Shiguantun, after dark at night, the garrison sergeants under the mountain also retreated up the mountain to monitor the outermost sentinel under the mountain, which was on the wall of the stone fort in the quarry. In the four hidden bunkers outside the stone fort, all the sergeants retreated to the two stone forts.

The craftsmen in the canyon outside the stone pass had already driven the horse-drawn carts, and brought tools such as the stone mill and water umbrellas of the Zero Land Number to the mountain and collected them in the stone fort when they finished work. In the stone castle mill, the craftsmen and hunters who had been busy all day returned to their respective homes to eat and rest.

When Wang Hu's team passed through the minefield of the canyon with a dozen pack horses, a sergeant waiting there led the way, and after they passed, the road in the canyon was closed.

There are two stone forts on the stone mountain, and now there are a total of forty sergeants, plus thirty-six of Xiao Ye's personal guards, and a hunter team, there are only about eighty people in total; Coupled with the craftsman sergeant in Wang Dali's hands, there are more than 120 people, which is just a standard establishment of 100 households.

At present, the correspondence between Shiguantun and Bailonghu is to bring back stones from Bailonghu by a pack team, and then transport the military supplies back to Bailong Lake, as long as the pack team of Shiguantun does not return on time, Huang Hanxiang and they naturally know that something must have happened here.

The pack team that returned to Shiguantun had its own personal guards arranged in the quarry stone fort, and those raw materials had to be sent to the stone mill overnight, and the four banner officials Wang Hu, Qin Shishi, Lei Xiaoqing, and Hao Yongliang had already gathered in the hundred households. Wang Meng took turns to go to the Galen tribe, and this time he should have learned a lesson, and he will be much more cautious.

In Xiao Ye's small courtyard, lanterns were rarely lit, and the lanterns raised high did not have much warmth, but made the hearts of every sergeant in the stone castle heavy.

Wang Dali took his five craftsman leaders, as well as Xiao Liuzi, Zuo Shi, and Datou, and waited in the courtyard early, some of them sat on the stone benches, and some sat on the horses, all waiting, waiting for the hundred households to come back from the Jiazi mill.

Mei'er and Lina took the two mothers-in-law of the military household to boil hot water for everyone to brew tea leaves, so that everyone could drink a sip of warm tea in the refreshing night.

After the time of the two pillars of incense, Xiao Ye stepped into the small courtyard in military uniform, and the guards behind him immediately guarded the gate of the courtyard.

"Hehe, everyone, everyone is here," Xiao Ye appeared with a smile, and the original buzzing voice in the courtyard immediately quieted down, and twelve pairs of eyes looked at the hundred households in unison. Wang Ziliang, who walked behind Xiao Ye on weekdays, everyone didn't see it, but no one dared to open their mouths to ask.

In the past, Xiao Ye was in the Baihu Office, as long as there were no outsiders coming, he was basically dressed in a green shirt, like now, wearing an earthy yellow uniform, with a palm-wide cow belt around his waist, and a gun and a knife, everyone is still rare.

"Lord Baihu," Wang Hu and Shi hurriedly got up and knelt down on one knee to salute Baihu, but were stopped by Xiao Ye raising his hand, "The number of courtesies on the face, that is for outsiders to see, don't be cumbersome at the bottom,"

A casual sentence immediately shortened the distance between the hundred households and the others, Xiao Ye asked everyone to sit down, and he also sat on the stone bench, picked up the teacup in front of him, and took a shallow sip.

"In the past two days, the Tartar rangers have broken into the canyon many times, sent scouts to the grassland, and found that they have a movement to assemble," Xiao Ye glanced around these sergeants of his own, "Wang Xiucai is still in contact with our people in the back mountain, and he will come over later,"

Oh, no wonder, I haven't seen the scholar with the crutches yet, and the few flag officers who were a little confused, just suddenly; As for Wang Dali, they didn't have much feeling for that somewhat elusive scholar.

"Lord Baihu, this time we came back, but we didn't encounter the Tartars on the way, and we didn't see their rangers," Wang Hu saw Xiao Ye looking at him, and hurriedly said, "Could it be that they passed outside the canyon, and it is not yet time for them to go south to threshk grass,"

At present, it is really the time when the cattle and sheep on the grassland are fat, and the month of lambing is also in these two months, no one will think that the tartars have such courage, it is a major event related to whether they can survive the winter safely.

"No matter what the Tartars want to do, we still have to take precautions, and the defense on the stone mountain must be strengthened," Xiao Ye thought for a while, "Wang Hu, your team won't go down the mountain in the next few days, Heizi, you were originally going to rotate on the grassland, so let's go on board for a few days,"

"The sergeant's daily drill is stopped, so that everyone can recuperate, a small flag is stationed in the quarry, and the other sergeants are resting in the military house,"

"Uncle Wang, you craftsmen are working in the quarry stone fort, don't go to the canyon, wait until this is over, and then talk about it," the two B-shaped stone mills did not dare to stop running, plus a zero land stone mill, if it weren't for the fear that the big guy would be flustered, Xiao Ye even had the idea of turning the shaft, and worked with the same lamp as the back mountain.

"Also, Uncle Wang, you choose a few old sergeants to go to the gravel fort tomorrow, send a letter to Wang Qianhu of the Thousand Households, inform them of the situation here, and buy some more food by the way, and the price will be higher if the price is high,"

"From tomorrow onwards, the grain in the tun will be kept by each family, the grain stored in the stone fort will no longer be distributed to military households, all the goods in the Tianjia shops will be requisitioned by all hundred households, and the IOUs must be written clearly," Xiao Ye instructed Mei'er in this sentence.

The grain stored in the stone castle warehouse is only a month's amount, and three hundred stone of grain has just been delivered, and Xiao Ye has not had time to replenish it from the merchant.

arranged things on the mountain in an orderly manner, and finally Xiao Ye asked Xiao Liuzi to go to Uncle Kun to give an order, open the arsenal overnight, and all sergeants and craftsmen as long as they were trained in fire/gun, they all received fire/gun projectiles, and the gun did not leave their bodies and waited for the order.

The pro-guard and the four small flags, including the hunter squad, carried twice as much ammunition, and a part of the ammunition was also stored in the quarry barracks, and the earth-shattering thunder was kept at more than a hundred. One after another, military orders were issued from the hundred households, and the banner officials and craftsmen responded and strode out of the courtyard.

Tonight, at least in the first half of the night, no one in Shiguantun will sleep peacefully.

Sending away the solemn faces, Xiao Ye sat there, listening to the sound of water flowing in his ears, and smiled and asked Mei'er and Lena to go back to the house to rest, and slowly taste the teacup by himself.

After a while, Wang Ziliang walked into the courtyard with a relaxed face, and after giving a salute to the hundred households, he sat directly on the stone bench, and the paper fan was gently tapped in his hand.

"Baihu, just now there was news from our people at Houshantian's house, there is no news that the Tartars are going south, maybe Baihu is too nervous," looking up at the lantern, Wang Ziliang said with a smile.

"Soldiers are impermanent, there is no normality in water, we don't fight with the Tartars once or twice, they will definitely get back if they suffer losses, we can't afford to lose," Xiao Ye sighed lightly, this scholar, reading books is also picking to read those about espionage, and the others are not very concerned, and their abilities are limited.

Probably because of the shadow in his heart, Wang Ziliang likes to hide in the dark castle in the dim backyard, specializing in commanding those heralds, sending and receiving carrier pigeons, contacting the letter post, and after the information is handed over to Xiao Ye, he doesn't worry about other things at all.

"Brother Liu Ren, you can ask people to find out, the Tian family and other merchants, whether there is a caravan out of Qingfeng Valley recently, how the goods they are carrying, how long it will take to return, they can detect the movement of the Tartars, and they also want a large amount of grain, grass, and medicinal materials," mentioning this scholar who was seven or eight years older than himself, Xiao Ye didn't see it at all, and Wang Ziliang's face was faintly red.

"Lord Baihu, Xiaosheng has been taught, the leopard in the tube, one leaf and blind, Liu Ren is not as smart as Baihu in terms of understanding," got up and bowed deeply in front of Xiao Ye, Wang Ziliang said with emotion.

The time when he got the book was no more than a few days different from Xiao Ye, but Xiao Ye liked to sit there and ponder carefully after reading it for a while, comparing the situation in front of him with what was said in the book, deepening his understanding of the book polemic, and expanding his horizons.

And Wang Ziliang has some dogma, probably because of the hatred suppressed in his heart, which made him think radically.

"It's okay, there are some things that everyone can sit down and talk about, maybe there will be unexpected gains, it's better than making a car behind closed doors," Xiao Ye smiled and asked the scholar to sit down, "The current situation of Shiguantun, not only is there a shortage of manpower, but also the materials cannot be consumed too much, once the Tartar brigade surrounds the mountain, it will fall sooner or later,"

"At that time, all the women, children, old and young on the mountain, including you and me, have little chance of survival, and they can only defend it desperately," thinking that he had lived in a dead place for so long, Xiao Ye's hair stood on end, and he wished that he would build a stone fort at the exit of the canyon tomorrow.

Yes, a big stone fort must be built there, and the Tibetan soldiers must be more than five hundred, Xiao Ye secretly clenched his fists, and the way to live in Shiguantun was on that stone fort.

The huge A-shaped stone mill, I don't know how deep it is under the stone platform, it can't be moved at all, Xiao Ye in order to keep this stone mill, if he doesn't fight to the last step, he won't give up here easily.

Of course, he really couldn't hold this stone mountain, so he would blow up the mill and bury the stone mill in the rubble pile, waiting for it to rise again.

The next day, Wang Dali sent several sergeants, holding the secret letter written by Xiao Ye himself, and rode straight to the gravel fort; On the mould field, the hill-like stucco stones were transported by the sergeant to the quarry with long poles, and a low gable of one man high was erected horizontally along the way down the hill on the periphery of the stone fort there, leaving only an exit for the carriages to enter and exit.

On the walls of the two stone forts, heavily armed sergeants, vigilantly holding binoculars, monitored the surroundings of the stone pass at the foot of the mountain, and the diamond-shaped stone pillars outside the fort gate were also staggered at the door, and the carriage could no longer enter.

Throughout the stone mountain, there was an atmosphere of tense preparation for war. The mountains and ravines on both sides of the canyon were already full of layers of vines and grasses, and it was difficult to get off their feet, otherwise Qin Shi's team would still have to defend the top of the canyon.

The guy from the Tian family's shop, when Zuo Shi came to the door to requisition the goods, he dropped the key in his hand and ran to the back mountain workshop in a panic, which made Zuo Shi very angry.

The atmosphere is depressed in Shiguantun, in addition to the quarry, there are craftsmen and hunters digging stones, and all the households in the tun have closed the chickens, and the land temple is full of incense for a while.

For two days in a row, there was nothing abnormal in Shiguan Canyon, and the military households began to relax, some people muttered whether the hundred households were too allergic, and even the sergeants resumed their normal drills; However, without the military order of the hundred households, the fire/gun shooting was stopped, and the physical strength could only be exercised to practice the knife formation.

In the early morning of the third day, Xiao Ye stood on the castle wall, looking at the faint stone pass at the bottom of the mountain, wondering whether to send another pack team, but in this case, the grain in the warehouses of the hundred households would be less than ten years.

At this moment, the herald Zhao Baoren shouted and ran over from the south fort wall, panting heavily, and even his voice was out of tune, "Hundred households, hundred households, Tartars, Tartars have entered the canyon,"

Xiao Ye turned his face to look, and saw that in the dark fort on the castle wall in the distance, Wang Ziliang, who was dressed in a white robe, was waving his hand to him, and his face suddenly darkened, "It's here, the Tartar is still here," in the Houshan Workshop District, Wang Ziliang will immediately inform the Tian family of the news, but it depends on their luck whether they believe it or not.

"Drip, drip," the piercing suona sound sounded one after another on the castle wall, and the quarry in the distance also responded to the sharp suona sound; With the alarm, in the compound of Tunli and Jiming Village, men, women and children from all families, carrying large and small burdens, carried out of their homes and poured into hundreds of households.

The military house in the stone fort became the temporary residence of these military households; When a group of sergeants ran out of the stone fort and towards the quarry, a fast horse hurried out of the Shiguan Gorge, and the scouts who stayed in the depths of the canyon urged the horses to run up the stone mountain with a whip.

The scouts, carrying the whistle earmuffs, passed the quarry stone fort without the slightest pause, and when the horses scurried by, they left a shout in the distance, "The Tartars are coming, there are thousands of them, and they have reached the minefield,"

Quarry stone fort, on the fort wall Wang Hu, Qin Shishi, Lei Xiaoqing, Hao Yongliang four flag officers stood up, forty sergeants with guns guarded around; The gate of the fort had been sealed with stucco stones, and there were a dozen craftsmen with guns ready to come up to the wall to support them.

The other craftsmen and hunters who had retreated to the stone fort blocked the entrance with stucco stones at the entrance of the gable, and at the sound of Wang Dali's shouting, they retreated in an orderly manner to the hundred households, and even the ox carts were pulled over. They are the supporting forces, and they must return to the Hyaknohe to listen to the military orders.

Quarry B stone fort, outside the north gable, is the only passage to the bottom of the mountain, the downhill path at the entrance of the tun, if the Tartar is not afraid of poisonous weeds, you can also climb up.

Holding the binoculars in his hand, he carefully looked at Shiguan, which was five miles away from the mountain, Wang Hu looked at it for a while, and pouted, "Good guy, there are thousands of people, I didn't see it, Tartar is going to make a lot of money this time,"

Patting the sturdy stucco female wall on his chest, Qin Shihe smiled, "Huzi, the first time you and Baihu fought Tartar, I heard that you were so scared that you peed your pants,"

", which bird said that? That's when I met a robber," Wang Hu's face was pale, and he was about to argue, but he suddenly found that he had made a mistake and hurriedly covered it up, "It was wet across the river, and Wang Meng was also wet,"

"Oh, it's wet," the two flag officers nodded at the same time, smiling and not saying more, but Wang Hu suddenly became angry, and couldn't stop explaining that the water of the Xilong River coincidentally only submerged to the waist, and the upper body was not wet.

The scout Pegasus ran to the gate of the mill stone fort, jumped down and pulled the reins and carefully squeezed in, and a dozen craftsmen waiting inside the door pulled two big ropes, "boom," the scattered diamond-shaped stone pillars kicked up a cloud of smoke and dust, completely blocking the castle gate.

Just when Shiguantun was waiting for the battle, in the canyon, more than a dozen war horses covered with bloody holes were neighing and jumping, and there were screaming Tartars lying on the ground; The power of the explosion in the narrow canyon and mountain road was quite terrifying, and the Tartar cavalry, who could not be caught off guard, stepped on six or seven iron bumps under their feet one after another, and were also knocked over by countless iron pellets and dismounted.

In the canyon, except for seven or eight cavalrymen who had run through the minefields, a long line of well-armed Tartar cavalry stopped on a ten-pace-wide mountain road, and the people in front looked at their companions on the ground, and no one dared to go to the rescue, but could only watch the horses and their masters, howling and wailing, bleeding and no longer moving.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way, get out of the way," with a series of rude shouts behind the cavalry, the cavalry leaned to the sides, and in the exposed gap, the wolf rode a green war horse, and finally squeezed over.

After fighting with Xiao Ye several times, he didn't get cheap, and he couldn't bite the White Dragon Lake, and finally returned to the depths of the grassland with his subordinates; However, the cavalry spies he sent were constantly in the area of the eastern foothills of Altai Mountain, in addition to attacking the caravans coming out of the canyon, they were looking for the Ming army with a large number of guns.

There is a way that the wolves bite the tigers to death, and the continuous roaming and exploration of the horses, although the losses are not small, but the source of the Ming army is finally identified, and there is also the credit of the Han caravan outside Qingfeng Valley.

After all, the news of Shiguantun's new construction in Gansu Town and Wuguan Town is just a topic of laughter, and it is not difficult for those who are interested in listening to it to obtain more detailed information by spending some benefits.

After confirming the news, the wolf reported it to the commander, who in turn reported it to the little prince Dayan Khan, and the wise and brilliant Balsborot was also quite unhappy with the tough Ming border army, and quickly approved the request of his commander.

So, the wolf invited Lanayert, gathered 2,000 cavalry, and quietly stationed troops on the edge of the Gobi Desert by detour; Of course, it is necessary to send scout cavalry before sending troops, but I didn't expect Xiao Ye to be so sensitive to Tartar's scouting cavalry.

Coupled with the long-distance reporting of the letter post, when the collapsed wolf had a headache in the canyon, Shiguantun was already ready to fight.

"Commander, Mingren's mines are really powerful, and I can't get through the front," a centurion saw that his boss was coming, and hurriedly complained, he didn't dare to move forward, but he didn't want his subordinates to die in vain, and even Mingren hadn't seen it yet, and it was too unjust to die here.

"Smack," the whip dripped, and the centurion's helmet snapped, and the wolf yelled, "Can't get through? You go first,"

"I don't believe it, does the Ming army have so many mines?" The collapsed wolf, who had dealt too much with the Ming Border Army, knew that this mine was expensive, and stepped on it more without fire, so he waved his horsewhip, "Immediately, immediately open the road, you are the first to rush over,"

The centurion, who had a bitter face, agreed repeatedly, turned the horse's head and was about to lead his men to rush forward, but there was a burst of scolding behind him, "Fool, drive the horse over, let the horse go to the front,"

More than a dozen sturdy war horses, after being stabbed in the buttocks, trampled on the dead horses and corpses on the ground, and ran into the mountain road in front of them with their saddles, and then heard the familiar low explosion of "Peng, Peng," and then exploded with a boom, raining iron beads and smashing rocks.

The dozen or so good war horses that had been wasted on the road, and the minefield arranged by Sergeant Xiao Ye was also completely destroyed, and the Tartars of the brigade in the canyon sped up.

At noon, under the scorching sun, countless Tartar cavalry appeared in the ruins of Shiguan, and the collapsed wolf hugged from afar, looking at the stone mountain hidden in the vine grass from a distance, the figure swayed, and the vicious eyes were slightly cold, it seems that the Ming army still got the news.

The collapse of the wolf that failed to make a surprise attack simply set up camp in Shiguan, this is the edge of his own territory anyway, regardless of the area, you Ming court can't say that I committed a border.

The steady stream of Tartar cavalry can be seen clearly in the telescope, Xiao Ye on the stone mountain, looking left and right at the groups of cavalry wandering down the mountain, he couldn't help but gasp, "It's bad, the Tartars won't achieve their goal this time, I'm afraid they won't collect their troops,"

In the quarry stone fort, the faces of the four flag officers were also quite ugly, Wang Hu and they had never seen so many Tatar cavalry at close range, even when they came back from Haixi Village, they were far away, and they had never been surrounded at all.

Now it's okay, let the family be blocked directly to the door.

Hanging rope from the stone wall of the back mountain, it is basically impossible, the vine grass in the back mountain is stacked on top of each other, all of them have crossed over from the top of the stream, if it were not for the workshop area, the quarry where there are Coptis trees, I am afraid that it would have been flooded by the vine grass long ago.

Besides, the women, children, old people, and children in the tun can't go down from the stone wall seven or eight feet high, and the strong sergeants have the possibility of getting out, let alone the weak.

"Hehe, Baihu is in the stone castle behind, he still has a lot of earth-shattering thunder there, and there is no shortage of projectiles, let's be afraid of a bird," Lei Xiaoqing, who doesn't like to talk much on weekdays, is active at this time, and he is stepping on the grenade box with soft boots, holding a brand-new shotgun in his hand.

"Yes, the hundred households are all in the mountains, let's not be afraid, the Tartar is also a head and two feet, one shot over, dead or a pile of rotten meat," Qin Shi, who was holding the cigarette pouch and pot, snapped the fire sickle, lit the fire fold, and smoked dry tobacco beautifully.

"Brother Shi, Baihu has an order," Duan Damin, who had been silent next to him, took off his earmuffs, "The Tartars are bound to not retreat in a short time, and we want to arrange a rotation of sergeants, and it is okay to let go of some of the Tartars,"

Looking at the low gable wall below that was blocked, Qin Shishi smiled, "Go back to the hundred households, the hunter team obeys the order,"

The west fifty steps long and two zhang high fort wall, squeezed forty sergeants, it is indeed difficult to show their hands and feet, after the four flag officers discussed, the north left two flag teams, Lei Xiaoqing and Wang Meng in other directions each sent two sergeants, with the rest of the people down the fort wall, by the way to organize those craftsmen to take turns to rest in the military house, guarding the fort gate does not need so many people.

The Collapse Wolf, who had repeatedly suffered from the Ming army, did not recklessly order the attack on the mountain, but waited for Lanelt to escort the grain and grass up, and sent a small force of cavalry to search south along the road leading to the gravel fort.

The workshop area behind the stone mountain was quickly discovered by the Tartars, but fortunately, the craftsmen and guards there were alerted by Shiguantun in time, and most of them hid in the warehouse, trying to block the Tartars' scimitars with short fires/guns.

Around the workshop area, around the periphery of a circle of coptis trees, there are large patches of green vines and grasses with broken leaves, so that these craftsmen and guards do not dare to run into the mountains, and if they fall into the poisonous weeds there, they will basically not live.

However, in the granaries and grocery stores of the three merchants in the back mountains, some people who did not have time to run away became prisoners of the Tartar cavalry, and a cart full of supplies with yellow plaster became the capture of the Tartars.

"Poof, tear," the sharp scimitar plunged into a bag of plaster, and the Tartar cavalry broke open a straw sack to see the earthy yellow powder in the bag, and walked away disdainfully, pulling the cart away by the way.

"Peng, Peng, Peng," the gunshots rang out everywhere, knives and axes were chopped, arrows were fired, and from time to time there were screams and screams, and the workshop area where people shouted and neighed became a hell on earth, and the grass houses were lit by torches and black smoke rose everywhere.

On the top of the mountain, Xiao Ye looked at the black smoke rising from the back mountain, twisted his brows and clenched his fists, those who had no experience in fighting with Tartars, and who had not been subjected to long-term fire/gun drills, were not wolf-like Tartar opponents at all.

It is said that the Tartars are powerful immediately, but if the Tartars who get off the horse play with their lives, the scimitar axe and horned bow are also impossible for ordinary Ming troops to resist, and can only be suppressed by formation.

"Baihu, the people of the Tian family there have taken a step earlier, and we have announced it," I don't know when, Wang Ziliang came to Xiao Ye's side and whispered that the spy wearing a protective suit was arranged by him, and he was now in a mountain forest in the back mountain.

Wearing heavy leather boots, paying attention to protecting the head and hands, and having a protective suit, the spies hiding in the mountains and forests with dense vines and grasses are basically unharmed, but it is difficult to say after a long time.

"Oh, that's good, Brother Liu Ren, you arrange someone to stare at the back mountain on the wall of Nanbao to see if the Tartar will move the three stone mills, if," Xiao Ye's eyes flashed with a hint of embarrassment, "Forget it, that thing Tartar is also a decoration,"

As for the strength of the stone mill, Xiao Ye has not tried it, but without a large amount of gunpowder to explode, the stone mill cannot be easily destroyed.

"Woo, woo," at the foot of the stone mountain, at the foot of the long and narrow mountain from east to west, the tartars lined up in a chaotic formation, dismounted and began to rest, but more than a dozen fast horses were pressing towards the stone mountain.

"Puff, puff," more than a thousand fierce Tartars, as well as the cavalry that kept pouring out of the canyon behind, from time to time people or war horses, were scratched by the purple-black sharp thorns at their feet, and swayed and fell to the ground.

At first, the tartar was quite flustered, but when he found that the men and horses who had fallen to the ground were breathing steadily, and they could wake up peacefully after lying aside for two hours, they did not care; There are similar poisonous weeds in the grassland, but they are not so poisonous.

Along the stucco road up the mountain, the Tartar cavalry soon went up halfway up the mountain, and saw a low gable on the mountain in the distance, and was about to continue to move forward with a sneer, when a few black dots were smashed overhead.

Then, four grenades thrown down from the hill exploded around the Tartars, and shrapnel flew "Tong, Tong," knocking the two Tartars directly off their horses; Fortunately, the grenades were not very accurate, and all three knocked down the vines and grass on the side of the road, and only one exploded behind the Tartar.

The sudden explosion caused the Tartar, who was already a pathfinder, to quickly withdraw from the mountain, and the two companions with blood holes in their backs and their wounded horses were also taken away.

Quarry stone fort, on the castle wall, Qin Shi was holding a shotgun, the muzzle launcher was still wafting with gunsmoke, and he glanced at Wang Hu on the side with a smile, "What's the matter, what I said, within two hundred steps, a few Tartars are vegetables, whether you eat or not depends on our mood,"

"Yes, big mouth, you blush, you hit four times, and you hurt two, oh, no, there are two horses, a total of four, I miscalculated," Wang Hu pouted and sneered, but anyone could see the envy on his face; It turns out that Baihu still has such a powerful small cannon.

"This is a gun grenade, it must be shot with a shotgun, and the bullet must be removed to fire the projectile, otherwise the launch tube will be broken," he briefly told Wang Hu, Qin Shi loaded a grenade and handed the gun to Wang Hu.

"Wait a minute, you can try it later, don't aim directly, the muzzle of the gun should be raised a little higher," Speaking of this, Qin Shishi turned his face to look at the three sergeants next to him, and directly changed his face, "You guys, I'll clean you up when this is over, and see where they go,"

If it weren't for the purpose of blocking Wang Hu's big mouth, he wouldn't have given him the shotgun at all, but his subordinates didn't give him a favor, and he could only "bribe" it.

Two more Tartars, who had gone up the hill to test it, were simply driven down by the grenades fired from the stone fort; The undying Tartar warriors tried to find a way up the mountain on foot, but they were constantly knocked down by the stingers, and the other Tartars used lassoes to pull them out.

On the ruins of Shiguan, in the big cowhide tent erected, the collapsed wolf listened to the report like flowing water, his face was quite excited, needless to say, he must have found the lair of the Ming army.

"Order, everyone dismounts, the hundred-man team prepares to go up the mountain on foot, and the fire/spear team presses the formation," the military order was passed, and a group of Tartar hundred-man teams with swords and round shields began to form a team, followed by dozens of archers, and then the three-eyed fire team of the Collapse Wolf.

The terrain on three sides of the stone mountain is steep, only the northwest direction is a wide gentle slope, and the road up the mountain is planted with Coptis trees on both sides, which is naturally the first choice for Tartars.

The horn of the attack sounded, and the Tartar knife hand, who had a scimitar in his hand, held a round shield in front of him, and rushed up the hard mountain road with a sullen head, followed closely by the archer with a horned bow and a few wolf's teeth and arrows in his mouth.

The Tartar gunners of the Fire/Gun Hundreds, dressed in leather armor with a fire rope around their necks, with a little green smoke from the fire, and the dark three-eyed fire system compacted the medicine, carried it on their shoulders, and strode to the end.

"Here," Qin Shi put down the monocular in his hand and picked up the shotgun in front of him, "Brothers, prepare, keep your body down, don't let the Tartar's arrow hit your buttocks,"

As he shouted, the sergeants on both sides giggled and laughed, but they skillfully pulled the bolt in their hands; Wang Hu fired a grenade just now, and it was so close that it exploded more than a dozen steps away from the Tartar, but it made Qin Shi sneer several times.

The Tartars, who had poured up the hill like a tidal wave, were greeted with grenades halfway up the mountain, but this time the Tartars did not retreat, and their fallen companions in front of them quickened their pace with red eyes, and ran towards the gable with a shout.

The archer behind the swordman had already squeaked and pulled the bowstring, and he could throw it after running a dozen or so steps.

"Peng, Peng, Peng," on the fort wall, the smoke of gunpowder rose suddenly, and the heavy gunfire suddenly exploded, and the platoon of twenty fires/guns directly smashed the five or six Tartar knifemen who were running in front into a sieve, and the impact force even made them take two steps back before falling to the ground with a bang.

Holding the round shield in front of his face, the Tartar swordsman was fearless in his attack, and when he approached the gable, he had already been knocked down by more than thirty fires/guns, and also succeeded in attracting Qin Shi's attention.

"Boom, boom," the Tartar knife hand who stepped on the thunder jumper, screamed and was blown up by the iron thunder that jumped up one by one, and the large iron pellets scattered completely swept away the hundred-man team.

Qin Shi buried twenty-nine jumping thunderbolts on the ground outside the gable, and in the blink of an eye, almost half of the hundreds of strong Tartar swordsmen were poured into a pool of blood; The Tartar, who had been hit by a dozen or even dozens of iron pellets on his body, rolled on the ground screaming and screaming.

The sudden explosion of thunder blocked the momentum of the Tartar attack, and the archers who followed closely behind saw that there was still a distance of less than 100 meters, and they didn't dare to lean forward; If you don't run forward, their bows and arrows can't shoot a hundred meters away, and the Lord of Qianhu is a personal soldier, maybe there are a few, but they are still under the mountain.

The sword hand was chaotic, and the archers hesitated, so that Qin Shi and Wang Hu's squad on the stone castle had an opportunity to take advantage of it, and the fire/gun Peng and Peng Di shot out bursts of bullets, and the thick white smoke poured up on the castle wall, and was immediately blown away by the mountain wind.

One hundred and eighty paces away, the centurion saw that his companions in front of him were being beaten and dodged in all directions, and he roared and raised the three-eyed fire system in his hand, "Ignition fire,"

"Boom, boom," hundreds of three-eyed fires rained out an even bigger rain of bullets, and the sergeants who were still shooting desperately on the fort wall were covered head-on with gravel and iron particles, and the eight sergeants fell to the ground with their faces covered in blood, and their fire/guns were also lost.

Qin Shishi, who was hiding behind the female wall, shouted loudly with a pale face, "Medic, pharmacist, there are wounded soldiers here," the appearance of the Tartar's three-eyed fire system made his heart suddenly feel a lot more solemn, and he was no longer relaxed.

There were two paramedics in the quarry stone fort, which were improvised and eight sergeants were carried down with the help of the craftsman sergeant; Lei Xiaoqing also led his men up to the fort wall and joined the ranks of shooting.

The three-eyed bombardment slowed down the gunfire on the stone fort, and the Tartars quickly retreated, forgetting to take the wounded on the ground with them.

"Duan Damin, hurry up and send a letter to the hundred households, the Tartars have three-eyed fire systems, and there are a lot of them," Wang Hu, who also had an ugly face, leaned against the female wall with a fire/gun, and hurriedly called the heralds.

After a cup of tea, the second wave of the Tartars' attack began, this time, Qin Shishi's three flag officers also learned well, and fired with shotguns from afar, and the guns and grenades were shot out without money, first focusing on the three-eyed fire system in the distance, and they were stunned to force back the Tartars' fire/gun team from a distance.

For a whole afternoon, the three waves of Tartar attacks reduced the arms reserves in the stone fort by nearly half, and the screaming Tartar wounded outside the gable also stopped their faint shouts, and the fate of the blood was clear to both sides.