Yang Xiaoyu took Zhou Heguang's soldiers and horses to hide on the third mountain.

At this time, it is almost June, the temperature is high, there are many mosquitoes in the mountains and forests, poisonous snakes are occasionally infested, and there are fierce animals such as wild wolves.

In the dense green forest, there is no sound.

Yang Xiaoyu guessed that Xu Hongru's soldiers and horses would arrive in the middle of the night at the earliest, and he left enough horsemen to patrol the mountains and forests, while the other horsemen lay in the forest to rest.

Dressed in his own armor, he leaned against the edge of the tree and closed his eyes to rest.

Midnight.

The roaring cannon sounded, and Yang Xiaoyu was shocked, and he hurriedly stood up and ran to the front of the mountain to watch.

I saw that there was a torch like a long dragon under the first mountain guarded by Cao Tai, and when I looked at him, I could only see the dense firelight scurrying everywhere, and there was even a howl of pain.

"My lord, it may be that the thieves have arrived!" Zhou Heguang hurriedly rushed behind Yang Xiaoyu and looked at the dense firelight not far away.

Yang Xiaoyu sneered without looking back: "Cao Tai has enough shells, if the thief army wants to cross the mountain, it is difficult to climb to the sky!" After saying this, he turned around and went straight back to the place where he had rested before to continue sleeping, and instructed the horsemen around him who heard the sound of the cannon to let them continue to sleep.

The sound of artillery on the first line did not stop all night, and the rolling artillery burst like thunder, and Yang Xiaoyu, who was shocked, did not sleep all night.

At dawn on the second day, he walked to the top of the mountain and looked down, only to see a corpse thrown under the first mountain, and a long line of thieves wrapped in red scarves, swarming towards the narrow mountain road, and then, rows of feathered arrows shot down from the mountain, and the thieves immediately fell in a large area.

Suddenly there was a wail, resounding through the silent morning.

After a while, the sound of the cannon stopped, and after the smoke and dust, corpses were scattered all over the hill.

The thieves retreated. There was green smoke in the back, and it might be time to eat.

Yang Xiaoyu ordered Ti Cai to send cannonballs, arrows, boulders and other objects to Cao Tai's first mountain, and told them to hold out until dark, and then withdraw from the first mountain.

Cao Tai was accustomed to careful calculations, and when the thief army attacked like a tide, he ordered the Franco cannon to hit the middle formation of the thief army. When the thieves in front of him rushed down the mountain, he had his men greet them with arrows and boulders, and if the thieves sent people to support them at this time, he would use artillery to attack the supporting thieves, so that they could not unite with the thieves who had attacked the mountain in front of them.

In this way, in the middle of the night, he used less than 150 shells!

Now, Yang Xiaoyu sent someone to send him cannonballs. This kind of good thing, Cao Tai accepted it with understanding, and took advantage of the thief army's eating efforts to make people take the prepared steamed buns and nibble some.

After eating.

The thieves again sent a vanguard of five hundred men, led by three men, and attacked the mountain along the narrow road.

Cao Tai ordered his cavalry to throw boulders at each other, and many of the thieves who had attacked halfway up the mountain were burst apart by the mud smashed by the boulders that suddenly rolled down, and blood gushed out like springs. The body rolled and fell down the mountain.

The second wave of thieves learned wisely, and they climbed along the hill where there was cover. The boulders that rolled down the hill collided with the protruding bunkers, and rolled down with a roar, and could not hit them.

Cao Tai above smiled, and ordered the tiger to aim at the bunker at the bottom of the mountain and violently destroy the past.

Although the power of the Tiger Squat Cannon is not as strong as that of the Franc Cannon, it is close to each other. But the power should not be underestimated.

Fifteen shells were fired together, the sound of rolling down the mountain was endless, the bunkers were destroyed beyond recognition in an instant, and the mountain road was filled with smoke and dust for a long time.

Many of the thieves who tried to climb the mountain in vain by bunkers were splashed with gunfire and sand. The screams rolled down the hill with a scream of pain.

Seeing that this plan did not work, the master of the thief army waited for a while, and then tried to set fire to the mountain.

However, it was not winter, the trees were full of vitality and were not easy to ignite, and they did not have the tools to burn the mountain, so they only wanted to attack the mountain with hundreds of torches.

Cao Tai did not wait for the thieves with torches to rush down the mountain, so he ordered ten Franco cannons to bombard the mountain road, and those thieves were already buried under the artillery before they could go down the mountain.

When the commander of the thief army saw this, he ordered the whole army to be headed by two people, and their bodies were close to the mountain roads on both sides.

Cao Tai smiled coldly, the sand and gravel contained in the Franc machine shell shattered, which could cause the thief army within three meters to be covered with lead sand, although it could not take its life, but it could make the thief army lose its combat power and become a half-dead cripple.

Boom Boom!

Ten Francophone guns bombarded the mountain road, smoke and dust protruded, and the already potholed mountain road showed a large crater with a large cylinder mouth.

The yellow dust obscured the sky, the smoke and dust owls rose, the cannonballs exploded, and the sand and stones splashed like raindrops on the thieves who were walking close to the mountain walls on both sides.

Woo......

Yes......

Most of the thieves were flying sand, some covered their eyes and howled in pain, some hugged their thighs and screamed in pain, and some were lying on the ground and rolling back and forth in pain, and the roar was terrifying.

Boom Boom!

Knock knock!

Without waiting for the thieves to retreat.

The boulder rolled down the mountain road again, and the sound of shaking was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and the huge boulder rolled down the narrow path with thunder, and many thieves who had no time to escape were killed on the spot.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the thieves behind roared back like a swarm of bees.

Although the thief army leader shouted in the back, the thief army, who was like a frightened bird, could not hear it, and where could they still hear the military order at this time, and their heads were full of the consciousness of running.

Mountains.

Cao Tai watched the thieves retreat like the sea, laughed and waved his hand to stop throwing stones.

In the course of a day, the thieves launched several attacks, most of which were wooden shield soldiers first, pikemen second, spear and shield complemented each other, trying to attack the top of the mountain.

The officers and soldiers guarding the mountain had artillery, sharp arrows, rolling stones and other ordnance, and the thieves returned several times, leaving corpses all over the field, and the queen retreated.

At night.

Yang Xiaoyu sent Zhou Heguang to meet Cao Tai's retreat on the first mountain, and only the artillery and arrows were taken away, and the rolling stones and wooden stakes were thrown on the top of the mountain.

The thief army will send his martial arts to attack the first mountain in the middle of the night, and the thief army will take advantage of the cover of night to climb to the highest peak of the mountain.

When they went up the mountain, they found that the thieves on the mountain had long since disappeared, and only a few wooden stakes and rolling stones had been dropped.

The thieves were overjoyed, thinking that the officers and troops had evacuated, so they reported this happy event to the chief general of the thief army.

Yuncheng was besieged, the thief army was very anxious, eager to march through the night to reinforce, at this time heard the news of the withdrawal of the official army, busy the sentry cavalry to report to the battalions, ready to pull out the camp at night.

The vanguard of the thief army is a team of 1,000 people, who walk in the front and find the way for the thief army behind.

When the vanguard of the thieves crossed the first mountain, the artillery on the second mountain had already been set up, and the arrows of the rolling stones were aimed at the heads of the approaching thieves.

"Put!"

Zhou Tong lit the torch and threw it down the mountain.

The sudden flash of fire in the night illuminates the sky like a light in the dawn.

Thundered......

Cannons are discharged, boulders roll, and arrows are fired.

Suddenly the fire exploded at the bottom of the mountain, followed by thunderous artillery fire, boulders tumbling, and sharp arrows raining down.

The vanguard of the thief army did not notice it in the slightest, and was caught off guard by the first attack.

The vanguard of 1,000 people threw down more than 200 corpses and hurriedly retreated.

After the thieves withdrew, a flash of fire appeared at the bottom of the mountain, shook in the air a few times, and disappeared in a moment.

Zhou He saw the firelight, and hurriedly waved his hand to signal the crowd to stop.

The fire below was fired by the scouts, indicating that the enemy had retreated, and it would be useless to fire artillery and arrows to attack

"The thieves aren't coming tonight, are they?" Zhou Tong turned around and walked to the edge of the artillery position, and asked Cao Tai, who was resting by the big tree.

"I don't know, but it's not a big mistake to be careful, if you can't see the figure of the thief army at night, you can only judge it by the firelight of the detective horse!" Cao Tai breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly.

"In one day and one night, the enemy army will suffer no less than two or three thousand soldiers and horses, and if this continues, within five days, the enemy's strength will be exhausted." Zhou Tong smiled optimistically.

"There are less than 200 shells for the Franc machine, less than 500 shells for the Tiger Squat, and the consumption of arrows and rolling stones is very large, so it will last for two days at most!" Cao Tai said this, sighed, raised his eyes to look at the black hole and the sky, and did not speak.

Zhou Tong sat down and leaned against the big tree to close his eyes and recuperate. (To be continued......)