"And such a thing? Do you have any of these things? Buddha asked.

"Participate in the governor's affairs, this arquebus and cement are in our army." At this time, Chen Youding answered first.

"Really? Take a look. Buddha Jialu asked a little excitedly, now the situation of the entire Yuan Dynasty is not optimistic, if you can bring these kinds of things back to Dadu, even if you don't break through Anxi, it will definitely be a great achievement!

"Two political affairs, you come out with me to see." Chen Youding stood up and led everyone to a clearing outside the barracks.

"You see, this big stone pillar is the same color as the city wall, and it must be the so-called cement."

"Yes, yes! This is cement, and we also have it in Quanzhou City. Barbed Sand said immediately when he saw it.

At this time, Buddha Jialu took out his saber and slashed hard at the cement pillar with the back of the knife. There was a crisp sound of "bang", except for a little debris popping out, the cement pillar was not damaged at all.

"If you look at the governor's affairs, this is the arquebus." At this time, Chen Youding asked his subordinates to bring a captured arquebus and said.

"You show the grown-ups."

"Yes!"

Chen Youding's subordinates unfamiliarly loaded the ammunition, lit the fire rope, held the gun in both hands, and pulled the trigger with a firecracker. "Smack!" Without aiming, a small pine tree broke off in response to the sound of the two shots.

"This ...... That's too far away! "Buddha Jialu took the arquebus and was very surprised.

Barbed Sha also said: "Yes, this is the arquebus, except for the butt, I thought it was all made of steel, I once asked the craftsman to copy a few samples, but it took too many resources, and then I gave up." The whole gun contains more than 100 parts, each of which needs to be forged by a craftsman repeatedly, and it may be scrapped if you are not careful. But the rebels in Anxi City have one such weapon, and the quality is very high, I don't know how they made it. ”

"By the way, I brought a replica cannon with me this time." After Barbling Sha finished speaking, he ordered his subordinates to take out the cannon as well.

The cannon was only the size of an arquebus, but it was as thick as a thigh, and it was placed on a wooden frame.

"This is also a miniature version of the imitation, and the cannon in Anxi City is much larger than this. But even if it was just such a cannon, it took dozens of craftsmen half a month to knock it out little by little with iron sheets, but there were hundreds of such cannons in Anxi City. ”

"Barbed sand, try it quickly." Yue Kuocha'er saw that this cannon was dozens of times thicker than the arquebus, and immediately felt the power of this cannon, and couldn't wait to see it.

Barbed Sand's subordinates fixed the cannon in the direction of the Anxi city wall, loaded the ammunition, and ran away with his ears covered as soon as he finished lighting the lead.

"Bang ......" There was a loud bang accompanied by a whistling sound that quickly moved away, and I saw that the shells stirred up a cloud of smoke and dust in the open space in the middle of Anxi County.

Before everyone had time to sigh, there was another "bang", accompanied by a sharp whistling, but this time the sound was coming towards them.

"No, run! Protect the two adults! Chen Youding screamed in fright.

However, everyone had a false alarm, the shell landed in the woods not far from the cement pillar, and did not hurt anyone, this time the shell did not explode, but rolled directly forward, knocking over countless trees in a straight line. But even so, everyone was shocked into a cold sweat.

"Withdraw, withdraw!" The Buddha family Lu hurriedly ordered.

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"Haha!" A burst of laughter erupted in Anxi City.

"It's a pity that I didn't hit." Huang Da put down the monocular in his hand and said regretfully. As soon as he put down his hand, the telescope was snatched away.

"The accuracy of this cannon is not good!" Huang Da sighed with a smile on his face.

"Just blow it! The cement pillar is 7 miles away, which is the longest range of the cannon, and it still has to be loaded with solid bullets. If you can wipe it off, you can sneak it on the side. Huang Er also smiled and teased.

"Huh." Huang Da pretended to be defeated, touched the back of his head and sneered embarrassedly: "But with this experience, the Yuan army will not stand stupidly under the cement pillar we have calibrated in the future." ”

"Haha......" The people around laughed when they heard it. This hilarious vignette also brought a little joy to the solemn atmosphere in the city.

The next day, in the early hours of the morning, it was slightly bright.

A hurried bell rang over the city walls.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Guanghua lifted the quilt and put on his shoes and ran out, he didn't even take off his clothes when he slept last night.

"The Yuan army has begun to attack the city." The soldiers around him said.

When Zhang Guanghua climbed the city wall, he saw that the Yuan army had already lined up a few miles away, but each of them was very far apart, and it seemed that there were also talents in the Yuan army who knew how to minimize the damage of the cannon.

Suddenly, there was a shouting and killing sound, but it was not from the Yuan army array, and I saw hundreds of people rushing out of the woods on the left. At this time, the catapults of the Yuan army also began to throw stones into the city to interfere, and some even threw explosive bags. Otherwise, because of the fear of the cannons in the city, it is obvious that the catapults are far away and do not cause any substantial damage to the city walls.

After all, the cannons on the city walls did not turn well, and when the distance was within two or three miles, they did not play a big role, and they did not open fire on the enemy troops on the flank.

I saw that the Yuan army that rushed out of the woods on the side actually pushed out the rushing carts that had been hidden long ago from the grass, and the front of these rushing carts was actually blocked by two wooden planks, and the two wooden planks were also sandwiched by a quilt soaked in water.

"Groove! This is the ancient tank tank, who the invented this? Zhang Guanghua complained infinitely.

"Gunners, first row, put!"

"Second row, put!"

"Third row, put!"

Seeing that the role of the cannon could not be played, Huang Er began to organize gunners to shoot.

"Poof, poof, poof!" Except for a few unlucky Yuan soldiers who were shot to the ground, the other bullets were actually blocked by the rushing car. And Huang Er, in order to save ammunition, did not shoot too intensively.

This skirmish, a few hundred men, ended after the Yuan army filled a small moat with sandbags and left behind a dozen corpses.

Subsequently, when the Yuan army sent a man to drag back the body, Li Da did not send anyone to shoot, these people were all Han people who were coerced, and there was no need to waste ammunition.

The next few days were all small-scale tentative attacks by the Yuan army, and they also knew the power of the artillery, and the soldiers were scattered very much during each attack, so that Li Da did not have much chance, and they seemed to have learned to be obedient, always picking the section of the city wall with few arquebuses to attack. The arquebus always had to be lit first when preparing to shoot, and the Yuan army could tell which wall was the weakest in defense from the rising green smoke.

And because the newly built outer city wall in Anxi County has a large area, it is necessary to disperse the troops to defend, and the defenders do not have the equipment to quickly ignite, so the fire rope must be guaranteed to burn all the time, and there is no way to avoid this problem.

It was another morning, still the same routine, and the Yuan army jumped out of all kinds of grass and woods to attack tentatively. Just as Li Da organized the defense, four or five hundred soldiers scattered in the base camp of the Yuan army on the opposite side began to advance en masse. And the catapult began to cover remotely, and the rushing vehicle also began to clear the deer and other obstacles in front.

Under Li Da's order, the herald raised a small red and green flag and waved it twice on the left and right regularly.

"Bang!" Several shells exploded in the camp of the Yuan army, but because the Yuan army was scattered, the damage caused was not great. Because it was about to be a protracted defensive battle, Li Da still deliberately controlled the amount of ammunition used.

As the Yuan army entered within two hundred meters, the herald began to wave the pennant in his hand again.

This time, however, there was no sound of arquebuses, but a row of "poof" low string sounds, and I saw a row of crossbow machines that required three or four people to operate at the same time at the entrance of the city wall at the same time, and the all-steel crossbow arrows "swished" through it, and each crossbow arrow penetrated a rushing car, skewering all the people behind it into a skewer.

The Yuan army saw that the protection of the rushing car did not work, so he simply pushed all the rushing cars under the moat, and filled in a road in this way. While the infantry began to lay planks, the cavalry of the Yuan army also began to move around shooting arrows, interfering with the musketeers on the city walls.

When the first ladder was erected, a tentative siege of several hundred men began.

"General, it's not good! The back side was climbed up the wall. The herald ran over from the other side of the city wall to report to Li Da.

At this time, there was a sound of gold, and Li Dachao looked forward, only to see that the Yuan army had dropped the ladder and retreated like a tide.

And he came to the back city wall, which was Lu Guangfu's defense area, and the battle was over.

Seeing Li Da coming, Lu Guangfu said: "There are not many firecrackers arranged in this section, and the hundreds of cavalry of the Yuan army suddenly rushed up in one horse or two, and the horsemen quickly retreated after dropping the ladder and the soldiers behind the horses. The remaining hundreds of men quickly rushed up the walls and began a hand-to-hand encounter with us. Although we annihilated them, we also sacrificed nearly 100 people. ”

Li Da was in a heavy mood, this exploratory attack he shot dozens of Yuan troops on the frontal battlefield, and Lu Guangfu wiped out hundreds of Yuan troops on the flank battlefield, but his side also lost nearly 100 people.

And Zhang Guanghua, who was behind Li Da, was also full of sadness, and thought quite uncalmly in his heart: "There are masters in the Yuan army, who can make use of their strengths and avoid weaknesses, avoid reality and make things virtual, so that our advantages cannot be brought into play at all." This time, the shortcomings of our own side have also completely emerged. Although the arquebus is powerful, it is too difficult to conceal, if it is an encounter, the advantage is still great, but it is not suitable to defend the city, and the melee ability of the musketeer is too poor, a Yuan soldier with a saber can pick up a piece of musketeer, and he needs the infantry in the rear to step forward to make up for the knife. ”

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