Hearing the Tartar **, the chief soldier Liu Zhaoji ran quickly to the city, arrived at the city tower and looked at the front carefully, and then turned back to see the guards on the city showing a panicked look, and shouted, "This is the Tartar testing the cannon, don't panic!" Where is the West Gate guard? The Ximen guard general Yi Bang, who was restraining his subordinates, heard the shout, ran quickly to Liu Zhaoji, bowed down and hugged his fists and responded: "The last general!" "The superintendent has arrived, hurry up and restrain the soldiers to return to their places!" Yibang answered and turned around to greet him.

Shi Kefa, Ren Minyu and his entourage did not stop because of the Tartar **, and several people quickly went up to the West Gate Tower. Ren Minyu pointed to the northwest direction and said to Shi Kefa: "Supervisor, please look, there are a total of fourteen red-clothed cannons in this direction, if the city wall is bombarded repeatedly, the city wall may not be protected." Shi Kefa looked to the left front, and saw that the ancestral tomb of the Li eunuch family in front of him had been dug up beyond recognition, and the fourteen red-clothed cannons lined up in a row pointed at the west gate city wall, and his heart was quite shocked, but his face was silent. Turning to Liu Zhaoji, who came over, he said: "Look at it like this, the Tartars are taking the West Gate as the main direction of attack, and enough reserve troops must be set aside in this direction, in case the city is broken, it is better to plug the gap in time." ”

As he was talking, he suddenly heard the soldiers on the side of the city shouting in unison, "Look, there are monsters!" ”

A few people walked quickly to the city and stamped, looking down in the direction of the soldier's fingers. Seeing a green (camouflage) cart-like monster lying on the right side of the West Gate about a mile or so, it looked like a cart, but there was no cart of livestock, and several people were confused.

When more than 100 Qing soldiers walked towards the suspected cart, someone on the city tower shouted, "The Qing soldiers are going to catch monsters!" ”

Later, from the Qing soldier Niu Lu Ezhen was killed by Wang Qiang, all the officers and soldiers in the city were dumbfounded, and when they saw Liu Weimin shoot and kill seven or eight Qing soldiers, even Shi Kefa gasped and said: "What kind of monster is this?" So powerful! ”

On the position of the Qing soldiers in front of the warrior car on the right, since the Niu Lu Ezhen volunteered to take people to inspect the monster, the eyes of more than 10,000 people turned to this side in unison, and even Duoduo forgot to see the effect of the red-clothed cannon bombarding the city wall.

More than 100 Qing soldiers went to catch the "monster", but when they went, they walked very slowly, but when they came back, they ran extremely fast, and even the two people carrying the corpses did not take a step.

Seeing that the soldiers sent out had fled in disarray, Duoduo was furious and shouted, "Bring up the corpse, bring a few more people, and ask what kind of monster it is?" ”

The four soldiers who had gone to inspect it were quickly brought to Duoduo with the body of the slain Niu Lu Ezhen, and the one whose waist knife had been broken was among them.

The four of them knelt in front of the Doduo horses together, and they heard someone ask, "What kind of monster is ahead, and why are you fleeing back in embarrassment?" But it was Thurai who was interrogating Dodor.

"Back to the adult's words, the monster seems to be made of iron, invulnerable, there seems to be someone in the monster, and the weapon is very much like a fire gun, which can be fired continuously, and the small waist knife is interrupted by this fire gun." Although the soldier with the broken waist knife was frightened, he still observed it very carefully, and said that he would not leave ten.

Duoduo didn't say a word when he heard this, got off the horse, and walked to the front of Niu Lu Ezhen's corpse with Han Dai and a few others, Toure bent down and carefully looked at the bullet hole in the corpse's chest, turned the corpse over again, saw the big hole in the back of the bowl, looked up at Duoduo and Han Dai, and saw that several people were gasping. You must know that the armor of the Manchu white armor soldiers is extremely fine, and the Ming army's firearms cannot penetrate it in fifty steps, what kind of weapons are used by the people in this monster, and the power is so great?

Duoduo was thinking about it, but at this time, Geng Zhongming next to him spoke, "Lord Yu, why don't you use the red-clothed cannon to bombard the monster?" "I was preempted by Kong Youde just now, and I didn't say anything, but now I felt that the opportunity had come, and hurriedly offered my advice to Duoduo.

Dodor nodded and said yes. Here, Geng Zhongming hurriedly went to command the red-clothed cannon to turn the muzzle and prepare to bombard the "monster", but he saw that the red-clothed cannon lined up was on the same line as the "monster", and they couldn't turn the muzzle at all. Geng Zhongming hurriedly commanded more than a dozen artillery soldiers to move a cannon on the far left, and finally turned the muzzle of the cannon in the direction of the "monster".

Kong Youde was not far behind at this time, and ran over to personally command the artillery soldiers to aim at the "monster", Geng Zhongming was not an expert in how to **, and when he saw Kong Youde coming, he had to laugh and get out of the way.

After the soldiers stuffed the gunpowder into the barrel and tamped the cannon and stuffed the cannon into the barrel, Kong Youde personally stepped forward to make a show in front of Duoduo and compared for a long time. As soon as the cannon sounded, Duoduo and the others looked up, and saw that they had not hit the monster, and cursed, "Rubbish!" ", and ordered to fight again.

When the sergeants stepped forward to clean the chamber of the cannon, and had just loaded the gunpowder and the shells had not yet been stuffed into the chamber, they heard a shout "The monster is coming!" ”

As soon as he heard that the "monster" was coming, Han Dai looked forward and saw that the "monster" was coming extremely fast, and hurriedly said to Duoduo: "The monster is fierce, please retreat quickly!" When Dordor heard this, he ran to his mount in a few steps and turned on his horse. Behind him, Han Dai, Turai, Kong Youde and others also followed on the horse, and the horse followed Duoduo and ran back quickly. Duoduo looked back from his horse as he ran, and shouted loudly: "Geng Zhongming stay, lead people to block the monsters, if the red-clothed cannon is damaged, you should raise your head and see you!" ”

When Geng Zhongming heard this, he had no choice but to hold on to the reins, turn over and dismount, and point to several generals on the red-clothed artillery position and shouted: "Wait a minute, bring people to stop the monster!" Between a few shouts, about three or four hundred artillery soldiers crowded to the left side of the position, drew their swords and guns and stopped in front of the red-coated cannons, and no one went to fire the second cannon.