

"General Li, why are everyone's arquebuses extinguished?" Zhang Guanghua asked, and there was even a hint of reproach in his tone.

Li Da turned his head and replied calmly: "I also want to be ready at all times, but we don't have many arquebuses anymore, and not only arquebuses, but even bullets are only enough for four or five rounds per person." Now that the sulfur and saltpeter in the whole city have been used up, the reason why you can't feel it is because the last batch of raw materials is still being supplied to you for experiments, in fact, the weapons factory has stopped the production of bullets half a month ago, and now they are all trying their best to make arrows. There was no mood swing in Li Da's tone. The high tension for several months in a row made his nerves a little numb.

"How so?" Zhang Guanghua felt a little confused. Generally, after being besieged, the most worrying thing is that there is no food, as a military advisor, he knows that the food in the city is actually prepared a lot, and it is no problem to save some food and hold on for two months, but he didn't expect that the most lacking thing now is bullets.

He felt a little desolate in his heart, thinking that as long as he researched a new weapon, he could help everyone turn the tide of the war. But I didn't expect that people are not as good as heaven.

"Knock ......" The melodious bell rang on the castle tower.

"Enemy attack!" Li Da immediately stood up.

Zhang Guanghua also walked with him to the edge of the city wall. As far as the eye can see, outside the city, where farmland and vacant land were originally located, layers of haystacks are now stacked. When I looked closer, I found that the nearest haystack shook slightly, and dozens of Yuan soldiers held iron shields one person high, slowly dispersed, and then walked towards the city wall.

Li Da signaled to the herald beside him, and as the flag in the herald's hand waved, more than a dozen defenders stood up slowly, took the fire gun, and lit the fire rope with the nearest charcoal.

"Why don't you shoot yet!" Seeing that no one was around the enemy and walked forward, but no one stopped them, and now they all walked to the edge of the moat, Zhang Guanghua couldn't help but ask.

"Bang!" A gunshot rang out, and a Yuan soldier who had accidentally deflected his shield fell down with his legs covered.

"Bang!" Another shot rang out, but this time there was only a muffled "buzz" from under the city, and the bullet hit the shield. One of the Yuan soldiers was stopped in his footsteps, he stopped, changed his hand with the shield, and continued to walk.

Zhang Guanghua wanted to say something, but Li Da interrupted him: "It's okay, he just came to check the moat." ”

Zhang Guanghua looked down, and sure enough, the moat had already been filled in by the Yuan army, and in some places even tender grass began to emerge. And those Yuan soldiers circled around the city wall, and sure enough, they all kept the posture they had just now and walked back backwards.

When the Yuan army retreated, he accidentally tripped over a stone and fell, which immediately attracted the sound of gunfire on the city wall, and with a muffled sound, he fluttered twice and fell to the ground without moving.

Seeing that Yuan Jun could actually go in and out under his nose, Zhang Guanghua felt a deep shame. He looked up at the sky and felt the urge to cry.

"Does the Yuan army know that we are out of bullets?" Zhang Guanghua pulled back his emotions and asked.

"It's not possible, it's just that they probably know we're running out of ammunition. We have fought so many times, I always let the soldiers seize the opportunity to shoot, although the bullets are precious, but as long as we can hit the Yuan army, we will earn, and we still have bows and crossbows when the bullets run out. But if we really come to this point, it is basically equivalent to defeat, and comparing archery with the Mongols is tantamount to getting an axe. Hearing Zhang Guanghua ask, Li Da knew what he was worried about and patiently explained to him.

"Then I'm strange, we've already suffered more than half of the casualties, and the defensive force is much weaker, so why is the Yuan army still delaying the attack, are you waiting for?" Zhang Guanghua looked at Li Da suspiciously.

"Is it ......," they said, looking at each other at the same time.

"Since the Yuan army besieged the city, hasn't it rained?" Zhang Guanghua already had a bad premonition in his heart.

"yes, it turns out that they are waiting for this spring rain!" Li Da was a little helpless, he was already a little desperate.

"Although the siege may be very good now, they are very afraid of our guns and artillery, and it is better to be patient than to take the risk of storming, and sit back and enjoy the fruits when our firearms fail, and then we will be lambs to the slaughter. But they don't know that we are already lambs. ”

"So, it's a blessing that we've been able to hold on until now. Maybe God is helping us, and now it's about to reach the spring equinox, but not a drop of rain has fallen, isn't it a miracle? Zhang Guanghua began to comfort him: "Not only did it not rain, but there was also an outbreak of plague. ”

"Hahahaha......" Li Da finally smiled: "If we really die, they may not be able to escape." ”

At this time, the Yuan army that came to test had all retreated, and under the camouflage of various haystacks and straws, Zhang Guanghua didn't even see where they had retreated. From a distance, the 200,000 yuan army seems to have disappeared in this season when the warbler flies and the grass grows.

Zhang Guanghua's eyes were searching in the distance, but a nest of moving ants on the city wall disturbed him, as if announcing that it was now the eve of a storm.

"Perhaps, that's not a good thing." He muttered to himself.

In the next two days, Zhang Guanghua frequently used carrier pigeons to communicate with Kangshou. As an intelligence unit, Yasushou and his men also need training, and in a small village deep in the mountains, they have their own weapons-making workshop. The craftsmen there make arquebuses and fixed ammunition by hand, but the quality is no worse than that of the Armory. As the last and only mobile force, they are now the only chance to turn the tables around.

On the third day, a continuous spring rain arrived as scheduled, and all the soldiers defending the city began to tense their nerves.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The first to break the silence turned out to be a few cannons of the Yuan army. Huge iron balls smashed on the city wall, shaking the charcoal basins on the city.

The cannons were followed by boulders falling from the sky, and the trebuchets of the Yuan army also began to work.

"Uh......h Woo ......" neat footsteps came from a distance to the accompaniment of the sound of a loud horn. The infantry phalanx of the Yuan army marched forward with shields in hand, and the cavalry troops rushed from both flanks, arriving a little earlier than the infantry. Round after round of arrows rained down from the sky.

"Free fire, fucking finish my bullets!" Li Da ordered.

Rows of fireworks erupted from the city walls, and then the cavalry in the distance fell like papier-mâché, and the soldiers ran out of ammunition as fast as they could. But even so, there are still many slow hands and feet, and in the end, they can only sadly find that even if they are loaded with ammunition, the guns in their hands have already become useless burning sticks.

When the defenders dropped their firearms and picked up the bows and crossbows behind them, a real battle that belonged to ancient times began.

"General Li, a large group of men and horses suddenly appeared in the rear, and the military division is a little unable to hold it, do we need support." A soldier withstood the gradually increasing raindrops and reported to Li Da.

"No, the military division has his own arrangements."

"Yes."

The enemy also seemed to find that the defenders were about to run out, and more and more Yuan troops began to pour towards the gap, and they continued to rush up the city walls, and they were constantly cut down by swords. But the enemy in the rear seemed to never be able to kill.

"Blow the trumpet!" Zhang Guanghua wiped the blood on his face and decisively ordered: ", do you really think we are so easy to bully?" Before the old man dies, he will also pull a few more pads. ”

"Tick tock, tick tock, tick tick." In the sound of loud military trumpets, dense crowds of people suddenly rushed out of the grass huts that had been erected in advance under the city walls. Some of them were wounded with bandages, some were children of twelve or thirteen years old, and some were even grandmothers of fifty or sixty years old. But without exception, the all had a gun in his hand, a flintlock pistol with a rain cover.

What a spectacle it was when thousands of people poured onto the walls. Although they were soaked all over, the guns they took out of their arms were dry. After handing the guns to the warriors on the city walls, they used their bodies to block them, tore off the bottom of the waterproof bullets made of wax paper in their arms, and quickly passed them to the warriors in front of them.

The normal bullets were indeed gone, but a small batch of explosive packs in stock was turned out, and then quickly made into flintlock waterproof bullets to replenish the battlefield.

No one thought to keep the ammunition, just as no one thought about how to escape, and countless bullets rained down, pouring down at a higher rate of fire than the arquebus. No matter how many Yuan troops there were, it was as if there was an invisible wall in front of them blocking them, so that they could not advance a bit.

Perhaps as long as the Yuan army temporarily retreated and attacked again, the defenders whose ammunition had been depleted would become meat on the chopping block and could be slaughtered by them.

If there was no accident, then the ending should be like this, but I never expected that there was an accident.

The turmoil between the Yuan army first began in the middle. A cavalry that suddenly appeared and inserted diagonally into the middle of the Yuan army, although they were not many in number, but they instantly cut the Yuan army that was bent on rushing forward in half. Then there was a shout from the rear of the Yuan army, and the Yuan army camp was suddenly in chaos.

"Ready, no! Has it been moved to the angle that the military division has calibrated? Well, put! ”

As soon as the bolt was pulled, the shells instantly disappeared into the heavier and heavier rain.

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1. Why don't you use explosives packs: Explosives packs are a sharp weapon for siege, but defending the city can only be used with caution, otherwise the walls will be blown up, and you can surrender without defending

2. Howitzers, artillery with large angles of fire.